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What's wild is Vinegar Syndrome's sale went off without a hitch and that place is, like, three dudes in an almost abandoned building in Bridgeport CT.
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I tried to get around it by attempting a purchase on mobile since sometimes that works for overloaded sites, but even that's hosed. I can get as far as entering checkout details and then it just hangs forever trying to load the order total.
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Jun 26, 2020 05:49
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https://twitter.com/BookishPlinko/status/1276377652182437888?s=19
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Jun 26, 2020 05:58
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Should have spent that nipple pastie money on server upgrades.
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Jun 26, 2020 06:00
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There's only 250 copies of Blood on Satan's Claw, wtf
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Jun 26, 2020 06:01
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Origami Dali posted:There's only 250 copies of Blood on Satan's Claw, wtf Yeah, I was hoping to get one but at this point it's probably a lost cause. Or even buying anything from Severin, at this point.
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Jun 26, 2020 06:02
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goddamnit I just want cheap amicus films 
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Jun 26, 2020 06:02
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Origami Dali posted:There's only 250 copies of Blood on Satan's Claw, wtf Yeah gunna be pretty annoyed on missing out on it again lol E: I even got all the way to checkout screen but the place order button caused the page to hang up. Very cool
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Jun 26, 2020 06:12
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Lol, the admin of the VinSyn FB fan group just posted a super snarky post about Severin.
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Jun 26, 2020 06:21
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It's semi-stable right now. I was able to get the Al Adamson set after and hour and half of trying. I'll pick up Viy and maybe a few others in the morning.
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Jun 26, 2020 06:42
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Still totally hosed for me, can’t even load the generic shop page.
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Jun 26, 2020 06:46
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If you get to the check out screen, LiarLyre pointed out a good trick, just use the "ship to different address" button to soft reset the page until you can actually check out. I did that until i placed my order.
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Jun 26, 2020 06:48
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The PayPal redirect still just hangs forever, so I think I'm just gonna call it quits on this one. It's a shame, I was looking forward to my first Severin sale but they can't be bothered to give even a cursory "we're working on it" update after two hours of their site being totally unusable.
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Jun 26, 2020 07:05
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I don't want to give anyone false hope, but I was just able to get a small order through and paid for. Still, even odds that I ended up giving them money for nothing.
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Jun 26, 2020 07:13
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Origami Dali posted:Is their transfer of Threads good? It was shot on 16mm, and uses some stock footage of varying quality, but every print of the movie I've seen has looked like it was sourced from videotape. The Threads you want is the UK one: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=13733&d2=11657&s1=138985&s2=114976&i=0&l=0
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Jun 26, 2020 07:24
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Ehhh, I'll just be patient and hope I can get the 6 things I'm after. It's still a boutique label putting out niche stuff and the only alternative is paying full price on Amazon so If you're going to pay full price (or near to it) I'd just get poo poo like this from diabolik DVD. Or really any site that sells movies and isn't amazon like deep discount DVD.
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Jun 26, 2020 07:33
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Steen71 posted:The Threads you want is the UK one: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=13733&d2=11657&s1=138985&s2=114976&i=0&l=0 Interesting. There are definitely things to like in either version. The UK release has more shadow detail but the Severin release has better, more film-like highlight roll off.
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Jun 26, 2020 07:35
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Sigh... I am pretty sure I'm going to just give up. They are just a joke at this point.
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ultraviolence123 posted:Sigh... I am pretty sure I'm going to just give up. They are just a joke at this point. I managed to get through with 2 orders but yea, I don't know if it was worth the effort.
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Jun 26, 2020 07:43
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Took me three hours to order four blu-rays and that's still only half of what I had intended to buy, jesus christ.
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Jun 26, 2020 07:59
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I finally managed to get it in my cart and then the site completely poo poo the bed lmao
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Jun 26, 2020 09:20
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Well, now they are claiming they got hit with DDoS attack. Eh, I don't know, I don't think I can continue to support this sale. It's not worth the time, effort and frustration. I'll just wait for 88 Films to release their versions. I'm also not a fan at all of these ready set go types of sales. Just add them to the website, and let people get them that way. Vinegar Syndrome, Mondo, Severin, they all do this and it's extremely annoying and makes collecting become a chore versus a fun hobby.
