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Originally Posted by djskyler
I then wandered over to the electronics section and found a third huge stash of DVDs. Among these were a lot of Mill Creek 20 Movie Packs as well as the $2 Christmas titles. Some of the Mill Creek sets included a Jim Varney Hey Vern! collection, The British Sherlock Holmes series from the 50s, Vampires and More!, Burnt Rubber, Hot Pursuit, Mean Guns, Best of Lucy and Friends, and The Best of the Beverly Hillbillies. They were all marked at $6 each. I got myself:
20 Movie Pack: Musicals 20 Movie Pack: Strange Tales 20 Movie Pack: Cult Classics You can see the Mill Creek sets online at Mill Creek Entertainment Picture quality is OK for a series of this vintage (1954-55). It's no better than we've seen on previous public domain releases of various episodes from the series but here you get the entire series, all 39 episodes in one fell swoop, for $6.00! But beware of the Mill Creek "Best Of Bonanza" set which I've also seen at Big Lots. While it contains 31 Bonanza episodes and 3 bonus episodes of Wagon Train, Mill Creek has substituted some other music for the Bonanza theme at the beginning of each episode (apparently the episodes were in the public domain but the theme music isn't). Bonanza without its theme music is just unwatchable for me. Fortunately, I had held off on buying the set from Big Lots until I had checked the customer reviews on Amazon. |
Originally Posted by Autolycus
While it contains 31 Bonanza episodes and 3 bonus episodes of Wagon Train, Mill Creek has substituted some other music for the Bonanza theme at the beginning of each episode (apparently the episodes were in the public domain but the theme music isn't). Bonanza without its theme music is just unwatchable for me. Fortunately, I had held off on buying the set from Big Lots until I had checked the customer reviews on Amazon. |
FangsFirst, SeymourGams -
No sign of Volume 2 anywhere. I am sending private messages to both of you. |
I just went into my big lots and they had a whole new gang of DVDs out and it wasn't the usual crap they have. I got Memento 2-Disc and 2-Disc Kevin Smith - Evening Harder and Steamboy for $3 each. I thought it was a great find.
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If anything is going to Big Lots can you please pick up a 2 disc memento for me. I will pay all shipping charges and the total.
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Went today didn't see anything new. If I see something interesting I'll post it on these boards.
Really want the Memento DVD. Just registered here to say so :D |
My store sucks (the one is Woodbridge, VA), the only thing I've found on a couple of visits was What to Do in Case of Fire. I actually like that movie but I don't want to just buy one thing, if that makes any sense. They had a bunch of cheapie Kung Fu double features and a buttload of Wiggles, but nothing else of interest. Now I've gotta go check for this Memento DVD when I get a chance.
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Some BL stores have very poor selections. There's no way to tell. It must a management decision. I know a store that has a great selection (best in my area), a full isle full of DVDs and another BL very close to this one, has the worst selection, a bunch of VHS and barely any DVDs (not even the Wiggles arrive there)
I have visited like 10 different Big Lots in my area :D and I really don't see a pattern as far as why some stores don't bring some DVDs. What I noticed is that a store w/ good selection will always have good selection. Others will only have a small selection with a bunch of VHS and a small selection of crappy DVDs. |
The closest BL to me completely removed their DVD/videotapes/CDs/software rack. They just don't carry any of them anymore at all. Their selection was always terrible anyhow, so it wasn't much of a loss.
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I'm a new poster here, so don't kill me if this was already mentioned, but Big Lots has refreshed their stock of dvds.
At a local one in NJ I spotted, Kevin Smith - Evening Harder (which I saw listed), A League of Their Own - Special Edition (2004), Monster Special Edition (2004, I think), Lords of Flatbush, Awakenings, Batman - The Complete 1943 Movie Serial Collection, I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Bottoms Up, Closer, Iron Eagle, Charlies Angels 1 & 2 Full Throttle - (one was Superbit), 8mm 2, Bats, Anacondas, The Squid & The Whale, Imaginary Heroes, Mr. Deeds, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, and a bunch of other titles all for $3. That's all I can remember off the top of my head. It seems like if it was released in 2004 by Columbia/Sony and it didn't sell, they've now got it at Big Lots. Definitely worth the trip though. |
My store finally got some decent stuff in, they had a double feature of Capote and In Cold Blood for $3, I haven't seen that one mentioned yet.
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I just went to mine and they restocked with a few of the titles already mentioned and whole bunch of Kung Fu movies - the "Wu Tang Clan" and "Brooklyn Zu" stuff. There were at least a dozen titles all priced at $3. I haven't seen any of these but I heard they were pretty crappy and normally sell for $6 elsewhere, so I didn't buy any.
Unfortunately, I didn't see any of the ones mentioned in the previous two posts. |
Just broke my damn bank...
