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The Director's Chair => Quentin Tarantino => Topic started by: j_scott_stroup04 on January 03, 2004, 01:27:34 PM

Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: j_scott_stroup04 on January 03, 2004, 01:27:34 PM
For those who might care to know, or who own the Mr. Brown cover of the Reservoir Dogs spec ed DVD, as I do, will want to hear this:

The other day, I went down to the local used movie/music store called Orbit.  I was browsing through their selection of used DVD's and I happen to notice they had Reservoir Dogs in that section.  It was the copy I had, the Mr. Brown cover as I stated previously, so just for kicks, I checked out the price.  To my shock it was $84.99!!!  :shock:
I thought to myself "this must be some sort of mistake, a typo or something", so I decided to call it to their attention.  I didn't want to deny some poor shmuck the pleasure of owning the Mr. Brown cover.  So I went up to one of the employees with the DVD in my hand, and I asked him what the deal with high price was.  He said "oh, that's some rare copy of the movie, I think it's out of print".  My response was of confused jubilation.  I just laughed and said "cool", then put the DVD back.

I was thinking about selling them my copy and then buying the Mr. Pink cover or something, and getting like $30 extra.   I kind of want to keep it, though.  Understandably so.  I also have the now OOP Criterion DVD of Straw Dogs.  That went out of print on the first of Jan.  
So, apparently, I ROCK.  8)
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: Finn on January 03, 2004, 01:40:55 PM
Cool! I have the Reservoir Dogs Mr. Brown DVD and the Straw Dogs Criterion DVD too!
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: j_scott_stroup04 on January 03, 2004, 01:47:16 PM
Rock on, Sydney!  
Although, oddly enough, the Mr. Brown DVD isn't worth shit on Ebay, the most expensive one I saw was like $25.  But it'll go up, and we can just laugh in the face of those who waited to buy their Res Dogs DVD and got stuck with Mr. Pink (which is a cool cover, but is the only one I ever see).
Bwahahahaha!
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: Alethia on January 03, 2004, 02:19:56 PM
i am in the same boat as you two
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: bonanzataz on January 03, 2004, 03:02:34 PM
i got mr white. i'm a fuckin' idiot! fuckin' idiot, fuckin' idiot, fuckin' idiot!
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: analogzombie on January 03, 2004, 04:29:00 PM
i got Mr. Blonde and I don't care, cuz even if I had Mr. Brown i wouldn't be selling my copy.
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: bonanzataz on January 03, 2004, 05:11:19 PM
this just in. it's not only mr. brown that's out of print. all of them are. all future editions that are printed will be done so without the slip covers featuring the different characters. so, i'm NOT a fuckin' idiot! hooray! we all got special limited editions!
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: socketlevel on January 03, 2004, 08:30:26 PM
the mister brown at the hmv megastore in canada was the only version they had left in stock.  it was going for like 15 bucks (that's ten of your dollars) so i don't know what is going on over there.  you could always order from here if you want.

-sl-
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: j_scott_stroup04 on January 03, 2004, 09:54:28 PM
I didn't know they all were only limited time!  That's cool then, suddenly mine doesn't seem so special.... :(
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: Derek237 on January 03, 2004, 10:59:46 PM
Who the hell would pay over 80 dollars for basically just a cover? I bought the Mr. White cover just because 1) he's my favourite character, 2) the others' colours looked stupid IMO, and 3) I didn't realize they were slip covers at first so I thought I'd be stuck with the one I got so I wanted the one most appealing to the eye. I think it's stupid, anyway. There's a cheap little booklet with some pictures and quotes, and some stats and very obvious facts about the character. Blah. If somebody's buying these for top dollar just show me where to sign up!
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: AntiDumbFrogQuestion on January 03, 2004, 11:26:29 PM
uh...I got the one with the Band Apart guys on the front and a tiny QT on the spine because uh...I didn't want to be choosy...looks like having it all isn't really worth it sometimes
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: Gamblour. on January 04, 2004, 01:19:05 AM
I feel like the only guy who bought Mr. Orange. Mr pink is everywhere I look, I didn't want Orange to feel bad. Plus, it's a great tint of orange.
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: cron on January 04, 2004, 04:29:09 PM
i hesitated on buying  the brown one.  i bought mr blonde  .... did you know there is actually a box set worth around 100 bucks that includes all the different movies?
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: Keener on January 04, 2004, 10:42:06 PM
I have Mr. Blonde.

