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doctor thodt posted:What? I just haven't been buying a lot of Blus. I am being frugal, despite not needing to be.
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Exclusively at Target, you will get $7.50 movie cash toward Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when you buy either of the Ultimate Editions coming out on Tuesday ($34.99 each). Best Buy will have The Wolfman for $12.99 the week of 10/24-10/30. If you don't want to wait you can always buy it now and do a price adjustment later. Right now Target has The Simpsons Season 13 and Dexter Season 4 for $24.99 each. Canadians - if you buy Predators at Futureshop, you will get a $20 off coupon for the Alien Anthology. Bambi fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Oct 16, 2010 |
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:What? I just haven't been buying a lot of Blus. I am being frugal, despite not needing to be. Then you'll be happy to know our sources point to the Barnes and Noble 50% (60% with membership) off criterion sale is starting Nov. 1st.
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SneakySneaks posted:Then you'll be happy to know our sources point to the Barnes and Noble 50% (60% with membership) off criterion sale is starting Nov. 1st. I honestly need to put together a list and make decisions on what I'm picking up this sale too. It's gonna be a hard decision, I can tell already.
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Bambi posted:Exclusively at Target, you will get $7.50 movie cash toward Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when you buy either of the Ultimate Editions coming out on Tuesday ($34.99 each). anyone else waiting for the inevitable box set? Even then you may have to wait for the second or third version to get the last of it.
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Dudebro posted:anyone else waiting for the inevitable box set? Even then you may have to wait for the second or third version to get the last of it. I remember reading from an "insider" that the Ultimate Editions are as comprehensive as WB plans on going with Harry Potter on Blu-Ray. They might ultimately end up bundling them all together for one huge release, but other than adding new trinkets, I doubt there's much more they can stuff in there. It's disappointing that the two new Ultimate Editions don't contain the extended cuts of the films, but apparently this was done at the behest of the directors, so don't expect to ever see those cuts surface. This sounds geeky, but it's going to be really satisfying to see all eight Ultimate Editions on my shelf some day. The things are like frickin' tomes.
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Bambi posted:It's disappointing that the two new Ultimate Editions don't contain the extended cuts of the films, but apparently this was done at the behest of the directors, so don't expect to ever see those cuts surface. That's loving retarded. ABC Family shows the extended cuts for PoA and GOF in every single Harry Potter marathon they do. And they do it like 4 times a year.
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Bambi posted:They might ultimately end up bundling them all together for one huge release, but other than adding new trinkets, I doubt there's much more they can stuff in there. I'm hoping for LESS trinkets, so they can package them more economically. After selling off the first two, I'm not buying any more "Ultimate Editions" of Harry Potter until they get around to the mega-box. I don't need books or collectible cards or digital copies or whatever bullshit... just give me a compact box with nothing but Blu-Ray discs, and maybe a nice booklet. They could add commentary tracks too, although to be honest I'm pretty loving sick of commentaries.
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FitFortDanga posted:They could add commentary tracks too, although to be honest I'm pretty loving sick of commentaries. The first two had Maximum Movie Mode, which is basically the director's commentary of the 21st century. It's actually kind of a neat new take on the concept and makes commentaries more fun to sit through. Not sure whether they've done this for the next two though. If you're near an Ultimate Electronics, they're going to have the 3-disc Apocalypse Now for $37 ($5 cheaper than Amazon).
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Ice Age Triple Pack is the Amazon boxset deal of the week. $36.99 (breaks down to $12.33 a movie) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002NU67U2?ie=UTF8&tag=evdaisafi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002NU67U2
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Sporadic posted:Ice Age Triple Pack is the Amazon boxset deal of the week. $36.99 (breaks down to $12.33 a movie) Just buy the first movie and save yourself some money. Once you've seen the first one, you've seen every single joke used in the next two. They should just release a blu-ray that has only the scenes with the squirrel.
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doctor thodt posted:Looks like the Alien Anthology has a book-style package similar to Rome and Spartacus. Wow, that's uh... OCDness be damned, this is basically the best Alien set to have. I just wish it didn't cost so much. I'll be waiting for the gold box deal....
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Fag Boy Jim posted:Yeah, that's pretty much how special sets should be done, not statuettes somehow concealing discs inside, or whatever. Yeah, it looks classy and fits on a shelf. It doesn't make you look like a child who is also a sweaty rapist, like this does: 
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Anyone hear anything about the Black Christmas (remake) blu-ray that's supposed to be released tomorrow? I realize I'm the only one in the world who kind of liked it, but I preordered it back in July and Amazon still has no cover art image and the page now says "Sign up to be notified when it's released". Did it get canceled? Is it an exclusive somewhere else? What gives? I was really looking forward to seeing eyeballs getting ripped out for 90 minutes.
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doctor thodt posted:Looks like the Alien Anthology has a book-style package similar to Rome and Spartacus. Yeah, this is doing everything right that the Back to the Future set is doing wrong. As OCD as it is, I'm just looking at the BTTF set and seeing the plastic case cracking super easy. Guess I should hold out for solo releases on that one...
