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DVD Sale
DATE: 02/21/2008 22:25:50 / MOOD: other
I didn't want to start a thread about this and be a total douche, so it's here and I can just link my signature to it.
The List: In No Particular Order
Pardon any mis-spellings.
Ask about editions, I tried to note if they were special but I most certainly missed some.
Consider everything mint, most of it is. If you ask about something, I'll give you a pic or good description first.
Don't be a dick, some of these were gifts or blind buys.
Finally, DONT COMMENT - PM me on the boards.
2. Kubrick Box Set
3. Sopranos 1-6
4. The Godfather Trilogy (box)
5. Raging Bull (2 Disc)
6. Taxi Driver (New Ed.)
7. Boxcar Bertha
8. The Last Tempation of Christ (Criterion)
9. Gangs of New York (2 Disc)
10. The Aviator (2 Disc)
11. New York, New York
12. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
13. Casino
14. Color Of Money
15. King of Comedy
16. Who's That Knocking At My Door
17. Mean Streets
18. Goodfellas
19. The Last King Of Scotland
20. Minority Report
21. Hustle & Flow
22. Broken Arrow
23. War Of The Worlds
24. Jarhead
25. Casino Royale
26. Cannibal Holocaust (Grindhouse Numbered)
27. Fistful of Dollars (Special Ed.)
28. Gone With the Wind (4 disc)
29. Tae Guk Gi: Brotherhood Of War
30. The Blues Brothers
31. Batman (2 Disc)
32. X2
33. V For Vendetta
34. Shane
35. Assault on Precinct 13 (Carpenter)
36. Spider-Man
37. South Park Seasons 1-10
38. Orgazmo
39. South Park: BLU
40. Baseketball
41. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
42. Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
43. The Cooler
44. An American In Paris
45. Anchorman
46. A History Of Violence
47. Good Will Hunting
48. American History X
49. Tideland
50. Thumbsucker
51. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
52. Jackass
53. Scarface (De Palma)
54. Road To Perdition
55. Zodiac
56. Au Hasard Balthasar
57. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
58. The Devil's Rejects
59. King Kong (3 disc)
60. Constantine
61. Monty Python and The Quest for the Holy Grail
62. North By Northwest
63. Apocalypse Now (Complete Dossier)
64. Interview With A Vampire
65. Little Children
66. 300
67. Jay and Silent Bob
68. Badassss
69. Running Scared
70. Fight Club (brown package edition, UNnumbered)
71. Grand Hotel
72. The Boondock Saints (??? you)
73. Ocean's 11
74. Capote
75. Signs
76. The Simpsons Seasons 1-10
77. 3:10 To Yuma (2007)
78. Zodiac (2 Disc)
79. The Host
80. Pen & Teller's Bull??? Seasons 1-3
81. Pan's Labyrinth
82. The Conversation
83. Seven
84. Pollock
85. Brick
86. Payback (Director's Cut)
87. House of Games (Criterion Collection)
88. Pirates of the Carribean: At Worlds End
89. Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl
90. People Vs. Larry Flynt (2 Disc)
91. Caddyshack
92. Patton (2 Disc)
93. Terminator 2 (One of the good edition, ??? I don't know)
94. The Quiet Duel
95. Children of Men
96. Perfume: Story of a Murderer
97. X-Men
98. Borat
99. Snakes On A Plane
100. The Shawshank Redemption (2-Disc)
101. Enemy At The Gates
102. Futurama Seasons 1-4
103. Leon The Professional
104. House of 1000 Corpses
105. 12 Monkeys
106. Spider-Man 2
107. Royal Tanenbaums (Criterion)
108. Mallrats
109. Get Shorty (2 Disc)
110. Men In Black (2 Disc)
111. Escape From New York (2 Disc)
112. Superman (Mega Fuck Edition Steel-Box Set)
113. King Kong (Metal Box Set)
114. Ms. Miniver
115. Mutiny on the Bounty
116. The Simpsons Movie
117. Donnie Brasco (Director's Cut)
118. Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
119. Hellboy (2 Disc)
120. Snatch (2 Disc)
121. Batman The Animated Series 1-4
122. Superman Animated Series 1
123. The Devil's Backbone
124. Citizen Kane
125. From Dusk Till Dawn
126. Smokin Aces
127. End Of Days
128. Shaun of the Dead
129. The Game
130. Memento
131. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
132. Catch Me if You Can
133. Tucker
134. The Matrix
135. The Matrix (Clear Plastic 10 Disc Fuck You Edition)
136. Bull Durham
137. Equilibrium
138. Forrest Gump
139. The Village
140. Sixth Sense
141. Lord Of War
142. Blade
143. Unforgiven
144. The Untouchables
145. Escape From Alcatraz
146. Good Night, Good Luck
147. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Special Extended Editions)
