Weekly RoundUp 7-21-2009

The Features


– Watchmen – 2009


– Coraline – 2009



– Shane West & Sandra De Sousa (Echelon Conspiracy – 2009)


– Brad Davis (Midnight Express – 1978)


– Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, John Malkovich & Steve Zahn (The Great Buck Howard – 2008)


– Gerard Butler (300 – 2006)

The Prices

SD-DVD TITLE	Amazon	BestBuy	Target	Costco
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (CC)	$19.99	$24.99
Charlie's Angels: Season 4	$26.99	$34.99
Coraline (1-disc)	$16.99	$16.99	$15.99	$18.99
Coraline CE (2-disc)	$20.99	$22.99	$22.99
Echelon Conspiracy	$19.99	$19.99
An Empress & the Warriors	$17.99	$19.99
The Great Buck Howard	$19.99	$19.99
Hotel: Season 1	$33.99	$44.99
Jon & Kate + Eight: Season 4 Vol. 2	$13.99	$14.99	$12.99
The Lucy Show: Season 1	$26.99	$34.99
Made in U.S.A. (CC)	$19.99
Messengers 2: The Scarecrow	$19.99	$19.99
Monk: Season 7	$34.49	$38.99	$34.99	$34.99
Prison Break: The Final Break	$15.99	$19.99
Psych: Season 3	$36.99	$38.99	$34.99	$34.99
Pushing Daisies: Season 2	$24.49	$25.99
Retribution Road	$24.49	$24.99
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II	$13.99	$13.99	$9.99
Route 66: Season 3 Vol. 1	$24.99	$24.99
Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods	$17.99	$19.99	$17.99
This American Life: Season 2	$12.99	$14.99
The Unknown Woman	$24.99	$24.99
**Watchmen (1-disc)	$16.99	$14.99	$15.99	$18.99
Watchmen SE (Dir. Cut) (2-disc)	$18.49	$22.99	$22.99
The Wonder of It All	$22.49	$19.99

BLU-RAY TITLE	Amazon	BestBuy	Target	Costco
300: The Complete Experience	$27.99	$34.99
Coraline	$21.49	$22.99	$25.99	$26.99
Echelon Conspiracy	$27.99	$29.99
The Great Buck Howard	$23.49	$29.99
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry	$19.99	$24.99
Midnight Express	$26.99	$29.99
Prison Break: Final Break	$19.99	$24.99
Pushing Daisies: Season 2	$34.99	$34.99
Sky Captain & World of Tomorrow	$20.49	$14.99
Watchmen SE (Dir. Cut)	$21.49	$24.99	$25.99	$25.99

(CC) after a title = New release in the Criterion Collection.


The Disclaimer

Standard disclaimer: All prices are taken from the websites of each chain, or from their printed Sunday advertisements. All prices are subject to change by each chain. Prices and inventory in-store may or may not match the website price. I, obviously, cannot include EVERY title released in a given week in the RoundUp. The titles included are those that I am interested in...as well as those which I consider will be of interest to a majority of consumers (and sometimes I’ll miss one!). I don't get paid for this, and I don't have the time to list every DVD. So, please don't complain! If there is a title not included in the RoundUp that you want to see, PLEASE just look it up yourself, and be nice enough to post and share the results with everyone! Note that I cannot include Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club prices in the RoundUp. They set prices at individual stores based on nearby competition, so there is no way I can say here what price you'll find at YOUR local Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club location. And, Circuit City is still out of business...even in Hawaii (where they NEVER guaranteed their prices anyway).

The Specials


--Best Buy, this week, has a bunch of exclusives connected to Watchmen. 

--For starters, there are EXCLUSIVE EDITIONS OF WATCHMEN which involve special collectible packaging.  SD @ $29.99 and Blu-ray  @ $34.99.

--And, there are special figurines available in store (including Rorschach) for $12.99.

--And, you can buy a special Watchmen motion comic book of Watchmen or Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter DVD for just $5 with the purchase of any version of Watchmen.

--Best Buy has a FREE $10 GiftCard with the purchase of BOTH Prison Break: Final Break AND Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods.  Deal good on either DVD or Blu-ray. 

