I'd Buy That DVD for...Somewhere in the Neighborhood of $5

I also have interest in ur day vay days

s1ocki?

Anyhoo, was out today and stopped by Big Lots, where amongst seemingly endless assortment of x-mas movies I emerged with:

$3 Each-

The Squid and the Whale
Up In Smoke (Collector's Edition)
An Almost Perfect Affair (MONICA VITTI)
Pink Cadillac

$5-

There Will Be Blood (2-disc)

Forgot about this thread.

These ones were from the 4/$10 place: Electra Glide in Blue, Divided We Fall, Bitter Victory, Towelhead, Angel Unchained/Cycle Savages, A Day at the Races, Basket Case, Tarnation, The Limits of Control, The Tempest (Cassavetes), American Pimp (outtakes from the documentary, plus a CD of period music), The Cotton Club, Avalon, The Spirit of St. Louis.

$5 each: Cabaret, Brick, Black Gunn, A Clockwork Orange (two discs), City for Conquest/"G" Men/Each Dawn I Die/White Heat (TCM), An Unreasonable Man (Nader documentary--very good).

Towelhead sucks. Some interesting ideas all run into the ground via Alan Ball Overdrive.

I've got another bag from Big Lots around here somewhere. Ah, here it is! They had a bunch of MGM catalog stuff on for $1.88 Black Friday weekend. Got The Grissom Gang & The Indian Runner while combing the stacks the following Monday. I also picked up Career Opportunities, Safe Men A Fine Madness and Modern Romance for $3 apiece.

Picked up new copies of The Passing Show-The Life & Music of Ronnie Lane ($4) & "The Complete M-Squad w/Lee Marvin" (15 discs-$16) @ Half-Price during the year-end sale.

Got the 2-disc 70th anniversary Wizard of Oz for $4 @ Wal-Mart.

Finally, Discs found in Strange Places:

The President's Analyst-$4 @ Staples, the office supply store.
The Late Show-$3 @ Ross, the clothing & housewares store. I also got a pair of New Balance cleats in my size for 49 cents.

Yeah, Towelhead was pretty crude (and I love American Beauty). I think we're finding things that fell off the back of the same truck: The Grissom Gang, Modern Romance, The President's Analyst, and the MGM stuff all turn up here, too.

What else? 4/$10: Ghost Dog, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, The Haunting (Robert Wise original), A New Kind of Love (Paul Newman--never heard of it), Adventures of Don Juan, For Your Consideration, The Fog ('70s). Also Ultimate Gretzky, even though I don't think I've watched a hockey game since 1994.

A different Big Lots:

$1.88- Vernon, Florida
$3.00- Lookin' To Get Out! "Extended Version"

There were some other things I passed on because they had multiples upon multiples. I think they got in a new shipment of MGM & Warner cast-offs.

Definitely the same truck--the place I go to always has a couple of copies of Vernon, Florida. Keep an eye open for The King of Kong and My Kid Could Paint That.

$3 each: After Hours, The Statement, An Education, Half Nelson, Synecdoche New York, The Animation Show.

4/$10: Never So Few (Sinatra), Frost Nixon, Fail Safe (recent TV version), The Story of Seabiscuit, John Q., In America.

$1: The Bronx Is Burning. (Three episodes into this. Hard to get past John Turturro's pinned-back ears, but it's almost okay...or least the bits of real footage are great.)

$3 for The Brown Bunny from Goodwill some weeks back. Haven't watched it yet.

Big $2.99 sale at Home Hardware. That's where all serious film people shop, right?

Superman: The Theatrical Serials Collection, Vols. 1-4 (not George Reeves--had never heard of this)
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
Loud Quiet Loud: A Film About the Pixies
Everything Is Nice (Matador video anthology)
Andersonville (Frankenheimer TV film)
The Apartment
Borat
The Wedding Singer
Spanglish (as much as I love Broadcast News, not expecting much)
Young Doctors in Love (don't ask)
The Messenger
Rounders, The Squid and the Whale (cheap gifts for the future)

$5 each at a record show on the weekend:

There Will Be Blood (two discs)
The Dirty Dozen (two discs)
Doctor Zhivago (two discs)
Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who ("Including All-New Interviews with Rock Icons Sting, Eddie Vedder, and The Edge"...I bought it anyway)

Big $2.99 sale at Home Hardware. That's where all serious film people shop, right?

Big Lots! Where I picked up my There Will Be Blood!

Young Doctors in Love (don't ask)

Avoiding a perfectly good Garry Marshall joke.

Young Doctors in Love (don't ask)

ooh! i bought this for around $5 some years ago but never got around to watching it, and it didn't survive our last house-move.

Kimberly McArthur. (Hangs head shamefully.)

Big Lots keeps getting mentioned in this thread. We don't have them up here, but it sounds like our equivalent might be Giant Tiger.

