A Mixed Bag of Thrills
I was looking for a DVD of an old fave movie, THE DEEP, and I found this boxed set of 10 titles. Since the price wasn't much more than I'd expect to pay for the one title, I grabbed it. The 10 movies are from Columbia Pictures from the 1970s-1990s, and they range in quality from excellent (A SOLDIER'S STORY) to terrible (MONEY TRAIN), but most of them are good, solid, 3-star films, and some (ABSENCE OF MALICE, JAGGED EDGE, TO DIE FOR) are old faves of mine. 2 titles, RED ROCK WEST (with Nicolas Cage) and UNDER SUSPICION (with Liam Neeson) were pleasant surprises--I'd never heard of them, but they were both very good.
The complete list: THE DEEP, JAGGED EDGE, ...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, ABSENCE OF MALICE, MONEY TRAIN, AGAINST ALL ODDS, TO DIE FOR, A SOLDIER'S STORY, RED ROCK WEST, UNDER SUSPICION. 3 titles are rated PG, and the others are all rated R (violence/nudity/sex/language, some much more than others).
My only beef is that some of these films are the dreaded...
How can they do this ?
I started out to buy "Absence of Malice". Looking through the other buying options, I found this collection. It had my movie, plus 9 others. All are well done thrillers, that's for sure. The packaging is a bit odd, but acceptable. Where else can you buy 10 good movies for $ 18.00?
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