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Jun 26, 2020 11:32
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I guess I'll just have to hope there's nipple pasties available next time
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Jun 26, 2020 12:32
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Really only When the Wind Blows interests me, so might as well save the energy and money for the B&N Criterion sale
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Jun 26, 2020 13:15
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When the Wind Blows is one of the titles excluded from the sale anyway
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Jun 26, 2020 13:22
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looks like the site will be up by 3PM EST today at the earliest
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Jun 26, 2020 13:25
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Egbert Souse posted:Really only When the Wind Blows interests me, so might as well save the energy and money for the B&N Criterion sale  I'm hoping that the Zatoichi set will be back in stock by then.
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Jun 26, 2020 13:28
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I don't know how licensing agreements and all that work, but I wish these companies would stop with the "ONLY 500 WILL EVER BE MADE" gimmick. Just open pre-orders for a few hours and say, "after the pre-order window is closed, there will be no more made."
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Biff Rockgroin posted:I don't know how licensing agreements and all that work, but I wish these companies would stop with the "ONLY 500 WILL EVER BE MADE" gimmick. It's usually a right's holder thing. I suspect that most of the time it's part of a deal where say Vinegar Syndrome restores Rad, and is allowed to sell a run of 5000 copies, but the right's holder can use that new 4k master for their own future releases.
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Jun 26, 2020 14:14
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Iron Crowned posted:
I was wondering about that since the majority of the "limbo" titles are ones with custom or digipak packaging.
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Origami Dali posted:There's only 250 copies of Blood on Satan's Claw, wtf That was the one I wanted most. 
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Jun 26, 2020 15:45
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At last, Arrow Video gets around to the true classics: https://www.diabolikdvd.com/product/mallrats-limited-edition-arrow-us-blu-ray/  quote:Brand new restoration by Arrow Films of both the Theatrical and Extended cuts of the film, approved by director Kevin Smith and cinematographer David Klein. I would have cared about the tv cut maybe 10 years ago, but I’m so old and the world’s moved on.
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Jun 26, 2020 15:50
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gently caress it I'm excited. Bad cover though
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Jun 26, 2020 15:52
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Mallrats is a movie I've never seen on TV, and when I was a broke 20 something and I watched all the special features of my DVD over 3 weeks. Now I have too much time watching other things, so I may get to it like a year from now.
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Jun 26, 2020 15:57
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I wonder how it holds up, I remember liking it back in high school but a lot of comedy from that era did not age well at all
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Jun 26, 2020 15:59
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gey muckle mowser posted:I wonder how it holds up, I remember liking it back in high school but a lot of comedy from that era did not age well at all Watched it a year or two ago and still enjoyed, obviously not the same as when you're a teen and Smiths films just felt like a revolution. Holds up better than Chasing Amy does at least, despite JLA absolutely loving killing it in that movie.
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Jun 26, 2020 16:02
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And they're wrong about the tv edit only airing once. I swear it was advertised relentlessly on USA or MTV or somewhere one weekend in the late 90s as "the infamous tv edit" and run multiple times over a weekend. I definitely watched it multiple times on tv in that horrible edit during high school.
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It used to air on FX in the early 2000s. I still have a VHS of it somewhere.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:And they're wrong about the tv edit only airing once. I swear it was advertised relentlessly on USA or MTV or somewhere one weekend in the late 90s as "the infamous tv edit" and run multiple times over a weekend. I definitely watched it multiple times on tv in that horrible edit during high school. I feel like this was on the Collectors' DVD from 15 years ago, too.
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That DDOS explanation is so bizarre. Just admit you hosed up and underestimated your sale traffic instead of positing that mysterious malevolent forces turned their attention to your little niche website. No one gives a poo poo as long as they can still buy their trash movies later.
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