Adding to my collection (Part 22)

Part 21.


Adjust Your Tracking (2014)

See here.

Man, was this late.
This was my other birthday DVD fer chrissakes.
Anyway, to the review...

Oh, wow!
I loved the shit out of this!
I've got joy goosebumps the way I did after the first time I saw "Never Sleep Again".

I worried before if this would would be different enough from "Rewind This!".
It is.

"Rewind This!", talked more about the rise of the tech, and the business end. Both of the movie studios, and the rental stores. It gives you more of a history lesson, with some nostalgia sprinkled in.

This one, they whizz past the history in the first 20 minutes, and then it's all about the individual collectors, and those folks talk about the films, and the life memories they connect to the films.

Pretty much like this blog. ;-)

Like I said in the "Rewind This!", review, I found my people!
You get a lot of the same people who were in "Rewind This!", even Lloyd Kaufman pops up again, but we get a bunch more new people too.

No one set out to rip off, just similar filmmakers had similar ideas, and made their movies at the same time.
They're different enough to be companions.
Get both.

Which is better?
Oh, I dunno, "Rewind This!", felt almost as good as "Never Sleep Again", and this felt exactly as good.
If only because you simply get MORE of "Adjust Your Tracking".

Two commentaries, and a whole second disk of bonuses.

I said in the "Rewind This!", review...

This one covered everything pretty exhaustively, I can't imagine what's left.

Well, it's not so much detail, as the angle, and the tone.
"Rewind This!", is a really great Wikipedia article trying to cram in every bit of scholarly detail it can give you on VHS.
"Adjust Your Tracking", is you and your buddies going out to the video store, and goofing around, and having some laughs.
...then, reuniting 25 years later at the closing sale of that store, and choking up, and pouring malt liquor on the sidewalk.

Not that "Rewind This!", doesn't have heart and laughs too, but it's the closest comparison I can make.

Again, get both.
One is part 2 to the other.
They enhance each other.
Like Superman 1&2, or Halloween 1&2, or Hellraiser 1&2, or Star Wars & Empire.

Anyhoo, there, birthday DVDs acquired and watched.

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Retroactive crossovers part 2!

Yeah, one more MTV crossover.
Should've done it last time.

From the link...

Now...if only there were a way to work Aeon Flux in there....it'll come to me someday...

This is as close as I can get...

Beavis & Butt-Head were on Letterman.

Charlize Theron was on Letterman.

Charlize Theron played Aeon Flux in the movie.

Theron also voiced Aeon in the video game prequel to the film, which was meant to bridge the film, and....

....the animated series.

Best I can do.

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Okay, IDW, now you really are just messing with me.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/ 
Ghostbusters (2014)

I guess it wasn't enough that the Turtles vicariously co-existed with the 'Busters via the 2 Infestations, and the X-Files Conspiracy deal.

Now, they've directly met.

I guess the deal really is, IDW owns everything, and is going to Kevin Bacon up a bukkakke orgy of all of it.
Fine, I'll get the raincoat and umbrella.
Think you can make me flinch, IDW? Huh? You don't know who you're dealing with.


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Happy 28th anniversary, Transformers The Movie!

Ahah! Got it right on the day this time!

• 27th.
• 26th.

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Adding to my collection (Part 21)

Part 20.


Rewind This! (2013)

See here.

Ahhh, it finally came in the mail!
Arrived as I was walking out the door to see "Guardians", actually.

So, it's everything I wanted it to be, and way more.

I said in the review for "Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship, & Videotape"....

Hopefully, "Rewind This!", will also cover some of this stuff.
If Lloyd Kaufman is in there, you can bet he'll touch on it.
He's even more ranty than I am.

Well, there wasn't nearly enough of Lloyd, and he didn't really get his rant on.
Although, he did contribute a classic clip from Toxic Avenger III where a guy gets his arm shredded off by the heads of a VCR.

But, they do devote 8 minutes to the whole "video nasties", controversy in the bonus features.
Which, actually turns out to be enough.
Even "Moral Panic..", had to waste a lot of time building up the backstory of VHS for the young 'uns out there, so, *balancing scales gesture* ehh, it evens out.

