More Amazon deals: Warner two-disc sets (musicals and other stuff) and NBA sets

[yendi]

I posted some more Amazon deals this weekend (including cheap Hitchcock, Harry Potter, LotR, Matrix, and a bunch of $6.97, $7.97, and $10.97 discs).

Since then, they've put up a bunch of $12.97 deals on two-disc Warner special editions (usually a bit over 50% off), including:

Casablanca
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Adventures of Robin Hood (starring the incomparable Errol Flynn)
Enter the Dragon
The Lost Boys
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Purple Rain
The Color Purple
Singin' in the Rain
Amadeus (Director's cut)
The Right Stuff
My Fair Lady
Space Jam

With the exception of the last one, all of these are ones that I highly recommend (yes, even the oft and unfairly maligned Coster Robin Hood, which is one bad Christian Slater performance away from being a perfect guilty pleasure -- the zipless fuck of adventure movies).

And, for the NBA-obsessed, they have the NBA Dynasty box sets for the Bulls, Lakers, and Celtics on sale for $24.97 each (that's 50% off for the Bulls, 62% off for the Celtics and Lakers). No love for the other dynasty teams, as the Sixers set is $44.99, and the Knicks set is $39.99. All those sets are pretty ridiculously loaded, if you're a fan of those teams.

Comments

[sarahwilder.livejournal.com]

The Costner Robin Hood is a total guilty pleasure for me. I don't own it but any time it's on cable, I'm watching. ;)

[yendi]

My sentiments exactly -- I've probably seen it more times on TV than I care to count (which is why I've resisted buying it, even with the special features and the extras).

[murnkay.livejournal.com]

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[yendi]

I get that a lot. Extra-often from the wife, when I make a pun.

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[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

The oft and unfairly maligned Costner Robin Hood

And maybe it's just me, but seeing it again a couple of years ago I decided the dialogue was more interesting than usual in these historical epics -- something I hadn't really felt or noticed before. It drives me increasingly nuts when there's no or little effort to change how people speak when a story takes places in another time...but the words seem at least in the spirit of Old English, if not the actual language (duh, Chris).

Yes, I actually think about this stuff. I once realized that my frustration with A.I.: Artificial Intelligence comes from how the film so desperately required a poet's sense of words, and Spielberg, for all his skills, AIN'T A FREAKIN' POET. Troy (naked Rose Byrne aside) had a similar problem: it had none of the elegance of what Homer wrote. Because epic poetry is so abstract, you'd almost have to film such stories without dialogue, to show or at least hint at that abstraction.

But yeah, I like that Robin Hood, too, for my own odd reasons.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

But the family that puns together, uh, um, funs together, right? Obviously, the puns aren't enough to make her say "Nuts to this marriage!"

[yendi]

Nifty, but he never actually picks anything up, dammit! I need to contact the King of All Cosmos to talk to him about this.

[yendi]

Agreed. One of the real things that people whine about is Costner's lack of a British accent. Frankly, if they went for truly "authentic" speech, we wouldn't be able to understand it, anyway. I'd rather have something that captures the spirit of the mythology.