It might be, but I highly doubt you'll find this in-store...

It was $42.38, but it doesn't sound like anyone who ordered it received a set...and, as the BUY.com link kept changing, it was never quite clear which of the three Oliver Stone box sets it was anyway.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread....t=oliver+stone

My WM one shipped today...

I just got home and got mine today! Thanks again, OP! Great deal.

Looks like the set totally disappeared from Walmart's site.

Doesn't look like anybody's pointed this out yet - 'Natural Born Killers' is the significantly inferior R-rated theatrical cut ...

'JFK', 'Nixon', and 'Any Given Sunday' are all director's cuts, but NBK -- which needs it the most -- is theatrical.

If anybody wants to sell off disc 14 [the documentary disc with 'Looking For Fidel' and 'Persona non Grata'], drop me a line; I have too many of the Stone discs to buy the box just for it, but I am interested...

I would have bought this set, but I already own "The Oliver Stone Collection", and Nixon is the only film I would want. I remember getting this on some sort of great deal a while back, too. This set seems to have the two-disc versions of JFK, The Doors and Any Given Sunday as well. I wonder why that is?

Still waiting for shipping confirmation. It's been about 40 hours, so I probably missed out.

Thanks for posting, anyway!

I ordered mine at about 10 PM on the 2nd - and still haven't received a confirmation either. Although, the set was still in stock long after I ordered - but we all know how Wal-Mart is I guess. I did use the cheapest shipping option - so that may have been the problem. The set is still on their site under my account as processing.

Oh well. If I missed out that's fine, though.

This set does not have any of the 2 disc versions (Doors, JFK, Any Given Sunday, Nixon). In fact it is a stripped down set where they have taken out the 2nd disc out of those individual releases and the discs in the set from those movies says disc 1 on them as a consequence. Additionally I also heard that they are packaged in a strange way where you don't get the covers for any of the movies. Instead they are packed together in a box of 4 discs in each or something like that. Look for detailed explanation in user reviews on Amazon.
So, for me it would've only been the documentaries that came with it that would've been interesting.
But, by all means, a great deal (if you don't have any or just a couple of the movies from before).

This I did not know. That sucks...

Seriously, for the price of the set I can and did forgo the additional discs. BTW I received mine in the mail today, as usual Walmart chose a crappy bubble mailer so the box was bent to shit but at least the discs are intact so I'm happy there. Thanks OP for the heads up.

Not sure how strange it is. There are two digipaks that hold 7 discs each. Digipaks are pretty common for sets these days. But no, it isn't simply the individual releases packaged together (not sure that is very common anyhow).

It's still 3-4 dollars a disk, why the all the poop?

Not trying to say it is not a very good deal. Just pointed out some facts about this to people that are completists and would like the best available versions of each DVD they own.
Of course these movies are all very good with good transfers and price per movie can't be beat.

my 2 sets arrived today

Dang, I got a shipping notice today! Ordered Friday, shipped Tuesday. Woo hoo!

So, these extra disks that aren't in the set . . . are they long movies divided onto two disks, or are they just disks of extras?

Extras. If the set was missing portions of the movies, even at this cheap price, it would hardly be worth it.

Other than missing some extras, I don't see what is to not like for this price (well, maybe that Wall Street has a shitty transfer).

I am so happy about this now. I sold off my three existing Oliver Stone DVDs for 20 bucks, so, for 20 bucks, this set is so sweet.

Born on the Fourth of July is the Special Edition 16x9! People need to pay better attention.

Also, wal-mart shipped mine in a box (i paid for the second best shipping) so I didn't get a dinged up case, sorry for those who did.

Darn it, I was hoping mine would arrive today. No such luck... I shoulda paid for the faster shipping option...

same here, oddly I ordered this and the 6 feet Under deal the SAME order, the 6FU date was far later than this set, but I got it in like 3 days and this one still hasnt arrived

But the special edition is the same crappy non-anamorphic transfer from the older release. Check here for validation.

There was an anamorphic special edition released subsequent to that, around the same time as the Ultimate Stone Collection. Are you saying it's definitely the previous special edition included in this box? Perhaps they were trying to get rid of excess stock....

Actually... despite my previous posting, AnonomusBob15 is correct. I just put the disc in... it's 2.35:1 and anamorphic.

Note: I bought the set from this deal, so perhaps it has changed. Or perhaps this is a 'new' Special Edition (or newer than the disc reviewed in your link).

This one is definately anamorphic, however.

That makes sense then (a newer anamorphic SE). This is definately the newer SE in that case.

Also, Nixon has two commentaries and in the booklet (although not true) all films are listed as anamorphic widescreen except for one.

And another inconsistancy with the set, Volume One is listed as 1986 - ?

Didn't Salvador come out before that?