Speaking of...

My first Big Lots in yoinks. They've gotten what appears to be a whole new set of stock, including at least 30 copies each of Me and Orson Welles and Greenberg for $3 apiece. However, for $3 I just take home their only copy of this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81PTwRfuFTL._AA1500_.jpg

Which looks to be the Best Worst Thing Ever, but will probably will just be a thundering mediocrity.

I also got a $3 copy of Ingmar Bergman's memoir Images: My Life In Film from the book table.

Went back to that Home Hardware today and found something excellent ($2.99):

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/2250/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome_dvd.jpg

I'd completely forgotten about that show. The Flintstones notwithstanding, the obvious blueprint for The Simpsons and The Family Guy. Also got Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan, a documentary on Jack Clement.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/2250/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome_dvd.jpg

The half-dozen places I monitor don't seem to change their stock much these days, so this is two months' worth.

$5 -- Save the Tiger, It, Animal House (2 discs), The Poseidon Adventure (2 discs), Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned, The Bible, Patton (2 discs), Ray (2 discs), Bellissima, Satan Never Sleeps, Terminator 2: Judgement Day (2 discs), Alexander (2 discs), Film Socialisme, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, Shoot the Moon, Poetry, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2 discs). (For someone who hardly ever looks at extras, I'll buy just about anything if it's two discs.)

$4 -- Rain Man

$3 -- Laurel Canyon, Wild Things (for shame)

4/$10 -- Four Friends, The Door in the Floor, Bull Durham, The Robe, Curse of the Golden Flower, The Stranger Wore a Gun, War of the Worlds (Spielberg), The Sure Thing, Nurse Betty, The Great Ziegfeld, House of Wax/Mystery of the Wax Museum, The Philadelphia Story, Ocean's 11 (Sinatra), Sweet Bird of Youth, The Plainsman.

$2 -- Fruit of the Vine (skateboarders).

So far I've watched It, The Door in the Floor (weird--reminded me a bit of The Squid and the Whale, though not nearly as good), and, for the 900th time, Save the Tiger (a test case for how much early-'70s pretension you can stand). Started and abandoned Four Friends and Alexander.

(10,000th post. I was hoping that when I looked up from the computer, there'd be a receiving line of wiseguys telling me I'd broke my cherry.)

ooh - anything good on the second disk of animal house? i have the original special edition from years back, on one disk

Seeing this revive reminded me I hadn't even busted the shrinkwrap on Passion Play nearly three months after posting about buying it upthread.

So I took the plunge tonight and as I predicted it sadly falls into the "Thundering Mediocrity" category, despite odd moments hinting at "Best Worst Thing Ever".

Fun Facts: It was shot by Christopher Doyle. Bill Murray stepped in for an actor who had to drop out. Solomon Burke has a cameo as himself. While watching, I was questioning the plausibility of some minor details, but then realized that I was questioning logic regarding a film where Megan Fox plays a girl born with bird wings who has sex with Mickey Rourke which grossed $3600 total in the US.--boy was my face red!

They probably just stuck the same Animal House extras onto a second disc to lure people like me, but listed on the cover: "Where Are They Now?", "The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion," and, the real prize, "Scene It?".

The search for Passion Play begins.

ah... thanks clemenza. i think your instincts are correct.

Blu-ray:

The New World (Extended Edition)
Evil Dead 2
$7 each

One of my local "$1 stores" has a spinning rack full of newish flicks for $6. Picked up the the latest "Star Trek" reboot and "Empire Of The Sun". Still...wish they were cheaper : )

Big Lots, $3 each:

River's Edge
Stardust Memories
A Serious Man
All That Jazz "Special Music Edition"

I was cashing out at a Goodwill today, happy with all these British post-war big band albums I had found, and this was sitting underneath the counter for $15:

http://www.myshoptoday.com.au/system/files/imagecache/product_image/0753356_0.jpg

I think it's a slightly later version of the box Amazon sells, this one including 49 Up. Easily one of the best things I've ever found in a lifetime of pack-ratting.

The other day, at Ross the clothing store:

A Star Is Born "Deluxe Edition" two-discer of the Cukor version (first disc is a flipper--why were they still doing this in 2010?) reduced to $3.49.

Yesterday, Big Lots, all $3:

Broncho Billy
Bright Lights, Big City "Special Edition"*
Snow Angels
Grand Prix (already had it, turned it over as a donated door prize at the auto-related event I went to later in the afternoon)

Then a few doors down @ Half-Price Books:

Election/You Can Count On Me "Double Feature" (sealed, $5)
"The Dana Carvey Show" complete series (sealed, $3 "Super Buy")

*Which right now is actually cheaper on Amazon than the earlier pan'n'scan/no extras disc with Fox/Cates/Kiefer on the cover.

whats the best way to sell a lot of dvds / blurays

dudes i have a billion dvds i want to get rid of, would anyone want me to list them here? lots in their original packaging too. was trying to figure out how to unload them
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Sunday, November 6, 2011 11:55 PM (9 months ago)

We're still waiting...

ha!!
okay. i will list them i promise.

