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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: iFett on February 5, 2009, 12:03 PM
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Picked up Saw V today at Target - was too lazy to save a buck at BB. Also noticed that Madagascar 2 comes out tomorrow. Haven't seen a Friday release date yet.
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I saw that Madagascar release date too. I'm not sure, but for some reason I remember the first Spider-Man movie DVD being released on a Friday too - but I may be wrong about that.
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I picked up Zack and Miri
Make a Porno (appears to have a name change) and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist yesterday.
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How'd you like the porno flick? Picked up TDK, HB2, and Mummy 3 for $25 at Movie Gallery today. I got the last copy of TDK so I was happy. Lifetime guarantee - but you're going out of business? Hmmm...Oh well. Discs are perfect though. :)
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My latest purchase:
(http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/7282/blossoms12md7.jpg)
And in my opinionation, it's one of the finest DVDs released to date.
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That's shocking.
What kind of heartless bastards at NBC would package seasons one AND two together in one set, as if they're some trashy, worthless nonsense? Clearly they have no regard for brilliance, as they fail to recognize each individual season of Blossom as the groundbreaking, praise-worthy, masterpiece television production that they are. Talk about ruining a true legacy. They're missing out on a goldmine.
At least Golden Girls got the proper respect:
(http://i1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/893/687/31/goldenGirls1-7.jpg)
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I picked up the Watchmen motion comic today. ;D
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Meh...Will post this here since many of you probably don't go into the TF movie thread.
Transformers: The Complete First Season - 25th Anniversary Edition (http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=10966315)
06/16/2009
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Scored Role Models and Pinocchio today. Would have picked up South Park Season 12 but I'll wait on that one since I spent enough as it is.
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Would have picked up South Park Season 12 but I'll wait on that one since I spent enough as it is.
I wasn't as strong as you. I grabbed it on Blu-ray today.
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What the cluck? Stopped by a few Targets, a WM, and Best Buy and no Howard the Duck...
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Anyone picking up Punisher: War Zone tomorrow? I passed on seeing it in theatres, is it any good?
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It's stupid, violent fun.
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Scored Quantum of Solace yesterday. After the last few weeks of DVD releases I thought that the days of "1 disc, 2 disc, red disc, Blu-Ray disc" editions were over with but apparently not. ::)
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Probably a waste of money since this will be an easy let down from the original, but for $5.99 at BB I couldn't resist...
(http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/images/products/8879/8879895.jpg)
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The Tribe had some potential and started ok but quickly lost it's identity and never recovered. The ending, and alternate, are especially odd and just feel like someone gave up at the end and just decided to end the film and tack on something.
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Finally picked up this classic.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5113XG8CBFL._SS500_.jpg)
Forget to get Tales Of The Black Freighter. Curses!
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Picked up Vantage Point, The Love Guru, Beowulf, and a lame movie called Speed Racer for $20 at Hollywood Video.
...and I'll end up never watching these of course. ::)
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Good way to waste $20.
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I'm pretty happy that April is light on DVD releases... most of the stuff coming out I'm going to wait and score for under $10 around Christmas time (*cough* Yes Man *cough*). At least I'll get to save some cash.
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The Easter bunny brought me The Matrix Trilogy on Blu-ray. 8)
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I've been discussing this with my wife lately, as we talk about hoping to get a new TV/blu ray player sometime this summer (hopefully) - how many of your current DVD titles would you re-buy on blu-ray? My wife didn't like the prospect of rebuying a bunch of movie, but I did say there are some that I'd like to have in HD - but not necessarily all. Particularly the bigger, special effects laden stuff like:
Star Wars Saga (of course, if/when it is released)
Lord of the Rings
Indiana Jones (when the rest are released)
Harry Potter Saga
Some SuperHero/Comic Movies (Spidey Trilogy, X1/2, Iron Man, and Batman Begins/TDK come to mind)
Possibly Transformers
Pixar Movies
I'm also guessing my wife might want to re-buy Twilight as well. There might be a few others I'm forgetting right now, but I was just wondering how many of you have re-bought the movies on blu-ray (or I guess, how many of us here have made the switch to blu-ray).
