Best of Warner Bros 50 Film Collection (+UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Excellent value, but not for everyone
Some BACKGROUND: I came across this collection online a few days after buying my first Blu-ray player. This collection was on sale then for $174.99, which breaks down to $3.70 per movie. I only had about three Blu-rays then, and only one included in this collection. I like classics. I like modern films. So this collection was perfect for me. Most of the reviews here weren't very helpful, as they were from people who wanted to give an opinion on the films included, but hadn't actually bought the set. I have it; I can speak about the set itself.

I've had the collection about a week now, and although I haven't re-watched all the movies in the collection, I had already seen roughly forty before buying it, and I've sampled scenes from about half the discs.

WHAT'S IN THE BOX: 50 films, spanning a variety of eras and genres and (let's be honest) levels of quality. There are some absolutely great films (Casablanca, Singin' in the Rain, 2001: A Space Odyssey), some...

Movie Titles
1. Grand Hotel* (1932)
2. Mutiny on the Bounty* (1935)
3. Wizard of Oz (1939)
4. Gone with The Wind* (1939)
5. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
6. Mrs. Miniver* (1942)
7. Casablanca* (1942)
8. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
9. Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
10. American in Paris, An* (1951)
11. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
12. Gigi(1958)
13. North By Northwest (1959)
14. Ben-Hur* (1959)
15. How the West Was Won (1962)
16. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
17. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
18. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
19. Bullitt (1968)
20. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
21. Dirty Harry (1971)
22. Clockwork Orange, A (1972)
23. Exorcist, The (1973)
24. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest* (1975)
25. Superman, The Movie (1977)
26. Shining, The (1980)
27. Chariots of Fire* (1981)
28. Risky Business (1983)
29. Amadeus* (1984)
30. Color Purple, The...

really is a great set of movies, great if on sale
I was looking at this as more a gift for my brother who recently got a BD player and doesn't own a lot of movies. Pretty much every movie on here is good, although many may only be worth seeing once. For the price on sale, is a good set. Regularly priced would not be. Not really fair for people to give poor reviews because they already own the movies.

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