Big Lots Part 4

[standbyme]

Originally Posted by hasslein

Did this have the animation cell that was in the first print? (There is a gold sticker on the cover stating it is in there) The version on retail shelves now no longer has it.

No, nothing at all like that in mine.

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by Mickactual

A word of warning - "The Wiz" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" are both FF non-anamorphic letterbox.

So are they non-anamorphic letterbox or Full Frame? can't be both.

[thursdaynighter]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

So are they non-anamorphic letterbox or Full Frame? can't be both.

I think the Wiz is letterbox.

[keylimeroth]

Found at my Big Lots today in Lorain Ohio a new batch of Warner with a few Universal to boot. Picked up:

Wild Bunch 2 disc UPC slashed
Ride the High Country UPC not slashed
King Kong WARNER NOT 2 DISC VERSION but remastered 2006
All About Eve 2 disc slim case
Fury
Petrified Forest
A face in the Crowd UPC slashed
Advise and consent UPC slashed

Scores more of Warner that I already own. A lot of the Eastwood collection (all snapper) Some good stuff but no box sets as of yet. VERY happy about the Peckinpah!!

Also found the Original Willy Wonka Full Frame in a non snapper case.

[seans515]

Found today

The bodyguard
Logan's Run
The Right Stuff (2-disc)
Replacement Killers
firefox
paradise alley

also saw but didn't get willy wonka (full frame), and some super bowl sets for 6$

[schbee]

Originally Posted by seans515

Found today

The bodyguard
Logan's Run
The Right Stuff (2-disc)
Replacement Killers
firefox
paradise alley

also saw but didn't get willy wonka (full frame), and some super bowl sets for 6$

Nice score, did you happen to see Apollo 13 Two Disc, I want that one for my son real bad

[Drake]

I also saw this title today The Last Samurai (Two-Disc Special Edition) Tom Cruise , I don't think I have seen this one mentioned yet.

[zombeaner]

Originally Posted by djskyler

Found a new infusion of stock at my local Big Lots. Purchased:

Ninotchka
The Gay Divorcee (slimpack)
My Reputation (Barbara Stanwyck)

No cartoon or TV season sets.

Haven't seen these, WANT!

[The Valeyard]

I hit two Big Lots in the St. Louis area and both just got their Warner Brothers shipments in. No TV or animation sets but lots of the single titles. Nearly everything listed above. Saw a ton of the Bond titles as well.

I picked up:

That's Entertainment
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Logan's Run
Cabaret
All The President's Men
When We Were Kings
The Wild Bunch (2 Disc)
Pennies From Heaven
Night and Day

[droidguy1119]

So this new batch of Warners has all been un-slashed or what? I'd like to see Pennies From Heaven and there are several existing Warners (Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, The Bad Seed, Waiting for Guffman) that I'd have picked up were it not for slashed barcodes.

[dino88]

Well, I feel like an idiot. I just found out that I've been driving past a Big Lots every time I go to Best Buy. I never knew we had one around here, so I've always avoided this thread.

I picked up Young Frankenstein (SE), but I'm going to stop again tomorrow. I was in a hurry and only looked very briefly. Does anyone know anything about Private Parts? Not in general...and not the Howard Stern movie.

Droidguy: I just read your post. What do you mean by slashed barcodes?

[droidguy1119]

Originally Posted by dino88

Droidguy: I just read your post. What do you mean by slashed barcodes?

The Warner titles and only the Warner titles have a machined knife mark through the barcode, so that the Big Lots people can't scan it. The other studios, there's just a white square sticker over the barcode, usually on the outside of the plastic, too, but Warner has for whatever reason felt the need to damage the artwork in order to solve this problem, which is a dealbreaker for me. I guess people are reporting some of the new WB titles aren't slashed, which is good, because there's been some I'd have bought were it not for this practice.

[Superdaddy]

I'm going to check my local store again today. I really hope they will have more Warner titles. I've seen a grand total of maybe five Warner films at my store thus far.

Congrats to those finding King Kong two-disc and the Peckinpahs. I own those already and they are fantastic discs. You cannot beat $3 for brand new copies of these DVDs, and the films themselves are, of course, great.

Come on Warner, start "dumping" more titles of this quality in the NYC metro area.

[Nivlac]

Yesterday I picked up a copy of "Kitty Foyle" with Ginger Rogers just to have a DVD copy of one of Tex Avery's best cartoons, "Bad Luck Blackie". It's one of the special features on the disc along with the Tom & Jerry cartoon, "Kitty Foiled".
I also got the early John Wayne WB feature "The Telegraph Trail" which features some great stock footage from one of Ken Maynard's silent westerns.

