Weekend Movie Marathon: Unwatched DVDs

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Weekend Movie Marathon

Unwatched DVDs

This time around I will be working on my Unwatched DVD collection. This will include any movie I never watched on DVD. Even if I have seen the actual movie before... as long as I never seen it on DVD it is fair game. This weekend I am increasing my marathon by one day. I will be starting this weekend's marathon on Thursday and letting it run through-out Sunday. I am doing this for a couple reasons. For one I would like to put a decent dent into my unwatched DVD list and for another... I want to watch a chapter of a movie serial in between each movie. And what with there being 12 or so chapters in a serial I need to be able to watch as many movies in the time. But I have only been average about 6 movies each weekend here lately. So need an extra day to try and watch enough.

The serial I plan to watch is...

The New Adventures of Tarzan
Tarzan meets Indiana Jones! A Mysterious ancient idol called The Green Goddess is being worshipped by the jungle-natives of a lost city deep in Guatemala. Not only is it covered in rubies and jewels, it contains in it an old recipe for a gunpowder-like explosive. Major Martling (Frank Baker) and Ula Vale (Ula Holt) come from Africa to search out the Green Goddess. A mercenary named P. B. Raglan (Ashton Dearholt, who was also a producer of this film) is sent by Ula's lawyer to find the statue first. The major and Ula meet up with Tarzan, who is on a mission to find his old pal, d'Arnot, whose plane crashed near the lost city. The group must nowsave d'Arnot and grab The Green Goddess before Raglan shares all it's secrets!
Chapters:

1. The New Adventures of Tarzan 2. Crossed Trails 3. The Devil's Noose 4. River Perils 5. Unseen Hands 6. Fatal Fangs

7. Flaming Waters 8. Angry Gods 9. Doom's Brink 10. Secret Signals 11. Death's Fireworks 12. Operator No. 17

A 12 chapter serial means I need to fit in 13 movies over this special 4-day weekend. Here is a list of the movies I have on DVD I haven't watched yet. As always... if there is a title in the below list you would like to see me review... just ask. I won't promise to get to it... but I will do my best.

1. The Abominable Dr. Phibes    2. Abomination: Evilmaker 2    3. The Adventures of Tartu    4. Aerial Gunner    5. Altered States    6. An Angel for Christmas    7. Apocalypse Rising    8. Assassins of Youth    9. The Bat   10. Battle of Blood Island   11. Battleship Potemkin   12. Best of the Best   13. The Big Lift   14. Big Top Pee Wee   15. Black Brigade   16. Black Hawk Down   17. Black Ribbon   18. Blood Alley   19. Blood on the Sun   20. Blood Reaper   21. Blood Stained Bride   22. Brainiac   23. Branded   24. British Intelligence   25. Casualties of War   26. Chain Reaction   27. Chocolat   28. Circus of Fear   29. Commandos   30. Convoy   31. Crossroads   32. Curse of Pirate Death   33. Cyrano de Bergerac   34. Dark Light   35. Dark Places   36. Darkman 2: Return of Durante   37. Darkman 3: Die Drakman Die   38. The Darkness   39. The Dawn Express   40. Dead and Deader (Shipped... if arrives in time)   41. Deadly Drifter   42. Derailed   43. Desert Heat   44. The Devil Bat   45. Diabolique   46. Die, Sister Die   47. Double Team   48. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde   49. Dr. Phibes Rides Again   50. Drawing Blood   51. Edgar Allen Poe's Darkness   52. Embryo   53. Farewell to Arms   54. Fear of the Dark   55. Feral   56. The Fighting Seabees   57. Fists of Fear, Touch of Death   58. Fist of the Vampire   59. Flesh Feast   60. Flying Blind   61. The Flying Leathernecks   62. Foreigner   63. Four in a Jeep   64. Foxes   65. From Beyond   66. Full Frontal   67. Full Metal Jacket   68. God Told Me To   69. Gone with the Wind   70. The Gorilla   71. The Great American Snuff Film   72. The Green Berets   73. Gung Ho   74. Half Past Dead   75. Hell's Threshold   76. Home Made   77. House by the Cemetery   78. The House Where Evil Dwells   79. Identity Unknown   80. Immortal

