The Criterion Collection

[csdot]

Originally Posted by fdm

Actually, they do want you to return it. Else you allegedly get charged for both copies. But, again, it's a no-brainer, you go to Amazon's website, pick the Your Order button, log in, pick the item you want to replace (I think the button is Return Items), describe how it got destroyed in the mail, request the replacement, they provide a cost-free return UPS label, or you can even have UPS pick it up at your house, and they also seperately send you a replacement overnight, they don't wait until you return the damaged one. I do it all the time. (Sad that I have to.)

i have never once had Amazon request that i send anything back when theyve replaced anything. never got a return label and was never charged for anything. guess it varies.

[eatingclass]

Originally Posted by greekak229

Yeah, I emailed him about my case a little while ago.

How soon does he usually get back to you?

I had a problem with a disk and e-mailed him with the details close to a week ago but not sure how soon I should expect a response.

[roar]

Help!

I have been working on kicking my steelbook habit for a couple of months now... But i'm afraid I've done nothing more than replace it with a criterion habit.

Having only 2 titles in my collection coming into the weekend i have just tripled it! I picked up darjeeling limited and charade on the weekend and I've just ordered Gomorrah and cronos. This is getting out of hand!

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by eatingclass

How soon does he usually get back to you?

I had a problem with a disk and e-mailed him with the details close to a week ago but not sure how soon I should expect a response.

Sometimes a day, sometimes over a week. There's no correct answer.

The last case issue I had was with "Videodrome." I started with contacting Criterion but wound up going back to Amazon and I had the replacement the next day.

CC

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by roar

Help!

I have been working on kicking my steelbook habit for a couple of months now... But i'm afraid I've done nothing more than replace it with a criterion habit.

Having only 2 titles in my collection coming into the weekend i have just tripled it! I picked up darjeeling limited and charade on the weekend and I've just ordered Gomorrah and cronos. This is getting out of hand!

I suggest you abandon both Steelbooks, and Criterion releases...... Have you seen this yet???? It's the promised land (not the one Elvis spoke of however)

https://forum.blu-ray.com/blu-ray-mo...on-thread.html

[italy12]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

They say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves...They say he’s wanted by the CIA, and that he sleeps upside down like a bat...They say he appears on high value stamps in Sweden, and that he can catch fish with his tongue...

- from "The Legend of Jon Mulvaney"

swiped from Top Gear episodes actually

That's hilarious! As I was reading that, I kept picturing that scene in Fight Club where they were talking about Tyler Durden, "...they say he never sleeps..."

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by roar

Help!

I have been working on kicking my steelbook habit for a couple of months now... But i'm afraid I've done nothing more than replace it with a criterion habit.

Having only 2 titles in my collection coming into the weekend i have just tripled it! I picked up darjeeling limited and charade on the weekend and I've just ordered Gomorrah and cronos. This is getting out of hand!

I just hope you're actually watching these films and enjoying them. Otherwise, stay out of here. Seriously, steelbook collectors have a serious issue of buying the same films multiple times just because of the different artwork. Most of those films are absolutely dreadful, too, and I couldn't even imagine spending my money on one copy. Studios these days know, too, that putting a film in a steelbook is going to sell more copies of a crappy movie than if they didn't. To sum it all up... watch the films.

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[fdm]

Originally Posted by csdot

i have never once had Amazon request that i send anything back when theyve replaced anything. never got a return label and was never charged for anything. guess it varies.

Maybe it's a side-effect of using the online replacement request. How do you request your replacements?

[Trekkie313]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

Solution: collect only Criterion steelbooks.

They do SteelBooks?

[roar]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

I just hope you're actually watching these films and enjoying them. Otherwise, stay out of here. Seriously, steelbook collectors have a serious issue of buying the same films multiple times just because of the different artwork. Most of those films are absolutely dreadful, too, and I couldn't even imagine spending my money on one copy. Studios these days know, too, that putting a film in a steelbook is going to sell more copies of a crappy movie than if they didn't. To sum it all up... watch the films.

