June 2010, Whatcha got?

[HGervais]

Because shopping while slightly buzzed is always a smart idea......In The Line Of Fire, Air Force One, Silverado and the soon-to-be-out-of-print The Man Who Fell To Earth: Criterion...all on blu-ray.

[HGervais]

Coupons, discounted Blu-rays and the 2 for 3 sale at B&N saw me bring home Die Hard, Crimson Tide and the original The Day The Earth Stood Still. I'm especially looking forward to watching Crimson Tide since I have read that it is one beautiful looking hi-def transfer.

[the5thghostbuster]

Tightrope (DVD)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (DVD)

At six bucks each, I wasn't turning them down!

[the5thghostbuster]

Flash Gordon on Blu.

[yellow ledbetter]

Book of Eli, hoping to watch it tonight

[Steve T Power]

BIG haul this week:

The Man With No Name Trilogy - Blu-ray
Starship Troopers - blu-ray
The Spider-Man Trilogy - Blu-ray
Hot Fuzz & Shaun of the Dead - blu-ray (god love 2 for $20 deals!)
Valentines Day - Blu-ray (amazed at how much i genuinely enjoyed this syrupy romcom)
Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009 - Deluxe 4-disc set.

[thepegsdave]

ALF has been busy at Winnipeg Blue Bombers training camp and hasn't had much time to post his purchases. He'll be posting his purchases on the field from now on.



The Book of Eli (Blu-ray)
Jamie Foxx - Intuition
Jack Johnson - To the Sea
Coronation Street Vol. 1: 1960-61 The 60's

[Andrew Forbes]

X - The Complete Series
Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 - The Complete Series

[HGervais]

The Searchers, The Adventures of Robin Hood, A Few Good Men and 2001 all for 10 bucks each over at amazon.

[Observer]

Hot Fuzz & Shaun of the Dead - blu-ray (god love 2 for $20 deals!)

Where was this 2 for $20 deal for these two movies? This sounds like too good a deal to pass up.

[molly1216]

found an OOP copy of WHV Horror Double Feature IT/Shuttered Room
i dunno..just had to have it...naked oliver reed being washed by his mom..just makes me go....ick.

I also ordered Vol 1 & vol 2 of The Three Stooges Collection from SONY.
finally no more of that best of nonsense..just straight chronological order.
i can have all Curley all the time...3 more volumes to buy though 8(

[Dimwitted]

Hot Fuzz & Shaun of the Dead - blu-ray (god love 2 for $20 deals!)

Where was this 2 for $20 deal for these two movies? This sounds like too good a deal to pass up.

Future Shop.

I picked up Hot Fuzz and Dark City Blu's.
I also got Taken Blu at WalMart. $14.83. Don't know if that was a mistake or not. They had other copies at $22.

[molly1216]

Hot Fuzz & Shaun of the Dead - blu-ray (god love 2 for $20 deals!)

Where was this 2 for $20 deal for these two movies? This sounds like too good a deal to pass up.

Future Shop.

I picked up Hot Fuzz and Dark City Blu's.
I also got Taken Blu at WalMart. $14.83. Don't know if that was a mistake or not. They had other copies at $22.

i just flashed on Dark City Blues Hill St Blues set in Dark City...where the cops wake up to find they are now the criminals and vice versa, investigating the crimes they just committed....lets be careful out there!

[Steve T Power]

Hot Fuzz & Shaun of the Dead - blu-ray (god love 2 for $20 deals!)

Where was this 2 for $20 deal for these two movies? This sounds like too good a deal to pass up.

Future Shop.

I picked up Hot Fuzz and Dark City Blu's.
I also got Taken Blu at WalMart. $14.83. Don't know if that was a mistake or not. They had other copies at $22.

Also at HMV.

[J.M. Vargas]

J-L. Godard's A Woman Is A Woman and Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (both Criterion) from Deep Discount. Was debating whether to pick-up the Blu-ray for Nic Roeg's "The Man Who Fell To Earth" (seen the movie and liked it but not enough to own it) because, well, it's a soon-to-be-OOP Criterion Blu-ray. Couldn't pull the trigger at the DD sale but there's still time (and leftover stock) if I change my mind...

[LarryLockyer]

Casino Royale(Blu) 10 bucks cant say no!

