i thought i'd start a thread dealing with the movies just RENTED or OWN.
Whenever you've just checked something out, let us know:
have you seen it before?
how many times?
virgin eh?
do you own it?
DVD or VHS?

last night i rented 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'. wow.
another good job by Sodoghberg(?)
what got me was that i had to keep wrestling with what i thought i was watching. i didn't know the events depicted were allegedly "true".
so i kept wondering, howe are they allowed to use all these gameshows unless it's...ummm...."real"?

loved the 5 sec. cameos by Pitt and Damon. funny.

i might go buy this one, though it's at the bottom of a not-so-short list.

also watched 'Commando'.
i've seen this movie countless times, the beginning of Arnie's one-liners.
watched it on an ancient VHS to VHS dub. sweet.
this one is indeed a guilty pleasure.

-Once upon a Time in the West:the Special Edition. - Maybe the best western ever made.
I always cry watching this movie.

-The Prisoner box set- Amazing. I wonder how they got away with this back in 1968!

- Assult on Precint 13- An urban western. John Carpenter's first movie. Proof you can make a decent movie with very little money.
Waiting for the Escape from New York Special edition DVD due this week...

-The Andromeda Strain- Intelligent Science Fiction movies are an endangered species. Watch this and then watch The Core and you'll see what I mean.

My friend at work lent me Family Guy Vol 1. Hee-frickin'-larious.

I recently saw X2. Surprisingly good for comic book movie. Both of 'em for that matter.

Finished watching The X-Files - Season 3
Now I'm waiting for the 4th (download or buy, depends of which is the fastest )

I used to watch theses series some years ago, when I was around 12. I enjoy it more, now that I have more movie culture (and now that I am no longer afraid when there's a monster around the corner...)

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ArkanGL
I was young... and easily scared

Finally rented "Donie Darko". See how it goes.

And the final RotK countdown has commensed.

Not in the 'rented' or 'owned' category, but a local cinema is running The Fellowship of the Ring last week and The Two Towers this week, in their extended remixes, on the big screen, so we're doing that. They cranked the sound massively, which made it impactful but a little deafening, but it was fantastic, and the extended version makes *much* more narrative sense. Then, of course, it's Return of the King next week: woot!

On that topic, thought I'd share this: http://corvette.boise.wirestone.com/gollum/gollum.swf

Bravus

Precious....

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Originally posted by striv:
Finally rented "Donie Darko". See how it goes.

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I recently saw that too. I had to discover myself what all that creepyness was about.
Recent viewings include:
"Hitler - the touch of evil" and LEON (for the 548th time)
I'll be seeing RotK in Thursday, should the local taxis' stike is over! *@&$%#$%* grr!

PS. any fans of the infamous Chris Carter's Millennium series out there ?!

OWN: Gaspar Noe's IRREVERSIBLE.

You are hereby warned.

All along this road
not a single soul – only
autumn evening comes
-Basho

Apocalypse Now - Redux.
i bought this the day it was released.
easily in my top ten films, maybe top 5.

couldn't sleep last nite. so ewhat do i do?
why watch a 3 and a half hour movie.- right to the end!

every time i watch this masterpiece i catch some tiny detail.

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Originally posted by Segmoria:
PS. any fans of the infamous Chris Carter's Millennium series out there ?!

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Yes!! When will this be out on DVD?

I highly doubt if those guys at FOX will ever release the whole series in dvds.
I've seen from times to times some episodes on vhs and I recently came across this guy in Ebay who claims to be selling a 5 DVD bootleg japanese edition but I've heard that the quality is unbearable.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2307&item=3364189407

Two words.

Laser + disc.

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Well, the plan to see The Two Towers at the cinema went awry - the bastards stopped it the day before we went to see it (yes, we should have been more vigilant in checking it out), but it's brought us back on topic for this thread, because we went out and bought the 4-DVD Extended version of the movie instead, and watched that last night.

Which brings me around to the whole 'does size matter?' argument. The extended versions of both Fellowship of The Ring and The Two Towers were *sooo* much more coherent, it makes you wonder why the studios would cripple them by forcing shorter versions. Sure, the churn rate in the cinemas is too low with longer movies - but I'd be willing to pay a bit more for a coherent 4 hour experience than a less coherent 2.5 hour one...

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Originally posted by Bravus:
it makes you wonder why the studios would cripple them by forcing shorter versions.

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They often edit foreign movies as well. Usually,
the claim is to account for cultural differences,
but equally as often, the original foreign movie
is way better than the American release. This
pisses me off.

It's getting really close to Christmas and as such,
it's time to watch the traditional movies (watched
while wrapping gifts, writing Christmas cards,
&c.). Sneakers (VHS), Pi (VHS), Brazil (choice of
American release (VHS), the International release
(DVD) or the crappy American re-edit (DVD)).

Heh, your 'traditional Christmas movies list' strays a little from the 'It's a Wonderful Life' and 'Miracle on 34th St' fare - I *like* it!

Thanks, two of them take place over Christmas
and I just like Pi.

Got a couple DVDs lent from unsuspecting parties (got a tendency to, well, hold on to discs until owner asks for them with a judicial order): Lucia and Sex, a spanish movie; the Animatrix (this one I must get), a couple forgetable anime titles, Rat Race (looked forward to see Rowan Atkinson's performance, and he ended up as a minor character and relatively unfunny, while Jon Lovitz's scenes were a riot!).
Mmhh... just recalled someone has my Toy Story 3 Disc set ever since... *cough*
Recently bought: Mulholland Drive, Metropolis (anime), NIN's 'all that could have been'. Salivating over the 'Director's Label' series: Cunningham, Gondry, Jonze. Oh yeah.

And: just saw Cronenberg's 'Spider' on film. Mixed feelings... beautiful photography and acting, but it could have been a 'Twilight Zone' episode. Or perhaps I expected entrails and wires...

Watched "Citizen Kane" over again. It really is amazing how clever some of the scenes are shot, and how the film is setup. It probably seems cliche mentioning this, but it is definitely worth a viewing or two.

"The Mummy" still stands the test of short time as an enjoyable popcorn flick.

As far as holiday films go, "Holiday Inn" will probably be showing at my house within the next week or so. I have never actually seen all of "Its a Wonderful Life", so I may make an attempt to watch it all the way through this year.

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I could be wrong on that.

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Originally posted by obrzut:
"The Mummy" still stands the test of short time as an enjoyable popcorn flick.

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Which one? I have the original on VHS and love
it. Go Boris. I do enjoy the newer one as well,
but don't have it.