DL2 ... Movies I Want but Can't Bring Myself to Buy!
Submitted by Infomaniac on Wed, 02/13/2002 - 12:16
Tags:
- Usual Suspects
- The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen
- Grosse Point Blank
- 12 Monkeys
- Trains, Planes, and Automobiles
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (even though I hate it!)
- Barbarella (overrated, but the genesis for the name Duran Duran)
- Airplane
- Bugsy Malone
- The Big Lebowski
- Memento (Arghhh, I want this)
- Raising Arizona
Author Comments:
Some of my favorite movies, but I have a thing for bargains I can't pay $20 for a single DVD! I have 400+ DVDs and I COULD afford it if I wanted, but that's not the point!
Argh, to not have Grosse Point or Munchausen or Usual Suspects...but I can't do it. I KNOW I'll find them in a bargain on Half.com or Ebay some day!
Okay, I'll bite . . . Why do you want Fear and Loathing even though you hate it?
Damn, 400+ DVDs. Now that's a DVDs I Own list I'd like to see.
LOL, you know, before your post, I never thought about it that way, but it is a good question. I have quite a few DVDs of movies I don't like. I am fanatical about my collections (CDs, Albums, etc.) and I REALLY like DVDs.
I have several reasons for having DVDs of movies I don't like. Some are considered classics, and when I'm in Hong Kong and can pick them up for 2-3 US dollars, I figure "Why not?" It'll fill out my collection. Others are movies that my wife likes that I just didn't. Others are movies a LOT of people like, but I didn't. We live in Vegas and have visitors frequently, so it's nice to have movies they want to watch. Braveheart would fall in this category.
For "Fear and Loathing" specificially, however, I have two major reasons. The first is I am starting to collect movies based in Vegas. We live here, and it's kinda fun to have a section of my DVD player devoted to Vegas (I have two DVD players, one upstairs, one downstairs, each can hold 300 DVDs, like a jukebox). I'm not a big Mob Movie kinda guy, but I'm starting to collect movies like Bugsy or Casino just because they are Vegas oriented.
The other reason is Stephen Coonts, my favorite author, lives a few miles from me. I met him through a mutual friend and I anticipate to see him a few more times when we get together with our mutual friend. A book/movie that Coonts recommends on his web site is Fear and Loathing. It is because of Coonts that I forced myself through the book and a second viewing of the movie. I STILL don't get it, and I want to be able to pinpoint my dislike when I discuss it with Mr. Coonts.
(Side Note: while I hated both the book and the movie, I have to admit that the adaptation from book to screen was excellent. Screenplay was dead on the book, the acting, while over the top, was required to be over the top, and was well done by Depp (not my favorite) and del Toro (one of my favorites).)
Gotcha. Nice that you live in an exotic (not sure if that's the right word) locale. While I love New England, somehow a Massachusetts movie collection seems less glamerous. Where would I start? Good Will Hunting, perhaps? I dunno.
And wow, that's excellent that you have an opportunity to hang out with your favorite author (and that you're not so starstruck that you can still tell him you hate a book/movie he recommends).
I'll post a partial list to get it going, but I haven't updated it for about 18 months. A lot of the names will not seem familiar...since I get a LOT of my DVDs from Hong Kong, I find some really odd stuff. I have many DVDs of old time cartoons, like old Disney stuff, old Mel Blanc stuff, etc., so those titles might not ring a bell.