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gently caress it, i'll do the warners title top right. Except it's been redeemed, 45 minutes ago. Show yourself! Trying the next one down, Paramount. Overlord. Urg. Can i send this one back please Edit: at least i don't already own it 
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Overlord is great! It’s the best Castle Wolfenstein movie we’ll ever get.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Overlord is great! It’s the best Castle Wolfenstein movie we’ll ever get. It peaks on the monsters way too early. You gotta save an impressive monster for the climax.
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pwn posted:Yeah without knowing what's what i can't really participate. I already own nope, reserve your dogs and dork crystal. I would feel like poo poo if i redeemed something i had and deprived someone else. Thank you though! MoviesAnywhere app shows what you are redeeming before you tap "Accept". I scanned Nope, Dark Crystal, and Batman codes, and decided to leave everything on the table for someone else
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ringu0 posted:MoviesAnywhere app shows what you are redeeming before you tap "Accept". I scanned Nope, Dark Crystal, and Batman codes, and decided to leave everything on the table for someone else I legit did not know if that was already a burned code by that point or not. Thanks for the clarification.
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I impulse bought The Dentist 1+2 Blu Ray for $13, what am I getting into? At least it wasn't clowns.
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Boinks posted:I impulse bought The Dentist 1+2 Blu Ray for $13, what am I getting into? At least it wasn't clowns. Haven’t seen the second but I thought the first was fun back in the day. Funny and some gross practical effects, although it’s been years since I last saw it. For $13 I’m sure you’ll be fine. At least it wasn’t Clownhouse!
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PinkoBastard posted:Gold Ninja also did a version of The Mad Monster that I’d love to get, I love old 30s and 40s horror stuff. Anything with George Zucco or Lionel Atwill is A-OK in my book. Mill Creek used to put out plenty of these old films on their horror 50 packs, back when they were just another "public domain" bootlegger company. Some crummy prints straight from VHS or ripped from other companies' bargain DVDs. They definitely had a couple weirdo George Zucco films. Another random title I remember is One Body Too Many, a goofy dark house slapstick farce about an insurance guy who shows up at a classic old dark house and gets mistaken for a detective, leading to wacky misunderstandings and hijinks. Seconding the Gold Ninja love, I have their Jackie Chan exploitation pack and the beautiful Thrilling Sword release. The thoughtful presentation counts for a lot, and I'm beyond amazed at seeing an 80s "laser wuxia" get a nice HD release. Dr. Jerrold Coe fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Feb 5, 2023 |
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I have some fond memories of watching 50-100-pack Mill Creek dvds and discovering that some of them had tracking problems.
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There was that brief golden period when Walmart had double packs of those big Mill Creek box sets, so you'd get like 100 MST3K level movies for real cheap. I got the sci Fi ones with Gamera on them and the 70s b movie pack. I will never watch them lol
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My best Mill Creek weird find was The Harrad Experiment, which is like a college boner comedy but played completely straight without any attempt at humor. And you see Bruno Kirby’s dick. Mill Creek also introduced me to Night Train to Terror and Dungeonmaster. And I think Eliminators.
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I AM GRANDO posted:My best Mill Creek weird find was The Harrad Experiment, which is like a college boner comedy but played completely straight without any attempt at humor. And you see Bruno Kirby’s dick. Mill Creek also introduced me to Night Train to Terror and Dungeonmaster. And I think Eliminators. I first saw Bloodtide on the sci-fi pack, watched it over and over as a kid, and now it's got a great HD release from Arrow, incredible. Some more highlights I remember are Night Train to Terror, Legend of Bigfoot, Deadtime Stories, and a goofy Bill Rebane comedy about an intelligent monster truck called Twister's Revenge.
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I own the horror and sci fi 50 packs and the prints are (mostly) bad but there’s something so fun about choosing one of them to watch, and the “2 or 3 movies per disc” format. it’s been a long time since I dug them out but I really have a lot of affection for those sets.
