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Skriven 2007-01-02 03:40:24 av Wendy of NJ (13215.babylon5)
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Ärende: Re: Does any one have this DVD/VHS?
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On 1 Jan 2007 19:26:22 -0800, "Joseph DeMartino"
<jdemarti@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
>> Ok here is the game- name a DVD or VHS in your collection that you
>> believe no one else here will have.  I'll start.
>
>"Kill and Kill Again" on DVD.  Dreadful and deservedly obscure martial
>arts flick.  When my nephew was a little boy and I was briefly living
>at home after college, he came to stay with us for a week or two while
>his parents were out of town.  For part of the time he had a really bad
>cold and mostly stayed in bed while my parents read him stories or
>watched TV with him.  My father mostly watched awful movies on cable in
>the afternoons.  In those days Cinemax used to run the same dozen or so
>grade-z HBO rejects over and over again, and my nephew somehow fell in
>love with "Kill and Kill Again", insisting the my father watch it with
>him every time it was on.  (I even got dragged into watching it a
>couple of times when it was on in the early evening.)  For some reason
>this came up in conversation with my nephew and my father a couple of
>years ago.  My nephew would have been about 25 by then.  He didn't have
>a DVD player yet, but I did, and one day I stumbled across a copy of
>"Kill and Kill Again."  The next time we had a guy's movie night at my
>house I ran it for him as a surprise.  He couldn't believe how bad it
>was, because he still remembered it fondly.  Needless to say, he didn't
>want the disc even after he got a DVD player and it sits in my
>collection, gathering dust. <g>
>
>"The Ascent of Man:  A Personal View by Jacob Bronowski"  It is both
>widely available and reasonably priced in the UK, so more folks may own
>it on that side of the Pond.  Here it is not available through normal
>commercial channels but must be hunted down and the price is outrageous
>- $150 (on SALE)  But I thought it was worth it and am just glad I
>didn't pay $250 or $300 when I first discovered it a couple of years
>ago.

Got it. And the book (and I met Bronowski at the final episode
screening at the Smithsonian when I was 13).

>
>"Jumanji"  Hey, it was 1997 and there weren't a lot of titles available
>to show the players off.  (Which is why I once owned a copy of
>"Demolition Man" <g>)   I looked at this not long ago and totally felt
>like a dirty old man when I realized that the little girl in the film
>was played by Kirstin Dunst.  I'll never be able to look at Mary Jane
>Watson the same way again. <g>

Got that one, too.

>
>"The Long Kiss Goodnight"  Geena Davis as a CIA assassin with amnesia
>who thinks she's a suburban housewife until her memory starts coming
>back and people start trying to kill her. Don't ask.  Also has Samuel
>L. Jackson spouting lines like, "I usually just punch them in the mouth
>and sing 'Pop Goes the Weasel'"
>
>"The Last Action Hero"  I really have no excuse.

And this.

>
>"The Rock:  The Criterion Collection"  Look, lots of people have this
>qunitessential Bay-Bruckheimer schlockfest, but I have the frickin'
>"Criterion Collection" 2-disc special ediiton.  It's a sickness, I tell
>you.
>
>"Midnight Run" uderrated and too-little-seen comedy with Charles
>Grodin, Robert De Niro and Yaphet Kotto, Dennis Farina and Joe
>Pantoliano.  Grodin plays a mob accountant who embezzled millions and
>gave most of it to charity, then vanished.  De Niro is an ex-cop,
>framed for taking bribes, who now works as a bounty hunter.  He gets
>the job of getting Grodin from New York to California in time to make a
>scheduled court appearance - because if he doesn't make it, the bail
>bondsman is out of business.  Meanwhile FBI Agent Kotto and mobster
>Farina (the man Grodin stole from) and another bounty hunter are also
>on the trail of Grodin.  Think "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" with
>guns.  <g>

Seen it a few times. Didn't think it was worth owning.

>
>"Practical Magic" charmer that somehow didn't find an audience about
>estranged sisters (Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman) who share secrets
>and magical powers and also an interest in the same man.

Have it.

>
>"Running Scared"  *Not* the recent film about the botched drug deal and
>a hot gun that somebody doesn't dispose of properly.  This is s 1986
>action comedy with the most unliely team of detectives ever.  Billy
>Crystal (!) and Gregory Hines (!!) are Chicago cops who start to
>serioulsy consider taking early retirement after an arrest goes bad in
>this action comedy.  Dan Hedaya plays the Irracisble Police Captain
>(tm) and Jimmy Smits is the drug lord the pair must take down.  It
>shouldn't work, but it does.  Forget "Analyze That".  *This* film
>should have had a sequel.

I remember this film! I don't own it, though.

>
>"Streets of Fire" A Rock and Roll Fable.  Cult classic starring Michael
>Pare, Diane Lane, Amy Madigan, Rick Moranis, Willem DaFoe (possibly in
>his first major role) and one of the greatest soundtracks of all time.

Got this one, too. On Betamax :) (Why would you think none of us would
have it, with all the Steinman fandom here?)

-Wendy
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