Batman (1943 Serial Collection) Blue Thunder (SE) Body Double (SE) Breakfast on Pluto Capote/In Cold Blood Double Feature Casualties of War (Extended Cut) The Debut (SE) Don't Come Knocking (Wim Wenders!) Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder Heights Joyeux Noel A League of their Own (SE) London The Missing (SE) Monster The Passenger (Michaelangelo Antonioni!) A River Runs Through It (DE) The Squid and the Whale Steamboy (DC) Under Suspicion Warriors of Heaven and Earth White Nights (SE) All $3 except The Debut, at $2. Some stores had piles of stuff, some had next to nothing, all appeared to have gotten bits and pieces of this big shipment though also saw the DC of XXX, oddly, as well as the regular edition. And one copy of Blue Lagoon and Return to Blue Lagoon. I also bought a crapload of copies of mementos to be nice and give to friends and family, but I did keep one extra, Liquidevil, since it looks like you asked first...if you don't say something within a couple days tho, it'll probably go to someone else I know... EDIT: oh and the 10th AE of Philadelphia for my father. |
Originally Posted by FangsFirst
I also bought a crapload of copies of mementos to be nice and give to friends and family, but I did keep one extra, Liquidevil, since it looks like you asked first...if you don't say something within a couple days tho, it'll probably go to someone else I know...
I sent you a pm |
I really want the Steamboy DVD. Hopefully I can find it at my local Big Lots on my next visit. If not, perhaps someone here would be kind enough to help me out?
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Originally Posted by Quatermass
I just went to mine and they restocked with a few of the titles already mentioned and whole bunch of Kung Fu movies - the "Wu Tang Clan" and "Brooklyn Zu" stuff. There were at least a dozen titles all priced at $3. I haven't seen any of these but I heard they were pretty crappy and normally sell for $6 elsewhere, so I didn't buy any.
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$3 for Antonioni's "The Passenger"?! Road trip!!
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I found most of the above mentioned Sony titles in my loacl Big-Lot too. Great deal!
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Originally Posted by lolitazz
Some BL stores have very poor selections. Others will only have a small selection with a bunch of VHS and a small selection of crappy DVDs.
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OK...back from my 60 mile BL route. The Coon Rapids store, normally the best-stocked, had nothing. However the Brooklyn Center store had two racks and I picked up these, all $3 and all WS unless noted:
A League of Their Own SE An Evening With Kevin Smith 2 Awakenings Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius SE Being Julia Batman Complete 1943 Serial Collection Breakfast On Pluto Bottoms Up Crazy In Alabama SE Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2 disc SE Heights Hush FS Imaginary Heroes In My Country Last Action Hero 10th anniversary FS Lords Of Dogtown "Original Theatrical Version" Lords Of Flatbush Master Of Disguise FS Mozart and the Whale The Passenger Saint Ralph Silver City Squid and the Whale SE White Nights SE Under Suspicion |
Thanks guys...found everything i wanted except for Batman, League of their Own (se) and Steamboy......so at my BL across the street i picked up:
BLUR THUNDER (SE) The Passenger Joyeux Noel Warriors of Heaven and Earth Silver City In My Country Body Double (SE) White Nights (SE) Casualties of War (Extended Cut) Also they had: PHILADELPHIA (2-Disk Anniversary Edition) Bats Meltdown (Jet Li) Charlies Angels (2-disk Superbit) Charlies Angels 2: (pg-13 rated SE) The Dark The Glass House |
The $3 list so far:
8mm 2 A League of their Own (SE) Ali (DC) Anacondas A River Runs Through It (DE) Awakenings Batman (1943 Serial Collection) Bats Being Julia Blue Lagoon and Return to Blue Lagoon Blue Thunder (SE) Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius SE Body Double (SE) Bottoms Up Breakfast on Pluto Capote/In Cold Blood Double Feature Casualties of War (Extended Cut) The Cave Charlies Angels (2-disk Superbit) Charlies Angels 2: (pg-13 rated SE) Christine Christmas with the Kranks Closer The Confessor The Craft SE / Wild Things unrated Crazy In Alabama SE Cruel Intentions 2 Cruel Intentions 3 Cutting Edge: Going For The Gold The Dark Don't Come Knocking (Wim Wenders) Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2 disc SE Flatliners The Fog The Forgotten Freedomland Fun with Dick & Jane (Fonda) Girlfight The Glass House Greatest '70s Cop Shows Heights Hollow Man 2 Hush FS I Know What You Did Last Summer Imaginary Heroes In My Country In The Cut (unrated) Iron Eagle I Still Know What You Did Last Summer Joyeux Noel Last Action Hero 10th anniversary FS London Lone Star State Of Mind Lords Of Dogtown \"Original Theatrical Version\" Lords Of Flatbush A Love Song For Bobby Long Mary Reilly Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (FS) Master Of Disguise FS Meltdown (Jet Li) Memento 2-Disc The Missing SE (I only saw FS) Monster Special Edition Mothman Prophecies Mozart and the Whale Mr. Deeds The Passenger (Antonioni) Philadelphia (2-Disk Anniversary Edition) Pulse Rock School Roxanne FS Saint Ralph The Second Chance Silver City Squid and the Whale SE Starship Troopers 2 Stealing Harvard Stealth (FS) Steamboy (DC) Steve McQueen Box Set (Baby, The Rain Must Fall / The War Lover) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones) Under Suspicion Urban Legends: Bloody Mary Wake Of Death Warriors of Heaven and Earth Where The Truth Lies (unrated / Atom Egoyan) White Knights SE Wild Things 2 Wild Things: Diamonds In The Rough XXX |
Does anyone have the 57 episode TV Westerns Collection from Mill Creek? How is it? Do any of the episodes include original commercials?
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fyi - at my store, Charlies Angels 2 Full Throttle was only available full screen. : (
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A couple others:
Lone Star State of Mind The Cave |
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