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All 13 episodes of the sixth season of the FX spy comedy Archer are now available in this collection. Led by the brash, wisecracking Sterling Archer (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin), a group of fellow secret agents and their organization's office employees experience a cavalcade of madcap adventures and run-ins, which include an assassin in the Alps, an extraction of a CIA agent in Argentina, and being stuck on an office elevator with each other. Special features include a duel between Archer and Russian mobsters that includes talk-show host Conan O'Brien.
 
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5
Mwap!... Mwap!
on March 11, 2018
Posted by: Victreebong
from San Diego, CA
Verified Purchase:Yes
Blu-ray. Archer. Need I say more? Season 6 is a return to form for the entire series and has probably my favorite moments in it. Lana and Archer are excellent feeding off each other's quirks, and the rest of the gang are amped up to 11 on their vices and virtues. The crew is back at the agency formerly known as ISIS, operating as contractors for the CIA. Hilarity ensues.
Picture is out of sight (the background has individual pixels!), and the sound is superb. As always, Season Mode is great for binging, and if you want to change something you can at anytime. My only two complaints are that I'm sure they could have put the entire season on one disc, and if they ever revamp Season Mode, we don't need the title song at the first of every episode, only for the credits (for guest stars). Otherwise, DO NOT MISS THIS ENTRY! Highly recommended for longtime fans and casuals alike.
My Best Buy number: 2681094446
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Great show but...
on March 11, 2018
Posted by: Victreebong
from San Diego, CA
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A missed opportunity. Fox does it again and decided halfway through a show's running not to put one of their series on Blu-ray, despite other seasons releasing on the higher quality medium. Like Always Sunny, Modern Family and The Simpsons, we now have downgraded versions of Archer to purchase for future releases. And for those who want the 1080p HD versions in digital, those come with the ads! As of this month, Netflix is ceasing its content for Archer mid-March.
I love this series, and this season is great with even more knockout moments, but switching from Season 6's glorious definition and color palette to the S7 DVD's washed out color and muffled sound is almost unbearable. There are no quick draw menu options or Season Mode, and to play all of the episodes continuously you have to start from the first episode on each disc.
As for the season itself, the gang is back in the face of danger as private investigators. And that's the only thing that's really changed. All the running gags, meta humor, debauchery and style is still ever present. If anything, Archer gets in more trouble as book-ended by the first and last scenes of the season.
I recommend this for people who are absolutely in love with the series and need it for the collection, but if you're casual or like better picture that previous seasons held, skip it.
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This release contains the complete first season of the Starz original horror comedy series Ash vs Evil Dead. A follow up to the Sam Raimi's Evil Dead film franchise, the series takes place thirty years after the events of the movies, and follows Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) once again at war with the Kandarian Demon after he accidentally unleashes the fury of the undead. The series co-stars Lucy Lawless, Dana DeLorenzo and Ray Santiago, with Raimi serving as a show developer. All ten episodes of the series are included in this set, as well as bonus content and deleted scenes.
 
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4 out of 5
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Fun but...
on February 3, 2018
Posted by: Victreebong
from San Diego, CA
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With a caveat. It's in 7.1 surround sound so if your setup is dated like mine, the sound will be really loud on some scenes and then the spoken audio will be hard to hear. This is NOT good for when there's jump scares, which there are many, MANY of. I recommend this series if you have a surround system to discern the channels. 2.0 setups will have a harder time.
The show itself is cheesy and violent, with good production value. It doesn't take itself serious, just like the classics with Campbell. So if your and Army of Darkness fan and love all the Evil Dead movies, you owe it to yourself to get your feet wet with this first set.
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Get THIS version!
on February 3, 2018
Posted by: Victreebong
from San Diego, CA
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READ: This is the definitive version to own. Not the early 2014 release or the UHD version. This comes with the Black and Chrome (b/w version) of the film that unlike other movies, was made to be in black and white. Okay, so the night shots were shot in the daytime and digitally changed (they wind up looking a little grey/purple), but the rest of the movie is like it's been filmed with infrared film! It's slick and very noir.
A word of caution for everyone; the movie has a strange cadence no matter the version because of the filming speed. So if it feels "jittery" or has "the soap opera effect", it's not your setup, it's just how the movie turned out.
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From executive producer Tom Hanks, the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers tells the story of a collection of soldiers from the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Armed Forces, also known as "Easy Company", during World War II. The ten-episode story spans from 1942 during the group's training to the conclusion of fighting in Europe, and focuses on the experiences and tribulations of the individuals fighting for the Stars and Stripes in addition to important events such as D-Day and the liberation of Holocaust survivors. The series features stars including Damian Lewis (Homeland), Ron Livingston (Office Space), Donnie Wahlberg and Michael Fassbender.
 
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As brutal as Saving Private Ryan
on February 3, 2018
Posted by: Victreebong
from San Diego, CA
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It's the highest rated series on IMDb next to things like The Wire and Oz. How good do YOU think it is? Not for the faint of heart.
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Gandolfini's swan song
on February 3, 2018
Posted by: Victreebong
from San Diego, CA
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Got this one for my stepfather because he's fearful that his saved digital copy will be erased from the cable box. Now he has another digital AND a physical copy. He loves the movie as he's a hist, Hardy and Gandolfini fan (may he rest in peace).
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This funky release from the genre-bending anime series Samurai Champloo includes all 26 episodes of the show from the creator of Cowboy Bebop, following the story of an unlikely trio of misfits, who set off on a quest wandering the wilds of Feudal Japan on a quest to find a mysterious samurai - all interwoven with a decidedly modern sense of humor, and a recurring hip-hop theme.
 
