Newspaper Free Dvd's

[batman]

Originally Posted by dremble wedge As it has Roger Moore as a German I think it qualifies as a (very) guilty pleasure!

[silverwhistle]

Originally Posted by batman

I vaguely recall that it had nice music, but it's a long time since I saw it.

[batman]

Originally Posted by silverwhistle I vaguely recall that it had nice music, but it's a long time since I saw it.

I actually paid money at the cinema to see this film ... it is terrible!

[julian_craster]

Is ATHENA a SIR LOW GRADE production ?

[RAREFILMFINDER]

Having read many of the replies and on the whole we mostly seem in favour of them.I believe the newspapers are providing an excellent addition that in a lot of cases the person may have never seen the film due to high costs.It has to be a good thing if even one of the dvds opens up an interest in movies for someone.Doesnt anyone think that dvds/videos are overpriced from the start anyway.Yes the film industry has to make money to survive but the profits are getting ridculous.The bottom line is that we pay and if a newspaper can bring down the cost of an old film to the point of it being free.
Then I am all for it.I have seen money wasted on films that will never make a cinema let alone a dvd.Having worked at three mill studios in east london you would be amazed just how many films are made and nothing is ever heard of them.Maybe if dvds had a fixed price of say £5 from the word off the pirates would be finished or is the industry behind them.How many pirates are direct copies from the studios or from a trusted employee?
What are the best films that have been given away in your view?
A Taste Of Honey?
Lenny

[Amethyst_Isle]

Originally Posted by julian_craster Is ATHENA a SIR LOW GRADE production ?

Indeed it is.

The best films that ITC (Grade's production company back then) use to distribute were imo Capricorn One,The Eagle Has Landed and the TV mini-series Jesus of Nazareth but they made a lot of rubbish films too.

[maninasuitcase]

Originally Posted by Amethyst_Isle Indeed it is. The best films that ITC (Grade's production company back then) use to distribute were imo Capricorn One,The Eagle Has Landed and the TV mini-series Jesus of Nazareth but they made a lot of rubbish films too.

'Raise the Titanic' would definitely also go in the rubbish films category of those made by Lew Grade.

[bertie]

In another forum I have just noted that I watched last night the 1979 All Quiet on the Western Front (one of the Daily Mail freebees) which was a Lew Grade production. Imo this is a suprisingly good remake and one for which he and his team deserve some praise.