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nextwednesday
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Post subject: Re: What was the first laserdisc you watched? Posted: 06 Nov 2013, 14:07 |
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In my case it was this one: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [UMLV 10002] Bought from a shop called Steve's Sounds, just off Leicester Square, before I even had a player. I wish I could remember what I paid for it. Less than £10 anyway. A PDO pressing, so somewhat rotted. Nevertheless, it was enough of an improvement over the other home vieo options at the time for me to persue LD from then on.
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clockwork
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Post subject: Re: What was the first laserdisc you watched? Posted: 21 Mar 2014, 11:32 |
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firehorse_44 wrote: My first viewing involved "A Clockwork Orange" ....... Must have left quite the impression......... 4,500 hundred plus titles later !!!! After I goy my laserdiscplayer, A Clockwork Orange was one of the firtst discs I bought. I think it's a great film that always leaves an impession.
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Post subject: Re: What was the first laserdisc you watched? Posted: 22 Mar 2014, 05:19 |
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Last Boy Scout - it came in a collection i bought with the player. I loved the movie when it came out and i still love it today. Its not a great movies but it is an entertaining buddy cop movie with lost of good one liners.
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nemoide
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Post subject: Re: What was the first laserdisc you watched? Posted: 24 Mar 2014, 13:27 |
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I fortunately keep a notebook listing all the movies I watch with the date JUST FOR SUCH A QUESTION! It was... Mazinger Z vs. Devilman [LSTD01007] on April 3, 2011. Which is interesting because it's not one of the first LDs I bought (which I found in a used bookstore) but instead is one I ordered on eBay at the same time I ordered my player. I had also seen a few unknown educational things when I was in middle/high school, but I couldn't tell you anything about them except one had close ups of cells under a microscope and used a barcode scanner? I studied cinema as an undergraduate and we occasionally watched laserdiscs in class. I remember The Searchers was on LD but I'm sure there were others. I'll say that they don't count because I wasn't in control of what we were watching!
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Post subject: Re: What was the first laserdisc you watched? Posted: 25 Mar 2014, 09:20 |
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A clockwork orange the excitement at seeing the film for the first time was unbearable. Kubrick had pulled the film in the UK. It would not get a UK release until his death! It was the first NTSC disc i imported this was around 1996.I often wonder what foreigners made of it.To be honest i found it a huge disappointment seemed silly and very dated it was never going to live up too expectations.
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megarat
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Post subject: Re: What was the first laserdisc you watched? Posted: 02 Apr 2014, 12:39 |
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Joined: 27 Jan 2014, 23:16 Posts: 37 Location: Squirt Island, WA, USA Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 3 times
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The first LD I bought (and thus watched) was "Nadja" (1994) [ID3295HL]. When I saw that LD for sale in Tower Video, the movie hadn't been released on VHS at the time, so I picked it up on a lark, largely because I had a thing for Elina Löwensohn.
The problem was, I wasn't the owner of an LD player at the time. I had to borrow a player just to watch it (a loaner from my then-girlfriend's mom, who was a school librarian and had access to one). It didn't take long for me to pick up my own player (a Pioneer econo-model of forgotten designation and approximate 1996 vintage, with a mere $225 price tag and three outputs (one composite video and stereo analog audio)), particularly because Criterion's "Brazil: Special Edition #196" (1985) [CC1348L] was just way too cool for me to not have it be a part of my life.
That was about 17 years, 800+ LDs, and two players ago.
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