Barbarella (1968) July 3rd 2012 - Review

[bigshot]

Barbarella would make a great double feature with Dune.

[bullets]

I found this at B&N. It was randomly thrown in the comedy film section.

[Arkadin]

I didn't think the slipsleeve from Chinatown could be topped--but I think we have a new winner for best sleeve ever.
the Barbarella sleeve is absolutely amazing!

[Atreyu]

I usually order my blus online now as my Walmart hardly has any new releases and I'm not going to go drive a half an hour to get something on release day, I'l just wait the extra few for the mail. Walmart didn't even have The Artist on blu, only dvd.

[mzupeman]

Originally Posted by Atreyu

I usually order my blus online now as my Walmart hardly has any new releases and I'm not going to go drive a half an hour to get something on release day, I'l just wait the extra few for the mail. Walmart didn't even have The Artist on blu, only dvd.

Had mine delivered on day 1 thanks to Amazon.

[wonkavision]

Originally Posted by bullets

I found this at B&N. It was randomly thrown in the comedy film section.

Well, it is a comedy.

[mzupeman]

Originally Posted by wonkavision

Well, it is a comedy.

Pretty much, lol

[bluskies]

Originally Posted by Arkadin

I didn't think the slipsleeve from Chinatown could be topped--but I think we have a new winner for best sleeve ever.

I see your Barbarella slip...



,,,and raise you the Sophia Loren boxset cover...

[six string]

Originally Posted by Atreyu

I usually order my blus online now as my Walmart hardly has any new releases and I'm not going to go drive a half an hour to get something on release day, I'l just wait the extra few for the mail. Walmart didn't even have The Artist on blu, only dvd.

Yeah, this was what I've grown afraid of over the last few years. Everybody is buying everything online so none of the B&M stores are carrying it. I've been to three Walmarts, a Target, two Best Buy stores and a Newbury Comics an not a single effing copy!!! So, all I'm left with is buying it on Amazon. What a pisser.

[Dex Robinson]

Originally Posted by six string

Everybody is buying everything online so none of the B&M stores are carrying it.

I think you've got cause and effect reversed.

None of the B&M stores are carrying it...so everybody is shopping online.

I always used to buy locally. Heading out on new release day was my weekly version of Christmas morning. I knew all of the store managers on a first name basis. But they simply stopped carrying what I wanted to buy.

When they stopped carrying what I wanted to buy, I was forced to shop online.

[six string]

Originally Posted by Dex Robinson

I think you've got cause and effect reversed.

None of the B&M stores are carrying it...so everybody is shopping online.

No offense, but I disagree. I was a late adopter for Blu-ray ..for instance, I started collecting in late 2009 when Target was offering all those $5 coupons off every Blu-ray. But I took advantage of that and picked up every catalog title (Pixar films, Terminator, Predator) I was interested in. Now I've been collecting DVDs since 1999. Blame economics on what you will but I've seen Best Buy's catalog drop down at least 50% (if not more), Best Buy wipe out its Anime selection (which I capitalized on more than 50W% off everything), Suncoast and Borders go out of business and Newbury Comics drop selling new titles from 60-70% of their inventory down to less than 10-20%. The reason why ....MSRP. Over the BR years I've purchased two at MSRP just because I was impulsive and couldn't wait. Otherwise, online beat street just about every time except of store closing sales. It's a no-brainer .....online will always beat street otherwise you'll be out of business or left carrying catalog titles that will cater to the masses, period, the end.

So, in some sense, you're actually correct ...none of the stores carry anything because they can't afford to and we collectors are left with no where else to buy except online. All I'm saying is that it would be nice to have the option of buying something at a physical location without having to wait a few days for shipping.

[HDMe]

The truth is somewhere in between... People who bought online instead of local retail resulted in less copies eventually over time at local retail. People who go into a retail store and don't see something, then buy online instead, results in more online sales.

It is a snake-that-eats-itself situation and hard to say where the cycle truly started to shift the balance.

IF everyone showed up tomorrow and every week for the next year... I think the scales have still tipped so that retail stores would not significantly increase their store inventory unless people stopped buying online and literally waited for a shift in the market.

I prefer to buy locally so I have it in my grubby little hands... but I'll also buy where the price is best too and don't mind waiting to save money.

[fdm]

Originally Posted by six string

Yeah, this was what I've grown afraid of over the last few years. Everybody is buying everything online so none of the B&M stores are carrying it. I've been to three Walmarts, a Target, two Best Buy stores and a Newbury Comics an not a single effing copy!!! So, all I'm left with is buying it on Amazon. What a pisser.

I feel your pain.

