Name The Last DVD(s) You Bought

The Soderbergh "Solaris" I thought was almost comparable and it did appear on most top ten lists for that year.

Like Kubrick, Soderbergh is willing to give many different genres a shot and he's been pretty successful in doing it his own way. However, there's always going to be some who don't appreciate his way.

Fair enough. I am some. I thought Soderberg's version included some totally unnecesary digressions from the original story that were clearly aimed at pleasing the mainstream audience expectations (such as the space station exploding in the end). I find Tarkovsky's digressions (the very lengthy intro to fool the Soviet censors) much more tolerable.

The exploding space station didn't please mainstream audiences -- "Solaris" bombed at the box office. I appreciate both versions although I find the first one rough going in sitting through.

The last DVD I bought? "American Pie" an outstanding film which has grossed over 200,000,000 world wide and has given people a new insight into bizarre sexual practices.

The Most Recent DVD i Bought Was
28 Days Later

Reminds me -- have do have to buy that one!

The last DVD I bought was Cool Hand Luke

falling down
last exile collection (anime)

The latest DVD to drop through my letterbox was Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire.Cracking dragons ;-)

Well just today i bought these DVDS from HMV

Gone With The Wind(1939)
Heat(1995)
Once Upon A Time In America(1984)
Gladiator 3 Disc Special Edition(2000)

Serenity.

Then I bought the entire Firefly series.

How is "Serenity?" I missed it at the theaters because of work responsibilities but was thinking of including it on my NetFlix queue and also buying a copy as a gift for my brother-in-law who is a big sci-fi fan.

Serenity was the best Sci-Fi of 2005 (in my opinion of course). The story is relatively simple, with space-western flare, but the characters are well portrayed, and it has style... it's just dripping with style. Rent it and enjoy

We saw _V for Vendetta_ last night. It was fantastic.

I just might buy that one for myself based on your recommendation and the reviews by critics I respect.

I think I will take in "V for Vendetta" in the next few weeks.

Serenity is a great flick. It's made it into the blacksmithn collection. Plenty of style and action, true, but the characters are just plain engaging and actually fun to watch. Two thumbs up!

I finally bought Gone With The Wind. I have never had the patience to sit through all four hours at once. Now, I will watch a half hour or fortyfive minutes at a time and enjoy it. The pieces I have seen are very good. The set of DVDs I got include information about the stars and how the special effects were accomplished.

There are a few so-called classic films that I just don't have the stomach to sit through more than once, GWTW being one of them. Some nice cinematography, but I just wanted to slap the crap out of Scarlett...

Selznick was literally a bulldozer making GWTW and it could be by accident that it turned out to be a great film, considering that Selznick changed directors and even the assertive Victor Fleming had to put up with him looking over his shoulder and controlling the production like a despot.

My main interest was the special effects. It is amazing how advanced they were in that era of movie making. Many of the scenes were put together with several shots. The ones with the big fires in the background were only the people with nothing else in the first shot.The blazes and sound effects were very skillfully fit in. And to think they didn't have the advantage of computer generated material.

The burning of Atlanta should look good. They actually burned down the King Kong set wall for that scene. Half the LA fire department was on the set that day. There were crewmembers that barely escaped without injury. They did have blue screen and matte painting technology which, if you will but the DVD into your player of "2001" is all they also had (Douglas Trumbell is a genius, not to mention Kubrick's contribution). There is actually more art in the opening scenes of that film depicting the primates first find the monolith than the entire GWTW.