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PinkoBastard posted:I own the horror and sci fi 50 packs and the prints are (mostly) bad but there’s something so fun about choosing one of them to watch, and the “2 or 3 movies per disc” format. it’s been a long time since I dug them out but I really have a lot of affection for those sets. It’s also fun to select the Play All option and then let them run in the background when you’re working from home or folding laundry. There’s something deeply nostalgic for me about lo-fi movies as background, probably rooted in renting bad movies on VHS in high school and letting them play in my room as ambiance while I dicked around on a modem connection or chattered with friends on the phone. They look awful, by and large, because they’ve also squeezed the bitrate to cram so many movies onto the disc, but if you wanted HD, this wouldn’t be your jam anyway. Good stuff. And Mill Creek sent a replacement disc for a defective one in my pack in all of two days!
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I miss randomly selected movies on the local uhf stations on Saturday afternoon in the fall. Those mill creek packs recreate that viewing experience very well.
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The digital channels like MeTV, Comet, Charge, Laff and such fill that void pretty well. It’s nice to flip over and find a Godzilla marathon on a Saturday afternoon.
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Mill Creek is the reason I got so deep into spaghetti westerns, dogshit transfers aside. That box set had so many good ones.
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Which box sets in particular are you all talking about?
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worms butthole guy posted:Which box sets in particular are you all talking about? For me it’s these two, although there are others: https://www.millcreekent.com/products/horror-classics-50 https://www.ebay.com/itm/325358626902?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28
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Thanks, thats what I thought but wanted to make sure.
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I had these:   And some with the Horror Classics title that were 4 or 8 movies to a package and sold at Borders. I still have the discs but dumped the cases at some point.
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These all look amazing and I want them all
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These ones were what I was talking about. There's also a smaller box of Kung Fu films that contains some Bruceploitation and Crippled Masters, and a tin full of spaghetti westerns. Very mixed quality transfers and if you buy enough of these you'll end up with like 20 copies of Night of the Living Dead, but it's cool to pick one based off the title and jump in blind.
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worms butthole guy posted:These all look amazing and I want them all They're a ton of fun. Mostly dogshit transfers like Lumbermouth said, but there was a treasure hunt appeal and it was so nice to throw a disc in and just let it play through. The spaghetti western 44 pack stole a bunch of 4:3 letterboxed transfers of some classics like Mannaja, Keoma, and Run Man Run, plus the Sartana films. Originally the packs came in sturdy cardboard boxes with thick paper sleeves for all the discs, but at some point Mill Creek "upgraded" to big plastic clamshells which look super slick but unfortunately are very brittle and prone to breaking. Beware if you want to pick any up used. Plus the rereleases swapped out a few titles here and there due to copyright issues. Here's a pic of their old style cases, stolen from reddit:  The Warriors pack of sword and sandal films was another cherished set for me, 100% bad VHS rips taken from awful color rotted TV prints but some fantastic titles nonetheless. The Sci-Fi Invasion pack is one of their later ones and has some great trash titles like ROTOR, Topline, and Raiders of Atlantis. Now, who wants to try to wax nostalgic about Videoasia? Dr. Jerrold Coe fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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I got the spaghetti western pack. I have a DVD player connected to a crt so I'm hoping the quality on some of these are way less notable
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The Horror Classics releases I remember were from Platinum Disc Corporation, a budget version of Mill Creek: 
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This looks like the ultimate Mill Creek box https://www.millcreekent.com/collections/movie-packs/products/drive-in-cult-cinema
