Weekly RoundUp 1/6 (Helping Dave)

Excellent work Mike!

For those in Los Angeles, the LA Times had a Fry's ad that has the following:

Out of Time: $15.99
Underworld: $15.99 (actually it says "LP" but points to Out of Time, indicating the $15.99 price)

Older titles in the Fry's ad, all for $14.99:
Charlie's Angels Full Throttle
Tomb Raider Cradle of Life
Escape from New York (new SE edition)
Alex and Emma

I'm interested to know what Costco's in-store price for B5 S4 will be.

The first three seasons are listed on the web site at $69.99.

Best Buy DVD sale items:

Legally Blonde 2 $15.99
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde $14.99
The Postman Always Rings Twice $14.99

The Shield Season 1 $45.99
The Shield Season 2 $45.99
Save $10 when you buy both

Wiseguy Season 1, Part 1 $46.99
Wiseguy Season 1, Part 2 $46.99
Save $20 when you buy parts 1 & 2

American Wedding $19.99
X-Men 2 $14.99
Terminator 3 $12.99
Matrix Reloaded $12.99
S.W.A.T. $19.99
Tomb Raider 2 $19.99

$14.99 2-Packs
Van Wilder(unrated) / Weekend At Bernies
Pi / Requim For a Dream

$12.99 DVDs
Down With Love
Wrong Turn
28 Days Later
Bend It Like Beckham
Hud
Phonebooth
Chasing Amy
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Cool World
Tears of the Sun
Solaris (new one)
Jackass: The Movie
XXX

2 for $20
Heat
Interview With A Vampire
Ocean's Eleven (new one)
Murder by Numbers
Collarteral Damage
L.A. Confidential
National Lampoon's Vacation (Special Edtion)
Ghost Ship
Scooby Doo
Kangaroo Jack
Femme Fatale
2001: A Space Odyssey
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
The Perfect Storm
Training Day

2 for $15 DVDs:
Zoolander
Coming to America
Tommy Boy
Beverly Hills Cop
Titanic
Airplane!
An Officer and a Gentleman
A Night at the Roxbury

$7.99 each :
The Battle for LA: Footsoldiers, Vol. 1
Jimmy Bufett: MiniMatinee 1

$11.99 each:
Bob Marley and the Wailers: Legend - the Best of Bob Marley
U2: The Best of 1990-2000
Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live
Tenacious D: Complete Masterworks
Pearl Jam: Live At The Garden
Slayer: War at the Warfield

$19.95:
Rush In Rio

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Circuit City DVD sale items:

$11.99
Sweet Home Alabama
Deliver Us From Eva
Old School Unrated
2 Fast 2 Furious

$19.99 2-pack
Scarface/The Fast and the Furious (Tricked Out ed.)

American Wedding Unrated $19.99
SWAT $19.99
Jeepers Creepers 2 $19.99
The Order $19.99

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Target DVD sale items:

2 for $20 (most likely just $10 each)
Sweet Home Alabama
Frida
Count of Monte Cristo
O Brother Where Art Thou
Pretty Woman
Pearl Harbor(2 disc)
Bridget Jones Diary

2 for $15 (most likely $7.50 each)
Legally Blonde
Dark Blue
A Guy Thing
Nicholas Nickleby
Guys and Dolls
West Side Story

Sponge Bob the Seascape Capers $12.99
Charlie Brown Valentine $9.99
Mickey - Minnie's Sweetheart Stories $14.99

(Added more Best Buy DVD listings)

Way to help out Mike!

I have no pricing information, but My Darling Clementine is supposed to be coming out on Tuesday also.

Here's the full list of the Universal 2-packs ($16.99) that I saw yesterday at Costco:

Catch Me If You Can/Almost Famous (single disc)
Saving Private Ryan/Amistad
Road Trip/Old School (both unrated editions)
Gladiator/The Last Castle
Road to Perdition/The Legend of Baggar Vance
The Mummy Returns/The Musketeer
Scarface/The Fast and the Furious (Tricked Out Edition)

Just Alien for me. The big box set was too much for my blood, so I decided to wait for this release instead. Probably pick up the next dvd for Tenchi Muyo as well.