81. In Harms Way   82. The Innocent   83. Into Thy Hands   84. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages   85. Jack the Ripper   86. Jarhead   87. Jaws: The Revenge   88. Kennel Murder Case   89. Kill Cruise   90. Kill Syndrome   91. Knight Chills   92. Laser Mission   93. Last Best Chance   94. The Last Chance   95. Left Behind 2   96. Legacy of Blood   97. Little Shop of Horrors   98. The Longest Day   99. Majestic  100. Messiah of Evil  101. Minesweeper  102. Nabonga  103. The Navy Way  104. Nutcracker: An American Nightmare  105. One Eyed Jack  106. One of Our Aircraft is Missing  107. Operation Pacific  108. Pajama Game  109. Pony Trouble  110. Primal Fear  111. Private Buckaroo  112. Puppet Show  113. Rage of the Master  114. Reefer Madness  115. Replicant  116. Return of the Boogeyman  117. Return of the Magnificent Seven  118. Ricochet  119. The River: Legend of La Llorona  120. Road to Bali  121. Road Warrior  122. Sabbath  123. Sands of Iwo Jima  124. Screaming Ninja  125. The Sea Chase  126. Seven Doors of Death  127. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon  128. Sherlock Holmes and the Woman in Green  129. The Shunned House  130. Sickness House  131. Silent Bloodnight  132. Sinners  133. Sisters of Death  134. Slasher  135. Sleep Disorder  136. Snake Crane Secret  137. The Somnambulists  138. Spitfire  139. The Stranger  140. Super Hell  141. Super Hell 2  142. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2  143. Theater of Blood  144. They Were Expendable  145. This Darkness  146. Vampire Whores from Outer Space  147. A Vampire's Tale  148. Vulture's Eye  149. Up From Zero  150. Wargames (Shipped... if arrives in time)  151. The Watcher  152. Web of the Spider  153. White Fang to the Rescue  154. White Zombie  155. Who Am I?  156. Wicker Man  157. Wild Bunch  158. Wings of an Eagle  159. Woodland Haunting 2

[Achim]

Do we get to make requests...?

A 12 chapter serial means I need to fit in 13 movies over this special 4-day weekend. Here is a list of the movies I have on DVD I haven't watched yet. As always... if there is a title in the below list you would like to see me review... just ask. I won't promise to get to it... but I will do my best.

1. The Abominable Dr. Phibes    5. Altered States   11. Battleship Potemkin   14. Big Top Pee Wee   16. Black Hawk Down   25. Casualties of War   30. Convoy   36. Darkman 2: Return of Durante   37. Darkman 3: Die Drakman Die   40. Dead and Deader (Shipped... if arrives in time)   49. Dr. Phibes Rides Again   65. From Beyond   67. Full Metal Jacket   68. God Told Me To   69. Gone with the Wind   77. House by the Cemetery

84. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages   87. Jaws: The Revenge   97. Little Shop of Horrors   98. The Longest Day  118. Ricochet  121. Road Warrior  142. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2  150. Wargames (Shipped... if arrives in time)  155. Who Am I?  156. Wicker Man  157. Wild Bunch

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WOW! I hope you don't mind if I only get to some of them! 

[Achim]

Well, yeah, of course. I just thought I list my interests, giving you a smaller choice than originally

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I know one I will definitely be watching (and not even on the above list... but does still count as unwatched DVD). I promised Britt I would watch X-Men Origins: Wolverine with her this weekend.

[Rogmeister]

Hey, Pete, since you plan to watch a Tarzan serial, I wonder if you have any regular Tarzan feature films?  I have the two sets that contain all of Johnny Weismuller's Tarzan films...maybe I should do my own marathon of them someday?  I do remember that there is a bug on one of the discs sthat messes up the opening of one of the films (Tarzan's New York Adventure) unless it was just an issue one of my DVD players had with that movie.  I no longer have the player I was using them so I should try this disc on my current player now.  Did you know that the restored edition of one of these Tarzan movies has an underwater swimming sequence where Jane is nude? 

