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

$4:

Village of The Damned/Children of The Damned "Horror Double Feature"

Every time I see this, I want to buy it all over again--great deal. A (somewhat annoying) former VJ here, Kim Clarke Champniss, was in one or both of them when he was a kid.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_jL30Z1R09Y/0.jpg

Hmm, didn't know that.

On a somewhat related note, Big Lots has started carrying a fair amount of cds. It looks like they've struck deals w/Concord Music Group (found a bunch of their Jazz reissues and some Stax stuff in the bin) and Wal-Mart (several copies of Kiss' Sonic Boom and AC/DC's Black Ice alongside discarded copies of the latter's back catalog--I got the Columbia High Voltage for $4 sale price).

I also found a copy of Chinese Democracy.

4/$10: Do the Right Thing (2-discs), The Class, Me & Orson Welles, Consenting Adults (Pakula)/An Innocent Man

3/$10: Lorna's Silence, Inland Empire, Elevator, Here, 12, Battle Beneath the Earth/The Ultimate Warrior

I'll get to the ones with subtitles later--tawdry '90s thrillers are my go-to films at home, so I'm already all over Consenting Adults.

Haven't done this in awhile, and besides the $5 CD bin at Fry's (Universal & Sony catalog titles as far as the eye can see!) is quickly becoming my new money pit.

H-E-B, $3.99:

Tony Rome
Man of The West

These two purchases were separated by like a month. The store's stock is seemingly frozen.

I also just ordered Caddyshack for $3.99 to fill out an Amazon order for free shipping, and I missed getting a copy of Foreplay (70s sex comedy omnibus thing w/Jerry Orbach, Paul Dooley, Zero Mostel & others, now distributed by Troma) from Fry's for around $1.79.

Same here--of the four or five places I check semi-regularly, the stock has been frozen for months in all but one of them, as if that's it for budget DVDs once they're gone. Also, the Zellers chain here was bought out by Target, and Target has nothing. I've consequently been forced to expand into the high-rent district of $7 and $10 DVDs, where I sometimes run into Donald Trump and Warren Buffet while browsing bins.

$10: Warners Academy Award Winners from the '50s (Around the World in 80 Days, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Bad and the Beautiful)
Marlene Dietrich: The Glamour Collection (Morocco,Blonde Venus, The Devil Is a Woman, The Flame of New Orleans, Golden Earrings)

$7: Fiddler on the Roof (2 discs)
The Seven-Ups
Darling
Murder, Inc.

$5: Twilight Zone: The Movie
Chariots of Fire
Hereafter
Viva Knievel!
Piranha
Foxes
Valley Girl
The Net
The War on the War on Drugs
Casablanca (2 discs)

$3: Somewhere

of the four or five places I check semi-regularly, the stock has been frozen for months in all but one of them, as if that's it for budget DVDs once they're gone.

I hear that. Was out today and happened to pass by a less-frequented by me Big Lot's. I dropped in, more out of curiosity than the need to actually buy something since I'm still wading through the purchases from the last several months.

First of all, their stock is the smallest I've ever seen at this location (lots of empty space on shelves). Secondly, pretty much everything they had was stuff they'd had to have had for at least a few months, almost all of which falling into the categories of "already got" or "never gonna get". And finally, although I ended up buying no dvds, I was still out three bucks because I got ambushed by a panhandler inside the store. On top of that, this person hadn't held my three singles 30 seconds before asking for another $10-15 so they could leave and tie up the convoluted sob story I just heard. Put me right out of whatever spending mood I had left in me.

Ugh.

Also symbolic (and more on dvd topic), I found a copy of Gigantic, a 2009 Zooey Deschanel/Paul Dano/John Goodman quirkfest, only to discover somebody already liberated the disc from the case. This was a $3 movie...at Big Lot's...and still it was stolen.

Ghost World for $1.50 at a thrift store. It was a Blockbuster rental, but the disk appears to be in good condition.

For $2 I found a copy of King Vidor's 1929 Halleluja, his first talkie (also a 'singie') and the first all-black feature from a major studio. Disc extras include two additional Vitaphone musical 2-reelers from the '30s. A nice find.

$5: All the Real Girls, Snow Angels (also David Gordon Green--no recollection of it coming out), Network (2 discs, so I can be twice as ambivalent), Night of the Hunter, Halloween, Get Low, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Osama, Munich, Proof of Life, Caddyshack, Brick Lane, Ulee's Gold, Houdini (one of the very first films I watched as a kid).

