Good DVD's

Some of my Favs. (all of which require a GOOD home theatre setup DTS a must!)

Brotherhood of the Wolf (3 DVD set)
Fifth Element (SuperBit edition)
The Lord of the Rings Fellowship (4dvd set)
The Lord of the Rings Two Towers (4dvd set)
Lawrence of Arabia
Saving Private Ryan
Resevoir Dogs - Special Edition (Mr Pink on the Cover)
Dogma - Special Edition

Roger Waters - The Wall (live in Berlin)
The Eagles - Hell Freezes over

And of course the First Matrix DVD.


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Heat is a good one.

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The end scene in heat has arguably the best surround sound I have ever heard on a DVD.

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Ironic....I just finished watching The Count of Monte Cristo.

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Willie Wanker and the Fudge Packing Factory
Womb Raider
Buffy the Vampire Layer
The Bare Wrench Project
Lusty Life #89 - Slide your long loaf in my hot oven
Indiana Joan and the Black Hole of Mammoo
Sperms Of Endearment

Some are openly sold in BB. Those reading-challenged idiots replaced it thinking it was original movies.

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Band of Brothers DVD set. absolutely the best thing ever in the world.

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My friend got the Band of Brothers DVD set and i've seen the first 4 parts. Awesome. It's a 10 hour Saving Private Ryan.

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I read a while back about the 10 best movies on DVD to get for your home entertainment system. I can't remember them all but they included:

1. Heat
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Gladiator
4. Matrix.

I'll see if I can find the link.

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I like Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Actually I am fluent in French, my mom is from Quebec, and I spent 11 years in immersion. And my job has a minor aspect of French when dealing with the gov't.

However if you do listen to the English Surround track it is a very seemless job, very well done. My old GF didn't understand French so I went throught the movie (for the 4th time) in English for her, and it wasn't bad at all.

This is one of my hidden jewel movies (sorry to steal your thunder) and shows how so many surround tracks and a good job of dubbing goes a long way. Great movie and a constant, 'have you ever seen....' movie recommendation of mine.
They don't usualy make the effort for dubbing into other languages from English though, only to english, and only if people care (dub of Crouching Tiger is so bad I prefer subtitles).


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Personally, I've watch so much fansub anime that subtitles for me are as good as the english dubbed version in languages I don't know. I really think you loose something of the original in most cases regardless of how well the movie is done if you aren't listening to it in the primary language.

Das boot, crouching tiger hidden dragon, brotherhood of the wolf.

I don't fluently know any of the native languages but think all are well worth the watch sub'd

Any other suggestions on 'have you seen...' movies?

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Forgot One, I can't believe I did that.

The Hunted ( Outstandingly excellent movie, Benicio Del Toro, makes Rambo look like a boyscout).




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Some nice choices here. I've seen Brotherhood of the Wolf and thought it was really good. Once I get some more money i plan on getting Donnie Darko, Equilibrium, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Pi really lagged for me. It was quirky and interesting, but I had a problem remaining engaged.

BraveHeart was a pretty good dvd (Mmm crunchy bones).

The Back To The Future set dissapointed me. Not enough extra features for my taste (considering how big a release this was hyped as), also early transfer issues (for widescreen, not fixed 'til the march release) kept me away from it for a long time. I also would have prefered buying only the first one, # 2 and 3 didn't impress me at all (I saw them in theatres and have avoided them ever since [still haven't watched them on the DVD despite having them].

DAD Boot is also another great flick. I do like having the DVD version, they did a good job on it, and getting rid of the subtitles is great!
And along the same genre, u-571 is pretty good on DVD. It's not as good as Das Boot, but it's a pretty clean transfer with good sound. Just wish they didn't americanize it so much, but that's just a pet peeve about hollywood war movies, and hollywood movies in general.

One movie that isn't Hollywood in it's story is American Beauty, I really liked the additional features of the Awards Edition, (like knowing about the intended court room scenes), very well done, just wish they had found a cuter girl than Suvari!

4 DVDs I had to pull out over the Holidays were; It's a Wonderful Life (my must see X-mas movie + interesting story behind the movie and commentary), Family Man (good story), Holiday Inn (another good story classic), and the Original Grinch with Boris Karloff [nothing aginst Jim's modern version, it's just not the same IMO].

Anywhoo, just thought I'd add those.


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Yeah I did some skiing in Ottawa over the Holidays, and hit the mushy trails there too for a few hours of nighttime joy riding. I took out my cousin's friend's new 'modified' Renegade and made mud tracks just to check out his X-mas gift (which he got ~3 weeks before X-mas) Jeez, they're getting ridiculously fast now too. I saw the speedo break 150Km/h (about 90mph) and I wasn't even going 'fast'. I thought I was going to die there over a few bumps . Those speeds are fine on open lake, but even the straight-aways on the open fields dind't entice me to go all the way full out. Guess I'm getting old.
Got some nice Lobster Claw gloves for skiing while I was out East, and I never realized how handy (no pun intended) they would be for snowmobilin', I would highly recommend them over regular SkiDoo mitts..

The snow is Thick and Freakin' CRISP out here. Great for SkiDoos, but terrible for skiing. A little icey at times, but I can't complain. I'm probably going to head out next week. A SKI/Work friend got married on New Year's so he's out of commision for a while (gotta look at furniture and junk, and his wife has to show him off over the next few weeks).

I'm happy to see you getting some cold weather in your area. Hopefully You'll get some snow with it. Here we had our snow just around New Years, and it's been just cold (-30C) for days. Thankfully I got some new Cut-off Thermals for X-mas. Mmmm Toasty!

I'll put a good word in for you with the snow gods!

EDIT: BTW, sorry I can't help you with your cable problem I work for the Phone company. From what I read I would think it may just be a cable modem issue, but seriously must suck having 2 providers. Persopnally I'd cut my ties with the Cable TV guys, and go Satellite, and then tell the Cable ISP to fix the damn thing Pronto! [but then again I hate Customer Service Rep. Double-Talk!]

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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by TheGreatGrapeApe on 01/08/04 03:34 PM.</EM></FONT></P>