Who wants my movies?

[HairballofDoom]

Hello! I figured I'd jump on the band wagon of getting rid of stuff as well and the stuff I'm getting rid of is pure entertainment. That's right I'm giving away movies! Movies of all sorts! DVDs AND VHS!!! Oh my god that's two different formats!!! How much am I charging? $1 for VHS and $2 for DVDs!! It's a tag sale blow out!!!!

Here are the titles and any such remarks that I deem worthy of the flick.

VHS:

Metropolis (One of the best silent films known to man!)
House on Haunted Hill (Classic) (Is that a plastic skeleton in your wine vat filled with acid or are you just happy to see me?)
House on Haunted Hill (Remake) (Great, GREAT remake. Chris Katan dies and you actually feel sort of bad about it)
House of Horrors (Artist hires monsterous serial killer, hilarity ensues)
Psycho II (This one has twice as many twists... no really, it's a nice addition to the first film)
Scared to Death (Bela at his moderately tolerable. Great to watch in groups or with tweens)
The Mummy's Hand (Hilarious mummy film that has a great comedy duo that sort of rips off Abbot and Costello, but at the same time the film can get a bit creepy, in 1930's Universal monster films style)
The Mummy (Ahhhhh Brendan Fraiser!!!!!!!)
Castle of the Walking Dead (Messed up movie with Christopher Lee, I always thought it was a soft core porn my sisters' owned as it was hidden in our film collection, it was hidden due to its insanity)
Legend (Possibly one of the best Tom Cruise films)
Godzilla (US version) (You've seen him sing his way across Broadway, now see Matthew Broderick dance his way around a giant lizard that's not Nathan Lane)
Fall of the House of Usher (Poe and Vincent Price, can you ask for anything better?)
Girl, Interrupted (It's got some pretty crazy ladies)
Goldrush (Staring Bruce Cambell!!!)
Moulin Rouge (Yeah that movie that rips off other songs)
Way of the Gun (Action! Pregnancy! Swearing! Kidnapping! Awesome!)
The Game of Death (Victorians had the classiest ways of suicide)
I Bury the Living (Old horror film featuring Richard Boone! It will keep you guessing, well... I forgot the ending anyway)
Life as a House (Kevin Kline is awesome, shut up he is)
Magnolia (Honestly please take this)
Shakespeare in Love (Great for teenagers!)
Attack of the Killer Tomatos (Yes I am giving my VHS copy of this away, it is worth having)
Frantic (Um Harrison Ford thriller... people die I think)
Blame it on the Bellboy (Comedy of mistaken identity and love and hit men and prostitutes)
Life without Dick (I don't know why I have this)
An Ideal Husband (Good movie, but I've passed the Oscar Wilde stage of my life)
Dawn of the Dead (Sigh... zombies... This is the original directors cut with an extra tape of random footage. It's really great. It's also the original and not that hyper clean rock video of a remake)
Monkeybone (I'm somewhat ashamed I own this)

DVDs
Coupling (Season 1) (Great British show, fun and sassy, many a bare chested man)
A Fish Called Wanda (Excellent comedy, kind of feel bad giving this up but I honestly haven't watched it in years)
Alien Vs Predator (I'm a dork but I need to get this off my shelves)
Brothers Grim (X-mas present, liked watching it once, it's interesting... sort of)
Headwig and the Angry Inch (Why do people like this film? Do you like it? I'm not judging you, I'm just giving it to you)
The Stepford Wives (Remake) (Meh, fun to watch worth the two bucks)
A Beautiful Mind (Honestly haven't even watched this one, never got in the mood)
The Whole Nine Yards (Funny but haven't watched since college)
Copper Mountain: A Club Med Experience (Um... Jim Carey film from ages ago)
Stella Street (Great British comedy duo impersonate tons of Hollywood celebrities moving to a quiet London suburb, spot on performances)

So yes if any of these interest you please post here or email me (radioactivespork (at) gmail (dot) com) and we'll work out a drop off. First come first serve.

 

[HairballofDoom]

Hedwig is gone!

I do want to add something about The Mummy's Hand though. I just finally rewatched this film and I have to say it is one of the better Universal Horror films that isn't one of the big 6 characters. For thrills it's on the same level as the original Boris Karloff Mummy flick but has the added inclusion of comedic foil Walace Ford. The comedy is spot on for that era, it's not as campy as the Abott and Costello meet the random washed up horror character films that came out in the late forties. Only negative aspect is that it is a VHS, but come on you trendy hipsters like retro crap right?

(I promise I won't do this for every film, I just wanted to give this one a quick blurb)

 

[HairballofDoom]

Muwahaha!

A Fish Called Wanda
Stella Street
Coupling
Attack of Tomatoes
Mummy's Hand

Are now off the list! Yay for people taking my stuff!!!

 

[Holmes]

wow, Monkeybone?
I really want to know the story of how someone came to own that.

 

[HairballofDoom]

wow, Monkeybone?
I really want to know the story of how someone came to own that.

At the theater department at my undergrad college there were two people who had the largest film collections, myself and this girl named Peaches. The two of us started to trade films and it was quickly discovered that she had worse taste than me (keep in mind I am keeping the movies I really enjoy in my collection, and I've already given away half of the collection I had back then). One day during a tech rehearsal I got a call from the girl I was sort of dating back then and she had decided to run off with one of the random theater kids at her school, again. Crushed and already stressed out with the rehearsals for Little Shop of Horrors, Peaches thought that Monkeybone would cheer me up.

