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Weekly RoundUp 11-29-2011

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The Features


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– Mila Kunis & Justin Timberlake (Friends With Benefits – 2011)

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– Paul Rudd, Zooey Deschanel & Rashida Jones (Our Idiot Brother – 2011)

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–Lee Majors (Six-Million Dollar Man – 1974)

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–Jim Sturgess & Anne Hathaway (One Day – 2011)

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–Jesse Eisenberg & friends (30 Minutes or Less – 2011)

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– Freddie Highmore & Emma Roberts (The Art of Getting By – 2011)

 

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– Neil Patrick Harris (The Smurfs – 2011)


The Prices

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SD-DVD TITLE                                                                    Amazon BestBuy Target
5 Days of War $18.99 $24.99  
30 Minutes or Less $17.99 $17.99 $16.99
30 Rock: Season 5 $32.99 $32.99 $34.99
Adele: Live @ Royal Albert Hall (+CD) $13.99 $12.99 $13.99
Amazing Race: Season 4 $23.99    
The Art of Getting By $17.99 $24.99  
Becoming Chaz $17.99 $14.99  
Beyonce: Live at Roseland DE (2 Disc) $14.99 $16.99  
Chillerama: Unrated $11.99 $24.99  
Cave of Forgotten Dreams $24.99 $24.99  
Eclipse Series 30: Sabu! (CC) $31.99 $34.99  
Friends With Benefits (Friday, December 2 Release) $17.99 $17.99 $16.99
The Future $19.99 $24.99  
The Girls Next Door: Complete Series $116.99 $114.99  
Hot in Cleveland: Season 2 $21.99 $24.99  
Look: Season 1 $16.99 $19.99  
Mission: Impossible - 1988 TV Season $27.99 $34.99  
Needle $16.99 $24.99  
One Day $18.99 $19.99  
Our Idiot Brother $14.99 $16.99 $14.99
Reel Injun $26.99 $24.99  
Seven Days in Utopia $16.99 $17.99  
Six Million Dollar Man: Season 1 $27.99 $29.99  
Smallville: Season 10 $38.99 $38.99 $38.99
Smallville: Complete Series $199.99 $199.99 $199.99
The Smurfs (Friday, December 2 Release) $17.99 $16.99 $16.99
Sons of Perdition $17.99 $14.99  
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil $12.99 $14.99  


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BLU-RAY TITLE                                                                  Amazon BestBuy Target
5 Days of War $21.99 $24.99  
30 Minutes or Less $19.99 $19.99 $22.99
Adele: Live @ Royakl Albert Hall (+CD) $18.99 $19.99  
Another Earth (Combo Pack) $19.99 $24.99  
The Art of Getting By $24.99 $34.99  
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3-D Combo Pack) $18.99 $19.99  
Chillerama: Unrated $15.99 $24.99  
Friends With Benefits (Friday, December 2 Release) $19.99 $19.99 $19.99
Friends With Benefits (Combo Pack) (Fri. Dec. 2 Release) $22.99 $24.99 $24.99
Horror Express (Combo Pack) $13.99 $24.99  
Kylie Minogue: Live in London $29.49 $26.99  
One Day $24.99 $24.99  
Our Idiot Brother $19.99 $22.99 $19.99
Smallville: Season 10 $44.99 $44.99 $44.99
The Smurfs (Friday, December 2 Release) $24.99 $22.99 $19.99
The Smurfs (3-D Combo Pack) (Friday, Dec. 2 Release) $24.99 $27.99 $24.99
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil $15.99 $19.99  

(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
 

--Hope you all survived Black Friday 2011!  biggrin.gif

 

--Get a FREE $10 BEST BUY GIFT CARD if you buy $50 of Blu-ray titles...or, GET a FREE $20 BEST BUY GIFTCARD if you buy $100 of Blu-ray titles @ BB.  Offer valid 11-27-11 thru 12-10-11 and excludes music Blu-ray titles.  Gift card is good toward a future purchase/  $20 maximum gift card award value.  Products must be purchased on sam receipt to receive the gift card.  Online offer may vary.

 

--Best Buy has DAILY PLANET T-SHIRTS available with copies of this week's release of Smallville: Season 10.  (For the following "premium" prices:  DVD/$42.99 or Blu-ray/$47.99).  Meanwhile, Best Buy's got an EXCLUSIVE CLARK KENT ACTION FIGURINE with its copies of Smallville: The Complete Series.


--Save $6 @ Best Buy when you buy BOTH Disney's Prep & Landing and Beauty & the Beast: Enchanted Christmas.

