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Post by Zone Fighter on Aug 22, 2005 12:34:25 GMT -8
Dollar Tree has a DVD which features Gamera vs Monster X (aka Gamera vs. Jiger) and War of the Monsters (aka Gamera vs. Barugon) for $1.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Aug 22, 2005 13:11:38 GMT -8
that's astounding- if you are inclined, pick me up one, i'll send you a dollar or two! 
David
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Post by Torgaman on Aug 23, 2005 13:50:37 GMT -8
How good is the video quality?
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Post by Zone Fighter on Aug 23, 2005 18:37:42 GMT -8
David, I'd be glad to pick you up a disc. I owe you something for the Lattitude Zero and Frankenstein Jr discs.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Aug 23, 2005 19:59:44 GMT -8
thanks! i hope you enjoyed Frankie as well. they are cute, i think.
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Post by Torgaman on Aug 25, 2005 7:46:58 GMT -8
I'm sure this is really gonna rot in the craw of all those people who bought the 7.99 ALPHA videos or the 12 to 15 buck double dvds packs!I paid around twenty two bucks for the films but I did get eight films in the bargain.So roughly speaking I paid nearly three bucks per film while here it is 50 cents per film.
In the words of Herman Munster:"DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!"
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Post by amphiboid on Sept 8, 2005 19:18:59 GMT -8
Hmmm, a dollar for two Gamera films? (Mmmmmmm!)
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Sept 8, 2005 20:57:34 GMT -8
they actually used RetroMedia's copy of MONSTER X and their copy on the back claims that Gappa is on the DVD with it. nice prints, all things considered (old prints, pan and scan, etc).
worth a dollar!
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Post by amphiboid on Sept 8, 2005 21:31:35 GMT -8
The mystery of the missing GAPPA. It sounds like a delicious exercise in lameness that should be on everyone's shelf!
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Oct 1, 2005 23:16:06 GMT -8
this DVD burned easily. i wasn't sure it would, but now i have three extra copies of Monster X.
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Post by Lunkhead on Oct 7, 2005 8:07:38 GMT -8
I picked up something similar for $1 at SAVE-A-LOT (which is more of a no frills supermarket). This one had the original GAMERA plus WAR OF THE MONSTERS. Gotta love dollar DVDs. They had some others too, which featured 4 mysteries on 1 disk for a buck.
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Nov 18, 2005 0:00:16 GMT -8
Make that 4 Dave as this is one of the DVDs I picked up for you.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Nov 20, 2005 18:09:34 GMT -8
that's cool! thanks for anything you send.
i do love the dollar stores. my parents are going to be thinking i spent a lot of money on DVDs for them!
besides, the dollar ones are usually cooler than the ones in the regular stores.
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Post by Torgaman on Nov 21, 2005 12:19:19 GMT -8
Yup they are the only ones that dare cayy dvd releases of those films you used to be able to watch on those local uhf channels before infomercials came along and mucked that all up.They have classic titles like FISTS OF COTTON and REEFER BABIES and my personal favorite
ATTACK OF THE MUTATED DUST BUNNIES.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Nov 21, 2005 15:50:19 GMT -8
We used to have a uhf station that ran good old tv series like Rawhide. Then they sold out to Fox.  I don't know what's going on but the WB channel and the Fox channel both run the same episodes of The Andy Grififth Show in afternoons. And the Fox channel runs Perry Mason. Otherwise neither channel runs anything good. |
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Nov 22, 2005 13:30:18 GMT -8
i'll be awash in turtle DVDs.
it's too bad that most stations seem to think old movies and shows aren't worth showing. even TV Land seems to have fallen under that eville spell, showing more and more stuff from the 80s and so.
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Post by Torgaman on Nov 23, 2005 12:22:52 GMT -8
Tis the dread plague of the infomercial!!!Even hispanic stations prefer to run infomercials than slap on a good
Santo flick.
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Post by RedKing on Feb 1, 2006 9:59:01 GMT -8
I picked up a slew of these awesome $1.00 double feature discs at the Dollar tree around Halloween myself-I loved every one of them too! And I am with you guys on the sad state of TV today. I hate infomercials and long for the by gone good old days of UHF. When I was a kid we didn't have cable-i had 4 stations when i was little-the 3 networks and PBS and in 1982 we got our first independent UHF and theatre Bizaare every friday which was a triple feature all night long. usually the first movie stunk and the last two were the good ones and the station was pretty cool becasue they would run films in cycles- say all their universals, then a month or two after that start their AIP library, then, coolest of all, the library of AIP Japanese releases! They also had a handful of Hammers and Paul Naschys too. Lotsa great stuff. In 1984 a second UHF premired that played lots of classic TV shows from the 50s and 60s, then current US anime shows like VOLTRON , ROBOTECH and TRANZOR Z and reruns of BATTLE OF THE PLANETS and SPEED RACER plus cool cartoons like THE MIGHTY HERCULES and cool movie shows like Monsterpiece Theater , Bad Cinema(some Ed Wood, CREEPING TERROR, 70s drive in teen movies, great junky funny stuff), Kung-fu theater(actually, both UHF stations had a kung fu theater for awhile, that rocked!!) and Drive-In Theater! With a total of 6 stations, i had more stuff on TV that I actually wanted to watch back in the mid to late 80s than i do today with almost 200 cable channels! How pathetic is that?
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Post by Torgaman on Feb 1, 2006 10:19:17 GMT -8
Damnit I miss those days!!!!
Nowadays most of these types of shows are on public access cable.Sadly of the few I've seen I don't like too
much.I grew up watching SON OF SVENGOOLIE who did
"clean" humor and some of the new horror hosts prefer
to go for the "blue" stuff.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Feb 1, 2006 16:29:28 GMT -8
"you don't need to work blue to be funny", that's for sure. with good timing, you can do both- see Groucho Marx, who got away with WAY more than i would think back in the 30s.
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Post by RedKing on Feb 2, 2006 8:17:22 GMT -8
That's for sure! WC Fields also got away with alot of stuff I find surprising for the 30s and 40s too.
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I don't know what's going on but the WB channel and the Fox channel both run the same episodes of The Andy Grififth Show in afternoons. And the Fox channel runs Perry Mason. Otherwise neither channel runs anything good.