So I got Monkeybone because my girlfriend cheated on me and let me tell you after watching that movie I was no longer in pain from the break up, I was in agony from the blue tape of death (the vhs is blue!).

So...um... anyone want to buy it?

 

[MichelleD]

This is the best giveaway thread ever, I love the stories!
I am coveting several of these at the moment.

Please to explain: Magnolia.

 

[HairballofDoom]

Ok Magnolia, so that came out on video in 2000 right? I must have bought this back in the summer as the summer was my movie buying season, Blockbuster had all its sales then. I was working for a movie theater and also training to be a DJ at a local community radio station and was secretly dating my ex (I was a dorky bad ass!). I bought this movie for a movie secret date with her. It was long and I thought at the time it was going to be artsy and deep. Well once I got to the part where Tom Cruise is yelling about his penis I lost it and was like, "Hell yeah! Respect!" And then my ex sighed. By the time the "surprise" ending happened I was almost at second base but had to stop as the ending comes at you like a man with sack filled with oranges.

Please note that this is a long ass movie (two tapes!) and I had only gotten to second base by the end (I fail at movie making out 101). Philip Seymour Hoffman is great in this! But it has it's snags. Not a movie to make out with your ex to. I suggest Moulin Rouge for that, it is cheesy enough to melt any two people into one glob of making out.

 

[MichelleD]

Oh I love Moulin Rouge!

Keep the stories coming!

 

[TargemQ8]

How do you "secretly date" someone?
What's Goldrush about?

 

[HairballofDoom]

Ah Moulin Rouge, one of the few films that can start a make out party AND a sad-hat party... at the same time! Sadly, I wasn't around when these two parties spontaneously happened, though this VHS (which can be yours for a dollar!) was there.

Another undergrad situation, during my last year at my undergrad college I was constantly busy and running around working on twenty million different things (none of which were really all that academicie) so I missed out on a few theater parties, one of which I loaned my copy of Moulin Rouge out to. Some big dramatic, hands on hips, eyebrows in the air scandal rocketed through the theater department (as is per usual) and to deal with said problem people decided to have a party (again nothing new there), however it was a movie party these heartworn undergrad co-eds were wanting, and boom I gave them the movie all undergrad theater majors (who love musicals and think Broadway is the be all end all of theater in NYC), that movie, Moulin Rouge.

From what I could piece together from the various people that went to the party this is what took place. The movie was popped in, people swooned and started singing along, then passions rose. People who were just casually into each other were going at it like bunnies, and then so and so caught what's his face making out with that floozie girl and boom! Conflict. Then those that weren't making out got sad and decided to watch the movie which made them even more sad, some one ran off into the night. Drugs were had the very fabric of society within the theater department had been torn asunder and still Ewen McGreggor kept singing, and I was possibly at a radio station working on my thesis or awkwardly writing something on the IRC. The day after the film party no one would even look at one another in the hallways.

Though that weekend just about everyone involved went out karaoking and things went back to normal (i.e. everyone hated each other behind each other's backs and I spent more and more time at the radio station playing Halo).

These tapes all have histories!

 

[HairballofDoom]

How do you "secretly date" someone?
What's Goldrush about?

You both wear fake mustaches at all times.

As for Goldrush, this is an awesome movie. The full title is "Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure!" produced by disney. See Alyssa Milano wants to be a prospector, but is a woman and is laughed at, UNTIL she starts kicking ass! She meets Bruce Campbell and he plays sort of the Cary Grant role of the film... no. Really. He does. Campbell is a smooth operator that um... disappears halfway through the film only to randomly return and propose to Milano. Does she except? You'll have to spend the one dollar to find out!

I bought this movie with the intention of either getting it signed by Bruce Campbell at one of his many book signings or just giving it to him, sadly neither goal happened as I have had things come up at every Bruce Campbell signing.

 

[HairballofDoom]

So I'm listening to the US version of Godzilla on listentoamovie.com and really Matthew Broderick should only do musicals. He seems like he really wants to break into song at the end of each of his lines.

*Taking a deep breath* "Whell I don't think so. i mean look at it it's perfect, an island, water on all sides, *pause* but like no other island in the world this is a place where he can easily hide, *pause*, oh he's in there..." and song.

 

[burns1]

Someone really should take Stella Street.

 

[HairballofDoom]

Someone really should take Stella Street.

Some one did!

And it is a great film, more people should watch it.

 

[HairballofDoom]

Updated list of movies remaining!

VHS:

Metropolis
House on Haunted Hill
House on Haunted Hill (Remake)
House of Horrors
Psycho II
Scared to Death
The Mummy (Ahhhhh Brendan Fraiser!!!!!!!)
Castle of the Walking Dead
Legend
Godzilla
Fall of the House of Usher
Girl, Interrupted
Goldrush
Way of the Gun
The Game of Death
I Bury the Living
Life as a House
Magnolia
Frantic
Blame it on the Bellboy
Life without Dick
An Ideal Husband
Dawn of the Dead
Monkeybone

DVD:

Alien Vs Predator
The Stepford Wives
A Beautiful Mind
The Whole Nine Yards
Copper Mountain: A Club Med Experience

Any questions about these fine movies will be answered!