DVD Bargains & Newspaper Freebies

[Mighty_Emperor]

Apart from the aforementioned Dune DVD in the Observer, today's People comes with a copy of Carry On Up the Khyber

Good call :yeay: I got them both

 

[Peripart]

I forgot to get the Observer this morning, and spent a frustrating hour this afternoon trying unsuccessfully to find a newsagent with a copy left on the shelf.

Never mind, to console myself, I bought the News of the World, which contained a free DVD of Highlander (I hardly need add that the rest of the paper went straight into the bin, but 85p's not too bad for a DVD!).

 

[lordboreal]

I forgot to get the Observer this morning, and spent a frustrating hour this afternoon trying unsuccessfully to find a newsagent with a copy left on the shelf.

Never mind, to console myself, I bought the News of the World, which contained a free DVD of Highlander (I hardly need add that the rest of the paper went straight into the bin, but 85p's not too bad for a DVD!).

I few months ago I got a wee bit merry and started digging through my film collection as I am prone to do when up late and half cut, and I watched Highlander for the first time in donkeys years.

Brilliant! Although it's aged a little it's still a cult classic which hasn't been ruined by the sequels (if you ignore them). I was also surprised that I could remember 99% of the dialogue too...

 

[Mighty_Emperor]

I forgot to get the Observer this morning, and spent a frustrating hour this afternoon trying unsuccessfully to find a newsagent with a copy left on the shelf.

There were loads left in the Co-Op near me quite late this afternoon

Never mind, to console myself, I bought the News of the World, which contained a free DVD of Highlander (I hardly need add that the rest of the paper went straight into the bin, but 85p's not too bad for a DVD!).

Ah if I'd known that I'd have snagged that one too

 

[TheQuixote]

Never mind, to console myself, I bought the News of the World, which contained a free DVD of Highlander (I hardly need add that the rest of the paper went straight into the bin, but 85p's not too bad for a DVD!).

I managed to blag the Conan the Barbarian dvd off someone that came with The Sun yesterday.

 

[Pietro_Mercurios]

Yesterday, I picked up 4, Tom Baker era, Doctor Who DVDs, in a toyshop, bundled together for €14.99: The Ark in Space; Horror of Fang Rock; The Robots of Death; and last but not least, Pyramids of Mars.

My son was pleased!

 

[Mighty_Emperor]

I managed to blag the Conan the Barbarian dvd off someone that came with The Sun yesterday.

Bugger - its times like this that its a pain that people in Liverpool would still rather get paper cuts on their genitals than buy the Currant Bun

 

[Peripart]

Yesterday, I picked up 4, Tom Baker era, Doctor Who DVDs, in a toyshop, bundled together for €14.99: The Ark in Space; Horror of Fang Rock; The Robots of Death; and last but not least, Pyramids of Mars.

My son was pleased!

Never mind your son - I'd be pleased with that lot! Four genuinely creepy tales. I remember being terrified by that thing (Rutan?) sliming its way up the lighthouse, and my VHS of Pyramids of Mars is getting on a bit.

Which toyshop, Pietro? Mind you, I see your price was in Euros, so if you bought them in Ireland, the ferry trip probably wouldn't justify the money I'd save.

 

[WhistlingJack]

I went into a Poundland yesterday and while the DVD 'section' was full of the usual rubbish that you couldn't give away, the children's section had some good stuff on the Delta imprint: Felix In Hollywood (RRP £5.99) is a collection of Felix the Cat cartoons in both colour and b&w; Popeye the Sailor Man - Volume 3 seems to be usually sold only as part of the 3-DVD The Popeye Collection (RRP £12.99) and both volumes of the Fleischer Studios' Superman series appear to be sold as the 2-DVD The Max Fleischer's Superman Collection (RRP £10.99) - in any case, if you're a fan of early(ish) animation there's some good stuff to be had... :yeay:

 

[WhistlingJack]

Never mind, to console myself, I bought the News of the World, which contained a free DVD of Highlander (I hardly need add that the rest of the paper went straight into the bin, but 85p's not too bad for a DVD!).