 

--Best Buy is advertising MOVIE CASH TO SEE THE MUPPETS when you purchase one of the following DVD titles:  The Great Muppet Caper ($11.99), The Muppet Movie ($11.99), or The Muppet Show: S1 ($19.99).   Up to $12 value.  Expires 1-1-12.
 

--The following Blu-rays are $7.99 @ Best Buy:  Crimson Tide, Spaceballs, Bad Santa, No Country for Old Men, Tommy Boy, Major League, Varsity Blues, Matrix Reloaded, Ocean's Twelve.  More in-store.

 

--Best Buy has the following TV Shows on DVD/Blu on sale this week:

$49.99:  The Tudors: Complete Series (15-disc DVD

$54.99:  Planet Earth LE (6-disc DVD)

$69.99:  Planet Earth LE (6-disc Blu)

$89.99:  Deadwood: Complete Series
(19-disc DVD), Six Feet Under: Complete Series (24-disc DVD)

 

$109.99:  The Wire: Complete Series (23-disc DVD)

 

$119.99:  Sex and the City: Complete Series (20-disc DVD)

--Best Buy Odds and Ends:  Some Disney Holiday DVDs on sale this week.

--Target, this week, has EXCLUSIVE SMURFETTE PACKAGING with its copies of The Smurfs Blu-ray Combo Pack!  Woohoo!

 

--Target also has an EXCLUSIVE BONUS DISC with its Blu-ray Combo Pack of Friends With Benefits.

--Target Odds and Ends: A List of Blu and DVD titles for $9.99...and some holiday titles on sale..

Gear mentioned in this thread:

post #2 of 27
Thanks as always, Mike. A few Redbox rentals in the mix, but no purchases for me this week. I spent more than I was intending to on Friday.
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Thanks a bunch Mike. I am a little confused about the release date of Friends with Benefits. I assume it is a typo - December 2 instead of December 12. I will be getting FWB and 30 minutes or less.
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Originally Posted by Adam Lenhardt View Post

Thanks as always, Mike. A few Redbox rentals in the mix, but no purchases for me this week. I spent more than I was intending to on Friday.

Tell me about it, I'm as poor as a Church Mouse! biggrin.gif
post #5 of 27
I'll get 30 Rock when it goes on sale but there's nothing I'll be picking up this week. While I'm not buying them, Our Idiot Brother and 30 Minutes Or Less were both worth renting.

Thanks for the prices! smile.gif
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Added One Day to the Netflix queue, but otherwise nothing jumps out at me (until Smallville can be had for $25).

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Originally Posted by Ashly Yeo View Post

I am a little confused about the release date of Friends with Benefits. I assume it is a typo - December 2 instead of December 12. I will be getting FWB and 30 minutes or less.


Ugh.  Not just a typo...but one that I "copied and pasted" about a half-dozen times...

 

Thanks!  All fixed.  thumbsup.gif

 

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I'll get 30 Rock when it goes on sale but there's nothing I'll be picking up this week.


Me, too.  No rush.

 

Can't figure out why they won't release 30 Rock on blu...

 

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Curious about "Our Idiot Brother?"  A link to Timothy's review is now included in the OP. 

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Didnt Torchwood come out this week? Anyone got the prices on that one?
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A link to Richard's review of 30 Minutes or Less is now included on the OP.

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Originally Posted by Tony J Case View Post

Didnt Torchwood come out this week? Anyone got the prices on that one?
If you're referring to Miracle Day, it's a UK release only. Amazon's selling it as an import.

EDIT: Despite being shot 24p, it's a 1080i50 release, so anyone who's thinking about importing needs to make sure both their Blu-Ray player and their TV can handle 50Hz content.
Edited by Adam Lenhardt - 11/30/11 at 8:28am
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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon View Post

A link to Richard's review of 30 Minutes or Less is now included on the OP.

Thanks for the review Richard and the link up Mike. Looks like another one bites the dust for this week and I am down to Friends with benefits and I don't think I can resist any hi-def presentation with Mila Kunis in it. Hopefully a review soon?
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Couldn't pass by the display with the Adele concert CD/DVD pack at Target!  Can't wait to hear and see it!

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Another Earth and The Art of Getting By showed up today, so those reviews will be forthcoming over the next couple of evenings.

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Don't know if already mentioned but Sam's Club selling full season sets of The Sopranos, Rome, The Wire, Deadwood, and True Blood for $18.88 a piece.
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Originally Posted by MattH. View Post

Another Earth and The Art of Getting By showed up today, so those reviews will be forthcoming over the next couple of evenings.


