Amazon.com - The Essential 100 DVD sale (Up to 50% off)
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7.99 12 Angry Men (1957) 18.89 2001 - A Space Odyssey (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1968) 28.99 Adventures of Indiana Jones - The Complete DVD Movie Collection, The (Widescreen Edition) (1981) 7.49 All About Eve (1950) 11.49 All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1976) 11.49 Amadeus (1984) 13.99 Amelie (2001) 9.99 American Graffiti (Collector's Edition) (1973) 7.99 Apartment, The (1960) 11.99 Apocalypse Now - The Complete Dossier (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) (1979) 7.99 Babe (Widescreen Special Edition) (1995) 10.49 Ben-Hur (1959) 14.49 Blade Runner - The Final Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2007) 7.49 Blue Velvet (Special Edition) (1986) 25.99 Breathless - Criterion Collection (1960) 9.99 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) (1969) 8.99 Cabaret (1972) 11.99 Casablanca (1943) 13.99 Chicago (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) (2003) 8.49 Chicago (Widescreen Edition) (2002) 7.49 Chinatown (1974) 14.99 Cinema Paradiso (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (1990) 16.99 Citizen Kane (1941) 19.99 City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition) (1931) 7.99 Die Hard (Widescreen Edition) (1988) 16.99 Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1965) 13.49 Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series) (1944) 10.99 Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1964) 9.99 E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Widescreen Edition) (1982) 7.99 Easy Rider (1969) 8.49 Forrest Gump (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) (1994) 11.49 Four Weddings and a Funeral (Deluxe Edition) (1994) 12.49 General, The (1927) 20.99 Gladiator - Extended Edition (Three-Disc Extended Edition) (2000) 8.99 Godfather, Part II, The (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition) (1974) 8.49 Godfather, The (Widescreen Edition) (1972) 12.49 Gone with the Wind (1941) 8.99 GoodFellas (1990) 12.49 Graduate, The (40th Anniversary Collector's Edition) (1967) 7.49 Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) 16.49 Intolerance (1916) 13.99 It Happened One Night (1934) 11.49 It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition) (1947) 10.99 Jaws (30th Anniversary Edition) (1975) 7.49 King Kong (1933) (Single-Disc Edition) (1933) 7.99 La Cage Aux Folles (1979) 21.49 La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition) (1961) 21.99 Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition) (1962) 13.99 Life Is Beautiful (1998) 7.49 Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring, The (Widescreen Edition) (2001) 7.99 M*A*S*H (Widescreen Edition) (1970) 18.99 Maltese Falcon Three-Disc Special Edition, The (1941 & 1931 versions / Satan Met a Lady) (1941) 5.99 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962) 31.99 Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection, The (The Cocoanuts / Animal Crackers / Monkey Business / Horse Feathers / Duck Soup) (1930) 16.49 Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition) (1927) 7.99 Midnight Cowboy (1969) 18.99 Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition) (1936) 10.99 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition) (1975) 14.99 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 20.99 My Neighbor Totoro (1988) 12.49 Night at the Opera, A (1935) 8.99 North By Northwest (1959) 9.99 Nosferatu (1929) 12.99 On the Waterfront (Special Edition) (1954) 8.99 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 5.99 Ordinary People (1980) 11.49 Philadelphia Story, The (1940) 10.99 Psycho (Collector's Edition) (1960) 13.99 Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) (1994) 7.99 Raging Bull (Single Disc Edition) (1980) 25.99 Rashomon - Criterion Collection (1951) 9.99 Rear Window (Collector's Edition) (1954) 14.49 Rocky (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) (1976) 25.99 Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection, The (1939) 11.99 Saving Private Ryan (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) (1998) 10.99 Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition) (1993) 32.49 Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection - 3-Disc Remastered Edition (1954) 13.49 Shawshank Redemption, The (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1994) 13.49 Silence of the Lambs, The (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) (1991) 16.99 Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1952) 13.99 Some Like It Hot (Collector's Edition) (1959) 5.99 Sophie's Choice (1982) 13.99 Sound of Music, The (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Special Edition) (1965) 10.99 Spartacus (1960) 10.99 Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope (1977 & 2004 Versions, 2-Disc Widescreen Edition) (1977) 11.49 Streetcar Named Desire, A (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1951) 5.99 Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition) (1950) 12.49 Taxi Driver (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) (1976) 7.49 This Is Spinal Tap (Special Edition) (1984) 13.99 Titanic (Three-Disc Special Collector's Edition) (1997) 13.49 To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal Legacy Series) (1962) 14.99 Toy Story (10th Anniversary Edition) (1995) 16.99 Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1948) 11.49 Unforgiven (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1992) 9.99 Usual Suspects, The (Special Edition) (1995) 9.99 Vertigo (Collector's Edition) (1958) 7.49 West Side Story (Full Screen Edition) (1961) 16.49 West Side Story (Special Edition DVD Collector's Set) (1961) 7.49 When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 16.99 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1966) 16.99 Wizard of Oz, The (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1939)
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There's a lot of drivel and a lot of by-the-numbers Hollywood hits and almost no non-English language films, but it's a commendable effort by Amazon. I'd like to see Amazon continue to program similar sales; perhaps an essential 100 foreign language DVDs sale.