CC

I do watch the movies I buy, that is for certain, but I do enjoy all film and think criterion has a really interesting catalog. I have several of the desirable steelbooks and they are all opened and well watched, some criterion collectors may have no time for these titles but I'm not hear looking to convert anyone, I'm here looking for help

[roar]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

I suggest you abandon both Steelbooks, and Criterion releases...... Have you seen this yet???? It's the promised land (not the one Elvis spoke of however)

https://forum.blu-ray.com/blu-ray-mo...on-thread.html

But I've only just begun criterion collecting what about criterion releases in a steelbook with a slip cover?

[BluPat]

I wish Criterion could acquire the following titles and release them on Blu-ray:

1.) The Crying Game (1992) Miramax Films

2.) The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (1976) American International Pictures (Theatrical release) SONY/MGM (DVD release)

3.) The Search (1948) MGM (Theatrical release)

4.) Freud: The Secret Passion (1962) Universal International (Theatrical release)

5.) Gods and Monsters (1995) Lionsgate Films (Theatrical release)

...and many others I can't think of at the moment.

[P@t_Mtl]

The review of Play Time from BFI make's me hope a Criterion release is coming soon..

or that I had a region free player.

[kobeson]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

The review of Play Time from BFI make's me hope a Criterion release is coming soon..

or that I had a region free player.

You do realise Playtime is out on Criterion Blu don't you?!? Or are you hoping for a rerelease struck from 70mm?!

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by kobeson

You do realise Playtime is out on Criterion Blu don't you?!? Or are you hoping for a rerelease struck from 70mm?!

After seeing your post, I went and check...I did not even realise it was out already I know what I am ordering from Amazon right now, thanks.

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by italy12

Jon Mulvaney is the man. I just received my new outer box for the BBS set, which came destryoed twice. I kept the second shipmant because the inner cases were not as damaged as the first set I received. The second one was actually not bad at all. So, it looks nice now

You really believe "Jon Mulvaney" the person exists? I've always thought he was a composite character they created. IE. it's the intern who answered the email. "Jon Mulvaney" is the all-knowing, always helpful PR face of Criterion. He's Criterion's George Kaplan.

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

You really believe "Jon Mulvaney" the person exists? I've always thought he was a composite character they created. IE. it's the intern who answered the email. "Jon Mulvaney" is the all-knowing, always helpful PR face of Criterion. He's Criterion's George Kaplan.

I've mentioned it before. I ran into Jon Mulvaney last December when I was down in NYC for my birthday. There is flesh and blood.

CC

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

I've mentioned it before. I ran into Jon Mulvaney last December when I was down in NYC for my birthday. There is flesh and blood.

CC

Did you hurt him?

[Show spoiler]

I found this on another forum:

Originally Posted by Cygnet74
isn't it true that the entity known as "jon mulvaney" doesn't exist? it's just a persona criterion created thru which to do PR?
I'm pretty sure you're correct about this. I was standing behind two people, a man and a woman in line for a screening of The Leopard at the Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater a couple years ago. They were talking about writing cover text for DVD releases or something like that, which kind of got my attention. Anyway, at one point she asked him, "So, are you still at Criterion doing the Mulvaney thing?" He kind of rolled his eyes and said he was, but they didn't carry the conversation beyond that. I don't remember his name (I believe she said it), but it certainly wasn't Jon Mulvaney.

[Beta Man]

Perhaps someone can order $150 worth of swag from Criterion, and special-request that their "sketch" be that of the legend himself..... "Jon Mulvaney"

[italy12]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

You really believe "Jon Mulvaney" the person exists? I've always thought he was a composite character they created. IE. it's the intern who answered the email. "Jon Mulvaney" is the all-knowing, always helpful PR face of Criterion. He's Criterion's George Kaplan.

His emails are always written in the same "voice". I just assumed...and I also heard rumors of ccfixx meeting and having an illustrious affair with him.