148. Titanic 3 Disc
149. Gojira New Ed.
150. Good Shephard
151. Rocky Balboa
152. High Planes Drifter
153. Red Dragon
154. Wild Bunch (2 Disc)
155. Glengarry Glen Ross
156. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
157. Son of Kong
158. Seraphim Falls
159. Young Guns
160. Dog Day Afternoon
161. With Honors
162. Million Dollar Baby
163. Donnie Darko
164. Jaws
165. All The Kings Men
166. The Illusionist
167. The Doors (New Ed)
168. The War of The Roses
169. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth
170. Neon Genesis Complete Series
171. Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
172. The 40 Year Old Virgin (Newest Ed)
173. Thirteen Days
174. Driving Miss Daisy
175. Amadeus (2 Disc)
176. Schindler's LIst
177. Night Watch
178. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly (Special Edition in Slide Box)
179. For A Few Dollars More
180. Scarface (Hawk)
181. United 93
182. 50 Horror Classics Set
183. Man Who Knew Too much, Lady Vanishes, Secret Agent (Hitchcock Triple pack)
184. Africa Screams, At War With The Army (Double Pack)
185. BeCool
186. 3000 miles to Graceland
187. Ben-Hur
188. Gigi
189. Broadway Melody
190. Around the World in 80 Days (Old, 2 Disc)
191. The Prestige
192. Inside Man
193. Silver City
194. Chariots of Fire
195. Hard Boiled
196. Desperado
197. 28 Days Later
198. Once Upon A Time In America
199. The Score
200. Texas Chainsaw Massacre Tin Case
201. Dawn of the Dead (2005)
202. American Psycho (Newer Ed.)
203. Lucky # Slevin
204. A Scanner Darkly
205. Rocky (2 disc)
206. American Beauty
207. The Ninth Gate
208. Unbreakable
209. Wall Street (Newest Ed)
210. Silent Hill
211. Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
212. Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
213. Once Upon A Time in The West
214. Black Snake Moan
215. Bug
216. A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints
217. Edward Scissorhands
218. Ghost and the Darkness
219. Flying Dueces, Road To Bali (Double Pack)
220. Uncommon Valor
221. Superbad (2-disc)
222. The Usual Suspects (2 Disc)
223. Munich
224. Blade II
225. Last Days of Patton
226. Swordfish
227. Ron White
228. Mortal Kombat
229. The Lives of Others
230. The Silence of the Lambs
231. Vanishing Point
232. Gone in 60 Seconds
233. The Great Zeigfeld
234. My Fair Lady
235. The Life of Emile Zola
236. Rich and Strange, Thirty Nine Steps, Young and Innocent (Hitchcock triple pack)
237. First Blood
238. Team America World Police
239. Rounders
240. Ocean's 12
241. Best of: Triumph The Insult Dog
242. Dead Poets Society
243. Futurama Seasons 1 -4
244. Futurama: Bender's Big Score
245. Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2
246. Reservoir Dogs
247. Death Proof
248. Natural Born Killers
249. True Romance
250. Jackie Brown
251. Sin City (Big Shit Edition)
252. Drawn Together Season 1
253. Batman Begins (2 Disc)
254. Tombstone
255. Swimming With Sharks
256. Slither
257. Rescue Dawn
258. Idiocracy
259. The Proposition
260. The Fountain
261. Requiem For A Dream
262. Pi
263. O Brother Where Art Thou?
264. Fargo
265. Big Lebowski
266. Boogie Nights (2 Disc)
267. 8 1/2 (Criterion)
268. Bicycle Thieves (Criterion)
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How To Go To Film School And Not Kill Fucking Everybody - Volume 1
DATE: 02/02/2008 05:15:00 / MOOD: other