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I've taken the same approach as you. I've only re-bought a handful of Blu-rays, all of them favorites. I have tons of DVDs that I'll likely never watch again, so they're just staying on the shelves. But after I got a PS3 I decided I was done buying DVDs... it's Blu-ray or nothing. I'm also renting a bunch through Netflix. Standard DVDs just don't hold a candle.
I will get Star Wars, LOTR, and others biggies when they become available. But I don't plan to replace most of what I own.
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I've taken the same approach as you. I've only re-bought a handful of Blu-rays, all of them favorites. I have tons of DVDs that I'll likely never watch again, so they're just staying on the shelves. But after I got a PS3 I decided I was done buying DVDs... it's Blu-ray or nothing. I'm also renting a bunch through Netflix. Standard DVDs just don't hold a candle.
I will get Star Wars, LOTR, and others biggies when they become available. But I don't plan to replace most of what I own.
We also have a lot of DVDs that we really never watch, so we've started to get a lot more selective in what we buy these days. It used to be "hey, I liked that in the theater, let's buy it" or sometimes we'd just blind buy things. Now I really only pick up DVDs that I know I'll watch at least a few times, hopefully more than that. If/when we make the blu-ray switch, it will be even more selective I think. Plus, I get this feeling that things are going to progress to the AppleTV/Digital Download type thing before too terribly long - which I think could be nice. I know its handy when we have movies/shows recorded on our DVR it is pretty easy to watch something or switch around/whatever.
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I just watched the Matrix on Blu-ray last night - it's a must have for HD watching.
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I've taken the same approach as you. I've only re-bought a handful of Blu-rays, all of them favorites. I have tons of DVDs that I'll likely never watch again, so they're just staying on the shelves. But after I got a PS3 I decided I was done buying DVDs... it's Blu-ray or nothing. I'm also renting a bunch through Netflix. Standard DVDs just don't hold a candle.
I'm barely buying any DVD's too, and even though I'm buying fewer blu-rays this year than I did last year, I haven't shown the restraint you seem to have. I'm pushing 250 260 blu-rays at this point. Although in my own defense I almost never pay full price. I generally take advantage of Amazon sales and the like (no Cory jokes please).
But today I'm buying The Wrestler, price be damned.
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Plus, I get this feeling that things are going to progress to the AppleTV/Digital Download type thing before too terribly long - which I think could be nice. I know its handy when we have movies/shows recorded on our DVR it is pretty easy to watch something or switch around/whatever.
The real downside of downloading movies is compression. Even watching movies on FiOS I see artifacting and blurriness, and FiOS is just about the least compressed content available. DirecTV was a joke. Until the infrastructure is dramatically improved to allow uncompressed movies to be streamed, I'll be sticking to Blu-rays. I've watched so many films that have just blown me away it'd be difficult to regress to 5-Gig compressed junk.
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I have a 30-something inch TV but it's not HD, so I feel like it's kind of pointless getting Blu-Ray. :-\
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Plus, I get this feeling that things are going to progress to the AppleTV/Digital Download type thing before too terribly long - which I think could be nice. I know its handy when we have movies/shows recorded on our DVR it is pretty easy to watch something or switch around/whatever.
The real downside of downloading movies is compression. Even watching movies on FiOS I see artifacting and blurriness, and FiOS is just about the least compressed content available. DirecTV was a joke. Until the infrastructure is dramatically improved to allow uncompressed movies to be streamed, I'll be sticking to Blu-rays. I've watched so many films that have just blown me away it'd be difficult to regress to 5-Gig compressed junk.
I'm going to second what Bill said. If you're really interested in high quality picture and sound, blu-ray is the best option by far. If you're thinking about streaming movies onto an HDTV you might as well just buy a blu-ray player and watch regular DVD's. The blu-ray players upscale DVD's incredibly well, probably as good or better than streaming anything.
