genesplicer

Actually only saw 2 copies at just 1 BL. I semi routinely visit 5 locations that are not far off my daily work commute.. So not common so far. Havn't run accros the Road to Utopia yet.

U2Cowboy

BL will be the death of me, I tell ya. Picked up today:

Love Affair
Blind Date
The Cincinnati Kid

Chad

Is the Decades Collection of The Graduate the original non-anamorphic SE or the 40th Ann Edition?

-TRANCE-

Bought these today..

On Deadly Ground
Above The Law
Wolfen
Night Shift
The Specialist
The Rhinemann Exchange
The Don Is Dead
White Noise

Universal titles are slowly making their way to the racks here but still no Lost Highway.

zekeburger1979

The back of the DVD states: 2.35:1 Widescreen. Nothing about 16x9 or anamorphic enhancement.

That being said, a poster on Amazon said that he got it for Christmas in 2007, popped it into his player and it was anamorphic.

Sounds like a crapshoot to me.

IN THE DARK

In addition to many of the WBs and Universals, a few I don't recall yet having yet been mentioned:
The Pajama Game '57 w/Doris Day (FS/anamorphic WS flipper)
The Clock '45 w/Judy Garland
The Avengers '98 snapper (FS/anamorphic WS flipper)
The Unforgiven '92 snapper (FS/anamorphic WS flipper)
About Schmidt '02 New Line anamorpic (w/9 delted scenes)

cordobes

Went to a store in Louisville today and there was an obvious reseller checking out with two of the flat boxes full of DVDs. There was only one old lady checking people out, so the checkout line stretched back into the store while the cashier scanned each DVD one at a time. The cashier was ticked off, the people in line were ticked off and I was ticked off because, needless to say, there wasn't anything worth having left in the store when I looked.

Litfuel716

Damn you Big Lots thread.lol Stopped today, I can't resist cheap classics.

Picked up, all $3:

4 Film Favorites: John Wayne Collection-WB (Flying Leathernecks, They Were Expendable, Operation Pacific & Back to Bataan)

Tightrope (love this rather out of character Eastwood movie)
The Mummy (hammer time)
No Man of Her Own (Gable)
Now, Voyager (Davis)
The Law and Jake Wade (Taylor & Widmark)
The Last Voyage (the father of disaster movies, with real ship)

cranberries fan

I hit pay-dirt (I less I think so) this is what I got today:
She Done Him Wrong
The Lost Patrol
I Confess
Battlegorund (I have wanted to see for a very long-time)
Love Me Tender
Les Girls
White Hunter Black Heart
Cabaret (2003 re-release)
The Prince And The Showgirl (I know it not the best looking but with Warner can't wait forever)

U2Cowboy

Oh yeah, forgot about The Outlaw Josey Wales. I think it's a bad sign when you can't remember all the movies you just bought.

g

Finally got God and The Devil and Bob
also Nude bomb
Cat People,
Love Me Tender
Objective Burma
Cousin Bette
Easy Money
No Man of Her Own

also made a mistake and bought full screen Down with Love

Luvmovies24

Picked up:
Out of Sight
Traffic - the miniseries (Director's Cut)
It's all about Love (Joaquin Phoenix / Claire Danes), never even heard of this.
Backbeat

Gotta check another one for titles I didn't see at mine...

fiendish thingy

Went to the Watsonville, CA BL today and came home with:

Roger and Me
Mrs. Miniver
Adam's Rib (Tracy & Hepburn)
White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint)
Angel Face (Mitchum)
Sweet Bird of Youth (Newman)
All Mine To Give (60's Xmas movie)
Now Voyager (Bette Davis)
Divine Madness (Bette Midler)

and for $4, Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" (2 disc)

Also saw:
Dirty Harry
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (!!!)
Private Benjamin
King's Row (Reagan)
Knute Rockne (Reagan again)
Butterflies are Free
Unforgiven (Clint)
Golddiggers of 1933
Broadway Melody of 1929

in addition to Valentine's Day, other possible Seasonal Big Lots DVD themes (tongue in cheek) include Baseball Season (Sandlot, Bingo Long, Angels in the Outfield) and the Oscars - too many to mention, but lots of Oscar winners from the 30's & 40's, and some from 50's-70's.

strangetramp

oh jeeez, whats with some of these? stop having movies i want to spend money on big lots. this is seriously getting out of hand, my "to watch" pile at home has already cleared 100 movies >_

FangsFirst

[QUOTE=strangetramp;9959724]oh jeeez, whats with some of these? stop having movies i want to spend money on big lots. this is seriously getting out of hand, my "to watch" pile at home has already cleared 100 movies >_

strangetramp

that you own that you've never seen?

