Last DVD(s) you bought...?

Basq

Idea is simple!

Name the last DVD (or couple of DVD's) you bought, description and also a price and you bought it if you like..

I'll start:

Back To The Future Trilogy (€29 in HMV)


Girlfriend bought it for me while in Dublin yesterday. What a trilogy of films!

I've watched the 3 films hundreds a time as a child and they look amazing on DVD... no signs of imperfections / scratches anywhere. Transfer is so good on the original BTTF film that you would not think it's a film from the mid 80's... except the somewhat out-dated fashions etc.

Plenty of extras on the DVD... the best are on the first disc with audio commentary from director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale. Some good out-takes.. one great one of Michael J. Fox doing his best Scarface impersonation - 'look at that beetch, man.. she's cheating on me!'.. funny stuff!

Definantly a boxset worth getting!!

Little Britain - Series 1 (€17 approx. on Play.com)


A great show and a great first season. Shame the second season wasn't near as good as the first, except for the last episode of series 2 (had some very funny stuff in it!)

Lots of extras - audio commentaries on each episode, making of, 45 minutes of deleted scenes, interviews, Best Of Rock Profiles and loads more.

The Office - Christmas Specials (€20 in Tesco)


What can i say?.. 'The Office' truly delivered last Christmas with an amazing final two episodes.

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant deserve every award out there for writing this amazing comedy series.

Possibly the one comedy series with no bad episodes!

DVD is fairly sparse on extras... a decent audio commentary from Merchant and Gervais on Episode 2, full-length music videos for 'If You Don't Know me By Now' and 'Freelove Freeway', a reflection on the show from cast members and also a documentary shot at The Golden Globes.

ixoy

OK, in keeping with that:

Alias - Season One + Season 2 (€19.95 each in Golden Discs)


Well they're still in their packaging, so I can't comment on them too much, but the show itself is superb. I'm hoping the DVDs live up to the standard set for them.

Before Sunrise + Before Sunset boxed set (approx. €23 at dvdsoon):
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One of the movie highlights of 2004 is released on DVD along with its prequel, "Before Sunrise". Shot in real-time, with some superb acting. Alas, it's on order and I haven't received it yet but I hope this still counts!

Zombienosh

all €6.99 each in tower records.

i love gore me

Kazujo

Red Dwarf Season V (Limited edition with Star Bug model)
From: Play.com
Price: £14.99/€21.65

Great season, first time I've seen holoship in years it's the only episode I never managed to catch when it was on TV. As a whole great season, teh Die-Cast model of Star Bug is cool and the packaging is numbered.

Great Buy for any Dwarf fan

Karl Hungus

ixoy wrote:

Alias - Season One + Season 2 (€19.95 each in Golden Discs)


Well they're still in their packaging, so I can't comment on them too much, but the show itself is superb. I'm hoping the DVDs live up to the standard set for them.

I too nabbed up those items a while back. I'm halfway through watching season 2, and while I've certainly my problems with the show, it's altogether quite excellent.

Recently, I got the new Bill Bailey DVD "Part Troll" and A Tale Of Two Sisters. Part Troll is absolutely fantastic, but I've only watch half an hour of A Tale Of Two Sisters, and my god, scary stuff altogether!

ando

Red Dwarf Season IV, bought it 2 days ago on Ebay!

OfflerCrocGod

The question for me should be "Have you EVER bought a DVD - or for that matter a music CD" Blame the internet

Chong

Live Aid dvd last week , Its alright I kinda regret it.

Basq

Willem D wrote:

Live Aid dvd last week , Its alright I kinda regret it.

Just as a matter of interest, how much did you get it for?

I know it's 4 discs but they're charging up on €55 for it in Tesco.

PS. I think everyone has bought one DVD on the spur of the moment that we regret..

Roar

4 for €40 in virgin ROCKS!

The other day i got Leon, Darby O'Gill and theLittle People (scary sh!t), Dumb and Dumber (quality!) and Totally Bill Hicks (i'd never seen him before, thought he was excellent).

If anyone's into standup comedy i'd reccommend Jimmy Carr Live, i watched it the other night and i was in tears for the whole thing. one of my favourite jokes of his was

"My girlfriend wanted me tease her...... So i called her a fat bitch"

legend

Chong

basquille wrote:

Just as a matter of interest, how much did you get it for?

