The Criterion Collection

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

I'm a die hard B&N supporter, have a BN membership, as well as a BN Mastercard, and hardly ever buy from Amazon.

And therein lies your problem. It all makes so much sense now.

CC

[also]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

Nah, just always been a pet peeve how much most of you people hate on B&N but jock Amazon so crazily.

Seems like 9/10 of users on here have Prime, but 1/10 have a B&N membership, which as always confused me.

I'm a die hard B&N supporter, have a BN membership, as well as a BN Mastercard, and hardly ever buy from Amazon.

I have neither BN membership nor Prime. My allegiance is bought by good prices and quality service. I don't buy from B&N much, since they fact I have to pay tax adds 10% to every transaction, and outside of big sales and coupons, I don't see many competitive prices.

At the moment, I am arguing with customer service because they are refusing to honor the 10% AAA discount on an order I already placed. They retroactively removed it, and when I asked them to fix it, they shipped my package 2 weeks earlier than estimated. Mysteriously, it cannot be tracked.

Now they won't even answer a single email. This is the kind of service I associate with B&N, because this is the kind of service they give me. The only time it is worth is when I am saving 50%.

It is nothing personal.

[stobbart]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

Seems like 9/10 of users on here have Prime, but 1/10 have a B&N membership, which as always confused me.

I have both. A year free of prime for being a college student and a 2 month free B&N membership. Ill cancel both before I have to pay any money for them.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by Trekkie313

I can't tell if you're joking or being a douche.

I Like Turtles.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

jock Amazon

What sport does Amazon play? I never knew.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by also

Barns & Nobles' girlfriend?

So it's a 3-way?

[fdm]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

True B&N fashion? I've had nothing but perfect packaging done by them, and I order from them more often than Amazon. Got mine in the mail today.

Box was an appropriate size for the content inside, had a bubble insulator for the extra space to keep movie from shifting.

[Show spoiler]

Not a single dent, bend, bow, crease, scratch, anything.
Another, typical, perfect item from B&N.

I was actually pretty shocked, as mine arrived in perfect shape today, packed the same as in your pictures. This is not normally how they send me stuff, so color me tickled pink. Or should I say this is not normally how their box sets arrive at my doorstep (I'll hold of on the gory details of past disasters, let's just say this may be a first for B&N). Glad I held my nose and jumped in, at least this one time.

[fdm]

Originally Posted by silentblu

It is USPS. The only reason I think it might have got miss scanned is because it says delivered at 1 am today. That's usually when they are sorting stuff. I probably should send a quick email tonight to customer service. I kind of expect they will have to resend.

I maybe had a package shipped this way a month or two back. Started out UPS. Ended up being "delivered" to my post office. And the next day it was really delivered by USPS to my mailbox (for all intents and purposes, my house).

[jacobsever]

Originally Posted by stobbart

I have both. A year free of prime for being a college student

Wait, really? Never knew that.

[TokyoLee]

Hey, Im new to this thread I made my first Criterion purchase last week and bought Yojimbo/Sanjuro pack and I got it in the mail today watched them and Loved them both and the PQ along with AQ I havent had a chance to watch the Special Features yet but I will.I have seen the two flims before and I was wondering about the other three Akira Kurosawa films that are Blu-ray Criterion Collection.Im going to buy Seven Samurai this week im a HUGE Toshirô Mifune fan and Akira Kurosawa fan aswell.I was wondering how are (Ran) and (Kagemusha) I havent seen those two films yet.Im just wondering if anyone could recommend these films and also is there any news about other Akira films that may be released on Blu-ray I would love to have the Musashi Miyamoto Samurai Trilogy. Thanks for the help

[fdm]