$3: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Shane (didn't realize it was full-screen--useless), Narrow Margin, Chalk (some Morgan Spurlock pseudo-documentary that follows three first-year teachers--not hopeful).

$3 or $5 (I've opened and watched them all, and I don't remember): Source Code, Everything Must Go, Random Hearts, One Hour Photo, Deja Vu, Bernie.

Snow Angels (also David Gordon Green--no recollection of it coming out)

It didn't really come out. It was one of the last films distributed by Warner Independent (Towelhead was another), and iirc, it's spare release was after they'd shut down offices and promotion. No wonder DGG went into Comedies & TV afterward.

Shane (didn't realize it was full-screen--useless)

The George Stevens western? I think it was shot full-frame ('53 release).

On My End, Wal-Mart, $5 each:

Pretty In Pink "Everything's Duckie Edition"
Planes, Trains and Automobiles "Those Aren't Pillows!" Edition

I've seen Shane three or four times, but only on TV, I think, so I always assumed it was widescreen. It seems like a film that ought to be widescreen...Anyway, glad to hear what I've got is okay.

The subtitles of those Hughes DVDs are hilarious. I wonder if they'd extend the format to other releases.

Deliverance "Squeal like a pig" edition.

I've seen Shane three or four times, but only on TV, I think, so I always assumed it was widescreen. It seems like a film that ought to be widescreen...Anyway, glad to hear what I've got is okay.

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Jeff Wells' Stopped Clock Moment. It has since been announced that the blu will have standard ("correct") and the wider version.

Big Lots, $3:

Gentleman Broncos
There's Something About Mary "Digital Copy" (one regular dvd & a data disc in a slimline case)

This location was down to one four-way floor display of discs, easily the smallest assortment I've ever seen there. Last time, back in January, this one had two overloaded four-ways and an endcap. On the brightside, according to my receipt, both of today's purchases were part of a "May Assortment". So they are still getting stuff in, albeit in smaller amounts.

$5: The Fountainhead, A Wedding (I think I'm close to having every Altman film--can't be missing more than five), Revenge ("I consider Revenge to be Tony Scott's masterpiece"; Tarantino quote on the cover--bought it anyway), The Andromeda Strain (TV remake).

$7: used copy of 1900

$10: Brando Franchise Collection (The Night of the Following Day, The Ugly American, A Countess From Hong Kong, The Appaloosa)

$20: Natalie Wood Collection (Bombers B-52, Cash McCall, Splendor in the Grass, Gypsy, Sex and the Single Girl, Inside Daisy Closer)

Tried to watch Sex and the Single Girl, bailed after 20 minutes.

Clintpalooza @ Wal-Mart, $4:

A Perfect World
The Gauntlet
Any Which Way You Can
Every Which Way But Loose

The former pair were birthday presents for a family member. The latter duo are mine.

Can't find the Clyde movie parody from "The Critic" on youtube, so enjoy this instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7PxhwDGqw

I see cheap films from "The Eastwood Collection" all over the place--I've bought two or three. Somebody must have broken up a whole bunch of box sets.

Wal-Mart, $5:

Once Upon A Time In America (two-disc "Special Edition" that Once Upon A Time Retailed For $26)

Amoeba Records, Hollywood

SNL Best of Tracy Morgan, $3.

Had a few others in hand, but started thinking about all the DVDs I have at home that I've never watched, so put them back. These included Me and You and Everyone We Know, Pauline At the Beach, Band of Outsiders, a Japanese movie about a wave of schoolgirl suicides, $5 each, and American Splendor for $2. Ten years ago I would have jumped on stuff like that but I have such a huge backlog, and there's a swap meet a block from me that has good stuff turn up regularly for 4-5 bucks.

I hear ya re:backlog. Without getting into tmi territory, let's just say that due to recent illnesses I've had extended periods where it was hard to just sit and merely watch a dvd. I'm getting better, starting again on making a dent in the piles. I will say that I'm probably never gonna buy at the volume as chronicled in this thread ever again.

Today @ Half-Price Books:

Back To School "Extra-Curricular Edition" used, $5
The Anderson Tapes new, $6

Nickn: Band of Outsiders (the Criterion, I assume) for $5 is pretty great--get back there today!

