Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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What can I say... I am a poor poor man!

You seem to have a lot of a spare time, what a great luxury. Unfortunatly I still have a job, that robs me about 50 hours week for week!

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my TV recently went up on me and I just couldn't afford a new TV so went to a 2nd hand shop and got another standard TV.

Last year I somehow was concentrated on technique, this year I'll bethink myself again of what matters more.

Quoting FilmAlba:

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(waits patiently for Sams lecturer of selling second hand hovers or something.)

Wouldn't want to disappoint. I'm sure my taxes could be better spent!

Quoting FilmAlba:

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Lucky you can work 50 hours a week. The combination of my aspergers and apparently a high IQ make the restrictiveness of working routines incredibly stressful on me.

Is aspergers the behavior where you shout swearwords at somebody? Unfortunately I am stressable and do not suffer from any real disease, so I could try that one out. Damned drab slavery existence.

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Combined with how easily iam vulnerable to bouts of depression. Im pretty much useless in the working sense.

I have bouts of depression, too! But sadly still too many manic episodes between.

"Ladder 49" was very good. I liked it a lot.

I'm really looking forward to this coming Tuesday though. "Backdraft" was released on Blu-ray on January 4th and it's coming in with some other titles I ordered on Amazon . It has some of the best fire footage ever shot on film and I'm looking forward to seeing it in HD blu-ray .

Quoting bbbbbb:

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Quoting FilmAlba:

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Lucky you can work 50 hours a week. The combination of my aspergers and apparently a high IQ make the restrictiveness of working routines incredibly stressful on me.

Is aspergers the behavior where you shout swearwords at somebody? Unfortunately I am stressable and do not suffer from any real disease, so I could try that one out. Damned drab slavery existence.

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Combined with how easily iam vulnerable to bouts of depression. Im pretty much useless in the working sense.

I have bouts of depression, too! But sadly still too many manic episodes between.

Difference is cause i have those extra problems i can't deal with it.

Title: Blood Tide
Year: 1982
Director: Richard Jefferies
Rating: R
Length: 83 Min.
Video: Pan & Scan 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
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Stars:
James Earl Jones
Jose Ferrer
Lila Kedrova
Mary Louise Weller
Martin Kove
Lydia Cornell

Plot:
A legendary sea monster is awakened from centuries of sleep on a Greek island by an American archaeologist (James Earl Jones). An island elder (Jose Ferrer) is aware of the legend of the beast, including its appetite for virgin sacrifices.

Extras:
Scene Access

My Thoughts:
This is one of the many movies in the Horror Classics: 100 Movie Pack set that I haven't gotten to watch yet. I decided to watch this one today mainly because I noticed that Lydia Cornell is in it. I really enjoyed her as the younger sister on Too Close for Comfort. Unfortunately she has a rather small part in the movie. Also unfortunately I had a hard time getting into this movie. I found it to be rather slow paced... and just didn't keep my interest.

The quality of this one left a bit to be desired as well. Of course that is something I expected coming from one of those cheap Mill Creek Entertainment boxsets like this one.  But it is watchable... basically VHS quality.

Oh well... at least I got the set cheap... plus 99 other movies that I will hopefully like more then this one.

My Rating: 2/5

Title: Auto Focus: Special Edition
Year: 2002
Director: Paul Schrader
Rating: R
Length: 106 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: English, French

Stars:
Greg Kinnear
Willem Dafoe
Rita Wilson
Maria Bello
Ron Leibman
Bruce Solomon

Plot:
Academy Award® nominees GREG KINNEAR (As Good As It Gets) and WILLEM DAFOE (Shadow of the Vampire, Spider-Man) star in a provocative drama about the colorful life and mysterious death of legendary television actor Bob Crane.

Bob Crane (Kinnear) became well known as the star of the hit comedy series 'Hogan's Heroes'. With an abundance of fame, wealth andisuccess, Crane dove headfirst into theidarker, destructive side of theicelebrity lifestyle. He eventually teamed up withia video technician (Dafoe) who helped himito systematically document his copious sexploits with beautiful young women. But when the fast living and hard loving got out of control, the end result was a brutal murder that remains one of the most scandalous unsolved mysteries in Hollywood history.

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Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Feature Trailers
Bonus Trailers
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
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Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
I been wanting to check this movie out since I got it. I was never a huge fan of Hogan's Heroes... but I enjoyed it enough that I would watch it when I found it on TV. So I knew enough about it to know who Bob Crane was. But I didn't know till today about his exploits or the fact that he was murdered. I'm embarrassed to say that even till about half way into the movie I thought John Carpenter was THE John Carpenter (writer/Director of Halloween)... but then it became fairly clear it was not supposed to be him. I found this movie to be very interesting. But the whole time watching it I kept going back and forth on what rating I wanted to give this one... a 3.5 or 4. By the end of the movie it won me over a bit more. Definitely worth checking out if you never seen it. Though when I watch movies such as this one... I can't help but to wonder just how accurate it is to his actual life. But either way... it seems Bob Crane definitely walked on the wild side.

Greg Kinnear is another actor that I never cared much for in his past roles... but I must admit... he did a right good job in this one. And I always liked Willem Dafoe in the movies I seen him in... so he was a plus as Bob Crane's friend (John Carpenter).

My Rating: 4/5

That was my late wife and my first date movie.  We both loved it.  The only thing that I disliked about the picture was that they made Mr. Phelps a bad guy; there was no reason to sully his good name for fans of the TV series.