Criterion Collection Store
- therewillbeblus
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:40 pm
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I always spend a pretty penny on flash sales, so if that’s a rule it’s lost on me- this will be the first sale where I’m struggling to think of three titles I want to qualify for free shipping. A good problem to have, having finally caught up with must-haves, but a strange feeling.
- swo17
- Bloodthirsty Butcher
- Joined: Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:25 am
- Location: SLC, UT
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Just buy 50 copies of In the Mood for Love. You'll be sure to get an email then
- therewillbeblus
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:40 pm
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Eh I’m not in the mood
- tolbs1010
- Joined: Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:01 pm
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Same here. Definitely upgrading Mouchette but after that I already have everything I really want other than pre-orders (Secrets & Lies and Defending Your Life). But I must have free shipping. Luckily, blind buying from Criterion is always fun. To Sleep With Anger was my last blind buy and it turned into a keeper. Last blind buy that wasn't a keeper for me: Blind Chancetherewillbeblus wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:26 pmI always spend a pretty penny on flash sales, so if that’s a rule it’s lost on me- this will be the first sale where I’m struggling to think of three titles I want to qualify for free shipping. A good problem to have, having finally caught up with must-haves, but a strange feeling.
- therewillbeblus
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:40 pm
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I usually only buy what I think I'll be in the mood to watch within the next few months. There are still several films I really like a lot that I haven't bought yet because I haven't had a desire to revisit since I first watched them years ago, and with limited (currently zero) shelf space, and an upcoming move within the next year, it just doesn't make sense. I probably won't buy Mouchette for that reason. I like it of course, and it's worth owning, but I know I won't want to watch it anytime soon.
I also have a bizarre personal obsessive-compulsive tendency with Criterions specifically- not other companies- where I feel the need to watch them in order to unwrap, and must unwrap before putting on the shelf, and I don't like to have them hanging around in the unwatched piles the way I don't mind other blu-rays. So this leads me to prioritize these titles, even if I've seen the film recently (meaning I'll be rewatching Smooth Talk again soon despite seeing it only a couple months ago). This probably goes back to when I started collecting and had more pervasive OCD sxs, but there we are.
I also have a bizarre personal obsessive-compulsive tendency with Criterions specifically- not other companies- where I feel the need to watch them in order to unwrap, and must unwrap before putting on the shelf, and I don't like to have them hanging around in the unwatched piles the way I don't mind other blu-rays. So this leads me to prioritize these titles, even if I've seen the film recently (meaning I'll be rewatching Smooth Talk again soon despite seeing it only a couple months ago). This probably goes back to when I started collecting and had more pervasive OCD sxs, but there we are.
- tolbs1010
- Joined: Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:01 pm
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Smooth Talk is on the list of potential blind buys. The cover alone makes me want to buy it.
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Over a week ago I had emailed Mulvaney et al asking if they had any plans to bring back the posters or any other form of artwork to the store (including even collecting the Jason Polan sketches together). Yesterday evening I got a reply, they have no plans in the works regarding the late Polan, but they did include this about the posters:
"We hope to offer posters again through the Criterion.com gift shop sometime later this year, so please stay tuned."
"We hope to offer posters again through the Criterion.com gift shop sometime later this year, so please stay tuned."
- Cash Flagg
- Joined: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:15 pm
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Just buy three baggus instead! I'm in the same boat - Parallax View is the only non-pre-order I'm interested in, so I'll likely have to wait until the next BN sale (assuming, as always, that there will be a next one).therewillbeblus wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:26 pmthis will be the first sale where I’m struggling to think of three titles I want to qualify for free shipping.
- therewillbeblus
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:40 pm
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Sale is live, already had the server die on me twice trying to check out
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- hearthesilence
- Joined: Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:22 am
- Location: NYC
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Man, the site is SLOW.