Originally Posted by TokyoLee

Hey, Im new to this thread I made my first Criterion purchase last week and bought Yojimbo/Sanjuro pack and I got it in the mail today watched them and Loved them both and the PQ along with AQ I havent had a chance to watch the Special Features yet but I will.I have seen the two flims before and I was wondering about the other three Akira Kurosawa films that are Blu-ray Criterion Collection.Im going to buy Seven Samurai this week im a HUGE Toshirô Mifune fan and Akira Kurosawa fan aswell.I was wondering how are (Ran) and (Kagemusha) I havent seen those two films yet.Im just wondering if anyone could recommend these films and also is there any news about other Akira films that may be released on Blu-ray I would love to have the Musashi Miyamoto Samurai Trilogy. Thanks for the help

Ran is not a CC blu-ray. One of my favorite Kurosawa's, but it's only available via Studio Canal blu-ray. I watched some of it (too soon after watching the Criterion dvd, so didn't finish, for now), and it does have some issues that possibly and/or likely wouldn't have been the case had Criterion been able to do their blu-ray instead, but it wasn't as terrible as some claim. Criterion's dvd wasn't one of their better ones PQ-wise imho, so a net gain as far as I am concerned. Just not as much as anyone would have liked.

Kagemusha probably looks like CC's Ran would have looked like, maybe a little better still, but I wasn't as thrilled by the story. Probably can't go wrong with Seven Samurai, but I've only watched the original CC dvd at this point; no doubt the blu-ray's way better than that. Looking forward to seeing Seven Samurai again before too long. And Yojimbo/Sanjuro too for that matter.

[Tom Hiddleston]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

Wait, really? Never knew that.

Yep it's a great deal, can't beat free.

[jacobsever]

Just signed up (even though I haven't been in school for a couple semesters...)
Thank you guys very much for informing me!

[Tom Hiddleston]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

Just signed up (even though I haven't been in school for a couple semesters...)
Thank you guys very much for informing me!

Np. It's saved me a ton of time, some money, and it's hassle free, so far. I couldn't be happier with it.

[SpiderBaby]

I wonder if Criterion will ever pass the French New Wave and finally start on the also great 70's (and late 60's) of French Film? Philippe Garrel, Jean Eustache, MORE MAURICE PIALAT? Heck, even though they still haven't released Godard's most important film of the New Wave era, I feel like these directors need a turn with a "wacky C".


Oh, and Hopper's Last Movie.

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

I wonder if Criterion will ever pass the French New Wave and finally start on the also great 70's (and late 60's) of French Film? Philippe Garrel, Jean Eustache, MORE MAURICE PIALAT? Heck, even though they still haven't released Godard's most important film of the New Wave era, I feel like these directors need a turn with a "wacky C".


Oh, and Hopper's Last Movie.

I heard they canceled all the non-New Wave French BD upgrades in order to produce eighteen new hours of bonus content for a forthcoming release of Fantastic Mr. Fox.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

I heard they canceled all the non-New Wave French BD upgrades in order to produce eighteen new hours of bonus content for a forthcoming release of Fantastic Mr. Fox.

I wouldn't doubt it. Important cinema my ***. More like, "what can we make the most money from?". Isn't that how Hollywood keeps falling back in the same hole? Don't base things on money. That will follow.

[jacobsever]

Originally Posted by mmgirl

Np. It's saved me a ton of time, some money, and it's hassle free, so far. I couldn't be happier with it.

I mean, as far as Criterion's go, I'm still going to order from their webstore (RHINO 10% off code makes each film 28.76 which beats amazon's 35.99 + store credit), but all other orders will probably go to Amazon from now on.

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

I Like Turtles.

I now knight you Sir Douché.

CC

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

I wonder if Criterion will ever pass the French New Wave and finally start on the also great 70's (and late 60's) of French Film? Philippe Garrel, Jean Eustache, MORE MAURICE PIALAT? Heck, even though they still haven't released Godard's most important film of the New Wave era, I feel like these directors need a turn with a "wacky C".


Oh, and Hopper's Last Movie.

Hmm. I never considered the "C" to be "wacky". You must read CF a lot?

Just one of my pet peeves. I cringe when I read "wacky C". It's up there with "in order to", "basically" to start a sentence and Sarah Palin allying with North Korea.