Just an FYI: Target has Kingpin (3-DVD set of the NBC miniseries from 2003) for $14.44, which is cheaper than any online source (around $20+).

A classic Sean Connery movie also debuts Tuesday - "The Wind And The Lion"! Best Buy has it available for $14.99, and Circuit City lists the price at $15.99. I'll be grabbing this one, along with "Out Of Time" and "Uptown Girl"!

I wish Alien was cheaper at a B&M. $19.99 is rather high.

Anyone know why Babylon 5 Season 4 is so much higher (+$10) than the previous set sale prices? The other 3 sets were all on sale the first week at the B & M's for $69.99. Now only BB has it advertised and for $79.99. Is this a bit of price gouging for all of the fans that have bought the previous 3 seasons? I am still going to buy it, as I have some gift cards I can use, but every little bit helps. on this practice.....

After looking at Target's ad, it looks like their price on Underworld is going to be $15.99 based on the closest price in the ad.

Many thanks, Mike, for helping out.

I'm very happy I got the Alien Tetralogy at Costco for $42. It's like I got the bad films and 9th bonus disc for free.

Grrrr.....the ads in the Sunday paper for Target, Best Buy, and Circuit City around here don't even list The Wind And The Lion......there's only one alternative:

[rant]military intervention![/rant]



I'm glad I preordered 10 copies of this title and put it on 2nd day air. From DDD this ended up costing about $14 with shipping per copy. I'll hand out the other 9 copies to friends of mine.

I'm pretty sure that places like best buy sold it for 74.99 the first week on the previous seasons, so not quite as bad as you make it sound, but definitely seems to be slightly higher. Personally I'm going to play the scratched disc roulette game at sams, they seem to have the best price on typically, although not always on the first day. (Barring getting it mailed from canada, which I've done in the past too).

Isn't $79.99 MSRP for B5? I know that's what Warner charges if you get it straight from them.

EDIT: I see Amazons says MSRP is $99.98

I've gone that route with all of the past season sets of B5 and ordered from Amazon.ca (lowest prices I could find), but they had shipping promotions AND better prices going on that aren't there now. I paid $59.31US for Seasons 2 and 3 there, but Season 4 is priced at $63.88US, so it is more expensive than past sets. It'll run you $72.40US with expedited shipping (just $1 more than standard). I think I'll just use a couple of Reward Points certificates I have and get it at Best buy on street date.

I'm also Buying it from BB on tuesday I too got all my other sets from AMAZON.CA and I've gotten a few popped off scratch disks, so this time I can shake the set at the store lightly to see if any came off the Hub. I also have about $220 in GC's from Xmas to use.

Well I had planned on getting it from Amazon.ca, but as others have already found there's not much savings to be had, like there were for the first three sets. Guess it's gonna be Best Buy for me too.

Do they have the Widescreen versions of Full Metal Jacket and The Shining for this deal? I noticed that they both said fullscreen. Do they even make a widescreen for these movies?

Full Metal Jacket and The Shining are only available in fullscreen, which is the way Stanley Kubrick wanted them released.

While I didn't think Underworld was a good film, it'll make for a good bass demo DVD.

Mike Frezon is my new best friend!


Guys and gals, here is the story: Saturday afternoon I experienced problems with my home computer relating to both Adware (spyware) and an attempt by one of those suckers to hit me with a Trojan virus (actually, a double attempt). Thanks to Norton and Ad-Aware, things were caught quickly and easily, and all was well, or so I thought. For several more hours I was able to internet with ease.

At some point I had to reboot due to system problems, and that's when things went to hell. I could boot up no prob, and do anything offline with no prob. I could connect to the internet with no prob...except that 100% of all sites I go to (via host name or even by the actual numeric address) result in DNS errors: "Page not found". E-mail similarly is broken. I can drop to a DOS prompt and ping an IP address over the net, and send and receive packets, though.

It's a fair guess that the adware and/or virus took out something vital that remained in memory until I rebooted. What it is, I don't know. I've tried everything I know how to do, including reinstalling several things, and my ISP's weekend helpdesk helped as much as they could. I'm going to call back later and speak to their specialist group for this type of situation (this group is only there on weekdays).