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Topper Harley posted:Anyone hear anything about the Black Christmas (remake) blu-ray that's supposed to be released tomorrow? I realize I'm the only one in the world who kind of liked it, but I preordered it back in July and Amazon still has no cover art image and the page now says "Sign up to be notified when it's released". Did it get canceled? Is it an exclusive somewhere else? What gives? I was really looking forward to seeing eyeballs getting ripped out for 90 minutes. It's a Best Buy exclusive. I also hear that the Avatar Ultimate Edition will have the same style of packaging as the Alien set. They should complement each other nicely.
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Sporadic posted:Anybody have an Insignia NS-WBRDVD player? CowBoom has a refurbished one on sale for $77.99 and I was seriously thinking about grabbing one. I got this one today and we have come a long way from the first generation of players. On this one the menu was silky smooth and slick looking, it has Netflix/Pandora/Cinemanow and I had no issues with the wifi. Makes my Dad's original Samsung Blu-Ray player look like a dinosaur. Only thing that was strange was I had to update it via USB instead of online. If they didn't tell me, I wouldn't have known it was a refurbished. Hopefully it will stay that way but now it is proudly sitting on top of my Toshiba HD-A2 (HD-DVD player)
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penismightier posted:Yeah, it looks classy and fits on a shelf. It doesn't make you look like a child who is also a sweaty rapist, like this does: I'll never feel the warmth of a woman, so i'm gonna buy this.
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Shalkore posted:Apocalypse Now and Psycho arrive in a couple days! Anyone else creaming their pants in excitement? Eww! Gross! The Alien Anthology set in Canada can be bought for about $100, which is decent. The egg set is available at HMV only and is a more unreasonable $179. Bambi posted:Canadians - if you buy Predators at Futureshop, you will get a $20 off coupon for the Alien Anthology.
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Shalkore posted:Apocalypse Now and Psycho arrive in a couple days! Anyone else creaming their pants in excitement? 
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Ineffiable posted:I just wish it didn't cost so much. Jesus Christ, that is expensive. I guess I'll scratch that off the Christmas wishlist for now, probably pick it up later when it goes on sale. I'm really debating whether to get Apocalypse Now tomorrow or let the girlfriend get it for me for Christmas. I have a break coming up with school tomorrow and Apocalypse Now is such a  movie.
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Just started reading through this thread recently and drat it you guys now have me putting pre-orders in like crazy. I have Psycho coming in tomorrow and dropped pre-order on The Birds (for whenever it comes out) and A Bridge on the River Kwai. I'm also strongly considering putting one in for The Pacific and if you haven't seen it yet, it's absolutely worth checking out. I'm pretty excited for Psycho after finally getting NXNW a few weeks back although I'm a little disappointed that it won't be a digibook as well. It's funny though that really, the only blu-rays I've bought recently are older movies/shows. The Twilight Zone is phenomenal and I think it may be the most complete season of any show I've ever owned. The features on it seem never ending and the transfer is jaw dropping. I find myself staring at things like tree bark or trees in the background and being amazed at the vivid detail in a 50 year old transfer.
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frumpsnake posted:I like it, but not enough to pay $40 more than the UK copy. Does the UK edition not match it? I've only seen (what I hope) are early shots of the UK interior.
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Bambi posted:This sounds geeky, but it's going to be really satisfying to see all eight Ultimate Editions on my shelf some day. The things are like frickin' tomes. I kinda see what you meant by this.  They might be big, but they sure are purty.
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doctor thodt posted:I kinda see what you meant by this. Wow, those all look really good. Definitely gonna have to pick 3 and 4 up for my mom soon.
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doctor thodt posted:Looks like the Alien Anthology has a book-style package similar to Rome and Spartacus. gently caress my rear end, that is a beautiful set. I hope the European set is similar, but I doubt it.
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The European set is a long fold-out digipak like the Quadrilogy DVD set. edit: ruh roh, big error on RHPS quote:There seems to be only one major problem with the 7.1 mix, and unfortunately, it is major: All of Janet's vocals in Over at the Frankenstein Place were mistakenly taken from a previously unreleased take, and it's easy to see why the take wasn't released. It's jarring to hear some of the lines sung quite off-key, and Janet's lips no longer match the screen. doctor thodt fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Oct 19, 2010 |
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doctor thodt posted:The European set is a long fold-out digipak like the Quadrilogy DVD set. At least the original mono track has the correct audio. I don't like these 7.1 reimaginings for classic films anyway.
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Neo_Reloaded posted:At least the original mono track has the correct audio. I don't like these 7.1 reimaginings for classic films anyway. Me neither. I used to think it was great when I got my first decent sound system, but now I'll take a mono track if that's what the film was released with. I bet the younger me would have hated grain on his blu-rays too.
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