--Best Buy, this week, also has a FREE $10 GiftCard with the purchase of ANY TWO of these select seasons of the following TV shows:  24: Season 7, Stargate: Atlantis: Season 5, Prison Break: Season 4, Burn Notice: Season 2, The Shield: Season 7, Family Guy: Volume 7.

--Best Buy Odds and Ends:  Free back back clip with the purchase of some Spongebob title for $9.99.  Minimum 4 per store.

--Target, this week, is advertising the Watchmen 2-disc SE DVD with lenticular packaging.  No mention of exclusive.

--Target also states that the Coraline 2-disc CE has over 30 minutes of exclusive bonus content.  Not sure if that means exclusive to Target or exclusive over the 1-disc version.

--Target Odds and Ends: DVD Titles for $7.50 & $13.99 and Blu-ray titles for $9.99 & $11.99.

Hey everyone.  This RoundUp has been done on the fly (and in a little bit of a rush) as I'm away on a brief and unexpected "vacation" and sitting in a car on a laptop outside a local library for a little late night Wi-Fi action.

Will be back to clean things up soon.

Thanks!

I'll be picking up Watchmen on Blu-ray and Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II this week.

Thanks for the prices!

Best Buy on sale DVD items:

TV on DVD
Buy any two seasons, get a $10 Gift Card:

24 Season 7 $34.99
Stargate Atlantis Season 5 $34.99
Prison Break Season 4 $34.99
Burn Notice Season 2 $34.99
The Shield Season 7 $44.99
Family Guy Vol. 7 $29.99

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Target on sale DVD items:

$7.50 each:
Titanic
The Golden Compass
The Bourne Supremacy
Dirty Dancing

$13.99 each:
Bedtime Stories
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
High School Musical 3
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
 

TV on DVD:

One Tree Hill season 1-5 $18.99 each
Gossip Girl $18.99
The Tudors season 1 $19.9
Dexter season 1 $19.99
24 season 7 $24.99
House seasons 1-4 $24.99 each
Lost season 4 $29.99
Grey's Anatomy season 4 $29.99

Blu-ray:

$9.99 each:
The Punisher
Reservoir Dogs
Stargate
Total Recall

$11.99 each:
16 Blocks
Beetlejuice
Blow
Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride

Wow, Mike!  That is dedication!  Can't wait for Watchmen!

Watchmen and Coraline for me!

 I'm still trying to sort out the best plan of action for Watchmen on Blu. Knowing that a 5-disc "ultimate" edition is coming this holiday season, I was thinking about waiting and Neflixing the director's cut. But, now after reading about the BB deal of getting "Tales " or the "Motion Comic" for $5 when you buy the director's cut, I'm not sure what to do. Since I already have the motion comic on Blu, I wonder if I should just pick up the other two for $30 and call it a day (with a 4-disc set total.) I don't know how much more additional content will be included in the ultimate edition. I guess one big difference is that the ultimate edition will have the Black Freighter tale woven into the film like the original comic. Decisions, decisions...

Also, I am contemplating Coraline as a blind buy.

Thanks for the prices!

wow cant wait to see sky captain on bluray!

Pushing Daisies season 2 on DVD for me.

Thanks again for your hard work and dedication doing the updates!

 Target ad also mentions "and selected others".  

Thanks Mike for going the extra mile!!  You guys rock!

Kudos, Mike. I hope you can get back on the Best Buy coupon mailings as a reward for your dedication.

Thanks for the roundup.  My first purchase in a LONG time will be Coraline which I'm getting from Amazon.   By the way Mike Amazon has lowered the price (& my order) of Coraline 2 disc dvd from $20.99 to $19.99.  

I swear I have it downstairs on BD, but I'm much too lazy/tired/sleepy to go and check. 

Thanks gents for giving me something other than 200+ non-spam e-mails, laundry and food shopping to look forward to after vacation!  

(Hope everything's okay, Mike!)

Hey gang! 

Everything's fine.  Just had to make a quick trip out of town on some family business...and I didn't have the RoundUp done.  Usually if I know I'm going away I put it to bed early and Patrick is kind enough to post it up for me at the witching hour. 

Well, it wasn't done and I had no internet access at the remote location of the Adirondacks I was at (but the wi-fi signal at the local library was going strong after hours so I just finisher her up in the car in the parking lot hoping a local deputy didn't drive by and wonder what I was up to! 

