Caught up (in a stupid website)

Just wanted to drop a quick note over here to say that I FINALLY have everything photographed and put up on both of the blogs.    You can check out the numbers on the stupid movie 'summary' page and peruse the collections and checklists on the dedicated stupid movie blog.

At the current moment, I have deleted ALL of my eBay searches that pertained to DVDs and have NO desire to increase the size of my collection.   At least not for right now.   I still need to get the older sets photographed, 'audited' to see which movies were unique at the time I purchased the collection, and a new checklist created per the standard I set up earlier this year.  It'll be a fair bit of work (looks like I have 64 collections to 're-do'), but, it's something I kind of enjoy.  Kind of.  Maybe someday I'll start watching some of these movies.  Isn't that an idea!

But, I think I'm going to go back to collecting all of the Hot 100 singles that came out in the year 1972.   I've been going through the weekly lists and I think I'm up to the last week of May 1972.  I also did a few weeks in October.  So with all that, I'm sitting at 482 songs.   I'm guessing that the total count will be in the 700 to 800 range.  With each new week, there are usually another 10 or so songs that I need to add.  I have 29 weeks left to do, so that's approximately another 290 songs to collect.  An of course, since I'm a little bit on the particular side, I do go out on Discogs.com and look at what the running time was for the single that was released in 1972.  I've only had a few trip me up, such as the single edit of Sugaree by Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead fame.  You would think that with all those crazy fans that collect EVERYTHING that the single edit would have been readily available somewhere out on the web.  I ended up having to search for a few months before I found someone with a copy of it.   Another one was a B.B. King single.  I could only find the album edit which was like 40 seconds longer, but again, eventually it turned up.

Anyhoo.  I hope all is well with whomever is reading this.  Financially, I'm getting whooped, but I'm certain somehow it's gonna work out.  

Take care!

You have to (stupidly) start somewhere: An update of sorts.

So I had no more than had finished the last post (on April 14th 2024) before I started buying more movies.  That set is referred to as Set A and contained 9 movies with heavy emphasis on Action, Western, and Elvis movies.

I started purchasing Set B literally on April 14th after I published the previous post.  I had been eyeing a collection called 'The Bombs, Babes & Blockbusters Of Cannon Films' which was a 10 pack of movies from the greats like Chuck Norris (5 movies), Sylvester Stallone (2 movies), Dolph Lundgren, and Jean-Claude Van Damme plus contained a documentary on the hey day times of Cannon Films.  I got that from Ye Olde eBay.   Then the next day, from Amazon I bought Elvis's Change of Habit and an Elvis musical double feature with Spinout and Double Trouble (to complete the collection of all 32 non-concert movies that Elvis made) as well as another 8 Film Collection of Jackie Chan.

And I thought that would be it.

But then there was Set C.   This occurred at the beginning of May when the Friends of the Lane Library had their big sale where they filled up the gym of one of the local Catholic churches with books and movies and music and what not.  Lost of stuff that was aged out at the library as well as plenty of donations from people who are friends of the library.  The wife and I went on Thursday which was the opening day for the sale.  When we got there they were still putting boxes and boxes of things out.  From that first day I picked up 9 multi-movie sets.  I went back on Saturday morning hoping that maybe they had put more stuff out on Friday and Saturday but alas it appeared to pretty much be the same stuff.  I did manage to find one set that I must have overlooked.   From this sale I picked up the following: 

* 50 Whodunit Classics - This came in a mashed cardboard box the size of a standard DVD case and contained 4 double sided discs with lots of mystery themed movies TV episodes.

* Legends of the West Vol. 5 - This was a weird one.  It was in a box for America Great Westerns Vol. 3 but contained the 8 discs from Legends Vol. 5 plus one disc from another western collection.   Obviously there were more volumes from this series.   And of course, more on that later.

* Total Movie & Entertainment DoubleDouble Feature pack.  This had I believe 40 movies on 10 discs, with 4 movies (Get it? a double double feature!) and each disc had a theme such as Cult Classics, Overlooked Horror, Comedy & Romance, etc.