2/$10:

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (Japanese and U.S. versions--I can study the differences)
Rendition
Lassie Come Home/Son of Lassie/Courage of Lassie (no Abbott & Costello Meet Lassie, unfortunately)
Broken Silence (five Holocaust documentaries, Spielberg connection)
Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop (with music by...Nirvana?)
Curse of the Demon/Night of the Demon (jackpot!)

Election/You Can Count On Me "Double Feature" (sealed, $5)
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, August 19, 2012 4:00 PM (3 days ago)

Love both those films. (Took me a second to get the connection, duh.)

Big Lots, $3 each:

Excalibur
Melvin and Howard

4/$10 (used):

Cyrus
Man on the Moon
The Thin Red Line
Crash (two discs--the stodgy one nobody likes)

2/$10

Sunset Boulevard
Battle of the Bulge
Taxi to the Dark Side
Christmas in Connecticut/A Christmas Carol/The Shop Around the Corner/It Happened on 5th Avenue (TCM)

Barnes & Noble, $5:

Reds (2-disc)

They've got a bunch of vintage Paramount stuff in their $5 bin now: the 70s Great Gatsby, collector's edition Chinatown, Ordinary People, Murder on the Orient Express...

Big Lots, normally $3 each except I broke down and "Buzz Club Rewards" card for 20% off, so now they are $2.40 apiece:

The Devil's Rejects "Two-Disc Director's Cut"
Ronin "Collector's Edition" (2-disc)
King Rat
Midnight Cowboy "Collector's Edition" (2-disc)
The Crook "English Subtitles"
Invasion of The Body Snatchers (Kaufman) "Collector's Edition" (2-disc)
The Major and The Minor
The Stranger (Welles) Non-PD edition from MGM/Fox
National Lampoon's Vacation new edition from a couple years ago
Amazon Women on The Moon

I've got the Midnight Cowboy two-disc; didn't know there was one for Body Snatchers. What does "non-PD edition" mean?

$3: Hidden Agenda and Oldboy.
$5: One False Move, A Small Circle of Friends, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Criterion). I doubt I'll ever watch the latter--had zero interest for me when it came out.

It probably means public domain.

Yeah, Public Domain. On the back cover the original copyright is credited not to a studio but to "The Haig Corp." Welles' The Stranger used to pop up in bargain sets with other PD titles like the original DOA, ...Martha Ivers etc., but apparently MGM re-copywrited it in 2007 and put out a bare-bones disc under the "Film Noir" banner.

As for the Invasion... CE, it came out about 10 years after the original disc to grease the wheels for the Kidman/Craig remake. It ports over the Kaufman commentary and adds some technical featurettes ("The Special Effects Pod", "The Cinematography Pod" etc.) plus a new anamorphic widesceen transfer (the old disc was a Pan & Scan/4:3 Letterbox Widescreen flipper).

Well, as part of my shopping experience yesterday, I received a "one-day only" 20% voucher whose one good day was today. So once again I suckle at Big Lot's proverbial teat/crack pipe of cheap dvds. (different location tho)

$2.40 each:

Me & Orson Welles
A Little Help (starring Jenna "Pam from The Office" Fischer and...Dion DiMucci?!)
The Front Page (Billy Wilder version)
Strange Brew
Greenberg
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
I Know Who Killed Me (films like this single-handily justify the existence of bargain bins everywhere) (also includes the special feature "Extended Strip Dance Scene"--did Sony know their audience or what?)

$4:

Wild Things trilogy (that there are two more of these films--albeit barely related direct to dvd jobs--is as much news to me as you)

Saw your post and decided to take my 20% off coupon to my local BL (didn't need it, they were ringing up everybody's stuff at %20 off). Got:

Reno 911: Miami
It's All True (Orson Welles' "lost" movie)
Oleana
Greenburg
Orgazmo

$2.40 each. Had Hostel in hand for $4, but decided I didn't need to see it again.

For some reason, this one discount store in the area that's usually a wasted trip had some good stuff from Universal:

$3: Slaughterhouse-Five, Trick Baby, Your Friends & Neighbors
$5: This Gun for Hire, Black Angel (never heard of it, but there's a quote from Sarris on the back), Marnie, and the American The Man Who Knew Too Much

Also, in the interest of full disclosure, a two-disc Memoirs of a Geisha for $5.

