The Princess Bride (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging)

The Princess Bride (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging) by MGM

Screenwriter William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride earned its personal loyal target audience on the power of its narrative voice and its gently satirical, hyperbolic spin on swashbuckled journey that gave the impression nearly purely literary. For all its derring-do and vivid over-the-top personas, the book's joy used to be dictated as a lot by the deadpan tone of its narrator and a winking acknowledgement of the clichés being despatched up. Miraculously, director Rob Reiner and Goldman himself managed to visualize this romantic myth whereas protecting that external voice generally intact: the usage of a storytelling framework, avuncular Grandpa (Peter Falk) gradually seduces his skeptical grandson (Fred Savage) into the absurd, irresistible melodrama of the title story.. Read more The Princess Bride (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Three-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo + BD Live w/ Blu-ray packaging)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Three-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo + BD Live w/ Blu-ray packaging) by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

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  One of the brightest nuggets from Disney's golden age, this 1937 film is nearly dizzying in its meticulous development of an enchanted world, with rankings of main and minor characters (including fauna and fowl), each with a distinct id. When you watch Snow White's tricky, sleek movements of fingers, hands, and head multi function shot, it's not the technical brilliance of Disney's artists that leaps out at you, however the very spirit of her enticing, girl-woman persona. When the wicked queen's poisoned apple flips from killer green to rose crimson, the effect of understanding something so stunning can also be so bad is admittedly elemental, so pure it powers one to give up to the horror of it. Based on the Grimm fairy story, Snow White is probably the perfect domestic movie ever to deal, in mythic terms, with the psychological basis for rising up.. Read more Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Three-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo + BD Live w/ Blu-ray packaging)

Forbidden Planet [Blu-ray]

Forbidden Planet [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video

FORBIDDEN PLANET BLU-RAY (BLU-RAY DISC). On the DVDs On disc 1 of the colorfully designed 2-disc fiftieth Anniversary Edition of Forbidden Planet (also to be had in a collector's box), the movie is introduced with a new digital switch from restored image and audio parts, with soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1, offering substantial improvement over the film's previous DVD release. A number of deleted scenes had been taken from a light and scratchy 16-millimeter "work print" that had originally been seen by using composers Louis and Bebe Barron as they were developing the film's distinctive digital score; they include full or partial scenes lower from the ultimate film-- largely for good purpose, however collectors (and individuals who first saw this rare subject matter on the authentic Criterion Collection laserdisc) will welcome their inclusion right here. The "lost pictures" is crude unique-effects check pictures, primarily of hobby to sci-fi historians and aficionados. Given the fact that the unique "Robby the Robot" value over $100,000 to construct in 1955, it can be simple to see why MGM wanted to get their money's worth: An excerpt from the Fifties TV sequence "MGM Parade" displays Forbidden Planet famous person Walter Pigeon appearing briefly with Robby, and the well-liked robotic will get much more consideration as a visitor big name in "The Robot Client," an episode of the Thin Man TV series (starring Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk) that at the celebrityt aired on Feb. 28, 1958. Disc 1 additionally includes a gallery of seven science-fiction film trailers courting from 1953 (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms) to 1960's The Time Machine. Disc 2 begins with 1957's The Invisible Boy, a still-enjoyable B-movie that served as Robby's post-Forbidden Planet show off. Here, filmdom's favourite automaton performs sidekick to a younger boy (Richard Eyer) who flips invisible when he gets caught up in a super-computer's scheme of world domination. Also included are three documentaries, ranging from excellent to excellent: In addition to reuniting the surviving solid members of the '56 basic (including Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Richard Anderson, Warren Stevens, and Earl Holliman), "Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet" is an appreciative tribute to Forbidden Planet with some of Hollywood's premiere sci-fi lovers including special effects masters Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett, SF movie professional Bill Warren, and differents. "Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon" is a featurette in regards to the robotic's design, creation and pop-cultural history, featuring unique "Robby" designer Robert Kinoshita, Bill Malone (current proprietor of the original Robby), and Fred "The Robot Man" Barton, a lifelong robotic fanatic who now promotes fully licensed, full-scale replicas of Robby for sci-fi enthusiasts with deep pockets. Closing out disc 2 is "Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the Nineteen Fifties and Us," a 2005 documentary from Turner Classic Movies, written and directed with the help of Time journal critic Richard Schickel.. Read more Forbidden Planet [Blu-ray]

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [Blu-ray]

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [Blu-ray] by New Line Home Video

AC-3; Dolby; DTS Surround Sound; Dubbed; Subtitled; Widescreen.Format: Blu-ray.Condition: New. As the triumphant start of a trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring go aways you begging for extra. By necessity, Peter Jackson's bold epic compresses J.R.R. Tolkien's traditional The Lord of the Rings, but this tough adaptation take care ofs reverent allegiance to Tolkien's creation, immediately qualifying as probably the most greatest delusion motion pictures ever made. At 178 minutes, it can be long enough to establish the myriad inhabitants of Middle-earth, the legendary Rings of Power, and the guyship of hobbits, elves, dwarves, and humans--led by way of the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and the courageous hobbit Frodo (Elijah Wood)--who should fight terrifying forces of evil on their perilous experience to damage the One Ring within the land of Mordor. Superbly paced, the movie is both epic and intimate, offering astounding different effects and production design whereas emphasizing the emotional depth of Frodo's journey. Ending on an excellent notice of heroic loyalty and rich anticipation, this wondrous fable continues in The Two Towers (2002).. Read more The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [Blu-ray]