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😄 Couldn't wait to share some photos since I just received this beauty today from a domestic private seller.
 

Challenge 37 - "A Year in Review Part 2: Premium Edition"

My 3 favorite Premium releases of the year: 
1. Everything Everywhere All At Once (Manta Lab DL)

One of my favourite movies of 2022, for which Manta Lab certainly has delivered the best edition this year. The double lenticular effect looks just mesmerizing!

2. Blade Runner 2049 (MAG)

Finally got my hands on this grail during Christmas after a whole year-long wait. Such a sight to behold.

3. The Prestige (Blufans OC)

Never knew the protective case itself for the OC box would get such a fascinating water tank design. A stroke of genius from Blufans right here.

Challenge 36 - "A Year in Review" 

Just coming out of my hibernation...😅 I wish all fellow psychos an early Happy New Year.🙏

I'll admit I'm not too keen on collecting WWA steelbooks or regular releases, but here's what I managed to put together:

1. Duel [steelbook]

2. Groundhog Day [steelbook]

3. The Big Lebowski [amaray] (felt lukewarm about the WWA steelbook, and the amaray version has an extra certificate of authenticity, so I went for this instead.)

CHALLENGE 35 - "FAMILY BUSINESS"  Thank you @R1s1ngs0n

1. Her: Joaquin Phoenix and his wife Rooney Mara

2. Good Will Hunting: Ben Affleck and his brother Casey Affleck

3. Fargo: director Joel Coen and his wife Frances McDormand

4. The Godfather Part III: director Francis Ford Coppola and his daughter Sofia Coppola

5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Brad Pitt and his daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt

Favourite off-screen/on-screen couple: Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara

Challenge 34 - DAYS OF FUTURE PAST!!?   Thank you @jwhitm3

1. Blade Runner (released in 1982; set in 2019)

2. 2012 (released in 2009; set in 2012)

3. The Island (released in 2005; set in 2019)

The tech I wish were real is the teleport door in Doraemon.

On 5/14/2023 at 8:34 PM, ethnosax said:

CHALLENGE 33: INTERMISSION

 

 

Settle in and get ready for the long haul. This week's challenge is all about the movies that keep us sitting still for a looong time. For this challenge, show us five movies (any format) that are each at least three hours long.

 

As an optional extra feature (as if this challenge weren't already long enough), tell us about a time you left a movie to use the bathroom or grab a snack, and when you returned you found that you'd missed something really important.

Thank you @ethnosax for bringing us CHALLENGE 33: INTERMISSION

Here's my submission:

1. World on a Wire (204 min)

2. Schindler's List (195 min)

3. The Wolf of Wall Street (180 min)

4. The Last Emperor (218 min, extended version)

5. The Godfather Part II (202 min)

Challenge 32 -  THE STICKY END

Thank you @Scary Hair for such a gratifying challenge 😈

1. The Revenant: John Fitzgerald is scalped and killed.

2. Death Proof: Stuntman Mike is violently beaten to death.

3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Walter Donovan decomposes into a skeleton after drinking the wrong Grail.

Ultimate Sticky End:

I Saw the Devil: Jang Kyung-chul is decapitated with a guillotine at the hands of his unwitting family.

CHALLENGE 31 : DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN ?

Thank you @cypheria078 for this interesting challenge!

1. The Social Network: based on the creation of Facebook.

2. The French Connection: based on a real-life drug-smuggling case that took place in New York City in 1961.

3. The Great Escape: based on the mass escape of 76 Allied airmen from a Nazi POW camp in March 1944.

4. A Beautiful Mind: based on the life of mathematician John Nash and his battle with schizophrenia.

5. The Last Emperor: based on the life of Puyi, the final Emperor of China.

Just thought it'd be fun to mention the intentional disclaimer in Fargo, if you know what I mean.🤣

Thank you @extantsrevenge for Challenge 30 - The Villains!

1. Amy Dunne (Gone Girl)

2. Jobu Tupaki (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

3. Joker (The Dark Knight)

4. T-800 (The Terminator)

5. Jack Torrance (The Shining)

My favourite villain is Amy Dunne from Gone Girl. So seemingly innocent and charming, yet underneath so calculating and scary. Not a typical protagonist of a revenge story, this complicated character will have you fooled, and will make you love her and hate her at the same time. Kudos to Rosamund Pike's brilliant performance.

