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[challenge entry] this really is the stupidest challenge ever

incidentally, i am thinking of buying some DVDs. i can afford two, but not three. which one should i not get?
1. Dr Strangelove
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. 28 Days Later

i am also buying To Monte Carlo Or Bust on video because i saw it a while ago and have deemed it the best film in the world ever.

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(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 22:55, archived)
# get the classics
and wait for 28days to get there itself, then it's price will drop
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 22:56, archived)
# ditto
but I did just watch 28 days. Great zombies.
(I helped save b3ta! id10ts WTF happened, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:04, archived)
# the first one
dr strangelove
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 22:56, archived)
# really?
i would have thought that that would have been a shoe-in.
i have seen it already of course, i just thought it would be nice to own it
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 22:58, archived)
# oh no wait i wanted you to get that one
i'm a dumb bastard
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:04, archived)
# Hmm...
Buy City of God instead. :-)
(I helped save b3ta! splorp ®, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 22:56, archived)
# I reckon Flash Gordon should be in everybody's collection.
Just so everybody knows who Brian Blessed is.
(I helped save b3ta! whelkboy is old now, you see, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 22:57, archived)
# FLASH!

AHH-AAAHHHH

HE SAVED EVERY ONE OF US!
(goat thinks you're shit, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 22:59, archived)
# BRIAN BLESSED?
I have a video with him dressed as a cat and singing songs
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:00, archived)
# Would it be a video of Cats
by any chance?
(goat thinks you're shit, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:01, archived)
# nope
it's Hey Mr Producer - the musical world of Cameron MacIntosh
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:02, archived)
# Wow.
(goat thinks you're shit, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:03, archived)
# *falls over*
what video is this?
edit: oh. must. find.
(KnitWit, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:01, archived)
# 2nd pic down on the right
www.catanna.com/deuteronomy.htm
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:08, archived)
# But that doesn't
look like Brian Blessed
oh god the music! arrrgghhh!
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:10, archived)
# 28 days later
mefinks is not worth buying just yet
(I helped save b3ta! Lethe is carrying a spade. SPANG., Sun 2 Nov 2003, 22:57, archived)
# Avoid 28 days later like the plague
A terrible excuse for a film. How it can be regarded as a classic I'll never understand.
(I helped save b3ta! Monkeyboy, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 22:57, archived)
# i liked it
i sat through it thinking "hmm...it's okay, i guess" but then when it was over i really liked it. come on, it wasn't THAT bad.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 22:59, archived)
# the opening scenes are quite spooky,
and it would be a passable TV drama, but it's no classic. Dr strangelove and 2001, on the other hand...
(I helped save b3ta! Monkeyboy, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:02, archived)
# actually...
remember a miniseries on itv a few years back called the last train? post apocolyptic type thing, but with less zombies.
oh, 28 days later soundtrack is fucking ace. nice and ambient, even has eno on it. oh yes.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:04, archived)
# oh yeah, I remember that
wasn't bad, certainly on a par with 28 days, however as you point out the soundtrack was a scorcher.
(I helped save b3ta! Monkeyboy, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:07, archived)
# jolly good.
i am off for a sandwich and then bedways. ta ta.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:08, archived)
# Don't get 2001
Cos it's over-rated shit.
(I helped save b3ta! Mullet Over, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:05, archived)
# hush your mouth
there, told you.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:07, archived)
# No
You know it's true.
(I helped save b3ta! Mullet Over, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:09, archived)
# admittedly
i had taken a lot of drugs when i watched it
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:09, archived)
# Well
watch it not on drugs.

Load of old bollocks.
The only drugs I'd take while watching it would be a ton of heroin in the hope I'd die before the end.
(I helped save b3ta! Mullet Over, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:13, archived)
# The book is better.
I should have read it after watching the film, as I would have enjoyed it more.
(I helped save b3ta! Lethe is carrying a spade. SPANG., Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:10, archived)
# Two copies of 28 Days Later
just in case you lose one :)
(nepenthe, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 23:06, archived)
# IT'S A BROKEN TRAFFIC LIGHT!
There. It's been solved.
(A Wooden Leg Named Smith, Thu 6 Nov 2003, 3:51, archived)