Noticed a new JB Blu Ray sale - this time it's 2 for $20.
There are some decent titles hidden amongst the 704(!) titles to choose from. Examples are:
The Hunger Games
Looper
Dark Knight Rises
Ghostbusters
X-Men First Class
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
The Castle
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Home Alone
Shawshank Redemption
The Blues Brothers
Close Encounters
Fargo
Romper Stomper
The Crow
Mad Max
District 9
Good Morning Vietnam
Big Lebowski
What 20%?
They regularly have 20% off sales and often at the same time as the 2 for 20s so if you know when the 2 for 20 ends then you're best off waiting to close to the end date just in case the 20% happens too.
Would hate to buy today only to find out a super saturday 20% off is happening this weekend(note this is just an example to my knowledge it's not)
But you wont get 20%off the two for $20 would you?
The 20% off normally applies to 2 for $20, making it $8 each :-)
When does the sale end?
Silent Hill: Revelation 3d Blu-ray look good.
It ends???? It's rare for JB not to have a Blu-ray/DVD sale. :-P
+1 just for listing a few of the better titles.
By the time I page through 700 BDs to see if there's anything I want, the time wasted is worth more than the money saved.
Especially since they often double list titles !#&%
thanks op I've been meaning to buy looper for awhile
Both kill bill movies are listed :)
This is the first time Cloud Atlas has been less than about $30.
I got Cloud Atlas, the Dark Knight, Looper, Battlestar Galactica: the Plan, and also Batman Begins (which was $9.98).
I seem to have too much time on my hands. I've created a list of reasonably good titles (only from 10 pages) with their rotten tomatoes rating.
The Perks of Being A Wallflower – 85% Rotten
Cloud Atlas – 66% Rotten
The Hunger Games – 84% Rotten
Looper – 93% Rotten
The Dark Knight – 94% Rotten
The Dark Knight Rises – 88% Rotten
X-Men: First Class – 87% Rotten
The Cabin in the Woods – 92% Rotten
Tropic Thunder – 83% Rotten
Crazy, Stupid, Love – 78% Rotten
Fight Club – 81% Rotten
Pulp Fiction – 94% Rotten
The Silence of the Lambs – 94% Rotten
Taxi Driver – 98% Rotten
The Shawshank Redemption – 90% Rotten
Horrible Bosses – 69% Rotten
Into the Wild – 82% Rotten
No Country for Old Men – 94% Rotten
Casablanca – 97% Rotten
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – 86% Rotten
The Hurt Locker – 97% Rotten
Shutter Island – 68% Rotten
Superbad – 88% Rotten
The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe – 76% Rotten
Easy A – 85% Rotten
The Fellowship of the Ring – 92% Rotten
The Return of the King – 94% Rotten
The Matrix – 87% Rotten
I find the ratings on IMDB to be more to my taste than rotten tomatoes.
IMDB ratings are the least reliable ratings ever. No matter how good or bad the movie is, the range usually only fluctuates between high 5's and 8's.
RT ratings are more reliable as only specific critics contribute to the RT rating.
eg. The Tourist IMDB = 5.8
Gravity IMDB = 8.6
The Tourist RT = 20%
Gravity RT = 97%
Agreed, IMDB or Metacritic over Rotten Tomatoes.
Anything with a score will always be better, because a binary system (yes/no) of rating movies is inherently flawed: mediocre movies will rate much higher than brilliant but slightly niche or controversial titles.
Example:
Mediocre film
Most people think it's OK. On RT, most of them give it "fresh" ratings. So it get's like 90% fresh, even though it's nothing special. But On Metacritic, they give it a more precise rating: 5's and 6's out of ten. So it gets a more useful and accurate rating: 55%.
Brilliant (niche) film
Most people love it. But a few people hate it because of some small detail, or aren't part of it's target audience. So on RT it gets only a few more freshs than rottens: 60% overall. But on metacritic it gets mostly 9's and 10's, with a bunch of 3's 4's. It still ends up with 80%, a more useful and accurate rating.
I'm a massive IMDB fan and I basically apply the rule that 5 or less is unwatchable when using it. I will watch/buy 7 and up confidently. 6-7 is risky, some good films end up here being niche genres or offensive to some groups.
IMDB has proven itself effectively useless. Dexter is rated 9/10.
Season 1 & 2, ok. I can stomach that. But seasons 5-8 are horrendous.
Dexter is a TV series though, rating a movie with one score makes sense, rating a multi-season television show is obviously going to be less accurate because of the variation between seasons
Those should all be 'Fresh' nomsayin. ;)
Mods, we need a way to give this man a medal.
Maybe something like reddit gold - grateful users can pay a couple of dollars donation and put a medal on his comment and he gets some bonus: half the money, or a minute earlier access to deals, or something.
Questions.
Only online orders?
When does it start?
When does it end?
stahp
yeah, a very expensive mkv.
Some of us have nice home theatres, mkv is predominantly rubbish in this case.
Yes, but with almost always much better quality, unless you're watching it on a crappy laptop with TN panel.
How do you pull up a text list of all of the movies like someone managed to do in the previous JB big movies deal, so one doesn't have to go through 20+ pages? It wouldn't be so bad if JB's release date filter is actually accurate.
Excellent deal, picking up The Master & Taxi Driver.
Good Morning Vietnam? oh please.
2 for $20 will be good value when it's YOUR pick of ANY titles, not theirs.
Paying $30 for a latest bluray is greed, and they call downloaders thieves, lol.
I would also recommend "The Raid" - Indonesian action flick. Best action from 2012 in my view:
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvd/dvd-genres/action-adventu…
Ikoooooooooo…
Why are the blu-rays or dvds for that matter have their frequent sales at jbhifi? Is it because people are not buying them nowadays as they used to??
I think it's just a way to get people in to their store over others seems to work the JB posts are always popular
Mostly older movies or less popular. Expect to pay a lot more for latest releases.
do they stock up older movies when they are less popular?
It's in there front page, every company has to lose money to make some, it's the key towards business.
is it in store as well?
I found JB HIFI's listing of movies to be the most clumsy and old school interface I've seen in a long long time.
Hopefully someone here is from JB can talk to someone up the JB HIFI Chain to put in a decent system to organise and display the movies via a proper database driven system - it's not that hard.
Just because you have low prices does not mean the web experience has to be equally low, and by making it nicer to navigate you might find some of us buying more titles because we can easily locate them…
Heck, you could maintain a list of movies a visitor has bought and display suggestions as well as excluded movies you already own so you only see movies you don't have yet in your collection.
That rant being said, great price for some gems in that list.. A plus from me
I've always thought it was like it on purpose to show whatever was newest/most expensive. I mean what website doesn't have a lowest price filter ?
Sort by 'Popularity' is not too bad, unless its rigged.
I still remember DS selling Blu-Ray at the start of the year for $5 each per title, box sets $20.
JB Need to be selling them for at least $7 before I will pull my wallet out
Are they still? They were clearing stock out.
Single discs only, or some combo DVD/digital copy titles?
Aw I wanted more 3D titles on discount. I've bought most of them already.
How is store stock, worth making a trip? I miss JB's free shipping.. Should be capped atleast, per disc increase is discouraging me from adding more titles.
I can't believe a mod unpublished the other deal put up today to go back to this older thread.
yeah, don't want to corrupt the integrity of this site, but I think it might be good to notify people somehow as it might be useful to them if they don't know
Do you know when the sale ends?
Best holding out for the 20% off if possible