HUDSON HAWK on DVD

POSTED BY: reginaroadie
UPDATED: Thursday, June 1, 2006 02:31
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SWEETSERENDIPITY

Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:03 AM

I was raised on dry humor. Hudson Hawk and Deep Rising are 2 of my favs! The girl from Ipanima line gets me everytime! Anyone seen Murder By Death or Clue? Laugh riots both! Or Local Hero, a Scottish film with Burt Lancaster and Peter Riegert(?).

Deb
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MMMWIFESOUP

Wednesday, May 31, 2006 5:58 PM

Clue is fantastic - I only saw it about a month ago for the first time, watched it with some friends, we all loved the heck out of it.

I'm fairly sure you can get Trancers 1 and 2 over here in England on Region 2 DVD. Never seen them personally.

-- My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle --

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, May 31, 2006 6:04 PM

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Originally posted by MmmWifeSoup:

I'm fairly sure you can get Trancers 1 and 2 over here in England on Region 2 DVD. Never seen them personally.

I'll book my flight to London immediatly. Will a British DVD player work back here in the States?

I guess I'll have to wait, then.
And MmmWifeSoup, SEE THEM ASAP!!! They're great flicks! Best B-movie cheese this side of Army Of Darkness.

Singed Chrisisall

DC4BS

Thursday, June 1, 2006 12:20 AM

Hudson Hawk rules!

I've had the DVD for years.

The bar scene in the beginning was filmed about 3 blocks from my current Apartment in Hoboken NJ. The bar was bought and completely redone inside years ago, but you can still go and stand in front of it and get the same view of NYC as in the movie when they walk outside.

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Chrisisall,

There are Three issues with using a british DVD player in the states:

1: Power. You would need a transformer to go from 110 volt (US standard) to the 220V input on the player (or unplug the washing machine/dryer temporarily as many of them use 220 volt).

2: Unless the player is "region free" then you won't be able to play any DVDs bought or rented in the US (region 1).

3: You would need a PAL mode TV to play back on as the player will output in PAL (european standard) instead of NTSC (US standard).

You are WAY better off just finding a K-Mart or Wall-Mart in the US and spending about $30 US for a DVD player that can be region unlocked to play all regions and hooking it up to any TV here. (can get loads of info on the internet as to what brands/models to buy)

The player hardware determines the type of signal going to the TV, NOT the region coding on the disk. Any disk should play just fine on ANY region unlocked player into a local TV anywhere in the world.

Rarely, you can find "region 0" DVDs that will play anywhere. I bought some "Danger Mouse" DVD in London once that are region 0 and work just fine in any US player.

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dc4bs

CHRISISALL

Thursday, June 1, 2006 12:29 AM

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Originally posted by dc4bs:

The bar scene in the beginning was filmed about 3 blocks from my current Apartment in Hoboken NJ.

Was that bar on Hudson or Washington street? I can't remember the exact name, but I used to hang with my buds in Hoboken in the eighties. My friend lived two blocks from the Maxwell sign near the river... you must be near it, eh?

Small world Chrisisall

DROCCULARI

Thursday, June 1, 2006 2:31 AM

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Originally posted by reginaroadie:
I know that HUDSON HAWK is supposed to be a textbook definition of a spectacular failure, but I remember seeing it on tv as a kid and loving it, and then re-renting it again a few years ago and still loving it to this day.

I was living in Brooklyn, just next to the Brooklyn Bridge, while the movie was being made. I remember watching the film lights charging across the bridge several times. We were below the bridge, so we couldn't really see much.

Mainly I recall the press going on about how this was a big Bruce Willis ego project, and how much money he was spending to shut down the Brooklyn Bridge at night for a week.

When HH opened I expect New Yorkers, and New York critics were gunning for Bruce, but by then I was living back in Wisconsin. I saw it and liked it -- a lot -- right up to the Brooklyn Bridge scene, but then... What the ((DING))? He shut down the ((DING))ing bridge for a week for this ((DING))? There are TOLL BOOTHS at the end of the Brooklyn Bridge?!! What kind of ((DING))ing ((DING))hole brain dead idiot put that ((DING)) in the script? The toll booths were the last straw; they still bug me a little bit.

Once the story got to Rome I liked it again, because I don't know ((DING)) about Rome. They could have plunked down the Vatican right in the middle of the Coliseum for all I know.

And now I just like it -- a lot -- for all the reasons everyone has been saying, including Andie MacDowell who still makes my heart pitter-pat. Her nun character could almost make me an un-lapsed Catholic. And Sandra Bernhard pretty much knocks me out of my seat every time she openes her mouth.

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