Yeah, I've kind of had non-buyer's regret for that one. but I've seen it once or twice before and it does seem to pop up on cable now and then. And Amoeba is a half-hour drive from me, so I think I'll just give it up to the universe.

$4: Collapse, Burma VJ, The Man from London, Bitter/Sweet
$5: The Evil Dead, Casino Royale, In Like Flint, Hot Tub Time Machine
$10: Alien/Aliens/Alien³ box

I missed the Barnes & Noble Criterion sale. I bought Hot Tub Time Machine instead.

Well, the Criterion sale goes to the end of the month in case you want to see something other than Jessica Pare's boobs before then. ;-)

I was in a different Wal-Mart the other night, pushing my cart down the back aisle when I come upon not one, not two, not three, but four different bargain dvd dumpbins in a row. I really don't need to be diving in, but I notice a copy of Young Adult perched atop one of the $5 receptacles. I pick it up and notice it's stock tag (the sticker in the upper-right hand corner of the cover) lists it as a March '13 arrival. It seems odd that any $5 dvd would be kicking around that long (this is Wal-Mart, not Big Lot's). So I finally find a working scanner in the front of the store and lo & behold it's $9.96. Back to the shelves with you, Charlize!

And that's my cheap dvd story for this week...

Went to Big Lots for their 20% off sale and got:

Mean Streets, $4. Wasn't sure if I already had it or not, but went for it anyway. My DVD collection is in no shape to determine that easily, even now that I'm home.
Dave Chappelle's Block Party, $2.40.

And the big Barnes and Noble near me doesn't carry DVDs :(

^^I was on the other side of town one afternoon with some time to kill after breakfast. There was a B&N within walking distance, so I head over figuring I can browse the newsstand and music/video section. They didn't have the the latter, and in the valuable floorspace it probably once occupied there was A NOOK SHOWROOM.

Not surprisingly--this thread and the one on cheap records sum up my mindset as a voracious consumer of stuff--I went and checked the Barnes and Noble site after Grissom's post the other day, and it was all too expensive once I realized the posted prices were after discount. Lots that I'd love to own, but after postage, nothing less than $25. I still have Criterions from the sale two years ago I haven't watched.

Yeah, I tend to snag a Criterion here and there whenever one of these sales pops up, and as a result I have a few (Wings of Desire, Night of the Hunter, Seventh Seal) that are still in plastic. Kinda like waiting until a) its been a while since I've seen them, and b) I have time to explore all of the special features and whatnot.

Anyway, added The Royal Tenenbaums to my pile with this most recent B&N sale.

War Movie sale @ Wal Mart, $4:

Stalag 17 "Special Collector's Edition"
In Harm's Way
Three Kings

Fry's, $1.50:

Repo Chick
Foreplay

Paper Moon for $2 at Value Village!

$5: Bird (found it boring at the time, the kind of thing that sometimes looks better to me years later)
The Undefeated (the fantasyland Palin documentary)
Quantum of Solace
Casino Royale
How Do You Know (most recent James Brooks film--undoubtedly bad)
Love & Other Drugs
Urban Cowboy
Executive Decision/Unlawful Entry

$4: A Civil Action
Bottle Rocket

$3: All or Nothing
Nightwatching
Tell Me a Riddle (Lee Grant directed)
Wish You Were Here (saw this when it came out--whatever happened to Emily Lloyd?)
Beautiful Kate (Rachel Ward directed)
Peacock

Half-Price Books 20% Sale, $7.99:

Stones In Exile
Parks and Recreation: Season Two (used & complete--for the same price I could have also picked up Seasons 1 & 3-4, but you can get the former cheap new and the latter pair were sans slip cases)

Another Big Lots 20% off weekend is upon us...

Prior weeks-

Wal Mart $5:

Trading Places "Looking Good, Feeling Good" Edition
Urban Cowboy (I finally own the one-time official film of my current hometown)

Half-Price Books, $9.95:

"Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" The Complete First Season

Today-

Barnes & Noble, $4.99:

Cannonball Run (in WIDESCREEN, or at least cropped to 16:9)

Big Lots 20% Sale

$2.40:

Sunshine
Hudson Hawk
Three Smart Girls
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Bobby Deerfield
Shock Treatment 25th Anniversary Edition
"Creature Comforts America" The Complete First Season

$4.00:

Superbad 2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition
Denzel Washington Triple Feature w/Glory, Devil In A Blue Dress & A Soldier's Story

Do yourself a favour and watch Cannonball Run with the directors commentary on. It is hilarious.

