What was the last DVD you bought and why?

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Barton Fink
The Bicycle Thief (criterion)
The Conversation
Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources
McCabe & Mrs Miller
This is Spinal Tap
Umberto D (criterion)
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I got all of these for 60$
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That's a downside of steelbooks unfortunately, the amount of times I've had to send back steelbooks because of scratches and worse dents!

As for putting it on the shelves and getting scratched, I put my steelbooks into plastic sleeves for that reason alone. I've got obsessive compulsive disorder and I have to put a film box/steelbook on and off the shelf a certain number of times, and with steelbooks that will be a problem for damage because of the sliding up against other steelbooks, so I put them into plastic sleeves so that will not happen...

Sorry to see your lovely Rambo steelbook got scratched!
I couldn't believe it. I thought steelbooks might not have such problems because my other two steelbooks never got scratched. BUT THIS ONE!

It's probably somewhat my own fault because I had the movies tightly squeezed in a row and First Blood shouldn't have fit in there. Now I've changed it around and made them lay in a looser row. The scratches are small and on the edges. I'm not planning on being a collector so I guess I'll just have to live with it.





Mary and Max

Watched it on Amazon streaming last night and absolutely adored it, so I figured I ought to make it part of my collection.



I've seen part of Mary and Max. It looked to be a fairly decent movie. I need to try watching it again without people in the background complaining that it's on.
"Fairly decent"?

I found it to be a wonderfully funny and very touching film. It touches on some very heavy and serious adult matters - depression, loneliness, suicide, Aspergers and alcoholism - with a great deal of humor and sensitivity. I was moved to tears by the ending.

But then again we've already established that what I find wonderful, you... might not.







I got these for 90$

Criterion: The Wages of Fear, Le Samurai, Ikiru and Le Trou (Le Trou is out of print)

Le Diner de Cons which is the funniest movie I've ever seen and 2 movies that interests me a lot. A Herzog documentary Grizzly Man and a Wilder classic Stalag 17



That's not a bad haul, PG. Nothing that I love, but Wages Of Fear and Grizzly Man are good, though I spent much of the time wanting to slap Timothy silly.
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Last BluRay/DVD I bought was the Tarantino XX: 8 Movie Collection along with Django Unchained last spring.

Well worth the money!
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I was in town yesterday and came away with a massive haul. Picked up a few bargains in Fopp and a bundle from CEX. Will list them all at a later date in my own DVD collection. However I'll highlight this one as it was quite the bargain and I know a lot of people on here will approve


Werner Herzog/Klaus Kinski box set (Aguirre, The Wrath of God; Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht; Woyzeck; Fitzcarraldo; Cobra Verde: My Best Friend)

Picked this up for just £5! Cheapest online is about £17/18 so very pleased with that. Not actually seen any of those but have been interested for a long while.



Picked up The Libertine for $5 at Best Buy a couple of months ago. I rarely buy movies these days (I usually rent/stream them). But I couldn't pass this one up.
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Picked this up for just £5! Cheapest online is about £17/18 so very pleased with that. Not actually seen any of those but have been interested for a long while.
I think that set was over £30 when I bought it and I thought it was decent value. Total steal at a fiver.

Me?



Because: Uptight Ewa Woowaa, nuddy Britt Ekland, Christopher Lee in a wig and plimsolls etc etc etc Greatest British horror film yadda yadda yadda.

It's The Wicker Man (in triplicate) on Blu Ray, basically.
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Miss Vicky's Loyal and Willing Slave
Just a little heads-up for any UK posters who happen to have a Tesco Direct close to them might be worth a quick pop in. They're having a massive clearout sale with some amazing bargains. They're selling out quick though, at some stores it's apparently a mad frenzy. And it doesn't help there are people buying hundreds of items to then sell them to CEX for a profit. Greedy b*stards!!!

I managed to get a few DVDs very cheap - Boardwalk Empire season 1 (£1.75), 2 Broke Girls season 1 (£2), An Idiot Aborad series 3 (£1), The Master (£1.25), The Hunt (£1.50), How I Spent My Summer Vacation (£1)

Where I could really have cleaned up though was with blu rays if I collected them. Saw loads of amazing deals including Wreck-it-Ralph (£2.50), complete Lord of the Rings trilogy (£2.50), Die Hard quadrilogy (£2.50), Alien anthology (£2.50), Amazing Spider-Man 3D (£2.50), The Artist (£1), Point Break (£1.50), The Avengers (£2), Silver Lingins Playbook (£1.50) etc

Other people have managed to get Game of Thrones season 2 blu ray (£3.75), Frozen Planet blu ray (£1.75)

If you want to see what others got and perhaps learn whether it's worth taking a trip to your local store have a look here - Tesco Clearance Sale



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Great though the reductions are, I fear it's because Tesco are thinning their general DVD/BD stock. My local's has dwindled a lot in the past 6 months, as has the local Asda's.



Great though the reductions are, I fear it's because Tesco are thinning their general DVD/BD stock. My local's has dwindled a lot in the past 6 months, as has the local Asda's.
Yes, I suspect this is the popularity of streaming starting to take effect.



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The supermarkets' only real competition in that regard, HMV, is now gone so they don't have to compete for physical sales now either.

It's a shame. I liked browsing in a shop - Clicking through Amazon just isn't the same.



^ Has HMV gone in Ireland then because they are still around most places here in England, the one near me for example is huge, two floors worth.