I know it's 4 discs but they're charging up on €55 for it in Tesco.

PS. I think everyone has bought one DVD on the spur of the moment that we regret..

It cost me 60 euros in Golden Discs on Henry Street.

Miguel_Sanchez

Yesterday I picked up 3 DVD's:

1. Spaced (season 2) - 10 pounds
2. League of Gentlemen (season 1) - 7 pounds
3. Reefer Madness - 3 pounds

Twenty pounds total = twenty nine euros. Not a bad deal me thinks

All purchased in Fopp, Cardiff.

DapperGent

Goodfellas:
Got the special edition from play.com for about €24.

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R2&title=174289

Description: It's Goodfellas. If you haven't seen it you're a total sap, also you're missing the best gangster film of all time. Start to finish it's just perfect.

Firefly (Complete Series):
This was getting some phenomenally good geek press which tempted to me to borrow my mate's copy of it. After seeing a bit of it I just had to get my own copy for repeat viewing. There's four discs of utter delight there for only €29. You can't go wrong.

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=search&r=R2&title=0&searchstring=firefly&searchtype=r2title&id=0&p=57&g=72&adudisc=y&who=&cpage=1&Cur=258

Description: Joss Whedon, the guy behind Buffy and Angel (neither of which I really got into) makes a Sci-Fi series. It gets canned after one season. This really is some of the best TV I've ever seen, they're making a movie called Serenity which I simply cannot wait for.

There's a space hooker in it. A space hooker! What more do you want? Hoooooooookers in space space space space space space space .

Anyway it's fúcking great. Go and buy it or I'll beat you up,

Basq

DapperGent wrote:

It's Goodfellas. If you haven't seen it you're a total sap, also you're missing the best gangster film of all time. Start to finish it's just perfect.

Agree! Definantly the best ganster film of all time... in my opinion, much much better than 'The Godfather'!

DapperGent wrote:

they're making a movie called Serenity which I simply cannot wait for.

In case you didn't know, Serenity has been delayed - it was supposed to be released around April 2005 in US cinemas. But they've delayed it til September 2005.

samo

I got the back to the future trilogy a couple of weeks ago off cdwow, best money I ever spent while the 3rd film isnt great the 1st 2 are just fantastic.

Shocking thing is I was talking to a couple of girls on my road who are 12/13 and have never heard of back to the future and looked totally puzzled as my kids love that film and are raving about it even the 3 year old and thats how conversation came up!!

Imagine having not heard of or seen back to the future!! Its a different generation alright!

last film I bought was x-men 2 as saw x-men which quite enjoyed but this was using an old pigasback €10 cdwow voucher I had burning a whole in my pocket so was only €2.99!

Basq

samo wrote:

I got the back to the future trilogy a couple of weeks ago off cdwow, best money I ever spent while the 3rd film isnt great the 1st 2 are just fantastic.

I think all 3 are great films in their own right. The 1st one is definately the best though. The 3rd one has a lot more humour than the previous 2.

Agent Smith

bought the batman collection in london on dvd, for £14.99.

Haruspex

1. Band of Brothers
Had only ever heard good things about this HBO series yet shamefully I never saw it when it aired originally! I've been waiting for the price to fall before I indulged. The tin edition was always a bit pricey so this version for £29.99 on Play (€43 approx.) was a happier purchase!

2. The Office - Complete Box Set
Again really only watched sporadically but was really pleased when I saw this complete boxset including the entire series and the Christmas specials! Again £29.99 on Play.

The above will all be watched over the Christmas, especially after seeing the lacklustre seasonal TV schedule for this year!

Straw Dogs

Picked it up for 9euro in HMV. I havent got around to watching it yet.

Does anyone know if Golden Discs have any more copies of Alias at 20euro?

Karl Hungus

No idea, Darko... But you should give it a shot quickly, it's well worth it.

ixoy

Deleted User wrote:

Does anyone know if Golden Discs have any more copies of Alias at 20euro?

The Grafton Street branch had a fair few last week of both seasons. Give it a look.

