I Know Everyone Doesn't Like It But...

Scott Horowitz | October 5, 2004
What DVD in your collection do you love but people think you are crazy to own?

Erik Bates | October 5, 2004
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Anna Gregoline | October 5, 2004
Isn't this the same kind of shame as what movies we like but are ashamed to admit? My answer is the same - WarGames, although I have it on video, not DVD.

Scott Horowitz | October 5, 2004
Not really, becase this can include TV shows too. I have seasons 1 through 6 of Buffy:TVS, seasons 1 through 4 of Angel, Galaxy Quest,Transformers the movie, and BASEketball.

Lori Lancaster | October 5, 2004
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Scott Hardie | October 6, 2004
None, I guess. It has been a long time now since I got over any issues with "Corrina Corrina" being a kid's movie starring Whoopi Goldberg. It's funny and well-acted and I still enjoy it. So nyah.

WarGames and Galaxy Quest are great; both are on my wish list.

Melissa Erin | October 6, 2004
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Scott Horowitz | October 6, 2004
The greatest thing about the GalaxyQuest DVD is that there is a Thermian audio track,. You can watch the whole movie in Thermian, its' wonderful. Especially when you are inebriated.

Anna Gregoline | October 6, 2004
What the heck is a Thermian audio track?

Scott Horowitz | October 6, 2004
hehehe, The Aliens in the movie are called "Thermians" You can watch the whole movie in their language.

Anna Gregoline | October 6, 2004
What would be the point of that?

Scott Horowitz | October 6, 2004
humor

Melissa Erin | October 6, 2004
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Anna Gregoline | October 6, 2004
Most definitely a guy thing. I am mystified.

Scott Hardie | October 6, 2004
Stuff like that is why I gave up trying to experience every piece of bonus material on every DVD I bought. It's an embarrassment of riches. Still, I suppose I'd rather have bonus material that barely interests me than no bonus material at all.

Lori Lancaster | October 6, 2004
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Anna Gregoline | October 7, 2004
Actually, Melissa, I could see you and me watching something like that and being hysterical the entire time.

David Mitzman | October 7, 2004
To Scott's dismay, I don't own Waterworld on DVD. However, if I did, that would be my dvd of craziness. For now though, I'd probably say that Planet of the Apes (new one, not the good one) or Blue Oyster Cult: Live 1976 are the dvd's o' insanity.

Melissa Erin | October 7, 2004
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Scott Hardie | October 7, 2004
Not quite. Scott already said the point of it was humor. :-p

Anna Gregoline | October 7, 2004
He did call it the greatest thing about the DVD though. Of course, it very well might be.

Kris Weberg | October 7, 2004
I dunno....I've done some insane things in my time regarding DVDs, like watching A Christmas Story in all the different languages just to see what other countries hear during the "fuuuuudge" scene, but watching a goofy-but-limited comedy in its own made-up langauge might be farther than I'm willing to go.

Scott Horowitz | October 7, 2004
Geeze, everyone is making such a big deal out of this. It isn't meant to watch the whole movie in it. You turn it on for a second, watch them all speak in this ridiculous language. The movie is a parody of Star Trek. By putting it in this language, they are making fun of all the assholes out there that can speak Klingon. IT'S A FUCKING JOKE!

Lori Lancaster | October 7, 2004
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Scott Horowitz | October 7, 2004
I'm not getting hostile..... Just wanted to end the conversation. :)

Anna Gregoline | October 7, 2004
Uh, sounded pretty hostile to me. Better work on that jovial tone.

If they have the entire movie watchable with that language as the language in it, then yes, it IS meant to be watched entirely that way.

Anna Gregoline | October 7, 2004
The other thing I don't know how I was supposed to know was that the movie is a parody of StarTrek.

Melissa Erin | October 7, 2004
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Kris Weberg | October 7, 2004
Trust me, Anna, there's nothing to it except parodying Star Trek. It does a good job of that, mind you, especially the bit where the one-shot actor whose whole role was to be killed off by a monster complains about being sent down to a real alien world on just those grounds.

Anna Gregoline | October 7, 2004
Great - but how was I supposed to know that, is my point. I couldn't "get" the joke if I didn't know what the origin of the joke was in the first place.

Anyway.

Scott Hardie | October 8, 2004
But did you really think that some people, even guys, would sit there for ninety minutes and seriously listen to a movie in a fictional language, when it had already been described in humorous terms by the guy who owns the DVD?

John E Gunter | October 8, 2004
Actually, some assholes that knew Klingon made money at it. I'm thinking umm Christopher Lloyd!

I'd love to be an asshole like that! ;-)

But yeah, I get your point Scott H! I'll have to go out and get that DVD so I can appreciate the experience myself!

John

Anna Gregoline | October 8, 2004
Yes, I really did. Because I've known people who would have done that. More than once. Haven't you?

Anthony Lewis | October 8, 2004
I think the DVDs in my collection that may raise a few eyebrows are :

Pimps Up Ho's Down (The Director's Cut)
Hookers At The Point
American Pimp

I sense a theme here.

Lori Lancaster | October 8, 2004
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John E Gunter | October 8, 2004
Yeah, porn in a mixed group isn't always the smartest choice. In fact for me, porn in a group of more than oh say 2, isn't really the smartest choice for entertainment. :-)

John

Melissa Erin | October 8, 2004
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Lori Lancaster | October 8, 2004
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Anthony Lewis | October 9, 2004
Well, my choices aren't porn. It's a controversial subject for sure. I'm drawn to the psychology of the whole thing.

Scott Hardie | October 9, 2004
There's potential in Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Star Trek for that kind of geekiness, because fans get absolutely carried away with it, and the geekiness will increase exponentially with each geek that is in the vicinity. I haven't been to many conventions, but I can imagine a the room devoted to something like fan karaoke, watching a movie on mute (or with the soundtrack album playing) while geeks take turns at the mic acting out the scenes in Klingon or Elvish or Wookiee or whatever.

That's geek behavior, though. Not guy behavior. Two different things. There's a correlation but it's hardly absolute.

Since you asked, Anna, I have not watched an entire English-spoken movie in a foreign language. I have occasionally sampled other kinds of audio for a minute or two at a time for laughs with friends, like you and Melissa suggested. It's funny to hear Michael Douglas's nasal timbre in "Falling Down" replaced by the ultra-macho he-man voice who portrays him in the Spanish audio track, just as it was amusing to watch a scene of men arguing in "L.A. Confidential" with the DVD player's pitch turned all the way up. (It's like hearing Alvin and the Chipmunks argue: "Justice, that's what the man got!" "You don't know the meaning of the word, you ignorant bastard!")