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jakeheke
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Post subject: Favourite Christmas LaserDisc? Posted: 22 Dec 2023, 05:21 |
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That time of the year team, Couple days to go, in New Zealand anyway. We spin up Home Alone each year on the dusty R7G, its a tradition in a world that's losing tradition Home Alone (1990) [1866-85]What's your favourite Christmas release you spin, own, wish you had or owned?
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rein-o
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Post subject: Re: Favourite Christmas LaserDisc? Posted: 22 Dec 2023, 18:55 |
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I just watched Fellini Satyricon #230 (1969) [CC1382L]This might be the perfect Christmas film and spot on for what is going on today all over the world. Will watch again in a few days. MERRY CHRISTMAS
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mrfe
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Post subject: Re: Favourite Christmas LaserDisc? Posted: 23 Dec 2023, 05:49 |
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For me it's Die Hard. I have a copy of 1666-80With my buddies, we have a small tradition. Each year we take a selfie with Bruce in the aircon duct and the lighter
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rein-o
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Post subject: Re: Favourite Christmas LaserDisc? Posted: 27 Dec 2023, 16:03 |
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Due to teddanson I picked up a copy of Waterloo on DVD and watched that one on Christmas day. What a crazy film, had a couple boring moments and some anti war message for a second but its a crazy film, maybe better now that I'm older? I'm sure I've seen it before as a kid but don't remember. And re-watched Satyricon, perfect for setting with tree and all
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nekron3043
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Post subject: Re: Favourite Christmas LaserDisc? Posted: 30 Dec 2023, 22:02 |
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mrfe wrote: For me it's Die Hard. I have a copy of 1666-80With my buddies, we have a small tradition. Each year we take a selfie with Bruce in the aircon duct and the lighter That was actually my first LaserDisc!
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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: Favourite Christmas LaserDisc? Posted: 02 Jan 2024, 17:14 |
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Oh man, I have to make another Christmas LD post... The movie is One Magic Christmas. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089731/The LD is One Magic Christmas (1985) [475 AS]I can't remember seeing this before but I've owned it for a long time. This movie is truly unique. I don't think it's a good Christmas movie, just to be clear. It's well made, the actors are pretty much all amazing, but the final product sucks. I think it's only for those people who used to watch all those Lifetime movies about having your daughter kidnaped or whatever. People who love to see other people in misery for some reason. Or maybe it's for fans of Saw. This movie has Santa Claus in it, the real one, but its Stroszek caliber bleak at times. The setting is very realistic. I live in Michigan and have all my life so I know what real snow looks like. Its not always falling in front of the moon to make Santa look great, sometimes its just grey crap laying around all over the place that makes it hard to get in and out of your house and car for months in a way that really wears on some people's psyche. This movie was shot in Ontario during winter so this is all very present and real. The actors look COLD, which I'm sure they were, and depressed. You can see their breath. The snow has frozen solid and has that shoe capturing "crunch" to it. The cars are all lame old Detroit stuff in not great shape covered in road filth because nobody here washes their car. Everyone is happy but has no reason to be. It portrays a midwestern dead-end factory down very well. Someone saw Silkwood (1983) [ID2913CC] and Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) [I5054] and thought, "I want to be exactly half way between those two!" Someone at Walt Disney Pictures loved the idea and here we go, a sort of New Hollywood Christmas movie. Shelly Duvall must not have been available so Mary Steenburgen plays the responsible but humorless mother working doubles at K Mart. Her performance is as great as ever and she is clearly the lead in this Book of Job of a movie. Her husband has been laid off from the radio factory and the company wants their house back. The company is rudely (illegally, you'd think) touring new tenets through it as they are packing up. In ten days they will be on the street. Xmas is around the corner. What to do? Well, it could be worse. Your boss at K Mart could be an above average abusive jerk. Then your husband could be shot to death at the bank by someone robbing it. Then the robber could steal your decades old POS car with your kids in it. Then the robber could drive the car off a bridge killing himself and your two children. This all happens! Then Mary Steenburgen's character is shown wildly scrambling to the edge of the river where by this time even the bubbles have stopped. She falls to her knees in the snow, totally devastated. She's lost her entire family, her home, her job, her car, and is freezing in the snow crying with no coat. The performance is the definition of heavy, causing me to recall the tragic ending of Strada, La #29 (1954) [CC1129L], such is its power. SIDE CHANGE! OK, SIDE B. What can we do in Side B? Well on Side B, Harry Dean Stanton's Christmas Angel character is hard at work, the kids are resurrected, daughter goes to the North Pole to see Santa, husband walks out of the light and is back to life and then its the day before Xmas again and she makes some changes to her life. So...she ends up preventing all the tragedy, sorta Groundhog Day style, but didn't need to because Santa and the angel fixed it all...sorta can't make up its mind. It will make you understand the Magic of Christmas but it will push you to the brink of a heroin addiction before it gets there. I'm personally annoyed by the way it has Christmas and angels and miracles but doesn't actually mention Jesus. I'm not saying this to thump a Bible on any level, it's something else. It's this weird western corporatized version of Christmas that no longer exists I guess but in the 80s defined what "normal OK Christmas stuff" would be. It's an emotional but ultimately Godless and hopeless vibe and this movie may personify it. "God is dead. Only Disney Magic can save you in the end." Anyway, this movie is insane. It absolutely tortures its characters and then magically saves them at the end. I feel like burning it. Thumbs down, do not watch unless you are drunk and high and also watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_(1959_film). In that case JUST PLAY SIDE A. VERDICT: For Canookistanian Holiday Chuckles with a tone of realness instead try Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmet_Ott ... _Christmas
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