3/$5: American Buffalo, Addicted to Plastic, Alfie (remake)

$3: Light Sleeper, The Lost Room, High Roller, Best Seller. Got through 15 minutes of High Roller before shutting it off. I remembered Best Seller as passable junk--same guy who directed Tarantino favourites Rolling Thunder and The Outfit--but it wasn't all that passable.

$5: Fort Apache, They Were Expendable, The Howling

I only buy DVDs for my kids these days, because they're the only ones who are going to watch them enough to make them worth owning. $5 is my cut-off for them, too, with occasional exceptions. Some recent $5-and-under scores: Coraline, The Iron Giant, The Neverending Story, The Dark Crystal.

I remembered Best Seller as passable junk--same guy who directed Tarantino favourites Rolling Thunder and The Outfit--but it wasn't all that passable.

I think John Fylnn might have been a two-film wonder. Those two films both deserve the high praise tho.

Big Lots, where I combed the picked over racks to seemingly no avail. "Is this the end of me and cheap dvds?"* I thought, before finally landing on the following:

$5: Eight Men Out "20th Anniversary Edition"

$2.88: Charley Varrick (which is full-frame, and probably the only way I'll get to see it until both the film and I go blu someday)

*I found a copy of Jesus' Son for $9. I've never seen a single film that expensive there. It's only about 90 cents more direct from Amazon.

At my local swap meet last Sunday, for $37 (didn't try to bargain):

I'm Not There (that Bob Dylan thing, 2 discs)
The Shiver of the Vampires (Jean Rollin film from 1970)
Altman's Nashville
Helter Skelter (apparently a director's cut of a TV production)
A History Lesson (doc on LA punk in 1984 - Meat Puppets, Redd Kros, Minutemen, Twisted Roots)
The Tomorrow Show Punk and New Wave (2 disc comp of shows from 1977-81)
National Geographic's Taboo season 1

Jesus' Son is a wonderful movie.

That A History Lesson, though... was really disappointed by that.

H-E-B (for the unhip, a Texas grocery store chain) $3.99 each:

The Quiller Memorandum
Halls of Montezuma
The Magus
The Seven-Ups
No Way Out (the Poitier/Widmark/Darnell noir)
The Omen "Collector's Edition" (2 discs in a steelbook)

The price sticker's claim that these are all "previously viewed", but methinks these are really remainders offloaded by Fox and mixed by the store in a dumpbin with a bunch of genuine retired rentals.

BTW if anyone cares, I watched that Charley Varrick disc that evening, and I wonder if it's just open-matte instead of pan'n'scan. IMDB sez it was shot 1.37:1 but protected for 1.85:1 which was the projection AR. It didn't seen very pan'n'scanny with some scenes having major head room.

Something excellent for $5 yesterday: a new copy of Payday, the '72 film with Rip Torn as a washed-up country singer. "36 hours in the life of a madman," according to the cover.

Also, $7 each for new copies: two-disc Howl and Hour of the Wolf.

More 20% Off Blu-Rays At Big Lots:

Friday Night Lights [film] ($2.39)
Terminator ($5.59)
Psycho 60th Anniversary [two cuts] ($7.19)
West Side Story 50th Anniversary Blu Combo ($7.99)

I put back a copy of the Twin Peaks Gold DVD Set, which would have been about $16 w/the discount.

The FNL is one of those early Blus with the breathless back cover notes about quaint stuff like "High Definition" and "BluRay Live".

Ah, that's not as fun as digging through stacks of discs flanked by discontinued lawn furntiture and nearly expired Little Debbie's.

― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:52 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Prophecy? 10 years on and the fourway rack with the movies was next to another one packed with Little Debbie's.

I'm sick y'all...they keep sending me Big Lots coupons

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Blu), $3.99
True History of The Kelly Gang (Blu), $3.19
Edge of Seventeen, $1.20
Howard The Duck Special Edition, $2.39
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 50th Anniversary, $4.00

Was in the Giant Tiger in Stratford today, which I used to post about regularly in this thread. They still keep one stand-up rack of sale DVDs. Truly honoring the spirit of this thread, got Indecent Proposal and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (2005 issue) for $4.99 each. I'd say it's about 70/30 against me ever watching the latter.

$4 today at Goodwill: A Hard Day's Night, 2-disk version.

Thrift store today, $2 for Cat Ballou. (I've never seen it.)

Cat Ballou is OK-ish. It's Hollywood's version of self-satire. Even the musical soundtrack is self-consciously satirical. In case the audience doesn't 'get it', it all but screams "we're just having a bit of harmless fun here, good people!"

$1.50 at a thrift store:
The Eye of the Beholder: The Artistry of James Hubbell (he's an "Organic" architect)

$2 at a thrift store, Moonrise Kingdom

I liked this one when I saw it years ago, but Anderson's batting average has been low lately.

And lol, at the same store I bought a DVD cabinet, that allegedly holds 183 DVDs ($10).