What's The Latest DVD You Bought/Watched Thread: U.S./Canada Edition

[Panson]

Watched:

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Arrived

Unrelated, well mostly I guess, but at first look at the cover I was like why is that Sterling Hayden? Had a temporary brain fart. This also reminds me that I need to get the DVDs in the Fox Film Noir series.

[Justin2000]

Just need to get 10 more DVD's and 4 More BluRay's to complete the Looney Tunes Home Video Collection

[Zarak]

[Hilliard]

Arrived



(watched this once previously, online [and it wasn't Amazon], so this should look a lot better - I hope)

[Evil666]

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[Hilliard]

Arrived today/watched now.



Much better looking than the Amazon SD stream (I knew it would be), but minus subtitles. (The TCM On Demand HD stream is of course only temporary)

[filmbuffTX]

I bought a bunch of MGM DVDs from Dollar Tree last month and watched a couple for the first time from that lot. They're both fun.

[Aclea]

Based on the original 'Crime of the (20th) Century,' one of those films that throws money at the screen but whitewashes and sanitises many of the key figures in a sordid story where no-one came away looking good and washes away much of the drama with it. Every now and then a hint of something lurid slips through - Stanford White's apartment with the swing of the title is accessed via a toy shop - but is immediately explained away (no mention of underage sex here) while the salacious tabloid frenzy barely gets a look in. Ragtime did it better in less time (while still pulling punches) but this really needs the American Crime Story miniseries treatment.

[Evil666]

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Part 1

[Evil666]

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Part 2

[VictoryAtNight]

Rentals.

[Aclea]

Highly entertaining wartime programmer with a great supporting turn by George Reeves.



Fun even if it was almost impossible to keep track of the plot. Features not just the same courtroom set Fox were still using over a decade later in The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing but even shot the same way at times.

[Lee A Stewart]

My internet went down for 6 hours Friday, which is a very rare occurrance, so I watched a couple of movies on disc.

[Panson]

Partly watched:

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

Unrelated, well mostly I guess, but at first look at the cover I was like why is that Sterling Hayden? Had a temporary brain fart.

Watched this today and while that's Basehart on the box, there is a scene at the marina where William Lundigan looks a lot like Hayden.

[Aclea]

1929 version - Atrocious, living down to every cliche of every fault of early talkies: unimaginative direction, static camerawork, boring lighting, overacting (and not just from Bela) and that lazily filmed play look. The editing is especially bad, leaving in the 3 or 4 seconds before Tod Browning called action in many shots so you can see actors waiting for their cue or taking forever to walk four steps across a room in two cuts. Really hard slog to get through. Of historical value only as Lugosi's first US talkie and his first teaming with a lost-his-mojo Tod Browning two years before Dracula.

1937 version - This actually looks like a proper film, has better production values and performances and a better script. Nothing more than a very efficiently executed potboiler with good production values (and a different killer), but after the 1929 version that's enough to make it look like a classic.

[Pondosinatra]

Bought this because for whatever reason, not available on Blu (or at least I couldn't find it).

Watched the first one last night - love me some Barbara Crampton.

[Panson]

Watched:

[canucksam]

WATCHED



The old Super-Bit I bought years ago and never watched. Actually looks really good.