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There's a lot of drivel and a lot of by-the-numbers Hollywood hits and almost no non-English language films, but it's a commendable effort by Amazon. I'd like to see Amazon continue to program similar sales; perhaps an essential 100 foreign language DVDs sale.
A fine list of films, but the versions chosen are stuff that is often discounted and not always the best version available on DVD. Obviously Chinatown has a new version coming out, for example, and the Lawrence Superbit kicks ass over the older version. So, buyer beware.
They do have International DVD sales quite often, but admittedly rarely the best of the best.
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Originally Posted by ctyankee
Wait. You use the word drivel and commendable in the same sentence? Which is it?
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Originally Posted by Yakuza Bengoshi
I don't think that my statement was vague or overly complex, but I'll expand on it for you. Amazon's effort was commendable (i.e., to offer a sale on "essential" dvds is a good idea that I'd like to see repeated), but the result was lamentable for its overabundence of drivel (e.g., is "Babe" essential to anyone over the age of 8?).
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Dude, to say that some of these films are drivel is an insult to the true drivel of the world. Plan 9, The Wasp Woman, Fight for your Right, Biker Boyz, these are the real stinkers. Four Weddings and a Funeral? An absolutely essential piece of modern cinema compared to some.
And I truly hope that in years to come, Babe will be looked upon as one of the best films of the 90s.
And I truly hope that in years to come, Babe will be looked upon as one of the best films of the 90s.
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Originally Posted by blokhed
Picked up To Kill A Mockingbird.
juding by the picture of this version, the information indicated on deepdiscount states that this 2 disc version comes in a snap case(really hate that) and that the first disc contains the wide-screen version and the second disc contains the full screen version. Thus, there seem to be no disc with significant special features. The information on the amazon website however seems to be different. So which is it? Does anyone own this edition and cn comment on what you really get?
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Originally Posted by FeelingGreat
juding by the picture of this version, the information indicated on deepdiscount states that this 2 disc version comes in a snap case(really hate that) and that the first disc contains the wide-screen version and the second disc contains the full screen version. Thus, there seem to be no disc with significant special features. The information on the amazon website however seems to be different. So which is it? Does anyone own this edition and cn comment on what you really get?
The second disc is all documentaries and extras. No 2 versions of the film...wtf?
(first disc is indeed WS tho)
Oh and it's a fancy, fancy digipack, if anything. Has some physical extras, too, like lobby cards (I think? I love having that useless crap, but don't pay much attention to it)
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Originally Posted by HE Pennypacker
Actually, yeah, Babe is essential considering it was a Best Picture nominee and arguably should have won that year. The fact that you consider it "drivel" is ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by Yakuza Bengoshi
Well there's no accounting for taste. One person's profundity is another's pap. In my opinion, the best films of 1995 weren't even recognized by Hollywood's Academy Awards: e.g., Cyclo, Dead Man, Fallen Angels, La Haine, Maborosi, and [Safe]. I don't think "Babe" could even be considered the best family film of 1995. I'd give that honor to "Whisper of the Heart."
As for your choices, only two are English language, so the rest could have only competed for one single award and most (all?) weren't even nominated by their local film boards, hardly something that the academy has any control over. And I say this as an owner of all the titles in your list but "Whisper of the Heart."
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Originally Posted by Jah-Wren Ryel
Don't be silly. The only necessary component of a great film is great story-telling. Profundity or pabulum are only modifiers, not determinants.
Originally Posted by Jah-Wren Ryel
As for your choices, only two are English language, so the rest could have only competed for one single award and most (all?) weren't even nominated by their local film boards, hardly something that the academy has any control over. And I say this as an owner of all the titles in your list but "Whisper of the Heart."
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Originally Posted by Yakuza Bengoshi
As for the others, whether they were ignored by their local film boards because the boards suspected that the films did not fit with the Academy's expectation of what constitutes an award-worthy film and thus could not win, or because the local boards are reflections of the Hollywood Academy system amounts to the same thing: the films that get nominated for Acadamy Awards are rarely the best films.
In the second case just because the subjective 'best' films rarely win does not mean that great films don't win.
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Originally Posted by Jah-Wren Ryel
Your premises are false. In the first case the choices are not A or B but a myriad. For example, local film boards are routinely affected by local politics (industry and government) which have nothing to do with being a reflection of hollywood nor an expectation of winnability or not.
Originally Posted by Jah-Wren Ryel
In the second case just because the subjective 'best' films rarely win does not mean that great films don't win.
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