What are the latest movies you bought on DvD/Blu-Ray?

Just ordered the Criterion release of "Stagecoach" on DVD. Also included is "Bucking Broadway" with Harry Carey directed by John Ford (1916 silent western ) great addition to my collection.

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Just ordered the Criterion release of "Stagecoach" on DVD. Also included is "Bucking Broadway" with Harry Carey directed by John Ford (1916 silent western ) great addition to my collection.

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Got my copy of "The Great Escape" on blu ray today. There has been some griping on line about the restoration, but it looks pretty damn good to me and sounds even better. It's a big improvement over the DVD and for $10.00 it's a bargain.

We deal in lead, friend.

Though I have this on VHS and DVD, it touches my heart to add to my Blu-ray collection The Great Escape! Just an all around great movie with some of the greatest actors of the time. So glad to have this in my collection. Stars are Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough and many many more.

If you haven't seen this movie, which I am sure most of you have here, see it. It is one of the greatest films about war or mainly about WWII prison escapes ever made.

Cheers Hondo

I to bought a copy of The Great Escape on Blu-ray. Best Buy had it for $9.99. I had a $5 coupon and got it for $4.99.

"One-Eyed Jacks" (I'm not a big Marlon Brando fan, but liked him in this), "Darkman,"Pandemic" and "Cowboys and Aliens"

Bought a couple of Blu-rays today. Bought Cleopatra, which just came out in that format. Pu ti on for a few minutes to see the pq and it is dazzling. Liz Taylor never looked better or more delicious. Also bought the Clint Eastwood, Man With No Name Trilogy. took a sneak peek at For A Few Dollars More and Good, Bad, And The Ugly and the pq is good. It's seems to be better on the latter than it is on the former. Got them both at Best Buy, $16.99 for Cleopatra and $19.99 for the Eastwood set, which they normally seel for about $50.

i just bought 12 movie set of lash la rue
texas cowboy @ with sitting bull at the spirit lake massacre with bob steele

The Complete PoirotCollection

Received the John Wayne 30 disc collection for my birthday, a great present i'll never get tired of. Delighted with it.

Earlier this week I bought the Ultimate Gangster Collection- Classic in Blu-ray. There's four movies, Little Caesar, The Petrified Forest, The Public Enemy, and White Heat. They also have a second collection that has five modern gangster movies in blu-ray, Mean Streets, The Departed, Heat, The Untouchables, and Goodfellas.

I received a great discount from Warner Brothers site. I was able to purchase with a $5 discount with a $20 purchase two movies. I bought from the One on One a Robby Benson movie from the 1970's about a boy going to college on a basketball scholarship and how he copes with the changes in his life as he grows into a man. And my other purchase is a Blu-Ray of a classic, Rio Bravo for $10.43. Now I am pumped up. I have my favorite Western in my Blu-Ray collection.

Cheers Hondo

Bought the movie "To Kill a King". A marvelous English civil war movie featuring Tim Roth, Rupert Everett as Cromwell & Fairfax.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_King

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Has anyone else become engrossed with so-called "film noir" movies?

Over the last couple of years, I've bought dozens of these old films from the Thirties, Forties and Fifties that were mostly concerned with mystery, crime, etc. Many of 'em are pretty interesting.

I'm a sucker for some mystery Stumpy as i'm generally rubbish at working out who the villaim is etc so have seen alot of noir but I only really like the one's that have decent leads, theres alot of rubbish low budget ones kicking around as they were cheap and easy too throw together.

A few months ago I ordered from Amazon several hundred dollars worth of my favorite movies in the Blu-Ray format. Immediately after I placed the order, I said to myself "Jim, you idiot, what are you doing?". I tried to cancel the order but Amazon wouldn't accept my cancellation. So, with regret I went ahead and accepted their decision.

After receiving the Blu-Ray DVDs, I bought a Blu-Ray player and watched several of the movies. IMO, I could discern no great improvement in picture or sound quality between the Blu-Rays and a well-re/mastered DVD. I therefore thought I had wasted a lot of money.

As an aside, after replacing my old VHS tapes with the NEW, GREAT discs, I had decided that I'd never again upgrade my movie collection with so-called technological "improvements" as I was convinced the DVDs were the ultimate in picture and sound quality. I currently own about 1400 DVDs so as you can see, I've sunk a lot of money into entertainment items that I've already seen at least once during my lifetime (I'm 75 yo) I'm a rabid movie fan so I (formerly) considered it money well spent.

But as I approach the end of my life, I've given some thought to the whole thing and thought to myself "Really, Jim, what was the purpose?" and "what are you gonna do with all these movies that the younger generation doesn't care for at all?". I've about decided that I'll give the whole shebang to my local library. Let THEM decide the disposition of the films. Any of my Duke friends think I'm getting a little soft in the head? If so, I agree with you wholeheartedly.

P.S.
I welcome any recommendations concerning the disposition of all those films.

I'm quite young but have no interest in upgrading my media beyond DVD, while Blu Ray sounds nice it's still not that common around my way and I imagine it'll be a long time yet before DVDs go out of fashion and even then I'll still keep a few players handy and will be unlikely to upgrade my collection. I guess i'm just not great with technology or change despite being the right age for it. For my birthday I also received the Jimmy Stewart tv movie Hawkins collection which i'm really looking forward to watching as iv'e never seen any of them before.

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But as I approach the end of my life, I've given some thought to the whole thing and thought to myself "Really, Jim, what was the purpose?" and "what are you gonna do with all these movies that the younger generation doesn't care for at all?". I've about decided that I'll give the whole shebang to my local library. Let THEM decide the disposition of the films. Any of my Duke friends think I'm getting a little soft in the head? If so, I agree with you wholeheartedly.

P.S.
I welcome any recommendations concerning the disposition of all those films.

I think the Library is a good idea, Stumpy. Another idea would be do donate to a local retirement home. The resident folks there would be more of an audience for your older films.

Mark