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bobquasit

DVD Meme

May 15, 2005 21:49

Don't blame me. unquietsoul5 tagged me with this meme.

Oh, who am I kidding? I could have ignored it. I'm just taking the opportunity to brag about all my DVDs.

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Comments 8

tcpip May 16 2005, 05:19:28 UTC

Hmmm... I was wondering who was going to eventually get me to do this!

tprjones May 16 2005, 15:01:45 UTC

I cannot, in good conscious, help to spread a chain meme. :) However I'll gladly shanghai your comments thread to give my answers. :P ( ... )

bobquasit May 16 2005, 15:47:54 UTC

Okay, I'll bite: How did you end up on the Evil Dead DVD?

Army of Darkness is God. It just irritates me that there are, what - five different versions out on DVD? Annoying, because no ONE of them has all my favorite bits.

I agree about Free Enterprise: very funny, very good, and smart. And Shatner steals the show.

Glad to see another Blue Blaze Irregular. Did you ever sign up? And did you know that Big Trouble In Little China was originally the script for "Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League"? If you haven't seen it (unimaginable), you should.

You know, now that I think of it Kurt Russel has been in some of my favorite movies! He was great in John Carpenter's The Thing, and in Used Cars as well. Which are both outstanding, although in totally different ways.

tprjones May 16 2005, 16:36:14 UTC

Sign up? You mean there was a real Blue Blaze Irregulars? Am I too late to join? :)

I do indeed like BTiLC muchly, and it would probably be in my top 10. The main reason it's not in my top 5 in favor of those first two are their links to New Mexico, where I spent a few years and which I consider to be my spiritual homestead.

As to me on the Evil Dead DVD: http://www.livejournal.com/users/tprjones/8847.html#cutid1

:)

klyfix May 17 2005, 02:19:05 UTC

Seriously? "Big Trouble in Little China" is from the BB sequal that was never made? Where'd you find that out?

I think I llke "Big Trouble" more than "Buckaroo Banzai"; while BB is extremely interesting and I like the theme music I can't say that I really felt that it truly was successful.

tprjones May 16 2005, 15:08:00 UTC

Question: By The Third Man, do you mean the 1949 Orson Welles movie? I've never heard of that one, and want to make sure I watch the right one (hey, if it made your top five, and you've got Buckaroo on there thus showing you are a man of refined tastes, I've got to watch it, right?)

bobquasit May 16 2005, 16:04:16 UTC

Yes, although Orson Welles didn't write or direct it - he starred and did write one memorable speech, though.

It's...different. Just incredibly grown-up and utterly amazing; you can watch it over and over and get more from it each time. In some ways it's reminiscent of Casablanca, but darker, reflecting the difference between WWII optimism and the reality of the Cold War. If you watch it, please let me know what you think!

Hmm...maybe I should make a recommended movie list. Or list all my DVDs, anyway; those that I'm not too embarrassed about, anyway.

Sounds like a project.

klyfix May 17 2005, 02:08:48 UTC

Hmmm. I can't really do the query thing in an orderly fashion as I'm having another of my little mental semi-befuddlement periods. But we'll responded in a disorganized fashion ( ... )