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"What's your recent DVD purchase?"

Before DVDs came along there was VHS. I never bought a single movie on VHS, my brother only bought 3 (SE Star Wars) and my younger brother about 10 (a mix of 80ies films like Planes, Trains & Automobiles and Red Dwarf).

But now we seem to buy DVDs all the time, collectively we have just under 200 DVDs now and we buy atleast 1 DVD a week as a family. (we used to rent a lot but we dont anymore and the nearest cinema is 30 minutes drive away). I guess it is good news for the television and film industries. Anyone else noticed that they're buying more DVDs than they did VHS?

My recent DVD purchase was Donnie Darko Prism Edition. At a very nice price of £4.99 to encourage those who wouldnt have bought the film otherwise, despite having no special features. It's a very interesting and unusual film nothing like I've seen before.

I also pre-ordered a DVD boxset. Most of you are too young and would probably confuse it with the awful Matt LeBanc movie that came out years ago. It's the Lost In Space Series 1 boxset. 8 DVDs, 31 episodes, a collective running time of 23 hours and 42 minutes (possible marathon attempt?) At a nice price of £39.99 "DANGER! DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!"

Anyone else buy anything on DVD lately?

Simpsons Season 6
Batman Begins
Jurassic Park Trilogy Boxset
Firefly Season 1
Frasier Season 4

There will a total of 7 Platinum DVD's and there are 2 movies. It maybe expensive but is worth it for a anime that is still thought of as the best by many.

If your gonna get it, get the platinum ones, they have commentary, enhanced video and along with half a ton of other extras.

Morbo wrote:
> Neon Genesis Evanglion: Platinum Editon Vol 5
>
> If you don't know Eva, then your missing one hell of a great anime. I
> have seen it all before, but when the Platinum editions started to get
> released I had to get them.


How many Evanglion dvds are there? It looked interesting, but immense (read: expensive)

Richard Prior - Live In Concert

Neon Genesis Evanglion: Platinum Editon Vol 5

If you don't know Eva, then your missing one hell of a great anime. I have seen it all before, but when the Platinum editions started to get released I had to get them.

Ranma wrote:
> I saw Akira for the first time the other day (despite being an anime
> fan for over a decade), it's pretty good I enjoyed it. I'm waiting to
> watch Steamboy next, I've already seen bit but it wasn't subtitled, so
> keen to see it again.

Steamboy is an awesome film. Very much like a 19th century Akira (they were both directed by Katsuhiro Otomo after all). Probably the most jaw-dropping 2D cel animation I think there's been (even including the recent Howl's Moving Castle). The thing I found most amazing was the level of detail in the background and atmosphere, they were so accurate you'd have thought it was a British film, not Japanese.
It's not out on dvd in the UK yet is it? Shame really as it really does deserve success, and a British audience might appreciate it even more given the setting.

'(he wears a coat with the tag S. Miley, which is a good hint at the film's brand of pun-filled humour.)'

Pass

Anyone wanna buy a film? Cheap as chips!

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I saw Akira for the first time the other day (despite being an anime fan for over a decade), it's pretty good I enjoyed it. I'm waiting to watch Steamboy next, I've already seen bit but it wasn't subtitled, so keen to see it again.

It's a great movie, it's won alot of awards before.