Although the Steve Martin films were superior to the Arkin/Wass/Benigni films. I own them all on DVD and have no desire to upgrade the post-Sellers series of films to BR. I'm fully content to have a Sellers only set on BR.
I saw the price drop early this morning and came to post the same thing...
I always pre-order stuff I'm interested in from Amazon as soon as it goes up for sale. If the price doesn't drop enough to suit me or I simply change my mind before ship date it's easy to cancel.
I had pretty much the same thoughts. But I'm done thinking. I fully expect the Amazon price to drop at least to $80 before release day. If not, I'll just cancel and wait for the inevitable drop to that price. It'll happen... it's just a matter of when, but it doesn't happen as often with...
I just realized last night that this collection also includes Trail of the Pink Panther. I'd looked at the current price and went "Wait... that's $20/film for 5 films - not $16.67!" and looked at the films included again to see what I'd missed. It just didn't register that, in spite of him...
While I like A Shot in the Dark, it's mostly for the lovely Elke Sommer rather than Sellers and it being a "Pink Panther" film. In similar fashion my favorite part of The Pink Panther is Claudia Cardinale. Like you younger guys, my favorites are Return..., ...Strikes Again, and Revenge, pretty...
I *just* watched a couple with my 13 year old grandson a few weeks back and was lamenting the poor PQ and wondering if the series would *ever* get a BR upgrade. Superb! Pre-ordered! :D