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what the fuck is that pink thing

>why yes I do purchase obsolete plastic disks containing data files at exorbitant prices, how could you tell?

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Looks like a Nintendo Switch Lite. I assume OP got stuck with a pink Switch given how fucking impossible it is to find them at retail.

OK

>>Hardcore porn pretending to be high art from a known sex pervert
>>Pretentious arthouse bullshit
>>Poorly put together social commentary about technology, porn, and censorship
>>Crappy B-Movie horror film
>>Mysoginistic anti-woman tripe from a homosexual
>>Degenerate filth shock film by a homosexual an a crossdresser
>>Degenerate sex shit masquerading as noir
>>Cash grab film based on a TV show about a dad who rapes his daughter and kills her
>>Pretensious arthouse drivel
>>Perverted Nazis who rape their moms
>>No clue
>>Bunch of Japanese horror films no one knows about.....

and for bonus points
>>crappy cash grab sequel album to a great album
>>Last decent album by a band who's lead singer is now dead
>>Only decent album Belinda Carlisle ever made

For what it's worth, at least half those films are hard to find ones who have never been made available on streaming sites PERIOD and in the case of Until the End of the World and Multiple Maniacs, where stuck in legal limbo for decades and weren't available PERIOD until Criterion got a hold of them and put them out on DVD.

A weird but eclectic collection

Several gay filmmakers (Pasolini, Waters, Visconti, and Almodovar), two David Lynch films, two European films on existentialism, several horror/sci-fi films of obscure quality, and several black comedies (the Downey Sr set and Multiple Maniacs).

The token Japanese films are populist tripe but obscure enough for some cred, L'avventura is a weird pick for Antonioni though. UTEOTW is another interesting pick though given it's reputation and some of the other films in your set, I take it you have a thing for lost films that were commercially unavailable and have a decent amount of hype towards them (as also seen with Salo and Multiple Maniacs).

Can I assume you have other Waters, Lynch and Cronenberg films that aren't Criterion, along with some of Antonioni's other non-Criterion film (Zabrieskie Point and Blow-Up)?

I give it 6/10.

>L'avventura is a weird pick for Antonioni though

Why would you say that?

My girlfriend pointed out that I have at least two thousand dollars worth of this shit. Really put things in perspective. Mostly that I need to find bigger nicer shelves. Any recommendations?

It's his most meandering film. His La Notte and Le'clisse are more focused when it comes to plot, as does his later works. L'Avventura just has no real point to it as it's just a bunch of people wandering around with the mystery never getting resolved.

The sad thing about L'Avventura is that he actually does resolve the plot (the missing woman's corpse is eventually found at sea) but Antonioni purposely cut the scene to keep things ambiguous and unresolved.

Is Almodovar any good? Never watched any of his films...

Decent but can be a bit repetitive. He's a gay man who's films are largely about women in kitchen sink type situations, combined with a weird paternalistic notion that celebrate heterosexual monogamist relationships.

Think Ryan Murphy, in that he's gay but thinks degeneracy is stupid and soul crushing and that the notion of normie man/woman relationships are to be admired and what straight/gay people should aspire to.

Every collection should have a copy of House.
Is Saló really worth owning? Haven’t seen it since it’s been memed to death

>Salo
It's best horror film ever made to feature faggots as the monsters.
That was up until the point Irreversible was made.

It's one of those "baby's first shock films" that has some interesting backstory/commentary in it, but is mainly known for how for so long, it was OOP and among the top five most expensive Criterion DVDs ever made until the rights issues got sorted out.

What is the Robert Downey Senior set about? Never heard anything about him even though he's got a famous son.

Downey Sr was an indie film maker who can be best described as John Water's straight counterpart. Instead of Divine, he had his wife in all of his films; and made them in a way where she played nearly all of the female roles in his movies.

The box set has four rare, hard to find films of his plus his magnum opus Putney Swope.

>>Babo 73: A foppish nerdy President goes around Washington, followed by his conservative and liberal advisor and his personal assistant, who has a nervous breakdown and ragequits. A subplot involves him visiting a white guy who was brutally beaten/lynched by a university full of black guys for trying to enroll in an all black college.

>>Chafed Elbows: A man who fucks his mom behind his dad's back has misadventures in NYC and murders his cousin, who he got pregnant. Has a commercial parody called "Kiss Off Lipstick" that was a brief meme in the early 00s when the film got restored and had a run on the indie theater circuit.

>>No More Excuses: a bunch of random skits about people fucking built around a bunch of interviews Downey did about the nightclub scene in NYC in the 60s that he pitched to a TV station as a documentary that never happened.

>>Putney Swope: Black guy becomes head of an advertisement agency and makes it super moral, refusing to do ads for cigarettes, alcohol, and war toys for kids but slowly goes insane with power. Largely based around Downey's time working as a director for an ad agency filming commercials.

Two Tons of Turquoise To Taos Tonight: A random bunch of sketches with no story in any of them, designed as a spotlight for his wife to act and do impressions.

I bought Uncut Gems during the flash sale. I got into the Safdies through Criterion Channel and I'd like to see them get all of their movies out physically too.

Those are DVD's right? 0/10 for not being bluray

So what are some decent Criterion films for someone wanting to buy some of them that doesn't normally buy films?

Depends entirely on your tastes and desires.

Just note that a lot of Criterion DVDs are licensed from other studios, so you can get some films cheap compared to the Criterion releases if you get the studio version. And that once a film goes OOP, the Criterion edition will shoot up in aftermarket value until a new studio version comes out or Criterion renews the license, sometimes with new cover artwork and extras (case in point, the reissue of Salo has a US language dub that wasn't on the original hard to find release).

Criterion has a lot of films, some mainstream some obscure and arthouse. You can blind buy but that can be a bit of a pain if you are not a big film buff or are versed in directors and actors lore and legend.

Some people buy big name director stuff just to have it on their shelves and look "smart" but I would just advise to buy what you like and on obscure stuff or films you don't know much about, to research the films before blind buying.