Who I'm not killing today: Text Books Fuck you, I go to film school. Pardon the combativeness, but it can be a frustrating life to be a walking cliche/stereotype. Fortunately, we all are (I'm looking in your direction Spanish Jews) but it can still grate the balls from time to time. Considering the CHUD wise men have seen it fit to grant me a CHUD-related outlet to blog in, I figured that should be my focus (one of them anyway). I have delightful tales to tell you, Oh my friends. And while I am sure that some of the other Chewers are film students, perhaps at my own school, screw them and listen to me - I need it. This here film school is big enough to provide some kooky tales, so there should be plenty of fodder for my young virile mind to add lots of profanity and witty-wordings to and then call clever. For example.... ...my Preproduction textbook. This book I refer to was written in 1985, by Some Guy. The one interesting thing about it is that it revolves around hypothetically producing The Conversation (apparently Some Guy was tight with Francis Ford Coppola - which ???ing every professor and slightly older film festival goer is apparently...) The book is a bit frustrating though, because the foreword revolves around the author somewhat acknowledging the changes in the film industry as such; "As many of us cannot imagine life without our carphones and fax machines, soon computerized film scheduling [will] become the standard."
So I just spent money on a textbook detailing a system before computers from the 80's. The 80's. Didn't they have stegosauruses doing their script breakdowns in the 80's? Fucking old people. I feel like this book is going to disintegrate in my hands if I read it too hard. I have the Dead Sea Scrolls of ???ing film production textbooks. Let me repeat, Nineteen-Eighty-Fucking-Five. The ink is probably made from ground-up cellphone bricks and yuppie blood. I can feel the Reaganomics bleeding from the spine. The cover is done in 4-color printed Neon pink, green and blue - that desaturated ??? the same color as the bangles on Madonna's wrists.  Why can't we have a textbook from the modern age. it needs some nice classy photoshop design, full color printing - maybe some flames. Yeah, flames. That'd be bad ass. TheMonsterZero
** My professor is actually a knowledgeable ??? and all we do is work in brand-baby spankin'-new budgeting software. But still, the 80's? The only good thing to come out of that decade is writing this amazing piece of commentary right here.
***And I swear to god, if I have to stick an LOL or one of those goddamn winking smileys down here for you to get this article... die
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Newsletter Item III - Full Cardboard Jacket
DATE: 01/23/2008 04:23:33 / MOOD: other
Full Cardboard Jacket
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RIP: The Snap-Case
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Fuck You, Snap-Case
[Somehow I manage to write pieces that date themselves the moment I finish writing them! My Sopranos piece came a little late in the game and now, about a week after I wrote this piece, CHUD published this delightful article: HYPERLINK "http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=specialed&id=11193&action" http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=specialed&id=11193&action Just keep that in mind, will ya?]
I have no doubt that an epic battle was fought on a distant landscape. It must have taken place in the land where the DVD fields stretch as far as the eye can see. In this countryside, farmhands lovingly collect the discs, twisting them off the plastic bushes and into their bulging sacks of cinema. Aged men of the earth cultivate the new discs, making sure to water just enough for good transfer, with enough sun for good cover art and rich commentary. Bushels of VHS tapes and laserdiscs are hauled out of the barn and mulched by the youngin’s to provide good nutritious soil for the two-discs. But a shadow stretches across this fine place, it is the dark mill of the Brothers Warner, fortified by the Nu-Lyne Wall. It is here that merciless barons snatch the land’s DVD crops and entomb them in horrible conveyances of Satan. Harken! Lo! On the horizon rides a hero on a plastic steed!
