What Have You Bought Recently?

[antmumford]

Just popped to HMV to find a bargain and picked up THX 1138 for only £5. What a deal considering the cheapest online price is £8.99 at HMV online.

It's funny that I got it at that price because it was only last week that I watched it for the first time from my Lovefilm list and the film blew me away. Easily the most impressive debut I've ever seen, it really was superb and I knew I'd have to buy it asap so this was a great find for me.

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[Baseball Fury]

Just got round to watching The Lion King and Tron Legacy, both of which look unbelievable. Really, really impressed with The Lion King though, it was a beautiful transfer. 10/10 for the sound on Tron though, gave my system a good workout!

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Just ordered Rififi from Amazon for the bargain price of £9.99.

[PaulD]

Originally Posted by antmumford

Just popped to HMV to find a bargain and picked up THX 1138 for only £5. What a deal considering the cheapest online price is £8.99 at HMV online.

I did exactly the same thing yesterday. There's been some good bkuray bargains instore at HMV at the minute - they also had Carlito's Way for £6 which was also the best price for it, last time I checked.

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Just ordered Rififi from Amazon for the bargain price of £9.99.

Oh damn you! Really tempted to get this now. Must. Resist. Urge.

[BioZombie]

Picked up John Carpenter's The Ward and Panna Rittikrai's Knockabout on bd today.

Gonna have to wait until I get back to Preston to watch them though.

[Sam]

Just ordered the Touch of Evil steelbook (at last) and I Saw the Devil, which was only a fiver on HMV.com.

Also waiting for Amazon to dispatch my Frankenhooker pre-order (fingers crossed it'll be here for the weekend).

[darthelvis]

Preordered Red State, Drive (Steelbook) & Trollhunter blu rays from HMV using my living social voucher.

Also ordered Final Exam & House on Sorrority Row from HME.

[bdc]

Originally Posted by ReturnToZero

This will be the last order for the year... and a good one to!

Seems you like the Fin de Siècle Media dvd releases?
I've got them all as well...

[Gojirosan]

Originally Posted by Phurious

I'm totally on the other side of the fence with Attack The Block.

Sure, there are nods to Carpenter, especially the premise and a few visual references, but I think Cornish does a sterling job of making the film his own, in much the same way that Edgar Wright filled Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz with witty and pertinent references to the movies that influenced him, but these never drown out their own directorial styles and more importantly doesn't affect the storytelling.

Yeh, the cast are the usual archetypes from pretty much any contemporary British film portraying inner city youths, but the actors and a good script filled these Kidulthoodesque characters with a sense of believability and I think most people's problems with them is the fact that the audience are asked to side with a group of kids who are introduced as muggers and in this country the media have done no favours in endearing the nation's youth to our hearts. It's probably more common for British film viewers to accept the 'gangsta youths' of LA in films like Boyz in the Hood and Menace II Society as they are far emoved from their comfort zone. Of course this doesn't apply to all audiences, but it's something to consider.
I thought one of the best performances was from the 'definitely' evil gangster, the drug dealing, gun-toting rude boy who also threw in an extraordinarily convincing performance in the equally excellent Cherry Tree Lane.

And the alien design is hands down for me, the best alien design that I've seen in a very very long time. The almost comic book style design was well executed and the blacker than black blackness reminded me of Disaster Area's ship in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and we can't pretend there was a Cameron-like budget for this film, with what money they had I think they pulled it off superbly.

Of course this is just my opinion

Totally agree with everything you said. Wonderful film.

[Slippery Jack]

Just nabbed Dogtooth on Blu Ray for a fiver Reckon I can live without the deleted scenes missing from the R1 . . .