Prices of DVDs...ownership is now approaching the cost of renting!! Basic Instinct for &5.99??!!

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I was at BJs today and found to my surprise, "Basic Instinct" (an eager beaver attempt to replicate Vertigo) at $5.99!! Also picked up Fargo for $12.99! This is getting ridiculous...I have found many worthy discs, albeit not quite classic fare. Costco and BJs selection is pretty pathetic, but always cheaper than even websites, especially considering shipping charges. Even the new remaster of Ben Hur was $12.99 (a very decent and underrated film. Amateur reviewers always seem to take a swing at this William Wyler spectacular.. but it is an honest and workmanlike film, especially compared to the wildly overpraised Spartacus...which Stanley Kubrick never failed to condemn for the producers' "cut" and the Hollywood ham served up by the hardheaded Kirk Douglas. Kubrick says he felt so helpless in his (vain) attempts to improve the picture in filming, editing/post-production that he hightailed it out of Hollywood to avoid the inevitable future hassles & battles with these obtuse and craven hacks.

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Topic - Prices of DVDs...ownership is now approaching the cost of renting!! Basic Instinct for &5.99??!! - Celluloid 21:00:35 03/29/01 (5)

Eager BEAVER - red tent 14:41:20 04/03/01 (1)

It's probably edited out - Rob Doorack 15:48:17 04/03/01 (0)

Re: Prices of DVDs...ownership is now approaching the cost of renting!! Basic Instinct for &5.99??!! - Victor Khomenko 21:43:32 03/29/01 (2)

Victor: You must be clairvoyant...those shoulder decorations aren't shun mooks...but epaulets earned vs Soviets !! :->) - Celluloid 10:03:41 03/30/01 (1)

OK, here is mine... - Victor Khomenko 10:29:41 03/30/01 (0)

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