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by droidguy1119

The Warner titles and only the Warner titles have a machined knife mark through the barcode, so that the Big Lots people can't scan it. The other studios, there's just a white square sticker over the barcode, usually on the outside of the plastic, too, but Warner has for whatever reason felt the need to damage the artwork in order to solve this problem, which is a dealbreaker for me. I guess people are reporting some of the new WB titles aren't slashed, which is good, because there's been some I'd have bought were it not for this practice.

It's not just so they wont scan it... it's so people cant try to return/exchange them for full non-BL price at a different retailer somewhere. I's like the old record cut-outs.

[b2net]

Tons of great titles.. Most / All James Bond, Some John Wayne & Sophia Loren, too many good stuff to mention... What was odd is that the selections I saw about a month back seem to be all gone and the stock is completely different... I don't think they sold them all and then got new... I think maybe they are rotating stock...

[b2net]

and also, they had some great box sets for $6... Lord of the Rings, Two Towers, and Return of the King.... as well as the Scooby Doo Movies box set 64.95 MSRP, $40 cheapest on the web... $6 @ big Lots.... who'd a thunk....

[Doc Moonlight]

Originally Posted by Mickactual

A word of warning - "The Wiz" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" are both FF non-anamorphic letterbox. OK for those with 1:33:1 TV's, but a bit annoying for those of us with WS TV's.

Not if your DVD player has xy scaling capabilities.

[Drake]

A few more titles I saw yesterday that I don't think has been mentioned:

Everything Is Illuminated - Starring Elijah Wood
The Bone Snatcher
Ghost Ship (Full Screen)
The Last Voyage (Robert Stack)
and 2 Adrien Brody films;
The Jacket
Liberty Heights

[BobO'Link]

Saw a massive restock of mostly Uni titles (still no restock on Bonds or the TV sets others are reporting). Found and picked up (Uni unless otherwise indicated):

Coal Miner's Daughter - 25th Anniversary Edition
The Frighteners
Arabian Knights
Scoop
King Kong Escapes/King Kong vs. Godzilla (dual pack @$6)
Josie and the Pussycats (WS - PG13)
Picking up the Pieces (Artisan)
George and the Dragon (First Look)

[Wolf359]

Wow. The store I just got done with was SO organized! Had everything seperated by pricepoint. Got both volumes of Thundercats S2, Animaniacs S1, and the Scooby movies.

[Steve]

I just died and went to DVD heaven. Tons of new stuff. lots of classic movies from 30's, 40's and 80% of the stack were on my want list!! here is what I got.

16 blocks
Adam's rib
Animaniacs , vol 1 and 2 ($6 each)
Annie Oakley
Bait
Brainstorm
Cabaret (SE)
Cabin in the sky
Caged
Captain John Smith
Charlie (? Wife must have snuck that one in)
Cimarron
City Hall
Collateral Damage
David Copperfield (W.C. fields)
Each dawn I die
For me and my Gal
G men
Hallelujah
Helen of Troy
Jamboree
Kitty Foyle
My Reputation
Never so few
Ninotchka
Of Unknown Origin
Pat and Mike
presenting Lily mars
Queen Christina
Raise your voice (for our daughter)
Ride the High country
Rock n Roll High School
Sea Biscuit
The Exorcists (version you haven't seen)
The hades Factor (? Wife must have gotten this)
The interpreter
The last voyage
The Magic Sword
The naked Spur
They were expendable
Where eagles dare
Wife vs. Secretary
Woman of the Year
Year of the Dragon
Ziegfeld Follies

Stanwyck, Ginger Rogers, Frank sinatra, Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, George Raft, James Cagney.. Yikes

Some stuff my wife got, and i got some stuff for our 9 year old as well (hillary duff, sea biscuit - the animaniacs is for everyone)

They also had lots of Astaire/Rogers, but I already had them.. These were the slim cases from the big box set. didn't realize they could be sold separately like that.

Bonds were sold out tho. Still missing 2 of those..

All in all, a good day.

[hasslein]

Originally Posted by droidguy1119

The Warner titles and only the Warner titles have a machined knife mark through the barcode

I noticed some Universal titles, the $2 Dr. Detroit and Talk Radio are slashed, the $3 ticketed DD & TR are not.

[droidguy1119]

Originally Posted by hasslein

I noticed some Universal titles, the $2 Dr. Detroit and Talk Radio are slashed, the $3 ticketed DD & TR are not.

I think maybe long ago Universal was slashing as well, as I have seen some Slap Shot 2s that are slashed, but yeah, the vast majority of the Universal titles I've found (like 98%) aren't slashed.

[ProfessorEcho]

Went to the Big Lots in North Hollywood and they had, wait for it, it's incredible!!!!! Uh, aerobics DVDs. That's it.

Yep, the worst Big Lots in the free world.

Does anyone know of a better store in the L.A. area that might have some of these great titles everyone is posting about?