Meh, I’m sick of writing like that. I’ll just tell the damn story…Only a few days ago I was walking through my neighborhood Wal-Mart, bathing in the delightful range of products that capitalism has made available to me, when I spotted something. Something delightful. It was located on that rack of DVD’s that lie outside the main electronics department. Bear in mind, this was not the DVD’s that have been tossed unceremoniously into the five dollar bin. Nor was it the rack that houses the seven-fifty DVDs that rank just a bit higher and therefore warrant a hair more organization than their five dollar bretheren. No, this was the larger display that houses the DVD’s that Wal-Mart still feels are worth ten dollars or more, but don’t deserve to be in the main promised land of electronic media. My wonderful treasure sat on the very bottom row, sitting between Cradle 2 Tha Grave and the Major Payne/Sgt. Bilko Double Feature.
It was Full Metal Jacket… and it was in a plastic case.
Now, the Warner Brothers DVD department has had two continuous major ???-ups in their history. One was of course, the woeful lack of any respectable DVD’s for Stanley Kubrick’s movies. From The Shining to Barry Lyndon to 2001, all the Warner Brothers licensed Kubrick’s were released (read: dumped) early in the DVD era sans features of any kind, and they have remained so neglected ever since. But I did not come here to rant about the need for some Special Edition Stanley. That pervading sin only happens to overlap one far greater. And that is the sin of Warner Brother’s (and New Line’s), use of those goddamn bastard snap-cases. We all own a few of them. IMDB lists 2224 movies distributed in those hateful things. Now I don’t mean the lovely cardboard packaging of 2-Discs and Special Editions a la Boogie Nights or Fight Club. I refer of course to those awful cases of cardboard and plastic where the disc holder snaps around the printed cover. They are flimsy, they are cheap-looking, and they are, sirs and ladies… a travesty.
Well, no more! While not necessarily a recent event, both Warner Brothers and New Line started phasing out those snap-cases due to complaints of what I mentioned earlier. While I was vaguely aware of this, only when I spotted Full Metal Jacket in a nice new plastic case, did it truly make me excited. It seems as though Warner Brothers is starting to have to re-publish some of these movies and now they will get to reside in cases of decent quality! Now some of you may roll your eyes at my concern over a simple movie case, but to those men and women; I implore you to look at your own DVD shelf. Surely you have a few of those cases residing there. Imagine if you can, all of those damnable cases gone, replaced by nice consistent looking plastic cases. Now isn’t that a lovely image? Well it’s soon to be a reality for us all, my friends.
Now I just can’t wait to hear tomorrow’s announcement of the 15-Disc, Ultra, Mega-Awesome, Fuck-You-Renn Edition of Full Metal Jacket due in September…
[Eugh, October it turns out…]
August 20th, 2007
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Newsletter Items II - The Sopranos Blog
DATE: 01/23/2008 04:16:25 / MOOD: other
You're Only As Good As Your Last Envelope Episode
by Renn Brown (Chewer ID: TheMonsterZero)
[I
must request that before reading this article that you open your iTunes
and begin playing Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" whilst reading.]
For the last year and a half or so I have been discovering The Sopranos.
Throughout much of the last eight years I naturally heard many
declarations of how much "THE SHIT" the show was. Eventually I started
grabbing the DVD seasons and gorging myself on gangster goodness. Of
course, it blew me the ??? away. The series started strong but it
increased in quality so sharply that I think a soul or two was sold to
the devil. It was a goddamned delight to watch the season's progress
and the Godfather/Goodfellas references become subtler in favor of the series developing its own identity.
Whenever
creator and series Czar David Chase is asked about the elusive Russian
and why we never heard from him again, he responds by saying that the
show is written like life; big events and concerns often fade away and
are forgotten rather than everything having a nice tightly wrapped
conclusion. While this could easily be a smartly spoken way of covering
bad writing, in The Sopranos' case, I buy it. The
show always found its foundation on carefully developing relationships
of waxing and waning focus while the plot that drove everything was
always natural. The show existed in such a way that even when the
writing had to deal with suddenly writing a character off the show due
to their death in the real world, it felt like life. People die
suddenly without warning and you're given little time to process before
life trudges on.
