I love the idea of you having a dedicated spite shelf, that's just the perfect amount of petty I can relate to. I should do a tour of the local charity shops tomorrow, haven't looked for years because they always have the same old crap but it would just take that one gem to brighten up the whole day.
I work in a charity shop and sales of physical media are so poor we're getting close to not accepting any more. Problem is each collection donated might have 2 or 3 great box sets among the endless Friends, Mama Mia and Bridget Jones DVDs. My collection will probably suffer...
Ned from Spain here Terry. It's always great to see what you picked up at the charity shops. Nifty box of Melville films too. How are MAGG and Ms Luna ??
Hi Ned, thanks for asking after us. I am good, and the girls (Luna & Jill) are good too. Jill is helping me with the digital designs I am currently making, and Luna is being a noisy mischief maker as always!
@@MiddleAgedGeekGrrrl Hey Sally, thanks for the sweet message. Great to hear that you're doing well and Luna and Jill are " working their show " in their peculiarly delightful way. All the best to you all from Spain.
I used to have a VHS collection of around 1100 movies. I donated it to charity in 2006. I had already started to replace them with DVD starting in 2000. Some movies I just couldn’t find replacements from VHS to DVD. Around 2008 I started selection additions of digital movies on iTunes and later Amazon Prime. In physical media I moved mostly from DVD to blu-Ray. My physical media purchases slowed to a tiny trickle starting around 2019.
Great haul! You'll like Lexx (I hope), a fascinating but uneven series. I've got the same series, which I paid considerably more for. Oh well. The original A Star is Born is also terrific, and not yet having seen the most recent version, I think it's the best. I've been a real fan of Janet Gaynor since getting Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and she plays her role(s) so well. I'll definitely look around for a (cheap) copy of the J-P Melville set. Enjoy your watching.
The SOUTH PARK poster is there because I used it to cover my very dodgy paint job on the door! As we have never repainted, I have had no need to remove the poster! 😂
It's a good thing we don't live in the same city Terry, otherwise, we'd be constantly bumping into each other in obscure little op-shops. Your French horror set looks great. I recently stumbled upon a copy of John Carpenter's 'Prince of Darkness' (1987) Never heard of this one before, but it has Donald Pleasence. I recently bought two Jules Dassin movies, Rififi (thanks for recommending that) and Night and the City. I also got the phenomenally bad 'Serpent of the Nile' (1953) with Rhonda Fleming and Raymond Burr - the last, and worst, of my collection of all the Cleopatra movies. These days, this film is known mainly for Julie Newmar's (billed as Julie Newmeyer) 50s bikini-clad golden exotic dancer. Cheers matey !
That's a sweet horror set, I believe that Argento/Romero colab is Two Evil Eyes as it's called here in the U.S. I really love that one. Funny story if it's true, I read they originally meant that to be a four part anthology based of Edgar Allan Poe stories and had Stephen King lined up to direct one segment but he had just finished directing Maximum Overdrive and the experience swore him off of directing ever again so he passed and the film became a duology. No idea if that's true but I like it. Haha
Good stuff! I love "Horrors of the Black Museum." Gough is such a prissy pain in the ass in that one. It's so outrageous it's easy to forgive that it's not that great a film.
Interestingly, I have that Melville box set but not in that form. All the films are in their own individual cases, not a fold-out box like that. Very good set to get in whatever form, of course.
Re: running out of space, about 70% of my physical media is now in paper sleeves with the cover filed away for safekeeping and the plastic cases sent to recycling.
I have that same Australian set of Lexx DVDs, it was cheaper to get them than whatever was floating around the UK at the time. I had to resort to US discs to make up my Farscape collection too. Not much around Belfast in the charity shops, best I got over the last few months was The Pacific at four quid and Edge of Darkness for one quid. It was better in the waning VHS days where I could get three entire Doctor Who stories on VHS for a pound.
Love The Right Stuff and Chinatown. Haven't seen The Two Jakes in a long time, I was disappointed but it's not a complete failure that some say it is. I recently watched the latest version of A Star is Born, well done. That Melville box set looks fantastic, I've now seen all but one of his films. And I have Le Samouari on Blu-Ray. Yes, Iron Fist is the weakest of the NF Marvel shows but not a complete waste if yiu are a fan. Two Evil Eyes is the Romero/Dargento film which is 2 AE Poe stories.
I'm a big fan of Syrim too. Loved playing Oblivion and Morrowind. I saw the South Park movie in the cinema. One of those days I had time to kill. I laughed so hard I fell out of my seat.
