Rebuilding My DVD Collection: Part 2
So since my last post on this subject I have collected a few new films and one box set. I must say that I am starting to like what this collection is shaping into. I’ve also noticed that as I go shopping for new DVDs to add, it is rather difficult and very time consuming to make any sort of decision on whether to add a title to my collection or not. I spent a few hours for three days straight at various stores and looking over what they had to offer and actually stopping and pondering for a moment why I would want such a film or box set in my collection. At one point I think I had five or so films in hand only to put them all back because I re-thought why I wanted them in my collection as I was checking out the rest of the store. In the end I walked out with two new films and one new box set.
Starting with the new box set that I purchased, Carnivale. Right now I only have season one, but I do plan to own both. Carnivale for me touches on my affinity for great spiritual stories with religious philosophical tones. This series was no exception since it took aspects of religious literature and philosophy and melded it with an American historical era. It’s a shame that only two seasons came out of it and even more frustrating that it ended with, in my opinion, what is one of the largest cliff hangers in television history.
The two films I added are Unbreakable and What Dreams May Come.
Unbreakable to me is seen as the best comic book movie of all time, at least from the list of the ones I have seen, without actually making a real comic book into a movie, like Marvel and DC have done with some of the comics from their lines. It’s also in my opinion the best M. Night Shyamalan movie to date, and I really do hope that he goes back to working on the sequels like he had originally planned. On top of this I also think it is in my top ten list of best directed movies of all time as well.
What Dreams May Come might not be a hollywood gem, at least not from a story perspective, but you might as well get used to the fact that my collection isn’t all about hollywood gems. For me it hit me on the spiritual level, at a time when I was rethinking some of my personal philosophical and spiritual leanings and helped me to research more and redefine how I have truly believed. Since that time my beliefs have changed, as any good evolving, thinking, human should constantly do, but the way the film touched me remains even to this day. Plus, you have to admit that it is one stunning visual piece, however hollow the story may seem.
Stay tuned because more are going to follow soon, as well as some much needed reviews for these movies in my collection written on nathanpguest.info.
Again, thanks for reading.