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

[addicted2dvd]

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

[addicted2dvd]

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? 

[addicted2dvd]

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

[Najemikon]

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.