Gift Shopping: DVDs
Amazon keeps sending out special announcements about all sorts of sales they are running. The discounting is selective, but heavy.
The latest is a special on DVDs for $7.97. I scanned the sale list (mostly blah), but there were a handful of winners amongst the junk:
A terrific movie, great performances -- but be aware this is on sale because of the new (and more expensive) 10th Anniversary Edition. Scorcese fans may recall the same thing happened with Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition).
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• The Chronicles of Riddick (Widescreen Unrated Director's Cut)
This is a very under-rated Sci-Fi flick that improves with each viewing. Great special effects, interesting story, good action sequences. The Unrated Director's Cut has more violence and extended fight scenes.
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• The Bourne series:
I read the Bourne books in high school and college as my junk beach books -- but the story holds up well, the actions sequences are great, and Matt Damonis surprisingly menacing as the title character.• The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition)
• The Bourne Supremacy (Widescreen Edition)~~~
Spike Jonze does a great job turning this bizarre screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, into a surreal and brilliant piece of film making. Could be the best film of 1999.
Happy shopping !
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Most of the amazon sales are junk. I've been buying for less using the Google Checkout deals. The $20 off $50 unlimited coupons at buy.com are nice; buy.com has most of the books, videos, electronics, etc. as amazon.com. Just not many toys. jr.com had to stop their $10 off $30 google checkout deal because they were getting swamped with orders.
Posted by: Limejuice | Dec 8, 2006 5:52:12 PM
So did they work out all those reported glitches with Google Checkout, or does it still randomly cancel orders?
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/technet/10303484.html
I love Google, but not enough to give them my credit card info.
Posted by: curmudgeonly troll | Dec 8, 2006 10:00:41 PM
Gotta love the Bournes! Shame we have to wait till October 07 for Ultimatum.
Posted by: my1ambition | Dec 9, 2006 8:39:01 AM
A few more good ones on sale right now:
The Changeling (one of the best haunted house movies)
King Kong (original)
Cool Hand Luke
Planes Trains and Automobiles
The Matrix
Little Shop of Horrors
Raising Arizona
Breaking Away
Bonnie and Clyde
Die Hard
The Haunting
A Fistful of Dollars
The Apartment
and more ... look here:
'DVD's under 7.49' - left side of DVD home page, half way down
Posted by: Mike McCurdy | Dec 9, 2006 10:51:42 AM
marking things up at the end of the supply chain and then shipping them for free. no wonder amzn makes so much money.....not
Posted by: Merrit vonseggern | Dec 10, 2006 6:49:30 PM
