iTunes Discounts and Sales

[DaBargainHunta]

Originally Posted by Scottie

Both La Boum films are on sale for $4.99.

How are they? I've passed on them before but I remember them looking like they could be good.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by DaBargainHunta

How are they? I've passed on them before but I remember them looking like they could be good.

I have not seen them. However, they look/sound good, in my opinion.

I'm also biased because my favorite music group pays homage to the film in one of their music videos. (As well as: Ghost, Romeo + Juliet, Pulp Fiction, La La Land, Leon the Professional, Love Letter, and The Princess Diaries.)

TWICE "What is Love?" M/V - YouTube

[Scottie]

There is a 1982 Filipino film called "Himala" (Miracle) that is on sale for $4.99.

It is considered by many to be the greatest Filipino movie ever made.

[Sayonara808]

Originally Posted by Scottie

I have not seen them. However, they look/sound good, in my opinion.

I'm also biased because my favorite music group pays homage to the film in one of their music videos. (As well as: Ghost, Romeo + Juliet, Pulp Fiction, La La Land, Leon the Professional, Love Letter, and The Princess Diaries.)

TWICE "What is Love?" M/V - YouTube

K-pop

[montana666]

I hope, they will add "The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive" before the Arrow sale is over. It's part of the Giallo Essentials Collection and the only one missing on iTunes.

[DaBargainHunta]

Originally Posted by suomynona

Some of you may have noticed the search feature for this website is currently not working. Looks like the price tracker may also not be working as intended.

"Best of Enemies" is currently $4.99 (new lowest) on iTunes -- regardless of the $12.99 price that you see here.

Search is currently working for me, and so is the price tracker (unless you mean notifications for price drops you're tracking, which I don't know) - I see Best of Enemies listed among the price drops - but it's been hit or miss since last night.

[Scottie]

I genuinely wonder why Criterion only discounts about 50% of their catalogue on iTunes.

I think I'll shoot them an email. (EDIT: And done.)

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by suomynona

This! There is still time to flip the price drop on the rest of the titles. I have 7 hours and 45 minutes to buy the other 100-150 titles that haven't dropped to $4.99. Let's make it happen! rofl

I hope they respond and tell me to piss off.

You have no idea how many titles I purchased this week. If iTunes continues their trend of discounting the same titles each week, I don't think I'll have to buy another movie again.

[Scottie]

In an effort to stir up a little conversation, I was wondering what Arrow titles you guys own and/or recommend.

I'm 99.9% these are all of the Arrow films I own. Surprisingly, I owned a lot of these prior to this latest Arrow sale. The bold ones are the movies I have seen. (As you can tell, I haven't seen many of them.)

[Show spoiler]

1. Animal Factory
2. Audition
3. The Ballad of Narayama
4. Betty
5. Black Rain
6. Black Rainbow
7. The Black Report
8. Black Test Car
9. Blind Beast
10. Blood and Black Lace
11. The Bloodstained Butterfly
12. Bride of Re-Animator
13. Bullet Ballet
14. The Cat o' Nine Tails
15. The Color of Lies
16. Crimes of Passion
17. Dark Water
18. The Dead Center
19. Dead or Alive
20. Deep Red
21. Distant Voices, Still Lives
22. Donnie Darko
23. Don't Torture a Duckling
24. Dream Demon
25. The Flower of Evil
26. The Ghoul
27. Giants and Toys
28. Graveyard of Honor (1975)
29. Graveyard of Honor (2002)
30. The Happiness of the Katakuris
31. Hiroshima
32. Images
33. Inferno (Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno)
34. Inspector Lavardin
35. Irezumi
36. Joint Security Area
37. Kansas City
38. Killing
39. Kotoko
40. Ley Lines
41. Love and Other Cults
42. The Loveless
43. Madame Bovary
44. Nightcap
45. One Missed Call
46. One Missed Call 2
47. One Missed Call Final
48. Orchestra Rehearsal
49. The Passion of Darkly Noon
50. Le Plaisir (I wish we could edit our own metadata so this appears under "P")
51. Rainy Dog
52. Re-Animator
53. Red Angel
54. The Righteous
55. Ringu
56. Ringu 0
57. Ringu 2
58. Ringu Spiral
59. Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
60. Shinjuku Triad Society
61. Sleep
62. A Snake of June
63. Society
64. The Stylist
65. The Swindle
66. Tale of Cinema
67. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
68. Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer
69. Threshold
70. Tokyo Fist
71. Torment
72. Torso
73. Versus
74. Vital
75. The Voice of the Moon
76. The Woman
77. Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
78. Zegen
79. Zombie for Sale

I thought I owned the Arrow edition of "Pulse" but it's the Magnolia one. I wonder how the two compare.

On the subject of unwatched movies, I distinctly recall ~10+ years ago when I still had Blu-rays and DVDs, I went through each movie I hadn't seen and watched every single one of them. I found a lot of gems, but also a lot of duds (which I ended up selling, but that's a different topic altogether). More importantly, it made me feel like I got my money's worth out of the movies. I can't say the same about these.