Big Lots today:

Black Swan - $4
Borat - $2.40
Sideways - $2.40
Fast Food Nation - $2.40
Silver City (a John Syles film) - $1.60

Do yourself a favour and watch Cannonball Run with the directors commentary on. It is hilarious.

Upon listening, I think the movie is better with the commentary on. Needham & Ruddy just having a grand old time telling stories re:Stars & Cars, pointing out all their friends and associates who cameoed, and sharing film making philosophies ("When in doubt, blow something up!").

A couple of months' worth:

$5: A Shot in the Dark, Extreme Measures, Gentleman's Agreement, Perfect Sense, Edge of Darkness, Gothika, Deception

$3: A Bucket of Blood, 21 Hours at Munich, Mystery Date, The Perfect Storm, The Other End of the Line, Southland Tales, My Son, My Son, What Have You Done, Whatever Works, Borderline, Butterfly Dreaming, The Architect, Exiled, Page One: Inside the New York Times, Even Money, Along Came a Spider, Chattahoochee, The Dead Girl, Transsiberian

$3: [...] Southland Tales

You were overcharged!

$1 for Avanti! at a charity rummage sale. I saw this when I was in high school and liked it, hope it holds up.

From the Out of the Closet thrift store:

The Squid and the Whale - $3
A Serious Man - $2.75

natl geo future weapons, the game stop snitchin dvd, animatrix (actlly bought this one), and two others. p swit 199ç bin

There was a store I used to mention that had overruns with Big Lots price tags. I stopped going there for a long time, but they had some good $5 stuff yesterday:

Casablance (forgetting I bought a double last year...), Dark Passage, Guys and Dolls, Horse Feathers, Road to Morocco

Elsewhere:

3/$10 -- Defense of the Realm, Steal This Movie, The Player

$3 -- Blue Car, 12 Monkeys, Sleepwalking, Morvern Callar, Blue Valentine

$5 -- The Night Listener, Frozen, The Ides of March, Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Body Double, Murder by Numbers, The Grudge, Spider-man 3

Wal Mart, $5:

The Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Jennifer's Body
The Sand Pebbles (two-disc special edition with two cuts of the film plus loads of archival material & featurettes alongside a booklet reprint of the roadshow program)

I've been emailed advance copies of next week's Thanksgiving/Black Friday Big Lots ads (Rewards Club yo) and it appears the only dvd promotion they're running is $8 Disney blus on BF. So...no warehouse dumps this year?

Inland Empire for $8 (has 2nd disk of extras!)
Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble (both in one package) for $10.

Had an Amoeba Groupon I had to use.

from a used book sale $2 each:
3 Jodorowsky movies: Holy Mountain, Fando y Lis, La Cravate
Looney Tunes Spotlight 6 twofer

also Raiders of the Lost Ark from amazon for $0.01 plus shipping

Black Friday, before & beyond:

H-E-B, $3.99:

Peepers (amusing mid-70s noir spoof w/Michael Caine, Natalie Wood & Timothy Carey)
Cousin Bette

Target, $5.99:

Silver Linings Playbook

Best Buy, $1.99:

Jaws "30th Anniversary Edition"

Krogers, $1.99:

Do The Right Thing "20th Anniversary Edition"

Wal Mart, $3.95:

Magic Mike

Black Friday time is a great one for picking up TV boxes: got the last two "Mad Men"s for $9 each at Target (the last set only dropped a few weeks ago) and managed to not spend a pretty penny getting the back half of "Breaking Bad" through Best Buy, Target, and Amazon.

One of my go-to stores, the Big Lots-connected one, is closing down. So this was after a 20% discount:

$4: Breakfast at Tiffany's (two discs), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Electric Horseman, Hideaway/Hush

$2.50: Anatomy of a Murder, The Front, Winchester '73, The Runaways

What else is new?--already had the first two and the last. I wasn't sure if the store-wide discount applied till I cashed out; will go back for some more.

(The Anatomy disc, on Columbia, says "This film is presented in a FULL SCREEN VERSION which preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio, approx. 1.33:1." That didn't seem right--Preminger = widescreen in my mind--but it said original theatrical aspect ratio, so I figured everything was okay. I just checked, and the Criterion is 1.85:1. So is Columbia just lying, or am I misinterpreting?)