What was the last DVD you bought and why?

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 cheap, low risk thrill. I won't even have to saw up fallen trees after a cinematic twister. This one has the added feature of a co-star, Jamie Gertz. She's not much of a star, but her by-line includes extreme wealth (like 3.2 billion). She just does movies for recreation.

Twister is one of those movies that I almost always end up watching when I'm flipping channels and I see it's on.

When I lived in Texas, there was a tornado sighting near where I was living at the time, so I got in my car and I went out to look for it. I had never seen one in real life, and I was curious about them. Fortunately for me, I wasn't able to find it.

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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), surprisingly at the beach in NC. Seeing the clouds, I looked around, it got windy all of a sudden, my hat took off and I realized that sand, leaves and my hat were going around in circles. I looked up and clearly saw the funnel, for all of about 5 seconds. I saw the hat going around in circles and then it came down and I retrieved it. After that my kids called it the tornado hat.

That sounds kind of cool, but in a scary way, almost like something out of a movie. It sounds like you were lucky that it was a mild tornado and you weren't hurt, but at least you got a cool story to tell about it.

When I went looking for the tornado, I didn't want to get close to it. I just wanted to see it, and then turn around and run away from it. But that was back when I was younger and stupider.

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 the mall, I'd pick Chinese food in the mall.

I bought the Michael J Murphy Magic, Myth and Mutilation blu ray box set today. It contains 26 films. I also got the 4 film favourites War dvd set today.

The war set includes: Bridges At Toko-Ri, The, Hell is for Hero's, Enemy At The Gates and Defiance.

The Michael J Murphy set includes: Tristan and Iseult / Happy Ever After / Secrets / Almost a Movie / The Cell / Stay / Death in the Family / Qualen / Invitation to Hell / The Last Night / Bloodstream / Legend of the Hero / Death Run / Avalon / Moonchild / Torment / Atlantis / Second Sight / Road to Nowhere / The Rite of Spring / Tristan / Roxi / Skare / ZK3 / Nekros: Isle of the Dead / The Return of Alan Strange.

I went to The Beat Goes On and bought some new used movies. I got:

The Last of The Mohicans director's cut blu ray
Act of Valor blu ray
TCM Greatest classic films: War dvd
TCM Greatest classic films: World War II dvd
TCM Greatest classic films: Battlefront Asia dvd
Allegheny Uprising dvd
The Alamo (2004) dvd

I have an odd obsession with having all of Richard Stanley's feature films on DVD, which includes...this and two other films.
There's a code for a 30-day trial to Shudder included. Hopefully, it's not expired.

bought this for $359 for my 4k ultra hd dvd collection

Wow blow my bidget out of the water i think the most expensive movie i have is $30

well here in australia everything is expensive to be honest D=

I'm tired of waiting for Disney to release the theatrical cuts of the original Star Wars trilogy that I finally said "screw it" and bought their only-ever official DVD release box set from back in 2006 yesterday off eBay.

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are u going to get other star wars movies for ur star wars collection?

Nah.

preorderd the last of us tv series cause i been fan of the last of us game series

You’re going to enjoy it. Good buy.

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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 monster of the week) is just a visual manifestation for the spiritual or moral condition of a character or creature. The mood of the show was considered to by hypnotic at that time, and I would not argue with that.

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 when a crime was committed. Of course, half of the enjoyment is that nobody believes him.

Darren McGavin created a terrific character here.