Ill have a look tomorrow.

herobear

gremlins 8.99 euro from hmv blanchardstown
tron special edition, blade runner:directors cut, clerks(r1), requiem for a dream(r2/4)
second hand for 25 euro

shipping from play.com. the prisoner: complete box set(34.99 sterling)
on pre-order from play.com. zatoichi: collectors edition(23.99 sterling)

gandalf

Live Aid - Region 1 from CD-WOW €24 (Chrissie pressie for a mate)

House of Flying Daggers - Region 3 from CD-WOW ~ €10 (excellent film)

On the way

Badder Santa unrated - Region 1 from DVD Soon ~ €19

Spiderman 2 - Region 3 from CD-Wow ~ €11.50

The Bourne Supremacy - Region 3 from CD-Wow ~ €13

Mr. Fancypants

Have had to curtail my dvd buying in the run up to Christmas. Have to leave some things for people to buy me!
So, i just bought a few bargains from DVDsoon :

Bladerunner Directors Cut $6.98 CAD (€4.30)
The Devils Backbone $6.98 CAD (€4.30)
The Royal Tenenbaums Criterion Edition $16.98 CAD (€10.65)


Edit : Bah, now i just bought the Before Sunrise boxset that was mentioned earlier in this thread from Dvdsoon also.

Noopti

Just ordered these DVDs on Play.com:
Return of the King(2004) - EE Giftset(5 Discs)
King Kong(1933)
Ross Noble: Unrealtime

Blisterman

Easy rider £5.35 in Virgin with student discount.

rainbow kirby

Family Guy season 3 box set, €20 preowned in GAME.

OLDYELLAR

got the dirty harry box set for a christmas present yesterday .

Drag00n79

I bought The Wicker Man and Miller's Crossing (both director's cuts) from play.com. Arrived on Friday. Got two for €22 I think. Two of my favourite films.

PWEI

Picked up Korean film The Isle for only €4.80 on cdwow/hk.
We'll all know Asians are rather quite people but come up with some bizarre
ideas for films. But after watching this and Old Boy I've come to the conclusion that the Koreans are the most mentally disturbed race in the world.

nadir

the japs are more distrurbed,
Honest!

last dvd (set) i got was rahxephon
Full Metal Alchmist is next

dsab

I am big into Asian movies currently, and just got a big shipment with the following:

The Classic
Guns and Talks
New Police Story
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Infernal Affairs
Ditto
Il Mare
One Fine Spring Day
Take care of my Cat

weerez

Arrested Development - Season One
Very Highly Recommended, best US show since South Park in my opinion.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367279/

monkeyfudge

I've been taking it easy on my DVD purchases recently... as I've pretty much run out of space... I need to buy a new storage deely soon...

But about 2 weeks ago I picked up a copy of Bottle Rocket just to complete my Wes Anderson collection. I think it was only €10 in that video shop in town with the big evil eyes painted on the window...

smoke.me.a.kipper

The Office Christmas Specials
Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics

next up is Red Dwarf V

ObeyGiant

Play have been kind to me..
In the past few days:
King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1976)
Forgotten Silver (R1)
Ewok Adventure / Caravan of Courage (R1)

Also bought National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation to get myself in a festive mood.

simu

I recently got Citizen Kane & Ghostworld for a mere E10 each at Subcity, Galweh.

DapperGent

It's his sled from when he was a kid.

Retr0gamer

The goonies (R1). That was ages ago. Next will be ROTK extended edition.

monkeyfudge

I got the Goonies DVD not too long ago as well... it was great to finally be able to see the giant squid.... but what about all that swearing and drug references?

trotter_inc

Tommy Tiernan's 'Cracked' dvd - it's a present - feel like keeping it for myself though

callmescratch

bought the evil dead trilogy from play for about €20 a couple of weeks ago.

not really buying anything right now because people know what dvd's i want and i should get a few for christmas

Mr E

Audition and Versus a few weeks ago.
Haven't watched them yet....

superfly

Babylon series 1-4, pirates of the Carribean

Retr0gamer

monkeyfudge wrote:

I got the Goonies DVD not too long ago as well... it was great to finally be able to see the giant squid.... but what about all that swearing and drug references?

After seeing it I'm glad they left the giant squid out of it. However think the scene with sloth and the convenience store scenes were funny enough to be left in.

As for the swearing and drug references, they don't make family films like they used to, do they.

Unit00

House of flying Daggers
Clerks (tenth anniversary)

Got Arrested Development season one for 20 euro.
I also got the 5 dic Return of the King with Minith Tirith statue, not sure of the price as its a present from santa.