I'll find out tomorrow. CDs and are going in too.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

nick_md wrote:

How many layers deep does it go?

Three.

Pls let us know what treasures are in n the back rows when you get there.

50 wide x 10 high x 3 deep is 1500 dvds. Tenner a pop? Yeah probably best that moot doesn't do the maths.

How many copies of The Gladiator do you have though?

acemuzzy wrote:

50 wide x 10 high x 3 deep is 1500 dvds. Tenner a pop? Yeah probably best that moot doesn't do the maths.

Average film spend was £6ish I reckon, I loved a sale. Fun fact: Natwest once rang me up to say that they'd blocked my card due to suspicious activity. Someone had tried to make over twenty £2.99 purchases on the HMV website in one go.

It was me, it was payday and there was a sale on...

Yeah I did those Sopranos box sets too. Madness.

DVDs were excellent at the time though. Pre YouTube so you'd get all the behind the scenes stuff and cut bits etc.

Easter eggs too, Predator had some belting stuff hidden away in the menus

Aye commentaries we're excellent if it's something you're into. LotR ones are great

Cimarron (1931) - This loss-making film was the lowest grossing Best Picture winner of all time and today is considered to be one of the weakest films to win the award. An early sound film, I had to watch this with subtitles as the sound has either received minimal restoration or was never particularly clear.

This film is set in Osage during a 40-year period from 1889 to 1930 and thus inevitably invites parallels with Killers of the Flower Moon, although this earlier film conveniently skirts around the Osage murders.

Richard Dix plays Yancey Cravat, an Oklahoma pioneer who is defeated in his attempts to claim land in the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 by the machinations of an unscrupulous prostitute and instead has to settle for establishing the local newspaper in Osage. The film follows the development of the town over 40 years through to what at the time would have been the modern day.

For both this original film and the 1960 remake, the initial land rush scene is widely considered to overshadow the rest of the film. It’s a spectacular scene and is followed by some impressive sets of the booming town of Osage.

Unfortunately, the film is marred by cringeworthy racism and every scene involving Cravat’s black servant, Isaiah, ends up being embarrassing to watch. One of the worst scenes is when the Cravat family has an initial ride through Osage. Yancey points out a stall to Isaiah. “Look Isaiah, they have watermelons!” And we see what the film considers to be every black person’s wildest dream, a giant pile of watermelons. “I sure am glad I came to Oklahomey!” Isaiah responds, as I die inside.

The film ends up with deeper structural issues. While the film starts off entertainingly enough, there is no real narrative through-line and many over-indulgent scenes. A scene where Cravat moonlights as a vicar ends up covering most of the actual beats of a church service. A court scene that serves as the resolution of the prostitute’s sub-plot ends up diverting the film into a substantial chunk of legal drama. It arguably falls into the same trap as Killers of the Flower Moon by shoving a bunch of Osage town history on a screen without a sufficiently interesting narrative to justify making an expensive and lengthy movie out of it.

Overall, it’s not terrible but it badly squanders the potential of its early scenes. ★★☆☆☆

Incredible stuff Moot. Is that Reservoir Dogs box the one with the plastic handcuffs, gun and cufflinks? I had the VHS version of that.

Unforgivable mix of books and DVDs though. Fucking war crime that.

I don't remember cufflinks etc. I think it just came with postcards and a book maybe.

poprock wrote:

Paul the sparky wrote:

Easter eggs too, Predator had some belting stuff hidden away in the menus

I think I still have the Memento DVD with the Easter egg where you can play the whole film in forward chronological order.

Spoiler:

It ruins the film. Makes it dull as dishwater.

I don't think I've seen the whole thing (for shame) but I thought it was still ambiguous as to what was happening and whether or not he was setting himself up all along?

Having a set, definitive timeline flies against that? Sort of like an extended scene where the spinner falls in Inception.

I should probably watch it before picking fault like

No WiFi either. You have to pay for a full year on our site so fuck that, I just come prepared or embrace the mother in law's massive Denzel collection (or her multiple copies of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe).

My favourite DVD I still have, which I got when I lived in the states. It's the T2 Ultimate edition.

It has a proper metal slip jacket



There's a beefy booklet inside with extensive production history



And the special features for the time were outrageously extensive.



Plus there's a mad easter egg. If you enter 82997 on the main menu (American dare for judgment day - August 29 1997) you get access to the extended special edition of the movie. And both terminator eyes glow on the menu and that's sweet.

Took the Matrix idea and blew it out. Love that dvd.

Great post reg. They really used to go the extra mile for stuff like that. Now it's mostly just sharted onto a streaming platform, don't stop producing content to think about anything or give anything extra