I have the Criterion Blu-Ray of LE SAMOURAI, though not the 4K version which probably means I have an older edition. Don't have any of the other movies, and Criterion doesn't seem to have issued them as a boxed Blu-Ray set as of right now-maybe there's a Region 1/A Studio Canal version as well as the one you have? EDITED TO ADD: I just checked Amazon US, and the only editions are Region 2, and are over US$100 for DVD versions! So that would likely be a "no"....
@@terrytalksmovies - OMG, have you heard? Vinegar Syndrome has a product line, Degausser Video, that sells "LED (Limited Edition Deluxe) VHS" versions of shot-on-tape VHS-era movies! For the love of whichever deity or non-deity you believe in, WHY???? Who still owns a VCR? ...Well, I do, but it's a VCR/DVD recorder combo...and there's a S-VHS machine I bought a few months back because I found some videos I shot in the Nineties that I want to digitize at the best possible quality.... But other than that? WHY????
So Terry -- when you mentioned discs of Australian Soap Operas I think that I detected an obvious lack of enthusiasm.... So if you were stuck in your home for a week, and the only discs that you had which would work were a smattering of Australian Soap Operas, how would you rate watching them for that week (with no escape)? On a scale of 1 to 10 -- 1 being getting a root canal by dentist Steve Martin, 5 being 'meh', and 10 being pampered by your favorite new/vintage playmates at the Playboy Mansion -- how would you rate the ASO (Australian Soap Opera) experience?
have loved you channel a long time, posted way back when u did a review of the bionic man. was actually gonna do my own youtube thing, but you are so good, i won't compete.
i watche 'south park bigger longer & uncut' evrey couple of years it's been in my top 20 since its release. a hint for obliveon leave it as long as possibul before eace leavaling up
It was actually directed by Mick Garris, King's go-to low-rent straight-to-video director, but I believe King was closely involved in the production, and so he has to take most of the blame...
Terry, I take it you don't consider WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD? an official version of A STAR IS BORN? It's a 1932 pre-Code movie I happen to like more than any of the other versions-probably because the washed-up director Max isn't an anchor around actress Mary's neck by her falling in love with him, but he keeps her at arms'-length so he doesn't take her down as well (though his suicide by gunshot to the chest does that anyway-I guess a headshot was too much even for pre-Code Hollywood). It's also a nastier, less glossy movie than any of its successors, and while Mary is ambitious and doesn't try to hide it, when matters go pear-shaped for her (her jealous playboy husband divorces her, she finds out she's pregnant after the divorce goes through, Max kills himself in her dressing room so she's blamed for it), it doesn't feel like she's being justifiably punished for her ambition, but is unfairly punished for being a woman in a business run by controlling men.
@@terrytalksmovies - I'm on the fence about that, if I'm honest. Yes, it's significantly different, but it's from the same core story, and it's honestly better than any of the other adaptations which all tend to sappiness. There's even an Indian version, AASHIQUI 2-and if there's not Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian and Nigerian versions I don't know about? I would be GREATLY relieved! It's also less well-known even though it's, you know, available....
Someone plz help my amnesia. Saw I movie that starts with a guy making a pack with the devil and dives a dagger thru his heart, I believe he falls on a glass table or something but from that start on I cannot remember even the name of the movie. Any suggestions will be appreciated
I love the idea of you having a dedicated spite shelf, that's just the perfect amount of petty I can relate to.
I should do a tour of the local charity shops tomorrow, haven't looked for years because they always have the same old crap but it would just take that one gem to brighten up the whole day.
It's like panning for gold. You have to filter a lot of crap to find the good stuff.
I work in a charity shop and sales of physical media are so poor we're getting close to not accepting any more. Problem is each collection donated might have 2 or 3 great box sets among the endless Friends, Mama Mia and Bridget Jones DVDs. My collection will probably suffer...
I agree. There's a lot of dross among the gold. Way too much of it.
Ned from Spain here Terry. It's always great to see what you picked up at the charity shops. Nifty box of Melville films too. How are MAGG and Ms Luna ??
Sally and Luna and Jill, the shy cat are all doing well, Ned. Hope you guys are enjoying the last of summer. 😀
Hi Ned, thanks for asking after us. I am good, and the girls (Luna & Jill) are good too. Jill is helping me with the digital designs I am currently making, and Luna is being a noisy mischief maker as always!
@@MiddleAgedGeekGrrrl Hey Sally, thanks for the sweet message. Great to hear that you're doing well and Luna and Jill are " working their show " in their peculiarly delightful way. All the best to you all from Spain.
I used to have a VHS collection of around 1100 movies. I donated it to charity in 2006. I had already started to replace them with DVD starting in 2000. Some movies I just couldn’t find replacements from VHS to DVD. Around 2008 I started selection additions of digital movies on iTunes and later Amazon Prime. In physical media I moved mostly from DVD to blu-Ray. My physical media purchases slowed to a tiny trickle starting around 2019.
