HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) - Page 2

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

The so called "giant" FYE store in downtown Nashville apparently only stocked 3 copies. As of 10:30 AM when I stopped in, they had already sold all 3 copies. Very poor ordering by FYE and looks like very poor planning by Sony.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMEND

I would'nt consider this Collection as "Done Right" I'd consider it less of a "Bending Over" by Sony. But if these Disks were "Done Right" and treated with the Respect they Deserve, they would'nt be Bare Bones. They'd have Film Historian Commentaries, they'd have alot more than just throwing the shorts on a Disk. I'm glad I can finally buy them without mortgaging my house, but Sony hardly Sis right by the 3 Stooges.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Amazon is a bit cheaper.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Almost gave up, but found ONE copy at Best Buy sideways on the shelf next to the one other public domain Stooge Box Set. There wasn't any extra space on the shelf, so I assume it was the only copy they had.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

All of the major retailers either weren't informed in enough time (since it was announced at the last minute for a September 18th release, then bumped to October 30th) or the mega-stores were anticipating this to sell like the themed discs.

All of the major retailers in the Sacramento area (Target, Best Buy, Circuit Titty, and Walley World) aren't carrying it.. I called up every store in the metro-region yesterday.

BUT, luckily here in California we have Fry's Electronics which.. well is just great when it comes to classic titles.

They have several copies in, so I'll be heading there after work for my copy. Can't wait!

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMEND

Not any more.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

There is obviously something wrong with the supply chain for this title. Best Buy's website lists this title as "Available at most stores", yet I could not find it in stock at any store in the US, and I checked at least 25 major cities.

Hopefully, Sony gets this sorted out fast. I don't want to hear any excuses from them about sales figures.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

I got mine today from amazon. I signed up for a free month of two day shipping at amazon when it was offered to me last week and the dvd shipped yesterday and arrived today. I have to cancel before the first month or pay $79 for two day shipping from Amazon for the next year. I haven't decided yet but it might be worth it since brick and mortors stores don't offer anything anymore that I will be buying.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

I haven't had a chance to watch many of them but the spoof on Operator 13 Uncivil Warriors filmed the year later looked as good as casablanca for picture quality. I am sure that the shorts that haven't been in wide circulation over the years will look the best. Uncivil Warriors was perfectly clean, had an amazing sharpness and the brightness and contrast were perfect.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMEND

Preorder price is still guaranteed.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Same exact thing happened with me at my Worst Buy store, except there were TWO copies.

Here I am, a big fan actually looking for this release - and even *I* almost missed it! It could so easily be mistaken for another run-of-the-mill public domain knockoff too; the Stooges on lesser DVD releases have been so overstaurated that I just hope this new release sells well...!!

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Out here in Ohio, Best Buy had plenty of them on the shelves. It was filed under "Comedy", not the first place I looked, but at least I found it. I figured they would shelve it with the rest of the collections.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

I was planning to get this at Border's with the 30 percent off coupon but no luck. I also tried Best Buy and Circuit City without success but I did finally find it at Walmart here in Massachusetts.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Great Review! Mine already shipped from amazon. I preordered at the lower price. Hopefully I'll see these by the end of the week. This is what I've been waiting for in regards to a Stooges release. I noticed DDD also has these available too.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

None at Borders or Best Buy here (although the clerk at Best Buy said they had one or two in but sold them early today).

Got mine at an FYE.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Got mine at Walmart ($19.96) after looking at 4 other stores first

Every week it's the same story...If I want 4 or 5 new releases I have to search all over town to get them. I end up at:
Walmart
Target
Best Buy
Fry's
Border's
Costco
Circuit City

What a pain. I would order online regularly, but I get screwed on the price a lot of the time and the free shipping takes about 2 weeks to get to me.

I'm just happy I found it at Walmart. Me and my kids (Shane - 9 and Emma - 3) enjoyed the first 2 tonight. It made my day.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Well after flipping through these DVDs, I was absolutely floored by the quality. I really never expected the Stooges shorts to get this kind of restoration on DVD, but I knew they deserved it.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

After reading all the great reviews here, I knew I had to have this TODAY, not tomorrow or next week.

Best Buy's Web site says it's "unavailable" in every one of their many stores in my huge metropolitan area (Dallas/Fort Worth), but I figured at least one of their local stores had to have it anyway.

I called one of their local stores and they did indeed have one copy in stock, which they saved for me and which I've picked up and am devouring now. The quality of the DVD is amazing! This is by far the best the Three Stooges shorts have ever looked, or sounded.

