filmlover

They put the FM feature on the same disc with both the regular release MDC and the preview version of MDC???? Seems like a lot. When I open the box on Christmas Day,the first thing I will be watching will be Up the River. I want to see Bogart's (AND Tracy's) first feature film. I read somewhere that a couple of the films in the set are only so-so video quality. Have you checked any yet?

Thatnks for letting us know about FM. How do you like the art on the individual covers?

Exactly.

Lone Ranger - The Legend Begins This is just a short review on this 2-DVD set from Mill Creek to say the Clayton Moore shows are enjoyable enough, but "The Lone Ranger" serial is about as poor quality as you can get. The serial had long been considered lost but turned up in a print with Spanish subtitles a decade or so ago. That is the one used here, and it is truly bad video quality, plus they have enlarged the image to hide the subtitles at the bottom of the print used. On a scale of 1 to 10: 3. Even at the cheap price of this DVD set, it is isn't worth it. Stay away!

I know, I don't understand either why Frontier Marshall made it to one of the small sets and not the big one. But even though it hasn't been any of the listings for the big set, maybe it will be there when we get it. Hard to imagine Fox doing one special DVD for the the smaller set. Of course, truth be told, I would rather they had added another Ford film, since there were some that didn't make the set. Even though there is the connection to My Darling Clementine, why put a film on any set of Ford films if it isn't by Ford?

I think Born Yesterday is a comedy gem, and it's all because of Judy Holliday. She left us much too young. Did anyone else have the misfortune to see the remake with Melanie Griffith?

The Fox/MGM box sets special is now on Amazon but it is not as good on DVDPlanet and deepdiscount.come. On the latter two, they have it as two for the price of one, and based on their discount prices (so in other words 50% off whatever discounted price they have already displayed, so that could be 70% off total. For Amazon, they are just calling it a 50% off sale. That's 50% off of the full retail price. So stick with dvdplanet and deepdiscount (except dvdplanet charges tax) unless you just want to get one item. For example, the Betty Grable Collection will end up being $21 when you get it and another item from dvdplanet.com or $32 if`you buy it by itself from Amazon. And Amazon only has about 40 titles while there looks to be hundreds of titles from dvdplanet/deepdiscount.

They might be doing them in order of purchase date.

First, it surprises me that more than one person is sharing the account. Second, after trying to hijack The TCM Programming Challenge, a very special thread here, yesterday like you tried to do is not the sign of a person who is trying to make nice. I, for one, will not mourn your leaving...though I suspect you will only be gone for a few hours.

I've gotten word from B&N that my Ford at Fox set has shipped and I should be getting on Wednesday. Much as I am tempted to open it, if I don't hear any discs rattling loose inside I will be putting it straight away under the tree until Christmas (which is now exactly three weeks away).

It's weird but I have heard nothing from VCI. After I first sent the order, I could get online and check to see they had received it. But since then, my password no longer works, nothing has been charged to my card, and I have heard nothing from them when I requested a password reset through their system (twice now over several days!).

Hawkraven, I see you have changed your original post and title a bit. I think it is wrong to only allow the winners of previous challenges to create the next programming challenge. So I have now created a new challenge. Whether you think it is fair or not, this is the accepted practice per the rules of the TCM Programming Challenge. I see you have now changed your post to read "Fantasy" programming challenge, but this will only serve to confuse people. The sort of contest you propose has been done many times in different forms in the Trivia thread and that is where you should be doing it, not here in the General Discussion Forum. Sorry to be hard about this but the real TCM Programming Challenge is a respected contest here in the General Discussions board. Your thread is only going to cause much confusion here. I would ask everyone who reads this to please respond only to the legitimate TCM Programming Challenge #8 on these boards, which is currently underway and hosted by hlywdkjk. Again, hawkraven, I ask you to delete this thread entirely, and start your competition in the Trivia thread!

