after reading a post a while ago I joined netflix and number slate, just to see what one was better. I am enjoying them both. I was going to join columbia house to buy some dvds. My idea was rent them from netflix and if i liked them buy it( one way or another).
I am mostly looking for Anime. my friends got me int it and I have found that some of my favorite cartoons from childhood are considered anime. Unfortunantly Columbia house doesnt seem to carry any and I was hoping to find another service that may have a selection of what I am looking for.
I do have another related question. has anyone else found they enjoy anime much more than regular movies? I know its becomig more popluar nowdays and I may be on the wave here but almost every movie I have received I have enjoyed immensely.Which is somehting I cant say about regular films, Most of the titles I own are fairly old for live action films.
Some of the anime titles I have gotten so far are
Neon Genesis Evangelion( Most of the series as well as birth and death and end of evangelion, which blew me away last nite) Cowboy bebop-the movie, .
Akira,
Ghost in the shell,
record of lodoss war,
metropolis(didnt like the animation but the story was ok from what i saw before i fell asleep),
Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust i think
All of them have been so much better than anything else I have rented lately( except Basic, I really liked that but Sam Jackson and John Travolta together is something special)
Well if anyone can help this movie nut I thank you very much
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I’ve gotten Slayers and Queen Emeraldis DVDs for $8 + s/h.
Almost as good.
Many online sellers offer deep discounts.
Consider Amazon Marketplace. Buying new items can get you handsome discounts from sellers trying to lure you to their sites. This is the best way to go.
BTW–there are no minimum number of items to buy, unlike a club.
My advice, based on experience, is to avoid mail order clubs entirely, unless you live so far away from a Target or Wal-Mart that it would be more economical. I’ve found that one ends up paying more (or about the same) through club purchases as one would in buying the same merchandise locally. By the time you pay the jacked-up price PLUS postage and handling, you have more than payed the club for any ‘free’ discs you received up front. Plus there is the hassle and postage (well, only 37cents) of sending back the refusal cards. If you find a club offering free discs with NO obligation to buy anything ever again, you should join, take the free discs and cancel the membership immediatley. Now, some people will say that this is ‘unfair’ or ‘cheating’. These people are fools who know nothing about corporate America and will be blindly robbed of their hard-earned money their whole lives,…but I digress. True, you will then receive more offers in the mail every other day, but there is a certain satisfaction in ripping them to shreds and trashing them unread.
My local Best Buy and Target stores have a lot of Anime. At least a lot I haven’t seen, but I just discovered that I like this form recently. I started by collecting all the Miasaki movies that are available. Then found “Grave of the Fireflies”, “Metropolis”, “Cowboy Bebop, The Movie” and “Ghost in the Shell”. Right now I’m watching the entire “Cowboy Bebop” sessions. I bought the 3 disc “Perfect Sessions” box (new) which contains all 26 episodes from an Amazon connected seller for about $25, less than a dollar an episode. I like these stories because they are character-driven, but contain just enough thrills and chills. Terrific stuff that occasionally leaves a tear in the eye. I’m feeling bad in that I only have 6 more episodes to see for the first time. But one good thing about Anime is that after watching something that really moved you in English, you can watch it again in Japanese, subtitled, and experience it a little differently all over again. I have not looked into the more violent martial arts, samuari or giant robot (mecha?) stuff because I don’t think it would be my cup of tea, but who knows? As I said before, I just discovered I like Anime this year and as my grandpa used to say, “Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out.”
I am glad to hear someone else has gotten hooked like me, I feel that anime films can do things that regular films just cant. Certain themes i think are just too hard to put into an acted film, maybe its too hard for a person to act it out believably or just the animation just works better. I watched Ninja scrolls last nite and(Spoiler warning) the female ninja who had poison running through her blood so that even if she kissed a man he would die had never had someone treat her like a woman until the old man poisoned the main character with a poison that could only be counteracted by making love to her, and he decided he would rather die than use her like that
well if that story line was in a normal film it would be rather silly but in an anime film it was totally believable and made a great subplot IMO.