#29 - Gadsby! Thank you @InfiniteDoors

On_-word titl_s ar_ doing m_ a lot of favours h_r_.🙈

1. Fargo

2. Gattaca

3. Frank

4. Sicario

5. Thor

6. Moon

7. Arrival

8. Oldboy

9. Spotlight

10. Argo

CHALLENGE 27 “VIGILANTE or REVENGE”  🩸 ⚔️🔫 🔨 🤲 🪓

Thank you @Veum for this awesome challenge!

My favourite revenge films that I enjoy watching time after time: (I can see myself rewatching these any time now!)

1. V for Vendetta

2. Gone Girl

3. Memento

4. Confessions

5. The Handmaiden

I'll give an honourable mention to Dexter as my fav vigilante TV series. In the picture is the special edition that resembles Dexter's blood slide box, giving myself a little vigilante taste.🔪🙈

3 hours ago, Steelbook Indy said:

Where did you get that copy of EEA@O?  Is that the French or the Italian copy from Amazon?

Mine is the German mediabook from Amazon. 

https://www.amazon.de/Everything-Everywhere-All-Once-Limitiertes/dp/B09Y422KBG

Challenge 26: Women in Film

Thank you @Mrdugan for this great challenge!

Here are five of my favourite films that feature a woman as the movie’s main character:

1. Everything Everywhere All At Once - Michelle Yeoh (I literally cried tears of joy witnessing EEAAO sweeping the 2023 Oscars!)

2. Gone Girl - Rosamund Pike

3. Mulholland Drive - Naomi Watts

4. The Handmaiden - Kim Min-hee

5. Black Swan - Natalie Portman

They absolutely nailed it when portraying their multi-faceted characters. Such stunning performances!

My favourite woman in film is Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne in Gone Girl. She stayed relatively under the radar until her Oscar-worthy performace in this film thrust her into the spotlight. The Cool Girl monologue is simply a showstopper.

13 minutes ago, R1s1ngs0n said:

You need to replace one of the Japanese movies with one in a different language - 5 different languages in total.

Oops, my bad.🙈 Here's an addition to my submission:

6. The Man Without a Past (Finnish)

1 hour ago, nerdist said:

1. Confessions (Japanese)

2. One Cut of the Dead (Japanese)

3. The Handmaiden (Korean)

4. Intouchables (French)

5. The Invisible Guest (Spanish)

Thank you @R1s1ngs0n for this multilingual challenge!

Here are my picks for favourite films not in English or Chinese:

1. Confessions (Japanese)

2. One Cut of the Dead (Japanese)

3. The Handmaiden (Korean)

4. Intouchables (French)

5. The Invisible Guest (Spanish)

I'd like to see Oriol Paulo's Mirage (Durante La Tormenta) get a premium release.

Thank you @Gary K for this great challenge!

PSYCHO CHALLENGE - WEEK 24

"And The OSCAR Goes To...."

Schindler's List (1993)

Titanic (1997)

American Beauty (1999)

Gladiator (2000)

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

The Social Network (2010) should've won Best Picture of the 2011 Oscars, which was lost to The King's Speech.

Catching up with Challenge 1 from @extantsrevenge

My favourite lenticular edition goes to Kimchidvd's Memento. This superb design creates an endlessly alternating loop. Such a genius stroke!

I prefer transition lenticulars, cuz they give me the "moving pictures" vibes! 😁 

Another two of my favourite transition lenticulars (Kimchidvd's Her and Loving Vincent). A Kimchidvd hat trick!

WEEKLY CHALLENGE #23

BEST OF THE BEST

Thank you @Fortis93 for this thrilling challenge. This will be a perfect chance for me to mention some of the usual suspects (again!) on my all-time favourites list.

My favourite genre is undoubtedly Thriller (more precisely, psychological thriller)! I just love a movie experience where you can be kept on your toes and caught off guard by every twist and turn, while trying to make sense of everything. (I'm not a fan of thrillers that use jumpscares though, cuz I'm one of the faint-hearted.😅)

Here are my 5 picks:
1. Gone Girl
2. The Prestige
3. Confessions
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Dexter (TV)

The film that made me fall in love with psychological thrillers would be The Prestige, the second Nolan film I've watched following the Inception success in China, which was about when I started to seek out Nolan's other works.

Challenge 22 - Adaptation 

Thank you @Reagh for this challenge! Not a "voracious reader" myself like Gone Girl's Amy, but I did manage to scrape together four titles.