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Mantis42 posted:These ones were what I was talking about. There's also a smaller box of Kung Fu films that contains some Bruceploitation and Crippled Masters, and a tin full of spaghetti westerns. Very mixed quality transfers and if you buy enough of these you'll end up with like 20 copies of Night of the Living Dead, but it's cool to pick one based off the title and jump in blind. They also had 2 different 50 pack collections of martial arts films which I still love to death:   First one is a really wide swath of kung fu, with Godfrey Ho ninjas, Carter Wong escapades, some Bruceploitation, the incredible ozploitation Day of the Panther, all around good flick Shadow Ninja (aka Killer Wears White), and Polly Shang Kwan in the fantasy wuxia Return of the Kung Fu Dragon. The original release also had some Sonny Chiba Streetfighter entries which got replaced later for copyright reasons. Also features Weng Weng in the Impossible Kid and a couple episodes of Lee Van Cleef's show The Master. The transfers are all over the place and the original release includes the cool ANE VHS logo with the hawk before Ninja Wars - the rerelease keeps this title but replaces the print!!! The second pack was released in 2014 in a belated attempt at riding the coattails of Man with the Iron Fists, and is one of the last 50 packs Mill Creek released. Title include some great (non-ninja) Godfrey Ho flicks - mostly South Korean ones he dubbed, reedited, and slapped his name on, like Five Pattern Dragon Claws or Marvelous Stunts of Kung Fu - and a tight selection of Bruceploitation. Another highlight is The Woman Avenger starring Hsia Kwan Li of The Leg Fighters fame, this one has a really brutal final fight. Mostly clean 4:3/letterboxed transfers here, along with nice looking versions of Nine Deaths of the Ninja and Scorpion.
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Mantis42 posted:This looks like the ultimate Mill Creek box I googled for reviews and was not disappointed: 
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Mantis42 posted:This looks like the ultimate Mill Creek box Nice, it’s got Low Blow AND The Guy From Harlem.
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Mantis42 posted:This looks like the ultimate Mill Creek box I don’t know…50 cents a movie? Seems kind of steep for one of these releases.
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If you muffinheads start some awful revival of those 1,000 movie packs i am gonna burn the building down
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I’m guessing most of those movies are up on Prime in similar quality
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By the time I really got into movies Blu-ray was a thing and I wanted everything in that quality. Bubba Ho-Tep is getting a UHD release now. It was one of the first movies I bought with money from my Target stocking job in 2007. I have the DVD with the jumpsuit cover. I don’t think I’ll upgrade it though. It feels appropriate being on DVD.
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morestuff posted:I’m guessing most of those movies are up on Prime in similar quality They're probably on Archive.org.
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wa27 posted:They're probably on Archive.org. Yeah or youtube. Bootlegger George Tan of videoasia/xenon/ground zero runs the Wutang Collection on youtube which has lit. 1000s of old kung fu film uploads. He's got some kind of app you're supposed to pay for to get ad free viewing, classic Tan scammery. There's an excellent story in the book These Fists Break Bricks from an early video guy about getting ripped off by Tan in the 80s: Tan was renting his legit Shaw Bros import tapes and duping them for his own Dragon Video, story ends with the dude chasing Tan down the street when he finds out.
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Yea but this is the thread for people who desire to buy a physical version of something that you can easily get for free online E: there should totally be a Kung Fu movie about tape bootleggers tho Mantis42 fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Casimir Radon posted:By the time I really got into movies Blu-ray was a thing and I wanted everything in that quality. Yeah, i got that back when i came out in 2004. I think i watched it once. drat fine edition though.  Spot gloss, tons of embossing, substantial booklet. They used to just give you this stuff for normal prices. Ah, the good old days. Get my pay and go give it to BB every week. And while that was watched once, Almost Famous Bootleg Cut, which was bought around the same time, has gotten watched like 100 times so it evens out. I'd feel silly buying it on 4k but we'll see.
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Mantis42 posted:E: there should totally be a Kung Fu movie about tape bootleggers tho could have a New York Ninja/Miami Connection vibe awhile back I found a huge stack of Black Belt kung fu magazines at goodwill, they had some great old ads for kung fu tapes. These 2 are taken from this cityonfire article: https://cityonfire.com/evolution-of-collecting-kung-fu-asian-film/ edit: another good article http://www.coolasscinema.com/2014/06/fists-kicks-and-kung-fu-theater-growing_29.html   Dr. Jerrold Coe fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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