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I have a 30-something inch TV but it's not HD, so I feel like it's kind of pointless getting Blu-Ray. :-\
Yes, that would be pointless. Until you get an HDTV you won't see any benefit from Blu-ray, unless you have a really high end sound system (Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, etc.).
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I don't have any idea when I'll switch to HDTV and Blu-Ray but I already know that I won't replace most of the DVDs I already have. I'd buy the LOTR films as well as Star Wars (when/if released) and maybe the Spider-Man films. I'm coming up blank on anything else, though.
Love movies, love television, and I've seen both on HDTV as well as Blu-Ray movies on HDTV and while I definitely want to go to HDTV, I don't feel a need to go Blu-Ray.
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I picked up The Wrestler and Sin City on Blu-ray today. I also ordered the X-Men Trilogy Blu-ray from Amazon.
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How much did you pay for Sin City? I'm thinking about upgrading but it was $30 at Best Buy and that's too much for me to jump on a movie I already own.
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Picked up The Wrestler and Jurassic Park Adventure Pack as it was on sale at Best Buy.
I probably won't be switching to HDTV/Blu-Ray for a while (still in college, and thus, poor) but when I do I'm only going to rebuy super hero flicks, the SW trilogies and other random stuff that I really like. Some stuff like the Apatow movies... do they really need to be on Blu-Ray? The DVD upconversion will be just fine for stuff like that.
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This is probably a really dumb question, but will a blu-ray player even work on a "regular" TV? I only ask because we haven't yet picked up an HDTV (but hope to this summer), but our DVD player seems to be starting to crap out. I figured since we intended to buy a blu-ray player eventually anyways, it would be stupid to pick up a DVD player only to replace it with blu-ray months later. I know we wouldn't see the "HD quality", but would it work as a DVD player until then?
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Yes. It'll even play Blu-rays. Just at standard def.
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How much did you pay for Sin City? I'm thinking about upgrading but it was $30 at Best Buy and that's too much for me to jump on a movie I already own.
It's $26.99 this week at Target.
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Here's my latest purchase, something to keep me occupied until the next season of Blossom comes out:
(http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/7994/ashesofamericanflags.png)
I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys good music.
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Been looking for a cheapo version of this for years now..
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31XfeKH65nL._SL160_AA115_.jpg)
about time.....
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For the Joe fans:
G.I. Joe Complete Collector's Footlocker Set (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/GI-Joe-Complete-Collector%27s-Footlocker-Set/11999)
As well as Transformers:
Transformers 25th Anniversary Matrix of Leadership Set (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Transformers-25th-Anniversary-Matrix-of-Leadership-Set/11998)
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I'm down for both, although I'll wait until one of Deepdiscountdvd's major sales (and hoped I don't get ****** over like I did last year with them and Batman: The complete animated series set).
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While I would kind of like that GI Joe set, I have to admit that after watching the DVDs included with the recent Battle Packs, I'm a little less interested.
My fond memories of the show were a little tarnished after watching them recently. It's pretty campy. All the "Yo Joe!" and "Cooobra!" yelling was kind of ridiculous.
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Sadly - the same can be said with Transformers. I have the Rhino versions from a few years back and it was really hard to watch
some most of the episodes IMO. I'm glad to have them all, but they're just not as "good" as I thought they were when I was a kid. :-\
Great memories though....
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Pics and info (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/GI-Joe-Complete-Collector%27s-Footlocker-Set/12110) for the GI Joe Complete Collector's Footlocker Set. Looks pretty spiffy.
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Here is a coupon (http://www.bordersmedia.com/coup/coupon500701e.asp?cmpid=SA_20090702_REW) I heard of online for 50% off a Blu-Ray disc from Borders. (Limit 2)
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Picked up the Iron Giant for $5 at WM over the weekend and scored GI Joe Season 1.1 today. 8)
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I picked up G.I. Joe season 1.1 yesterday as well. I figured $16.99 at Target this week wasn't too bad of a price, although many of the episodes already came out on the DVD/figure packs that we got over the past year. I have to say, although some of it is dated/cheezy, I kind of enjoy watching these old Joe/Transformer cartoons while I hit the treadmill in the mornings. It is funny how many of them are still familiar after all these years, once you get into them.