[yellow ledbetter]

Johnny Bravo Season 1 and The Crow (a buddy of mine borrowed it a few years back and adopted it)

[the5thghostbuster]

I hope you kept the SE DVD of Dracula if you already owned it. The Blu-Ray has some serious transfer issues.

I didn't own the SE DVD. Regardless, word from Zoetrope is that the Blu-ray is actually the best representation of the original release prints, and that all prior home video releases were artificially brightened and re-color timed for greater saturation. I saw the movie in the theaters in '92, but couldn't begin to tell you how the BD matches up. I'll have to take Zoetrope's word for it. In any event, the BD is nothing to write home about, but it's not a bad transfer consider all of the movie's in-camera effects and whatnot.

Yeah, i was perfectly fine with it as well. Then again, i was shocked to hear about the controversy over The good, the Bad, and the Ugly, i thought that looked gorgeous.

The transfer for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was definitely DNR'd a bit in order to hide some of the grain inherent in a Techniscope flick, but it's still a gorgeous picture (given the realities of the source) -- definitely not the crime against humanity that technofile dweebs, who somehow seem to believe that all movies are made in a sphere of ideal circumstances and modern technology, claim.

My favorite instance of tech geek nonsense was some dude saying he saw The Searchers in the theater in 1956 and the color-timing on the Blu-ray does not match the original theatrical presentation (even though the dudes who created the high def master say they matched it to an earlier 35mm print than any previous home video master). Yeah, buddy, you remember exactly what hue of blue the sky was in a movie you saw over 5 decades ago. Um, no...just no.

I mean, in some instances, i can understand it (Near Dark and Pan's Labyrinth come to mind), and then there are the other times they're moaning about too much grain (300 and Minority Report). The only time you worry about a tehcnophile dweeb is when they stop bitchin. Sheesh.

I get the feeling the Digital Bits crew isn't your favorite Steve

[Steve T Power]

I get the feeling the Digital Bits crew isn't your favorite Steve

I haven't read a digital bits review in years. Again, i just want to know if it looks good, not how closely it preserves the natural presentation of a 40 plus year old film that looked like grainy crap filled with dirt and scratches when all but the 1.27 percent of the population of this magnificent spinning marble who got to see it at some prestigious landmark theatre on opening night and can still remember EVERY INFINITESIMAL DETAIL of the quality of the print actually got to see the damn film, which was miscolored by technicolor to begin with.

Yes the director's vision is important, the aesthetic of the film is important, and some transfers do get completely borked by digital meddling (see Pan's Labyrinth, or Near Dark), and other films do suffer visually because the discs err a little TOO closely to the source (see 300, which is a total grainfest), but these diatribes against stuff like Fellowship of the Ring or The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly have got to stop. They aren't just ridiculous, they're preposterous. How does "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" look on Blu-ray? Better than it ever has. That's all you, I, We need to know.

[HGervais]

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Yes the director's vision is important, the aesthetic of the film is important, and some transfers do get completely borked by digital meddling (see Pan's Labyrinth, or Near Dark),

So you have changed your opinion on the Blu-ray of Pan's Labyrinth?

[Steve T Power]

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Yes the director's vision is important, the aesthetic of the film is important, and some transfers do get completely borked by digital meddling (see Pan's Labyrinth, or Near Dark),

So you have changed your opinion on the Blu-ray of Pan's Labyrinth?

after watching it, yes.

[Dimwitted]

They aren't just ridiculous, they're preposterous. How does "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" look on Blu-ray? Better than it ever has. That's all you, I, We need to know.

+1. What these people expect just blows my mind sometimes. Never satisfied. If they were going to hang they'd want a gold rope!

[thepegsdave]

LG Portable Super Multi Drive
Eminem - Recovery

ALF wanted to put songs on his BlackBerry and now he can because I bought the LG Portable Multi Drive for my HP mini.

[ccb]

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle $5 @ local Wal Mart sale bin. Glad I hadn't bought it for more.

[hoytereden]

True Blood: Season One-(Blu-ray)
Fanny & Alexander-movie and tv versions
The Green Slime-extreme guilty pleasure of mine; cheese to the nth degree.