[BlueRagtop]

Originally Posted by SilverRoc

Can anyone who owns Mccabe and Mrs Miller comment on the picture quality? Thanks.

As long as you realize that the film was intended to look rough & hazy, it looks about as good as it ever will. What's more -- something I just discovered -- the iTunes and Movies Anywhere prints do not have the amped up blue levels that the Criterion Blu-ray shows. I wish I could take screenshots to illustrate, but if you want to see for yourself, compare the second screenshot on this site (of the preacher in the rain) with the digital version (approximately 40 minutes in). The difference is striking, with the digital showing the more natural browns & greens seen in other parts of the movie.

[SilverRoc]

Originally Posted by BlueRagtop

As long as you realize that the film was intended to look rough & hazy, it looks about as good as it ever will. What's more -- something I just discovered -- the iTunes and Movies Anywhere prints do not have the amped up blue levels that the Criterion Blu-ray shows. I wish I could take screenshots to illustrate, but if you want to see for yourself, compare the second screenshot on this site (of the preacher in the rain) with the digital version (approximately 40 minutes in). The difference is striking, with the digital showing the more natural browns & greens seen in other parts of the movie.

Thanks for the help. I actually went ahead and grabbed it last night and it doesn't look bad at all.

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by Scottie

I guess I should have asked this a long time ago, but how many of you have an Apple Card?

I signed up for it about a year ago and it's been great. Anything you purchase on iTunes will yield 3% back.

I've had one for several years. It's my favorite card.

[Scottie]

One False Move is $4.99. Buy it without hesitation and thank me later.

I bought it a previous sale and I’m in the process of watching it right now. It’s one of the best things I’ve seen in the longest time.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by suomynona

The last time "Memories of Murder" (4K/MA) went on sale ($7.99, lowest price) was July 26, 2021. I was hoping for a $4.99 price drop last Monday on Bong Joon-ho's 2003 film. That didn't happen.

3 hours ago, I was told by Universal that they would fix this listing in their store to reflect 4K. Price would remain $6.99. HD hasn't been updated to 4K yet, and even though I told them I'd buy it if they fixed it, I will be waiting until 9PM tonight to see if the writer/director of Parasite's 2003 film is $4.99 on iTunes or elsewhere. Again, NEON titles rarely drop to $4.99 so it's wishful thinking at this point.

Side note: "Memories of Murder" is one of those 4K only titles. No HDR. No Dolby Vision. Any reason to continue waiting? For those that bought it last year for $7.99, how's the quality of the picture? Thanks.

I’ll let you know soon.

[coloncatastrophe]

Originally Posted by suomynona

The last time "Memories of Murder" (4K/MA) went on sale ($7.99, lowest price) was July 26, 2021. I was hoping for a $4.99 price drop last Monday on Bong Joon-ho's 2003 film. That didn't happen.

3 hours ago, I was told by Universal that they would fix this listing in their store to reflect 4K. Price would remain $6.99. HD hasn't been updated to 4K yet, and even though I told them I'd buy it if they fixed it, I will be waiting until 9PM tonight to see if the writer/director of Parasite's 2003 film is $4.99 on iTunes or elsewhere. Again, NEON titles rarely drop to $4.99 so it's wishful thinking at this point.

Side note: "Memories of Murder" is one of those 4K only titles. No HDR. No Dolby Vision. Any reason to continue waiting? For those that bought it last year for $7.99, how's the quality of the picture? Thanks.

Originally Posted by Scottie

I’ll let you know soon.

As excited as I came off in my post, I never did actually get around to watching it yet... With that being said, I'm an AV pleb and would need to get real investigative to likely notice much of a visual differentiation... So I don't think my endorsement would go very far in this regard.

Saturday came and went with no Princess Mononoke (or Ghibli title in general...) so I hope that today is the day, like every Monday evening.

[Scottie]

RE: Memories of Murder

Compared to the screenshots from the Criterion release, the iTunes release looks to have the same color grading. However, the print on iTunes appears slightly brighter. Take any outdoor scene, for example. The iTunes version looks like the scenes were shot a couple of hours earlier than the Criterion one, before the sun started setting.

It's hard for me to adequately explain it without providing screenshots of my own.

[Messana]

Originally Posted by Scottie

In an effort to stir up a little conversation, I was wondering what Arrow titles you guys own and/or recommend.

Re-Animator: one of the better horror/comedy films out there with a solid set of characters.

Society: horror conspiracy thriller that satires the wealthy. I don't think it's a bad movie but the ending may be grotesque enough to turn people away.

Don't Torture a Duckling: run of the mill giallo film.

Just bought Tetsuo: The Iron Man after hearing good reviews.

[Scottie]

Candyman at $4.99! (I lied earlier when I said I was done.)

[DaBargainHunta]

Originally Posted by Scottie

Candyman at $4.99! (I lied earlier when I said I was done.)

Where are you seeing this? I'm seeing $14.99.

Edit: Not updated here yet, but it's indeed $4.99 in the iTunes store.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by DaBargainHunta

Where are you seeing this? I'm seeing $14.99.

I should have specified the original.