what is the following worth?

[hellfire]

Please tell me what the following items are worth.

mega man x4 die cast car 96 camaro limited edition 1 of 20000 never opened

zelda twilight princess master sword and hylian sheild 1/6th scale replica with music soundtrack never opened

extertainment life fitness video program manager for mountain bike ralley sealed

thanks for helping me out

[hellfire]

:popcorn:

[Porksta]

Don't tell me you just bumped this after two hours...

[glorfindel]

and he had the same thing posted in the collector/rarity forum... http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126895

i knew i saw this post somewhere before

[walrusmonger]

ebay's completed listings, if there are no completed listings for an item then it is hard to tell.

[darkslime]

2k monies

[TheDomesticInstitution]

About $10 shipped on Amazon. (http://www.amazon.com/Following-Jeremy-Theobald/dp/B00000F3CD/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1233189825&sr=8-1)

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It's not quite as good as Memento, but an interesting movie nonetheless.

Here's a brief user review off of Amazon, from a fan named "I. Westwray". Enjoy!




If you're looking at this DVD, odds are it's because you saw "Memento" and wondered about the director, Christopher Nolan. Let's cut to the chase: Yes, "Following" is similar to "Memento" -- its narrative jumps around in a similar way, to start with -- and yes, it's basically just as good a movie. If you're wanting to stumble across a great young film noir director, Christopher Nolan is your guy, and this movie is well worth a look. Make that two or three looks.

I have to say, when I read the DVD case and saw that this plot wasn't told chronologically, the first word that came to mind was "gimmick." For "Memento" it made sense to tell things backward, because of the whole memory-impairment center of the story, but here Nolan was doing it again in an earlier movie? I was set to see a sort of warmup run, especially because this one was made with almost no budget at all.

Okay, so I was wrong. "Following" tells a few different lines of the story at once, but it doesn't tell them in reverse; here the idea is that the story's framework is a conversation between our main character and another man who's interviewing him in the opening moments. In the (dryly funny) director commentary, Nolan says he's trying to provide the viewer with details and themes in a "conversational" way. Maybe that's a conceit, but dang it, the mixed up storyline worked on this one too.

Two other common points of the two movies: they're built on incredibly spare, lean writing, and they really, really reward watching at least twice.

Following, if anything, is even more minimalistic than Memento; it's literally true that you come out of the movie not knowing any of the characters' real names. Given the premise -- that the main character develops an inappropriate, fascinated interest in the intimate lives of anonymous people he sees in a crowd -- the doubt you feel even about the characters' names makes perfect sense. A bunch of other little touches on that theme really hit home with me -- boxes full of memorabilia that are (or maybe aren't) giving our protagonist a look at people's internal lives, and so on. Gradually you realize the story's so sparely told because we're like the main character, trying to figure people out by looking at the pieces of their story from a distance in a crowd.

And man, does Following reward a second watching. You'll get through it once and you'll kick it around for a while, work out the stuff you missed, tell your friends what you noticed... and then you all want to hit Play again. Every scene plays a little differently the second, or third, time through. That's exactly the sort of movie you want to collect, right?

If you are a collector sort, you'll like the few extras this one provides. For a "no budget" indie film, it really "gets" the DVD thing. There's an alternate camera angle with the modified script, so you can play through and watch where Nolan and company made changes along the way. Some of the changes are pretty funny; the sound guy's name got substituted for one of the character names. Nolan's commentary soundtrack is really worth hearing, too, especially because he made this with no money at all. He talks about how he established continuity for the viewer with little visual cues, throws off very funny little asides about how he cut corners, and stuff like that. Finally, you also get a "chronological" option, so you can see everything in order. It's all set in a nicely elegant set of menus that match the sleak tone of the movie.

So, yeah, it's worth it. Following is extremely memorable. It's not a perfect movie, or anything -- I'd still say either The Third Man or The Big Sleep is my favorite film noir -- but give it four stars and change, for doing so much on a shoestring.

You gotta wonder what Christopher Nolan can do to back this up. He's going to have more money in hand, and the fractured story thing might not last another movie. Hearing the director commentary on this disc, I don't think he's going to necessarily be limited to the cynical point of view these two movies have seemed to push. The guy has a real eye for character, for the way people head in unlikely directions... This could be an amazing career we're seeing start up, or then again maybe these are just a little too cynical to start with.

If I could be of any more help, just let me know. And I think I speak for everyone here when I say, "Welcome to the forums!"

[bunnybum]

About $10 shipped on Amazon. (http://www.amazon.com/Following-Jeremy-Theobald/dp/B00000F3CD/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1233189825&sr=8-1)

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Now that, dear sir, is a reply so full of win it left me speechless. Well played :)