(The one Wal-Mart I went to didn't seem to have any, unless they hid them somewhere I didn't look. May check another store out today... Else it's just keep waiting for my online order copy to ship. Kinda ticked it didn't ship with the other stuff that got shipped Monday. And kinda ticked that that other stuff is taking its sweet time showing up.)

[TriuneImpurityRites]

Originally Posted by HDMe

The truth is somewhere in between... People who bought online instead of local retail resulted in less copies eventually over time at local retail. People who go into a retail store and don't see something, then buy online instead, results in more online sales.

It is a snake-that-eats-itself situation and hard to say where the cycle truly started to shift the balance.

IF everyone showed up tomorrow and every week for the next year... I think the scales have still tipped so that retail stores would not significantly increase their store inventory unless people stopped buying online and literally waited for a shift in the market.

I prefer to buy locally so I have it in my grubby little hands... but I'll also buy where the price is best too and don't mind waiting to save money.

and the discussion misses that far more people (in the BD era, compared to the DVD era) have widely available access to acquire movies for free, combined with the ethics to do so. Furthermore, as the rollout of HDTV really evolved in the mid 2000s , people who were mid-adopters (the 42" vizio at costco crowd) set the market for accepting low quality HDlite TV, and hence are more than satisfied with the low quality HDlite streaming options for actually watching movies 'legally'. All the real HT enthusiasts and quality aficianados, typically the early adopters (in technologies past) will be left holding the bag in the end with nothing decent to watch on their setups as BD will eventually die out to the low quality streaming product people want.

[Atreyu]

I used to go to to my local Walmart on release day(Target and Best Buy are over a half an hour away) many times in the past to find what I wanted and was forced to purhase online, so instead of hoping my local Walmart will carry a title now I just usually ppre order from Amazon, due to the low price guarantee.

[Hatter]

Originally Posted by GOMEZFAN69

The blu-ray uses the exact same cut as the Paramount DVD.

This is correct.

Blu-ray clarity simply makes it easier to see it all. After I watched the blu (love this movie) I popped in the dvd and watched the opening scene on my pc monitor. The closer proximity to the screen made it easy to see all the extra nudity I didn't see that well watching the dvd from farther away on an sdtv screen.


The slip is amazing. I normally throw the slips in garbage but this one shall be spared.

That makes three slips I've kept overall. This one, bilingual Sleeping Beauty slip and the all french canadian Emmanuelle slip.

[majorkonig41]

Just watched this. Damn the movie is horrible. And I loved every minute of it. So much fun. Great pq and aq. Plus that slip is terrific. Have a feeling they put extra effort into the slip to offset the lack of extras. What I wouldn't give for a commentary track with Fonda. That would be something to listen to. Can't sai to watch it again and again.

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by HDMe

The truth is somewhere in between... People who bought online instead of local retail resulted in less copies eventually over time at local retail. People who go into a retail store and don't see something, then buy online instead, results in more online sales.

It is a snake-that-eats-itself situation and hard to say where the cycle truly started to shift the balance.

IF everyone showed up tomorrow and every week for the next year... I think the scales have still tipped so that retail stores would not significantly increase their store inventory unless people stopped buying online and literally waited for a shift in the market.

I prefer to buy locally so I have it in my grubby little hands... but I'll also buy where the price is best too and don't mind waiting to save money.

I pretty much agree with everything you have written.

Even during the DVD's boom days, a lot of catalog titles were very difficult to find in stores. Traditional catalog - Ben Hur, Seven, Gone With the Wind, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club - yes, but the overwhelming majority of the catalog titles we are seeing coming out on Blu-ray were almost impossible to get in stores. For example, I never managed to find Lilith so I eventually order it online. (This I remember very well because I also bought a copy for a friend from Budapest, Hungary).

With Blu-ray, there have been interesting developments. I see Criterion Blu-ray releases in a lot of Best Buys, and plenty of Kino discs as well. But I haven't seen some Warner catalog releases (the last one I had trouble finding was 9 1/2 Weeks). I don't remember ever seeing this many Criterion DVD releases in stores. In fact, during the DVD ear a lot of people clearly did not know who Criterion were. Times have definitely changed now.

Overall, in my metro area (one of the largest in the country) there are plenty of Best Buy stores that offer virtually everything, sans some cult catalog titles (latest one being Red Scorpion).

At the end of the day, I think it really depends where one lives. Higher traffic stores get better variety of titles.

Pro-B

[Zen_Amako]

Originally Posted by majorkonig41

Just watched this. Damn the movie is horrible. And I loved every minute of it.

I agree with this. It is a bad movie, but it sure is entertaining. I think it would be a good double feature with the Star Crash BD.

My Barnes & Noble had it in stock, but they remove all the slipcovers (and throw them away?). It would be a shame to be missing the slip for this one.

[wonkavision]

You mean they could still be living in a primitive state of neurotic irresponsibility?