Hawkraven, your enthusiasm is to be applauded. HOWEVER, only the winner of the TCM Programming Challenge #8 can start the next Challenge. And #8 is still ongoing. The TCM Programming Challenge is a competition started by path40a over a year ago, and the winning schedule from each competition is decided by people here on the message boards who qualify for voting. The person whose schedule wins has the honor (and responsibilities) of hosting the next competition. It truly is a major competition each time we have it. It does not have the casualness of a trivia thread where any person can jump in and start it. Take a look at the current Challenge and check out the links provided in it to the previous Challenges. You will see how it is done. As stated, the only way to start a new Challenge is by entering a full schedule in the current #8 competition and winning. It would be best to delete this thread to avoid confusion with the legitimate Challenge.

movieman, patful, hamradio, and Kyle, Thanks very much for your truly kind words about my schedule. I was afraid I was going to get stuck this time for ideas, but ended up with a few in reserve for next time. (After eight schedules, I am almost tapped out for brilliance, lol.) Thank you again! filmlover

Costco is going to carry the United Artists 90 film and 30 film sets (at $579.99 and $180.99, respectively). They are also going to carry the Ford at Fox set, unknown price, but it will be $60 off their price from Dec. 17-24.

Costco has some discounts going on. Now through tomorrow (the 2nd), the Warner Bros 4-pach HD sets are $12 off, the Ultimate James Bond Collector's Set has a coupon for $50 off. From Dec. 10-16th, they will have $20 off several A&E megasets: America at War, Best of Modern Marvels, Benny Hill, Romance Classics Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Plus $10 off Planet Earth. From the 17th to the 24th, they will have $60 instant savings on Ford at Fox, Stargate the COmplete Series amd X-Files Complete Series. There will also be $10 off seasons of Rome, The Sopranos, Deadwood and Band of Brothers, $5 off sevrral Disney animated features, and $12 off Here's Johnny! Definitive Tonight Show Collection.

Snorky, sorry, but I already mentioned the Deepdiscount.com box set sale (it is also at dvdplanet) a little ways down in this thread. I also mentioned about Kino having a 25% off sale about a page back.

This one is only on for about two weeks, I think, but don't hold me to that.

Well, this is the last thing I need, but DVDPlanet.com has an incredible 2 for 1 box set sale on MGM and Fox titles. deepdiscount has the same, so you can save on taxes. If you can find ones of equal price, with their already discounted items you will only be paying prices like: Billy Wilder Collection $42 Betty Grable Collection $21 Alice Faye $17.50 Hemingway Collection $21 that big Bond box set $84 Laurel & Hardy vol. 2 $12.50 MASH big box set $70 Mike Shayne Mysteries $10.50 Sergio Leone Anthology $31.50 the Chan and Moto sets for about $14 each Shirley Temple Collections for about $10.50 each and lots more good stuff. Here are some discount codes you can use on dvdplanet: NOVEMBER2007 $5 Off $60 PRENOV2007 $10 Off $125 Expire 11/30/2007 Here's the link to the DVDplanet sale: http://www.dvdplanet.com/b1g1.cfm And here's theone for deepdiscount.com: http://www.deepdiscount.com/DVD---Fox-MGM-Buy-One-Get-One_stcVVcatId479897VVviewcat.htm?promoCode=BOGOFOXMGM

Check this out. Not 40% but 50% off. This brings the prices below anything DD and Planet had on VCI stuff. Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in! Michael Corleone had it right. This sale was too good to pass over. Especially since it seems like the 50% off is on top of any discounts they are already applying. For example, many of the serials are normally $19.99 but they have a 25% off sale, bringing it down to $14.99. I ordered some of them last night and used the new code and I got them for $7.50 each! And some of those were titles they had at $29.99, so that equals 75% off the $29.99 serials. I've already got it but now wpold be the best time for anyone to order the new special edition of A Christmas Carol. The regular price is $19.99 and they already have a sale in price marking it down to $14.99, so if the code works on it, you would get it for $7.50! In addition to serials, I ordered Chu Chin Chow, Pippin, Somewhere in Dreamland, and Fractured Flickers.

