Angels In America ---> June 1st!
02-06-04, 11:02 PM
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Angels In America ---> June 1st!
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$39.98 Retail
Run Time: 352
Widescreen [16:9]
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol
5.1 English, 2.0 English, 2.0 Spanish
Episodes:
1 - Part 1: Millenium Approaches- Chapters 1-3
2 - Part 2: Perestroika- Chapters 3-6
$39.98 Retail
Run Time: 352
Widescreen [16:9]
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol
5.1 English, 2.0 English, 2.0 Spanish
Episodes:
1 - Part 1: Millenium Approaches- Chapters 1-3
2 - Part 2: Perestroika- Chapters 3-6
02-07-04, 12:55 AM
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Six hours, schmix hours. Other miniseries are released at much more reasonable prices, and this is receiving the HBO markup needlessly. Look at the releases of the Dune and Children Of Dune miniseries... they're both under twenty bucks.
I want to watch it, but at that price, I will certainly not buy it.
I want to watch it, but at that price, I will certainly not buy it.
02-07-04, 01:45 AM
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Originally posted by DonnachaOne
Look at the releases of the Dune and Children Of Dune miniseries... they're both under twenty bucks.
Look at the releases of the Dune and Children Of Dune miniseries... they're both under twenty bucks.
The price is higher because the sales potential is much lower.
I'll be buying this in a heartbeat. Tony Kushner is one of the true geniuses of the theatre, and I'm happy to reward HBO for taking the financial risk with this kind of project (no matter how many Emmys and Cable ACE Awards they win as a result).
02-07-04, 01:51 AM
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I don't think the price is that high for an HBO miniseries.
Eight half-hour episodes of "Sex and the City" will set you back fifty bucks retail. Eight hours of "Oz" is $55. Thirteen hours of "Sopranos" is one hundred.
I was expecting this to retail for at least sixty dollars.
And, interestingly enough, most sci-fi series on DVD don't sell as well as things like "Friends," and "Sex and the City." (I posted a top-50 TV on DVD titles a few weeks ago. It surprised me, too.)
Eight half-hour episodes of "Sex and the City" will set you back fifty bucks retail. Eight hours of "Oz" is $55. Thirteen hours of "Sopranos" is one hundred.
I was expecting this to retail for at least sixty dollars.
And, interestingly enough, most sci-fi series on DVD don't sell as well as things like "Friends," and "Sex and the City." (I posted a top-50 TV on DVD titles a few weeks ago. It surprised me, too.)
02-07-04, 10:20 AM
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Originally posted by FilmFanSea
By comparison, sci-fi has a very large potential audience. Angels in America is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, high concept, intellectual discourse which prominently features the subjects of homosexuality and AIDS---hardly the kind of thing Joe Six Pack will be picking up on a whim.
The price is higher because the sales potential is much lower.
By comparison, sci-fi has a very large potential audience. Angels in America is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, high concept, intellectual discourse which prominently features the subjects of homosexuality and AIDS---hardly the kind of thing Joe Six Pack will be picking up on a whim.
The price is higher because the sales potential is much lower.
As for sci-fi having a very large potential audience, I don't disagree. Not my cup of tea, however.
02-07-04, 03:25 PM
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I didn't get a chance to see the mini-series, so I'll give it a rent and see if it's a good adaptation of Kushner's play. I've seen a stage production of both parts up here in Canada in the late 90s, so I'm psyched to see Pacino as Roy!
02-07-04, 04:30 PM
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lets just say that if you have a short attention span, you will not enjoy this miniseries, many over at the tv forum didn't like it because the show takes its sweet old time to get through everything.
02-07-04, 08:34 PM
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Originally posted by Rypro 525
lets just say that if you have a short attention span, you will not enjoy this miniseries, many over at the tv forum didn't like it because the show takes its sweet old time to get through everything.
lets just say that if you have a short attention span, you will not enjoy this miniseries, many over at the tv forum didn't like it because the show takes its sweet old time to get through everything.
I still haven't seen it as I don't have HBO and my parents refuse to improve their cable hookup (nevermind it wasn't in stereo). I may just have to blind-buy this one. I have never heard a film more respected and impressed by a majority of my friends as this was. Plus I'm a huge Al Pacino fan.
02-12-04, 05:08 PM
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Originally posted by DonnachaOne
Yep, it's expensive, like I predicted.
I really hate being constantly correct.
Yep, it's expensive, like I predicted.
I really hate being constantly correct.
02-12-04, 05:14 PM
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Originally posted by DonnachaOne
Six hours, schmix hours. Other miniseries are released at much more reasonable prices, and this is receiving the HBO markup needlessly. Look at the releases of the Dune and Children Of Dune miniseries... they're both under twenty bucks.
I want to watch it, but at that price, I will certainly not buy it.
Six hours, schmix hours. Other miniseries are released at much more reasonable prices, and this is receiving the HBO markup needlessly. Look at the releases of the Dune and Children Of Dune miniseries... they're both under twenty bucks.
I want to watch it, but at that price, I will certainly not buy it.