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DuracellEnergizer

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#567964
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Your DVD Collection
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Added Superman 1-4, the eighth season of The Simpsons, Ghostbusters 1 & 2, and Event Horizon to my collection.

Now, if only I could get copies of the OOT, seasons 1, 3-7, & 9 of The Simpsons, the Evil Dead trilogy, the first five Friday the 13th films, The Changeling (1980), The Machinist, and all the Roger Corman Poe films on DVD, the linchpin of my collection would be in place ...

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#567426
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Last movie seen
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georgec said:



DuracellEnergizer said:

Videodrome.

God, what a bore this was. I managed to stay awake watching Das Boot, but this had me dozing off after an hour in. Truly this is one of the most overrated films in existence. 5-bordering-on-4/10


Videodrome is one of my favorite cult movies, and maybe my favorite by the master Cronenberg.

It's a study on how we've desensitized ourselves to sex and violence in everyday culture/entertainment. Media like television can essentially be used to brainwash and control people. Nearly 30 years after the movie was released we see how predictive it was.


An obvious message doesn't make the film any more enjoyable for me, unfortunately.

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#567414
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Story Time!
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In his latest bid to take over the world, Doctor Doom had acquired a copy of the Necronomicon from an enigmatic antiquarian known only by the nome de plume of Blund R. Bus. Unbeknownst to him, he had been swindled; the sly antiquarian had actually given him a copy of the Disconomicon, having obscured the true title's letters beneath his own intricate writ. If he had known of the immense power locked within the ancient grimoire, though, he surely would have thought twice before bequeathing it to the Latverian despot ...