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Jan 13, 2015 - 8:27 AM
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Joe E.
(Member)
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Digging this up because I came across it while looking for something else, and it struck me as freaking amazing. Oh, I know the deal is no longer around, and the quality of over half the movies in this particular combo is debatable anyway, but still, this was an amazing deal, or at least it would have been at one time - and yet it's not all that uncommon now.
I don't know about all of you, but I remember a time when the whole very idea of owning one's own personal copy of a movie, the same way one might have a personal copy of a book or an album, was like some kind of magical wonderland dream fantasy. And not long after that, it became a reality, but even then, at first one might expect to have to pay eighty or ninety bucks or more for a VHS tape - low resolution, panned-and-scanned so we weren't even getting the whole picture, and absolutely bare bones, with absolutely zip in the way of what we now routinely refer to as special features.
Now, though, it's possible for average folks to not only get copies of movies for a fraction of what it cost then - cheap enough to rival the cost of just a couple individual theatrical viewings, or even cheaper than that - but the audiovisual quality can be absolutely amazing, films can often be seen with excised material restored or even in multiple different cuts allowing one to pick and choose one's favorite version, and even 3d - real, non-anaglyph 3d! - is a home viewing option for those who want it. And so many movies - not all, but immense numbers - are available with an insane wealth of supplementary material, everything from trailers to commentaries to interviews to behind-the-scenes footage to outtakes to music videos to gag reels to EPK featurettes to shorts to isolated scores to entire other movies.
In some ways, we really are spoiled.
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