If you have what you need in your wishlist, go directly to the wishlist (I don't have a URL, I just went to it via my browser history from yesterday) - that page moved fast for me, along with adding all of its items in my cart. Checking out will be slow though.
If you have what you need in your wishlist, go directly to the wishlist (I don't have a URL, I just went to it via my browser history from yesterday) - that page moved fast for me, along with adding all of its items in my cart. Checking out will be slow though.
- therewillbeblus
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:40 pm
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Third time was the charm, hopefully bugs are fixed
- Boosmahn
- Joined: Mon Sep 04, 2017 10:08 pm
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It's down for me.
EDIT: Nevermind?
EDIT: Nevermind?
- FrauBlucher
- Joined: Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:28 pm
- Location: Greenwich Village
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It took several times to refresh before going through. My damage (Fellini Box) is done for this go around
- senseabove
- Joined: Wed Dec 02, 2015 3:07 am
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Word logic problem time: I'm 78 points away from a loyalty gift card. If I buy four regular titles for 79 points, opt for free shipping, and use the $10 gift card, do I get the 500-point loyalty reward gift card? Or should I get the loyalty gift card, and then use it and the $10 subscriber gift card together some time down the road?
- bottlesofsmoke
- Joined: Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:26 pm
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Got my order through without too much slow down. But they doubled my order, so I guess make sure you check on that after ordering...
- therewillbeblus
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:40 pm
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The latter, they’ll deduct the $10 and you will still be ~$9 away from the $50 deduction (though I don’t know if these ten-ers are time limited for use, because I don’t get them)senseabove wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 1:20 pmWord logic problem time: I'm 78 points away from a loyalty gift card. If I buy four regular titles for 79 points, opt for free shipping, and use the $10 gift card, do I get the 500-point loyalty reward gift card? Or should I get the loyalty gift card, and then use it and the $10 subscriber gift card together some time down the road?
- dustybooks
- Joined: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:52 am
- Location: Wilmington, NC
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Site's still a bit of a mess. I managed to get an order in but haven't received a confirmation email; when I check the orders page, though, there it is.
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- Joined: Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:11 pm
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A tense few minutes, but got my order through. Half a dozen copies of It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World. And I’m spent!
- willoneill
- Joined: Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:10 am
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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The coupons don't expire. I only order every second flash sale on average, and I usually end up using two per sale.therewillbeblus wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 1:25 pmThe latter, they’ll deduct the $10 and you will still be ~$9 away from the $50 deduction (though I don’t know if these ten-ers are time limited for use, because I don’t get them)
- therewillbeblus
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:40 pm
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Excellent, then there’s the answer
- senseabove
- Joined: Wed Dec 02, 2015 3:07 am
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Excellent. Thanks, folks.
- Boosmahn
- Joined: Mon Sep 04, 2017 10:08 pm
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So... It's a Madx24 World? (Not typing that out since it would basically be spam!)Fortisquince wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 1:29 pmA tense few minutes, but got my order through. Half a dozen copies of It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World. And I’m spent!
Anyways, I got my order through. I purchased All About Eve, Beauty and the Beast, Bowling for Columbine, Bigger Than Life, The Elephant Man, Man Push Cart, Minding the Gap, Smooth Talk, and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, making this the most I've ever gotten from a sale in the >5 years I've been participating in them (I think).
- Yaanu
- Joined: Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:18 am
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Personally I decided that now is as good a time as any to empty out my bank account (figuratively) and buy up almost all of the Dual Format titles I have been lacking. All that I'm missing now are the WCP sets, Frances Ha, King of the Hill, and Persona.
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- Joined: Tue Dec 26, 2017 5:35 am
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went very light compared to November where I finally pulled the trigger on the Bergman and Varda boxes but I got Trilogy of Life and Jeanne Dielman.
- FrauBlucher
- Joined: Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:28 pm
- Location: Greenwich Village
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I got the email confirmation. Fingers crossed that the delivery truck isn't a cement mixer