FangsFirst

Yep. Really.

Not counting television DVDs, stand up comedy, music DVDs and so on it's "only" over 1100 (ie, straight-ahead movies)

strangetramp

haha, cool. though i think you have a problem >_> *calls the kettle black*

GameOver

I think another term for it is Compulsive DVD buying disorder...

Your biological clock is ticking,better get a move on and start watching instead of buying, just some good, free advice

strangetramp

hah, yeah well I also have netflix which kind of gets in the way because I feel like I'm not using their service to its full advantages if I'm not watching what I have from them first. If only I could add 4 to 6 hours to each day of the week.

Manzana

I did some searching on Amazon and DVD Basen for details about these "Decade Collections" and came up with zippo on DVD-Basen, very little info on Amazon, and lots of vendors selling them (with no details) on Google. For example, 1 comment on Amazon about Mad Max Decades says it has a touched up picture and does NOT include the American English dubs, and not a word is said about the extras that used to be on the flipside. The case of the Decades Collection DVD of 12 Angry Men does not mention any extras whereas the Collector's Edition mentions lots of extras. Then of course there is a CD with some number of unlisted songs in each Decades DVD. Unfortunately Amazon chooses to mix customer reviews for all versions (including VHS) of their movies, so extracting the relevant ones from hundreds would be too time consuming.

Could anyone who has bought any of the Decades Collections for the DVDs so far seen at Big Lots (12 Angry Men, The Graduate, Carrie, and Mad Max) please post if the Decades Collection has all of the same extras and transfers as the previous edition(s) and what songs are on the CDs? Without that info it's almost impossible to know if these are good deals or just stripped down (missing extras) DVDs with a bonus CD of music I may or may not like or already have.

Texan26

I only got The Graduate and Carrie.

The Graduate is non anamorphic, 2.0 surround. Special features: documentary, interview with Dustin Hoffman, and theatrical trailer. Life magazine bookelet inside case. Basically it's this version: http://www.amazon.com/Graduate-Special-Dustin-Hoffman/dp/B00000K0DS/ref=cm_cr_dp_orig_subj

60s CD contains: California Dreamin', It's My Party, Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye, Wild Thing, Baby Love, I Cant Help Myself, My Girl, Wooly Bully. All by the original artists.

Carrie is anamorphic, 5.1 surround. The special features are the same as this version: http://www.amazon.com/Carrie-Special-Sissy-Spacek/dp/B00005K3NR/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1264375604&sr=1-1

My copy of Carrie did not contain a CD or Life booklet like it states on the back cover. It had the empty tray where the CD goes. Maybe others can check their copy to see if it was shipped that way. I didn't care as I only wanted the movie.

When these were sold at Wal-mart a few years ago, they had a slip cover.

deet

The Beverly, NJ store had:
Wide Sargasso Sea (R + NC-17)
Private Benjamin
Protocol
Tango & Cash
Assassins
The Candidate (FS)
The Neverending Story II
The Jackie Robinson Story (B&W + colorized)
Dirty Harry
Wolfen
The Illustrated Man

Bristol, PA had:
The Big Red One (Reconstructed)
Red Sonja
SNL Best of Oteri/Spade/Baldwin/TV Funhouse
Brainstorm (2009 release, refreshed from last year)
Eastern Promises (FS)
They Died with Their Boots On

Both stores had:
Roger & Me
Punch Drunk Love
The Main Event (Streisand)
Heist
US Marshals
Wrongfully Accused
Police Academy 2
Police Academy 3
City by the Sea
Divine Madness
Memphis Belle
Lost In America
Cimmaron
Tequila Sunrise
The Prince And The Showgirl
The Mummy (Christopher Lee)

Most of these are slashed snappers.

Picked up Wolfen, Lost in America, and Roger & Me from the NJ store and The Man Who Knew Too Much, Judgement Night, SNL Best of Alec Baldwin, and SNL Best of TV Funhouse from the PA store. Also bought a $3 book of Martin Amis essays, which is the first semi-decent book I've ever seen at a Big Lots.

Surfinhank

Mine didn't have the CD either. Just like you said, empty tray for the CD but nothing there.

FangsFirst

You are correct, I should...And you are also corrected on the CDBD. I had a sponsor briefly.

Sadly, it was only *half* tongue-in-cheek...