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Unfortunately this serial is the only Tarzan I own.  Though Britt has one or 2 of the Disney animated movies.

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Title: The Little Shop of Horrors
Year: 1960
Director: Roger Corman
Rating: NR
Length: 72 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: N/A

Stars:
Jonathan Haze
Jackie Joseph
Mel Welles
Dick Miller
Myrtle Vail

Plot:
Seymour is a young man who works in a flower store. He manages to create a carnivorous plant that feeds on human flesh. Nobody knows about it, so Seymour and the plant become good "friends". The plant needs food to grow up, so it convinces him to start killing people.

Extras:
Scene Access

My Thoughts:
I have had this movie in my unwatched pile of DVDs for years! I got a free version of this movie in a boxset of 40 classic movies on 20 DVDs that I got for subscribing to total movie magazine. With that fact in mind I went into this movie expecting poor audio and video quality. But I was surprised to see that both the audio and video was in rather good shape. I was able to watch this movie with ease. But what I thought of the movie is another thing all together. To be honest I am sitting here now still not sure what I thought of it. While watching this movie I wasn't sure if I should laugh at it or shake my head in disapproval. I mean I didn't actually hate it... but it wasn't what I would call great either. If I didn't know ahead of time who Jack Nicholson played in this movie... I would have never recognized him in this one. Not his face or his voice. Though he obviously did change his voice a bit for this role.

My Rating:

Out of a Possible 5

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The New Adventures of Tarzan
Tarzan meets Indiana Jones! A Mysterious ancient idol called The Green Goddess is being worshipped by the jungle-natives of a lost city deep in Guatemala. Not only is it covered in rubies and jewels, it contains in it an old recipe for a gunpowder-like explosive. Major Martling (Frank Baker) and Ula Vale (Ula Holt) come from Africa to search out the Green Goddess. A mercenary named P. B. Raglan (Ashton Dearholt, who was also a producer of this film) is sent by Ula's lawyer to find the statue first. The major and Ula meet up with Tarzan, who is on a mission to find his old pal, d'Arnot, whose plane crashed near the lost city. The group must nowsave d'Arnot and grab The Green Goddess before Raglan shares all it's secrets!

Chapter 1: The New Adventures of Tarzan
Well... the first thing I noticed is that Tarzan gave his yell in the opening. But this is not the famous yell we all know. Nope... this one sounds weird. More like... ArghhhhhhMaaNaaEeeeeeeee!!! He also has a second shorter yell... but it isn't the one he is known for either. The next thing I noticed was the length of this first chapter. Sure I know the first chapter is normally longer then the rest of them. But this has to be the longest first chapter I ever seen. This one clocks in at 41min.

In this story Tarzan has already been discovered, taken home, educated and decided to go back to the jungle. I kind of wish it took place before all that happened. But that is ok. I am really enjoying the story so far. In this chapter we get to see Tarzan fighting a lion, fighting 2 jaguars, and out-swimming a crocodile. The first chapter also has a good cliffhanger of an ending.

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Title: From Beyond
Year: 1986
Director: Stuart Gordon
Rating: Category IIB (US Rating: R)
Length: 85 Min.
Video: Widescreen 1.50:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: Chinese

Stars:
Jeffrey Combs
Barbara Crampton
Ted Sorel
Ken Foree
Carolyn Purdy-Gordon

Plot:
"A hilariously grisly amalgam of sex, shock and satire. Do I laugh or do I scream? Both." - Newsweek

If you loved RE-ANIMATOR, wait until you visit FROM BEYOND! It's a critically-acclaimed shocker based on H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale of suspense that takes you where no horror film has!

The Resonator is a gruesome machine that activates a special sixth sense - one that makes its victims crave human brains. You're in for a wonderfully slimy time when you go FROM BEYOND!