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Picked up the Iron Giant for $5 at WM over the weekend and scored GI Joe Season 1.1 today. 8)
Iron Giant is one of the greatest movies of all time IMO
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I plan on picking up the Watchmen BluRay tomorrow. I haven't bought a movie (BD or DVD) since Gran Torino was released, but Watchmen is a great film to break that dry spell. I haven't really been following all of the included features but I'm looking forward to seeing the added footage.
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I'll be picking this up this week as well. Definitely looking forward to watching it again and with the added footage on the Director's Cut.
I know Best Buy has some special packaging, any other good deals or cool bonus items coming out for this release?
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I picked it up today. I'm not sure of any specials/package variations. I got mine from Target and it had a 3-D slipcase. Inside the case was a pamphlet advertising the Ultimate Edition, coming in December, with the Black Freighter and Hollis Mason stuff mixed in with the movie. I kinda wish I'd held off from getting it today.
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I picked it up today. I'm not sure of any specials/package variations. I got mine from Target and it had a 3-D slipcase. Inside the case was a pamphlet advertising the Ultimate Edition, coming in December, with the Black Freighter and Hollis Mason stuff mixed in with the movie. I kinda wish I'd held off from getting it today.
Thanks for the information. For that reason, I will not be picking this up today.
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Inside the case was a pamphlet advertising the Ultimate Edition, coming in December, with the Black Freighter and Hollis Mason stuff mixed in with the movie. I kinda wish I'd held off from getting it today.
Thanks for the information. For that reason, I will not be picking this up today.
Good point. I was going to pick it up today, but it doesn't really make any sense.
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I'm waiting till December, get it all in one bundle.
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I already bought the Black Freighter DVD so I'm just going to get the Director's cut this time. I didn't know they were going to do another edition before i started looking into the release for this week.
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I picked up Braveheart and Gladiator on Blu-ray yesterday.
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I picked up Braveheart and Gladiator on Blu-ray yesterday.
Same here, grabbed State of Play too. The Gladiator/Braveheart thing was great between the buy-both-get-$10-off thing, and then the $10.00 back by mail on each for existing DVD owners. By the time I get those rebates, and sell my existing copies I'll end up having paid about $10 for the pair.
****, I sound like Cory.
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The Gladiator/Braveheart thing was great between the buy-both-get-$10-off thing, and then the $10.00 back by mail on each for existing DVD owners. By the time I get those rebates, and sell my existing copies I'll end up having paid about $10 for the pair.
I did the same thing. I just mailed out the rebates tonight.
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Picked up Family Guy: Volume 7 at Target yesterday for $18.99. Totally forgot about this one. Kinda nice how they shrunk down the packaging on a lot of the newer season sets.
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For me this week...
24: Day 7
GI Joe Resolute
GI Joe 1.2
Simpsons Season 12
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I'm gonna pick up Clone Wars Season 1 sometime this week, seeing as it's a lot cheaper than I was expecting.
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This week was busy... I picked up Sunshine Cleaning, Pelham 123, and Role Models. Put in an order for the Watchmen extended edition... and just pre-ordered Up and Monster's Inc. for next week. Lastly, I ordered Charlie Wilson's War and Blindness on the cheap from half.com... I got tired of waiting for blu-ray releases that don't seem to be coming any time soon.
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On Nov 17th, Star Trek is out. Up here for exclusives, FutureShop has the Steel Book on blu-ray, Best Buy for blu-ray has the Enterprise with the set. Nothing that I can see for the regular dvd sets, so much for that. >:(
(http://www.bestbuy.ca/multimedia/products/large/M2171551_alt.jpg)
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Is that the Mattel/Hot Wheels thing? I might buy that, even though I currently lack a Blu-Ray player.
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SDCC had this Enterprise, it came with a drydock display & has missing panels.
(http://www.figures.com/databases/news/actionfigures/65/1218.jpg)