1. Gone Girl: Hands down my favourite adaptation. I watched the movie first and couldn't resist the urge to read the original novel. The novel by Gillian Flynn is already amazing by constantly switching between perspectives, and perusing the book really deepened my appreciation for the way Fincher visualised it.

2. Interstellar (the original movie and its novelization)

3. The Great Gatsby

4. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Challenge 21 - "Love is in the Air"

Thank you @Blu Magic Ray for this lovely challenge!

Here are my picks:

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2. La La Land

3. The Lobster

4. About Time

5. Once

I'll give the following three an honourable mention even though the covers don't fit the bill.

6. Her

7. Passengers

8. Rust and Bone

My favourite romantic movie is Her!

22 hours ago, Gentleman said:

For what it's worth, there was an exclusive Metal Pak release for the Last Emperor in China, which I assume is the closest thing to steelbook we've got for it so far.😅

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Last-Emperor-Blu-ray/101589/

Here I am for Challenge 20 "Still Missing! Forgotten Treasures!" 

Thank you @extantsrevenge for this 20th challenge!

Unfortunately, I do not have any movies on DVD that haven't been released on Blu-ray, so I'll just go ahead and list 5 movies that I want a 4K release for:

1. True Lies (There's a Spanish Blu-ray release apparently, but I'll hold out for the director approved 4K, hopefully...)

2. Shame

3. Gone Girl

4. Fight Club

5. Se7en (Got way too greedy by adding 3 Fincher movies into this list, but man, I'm dying for some Fincher 4K collection!)

Here are the 5 movies that I want a steelbook release for: (I can imagine some great artworks being used🤩)

1. The Social Network ( It's actually kinda funny that the Social Network already got a 4K release only by being part of the Columbia Classics box set.😅 An individual 4K release would be so nice, and even nicer, 4K steelbook.)

2. Manchester by the Sea

3. Punch-drunk Love

4. Frank

5. Boiling Point

20 minutes ago, BreakBeatDJ said:

Wonderful story of your movie journey.  Makes me realize how much I take for granted that movies have been a big part of my entire life, and that’s not the same for everyone.    Thanks for sharing! 
 

The best “old” movie education, in terms of collecting, is the Criterion Collection imho.   Their transfers are first rate, and the curation is fantastic.  It’s a fun, and inexpensive, way to build a classic film library with high quality physical media.  I have hundreds of DVDs/BluRays.  I return to them often.  I’m not sure how easy your access is.  

Thank you for your kind words! (Just realised I ran out of points to give today...) I've got a few great Criterion Collection copies in hand, so this is definitely a direction I will go in. Your advice is much appreciated!🙏

I would say collecting movies is still a relatively niche thing from where I am, partly because it's a more expensive (and sometimes tricky) option. On the other hand, we have easier access to pirated resources here😅, which could be the only resort to certain media... But I've got a good start now in building my own cosy little film library, slowly but surely.✌️

Challenge 19 "Through the Decades - a Cinematic Journey"

Thank you @lunazero for this great challenge!

Movies before the 90s are measly in my collection, so I could only pick certain titles. I chose the rest based on the significance I think they have to their own decades.

1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey

1982: Blade Runner

1991: Terminator 2

2001: Mulholland Drive

2010: Inception

My favourite decade is the 2010s. If you'll indulge me for a moment, here's my little story:

My first standard release purchase was Inception DVD back in 2011. My first premium purchase was Her (Kimchidvd) around 2015, the next being Gone Girl (Blufans) in 2016. The gap remained until I started "seriously collecting" premiums last year, and before long I joined MP. 😜

Here's my submission for Challenge 18. Thanks to @Mrdugan for this brilliant challenge!

I mostly collect movie program booklets, screenplay books or novels for my top favourites. Having said that, my love for TENET didn't stop me from getting more goodies. (A lot were available during its screening in China, so I got greedy.😄)

Gone Girl

Her

Inception

Inside Llewyn Davis

Challenge 17 "It Takes Two"✌️

Thanks @raylight for this awesome-duosome challenge!😄

1. TENET - Heist duo (the protagonist & Neil)

2. Hot Fuzz - Buddy-cop duo (Nicholas Angel & Danny Butterman)

3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Journalist & computer hacker (Mikael Blomkvist & Lisbeth Salander)

4. SE7EN - Detective duo (David Mills & William Somerset)

5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Love me some father and son duo (Jones Jr. and Sr.)

I would really like to see David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo get a premium treatment.