* Sam Elliott Western Collection which contained 3 movies

* Black Cobra collection which contained the three movies in the Black Cobra series featuring Fred Williamson.  I later found out I already had these three on some other martial arts collection.  Doh!

* A 4 movie Dirty Harry collection of Clint Eastwood movies.

* A 4 movie Ocean's Eleven collection which contained the original Ocean's Eleven, plus the Ocean's Eleven remake as well as Twelve and Thirteen.

* A 20th Century Fox Studio Classic which contained four movies which were almost too classy for my stupid movie collection.   

* A Charles Bronson collection which contained two early Bronson movies; Chino and Guns Of Diablo..

and last but not least

* A Midnight Movies Double Feature from 20th Century Fox which contained Gorilla At Large and Mystery On Monster Island

Then at the end of May though much of June I picked up what I call Set D.   This started when I tripped over a Mill Creek collection, Savage Cinema, for cheap on eBay which sparked my interest and got me going again.  I knew that there were still two Maverick collections that I was interested in, so I picked up Urban Nightmares (aka Urban Chills) and Dangerous Babes.  And of course, since I had the Legends of the West Vol 5 (which was 8 discs), I did my homework and realized that I could either get Legends Vols 1 through 5 with 8 DVDs each -or- get Vols 1 through 4 America's Greatest Westerns with 10 DVDs each.  Both collections were from Echo Bridge and contained the exact same movies.  And of course there was someone who was selling the four volume America's Greatest Westerns collection for a decent price, so after hemming and hawing for a while, I finally just pulled the trigger on that one.  I also realized that I was 1 volume short of having all of the Western '4 Film Favorites' from Universal.  Out of that collection, I only needed 2 of the 4 because the other 2 were already on other collections in that series that I already had.  But, the completist won, and so I got it from eBay.  Then I had watched one of my YouTube vloggers and he had mentioned Silent Rage from Chuck Norris.  I checked, and I didn't have that movie on any of the Action or Cannon film collections I had, but there just happened to be an eBay auction for an action collection with that movie and a 6 movie horror collection from Pendulum which contained 4 movies that I didn't have yet.  So I won that action for a decent price.  All that action was from May 25th through June 9th.  It was quiet for a couple of weeks until I delved into my existing DVDs and realized that I had a couple of other multi-movie packs.  One was a 4 movie pack collection called 'Horror Classics' from Platinum that my wife had purchased for me ages ago.  I had wrongly presumed that I had all of the movies already when she purchased it for me back in 2013, however a double check showed that there was one movie that I didn't have yet.  I also 'claimed' a Warner Brothers 4 movie holiday movie collection, Classic Holiday Collection Vol. 1.  Of course, since there was a volume 1, I knew there was a volume 2 so I found that on Amazon and bought it.

I then slammed on the brakes because I was drowning in movies and still had to do all the additional homework of creating the check lists for these movies and double checking which movies I already.  Plus I also needed to photograph all of them.

So I got all the check lists done.  And I have the photos of the Set A collections and I plan to get those up on the Stupid Movie blog very soon, hopefully this weekend.  I actually had Set A check listed, photographed and ready to go when I did my last post back in April but then got so overwhelmed with purchasing Sets B, C and D and getting the checklists done for those that it just didn't happen.   I still have to photograph Sets B, C, and D.  I'm not exactly sure when that's gonna happen. I guess stay tuned!  (Or don't. :P )

Whether I know you or not, I hope all is well with you.   Take care!

P.S. -  Sorry, no photo montage since, like I said, I don't have any photos of Sets B, C and D.  But the collage of the movies from Set A is in the previous post.  However, here are a couple of pictures of the two piles I need to photograph.  Yes, I know, you can't see all the titles, but this is what I can give at the moment.  Much better photos will be uploaded when they are added to the Stupid Movies blog.

A million stupid movies can't be wrong!

 Hello.   It's me again.   Back with more movie stupidity.   Today's title is a play on the 'A 1,000,000 Elvis fans can't be wrong'.  And that is what mostly started the latest flood of stupidity. Well that and a continuation of my back issue. (My back got better, then the right side started hurting.  Then it got better.  And now my whole lower back aches.  Getting old sucks.)

