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WTF: “Couples Retreat” DVD Advertising Makes No Sense
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but the Couples Retreat DVD ads that have been running lately have this amazing tag-line; “The #1 Comedy Blockbuster!”. Sometimes they’ll have a voiceover guy say something like, “Don’t miss the #1 comedy blockbuster! ‘Couples Retreat’.” Question: what the fuck does that mean? Where is the context? [...]
Amazon Puts Criterion Collection Sets On Sale, Brings Them Closer To Normal DVD Price-Points
Amazon is putting film collector favorite “Criterion Collection” DVD’s on sale this week by up to 57%. Or, Amazon is pricing “Criterion Collection” DVD’s at standard DVD retail price points! How coolio! Well in all honesty, Criterion does have some pretty cool sets, you just always seem to shell out like $20 a disc for [...]
Rumor Mill: WB really to sell 3-packs for every movie?
From Roger Ebert’s twitter channel:
"Lord of the Rings" Turns Blu!… Not Really.
Popular films like “Fight Club” have been getting updated for the new format and released to some pretty excited fan-boys that have awaited their arrival for years. Two enormous trilogies are entirely absent from the new technology, sci-fi’s biggest Trilogy ever “Star Wars” and fantasy’s biggest “Lord of the Rings”. Unlike “Star Wars” which has [...]
Amazon Pushes Blu-Rays Over DVDs With Discounts
As you all know, Blu-Ray discs are absolutely more expensive at retail price than any DVD. It’s a new technology, pricing it cheaper than a DVD defies logic. The cheapest you could find blu-ray’s for this Black Friday was about 7.99 if you were lucky, but 12.99 was a more realistic sale figure for some [...]