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New Sci-Fi DVDs
Topic Started: Jul 17 2008, 10:00 AM (655 Views)
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Coming from Warners, a trio of double-features, on July 29. These are Best Buy exclusives, and this info comes from Tom Weaver at the Classic Horror Board.

World Without End (1956, with Hugh Marlowe) / Satellite in the Sky (1956, with Lois Maxwell)

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) / Moon Zero Two (1969)

Battle Beneath the Earth (1967) / The Ultimate Warrior (1975, with Yul Brenner)
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Jul 17 2008, 12:00 PM
with Yul Brenner


Your new avatar no doubt!
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Now we get to see if Best Buy handles these titles any better than the Universal exclusives. Personally I'm not holding my breath.
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They didn't. I had ordered them online; I got an email (eventually) telling me that there were "backordered" and I should call the toll-free helpline and a Best Buy Customer Service (HA!) representative would help me find a store in my area that had them. Well, okay. I called. Waited on hold 10 minutes, and then the Rep said she couldn't find the DVDs for more, but what she would do is give me the phone number of the nearest store and I could check with them. Well, DUH. I could do that myself. I cancelled the order, went online and find out which store had them, and drove up and got them. At least the nearest store had them; the second nearest store had 1 of them, but not all 3. What strikes me as most odd, perhaps, is that Best Buy lists them thusly: "Sci-Fi 50'S (Dbfe)-DVD" for example is the World Without End/Satellite in the Sky disc. Now, if you do a search at BestBuy.com under any three of these, NOTHING comes up. The DVD IS online, though; a friend sent me the link. Just not, apparently, on their search engine. What clowns.
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Jul 17 2008, 01:00 PM
Coming from Warners, a trio of double-features, on July 29. These are Best Buy exclusives, and this info comes from Tom Weaver at the Classic Horror Board.

World Without End (1956, with Hugh Marlowe) / Satellite in the Sky (1956, with Lois Maxwell)

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) / Moon Zero Two (1969)

Battle Beneath the Earth (1967) / The Ultimate Warrior (1975, with Yul Brenner)

I don't know if Warner is smarter than Universal or if they learned from the way Best Buy handled the Universal exclusives. But The Digital Bits is reporting the Warner titles will receive general release on 10-7-08.
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dvddrive-in.com is reporting that on Oct. 7, there will be two more Best Buy exclusive titles from Warners, both with 1960s horror films that are terrible (at least, the ones I've seen).

Brides of Fu Manchu (with Christopher Lee) / Chamber of Horrors, and The Shuttered Room (Oliver Reed) with It! (Roddy McDowall).
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All four pretty bad. THE SHUTTERED ROOM, from a Lovecraft story, was a major disappointment.
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I have a certain amount of affection for It! because it was on TV all the time, it has a fairly cool monster, and mainly 'cause I like the title!
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Brides of Fu Manchu was a decent film. I enjoyed it. The later one about Fu Manchu melting the polar icecaps was ridiculous.
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I don't like to spend at Best Buy. They hire the terminally stupid and their returns policy is downright criminal.
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panzer the great & terrible
Sep 7 2008, 08:31 AM
I don't like to spend at Best Buy. They hire the terminally stupid...

... and the Geek Squad is a joke (but I ain't laughing)!!!
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And what sadistic SOB came up with the name "Geek Squad" anyway?

Must be a real morale booster. I can imagine an employee meeting an attractive girl in a bar:

Hottie: "And where do you work?"

Guy: "Uh... errr... I'm a Geek Squader."

Hottie: "Ha ha ha ha ha! LOSER!"


At least when "geeks" were the guys who bit off chicken heads at carnivals it was a respectable moniker. Nowadays, it's embarassing.
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