Deal of the Day: 2-for-price-of-1 sale at Best Buy

by Nick Doerr { May 12th 2008 at 4:30PM }

It's time to check out a certain Best Buy website to see this new Blu-ray movie deal. Basically, you choose two movies on their list and you get them for the price of one movie. We see a few pretty good movies on there, so your hesitation may cost you. This is a buy-one-get-one sale, more or less, so take advantage while you can! Hopefully before the end of the year, the cost of a Blu-ray movie will lower a little bit. We're very tired of seeing new movies costing $35 or even $40.

[Oh, and a very special thanks for never$$hort posting the titles the other day!]

Tags: blu-ray, deal, deal-of-the-day, deals

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

chris.westermann @ May 12th 2008 5:07PM

If a Blu-ray movie is a re-release, it should be $9.95, period. end of story. Asking $30 - $40 for a movie that you didn't buy before on DVD is one of the key reasons why Blu-ray is not selling better then it should.
Secondly, stop releasing old movie on Blu-ray. Again if you didn't buy it on DVD then why would you want it on Blu-ray?
Also the quality of most re-released Blu-ray titles leave a lot to be desired for. Hollywood is not taking the time to do a good decent transfer of film to HD, and I think in a lot of cases your just getting the original DVD upscaled to HD.
Hollywood is the only reason why Blu-ray is not taking off. It has nothing to do with the technology, its just greedy movie tycoons thinking they could profiteer on early-adopter's snapping up every Blu-ray title release. But they seem slow to realize that the early-adopter phase of Blu-ray is over and now people are holding out on buying Blu-ray because they don't want to spend more then $9.95 for a movie, especially one that came out 10 years ago.

never$$hort @ May 12th 2008 7:38PM

Are you never not on a Blu Ray related article complaining about Blu Ray?? Just saying because I've noticed you commenting negatively in every Blu article on this site... For the people that don't believe me, just check his posting history... Give it a rest dude, we get it, you aren't happy and feeling BLU :(

Glen @ May 12th 2008 4:53PM

Wha! The Rock! And Goodfellas! For the price of one? I don't know if I'll be able to pass this one up. I've been wanting to start bolstering my Blu-Ray collection, but you don't get paid to go to college...

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Neon @ May 12th 2008 4:56PM

Yeah. The price of these is sometimes a bit ridiculous. Especially on older stuff!

uh-oh polio @ May 12th 2008 4:56PM

i never really got the old movies on bluray.. does it really make it look any better?

Watcher @ May 12th 2008 5:08PM

Nope! Avoid old movies rehashed into Blu-ray formats if they were already released on Dvd. Unless they are re-mastered from the ground up (and it should state this on the package), you're just getting a dubbed dvd version with no visual enhancements slapped on the blu-ray format. If a movie hits the bu-ray format along side it's DVD counterpart as a new release, then it's worth looking into.

Spaz @ May 12th 2008 5:49PM

I have to politely disagree with the above comment. Some of the biggest leaps in visual clarity I've seen have been in older catalog titles. Blazing Saddles and Trading Places come to mind - they just look better than ever in Blu-ray. Color pallette is greatly improved especially.

Not every catalog re-release is a knockout (Halloween comes to mind) but in general I've been pretty impressed with how much of an improvement Blu-ray can make on older titles. Rent a few from Netflix and decide for yourself!

never$$hort @ May 12th 2008 7:33PM

Spaz is right.. older movies look great!! Not all but I would say 90% of them do. I would know this too, as I own 175 Blu Rays.

mccomber @ May 12th 2008 11:15PM

Agree with the other two, at least in regards to more recent-older releases. There were a few movies released at first that were pretty poor transfers (Full Metal Jacket for one) that were re-released and look much better, and generally the titles released lately, old catalog or new, look great on Blu.

SSG @ May 12th 2008 5:38PM

i still have to get no country for sure and maybe i am legend

Michael K. @ May 12th 2008 5:46PM

its not really a buy two for the price of one deal, its 2 for $30 but if you look at their normal prices they're all $20 or less each. not that its a bad deal, just clarifying

bricklayer @ May 13th 2008 4:22AM

I'd like to add (hopefully not too late) that some of these titles (Total Recall and Stargate to name two) are only about $12 on Amazon, so two for $30 may not be as good a deal as it seems. It may be worthwile to shop around if you want to save a couple bucks. Of course, some of these titles are more expensive on Amazon. Who knows what they're going for on other sites?

never$$hort @ May 12th 2008 7:27PM

HEY PS3Fanboy I posted this info already yesterday in the Blu-ray movie releases for the week of May 11 article!! Thanks for the credit, NOT!!!

never$$hort @ May 12th 2008 7:28PM

5-11-2008 @ 3:27PM
never$$hort said...

Best Buy is having a 2 for $30 or $19.99 for single purchase on select Blu-ray Disc movies in store and online. Here is the complete list of titles:

Bram Stokers Dracula
The Rookie
Donnie Brasco
Scary Movie
Pans Labyrinth
Rent
Behind Enemy Lines
The Transporter
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Goodfellas
50 First Dates
Black Hawk Down
The Punisher
Fantastic Four
Hostel
Stargate
300
Hellboy
The Rock
The Patriot
Con Air
Resident Evil
28 Days Later
Total Recall
Hitch
The Usual Suspects
Appleseed Ex Machina
A Knights Tale
Crimson Tide
Memoirs of a Geisha
Happy Feet
Tears of the Sun
Blade Runner
Remember the Titans
Troy
A Few Good Men
The Legend of Zorro
Gattaca
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Departed
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?type=category&id=pcmcat1510000