Ah if I'd known that I'd have snagged that one too

It's in this week's in our neck of the woods, Emps.

 

[Mighty_Emperor]

Never mind, to console myself, I bought the News of the World, which contained a free DVD of Highlander (I hardly need add that the rest of the paper went straight into the bin, but 85p's not too bad for a DVD!).

Ah if I'd known that I'd have snagged that one too

It's in this week's in our neck of the woods, Emps.

Ooooooooo really - I'm so there!! How come it is different here?

 

[WhistlingJack]

I don't know... perhaps regional rights are less expensive than national when it comes to licensing? :?

 

[Mighty_Emperor]

I don't know... perhaps regional rights are less expensive than national when it comes to licensing? :?

Or perhaps they are offloading them on us northerners because the southerns don't know a good thing if it rubbed itself provocatively against them.

Not that I care

Is the Conan one in the Sun too? That'd be doubly cool.

 

[WhistlingJack]

Yep, Conan the Destroyer is being given away with tomorrow's Scum (which I wouldn't buy even if I had chronic diarrhoea in the midst of a national toilet paper shortage... )

 

[Mighty_Emperor]

Yep, Conan the Destroyer is being given away with tomorrow's Scum (which I wouldn't buy even if I had chronic diarrhoea in the midst of a national toilet paper shortage... )

Bugger - I might hang around outside the newsagents and mug someone who is buying it. They should know better than doing that round here anyway

 

[Heckler]

Bugger - I might hang around outside the newsagents and mug someone who is buying it. They should know better than doing that round here anyway

Perhaps if you offer to buy a teenager some illicit underage alcopops they might return the favour and buy The Scum for you?

 

[Anonymous]

Bugger - I might hang around outside the newsagents and mug someone who is buying it. They should know better than doing that round here anyway

Go on. Buy it. Are you a Man or a Scouse?

Personally, I wouldn't buy The Sun ever. Far too many of those 'word' things.

 

[Anonymous]

...NEWSFLASH...

Frobush banned from Liverpool for dissing us scousers, like.

"I 'ate 'im. E wrecks me swede, like." said Cilla Black from her villa in Berkshire.

"Do Dee? Dee Do Doe Don't Dee." chanted the crowd at Anfield this weekend.

Judy (she used to be fat but now she's) Finnegan who, unavailable for comment, said "Coming up, after the break, a student with his nads out - live on television. And at tea time too!"

 

[Heckler]

Personally, I wouldn't buy The Sun ever. Far too many of those 'word' things.

Worth buying just to see which of the three themes Deidre's Photo Casebook will be. Is it:

A) Fit looking bird always in her underwear wants an affair.
B) Fit looking bird always in her underwear has a boyfriend who wants a threesome with similar.
C) Fit looking bird always in her underwear has Lesbian feelings and is unsure what to do about them.

 

[Mighty_Emperor]

Bugger - I might hang around outside the newsagents and mug someone who is buying it. They should know better than doing that round here anyway

Perhaps if you offer to buy a teenager some illicit underage alcopops they might return the favour and buy The Scum for you?

See now I think that might be an allowable compromise - I could use their money to buy a 3 litre bottle of White Lightning from Bargain Booze (although for extra effect I should do this outside the offie in Netherton called The Offie) and then with the change from a pound they could buy the Sun, throw the paper in the bin and hand me the DVD. Everyone's a winner!!

 

[Mighty_Emperor]

Yep, Conan the Destroyer is being given away with tomorrow's Scum (which I wouldn't buy even if I had chronic diarrhoea in the midst of a national toilet paper shortage... )

Ahhhh I somehow managed to end up buying the last two copies in the area (well OK the first newsagent was sold out) - I bumped into my brother who said to get him a copy.

I did slide them into some gay Nazi porn and I don't think anyone noticed (luckily I used Lutwaffe Leatherboys - I got the shock of my life last time when I used Fists of the Fuhrer!! They'd run out of Tom of Finland monthly - amazing what you find down the Co op).

