Ah, Labor Day.
What started out as a national holiday to appease the workers who were killed by US military and marshals during the Pullman Strike (thanks, Wikipedia!) has now evolved into that long weekend at the end of summer where everyone and their mother either packs up and drives through insane traffic to go “up north” or they stick around and hit up all the sales. Because nothing celebrates people working long hours for low pay quite like spending a bunch of money on great deals that you don’t really need at stores who employ workers over the weekend who work long hours for low pay.
Sorry, it’s been a long week of laboring.
Luckily, Warner Brothers has come to save the day with their own weekend sale and you don’t need to battle any crowds to cash in. For this weekend only, ending Sunday (apparently WB didn’t get the memo that we all have Monday off to continue our shopping endeavors), stock up on a decent selection of old school titles like The Neverending Story, Gremlins, and — seriously, one of the best movies ever — True Romance on Blu-Ray for only $9.95 each.
These are the kind of deals that I absolutely loved and found impossible to resist in college. It’s how I went
from getting my first DVD player — back then they came with five, free
DVDs to get you started and essentially paid you to upgrade from VHS
— to building a bona fide library that now includes everything from Two-Lane Blacktop to Critters.
There are a handful others in the list of about 27 Blu-rays that might be worth your hard-earned Alexander Hamiltons. Check out the full list here.
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Deep Discount DVD (deepdiscount.com) also has a pretty good sale going on right now, buy one select blu-ray, get one free. Not that I work for them, it's just that their prices on some very good catalog titles are unbeatable and why keep it a secret. Picked up Battleship Potemkin and The White Ribbon for only $30
too bad you picked the most overpraised film of this century.
The White Ribbon is a pretentious, overbearing bore.
Potemkin is great, though.
I've been finding a bunch of great blu-ray deals lately. I just saw today that Best Buy has a bunch of blu-rays for $8-10.Tango and Cash, Starship Troopers, Hard Candy, Blair Witch, Brave One, Ghostbusters, and Underworld just to name a few. DO IT!!!
Got Bad Lieutenant and Dead Calm blus for less than $20 at BB.
True Romance is not a good movie… I would say "that is all" if I had confidence in just doing that but I don't. Moreso, all these sales are actually pretty awesome. So thanks for the heads up! I mean that legitimately… Going back to before, I really don't know how to engage the question of taste without being an assumptive jerk to you. I don't think anyone really can, especially on the internet, but there must be some way to convey why, say, Gremlins is excellent and True Romance fails on many, many levels (mostly centered around Tony Scott)… I want to sit here and have a conversation about it but that's impossible. I could tell you why it isn't and why this film seems to split this site up down the middle… but really I'm just crapping on something you like, so what's the point of that? I could sit here and go on and on about all my legitimate reasons but that does nothing but exercise my own ego… I'm thinking that's why so often people just be blunt and declarative on here. Sure, I've love movies and my taste runs the gamut. I truly believe my opinion is a correct interpretation of the film's merits. Does that legitimize the opinion any more than yours? For some reason your liking of True Romance compels me to write and tell you it is not very good in almost any watching context. I don't know where that comes from or why I'm even bothering… I'm sorry I"ve been drinking.
For Dennis Hopper and his love for the son who is just like his fucking mother, through and through, I must say I disagree with #5. True Romance will always be a great movie, on many levels.
Truedat gus truedat.
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