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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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Oppenheimer. I saw it in the theater and the story is part of an interest theme I've mainly pursued in books....The Bomb. Historically, Robert Oppenheimer sits ad the crux of the Manhattan Project,...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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It's Rod Serling's other show, Night Gallery, the first episode among 98 in a DVD set. I recall seeing some of them a long time ago. This episode has Roddy MacDowell and Ossie Davis. MacDowell is...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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It was a triple blue-ray set with Twister, Poseidon and the Perfect Storm. I mainly bought it for Twister. Having been way too close to several tornadoes in life, including being about 200 feet...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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The Outer Limits, seasons one and two, the 1960's version of the show. As for why.....TOL was the best, bleakest, dreamiest, nightmarish sci-fi anthology ever done. It had a bleak voiceover intro...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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It's the third one of a set (I had the first two) - the third installment of "Dark Film Mysteries", AKA Film Noir. These are the cheesy ones like The Limping Man, The Hoodlum, Jail Bait and Lady...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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It's The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, or at least the ones with Basil Rathbone as Holmes. I recall seeing those a long time ago and they're really an enjoyable waste of time. There's a...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
Posted By skizzerflake
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I like owning some disks because it's a psychological need sometimes, to be off line, not dependent on a streaming service that's like an IV in my vein, therefore, I have a sizable number of cheap...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
Posted By skizzerflake
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Same purchase - Kolchak, The Night Stalker. It had about a dozen and a half episodes, 1974 - 1975. Carl Kolchak was a nosy newspaper reporter who always found a monster, spook or something weird...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
Posted By skizzerflake
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The Outer Limits, Seasons 1 and 2. These mid-60's sci-fi-wierdness episodes are amazing in how well written and acted they were. FX are fairly cheesy, but you realize that the FX (mainly the...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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Actually, I never went looking for any of them. ...

Actually, I never went looking for any of them. Fortunately, they were all fairly small, but, if you'd asked me that morning whether I'd rather be too close to a twister...OR...have Chinese food in...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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I've been way, way too close to two of them, but...

I've been way, way too close to two of them, but saw neither. I was too busy running and screaming to do anything other than head for shelter.

Number 3 was a very minimal tornado (40 mph),...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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Today, it's Twister. I have a secret like for weather movies. I've been way way too close to a couple of tornadoes, and sat through several hurricanes, so watching one from my easy chair is a...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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With such minimal FX, that was what TOL's writers...

With such minimal FX, that was what TOL's writers did best....take something mundane and turn it into an existential threat. I'd be pretty darn freaked out if the tumbleweeds became sentient.
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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This one's a 1999 remake starring Liam Neeson. I...

This one's a 1999 remake starring Liam Neeson. I do recall the older one.
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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And....this one - "Bone Chilling Horror 10 Movie...

And....this one - "Bone Chilling Horror 10 Movie Collection". I haven't started it yet, but what with The Ring, What Lies Beneath, The Haunting and Stephen King's Graveyard Shift, as well as 6...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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Since it says "DVD" and not movie, I'll do another one of a TV series - Kolchak, The Night Stalker a complete DVD set. It was a 70's, fairly short lived TV series about Karl Kolchak, a nosy...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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It's not exactly a movie, but it is very cinematic - A DVD set of the old The Outer Limits episodes from the mid-60's. Sci-Fi has rarely been smarter than these episodes, which I am savoring. Being...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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The Outer Limits, the lamentably short lived early 1960's sci-fi anthology. Season 1 had probably the best, gloomiest, most somber, thoughtful, noir-ish and innovative sci-fi ever made for the small...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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Oh yeah, back when men did big hair, big collars...

Oh yeah, back when men did big hair, big collars and wide ties.
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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Found in a discount store, DVD bargain bin - It's...

Found in a discount store, DVD bargain bin - It's "Film Noir Collection". It has 10 black and white movies, full of tough talking guys with hats and trench coats and slinky, cynical femme fatales...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
Posted By skizzerflake
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It's "Film Noir Collection", 10 fairly classic noir movies with stars like Bogart, John Garfield, Peter Lorre and Edward G Robinson. It has pot-boilers like - Whirlpool, The Stranger, Port of New...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
Posted By skizzerflake
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It's a discount set, 10 noir films, including such heavies as The Stranger, DOA, Whirlpool and The Port of New York, which starred Yul Brynner with hair. The Stranger has Orson Welles as a sinister...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
Posted By skizzerflake
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Because where else would you see these movies - "12 Shocking Films", The Best of the Worst, Cinema like Manos, The Hands of Fate, EEgah, Dementia 13 and The Ape Man.

I bought the set because I...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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Re: What was the last DVD you bought and why?

Today, it's The Best of the Worst, a 12 movie collection from that purveyor of the best in cinema, Mill Creek. It has Manos, The Hands of Fate, often mentioned in lists of the worst movies ever,...
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What was the last DVD you bought and why?
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CHUD, a classic. I first saw that movie late at...

CHUD, a classic. I first saw that movie late at night, sequestered in a beachfront hotel while a huge nor'easter had the hotel surrounded by wind, water and wave, trying to block out the sound of...

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