It's obvious to you guys by now that I'm posting from work. Well, I can check a few things here and there from work, but while I'm here I primarily have to, uh, work. I have NO idea when I'll be back online at home. I canNOT get e-mail at work from that Hotmail account I have listed; the corporate firewall has all Hotmail access blocked for security reasons. Almost all other forms of e-mail are also blocked to me at work, because I'd have to access them by a webmail page similar to Hotmail. So don't try to e-mail me, I'm unavailable that way for a while.

I won't be doing Weekly Roundup stuff obviously until I can get back up. I was actually contemplating taking some time off from it in any case. Mike did an OUTSTANDING job putting it together...I don't know what other titles might be coming out this week, so I can't say if he missed any. I'll look around later when I have time, and probably just mention titles but not prices. Today will be pretty busy for me at work anyway, and I doubt I have time to do TOO much here at the forum.

I hope I'll be back online at home tonight, IF my ISP's special guys can help get me back up with no real effort (yanking a needed .DLL out of a CAB file or something). But if it gets complicated, like needing to re-format my drive and all that crap, then it might take a few days to have enough time to do everything I gotta do.

In the meantime, I'll check in from work whenever I get a chance. Which is often enough, since my job requires me to wait on results of queries a lot.

Thanks again to Mr. Frezon for pitching in; a "vacation" is sorta cool. Mike, would you be willing to do the Roundup for the next 2-3 weeks? I really am blown away by what you did...it's damn near perfect! I'm proud of you. The only thing you really missed, though is the markdowns at Videotropic. Here they are:

• 2 Fast 2 Furious (Fullscreen) $26.98 $19.98
• 2 Fast 2 Furious (Widescreen) $26.98 $19.98
• 61* $19.98 $14.98
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Fullscreen) $19.98 $14.99
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Widescreen) $19.98 $14.99
• Action Jackson $19.98 $14.98
• Almost Famous $19.98 $14.99
• American Me $19.98 $14.98
• Astronaut's Wife, The $19.98 $14.98
• Avengers, The $19.98 $14.98
• Babe, The $19.98 $14.98
• Barbarians at the Gate $19.98 $14.98
• Bed of Roses $19.98 $14.98
• Best of Baretta, The $19.98 $14.98
• Big Fat Liar $26.98 $14.98
• Black Beauty $19.98 $14.98
• Black Cat Run $19.98 $14.98
• Black Dog $19.98 $14.98
• Blue Crush (Fullscreen) $19.98 $14.98
• Blue Crush (Widescreen) $19.98 $14.98
• Blues Brothers 2000 $19.98 $14.98
• Borrowers, The $24.98 $14.98
• Breast Men $19.98 $14.98
• Bright Shining Lie, A $19.98 $14.98
• Burglar $19.98 $14.98
• Butt-Ugly Martians: Best Of the Bad Guys $19.98 $9.99
• Butt-Ugly Martians: Boyz To Martians $19.98 $9.99
• Butt-Ugly Martians: Hoverboard Heroes $19.98 $9.99
• Caddyshack 2 $19.98 $14.98
• Cannonball Run $19.98 $14.98
• Cartoon Crack-Ups $19.98 $14.98
• Chamber, The $19.98 $14.98
• Cheaters $19.98 $14.98
• Chilly Dogs $26.98 $9.99
• Circle of Friends $19.98 $14.98
• City Hall $19.98 $14.98
• Coma $19.98 $14.98
• Contender, The $26.98 $9.99
• Corruptor, The $19.98 $14.98
• Creepshow $19.98 $14.98
• Crush, The $19.98 $14.98
• Dangerous Ground $19.98 $14.98
• Dark City $24.98 $19.98
• Deathtrap $19.98 $14.98
• Deliver Us From Eva (Full Frame) $26.98 $19.98
• Deliver Us From Eva (Widescreen) $26.98 $19.98
• Diner $19.98 $14.98
• Dinner With Friends $24.98 $19.98
• Doc Hollywood $19.98 $14.98
• Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story $19.98 $14.98
• Dragonfly (Full Frame) $19.98 $14.98
• Dragonfly (Widescreen) $19.98 $14.98
• Dream Team, The $14.98 $ 9.99
• Drop Squad, The $19.98 $14.98
• Dudley Do-Right $26.98 $ 9.99
• Emperor's Club, The (Full Frame) $19.98 $14.98
• Emperor's Club, The (Widescreen) $19.98 $14.98
• End Of Days $19.98 $14.98
• Erin Brokovich $19.98 $14.98
• Exorcist 3, The $19.98 $14.98
• Far From Heaven $19.98 $19.98
• Father's Day $19.98 $14.98
• Fire Down Below $19.98 $14.98
• For Love Of The Game $19.98 $14.98
• Forces Of Nature $26.98 $ 9.99
• Forget Paris $19.98 $14.98
• Fort Apache, The Bronx $19.98 $14.98
• Gia $19.98 $14.98
• Gingerbread Man, The $14.98 $9.99
• Glenn Miller Story, The $14.98 $9.99
• Gosford Park $26.98 $14.98
• Great Outdoors, The $19.98 $14.98
• Great Santini, The $19.98 $14.98
• Grumpier Old Men $19.98 $14.98
• Guru, The $26.98 $14.98
• Guys, The $26.98 $14.98
• Happy Campers $29.98 $24.98
• Hard Way, The $19.98 $14.98
• Head Of State (Full Frame) $26.98 $19.98
• Head Of State (Widescreen) $26.98 $19.98
• Her Alibi $19.98 $14.98
• Highway $29.98 $24.98
• Hitcher II, The: I've Been Waiting $26.98 $ 9.99
• Hood Rat $26.98 $ 9.99
• Hooper $19.98 $14.98
• House on Haunted Hill (1999) $19.98 $14.98
• If These Walls Could Talk $19.98 $14.98
• If These Walls Could Talk...2 $19.98 $14.98
• Jaws (Full Frame Anniversary Edition) $19.98 $14.98
• Jaws (Widescreen Anniversary Edition) $19.98 $14.98
• Jaws 2 $19.98 $14.98
• Jaws 3 $19.98 $14.98
• Jaws: The Revenge $19.98 $9.99
• Jesus Christ Superstar $19.98 $14.98
• Joe's Apartment $19.98 $14.98
• Junior $19.98 $14.98
• King & I, The $19.98 $14.98
• Kull The Conqueror $26.98 $ 9.99
• Land Before Time Volume II: The Great Valley Adventure $24.98 $19.98
• Land Before Time Volume III: The Time of the Great Giving $24.98 $19.98
• Land Before Time Volume IV: Journey Through the Mists $24.98 $19.98
• Land Before Time Volume IX: Journey to Big Water $24.98 $19.98
• Land Before Time Volume V: The Mysterious Island $24.98 $19.98
• Land Before Time Volume VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock $24.98 $19.98
• Land Before Time Volume VII: The Stone of Cold Fire $24.98 $19.98
• Land Before Time Volume VIII: The Big Freeze $24.98 $19.98
• Leave It To Beaver $19.98 $14.98
• Life $19.98 $14.98
• Life of David Gale, The (Full Frame) $26.98 $19.98