I don't feel the need to spend another 400 words celebrating the glory that is The Sopranos, better writers than I have spoken its praise. Besides, if you watched the show for any length of time and didn't
find it to be one of the most fantastically written and orchestrated
shows ever put to television, then there's nothing I can do for you.
What I really wrote this piece to ask is…what the ????
On
June 10th, 2007, the show aired its final episode. To be honest, I've
found the response to the end of the show to be a bit anemic. Now I
intentionally watched the show in a vacuum, avoiding any and all
discussion of it while I was getting through the seasons. However once
the show ended, besides some snarky comments in a few CHUD articles and
a Hillary Clinton political ad, I got nothing. Perhaps I don't read the
right message boards or frequent the right corporate water coolers but
despite the massive build up in every magazine and news station before
it ended, once it did (and with such a bang) I seemed to get nothing.
Again, there were some allusions to people's confusion sprinkled here
and there, but no real commentary from anyone I give a ??? about.
I guess my real frustration is that I saw Tony Soprano's mug on every Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide,
but the places I care about like CHUD and AICN, said nothing. There is
enough discussion of TV on these sites to warrant something on the end
of this groundbreaking and epic show! It flusters me because you could
honestly pick any two episodes of the show and have a better block of
time than 95% of the movies put out every year. Maybe I just didn't
look in the right place. Maybe my desire for some opinions from the
folks I usually look to, simply represent the emotional place the show
left me in. Like many folks I was initially shocked, confused, then
angry, then (begrudgingly) I got it. Then I loved it. Again, I don't
feel the need to throw up my interpretation of the show's ending, but
suffice to say; If you don't end up liking and "getting" it, I don't
think you really got what made The Sopranos great in the first place. August 3rd, 2007
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F?ck The F?cking Question Marks
DATE: 01/23/2008 04:09:45 / MOOD: in love
Piss, Shit, Fuck, Cunt, Cock-Sucker, Mother Fucker, Tits That would be Carlin's seven words you can't say on TV, how many of them got through on here I wonder as I write this... I hope this can be changed at some point, CHUD is a playground of the profane, I want it to stay that way. It won't be a true CHUD community with 1.3 F*cks (don't want that one ????'d) per paragraph. Just wouldn't be right. That complaint aside, this is going to be a fun feature.
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Newsletter Items I - An Open Letter To CHUD.com
DATE: 01/23/2008 04:05:27 / MOOD: other
Dear CHUD.com, I love you guys, I really do. I’ve never written your website a letter, but it’s time. Unfortunately, instead of my letter concerning the volumes of praise I generally speak for your site; it concerns a bone I have to pick with you. I write this letter in the humblest spirit and the meekest voice. I seek only a chance for you sympathy and one request… …could you lay the ??? off guys? No, seriously dudes, weak. I know its exaggerating, but it seems like I can’t go five articles on CHUD without you guys giving me ???. At first, I could understand it; I have my flaws. I’m more messy than I should be, I do kind of fall into trap that a lot of my kind do. I think though, if you really look at me with less harsh eyes, I’m not so bad. I really am exciting and well put together! I held up with everything that happened before me! I don’t want to seem immodest; it’s just hard hearing such scathing words about me all the time. At the end of the day, whether I really am good or bad, people like me. I’m not hated or condemned by the masses, like some have said. Even with my flaws, there is something to be said for the fact that I do make people happy and get them excited about more of me. Love has only grown for me as time has passed and I think you’ll see that one day. Really, it’s only you guys who seem to hate me so much, at least enough to snidely mention it all the time. Either way, whether you continue to hate me or not, please leave me be. I can only take so much from those I love and respect. Thank you for your time. Yours Sincerely, Batman Begins’ Third Act PS: Thanks Nick, true dat.
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What Hath God Wrought?
DATE: 01/23/2008 04:01:58 / MOOD: happy
Oh lord, CHUD has a community structure now! I am happy. This blog thing could produce some excellent stuff, the cleverness market is about to get real saturated methinks....
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