Now I've got a gazillion threads and posts to catch up on...including 54 new posts in the "Obervations about the New Software Thread!"

But first...

I forgot to include that amazon.com has an EXCLUSIVE on the Watchmen front:

An EXCLUSIVE NITE OWL SHIP with it's blu-ray copies of Watchmen for $74.99

Neat packaging for those who are into those things...but it does come dear!

My definite purchase this week.....Watchmen on Blu-ray.

Other BDs I will get sometime: Pushing Daisies: Season 2, 300 and Chuck & Larry.

Is that 5-disc edition going to include both (or more) cuts of the film?  (A link to a thread with details is fine. :)  )

I'm pretty sure the Sky Captain listing is in error.  That disc was one of Paramount's first Blu-rays, later shelved when the company went HD-DVD exclusive, then reissued in June 2008 when they returned to Blu-ray.  The original disc is a BD-25 with lossy DTS and DD soundtracks, and for a second I got excited that perhaps Paramount was sneaking out a version with lossless audio right under my nose!

Perhaps a casualty of late-night undercover library Wi-Fi work?  :)

(BTW, a Japanese [Region A, of course] edition of Sky Captain with lossless audio can be ordered for a pretty penny here.)

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Well, yes...and I'm guessing it is also a price drop as the release was listed as a new title by both amazon & best buy.  It had all the earmarks of a "price drop"...but I just kinda forgot about double-checking in my rush to get things up & posted. 

How's Magnolia with their BD releases?  Anyone seen a review for The Great Buck Howard, which I thought was an enjoyable film when I caught it on HDNet Movies earlier this year.  I'm planning on placing orders for this (I'd feel more comfortable knowing how the transfer is), Monk: Season Seven, and Psych: The Complete Third Season tomorrow.
Edited by ChrisCook - 7/20/2009 at 04:02 pm GMT

Just FYI.  I went to Amazon to order Watchmen Blu and Coraline.  They are both listed at $20.49 for the blu-ray versions.

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BD The Great Buck Howard review ....

www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews46/great_buck_howard_blu-ray.htm

I saw it HD on Demand and enjoyed it. If you ever followed the Amazing Kreskin, it's a hoot.

I'm trying to decide if I should just buy the Blu Ray movie on Amazon (need another $5 and change), or go to BB and pick up the BR with the W:TOTBF on DVD for $5?   Anybody know if there is a similar policy for the Blu Ray version of these?  I'd rather have em on Blu Ray.

The flier says that it'll have the director's cut with the Tales Of The Black Freighter animated sequences edited into it. There's no concrete info about any other versions being included or excluded.

What Travis said. Although with this being a five disc set, I'd be a bit surprised if it doesn't also include the original theatrical cut; especially, since it's not on the release out this week.

I just got back from Target.

I gotta tell you that I have cut back on my disc purchases a ton lately...but I could not resist walking out of Target with the Blu-ray discs of 2001 and V for Vendetta @ $11.99 apiece.    Couldn't resist.  Had to do it.  Even though my wife scolded me:  "Don't you have 2001 already?"  I knew she would.  Still couldn't stop myself. 

Nice deal there, Mike.

I couldn't stop myself from ordering 2001 (for $10.49+tax) from Amazon either the other day -- to go w/ Winged Migration and a doubledip of Casino Royale SE (for just $12.99+tax).

I actually haven't learned to appreciate 2001 yet -- it's one of the few great classics that eluded me in the past -- but plan to give it another try or two and figured the BD quality might help.

As for Casino Royale, just figured I'll sell the original version BD or something -- it's just one of those cases where I'd like to have the extras.

_Man_

OK guys, want some cheaper Blu-Rays? go to walmart online www.walmart.com/browse/Blu-ray/_/N-8pzxZaq90ZaqceZaqur/Ne-aqno
if you order a bluray and have it shipped to the store of your choice ( site to store ) shipping is free and you only pay tax.
example : bluray watchmen is $20.32  add tax of $1.22 (for mich) and free shipping thats $21.54  some of the lowest prices I have seen.

The Blu edition of 2001 friggin' rocks.  The quality is truly stunning and there's a metric buttload of extra features.