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yendi ([personal profile] yendi) wrote2006-03-15 10:39 am
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New Amazon $9.97 DVD sale!

Amazon's got a ton of movies (mostly from Fox Studios) on sale for $9.97 each, ranging from 50%-67% off. The biggest surprise, to me, was The Thief Lord, which only just came out, and is based on one of Elayna's favorite books.

Other deals:

Animated/kid films:

Cheaper by the Dozen "Baker's Dozen" Edition

Fat Albert

Ferngully (2-disc edition)

First Daughter

Ice Age "Super Cool" Edition

Robots

Action/crime movies:

Elektra (Widescreen)

Flight of the Phoenix

The French Connection

Man on Fire

The Mark of Zorro (the Tyrone Power movie)

Master and Commander

Ong-Bak

The Transporter: Special Delivery Edition

Drama:

The Five Heartbeats

Cleopatra

I ♥ Huckabees

Kinsey

M*A*S*H (two-disc special edition)

Documentaries:

Ronald Reagan: An American President

Shelter From the Storm: A concert for the Gulf Coast

Utter crap:

Cloud 9

Puddle Cruiser

The Simple Life 3: The Interns

Taxi (the recent movie, not the TV series).
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[identity profile] murnkay.livejournal.com 2006-03-15 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
You didn't put elektra in utter crap?
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[personal profile] yendi 2006-03-15 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It probably belongs there, but since I still haven't seen it, and I'm one of six people who liked the first movie, I figure I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.

[identity profile] murnkay.livejournal.com 2006-03-15 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw it.

DEAR LORD I SAW IT!

*runs off screaming*

[identity profile] robyn-ma.livejournal.com 2006-03-15 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I liked it for what it was, but it definitely wasn't the Elektra of the comics, and Jen Garner is a perfectly likable actress who was absolutely miscast as Elektra.

Best of all possible worlds: Oliver Stone's Elektra: Assassin (which was actually supposed to happen at one point) with Michael Chiklis as Garrett. (Should actually be Brian Dennehy, but he's too old now.)

[identity profile] murnkay.livejournal.com 2006-03-15 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a waste. It was underdone and the worst use of Terrence Stamp in quite some time. I was just so frustrated at it for the way it couldn't embrace itself that I watched Catwoman later.
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[personal profile] yendi 2006-03-15 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a worse use of stamp than The Haunted Mansion?

[identity profile] robyn-ma.livejournal.com 2006-03-15 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think it could embrace itself because it was trying to be way too serious. And you can't be that serious with Elektra. Not with Garner in the role, you can't.

I loved how Miller just turned her into the all-out crazed ninja bitch in Elektra: Assassin and turned the whole thing into a spy farce. THAT would've been entertainment.

[identity profile] terracinque.livejournal.com 2006-03-15 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Several of the films linked above the line "Utter crap:" belong below it. Not just Elektra, but certainly Elektra.
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[personal profile] yendi 2006-03-15 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Very likely true. I ended up creating the "utter crap" category as I got near the end, and was a little too lazy to reorganize.

[identity profile] robyn-ma.livejournal.com 2006-03-15 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
'The Mark of Zorro (the Tyrone Power movie)'

You loved that movie...you jumped and danced like a fool...you remember...you remember that night...

/geek
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[personal profile] yendi 2006-03-15 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you allowed use the "end geek" tag if you don't actually stop geeking out?
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