What is the best recent DVD release you have seen?

[sundog]

"House of Sand & Fog"

For me, a brilliant movie... well structured, amazing character development. It managed to deal with human "issues" without being condescending or going the dreaded "victim route."

[TN al]

1. The Marx Brothers just came out with a 5 DVD release...

...There can be nothing better.

[zbdent]

7. It could . . . I didn't see that it had Duck Soup

in it. Does it?

Still holds up as one of the funniest films of all time.

[TN al]

14. No Duck Soup...

...It isn't in front of me so let me see if I can do it from memory. There are actually 7 titles in the 5 cd's.

Room Service
At The Circus
A Day At The Races
A Night In Casablanca
Go West
The Big Store
A Night At The Opera

I showed Duck Soup to my high school class last year and presented it as an allegory to what * was doing in Iraq. Rufus T. Firefly is the equivalent to George W. Bush. Sad commentary on what repugs aspire to.

[zbdent]

25. How dare you insult Rufus!!!!!!!

That man was intelligent.

Bush couldn't even follow the movie without an interpreter.

[prole_for_peace]

2. "Bubba-Ho-Tep"

Bruce Campbell as an aged Elvis and Ossie Davis as a black JFK. They fight a soul sucking mummy that shows up in the convalescence (?) home where they live. a dark comedy.

[indigo32]

3. Anyone see Cuckoo?

it's a foriegn flick we rented friday night.
Very good film.

[Deja Q]

4. "The Curse of Fenric" - special edition

"Sapphire & Steel" - the Definitive Collection is next on my list...

[bicentennial_baby]

5. Fog of War

[vi5]

6. I watched House of Sand and Fog last night....

Great movie. I was very surprised. This weekend I also watched The Cooler. Both movies were great in that they were straight-forward narratives but did not rely on cliches or artsy timelines or any of that. Just solid writing, solid acting, solid direction.

[matcom]

9. watched HOSAF last night TOO! thought it totally SUCKED

maybe you can answer some things for me.

first, the Iranian family were protrayed as the 'vilians' when the stupid girl wouldn't have lost her house had she opened her mail.

and what is making a movie around a HOUSE anyways? it wasn't haunted or anything :shrug:

the cop was an ASS and for no other reason except he was bopping poor, helpless girl

help?

the movie was VERY overrated IMHO

[sundog]

11. no, man...

there were no heroes or villians -- the lead actress was never righteous, often coming across as greedy & selfish

As far as the Iranian family, I think if anything, the film took their side in portraying the struggle, desperation, & isolation of Middle-Easterners in post 9-11 America...

[sundog]

13. also, I think the house

was a symbol of material possession & security

[sundog]

15. And the cop was

representing the heightened mistrust & paranoia of the system toward Middle Easterners -- watch how quickly he reacts at the end...

[vi5]

16. In no way was the family portrayed as villians.....

In no way did I take that away at all. If the movie had a villian it was the cop, and if there was a second less sympathetic character it was the girl whose house it was.

That's what I loved about the movie. You could take it in so many ways and find sympathy depending on your outlook, personal history, etc.

I just thought the acting was really good. It wasn't about a house it was about how we as humans cling to certain things as symbols of our being. Whether it was this girl using it a symbol of her past when she was actually happy, or whether it was the Iranian man clinging to it both as a symbol of his past (the view of the sea) and his future (being able to sell it for more money and send his son to school.

I can see people not liking it but I liked it a lot.

[sundog]

17. I get your drift vi5...

:)

Yeah, I got a lot out of that movie (see above posts)... you can read it on so many levels... that's what's so good-- it's not just cut & dry...

[sundog]

10. The great thing about HOSAF was that...

all of the characters were multi-dimensional... in other words, there were no heroes or villians -- and the film didn't shy away from showing each character's "ugliness" -- much closer to "real life."

Two other recent films tried that as well-- "21 Grams" & "White Oleander," but I don't think they managed to do it nearly as well as HOSAF...

[BigMcLargehuge]

8. Tie: Bubba Ho-Tep and Fog of War

[Lautremont]

12. The Universal Frankenstein collection

Karloff for Governor

[Speck Tater]

18. Mooseport.

Hackman made a great POTUS

[Beaker]

19. Return of the King

although i'm waiting for the expanded version before buying.

[Beaker]

20. how bizarre

i only hit the button once...

[kid shelleen]

21. I agree

"House of Sand & Fog" was pretty amazing. Ben Kingsley was, as usual, excellent. It was very depressing though.

[Servo300]

22. "Lost in Space" season 1

It's hilarious!!!

DANGER WILL ROBINSON....................

[mitchum]

23. "Wisconsin Death Trip" a great adaptation of a presumably...

unfilmable great book. I highly recommend it.

[HuckleB]

24. The Triplets of Belleville

It doesn't get any better than that!

[Loonman]

26. View Askew DVDS

Clerks, Mallrats, etc., all have lots of nice extras.

[Kid_A]

27. Big Fish, Master and Commander, Kill Bill

I just rented Big Fish and Master and Commander, and both were very good. I wasn't expecting all that much from M&C, but was pleasantly surprised. Big Fish is a Tim Burton flick more in the vein of Edward Scissorhands than his more comical stuff, which means it's a really good movie that's definitely worth renting.

As for Kill Bill, DO NOT BUY THIS DVD. Even though the movie kicks an unholy amount of ass, don't buy it. The lack of extras and commentary tells me that there's a box set coming with both movies and tons of extras.

[tcfrogs]

28. The Cooler & Big Fish

The Cooler was a great flick!!! William H. Macy, Maria Bello & Alec Baldwin star, among others.