Anyways......  I bought that 20 Action Movies pack when my back was out.  So of course I started perusing the evil eBay for other 20 action movie pack that I could get on the cheap.  I found a couple more, both with very generic names, both from Echo Bridge.  One is called 20 Action Movies and has Chuck Norris on the cover and contains a few movies with Chuck.  The other is called 20 Film Action and contains Supercop by Jackie Chan (more on that later).

Then one evening the wife and I were done with watching the people we subscribe to on YouTube and she was flipping around trying to find something to watch when I joked that we could watch one of the Elvis movies that I had (since the wife and I have watched a couple of them back in the day when I had bought some Elvis VHS tapes from Big Lots I believe.  While she didn't bite that evening, we can into the same problem the next evening when she said 'Go get an Elvis movie.  So we watched Kissin' Cousin.  I enjoyed it, she tolerated it.  But of course that got the wheels going and I started looking at what Elvis collections were out there on the cheap.  After assessing what I had (two 4 movie compilations and copies of Kid Galahad and Viva Los Vegas), I went out and purchased a trio of collections that leave me with 27 out of the 31 movies that Elvis made (excluding the concert movies).  I picked up a collection called Elvis 75th Birthday collection which had 7 movies from MGM and 20th Century Fox, a collection called Lights! Camera! Elvis! which featured 8 Paramount movies, and an Elvis triple feature collection with 3 Warner Brothers movies.  That left me with 4 that I still need to get.  Three of them are on my Amazon list and a fairly readily available.  The last one I need is Loving You but this seems to only be available on a couple long out of print and expensive DVD sets.  I'll have to figure that one out.

And of course, that kept the wheels spinning on the stupid movie train.  I then wondered if there were any other Maverick titles that were interesting that weren't on my radar.  I found one called Babes & Boyz.  One company called Dream Books Company had it on the cheap and was running a buy two get one free sale.  They had been on my radar about a year ago when I was getting things from that other company (Second Sale) while had botched a few of my orders by not including all the discs, so I was a little wary.  However, things looked a little better so I figured I'd give them a shot.  I managed to find a couple of western 4 Movie Marathon sets (James Stewart Westerns and Classic Western Collection (feat. the movie The Texas Rangers) that were on my Amazon list which was awesome.  For for $9.50 I picked them up.  And I was very happy with that purchase.  All of them items were in good condition and had all the discs.  One was still shrink-wrapped!

And the train kept rolling and I was looking at my Amazon list and a had a few Jackie Chan collections still on there from Christmas time.  So I perused eBay and found a cheap copy of an eight movie collection of Jackie Chan Miramax movies.

I have my eye on a Cannon Films collection featuring a few more Chuck Norris movies.  It's an actual auction, so I'm hoping I win that one.  

I guess we'll see.   

Hope all is well with you (whomever is reading this... probably no one but me :P ).  Take care!

Throwing out your back equals buying 40 movies of stupidity!

Yes, you read that correctly.  I threw out my back a couple of weeks ago (and then got food poisoning a few days later on top of that), so while I was laid up and in pain, I needed something to distract me.  That distraction came in the form of many things, one of which was looking at eBay.

I now own 40 more movies (37 of them are new to my collection).

I bought the following:   20 Action Movies from Echo Bridge, Dark Disposition - 10 Horror Movies from Maverick and Most Wanted - 10 Action Movies also from Maverick.

So stupid.

Updates in the usual places:  Here and Here

A quick (and stupid) update!

 For Christmas, I got a couple of movie packs:  Elvis Presley Musicals and Classic Westerns 10-Movie collection.

The other day, I saw that a couple of the movie packs I had on my Christmas list were still available at nice price (both were under $6.25), so I got Wartime Comedies 8-Movie Collection and War 10-Movie Collection.

The Elvis set was from Warner Bros and the other were from Universal, so the quality on these is pretty darn good.

Oh, and Norah broke her ankle and leg at the beginning of February.  One leg went one way, the other folded underneath her.  Dislocated and broke her ankle as well as breaking her fibula.   D'oh!  Obviously, she's still in a cast but she's been a trooper.  Hopefully she can go back to school soon.   BTW, medical bills are fun!

New and updated stupid movie list HERE!