[Jim_Thomas]

It's time for Barnes & Noble's Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale, which always turns into a bloodbath as far as my wallet is concerned.

Thus far:

8 1/2 Criterion
Chinatown-The Centennial Edition
Doctor Who-The Beginning

[Boba Fett]

Tropic Thunder
28 Days Later
Jaws: 30th Anniversary Edition
Zodiac: Directors Cut

Check your Big Lots if you have one. I got that Zodiac disc for $5 new. They had a giant palette of Warner stuff including the 2 Disc Blade Runner, 4 Disc Superman, 2 Disc Superman II, 2 Disc Bonnie and Clyde, all the Lethal Weapons, and some assorted Paramount titles. The DC of Zodiac was a rarity, only two in the lot, while there were well over a dozen single disc theatrical editions.

[thepegsdave]

Not a Blu-ray or a DVD or a new disc player or anything but I have to share this.



Craig Ferguson's autograph! This is my favorite autograph I've ever gotten.

Went with two of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers players (Alex Brink (went to his hotel room first and chatted for about an hour and a half) and Jabari Arthur) to go see Get Him to the Greek (Alex paid for my movie ticket!). f--- hilarious movie! I buy all my movies on Blu-ray and DVD and this has been the first time in a long time that I've been to a theatre.



The movie ticket stub.

[J.M. Vargas]

^^^ First, who got Ferguson's autograph: you or ALF? Second, who got to hang out with the B.Bombers: you or ALF? Because I can totally see Craig or NHL players going bonkers for ALF, but you thepegsdave? You're Turtle from "Entourage" (and ALF's Vincent Chase).

Got Wong Kar-Wai's CHUNKING EXPRESS (Criterion Blu-ray) on a blind-buy whim.

[thepegsdave]

^^^ First, who got Ferguson's autograph: you or ALF? Second, who got to hang out with the B.Bombers: you or ALF? Because I can totally see Craig or NHL players going bonkers for ALF, but you thepegsdave? You're Turtle from "Entourage" (and ALF's Vincent Chase).

Got Wong Kar-Wai's CHUNKING EXPRESS (Criterion Blu-ray) on a blind-buy whim.

Both of us got Craig's autograph. ALF wants to step back into late-night television and he thought the best way to do it was to ask for Ferguson's autograph and then see if he can get a role as one of the puppets on the show. He'd love to be in the opening when Sid the cursing rabbit is on. ALF said he can swear just as much as Sid.

It was me who was hanging out with the Blue Bombers players. I go to all the practices and I've become friends with quite a few of the players and coaches. ALF does come to practice every once and awhile and he usually gets reactions like "holy shit it's ALF! I haven't seen him since the late 80's." I (thepegsdave) wear dress shirts with a t-shirt over top of it with Otis Redding, Fred Sanford, Fonzie (says "Sit on it") or a "What'choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?" shirt.

ALF likes holding onto the back of my wheelchair while we're heading to Bomber practice with our Tim Hortons coffee.

[the5thghostbuster]

Birthday today, so ended up with some cool stuff:

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume XVII
Zombieland (Blu)
Angel Heart (Blu)

[hoytereden]

My Life as a Dog

[BenSaylor]

The soon to be OOP Criterions Billy Liar and Bob le Flambeur. Waiting for a replacement copy of Red Desert (Criterion's soft clear plastic cases where the disc easily comes loose during shipping strike again), as well as the 2-disc edition of My Fair Lady.

[Steve T Power]

The Wolfman on the ole' Blu-ray.

I'm also contemplating a splurge on a copy of Daybreakers.

[Andrew Forbes]

Well, I've gone Blu (no PS3, though) so I picked up a few titles:

Terminator
Terminator 2
X-Files: Fight the Future
The Road Warrior
Dirty Harry
Ghost in the Shell 2.0
The Crazies (1973)
The Man with No Name Trilogy

I've also got the following on hold for trade-in at HMV:

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Serenity
The Fly
Rio Bravo
Superman
The Thing

[Steve T Power]

Welcome aboard.

Extinguish all cigarettes and abandon all hope...

[J.M. Vargas]

I wish I had that many cool catalogue flicks to choose from when I went Blu-ray (and HD-DVD two years prior). Step right in, enjoy the HD!