I ordered the German Blu-Ray of Black Christmas a fortnight ago. I saw it a few years back. I don't think I was a huge fan of it then, but I was also a moron then. Funnily enough, I ordered Bob Clark's other festive favourite, A Christmas Story. Never saw that one either.

Shouldn't that be "You Sint be disappointed!"?

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I'll get my coat :bolt:

That's terrible!

I'm leaving...never mind you.

I'll probably be sticking my decs up this coming weekend. I'm actually off this week so I'm going to do some Xmas shopping and hopefully Black Friday will also yield some savings on gifts too- as well as some 'presents' for myself of course! :D

I had my first mince pie yesterday so am starting to feel a little more festive already. ;)

I also have the German Blu.

Yeah, I get the whole re-appraisal of films / self-confessed moron thing. My next review to be posted in the Noir thread is actually for Brighton Rock, which I first watched when I was about 13/14 and didn't think much of it - in fact I found it quite boring. Now having re-appraised it almost 10 years later I realise what a fantastic film it really is and I want to travel back in time and slap my 13/14 year old self... however that can be said about so many things and I'd probably be suffering severe brain damage at this point in time if my future self had been able to go back and slap my past self for various acts of stupidity.

I'll be putting mine up around the 4th or 5th as well. While Jona Lewie and The Pogues are blasing from the radio.

I just love Christmas.

The Pogues also get a lot of air time in my house at Xmas too. :bananarock:

Just acquired The Burning for £1. The Vipco Vaults release, uncut blah blah. Hopefully it will play as some of the dics I've gotten from BRC have been, er, weathered somewhat.....;)

Nothing worse than weathered dics! ;) :D

I got myself one in the summer ready to watch this December I'm looking forward to it! I like how Saint Nic looks like Papa Emeritus :lol:

But, it's a nice feeling too. As you get older, you get wiser and have experienced more. Only then does such a film become relevant to you.

Back when I was a child, I loathed 2001: A Space Odyssey. I thought it was boring wank for boring wankers who failed space academy.

But, in my late teens, as I was struggling with my religious identity (I was Catholic but I'm now atheist), I saw the film again and I loved it. I hesitate to say I "got" it, but I understood what Kubrick was doing. Here was a film that chronicled man's struggles with science, faith, and evolution.

I needed to have lived to truly watch 2001. And, I like that. Revisiting these films tell me that I'm becoming a "better" person as I get older.

Then again, I still laugh at Deuce Bigalow so maybe I'm talking out of my arse.

Both Awesome, if you don't like A Christmas Story after seeing it you need your head testing! You'll be saying "You'll shoot your eye out" for days afterwards :lol:

Weathered is putting it mildly. Will clean it when I get home etc.

It is a nice feeling and I think tastes always evolve - I hesitate to say 'mature' as that almost implies that you leave a lot of your childhood favourites behind and replace them with more 'adult' fare, which definitely isn't the case.

In the case of 2001, luckily(?) I only managed to catch it when I was in my late teens so loved it from the outset. I think if I'd caught it early teens / pre-teens I probably would have had a similar reaction to you initially did and it would have been a struggle for me to revisit it despite the amount of praise it got from others around me.

I don't necessarily see myself becoming a 'better person' as I get older (the opposite in many ways most probably) more so that my tastes have broadened as my horizons have also. I grew up with 4 (later 5) terrestrial TV channels, a small video rental store and a couple of local cinemas. Now I have the world wide web of rentals/streaming/shopping as well as many film related forums, blogs and review sites at my finger tips so the amount of film information and product available to me is monolithic and I do enjoy drowning in this excess whenever I get the chance, what with film being one of my primary enjoyment outlets.

I can get pleasure from obscure Japanese art-house cinema to fart jokes on Family Guy and a vast amount in between so as long as you're enjoying the experience of what you're watching at some level then I say it's all good. :nod:

When I say a "better" person, I mean one who is more open-minded (in terms of new ideas and concepts), and wiser by having experienced and solved (or at least survived) the many crises that life throw at you.

Not that I suddenly have a hankering to wrap myself in a sheet and go full-on Mother Teresa.

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I think most of us have those films that we go back to and as far as I'm concerned shouldn't be a cause of shame. I love ridiculous comedy such as Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion, I love teen movies like She's All That and Clueless and I absolutely love beyond all doubt Grease and Grease 2. However last night I was more than happy to sit down and watch The Enigma of Kasper Hauser!

