If I Was a rich man… and it didn’t have all the DRM

Blu Ray for most is a pipe dream that is at least two or three years away from being affordable. However having seen the what these little babies are able to do, it is something that one day will take its rightful place next to my TV.

If I could afford Blu-Ray what should I buy? That is a good question, as the current price for Blu-ray players and disks is currently in the realm of the insane. So you do not want to waste your money on crap.

…Of the Dead series.

George A. Romero’s classic zombie trilogy is a must for all shelves. A classic tale of the dead returning to life to feast on the flesh of the living.

Personally, there is nothing I enjoy more than watching a good old zombie movie, eating some popcorn and trying not to laugh at the terrible acting. Boy is the acting terrible, every …of the dead movie the acting is about as terrifying as the almost constant gore. Not a scene will go by with out some sort of blood letting. For me thats what you want in a zombie movie, a near constant flow of blood, limbs being ripped off and at least one naked blonde woman that’s been turned into a Zombie.

The original movies were: Night of the Living dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead.

Check them out, while they may not be for all they are a great way to spend an evening at home. Watching it in HD… well I have no idea, but I am sure it would rock my world.

Night of the Living Dead is available on google video, and being the nice chap that I am its right below this entry… so why not waste some bandwidth and enjoy one of the greatest classic horror films of all time.

Now that you’ll tasted Zombie movies, why not get your PC in on the action.

‘Left 4 Dead… Distribution companies are you listening? I want to review it!!!

Lord of the Rings.

No surprise to anyone. Lord of the Rings has, for me at least, taken the thunder right out of Star Wars. It has become the Trilogy that for years to come, with be a viewing must for geeks around the world.

Having seen it on the big screen, I am sure that it would bring tears to my eyes in HD.

There isn’t much to say about Lord of the Rings, we’ve all seen it, we’ve all loved it. Now imagine it in HD…geekgasm.

The Mcnab War movie collection:

Being a massive fan of war movies it would ne impossible for me to just have one or two movies that appear on my top 10 list.

So I have thus allowed war movies to have their own section.

Saving private Ryan:

One of the most brutal and awesome World War 2 movies ever made.

Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother…

Remember the first time you saw this?

Full Metal Jacket.

Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket is one of the great Vietnam War movies ever. From basic training to the street of Hue city, Full Metal Jacket is a movie with two-segments that look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in basic training under the command of the punishing Sgt. Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.

A classic… me love you long time GI

The Dirty Dozen.

A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerous mission; To parachute behind enemy lines and cause havoc for the German Generals at a rest house on the eve of D-Day.

I remember watching this with my dad, its a classic, its awesome and fill to the brim of American goodness and flag waving. But its still worth it.

All Quiet on the Western Front.

A poignant and hard-hitting anti-war drama that details life in the German side of the trenches of WWI, it has lost none of its knuckle since it first veered onto the screens nearly 75 years ago. It makes its point and pulls no punches doing so, illustrating the impersonal coldness of war and the desolation in rendering an ‘enemy’ of someone who you’d really have no issues with on an individual basis. This message is particularly well-captured in one especially harrowing scene – I won’t divulge in the details, for the sake of those still yet to witness this masterpiece, but needless to say, it’s a real tear-jerker. The war depicted here is not one of glory and heroism, but one of hardship, horror and desperation.

Enjoy the cheese. More trailers should be like this.

Platoon.

Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. Chris has two commanding officers, the ill-tempered and indestructible Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes (Tom Berenger) and the more pleasant and cooperative Sergeant Elias Grodin (Willem Dafoe). A line is drawn between the two officers and a number of men in the platoon when an illegal killing occurs during a village raid. As the war continues, Chris himself draws towards psychological meltdown. And as he struggles for survival, he soon realizes he is fighting two battles, the conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon.

Well I think you get the idea. I enjoy War movies. Back to the list.

Monty Python.

Again, I am unable to pick one, and thus have picked two. Such is the way with lists, for I writer of the list am in power. I am just in my picking of two rather than one. For long I have suffered, long a cold nights i pace wondering which of the two. You reader, are the problem, with you 1 is 1 and never 1 is 2 dependent on the number of clauses and sub sections that require the use of two.

… and the Holy Grail.

Sadly I would buy this just to have it in my collection, as I have watched this movie so many times that I can quote it from beginning to end. No really I can, its tragic really.

A word of warning, for as long as I have been alive I have never seen a female of the Human race enjoy this movie. Comments such as, its stupid, silly, pointless and rude. tend to spill out of there clown like mouths. Well yes it is, that’s the point you see. Its great to be silly, its great to have a knee bent running around romance with the English language. I would love to see anyone, come up with gold like this.

… and the Life of Brian.

Religion is one of the few things that the Brits are allowed to make fun of, without the fear of some right wing evangelical nut case throwing pipe bombs at people.

The Tagline of the film is A motion picture destined to offend nearly two thirds of the civilized world. And severely annoy the other third. We really need more movies that are just made to annoy people, allowing them to gnash their teeth together, scream its immoral and against god. I feel that we as rational people, owe it to our selves to annoy faith followers as much as they annoy us.

The Matrix:

I know I know, the first one was the best and the other two just kinda beat the body of the first in some hope that the constant twiching and spattering would create some sort story line.

However, the action is tight and the fight scenes some of the best we’ve ever seen on film. Well second to maybe King Aurther vs the Black Knight.

Remember this?

Now Imagine it in Hi Def… oh that would be so sweet.

Well that will have to do for the mean time. I am sure some more will pop up later in day, what would you like to see in Hi Def?