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Well, that was quick. All 13 episodes for $17 -- but watch out, because somehow this actually doesn't come out until Thursday.
• Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3
On Blu-ray, of course, for a not insignificant $53. You can be all three seasons at once and save a few bucks, if you've held off on these.
• Inglourious Basterds
I was more excited about Inglourious Basterds than any other Tarantino film. I saw it, loved it, but weirdly, I don't know that I feel to own it. Also, the misspelled title still drives me crazy.
• Robot Chicken Season 4
When you buy Robot Chicken DVDs, you feed friends of Topless Robot.
• Samurai Champloo: The Complete Series
Japan tries to recapture that Cowboy Bebop magic, but with samurai and hip hop instead of bounty hunters and jazz. It fails, but that still makes for a pretty good series. Episode 15 is one of my favorite anime episodes of all time, for whatever that's worth.
• The Mel Brooks Collection
Nine Brooks movies on Blu-ray, ranging from Young Frankenstein to Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Two things to know: it includes some movie called Twelve Chairs, which I've never heard of, and it doesn't include the original Producers, which I believe is still Brooks' finest work.
• The Head: The Complete Series
The other legendary MTV animation from Bill Plympton. 22 episodes for $22, and it's available today. Weird.
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Brion said:
Nein Nein Nein Nein Nein!
Adam said:
Bill Plympton had nothing to do with "The Head. "
nflsmc said:
I know it's not a nerdy movie, but the only film I feel compelled to buy today is the Hangover.
Garyx said:
Funny, I would have thought that episode 9 would have been more memorable....
And feed Topless Robot friend´s. They are the ones that don´t say anything about his drinking problem and Heroes
Greymattersplat said:
I don't know why they're not releasing it until Thursday, but the way I understand it The Maxx is only available through Amazon, so if you go looking for it anywhere else, you're going to be disappointed. (Amazon has done this previously with things like Dr. Horrible and The Guild as well, though both of those did see eventual broad retail release.) Also, The 12 Chairs was, in fact, Mel Brooks' FIRST movie, and the only one that pre-dates The ProducersI'm I'm remembering correctly. I remember it being pretty funny, actually.
Greymattersplat replied to Greymattersplat:
So my own post was bugging me, so I looked it up...Producers did indeed come before 12 Chairs. Also, Brooks wasn't actually the director on To Be or Not To Be.
Jared said:
the Mel Brooks movies in the set were all done for a certain film company who's name escapes me. His other work isn't in their domain, which is why The Producers, and Spaceballs isn't in there...
DE12 replied to Jared:
Spaceballs is in the set. Producers is the only major one I see missing.
Geoff said:
If you want to shell out more than fifty bucks on the third season of TOS, more power to your crazy nerd self.
Kurono K said:
Samurai Champloo > Cowboy Bebop.
There I said it.
THE PR0F3550R replied to Kurono K:
Samurai Champloo There I said it.
But to be fair it is a good series, just not as good as Bebop. So no it is not fail as Rob says it is, it's really good, just not Bebop good, but better than 95% of the anime out there.
Manwards replied to THE PR0F3550R:
I believe Rob was using the word "fail" in its proper form, not as the synonym for "irredeemably awful and unworthy of my precious time" that the internet has made of it in recent years. Sorry to be pedantic, but it annoys me that half the people out there don't know the real meaning of the word anymore. (The same goes for its commonly-used partner-in-crime, "epic".)
Rob actually said pretty much the same thing you did: that it fails at "recapturing that Cowboy Bebop magic", but is still a "pretty good series".
nightcrawler666 said:
Also I believe the Twelve Chairs was the first Oscar nomination for Brooks for screenplay. Don't feel like checking IBDB or Wiki right now....
RubyRoses said:
Robin Hood: Men in Tights, was easily my favourite movie as a kid for a few years.
SoonerSpirit said:
The 12 Chairs is actually a pretty funny movie, I would recommend it.
The Yellow Dart said:
am i the only one who thinks it's hilarious that ROB is annoyed by something being misspelled?
RubyRoses replied to The Yellow Dart:
Yeah I found it pretty funny too.
Rob replied to The Yellow Dart:
I could not have walked harder into that one if I'd tried
chudleycannonfodder replied to The Yellow Dart:
I rather enjoyed that also.
I was kind of surprised that Rob didn't make a typo and accidentally spelled it properly.
Suz said:
I really liked The Twelve Chairs, not the usual Brooks broad comedy at all, fun as that is.
A friend loaned it to me along the The Wrong Box, The Assassination Bureau and a bunch of other obscure titles that are all tied together in my brain now. I should really pick them up on DVD.
OTOH, I never got why people love The Producers so much. I thought it was just okay.
Scortia said:
Now all I need is Liquid Television on dvd (and the ever-slow Daria set) and I can remember back when MTV was a good station.
demoncat said:
the Maxx is a dvd on demand thing that why its only able to be bought on amazon same with the head. and suprised the producers did not get in the Mel brooks set. though still will not be buying till after the holidays are over
wingdarkness said:
Samurai Champloo "It fails"? Jesus Skywalker, it's all about the journey, just like Bebop...
Lokifire said:
Episode 23 of Samurai Champloo is one of my absolute favorites of any anime ever, right up there with Bebop's "Toys in the Attic." When Jin "dies," saying, "I am ashamed," I can't stop giggling.