Fair enough. Thrift stores/ op shops are a way of enhancing the collection inexpensively.
@@terrytalksmovies The only sensible way to manage physical stuff due to storage space is to buy less and/or sell or give away some.
I believe there's a King quote regarding "Maximum Overdrive" that his co-director was a certain white powder. It explains a lot about that movie.
Hollywood in the 1980s was covered in snow.
Great haul! You'll like Lexx (I hope), a fascinating but uneven series. I've got the same series, which I paid considerably more for. Oh well. The original A Star is Born is also terrific, and not yet having seen the most recent version, I think it's the best. I've been a real fan of Janet Gaynor since getting Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and she plays her role(s) so well. I'll definitely look around for a (cheap) copy of the J-P Melville set. Enjoy your watching.
I have Sunrise as well. All good movies and I'm looking forward to Lexx, too.
The SOUTH PARK poster is there because I used it to cover my very dodgy paint job on the door! As we have never repainted, I have had no need to remove the poster! 😂
LOL. That was twenty years ago. Forgive yourself. 😯😍
@@terrytalksmovies NEVER! 😳😁
It's a good thing we don't live in the same city Terry, otherwise, we'd be constantly bumping into each other in obscure little op-shops. Your French horror set looks great. I recently stumbled upon a copy of John Carpenter's 'Prince of Darkness' (1987) Never heard of this one before, but it has Donald Pleasence. I recently bought two Jules Dassin movies, Rififi (thanks for recommending that) and Night and the City. I also got the phenomenally bad 'Serpent of the Nile' (1953) with Rhonda Fleming and Raymond Burr - the last, and worst, of my collection of all the Cleopatra movies. These days, this film is known mainly for Julie Newmar's (billed as Julie Newmeyer) 50s bikini-clad golden exotic dancer. Cheers matey !
Serpent of the Nile isn't great. Land of the Pharoahs, however, is,
@@terrytalksmovies Agreed ! Jack Hawkins as Khufu - perfect.
That's a sweet horror set, I believe that Argento/Romero colab is Two Evil Eyes as it's called here in the U.S. I really love that one. Funny story if it's true, I read they originally meant that to be a four part anthology based of Edgar Allan Poe stories and had Stephen King lined up to direct one segment but he had just finished directing Maximum Overdrive and the experience swore him off of directing ever again so he passed and the film became a duology. No idea if that's true but I like it. Haha
That box set impressed me. Getting Nightbreed and Maximum Overdrive on blu isn't easy here.
Good stuff! I love "Horrors of the Black Museum." Gough is such a prissy pain in the ass in that one. It's so outrageous it's easy to forgive that it's not that great a film.
Yep. It's a movie made in a schlocky way to shock 1950s England.
Interestingly, I have that Melville box set but not in that form. All the films are in their own individual cases, not a fold-out box like that. Very good set to get in whatever form, of course.
Absolutely worth it in whatever format you can get it.
Re: running out of space, about 70% of my physical media is now in paper sleeves with the cover filed away for safekeeping and the plastic cases sent to recycling.
I'm not there yet but I will have to rationalise things at some stage.
I have that same Australian set of Lexx DVDs, it was cheaper to get them than whatever was floating around the UK at the time. I had to resort to US discs to make up my Farscape collection too.
Not much around Belfast in the charity shops, best I got over the last few months was The Pacific at four quid and Edge of Darkness for one quid. It was better in the waning VHS days where I could get three entire Doctor Who stories on VHS for a pound.
It ebbs and flows here with op shops. Sometimes, great hauls, sometimes dross.
Terry, that's a lot of interesting movies. didn't watch Lexx. I like the horror movies box set.
The French horror box set was surprisingly good.
Love The Right Stuff and Chinatown. Haven't seen The Two Jakes in a long time, I was disappointed but it's not a complete failure that some say it is. I recently watched the latest version of A Star is Born, well done. That Melville box set looks fantastic, I've now seen all but one of his films. And I have Le Samouari on Blu-Ray. Yes, Iron Fist is the weakest of the NF Marvel shows but not a complete waste if yiu are a fan. Two Evil Eyes is the Romero/Dargento film which is 2 AE Poe stories.
Cool. The haul was a good one this time. I'm happy with the variety.
Terry, please do something about westerns. I know that Australian cinema has a few!❤️
There was also a Japanese Western filmed in New South Wales in the 1960s.
I'm a big fan of Syrim too. Loved playing Oblivion and Morrowind. I saw the South Park movie in the cinema. One of those days I had time to kill. I laughed so hard I fell out of my seat.
The South Park movie is still fun.
