To Kill A Mockingbird classic Blu-ray Jan 31, 2012 Review

[frightism]

What exactly is the Collector's edition? Is it a digi-book or digi-pack like Taxi Driver?

[k_lodge]

Pre-order on Amazon back down to $18.99

[masoud90]

Never had the chance to see this previously, but will definitely watch it now

[ripod19]

Is there any word as to whether there will be a color restored version included?

[Member-38928]

Originally Posted by ripod19

Is there any word as to whether there will be a color restored version included?

Going off the blu-ray cases, I would guess that it is just the color restored version or perhaps a new one? Anyone know?

[zombeaner]

Who in God's name would want a color version of To Kill a Mockingbird?

[DetroitSquirreL]

Originally Posted by zombeaner

Who in God's name would want a color version of To Kill a Mockingbird?

exactly!!

[Member-38928]

Originally Posted by zombeaner

Who in God's name would want a color version of To Kill a Mockingbird?

lol, I guess I just gapped this out but since the cover on my DVD that I sold to Amazon was in color and the blu-ray covers have color on them I thought my DVD was color too, now that I look I see it was not, lol I totally gapped that out, its been like 5+ years since I have seen it. So now that I know that have to agree with you 100%.

Geez and they say our memory just gets worse as we age.

[MattGuyOR]

Originally Posted by Trekkie313

The one Blu-Ray better not seriously come with the horrid blue banner slapped on the front...it clashes so much with the artwork!

It looks much better without the banners.

[Member-38928]

AFI's top 2 courtroom dramas for $8.98

(I already posted this in the 12 A.M. thread but I figured post it here as well.)

[KrugerIndustrial]

Originally Posted by bentvalve

AFI's top 2 courtroom dramas for $8.98

(I already posted this in the 12 A.M. thread but I figured post it here as well.)

I don't understand what's so special about that? It's not like you got a great deal or something, you just used a gift certificate.

[Member-38928]

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

I don't understand what's so special about that? It's not like you got a great deal or something, you just used a gift certificate.

Yeah, I hear ya. I am mostly just bragging but most of that GC was from this.


I had the CE ordered but I canceled it so I could say that Amazon paid me .51 cents to upgrade my DVD to the blu-ray.
(edit: why I got so much is because that DVD is OOP)

[Leterface]

Originally Posted by bentvalve

Yeah, I hear ya. I am mostly just bragging but most of that GC was from this.


I had the CE ordered but I canceled it so I could say that Amazon paid me .51 cents to upgrade my DVD to the blu-ray.
(edit: why I got so much is because that DVD is OOP)

Great, if the upgrades only ever was so easy..

[Member-38928]

Originally Posted by Leterface

Great, if the upgrades only ever was so easy..

lol, no kidding. Since this has never happened before and it won't happen again I figured id make something to put in my To Kill a Mockingbird case when I get it.




I am really looking forward to this release, I will very likely watch it on the day I get it.

[DetroitSquirreL]

I want the digibook but @$27.99 USD+ shipping thats insane. I dropped my pre order and pre ordered the UK digibook @ $21.15 USD shipped

[nathan_393]

I caved and ordered the Digibook. I'm a sucker for collector's editions, at any price... and To Kill A Mockingbird is a classic. I might order All Quiet On The Western Front as well and pick up every Universal film in this series throughout the year (unless I already have it in standard packaging).

[Eye Candy]

Originally Posted by BillyJack

Count me in! I'm still gonna keep my Legacy Edition because of the awesome packaging and extras (including 11 mini poster replicas), some of which may not be ported to the blu. Gregory Peck was such a class act, I miss him. Plus this was Robert Duvall's debut film, he still acting today and lives in my state of Virginia! I also believe Harper Lee is still alive as well.

Harper Lee is living in Alabama.

Lee said of the 1962 Academy Award-winning screenplay adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird by Horton Foote: "I think it is one of the best translations of a book to film ever made". She also became a friend of Gregory Peck, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the father of the novel's narrator, Scout. She remains close to the actor's family. Peck's grandson, Harper Peck Voll, is named after her.

