What with the new(ish) car and all, my DVD budget is waaay down these days. However, I recently ordered some stuff, and got the box today. Ah, conspicious consumption. Here’s the stuff I considered essential enough to buy even these days.
The second set of Popeye the Sailor Cartoons (1938-1940). The first set was easily the greatest thing I’d bought this year. The second set was half the size, but half the price, too, and there will be a third set in a few months. Anyway, glorious stuff, and with 31 shorts, I paid less than a buck a ‘toon, which I thought a pretty good deal. Like the first set, tons of extra features, too.
The second volume of the remastered and chronological (yay!) The Three Stooges Collection. The Stooges made a *lot* of great shorts early on; in fact, one of my favorites, Dizzy Pilots (Moe falling into the liquid rubber and being inflated with helium to get it off is one of my top ten funniest bits EVER) won’t be out until the *fourth* edition of this series. I already owned most of these from the previous, more haphazard DVDs, but hey, $20 or less for 24 beautifully redone shorts? No contest.
A super secret film I won’t reveal because its obscure and I intend to review it. (Some day.)
Bert I. Gordon’s Food of the Gods. ‘Nuff said. Thanks again to MGM’s Midnite Movies line.
The last two Classic Media Godzilla sets; All Monsters Attack (aka Godzilla’s Revenge) and Terror of Mechagodzilla. I could live without the first, but damn, when they give you the amount of stuff these guys do (two versions of each film; commentaries, documentaries; etc.), and at such a great price, you’ve got to support them. Even the thick, silver cases for this line are awesome. Plus, you know, I want the full set, right? I can’t wait for their upcoming Rodan/War of the Gargantuas double set.
So, what have you guys been getting lately?
