As you were ladies(?) and gents..

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You know the drill. What have you been splashing your cash on movie-wise?

Yellow Flower
Lemming
Mouchette
Bet On My Disco
Cashback

An expensive Tuesday coming:

Cashback
The Monster Squad
Hot Fuzz

Just got me some 36th Chamber of Shaolin, One Armed Swordsman and My Young Auntie.  King Boxer was sold out, but if all is right in the world, I shall possess it soon.  Hadn’t seen any of these, but watched 36th Chamber the other night and it blew me away.

I am definitely in for Hot Fuzz, next
week. The Host, which I already own,
and Hardboiled: Dragon Dynasty Edition
edition are set to drop as well.
Might have to get Zodiac, depending
on the money made. Spawn looks to be
interesting, I wish it were completed.
Alas, I will be at the DVD shelves talking
to myself into spending too much money.

Kurt Halfyard - July 23, 2007, 9:23am

The Monster Squad

Completely slipped my mind. Guess I’ll have to hold off until next month on this one. Caught an afternoon tv edit a while back and skimped on all the good stuff so I think I deserve to see it in full again!

Overview of the past few weeks:

Elfen Lied Boxset, R4
Ghost in the Shell StandAlone Complex: Solid State society, 3-disc R1

Not too bad, all in all, seems I have my addiction under control.
Ehm… notice there is a sale at http://www.play.com?

Primer, R2 UK
Children of Men, R2 UK
Universal Monsters Legacy Collection (Frankenstein / Dracula / Wolf Man) Box Set, R2 UK (13 Discs)
Battle Royale SE, R2 UK (it finally got cheap…)
Tetsuo, R2 UK
Tetsuo II, R2 UK

Oops, forgot YesAsia:

Gemini, R2 Japan (really cheap, thanks for the hint Todd!)
The Taste of Tea, R3 Korea
Masked Avengers, R3 HK
Zu - Warriors From The Magic Mountain DTS Remastered, R3 HK
Tales From Earthsea, R3 HK
Princess-d Director’s Cut, R3 HK (free gift from Yesasia)
Lind, Linda, Linda, R1 (using Yesasia to avoid customs!)

Quoting: I can resist anything except temptation (Oscar Wilde). 

Picked up my first HD-DVD title last night, THE THING!!!  Just ordered THE FOG, BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, and RENAISSANCE - import HD-DVD editions all.

That saps my budget for new media for a few weeks!

I haven’t bought too many DVDs lately, but I did recently place an order with YesAsia:

The Banquet
Hana
Love & Honor
Millennium Mambo

Just Purchased Hardboiled
and Zodiac. Decided to save
my greenbacks for next week.

Rising Damp - the complete series
Paradise Murdered
Intimate Lighting

Been feeding my recent addiction to Mexican Lobby Cards so my DVD purchases have slowed recently but I have just put some orders in for the following:

Black Candles / Evil Eye (Grindhouse Double Feature)
Panic In Needle Park, The (The new US release)
Pick Up / The Teacher (Grindhouse Double Feature)
Turkish Superman

And CDWOW are finally shipping out the Criterion disc Sweet Movie. The buggers had been dragging things out for months (they’ve gone into administration I believe) and I cancelled the other discs If… and WR: Mysteries Of The Organism only to find that they had actually got stock back in…

Ardvark - July 24, 2007, 3:57am

Overview of the past few weeks:

Quoting: I can resist anything except temptation (Oscar Wilde). 

Funny that, the wife and I just sat down two watch the recent (well within the last 10 years) film version of The Importance of Being Earnest, and that quote jumps out of that film, even though it is delivered in passing (like much of Wilde’s words actually!)

Yes, and like much of Wilde’s words they seem pretty funny until they happen to be true! 

Here we go again, YesAsia, fixing some gaps in my Korean collection:

The Scarlet Letter (Korea)
Eoudong
My Wife is a Gangster (SE)
The Quiet Family (crap edition apparently, but I got it for free!)

Here we go again Play:

Jurassic Park 2 (I swore I’d never do this, but I have 1 and 3 and this was just 4,95…)
Final Destination 1,2,3 boxset.
The Little Norse Prince (nearly all Ghibli or Ghibli-related titles are on sale at Play!!)

Elsewhere:

Cutey Honey R4 (bought this as a gift for a friend and thought, P&P;goes down if I order two, ah who cares)

sakuran.
the show must go on.
retribution.
eye in the sky.
shinji aoyama’s ‘wild life’ and ‘em : embalming’.
seijun suzuki’s ‘gate of flesh’, ‘tokyo drifter, ‘branded to kill’ plus ‘youth of the beast’ and ‘fighting elegy’.
short night of glass dolls.
stendhal syndrome.
shinoda’s ‘silence’.
tekkon kinkreet (BR).

Picked up DARKMAN and THE HOST on HD-DVD yesterday.  Zero special features on DARKMAN, but THE HOST has almost everything included on the “collector’s edition” standard-def release, which is cool.  I have to say the film left me unimpressed the first time I saw it, but it’s really grown on me.

If I recall, DARKMAN has always been a fair bit rough around the edges in the visual department, I seem to recall this even in 35mm when I saw it in theatres.  How does it look in HD?