PICK UPS #2

Woke up Sunday morning with an urge to visit Camberwell market, hadn't been there for years and thought I may be able to find a DVD bargain or two.

First impressions, so much junk! I really don't understand some of the things people attempt to sell at this market, surely it is more profitable to sleep in and save the stall fees. Some of the highlights were:

• P & O Fair Star Bottle Opener (Used to the point of rusting) $4!
• An assortment of bootleg DVD's from Thailand for the bargain price of $5 each (pretty sure that is a 400% profit!)
• Bargain box of DVD's for $4 each, promising at first until I realised that the majority were burnt copies!

Aside from all those stunning bargains, I did manage to score one item I was pretty happy about:

I saw this box set sitting on the table of a guy that had a whole setup of DVD's, something about picking up the entire series at once appealed to me. I had overheard him quoting prices for other single DVD movies at $5-$10 so thought that this would probably be way overpriced as a lot of the items at the market are. I asked anyway, and was surprised to hear that he wanted $35 and was willing to take an offer. He did mention that this set had been here a while so he may have just wanted to get rid of it but all the better for me. I offered him $30, which for 8  seasons and 26 discs was pretty damn good and he accepted! There is a good chance that I will watch one or two episodes, maybe even the first series and then this will sit on the shelf, but it was too good a price to pass up.

Also, while in JB later that day I took advantage of the 2 for $20 Blu Ray sale they have on at the moment and picked up the following:

I actually thought that I had this one on DVD but found I was wrong, I now think I actually had it on VHS. It is a stupid film, with pretty awful acting (who doesn't love Nicholas Cage hamming it up!), but from memory some decent John Woo action. This is more of a good memory film for me, at the time of it's release I was just getting into John Woo after my uncle took me to see Broken Arrow. I had become obsessed with Hard Boiled and The Killer, and Chow Yun Fat as well, and this film came at the perfect time. It has lots of the great Woo style of action that is completely unrealistic and needless slow motion shots but that's what makes it great!

I very vaguely remember actually liking this film, honestly I don't mind Tom Cruise 'The Actor' as I think he makes you forget about his actual real life persona when in character. 

Bryan Singer is definitely not my favorite director but from memory this didn't feel like a Singer film. Hopefully when I get round to watching this one my memory proves correct!