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101. Watch the DVDs I own but haven't seen.

Othello: This was a pretty good version. I liked the idea of using seizures to progress Othello's insane jealousy, which somehow made it a little more believable that he went from being in love to in hate so quickly. Branagh was great as Iago, though he occasionally bore an uncanny resemblance to Ewan ( ... )

101. Watch all the DVDs I own but have not seen.

Current progress: 18/43

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: I tried watching this once before but was bored stiff. This time was no exception, but at least I made it all the way through. I think my main issue was that all this action happened but very little character development, so ( ... )

101. Watch all the DVDs I own but have not seen.

Thumbelina: I only own this because it came in a doublepack with The Secret of NIMH. The voice acting was pretty good - Jodi Benson (Ariel from The Little Mermaid) in the titular role, and other luminaries like Carol Channing and John Hurt and Gilbert Goddfried. And Charo. As a large-breasted ( ... )

101. Watch the DVDs I own but have not seen.

Vampire Hunter D: Man, this is one seriously weird movie. It takes place far in the future, when humans live at the mercy of the vampire aristocracy, and their mutants and werewolves. When Doris is bitten by the head vampire, a vampire hunter known as D shows up to save her. And he fights sirens who ( ... )

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is one of Ghibli Studio's earlier productions. Like most of Miyazaki's creations, it is basically an environmentally-friendly metaphor. In this case, humans somehow poisoned the forests, which caused the insects to become huge and hostile, and some of the people want to burn down the poisonous forest and others ( ... )

101. Watch all the DVDs I own but haven't seen.

Joan of Arc: This was originally aired as a TV miniseries, but aside from a couple obvious pauses for commercial breaks, the story flowed rather well. I thought Sobieski did a fine job as Joan, and of course Harris always plays an excellent snob. I'm still not sold on Joan's visions, especially ( ... )

101. Watch the DVDs I own but have not seen.

Ninja Scroll: Most of the DVDs on my unwatched list fall into the categories of anime, horror, or martial arts. This one is more or less all three. Here we have a story of a ninja-for-hire facing an enemy he'd thought he'd killed, along with his superpowered cronies. It's almost ludicrously violent, ( ... )

101. Watch the DVDs I own but have not seen.

We did a little downsizing to the DVD shelves recently, so I had to strike Cross Bones and The Passion of the Christ from the list unwatched. I'm not sorry. And yes, I am just crossing them off, not deleting them from the list, which brings my watched percentage up to 28%. Is that cheating? I don't

101. Watch all the DVDs I own but haven’t seen.

Ladyhawke: Matthew Broderick is a terrible actor, and his work here is no exception. His character is the otherwise amusing young thief who has loud conversations with God. Melanie Pfeiffer and Rutger Hauer play unlikely lovers cursed to spend alternating periods of time as wild animals: Pfeiffer a ( ... )

101. Watch all the DVDs I own but haven’t seen.

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2: Some fans of the original film visit Burkittsville, Maryland, to tour some of the sites and end up experiencing Terrible Things. Now, never mind that the film was actually shot closer to Germantown and that Burkittsville really isn’t that scary of a place (I’ve both ( ... )