Another "up to 50% off" sale of boxed sets (about 400 of them they say -- make sure you click on all the category tabs) at Amazon: http://amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_5935192_4?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000171381&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1Q1RQCWP9EEX0WRQQWHF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=333795501&pf_rd_i=130

I have been working so hard on my schedule that I've felt guilty that I haven't yet responded to the work of movieman, fedya, sugarpuss, and lzcutter. So I decided to check in today and review them, and they are all GREAT. With one caveat... SO MUCH OF WHAT I PLANNED FOR MINE IS IN THEIRS!!! I was planning on doing Edward Arnold as my Star of the Month, but movieman has a tribute to Arnold. I was planning a section called "Fool's Gold" but sugarpuss beat me to the Gold topic. And I was going to highlight The Shrike, a film I have wanted to see for some time, but sugarpuss got that, too! Fedya's got an "80 Years Ago Today" feature. lol, I was working on some 1948 and 1938 tributes (60 and 70 years). And lzcutter's got a tribute to RKO, something I was pencilling in. Sigh, I definitely have committed the ultimate sin...sloth...I waited too long to get my schedule done. I can also now be one of the seven dwarfs...Grumpy. However, never fear, I shall press on and get one in very soon. Congratulations to all for their hard work.

Wow, I spent WAY TOO MUCH on the various online and in-store discounts this week. I don't even want to know the total (so don't anybody else try to tell me, please). Some titles I wouldn't have normally bought (such as the TV shows), but some had prices so ridicuously low, I couldn't pass them up. Here's what I've bought/ordered in the last week or so: The Garbo Signature Collection (got it used for $38) Ox-Bow Incident The Best of Everything Orchestra Wives The Rains Came The Snake Pit Anna Karenina The Razor?s Edge Desk Set River?s Edge 2001: A Space Odyssey (Blu-ray) The Shining (Blu-ray) Eyes Wide Shut (Blu-ray) The Lone Ranger ? The Legend Begins (contains the first serial plus Clayton Moore shows) Huh?Hush, Sweet Charlotte A Christmas Carol 4 Film Favorites: John Wayne 4 Film Favorites: Draculas Superman the Movie (Blu-ray) Las Vegas Seasons 1,2,3 Monk Seasons 1,2,3,4 Twin Peaks Goldset Fire Walk With Me Betty Grable Collection vol. 1 Alice Faye Collection Hidden Hollywood Once Upon a Time in the West Adventures of Robin Hood HD-DVD Casablanca HD-DVD Forbidden Planet HD-DVD Love is a Many Spendored Thing Inner Sanctum Mysteries Collection Best of TV Detectives Sergio Leone Anthology Best of Jack Benny The 17 DVD Fox Film Noir group from Amazon Laurel and Hardy Collection Vol. 1 (Fox) Wonder Woman Season 1 Towering Inferno/Volcano double feature Rising Sun/Sugar Hill double feature Bedazzled/The Scout double feature Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection Batman (1966) Four Weddings and a Funeral NYPD Blue Seasons 1,2,3,4 Nip/Tuck Seasons 1,2,3 Criminal Minds Season 1 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 X-Men 3 (Blu-ray) From Hell (Blu-ray) Day After Tomorrow (Blu-ray) The Terminator (Blu-ray) From the Earth to the Moon (TV) Rain Man Far and Away House Seasons 1,2 Sense and Sensibilty Hairspray (Blu-ray) and two or three others Luckily, some of it was on trade credit. And I figure on some of the TV seasons that I got so low, I can watch them to catch up on them and sell to break even or better.

I've found the Mill Creek 50 Movie Packs have many of the same Alpha titles and for a lot less. Whereas Alpha charges about $5 each, you can get 50 of the same titles for less than $20 withthe Mill Creek packages. And the PQ still can be as bad, lol.

I tried the code but it said it had expired