So, my advice to you if you want this DVD from Best Buy right now: CALL the store, and don't rely on their Web site. You might get lucky.

Happy Halloween.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Excellent re-mastering job Sony. Thank you. Bring on Volume 2.

Perhaps Volume 2 will come quickly since this one seems to be selling out everywhere.

And: A VERY NICE TOUCH: other than a very brief Sony logo, it goes straight to the menu. Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For collections like this, Looney Tunes or TV shows, I like watching 1 or 2 a day, until I finish the set. With many sets, you have to trudge through gobs of previews, disclaimers, copyrights, French copyrights, commercials, fan-fair & more. With a Looney Tunes set, Whoopi Goldberg showed up every single time spouting her PC garbage.

This gets very old when you simply want to watch 1 episode a day.

Great job on this set Sony. The Stooges are great and this set is the treatment they deserved.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Watched a couple of these shorts tonight.

An impressive set in its quality and simplicity. They look exceptionally good...and sound great, too (genuine Western Electric Noiseless Recordings, after all! )!

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMEND

I disliked the intros by Whoopie and skipped them for that reason I wanted to get straight to the toons , but I would've done that if it was Whoopie or anyone else, but she was talking about the cartoons themselves So I'm not sure what "PC Garbage" you are alluding to.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Ive recieved my set earlier than expected !!!!! I cant believe the amazing picture quality on these shorts , ive only watched 3 or 4 shorts on disc 1 , but uncivil warriors looks phenomenal !!!

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Its currently 30% off at Barnes and Noble website. With membership it is 40% off. There are currently some 15% off coupons floating about. I got it for $13.11 plus tax. I bought with other items to get order over $25 for free shipping.
Link to B&N coupons post 459
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread....&page=19&pp=25

Link to DVD set at B&N.com
http://video.barnesandnoble.com/sear...96211049&itm=1

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Unfortunately, this isn't the case.. the stores just aren't stocking it. Although, the sales on Amazon were excellent.. I hope that warrants Sony to get the ball rolling on Volume 2. Early reports indicated that if they continued the line, we'd get a set every 2 months, to finish all 190 in 3 years. We'll see; Vol. 2 is only "on the table" at Sony right now, so unfortunately I don't see this by year's end or January.

I watched all 19 the day I bought the set and it has me yearning for more!

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

After getting the three stooges box set a few days ago, I decided to order today both box sets of W.C. Fields at amazon as they are having half price on all Universial classic box sets right now and picked them up for 28 dollars each. I thought about getting the Marx Brothers but the picture quality looked horrible on those. I would say that Universial must be doing very bad on sales for classic movies with all the sales on their sets. I don't look to see anything that I would be interested in coming out from them next year including the rumored Gary Cooper box set I reported a few months back that was suppose to come out next spring. Their first box set on him with five movies is selling for only 13 dollars right now the price of a single movie and probably still is not selling any units. The same is the case for Cary Grant, and all the Glamor collections.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

When I saw your post Dan...I got so excited, I ran to amazon to check out those Cooper and Grant sets and found out why I hadn't purchased them:

The Gary Cooper Collection (Design for Living / The Lives of a Bengal Lancer / Peter Ibbetson / The General Died at Dawn / Beau Geste)

Cary Grant: Screen Legend Collection (Big Brown Eyes / Kiss and Make Up / Thirty Day Princess / Wedding Present / Wings in the Dark)

While they may all be fine films, the fact there are few real classics (or titles that most people have heard of) among them may be more of a factor as to why Universal is dropping its price on them.

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Actually no Amazon has dropped the price to 50 percent off of every single classic Universial movie box set that I know of including John Wayne, Alfred Hitchcock, carole lombard Marlon Brando, Demille and many others. You won't find any WB or Sony titles in this big sale as it is just Universial box sets that amazon can't seem to get rid of.

http://amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Universial does not seem to own any Three Stooges sets though.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Anything Stooges is owned by Sony, with the exception of the 4 shorts that slipped inot public domain (Sing a Song of Six Pants, Malice In the Palice, Brideless Groom & Disorder In the Court).

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Just curious, would this 1st volume be considered their peak work and if not which period would be (I'm referring to the years with Curly) ? Thanks.

Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 1 (1934-1936) (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

The peak years with Curly are mid-1935 through 1943.

By 1944, Curly began suffering health problems that visibly affected him in the 1945 - 1946 shorts. Also, director Del Lord focused less on the Stooges, and director Jules White's heavy-handed style became more noticable.

When Shemp returned, the Stooges' shorts of 1947 - 1952 began another run that fans regard as a high point, particularly with Ed Bernds directing.