Does anyone else think the actual DVD cover (the actual slip) looks really awful?
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: picolas on January 04, 2004, 10:58:16 PM
Quote from: Gamblor das ManhörenI feel like the only guy who bought Mr. Orange. Mr pink is everywhere I look, I didn't want Orange to feel bad. Plus, it's a great tint of orange.
i bought Mr. Orange. then i saw Mr. Brown a week later for $2 more. boy, that sure was a rough couple of nights thinking about what might have been.

wait.

no it wasn't.


:crazyeyes:
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: analogzombie on January 05, 2004, 01:50:31 AM
Quote from: KeenerI have Mr. Blonde.

Does anyone else think the actual DVD cover (the actual slip) looks really awful?

yes, i think the design looks tacky and the photos in the booklet ar grainy. It's a neat add-on to re-sell the same movie but if people are going crazy for the covers, well... you need to get another hobby.
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: Keener on January 11, 2004, 12:08:34 AM
Yeah, the booklet is pretty cheap looking.
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: penfold0101 on January 12, 2004, 10:09:39 AM
I had to order mine online (we had no Reservoir Dogs R2 special edition) cheapest I could find at the time was £17.99, after some careful thought I decided to go for the Mr. Orange edition, when it arrived to my horror was The crappie old Mr. Brown edition, I thought "the bastards have striped me up here shipping out the Mr. Brown copies no one wants!" but when I saw they had only charged me £7.99 on the receipt. I decided that it wasn't that important what colour the box was. And now you tell me it's worth money!! I'm laughing!
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: tpfkabi on February 20, 2004, 08:01:11 PM
i wanted to buy RD on DVD, so i looked at pricegrabber.com and i saw that the Quentin ones were about 10 bucks more.
i went to BEst Buy today and they had a bunch of the single disc ones with all the guys on front, then one of the 2 discs with Quentin on the front.
so, the one i got is supposedly limited? on the back of the DVD's it looked like they had the same features........i'm wondering why one is 2 discs?
are these seriously potentially worth something? should i not open it?
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: nix on February 23, 2004, 10:35:19 AM
I honestly don't think so. I still see Mr. Brown everywhere.
Title: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: tpfkabi on February 23, 2004, 08:13:54 PM
yeah, you're probably right.
i went ahead and opened it.
the one thing that is different is QT's little gold embossed autograph in the bottom right hand corner.
i didn't realize that the cases were exactly the same, it's just a little slip cover like the original PDL.
i believe i saw the RD SE(minus the slip over cover) in the Best Buy circular for 7.99!! this week.
Title: Re: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: MacGuffin on August 03, 2006, 05:26:49 PM
Reservoir Dogs 15th anniversary DVD 

Marking the upcoming 15th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino's breakthrough cult classic Reservoir Dogs, Artisan was quick enough to delve into some marketing and come up with a brand new edition of the film on DVD. Below you'll find some simple package art and a list of features, thanks to joblo.com and davisdvd.com, although we'd like to note out of fairness that the upgrade might now be for anyone, especially if you already own the 10th anniversary 2-DVD set available everywhere on the planet. This new edition comes with a gasonline can packaging (and limited edition matchbox packaging), some new features, DTS audio and some other gimmicks. It will also be able as a package with the upcoming, very controversial Reservoir Dogs videogame (xbox, ps2 and PC).

So here's some candy:

Select scene audio commentary
Deleted scenes
Featurettes:
Pulp Factoids Viewer - Insider info about the film and sources of inspiration
Playing it Fast and Loose - Documentary studying the impact and ripple effect of the film
Profiling the Reservoir Dogs - Perspective of the criminal minds of the film's characters
Tipping Guide - Proper tipping etiquette Reservoir Dogs style (I swear to God)
K Billy's Sounds of the 70s
Vintage interviews with Quentin Tarantino and others
Remastered Anamorphic Widescreen transfer
Dolby Digital 5.1 RC, DTS-ES 6.1 tracks

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Title: Re: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: nix on August 13, 2006, 07:51:13 PM
This is so silly.

I'll probably buy it.
Title: Re: Mr. Brown, worth money...
Post by: last days of gerry the elephant on October 01, 2006, 10:04:58 AM
What's the deal with all the metal tin packaging recently...
At least the old boy one is more conservative, reminds me of the ong-bak dvd.