 | The Edge (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $1.75 Can Millionaires be moral? Find out! Do we subscribe to "never trust a man who owns his own plane?" OR "do men lost in the woods die of shame?'? This movie is an ethics tour d' force.
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 | The Stand
Buy used from: $15.99 Not your typical King, many heros, values affirming, in spite of religious theme.
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 | Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $6.05 One mans tale of overcoming a personal phobia, and solving a mystery, driven by reason to triumph. High, High, High Suspense.
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 | Alien (The Director's Cut)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.27 The whole series is good, but the first is a shinning example of bravery on the main protagonists part. High suspense.
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 | I Am Legend (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $1.29 This version contains important alternate ending version, get IT. Good remake of Omega Man. One of my personal favorites in spite of the mediocre C.G. of antagonists. Some scenes of this future New York are unforgettable. Great soundtrack.
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 | The Fountainhead
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $9.00 B&W classic about the individual, against the collective.
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 | Ayn Rand's We the Living
Buy new: $39.95 Subtitles, but the story is amazing, B&W rare Italian film. Kira, the "hero" fights to live in a totalitarian state.
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 | 2081 | based on Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron"
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $9.99 A short 25 minute movie, great classical music, visuals, and Tammy Bruce as an evil ruler (wish the movie were longer).
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 | 300 (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.60 I call it a cartoon, warriors fight evil in spite of the odds against them.
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 | The Thing (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.37 Scary, suspensful, survival of the smartest movie. Good soundtrack.
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 | The Omega Man
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.08 Heston takes on environmentalists with raybans in this upgrade of the Vincent Price classic "The Last Man On Earth".
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 | The Pursuit of Happyness (Full Screen Edition)
Buy used from: $0.71 Based on a true story, a story like this could only happen in America. Americans should see it, esp. newly arrived citizens.
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 | We Own the Night
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Cops are good guys, in this saga about a family of good guys, I reguard it as the 'anti-Godfather'.
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 | THX 1138 - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $21.49 / Used from: $2.83 Big government chases one man,its reach is only limited by its budget.
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 | Escape from New York
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $1.51 Snake is an unforgettable character.
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 | Hombre
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $4.99 Classic western illustrates the proper answer to the initiation of force.
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 | Coogan's Bluff
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.99 Clint plays an Arizona cowboy, not a texan cowboy, who has a purpose, is driven, and values success. Goal-directed productive cowboy policeman knows how to catch the crook, & select & reject the right women.
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 | Gran Torino (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $3.58 Another Eastwood Great
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 | The Manchurian Candidate (Special Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.22 B&W classic, much better than the remake. High suspense.
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 | Chocolat (Miramax Collector's Series)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $2.59 Romance & Micro-Economics in one movie. Upholds the spirit of independance & creativity well.
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 | The Dead Zone (Special Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $4.94 Title can be mis-leading. Mystic themed but worth it as the final scene illustrates the ethical code of most politicians today.
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 | Logan's Run
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $4.78 Future distopia classic.
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 | Mission Impossible - The Complete First TV Season
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $13.89 One of the best TV series, ever made, the Cruise movies are ok, but the series has a superior touch.
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 | United 93 (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.01 One 9/11 story. Two words, "Lets Roll!".
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 | Soylent Green
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $13.97 Full of obvious fallacies, but Heston delivers us a man out for "the truth", about 'what is...Soylent Green?'.
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 | ABC News 20/20 Greed
Buy new: $19.95 A classic Stossel speacial, great to watch & debate with your thinking friends. If you don't have any, get some, their cool.
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 | History -- Modern Marvels American Steel: Built to Last
Buy new: $24.95 40 minute documentary, this and other Modern Marvels are some of the best "Pro-Mankind" documentaries I have seen. This, in an era of anti-mankind, pro-mother earth crap.
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 | The Last King of Scotland (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $0.80 What do dictators do, when they do the dictating that they do? Whitaker is intense. Illustrates why heros are rare in non rights-respecting regimes.
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 | Red Dawn (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.03 Great Movie, a communist invasion of the US, can't believe hollywood made this one, and the commies were the bad guys.
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 | Amerika
Buy used from: $299.95 Waiting for the DVD Set, a great 1980's miniseries. Better & longer than Red Dawn. Another movie I am shocked came out of Hollywood.
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 | V: The Original TV Miniseries
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.82 Classic tale of fascist cannibal alien invaders. Great bravery in a resistance thats formed. There is a follow up mini series after this one, (V-The Final Battle) I also recommend. Then theres season # one (and only one), which is "ok".
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 | Primer
Buy new: $21.49 / Used from: $12.70 A bare bones budget American Indie film...but in spite of, it is the best time travel movie I have ever seen. Why? It was well written. I think its the first "well" written time travel movie. Though 'Donnie Darko' (2001) isn't bad.
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 | Young Frankenstein
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.97 Great comedy full of one liners, has a crazy plot, and a heroic Wilder. Scenes that will burn into your permanent hard drive forever.
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 | The Sound of Music (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Special Edition)
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $9.50 Its a musical, but everyone should see it once.
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 | John Adams (HBO Miniseries)
Buy new: $33.99 / Used from: $19.28 Founding Father story, John Adams was agreat man, who, I learned, lived in a time pre-California vineyards.
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 | The Ladykillers (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $0.73 A festival of mans flaws, see the original if you liked this one. Funny movie that is a lesson in "what not to do with your life & why". Hanks is as funny as his sitcom days. The old lady represents reality, & the theives represent attempts to evade it.
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 | M. Night Shyamalan Vista Series Collection (The Sixth Sense/Signs/Unbreakable)
Buy new: $65.99 / Used from: $17.85 Refers to "UNBREAKABLE".This movie is slow, like Signs & The 6th Sense, but contains some of the greatest heroic imagery in the history of film-making.
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 | Glenn Beck Unelectable
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $2.44 Beck on stage mocking the candidates of 2008.
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