I have the Criterion Blu-Ray of LE SAMOURAI, though not the 4K version which probably means I have an older edition. Don't have any of the other movies, and Criterion doesn't seem to have issued them as a boxed Blu-Ray set as of right now-maybe there's a Region 1/A Studio Canal version as well as the one you have?
EDITED TO ADD: I just checked Amazon US, and the only editions are Region 2, and are over US$100 for DVD versions! So that would likely be a "no"....
Wow. And they say physical media is dying...
@@terrytalksmovies - OMG, have you heard? Vinegar Syndrome has a product line, Degausser Video, that sells "LED (Limited Edition Deluxe) VHS" versions of shot-on-tape VHS-era movies! For the love of whichever deity or non-deity you believe in, WHY???? Who still owns a VCR?
...Well, I do, but it's a VCR/DVD recorder combo...and there's a S-VHS machine I bought a few months back because I found some videos I shot in the Nineties that I want to digitize at the best possible quality.... But other than that? WHY????
So Terry -- when you mentioned discs of Australian Soap Operas I think that I detected an obvious lack of enthusiasm.... So if you were stuck in your home for a week, and the only discs that you had which would work were a smattering of Australian Soap Operas, how would you rate watching them for that week (with no escape)? On a scale of 1 to 10 -- 1 being getting a root canal by dentist Steve Martin, 5 being 'meh', and 10 being pampered by your favorite new/vintage playmates at the Playboy Mansion -- how would you rate the ASO (Australian Soap Opera) experience?
I'd go with Number 96 and The Box. 1970s soap operas with some saucy material added.
Oblivion. Yay 👌
I'm looking forward to playing it.
have loved you channel a long time, posted way back when u did a review of the bionic man. was actually gonna do my own youtube thing, but you are so good, i won't compete.
I didn't do the 6 million dollar man. If you aren't a bot and you have the passion, do a channel and best of luck!
i watche 'south park bigger longer & uncut' evrey couple of years it's been in my top 20 since its release. a hint for obliveon leave it as long as possibul before eace leavaling up
Thanks for the tip!
Terry, you dingbat, you did not mention David Wenham's role in Iron Fist. Great OZ actor in an unusual villain role.
Wenham has done a lot of villain stuff. I haven't seen Iron Fist in a long while so it slipped my mind.
Stephen King also directed the four hour television version of “The Shining “. Faithful to the book but completely forgettable.
Direction isn't really his forte.
It was actually directed by Mick Garris, King's go-to low-rent straight-to-video director, but I believe King was closely involved in the production, and so he has to take most of the blame...
Terry, I take it you don't consider WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD? an official version of A STAR IS BORN? It's a 1932 pre-Code movie I happen to like more than any of the other versions-probably because the washed-up director Max isn't an anchor around actress Mary's neck by her falling in love with him, but he keeps her at arms'-length so he doesn't take her down as well (though his suicide by gunshot to the chest does that anyway-I guess a headshot was too much even for pre-Code Hollywood).
It's also a nastier, less glossy movie than any of its successors, and while Mary is ambitious and doesn't try to hide it, when matters go pear-shaped for her (her jealous playboy husband divorces her, she finds out she's pregnant after the divorce goes through, Max kills himself in her dressing room so she's blamed for it), it doesn't feel like she's being justifiably punished for her ambition, but is unfairly punished for being a woman in a business run by controlling men.
It's different enough that it doesn't really count as an iteration of A Star Is Born, from my POV.
@@terrytalksmovies - I'm on the fence about that, if I'm honest.
Yes, it's significantly different, but it's from the same core story, and it's honestly better than any of the other adaptations which all tend to sappiness. There's even an Indian version, AASHIQUI 2-and if there's not Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian and Nigerian versions I don't know about? I would be GREATLY relieved!
It's also less well-known even though it's, you know, available....
Do you have a physical copy of Disney's Song of the South ? That's the holy grail of forbidden Disney history as far as I know of. Cheers
Not a physical copy but I can get a digital one any time I like. 😯
@@terrytalksmovies I have it in a Blu-ray box set of Disney animated classics, but it is the only one that hasn't been restored. Watchable, though.
Totally worthless trivia: That "Right Stuff" box is called a "Snap Case". You'll find out why when you open it, 😁
I forgot the nomenclature. Thanks for the reminder. 😀
Someone plz help my amnesia. Saw I movie that starts with a guy making a pack with the devil and dives a dagger thru his heart, I believe he falls on a glass table or something but from that start on I cannot remember even the name of the movie. Any suggestions will be appreciated
Not sure. Can anyone help?
Looks like the Melville Boxset isnt on special on Amazon anymore...
That's a shame. It's a great set.