• Life of David Gale, The (Widescreen) $26.98 $19.98
• Little Big League $19.98 $14.98
• Major League 2 $19.98 $14.98
• Man On The Moon $19.98 $14.98 Buy.com: $11.13
• Man Who Wasn't There, The $19.98 $14.98
• Man with Two Brains, The $19.98 $14.98
• Martin Lawrence $19.98 $14.98
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil $19.98 $14.98
• Midnight Run $19.98 $14.98
• Monsoon Wedding $19.98 $14.98
• Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life $26.98 $19.98
• Mosquito Coast, The $19.98 $14.98
• Mummy, The: Quest For The Lost Scrolls $26.98 $9.99
• My Fellow Americans $19.98 $14.98
• National Velvet $19.98 $14.98
• Neverending Story II $19.98 $14.98
• Night Shift $19.98 $14.98
• Nothing But Trouble (1991) $19.98 $14.98
• Old School (R-Rated Full Frame) $26.98 $19.99
• Old School (Unrated Full Frame) $26.98 $19.99
• Old School (Unrated Widescreen) $26.98 $19.99
• Paper Soldiers $26.98 $ 9.99
• Pianist, The (Full Frame) $26.98 $19.98
• Pianist, The (Widescreen) $26.98 $19.98
• Play Misty For Me $19.98 $14.98
• Playing For Keeps $14.98 $ 9.99
• Point of No Return $19.98 $14.98
• Possession $26.98 $14.98
• Prime Gig, The $29.98 $24.98
• Private Benjamin $19.98 $14.98
• Quest For Camelot $19.98 $14.98
• Raising Cain $26.98 $ 9.99
• Red Dragon (Full Frame) $19.98 $14.98
• Red Dragon (Widescreen) $19.98 $14.98
• Rock My World $26.98 $ 9.99
• Rock-A-Doodle $19.98 $14.98
• Rollercoaster $19.98 $14.98
• Rumble In The Bronx $19.98 $14.98
• Running on Empty $19.98 $14.989
• Scorpion King, The (Full Frame) $19.98 $14.98
• Scorpion King, The (Widescreen) $19.98 $14.98
• Seduced: Pretty When You Cry $14.98 $ 9.99
• Shape Of Things, The $26.99 $14.98
• Singles $19.98 $14.98
• Snow Falling On Cedars $19.98 $14.98
• Snow White: A Tale Of Terror $26.98 $ 9.99
• Soldier $19.98 $14.98
• Spawn (Animated) $19.98 $14.98
• Spawn 2 (Animated) (Unrated) $19.98 $14.98
• Spawn 3 (Animated) $19.98 $14.98
• Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron (Full Frame) $26.99 $19.99
• Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron (Widescreen) $26.99 $19.99
• Stand And Deliver $19.98 $14.98
• Stealing Home $19.98 $14.98
• Street King, The $14.98 $ 9.99
• Stroker Ace $19.98 $14.98
• Suburban Commando $19.98 $14.98
• Sweet Dreams $19.98 $14.98
• Tango & Cash $19.98 $14.98
• Three to Tango $19.98 $14.98
• Three Wishes $19.98 $14.98
• Town & Country $19.98 $14.98
• Truth About Charlie, The $19.98 $14.98
• Twins $19.98 $14.98
• Two Days in the Valley $19.98 $14.98
• Uncle Buck $19.98 $14.98
• Under Heavy Fire $26.98 $ 9.99
• Underneath, The $26.98 $ 9.99
• Unsaid, The $26.98 $ 9.99
• Virus $26.98 $ 9.99
• Volunteers $19.98 $14.98
• Walk The Talk $32.99 $19.99
• When Trumpets Fade $19.98 $14.98
• White Man's Burden $19.98 $14.98
• Why Do Fools Fall In Love $19.98 $14.98
• Witches, The $19.98 $14.98
• With Honors $19.98 $14.98
• Zeus & Roxanne $19.98 $14.98

Yeah deals on Babylon 5 are always not to be found in stores unfortunately.

Woah, let's not go crazy now.

J/K. Nice job, Mike.

Probably just "Underworld" for me this week, if I get to the store. I've been very anti-shopping since Christmas has passed.

I knew I would make Malcolm jealous! :wink:

That is a good deal, but all I ever wanted was the first movie.

Here are the prices at the Wal-Mart supercenter that is closest to me. Some of these titles I haven't even heard of. A couple of these probably should be compares Roundup-style, like the Charlie Brown and the Spongebob. Remember that Wal-Mart prices vary by location:

Alien DC $18.98
Aliens CE $18.98
Alien 3 CE $18.98
Alien Resurrection CE $18.98
Babylon Season 5 $75.98
A Charlie Brown Valentine $9.52
Cheers Season 2 $31.34
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde $14.24
Fraiser Season 2 $31.34
Mickey and Minnie's Sweetheart Stories $14.24
Out of Time $15.18
The Postman Always Rings Twice $14.24
The Shield Season Two $43.68
Sponge Bob: Seascape Capers $12.34
Underworld $15.18
Uptown Girls $18.98

Also, still on sale this week at my Wal-Mart is WiseGuy Season One, Part Two $44.64