And Matt has posted his review of Another Earth.  A link is now in the OP.

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Don't know if already mentioned but Sam's Club selling full season sets of The Sopranos, Rome, The Wire, Deadwood, and True Blood for $18.88 a piece.

That may or may not be a valid price. I bought two seasons of True Blood today at Sam's Club and they seemed aghast that they were marked for such a low price (when scanned, the register charged $37.98...I had to bring it to the cashier's attention). They had to get two managers involved and for a moment I wasn't sure if I was going to get the $18.88 price, even though they were clearly price-tagged at that amount (one manager asked the other if she "should override both, or just one?"). I did get the low price on both, but I think after the override the manager sprinted to the DVD section to pull them off the shelves to be re-priced.

So, as usual, YMMV on this sale. If you can find sets that are actually price-tagged with the $18.88 price, I don't see how they can refuse to honor it. They also had season sets of Bones and The Tudors marked $12.88.

I also saw The Smurfs for sale today in at least one store. Wasn't that supposed to be a Friday release?
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Originally Posted by Malcolm R View Post

That may or may not be a valid price. I bought two seasons of True Blood today at Sam's Club and they seemed aghast that they were marked for such a low price (when scanned, the register charged $37.98...I had to bring it to the cashier's attention). They had to get two managers involved and for a moment I wasn't sure if I was going to get the $18.88 price, even though they were clearly price-tagged at that amount (one manager asked the other if she "should override both, or just one?"). I did get the low price on both, but I think after the override the manager sprinted to the DVD section to pull them off the shelves to be re-priced.
So, as usual, YMMV on this sale. If you can find sets that are actually price-tagged with the $18.88 price, I don't see how they can refuse to honor it. They also had season sets of Bones and The Tudors marked $12.88.
I also saw The Smurfs for sale today in at least one store. Wasn't that supposed to be a Friday release?

Interesting. The store I went to had them all tagged at that price. I thought it might be wrong also, but each and every one i examined were priced that way. I dont see how they could refuse to honor the price.
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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon View Post


And Matt has posted his review of Another Earth.  A link is now in the OP.



Much appreciated, Mike.

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Originally Posted by MattH. View Post

Another Earth and The Art of Getting By showed up today, so those reviews will be forthcoming over the next couple of evenings.


And now Matt's review of The Art of Getting By is up.  Link's in the OP!  thumbsup.gif

 

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And now Matt's review of The Art of Getting By is up.  Link's in the OP!  thumbsup.gif

 


Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated!
 

 

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My local Costco has the first four seasons of Mad Men on Blu for $11.99 each.
 

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That may or may not be a valid price. I bought two seasons of True Blood today at Sam's Club and they seemed aghast that they were marked for such a low price (when scanned, the register charged $37.98...I had to bring it to the cashier's attention). They had to get two managers involved and for a moment I wasn't sure if I was going to get the $18.88 price, even though they were clearly price-tagged at that amount (one manager asked the other if she "should override both, or just one?"). I did get the low price on both, but I think after the override the manager sprinted to the DVD section to pull them off the shelves to be re-priced.
So, as usual, YMMV on this sale. If you can find sets that are actually price-tagged with the $18.88 price, I don't see how they can refuse to honor it. They also had season sets of Bones and The Tudors marked $12.88.
I also saw The Smurfs for sale today in at least one store. Wasn't that supposed to be a Friday release?


 

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My local Costco has the first four seasons of Mad Men on Blu for $11.99 each.


That's an unbelievably good deal. 

 

Best prices I've seen on those (especially Season 4--which I was feeling really good about paying $14.99 for on amazon over Black Friday weekend).

 

post #25 of 27
Weren't the Mad Men discs that cheap last year on Black Friday?

Last weekend Costco was selling those HBO season sets for a similarly cheap price. I forget exactly how much, but I'm pretty sure it was under $20.
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Originally Posted by Aaron Silverman View Post

Weren't the Mad Men discs that cheap last year on Black Friday?
Last weekend Costco was selling those HBO season sets for a similarly cheap price. I forget exactly how much, but I'm pretty sure it was under $20.

Do you mean this year? Mad Men seasons were 8.99 each at Amazon and Best Buy last week though the Amazon's were Lightning Deals.
I got S 1-3 for $10 each last BF and S4 from BB for 8.99 this year.

11.99 still isn't bad if you like the series and you have a Costco nearby and always YMMV whether it will be in your local store.
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No, I'm pretty sure I remember them being really cheap last year too. Maybe season 4 wasn't discounted yet, though.

$12 ain't bad, though!
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