Extras:
N/A

My Thoughts:
This is one of the movies that our good friend Achim sent to me. So it is a Hong Kong release (no region coding). I thought I never seen this movie before. But I now believe I had as some of the scenes in it looked familiar. It is not a great movie... but it was worth watching. I did enjoy it. One thing that kinda bothered me off and on through-out the movie is the forced Chinese subtitles. They distracted me from the movie a few times. As I said... the movie is pretty good., had some disgusting scenes in it. I don't think I would really classify it as gory... because when I think gory I think blood and guts... humans being torn apart. While there is a bit of blood. This seems different to me. It is more on the line of things you never seen before that look pretty gross. And those things coming apart and such.

My Rating:

Out of a Possible 5

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The New Adventures of Tarzan
Tarzan meets Indiana Jones! A Mysterious ancient idol called The Green Goddess is being worshipped by the jungle-natives of a lost city deep in Guatemala. Not only is it covered in rubies and jewels, it contains in it an old recipe for a gunpowder-like explosive. Major Martling (Frank Baker) and Ula Vale (Ula Holt) come from Africa to search out the Green Goddess. A mercenary named P. B. Raglan (Ashton Dearholt, who was also a producer of this film) is sent by Ula's lawyer to find the statue first. The major and Ula meet up with Tarzan, who is on a mission to find his old pal, d'Arnot, whose plane crashed near the lost city. The group must nowsave d'Arnot and grab The Green Goddess before Raglan shares all it's secrets!

Chapter 2: Crossed Trails
The second chapter runs for 18min. While entertaining... nothing outstanding about this chapter. The cliffhanger for this one while alright, I was expecting better. But that is ok. I know that not every chapter can be filled with excitement.

[Rogmeister]

I remember one Tarzan film where Tarzan had this unbelievably bad scream.  Then a girl exclaims, "Why...it sounds almost human!"  After I stopped laughing, I asked "What planet are you from, lady" 

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Title: Altered States
Year: 1980
Director: Ken Russell
Rating: R
Length: 103 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1, Pan & Scan 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital Surround
Subtitles: English, French

Stars:
William Hurt
Blair Brown
Bob Balaban
Charles Haid
Thaao Penghlis

Plot:
Research scientist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) believes other states of consciousness are as real as everyday reality. Using sensory deprivation, then adding powerful, hallucinogenic drugs, he explores these altered states...and endures experiences that make madness seem a blessing.

Academy Award™ winner William Hurt as Jessup (his film debut) heads a solid cast featuring Blair Brown, Bob Balaban and Charles Haid. Working from Paddy Cheyefsky's novel, director Ken Russell guides us with a sorcerer's skill through Eddie's magical and horrific journey as Altered States gyrates with dazzling visual bravado and bracing emotional impact.

Extras:
Scene Access
Trailers
Cast/Crew Bios
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
I am embarrassed to say that I bought this movie back in April of 2003... and I am just now getting around to watching it. First thing coming to my mind is damn this is a weird movie! But did I like this movie? Well, I found it weird... but interesting. It definitely kept me entertained... but I swear there is stuff that happened in this movie I am still not sure I understood!

My Rating:

Out of a Possible 5

[Jon]

Title: The Little Shop of Horrors
My Thoughts:
I have had this movie in my unwatched pile of DVDs for years! I got a free version of this movie in a boxset of 40 classic movies on 20 DVDs that I got for subscribing to total movie magazine. With that fact in mind I went into this movie expecting poor audio and video quality. But I was surprised to see that both the audio and video was in rather good shape. I was able to watch this movie with ease. But what I thought of the movie is another thing all together. To be honest I am sitting here now still not sure what I thought of it. While watching this movie I wasn't sure if I should laugh at it or shake my head in disapproval. I mean I didn't actually hate it... but it wasn't what I would call great either. If I didn't know ahead of time who Jack Nicholson played in this movie... I would have never recognized him in this one. Not his face or his voice. Though he obviously did change his voice a bit for this role.

 

Ah, well! Sooner or later one of the recommendations had to fail. But really, Pete, how could you not have recognised Jack? 

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  just not used to seeing a young version of him I guess.