Monday Amazon deals: Chabon, Red Dead Redemption, Rage, Rambo, BSG, One Piece, Breaking Bad, lots mo

[yendi]

The Kindle Deal of the Day is Michael Chabon's nifty essay collection, Maps and Legends, for $1.99 (80% off).

Red Dead Redemption Game of the Year Edition (with the DLC content including the zombie pack) is $19.99 (33% off) for both PS3 and Xbox.

Other video games on sale include Dead Island for $19.99 (67% off, although it's really 33% off, since it's clearly due to take a price drop), Grand Theft Auto IV Complete for $19.99 (33% off), and Rage for $9.99 (50% off).

In DVDs, you can pre-order the four-disc edition of John Carter (with DVD, Blu-Ray, 3D, and digital copy) for only $24.99 (50% off)! If five people buy this, Disney will match their theatrical take on this movie*!

The TV Deal of the Week is on One Piece, with each of the first five collections going for $16.99 (51% off).

Because marketers still equate "Father's Day" with "testosterone-fueled war movies," Amazon's Blu-Ray deals of the week are on the super box sets of Apocalypse Now and Rambo at 48% off. Mind you, both are great movies, but I'd be just as happy with this set.

The box sets of Battlestar Galactica (complete with a Cylon head) are going for 67% off ($88.99 on DVD, $115.99 on Blu-Ray).

Other Blu-Ray deals: Breaking Bad Season 4 is $24.99 (62% off); X-Men: First Class is $12.99 (68% off); the first season of Falling Skies is $24.99 (50% off); Machine Gun Preacher is $19.99 (50% off); and Star Trek is $11.24 (58% off).

Finally, the awesome Tucker and Dale vs Evil is $12.95 (52% off) on DVD, and also available free via streaming on Amazon Prime. It's an awesome examination of the urban/rural conflict explored in Clover's Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (which not only needs an updated second edition badly, but also does a great and undersold job of exploring some non-gender issues like the aforementioned one).

*Although Battleship looks like it'll be even more of a bomb, making Taylor Kitsch true box office poison, even if he died really nicely in Snakes on a Plane.

Comments

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

Id be pissed if i bought Rage full price when it came out .

I thought it was a really fun game with a shitty ending. But i rented it.

[yendi]

The price cycle (especially for anything that isn't top three selling at the holiday season) is pretty swift. At $10, it's so cheap, I may grab it now just to have it to play down the road.

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

If you like post apocolyptic fps games its great. The ending is a letdown-(thats no kind of spoiler, i just thought it was anticlimactic)-but totally worth getting, especially at $10.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

Battleship was released overseas months ago and easily already made a profit before it even hit the U.S. and got buried under the other Summer blockbusters...

[yendi]

Kinda sorta. They wisely released it overseas first, but it's made $235 million overseas. That's technically a profit on production ($209 mil), but publicity and distribution fees probably evened that out. And the $55 million domestic (likely to cap no higher than $65 at its current pace) probably won't even cover its publicity budget. I think it's less a profit than it is a push.

Mind you, John Carter didn't make enough overseas to even recoup production, so the $72 million it made domestically doesn't really make it much stronger.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

Ah thats too bad about JC and its overseas figures. I liked that movie. Mostly what I heard about "Battleship" that it was essentially competently done loud & dumb Micheal Bay style action...