Speaking of developing tastes, this also works in reverse much to my displeasure when I last tried to watch a firm childhood favourite of mine The Goonies and really struggled to get through it!

I'm hearing that a lot lately. It's making me scared to revisit it. I know I still love The Monster Squad though (having Shane Black as the writer probably helps it a lot).

The Monster Squad holds up way better, but that's more of a proper horror film but for kids! I just like to pretend that I never watched The Goonies last year and that I still love it ;)

Very true. Life experiences after all shapes the personality which in turn effects your film tastes - even to some very minor degree.

Yeah, I think Ted is one of the very few who can pull that look off to any effect ;)

Everyone has their favourites which conventional (or 'cult') society thinks must be deemed a guilty pleasure, but there should be no guilt in terms of what we like (and that goes for all walks of life) as it just breeds repression.

Plus, I think our very own Stephen may have found a kindred spirit in yourself due to your love of Grease 2! :D

Totally emphasise with this one - I'm the same in reference to The Monster Squad though... which I notice has been posted about above. I watched it as an 'adult' and didn't rate it much at all (I actually recently revisited it as part of my Halloween viewing this year and just can't buy into it as much as the people who grew up with it must do). Some films are just a product of their time or targeted towards a set age group which sometimes if watched outside of the this age/time just doesn't translate for a lot of folk.

Speaking of which, I love Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion and Clueless as much as I love The Enigma of Kasper Hauser. They're funny, charming and a nice satirical streak running through them - just like another favourite of mine, Mean Girls. Although, the queen of them all has to be Heathers.

As for Grease 2, I'm siding with Michelle Pfeiffer and her kids on that one, I'm afraid.

Yup me too!

I invented the special glue they use on post-it notes :lol:

Cleaned up a treat.
What a gripping saga :rolleyes::lol::pound:

Now I'm off to open my The Duke Of Burgundy and get royally pissed....


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Thanks for that. Some good info there!

I'm not clueless with that quote. It's from Romy and Michelle.

(See what i did there!) :hide:

I sometimes think back to when I was 15/16(sooo long ago) and wonder what I'd think of my taste in entertainment today, my horror vibe has remained kinda the same but I'm ashamed to say back then I wouldn't even entertain the thought of watching a 50s musical or an episode of Columbo even if you paid me:lol::lol: I tried to sit through The Maltese Falcon when I was a teen, turned it off and thought it slow and boring:lol: A more mature me can appreciate things so much more openly.

This was waiting at home for me:

I really need to pick that up.

When i was younger i just couldn't watch b&w films. Now some of my favourite films are b&w.

I bought the first two extended editions back in March and held off buying the original Theatrical edition of this hoping that an extended edition would follow by the end of the year.
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Ah, the R rated cut.

Theres another cut? I'm not overly knowledgable about these movies having never seen any of them except for the rings trilogy the last of which gave me a numb arse and a migraine!

No, no. The extended edition turned a few heads earlier this year when the tv spots announced it as R rated. It just seemed weird that a major studio would release such a film with that rating.

As for why it got an R rating, people are stumped. Some think it may have to do with the constant battle scenes rather than a few isolated moments. This would explain Warner Brothers releasing it as such, as they were probably confused as to what was the R rated content.

The Slowly children have clubbed together to buy their first Ltd edition...and it is a coffin box set!

I forgot to mention that the German Sony BD of Tootsie arrived yesterday and the sleeve is reversible! No big yellow ratings box for Justin!

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I still love monster squad , prefer it over goonies if i am honest . Remember watching basket case and re-animator for first time about 15 years ago and not been fussed but they grew to be two of my fave films. Tried to watch halloween h20 again after a number of years, and had to turn it off , I am worried scream might have same effect now.

Today I bought blood rage which so far has been hilarious, the hobbit battle of 5 armies 5 disc dvd, and in the two dvds for twenty deal at hmv , mad max fury road i have a sneaking suspicion there will be a more whistle and bells version some time i future as even blu did'nt look extras heavy. Also got hard to be a god looks grim and brutal and very arty but it sounds my kind of thing i am a bit sick like that :pound:

Wow! That's small!

Those are your fingers behind it aren't they?

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Arrived:

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Added Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Blood Rage and Assault on Dome 4 to my collection. Crusoe and Mars are both in HD; while Dome 4 is a SD release, and stars the one and only, Bruce Campbell!