I was surprised to learn in 2009, when I heard a NPR show with the author (Kerry Madden) that wrote a book about Harper Lee, that Lee, who lived in Monroeville, Alabama, was a neighbor and friend of Truman Capote, who was staying with relatives there. And that Harper Lee, wrote the character Dill being based on Capote.

Capote was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was the son of 17-year-old Lillie Mae Faulk and salesman Archulus Persons. His parents divorced when he was four, and he was sent to Monroeville, Alabama, where, for the following four to five years, he was raised by his mother's relatives.

Capote and his Monroeville neighbor, Harper Lee, remained lifelong friends. He based the character of Idabel in Other Voices, Other Rooms on her, and was in turn the inspiration for the character Dill Harris in Lee's 1960 bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Capote once acknowledged this: "Mr. and Mrs. Lee, Harper Lee's mother and father, lived very near. Harper Lee was my best friend. Did you ever read her book, To Kill a Mockingbird? I'm a character in that book, which takes place in the same small town in Alabama where we lived. Her father was a lawyer, and she and I used to go to trials all the time as children. We went to the trials instead of going to the movies."
Later, Harper Lee was Capote's crucial research partner for In Cold Blood.

(From Wiki)

[CheapChildren]

Originally Posted by Eye Candy

Harper Lee is living in Alabama.

Lee said of the 1962 Academy Award-winning screenplay adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird by Horton Foote: "I think it is one of the best translations of a book to film ever made". She also became a friend of Gregory Peck, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the father of the novel's narrator, Scout. She remains close to the actor's family. Peck's grandson, Harper Peck Voll, is named after her.

I was surprised to learn in 2009, when I heard a NPR show with the author (Kerry Madden) that wrote a book about Harper Lee, that Lee, who lived in Monroeville, Alabama, was a neighbor and friend of Truman Capote, who was staying with relatives there. And that Harper Lee, wrote the character Dill being based on Capote.

Capote was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was the son of 17-year-old Lillie Mae Faulk and salesman Archulus Persons. His parents divorced when he was four, and he was sent to Monroeville, Alabama, where, for the following four to five years, he was raised by his mother's relatives.

Capote and his Monroeville neighbor, Harper Lee, remained lifelong friends. He based the character of Idabel in Other Voices, Other Rooms on her, and was in turn the inspiration for the character Dill Harris in Lee's 1960 bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Capote once acknowledged this: "Mr. and Mrs. Lee, Harper Lee's mother and father, lived very near. Harper Lee was my best friend. Did you ever read her book, To Kill a Mockingbird? I'm a character in that book, which takes place in the same small town in Alabama where we lived. Her father was a lawyer, and she and I used to go to trials all the time as children. We went to the trials instead of going to the movies."
Later, Harper Lee was Capote's crucial research partner for In Cold Blood.

(From Wiki)

Yeah, Capote is all about them during the "In Cold Blood" time period.

So the Commemorative Limited Edition is only a digibook? That's the only difference? That seems a bit dumb. Although I'll probably get it considering how much I don't want my copy to be on of those generic 100th Anniversery slip covers.

[DetroitSquirreL]

Originally Posted by CheapChildren

Yeah, Capote is all about them during the "In Cold Blood" time period.

So the Commemorative Limited Edition is only a digibook? That's the only difference? That seems a bit dumb. Although I'll probably get it considering how much I don't want my copy to be on of those generic 100th Anniversery slip covers.

No, Its both a Digibook & regular case

[Stoudman]

I'd get the digibook, but that cover is just too ugly. I don't mind the bottom, meant to look like the cigar box, but the pictures on top just make it look ugly. If they had stayed with the theme of the cigar box, I would have been all over the digibook, but they didn't really do that, did they? I guess those could be pictures in the cigar box, but they're too fake for me to buy that. I'd rather pay a few bucks less and have something on my shelf that doesn't look awful.

Am I the only one who isn't a fan of this digibook cover? I know it's a nitpick, but you'd think they would be more careful about something designed to be a COLLECTOR'S EDITION. *sigh*