Biggest thing I got out of it, was a feeling like being the Bee Girl in the "no rain", video finding the bee community.
All these (well not all, but enough) VHS devotees are these same weird, fat, scruffy, bearded, hairy guys like me.
And as kids, they were the same nerdy oddball kid I was, hunting for movie treasures in flea markets, lusting after the ones that scared the shit out of you to collect, and watch again, to beat the boogeyman, some of them even related being traumatized by just the box art (see "Xtro", and "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things").
I found my people!

(8-D

Big bucket of nostalgia.
I think I love this as much as "Never Sleep Again".
Mmm...no, NSA still edges everything else out, but this is close.

So, scratch that one off the future documentaries list.
Now, I can't wait for "Adjust Your Tracking", to get here to see how it differs.
This one covered everything pretty exhaustively, I can't imagine what's left.

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Big Summer Movies Part 2. (Part 6)

• Part 0 (Transcendence).
• Part 1 (Winter Soldier).
• Part 2 (Days Of Future Past).
• Part 3 (Edge Of Tomorrow).
• Part 4 (Godzilla).
• Part 5 (Lucy).

Well, you know what this is gonna be, doncha?


Guardians Of The Galaxy (2014)

I'm hooked on a feeling.
I'm high on believing.

• It's right up there with the first Avengers.
• Funny as Ghostbusters, cool as Star Wars, we're looking at a new classic.
• Sss...I dunno, I think "Winter Soldier", might just be the better Marvel flick by a gnat's nose hair.
• Still, this is the most FUN I've had at the theater this summer. Finally! The fun arrived!
• I spotted Lloyd Kaufman!
• Internet lied, Stan Lee is there too!
• Thanos!! Oh, man, if only I could take a time machine right to Avengers 3!!
• The post credits surprise is the best thing ever.
• The couple behind me in the theater were assholes. No bother, they're book fodder now.
• So, a complete day! :)

Definitely go see it.
See it twice.
Thrice, muthfuckas!! Thrice!!!

Okay...what's left?
Ah "A Dame To Kill For".
Well, see you then. :)

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Flicks I've watched (and intend to collect)

Part 40.

There, this'll be the capper to the journey.
Breaking down the ones that are actually worthwhile.
Then, eventually merging it in with "adding to my collection".

Without further ado, the good ones.
Going in chronological order down the list of 40...

Shockwaves (1977)

See here.

Yeah, out of all the ones that scarred me as a kid, this is the only one that really holds up as a real fucking movie.
Go figure.


Mother's Day (1980)

See here.

Collected all my Lloyd Kaufman Tromas, now for the Charlie Kaufmans.


When Nature Calls (1985)

See here.

Ditto.


Brain Damage (1988)

See here.

The definitive addiction allegory horror flick.


Manborg (2011)

See here.

Been meaning to get it all this time, but something always keeps stopping me.
I'm gonna win, dammit.
I always do.
I'm a slowpoke, but I get there.


The Collector, The Collection (2009, 2012)

See here.

Ditto "Manborg".


Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (1986)

See here.

Ditto the three above.
Dammit.


Oldboy (2005)

See here.

Yep, Henry and Oldboy, I've got all the others.


Justice League: 
The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)

See here, and here.

Gotta get my superheroes up to date...


Firestarter (1984)

See here.

Another one like "Manborg", that just keeps slipping through my fingers for some reason.


Father's Day (2011)

See here.

To go with "Manborg", natch.


Galaxy Of Terror (1981)

See here.

Fuck, yeah.


Everything by Hitchcock.

Seriously, I've just got to get this done already.


The Visitor (1979)

See here.

This finally hit home video, and Showtime played it a couple weeks back.


This Is The End (2013)

See here.

Yeah, why the hell not?


Justice League: War (2014)

See here.

Ditto "Flashpoint Paradox", above.


The West Wing (1999 - 2006)

See here.

Worth owning.
Price needs to come down a little though.


Son Of Batman (2014)

See here.

Ditto "Flashpoint Paradox", and "Justice League: War".


Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 
Season 1 (2013-2014)

See here.

Hurry up, and release it already.


All the Resident Evils in a cheap box-set in the bargain bin.

See here.

Won't have to wait long....


Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone (1983)

See here.

Yes, cuz Molly Ringwald.

How many is that?
Eh, not many.
Some box sets in there, but still, not too bad.
It's doable.

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