Now I've got to do it all over again tomorrow

 

[WhistlingJack]

Yep, Conan the Destroyer is being given away with tomorrow's Scum (which I wouldn't buy even if I had chronic diarrhoea in the midst of a national toilet paper shortage... )

Ahhhh I somehow managed to end up buying the last two copies in the area (well OK the first newsagent was sold out)

I trust you firebombed the mercenary swine...

PS: You do realise you'll never really enjoy watching the wretched DVD, don't you Emps..?

 

[Mighty_Emperor]

Firebummed

Yep, Conan the Destroyer is being given away with tomorrow's Scum (which I wouldn't buy even if I had chronic diarrhoea in the midst of a national toilet paper shortage... )

Ahhhh I somehow managed to end up buying the last two copies in the area (well OK the first newsagent was sold out)

I trust you firebombed the mercenary swine...

Tomorrow I could possibly arrange to break wind in the dairy aisle - I could have a... crack at lighting it I suppose.

PS: You do realise you'll never really enjoy watching the wretched DVD, don't you Emps..?

Ah I can compartmentalise - Grace Jones, Pat Roach, etc. (Mako is probbaly the most prolific actor of the lot of them!! I notice he's in Memories of a Geisha at the moment) thats going to make up for it
www.imdb.com/title/tt0087078/

I am slightly disappointed I flicked through the Currant Bun out of curiosity - "Lib Dem Hughes Hangs Around Gents Loos"!!

 

[lordboreal]

[I did slide them into some gay Nazi porn and I don't think anyone noticed (luckily I used Lutwaffe Leatherboys - I got the shock of my life last time when I used Fists of the Fuhrer!! They'd run out of Tom of Finland monthly - amazing what you find down the Co op).

Now I've got to do it all over again tomorrow

The Sun readers didn't notice the gay slant to what you put in, otherwise "Nazi" and "Porn" are what they expect anyway (or is that the Mail, I get confused...)

Besides, buying one issue of The Sun and taking advantage of a promotion they've spent thousands on without intending to buy another one of their newspapers is taking advantage of them, not twix the other way around.

 

[WhistlingJack]

Today's Daily Heil has a DVD copy of the Elvis Presley film Loving You.

 

[WhistlingJack]

Today's Daily Torygraph comes with a DVD of Saturday Night Sunday Morning, The Independent has The Sky Is Falling (Il Cielo Cade), and The Times has Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run.

 

[JamesWhitehead]

There is a handy page here:
http://sites.ecosse.net/convergent-dive ... iedvds.htm

where a thrifty Scots gent has catalogued most of the DVDs which newspapers have given away. This might seem a theoretical exercise since they have been and gone however a visit to your local charity shop may let you retrieve some.

This may also salve the consciences of those who hate to touch the Mail or the Sun etc.

What there isn't on that site is any comment on the quality of the print given away. In some cases - notably the black and white Hitchcocks - it seems to be of the same standard as those sold, albeit without any extras.

I have the impression that my old VHS off-the-air tape of Closely Observed Trains was better and slightly wider than the one given away by The Independent. Still it's a great film and a very watchable print.

Some of the other papers have gone for Public Domain titles and these have not always been carefully chosen. Stanley Donen's Charade is very highly regarded by some - a glossy Hitchcockian thriller starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. In the US it has merited a full bells & whistles Criterion Edition in remastered widescreen format. Alas, that is not what the Sunday Express offered its readers. My jaw dropped at the horrid condition of this washed-out, distorted, scratched, scanned & panned version.

Ho-hum, perhaps I should start a 10p movies thread to cover these gems. 8)

 

[WhistlingJack]

Why not start a 'free stuff with newspapers and magazines' thread? That should cover all eventualities...

 

[Mighty_Emperor]

Why not start a 'free stuff with newspapers and magazines' thread? That should cover all eventualities...

We could just reconfigure this thread to a: "DVD Bargains and freebies" thread - thats sort of what its become. Or I could split off the newspaper freebie stuff into a separate threa as you suggest. Opinions?

 

[WhistlingJack]

I suggested the title I did because you often get books and CDs given away as well - perhaps that should be taken into consideration when titling any new thread.