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5 out of 5
5
Pop culture samurai
on May 26, 2017
Posted by: Victreebong
from San Diego, CA
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You read that right. The same minds behind Cowboy Bebop stuffed even more lightning into another bottle with a second series that seamlessly blends genres together. This time, three unlikely antiheroes are placed together in feudal Japan's Edo Period on a quest to seek a samurai who smells of sunflowers. Only, the Edo Period is punctuated by San Francisco counter culture, hip hop artists, name brands, capoeira ninja skills, and super human ronin.
This series is phenomenal. Bebop was messy, short lived, and iconic. Samurai Champloo is far from messy, it's just about the right length in episodes, and VERY clean. Gorgeous in fact. Even though this came out right before Blu-ray premiered, this series is striking on Blu-ray. Lush colors, thick black lines, excellent voice acting, great audio, a very neat menu, this is the only way to watch Samurai Champloo. It does have Japanese with subs, but I prefer the English voice work because the fella who played Spike in Bebop also plays Mugen (essentially a Spike expy) in Champloo.
An essential for any anime fan. If you like Bebop, Afro, Samurai 7, or Ninja Scroll, you'll binge Samurai Champloo several times in a row.
My Best Buy number: 2681094446
My Best Buy number: 2681094446
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Three great Pokemon movies in one limited edition collection on Blu-ray. In Pokemon: The First Movie, the lab-created Pokemon Mewtwo wreaks havoc among the "pocket monsters". In Pokemon: The Movie 2000, Ash, Misty and Tracey venture to Shamouti Island, only to encounter rare new Pokemon friends. And in Pokemon 3 The Movie, Ash and his Pokemon buddies must liberate his mother from a crystallized prison. In English and Japanese with English subtitles.
 
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5
Gotta Collect Them All.
on April 30, 2017
Posted by: Victreebong
from San Diego, CA
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It's time to step back into time for a minute, when a craze rocked childhood harder than Barbie or G.I. Joe. 1998 hit like a nuclear truck filled with bricks when Pokémon took over the globe. Pokémon GO may have been a hot popcorn f*rt in comparison, but all the things that made the original craze epic still hold up very well in 2017. So here's the first three movies to remind you of a time when Charizard and Mewtwo rivaled for the crown of baddest boi in the sandbox, let's go from worst to best.
Pokémon Movie 2000 - OK, so this is probably the second worst movie in the entire franchise. The premise is two sentences, the antagonist is boring, the featured Pokémon are the birds (boring), Lugia doesn't hold a candle to Mewtwo, it's short, the animation is REALLY meh, Pokémon 2000 is a dive. If you bought this on DVD, I feel bad for you. It's purely filler in this set, but it's there. Two stars, mainly because it's got the old team and I'm feeling generous. **
Pokémon 3 - This is an excellent addition to the movie universe, and one of the best animated out there. This is one of the ones that was still cel-shaded before Project Pikachu transitioned to computer shading, and it is remarkably well down. The third act is very dark (color wise) and just about everything casts a shadow. Crystals, faces, Pokémon, everything is well shaded. This entry blows the second movie clear out of the water. It also has a touching story behind it involving a little girl trapped in a desolate crystal world with the memory of her father brought to life by the Unown in the form of the legendary beast, Entei. Yes, you read all of that correctly. Fans of the Legendary Gerbils will be well at home with this movie. The finale also includes a fan favorite in one of the franchises most epic battles. Fantastic movie and reason to own this Limited Edition set. Eight stars. ********
Pokémon The First Movie - This is probably why you eyed the Blu-ray set, and it is the exact same movie it was in 1999. The first movie is part Akira, part clone wars, part mock death, part feels. It takes it's time with its set up, it's antagonist is none other than the crown king of genetic monstrosities turned sympathetic antihero (the best kind), this is the first time fans got to see a lot Pokémon they hadn't aired in the show yet, Pokémon the First Movie is a gem. Did you know that Christina Aguilera and Baby Spice helped with the soundtrack? I didn't know that until the credits. Very well animated and voiced, funny parts, parts with intrigue, between the third movie and the first movie this set gets a five on BB from me. Nine point nine-nine stars from me (Rise of Darkrai will always be my favorite at 10). *********
There's some caveats to this set. There's no Japanese audio track, and there's no subtitles. There's no special features, and there's no Pikachu shorts. Maybe Viz Media didn't obtain the rights to those, I don't know. Each movie is on it's own separate disc, and the set has two parts in its steelcase. So there's no inner "page" for one of the three discs; two of them are staggered on the right side. Still, it's the absolute best the first three have looked and probably will look for years to come. As more of these movies make their way to Blu-ray we're reminded of what made us fall in love with the franchise in the first place. A good pick for kids, dads, moms, the whole family.
My Best Buy number: 2681094446
My Best Buy number: 2681094446
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4 out of 5
4
Get in.
on April 30, 2017
Posted by: Victreebong
from San Diego, CA
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Just like the first season, except about three times longer. This one spreads itself a little thinner by adding quite a few other characters to the mix, but it still has the same level of "we need to be on the move and aggressive all the time against the machines" the first season had. My favorite addition is Garbage's Shirley Manson. Yes, Shirley Manson (I'm only Happy When it Rains, Stupid Girl, Paranoid, Magnetic) is a guest star in the second season. And she plays it up quite well.
Again, if there's any justice in this world this series will return before actors start passing away or just getting too old. I know I sound like a Firefly fanatic, but Sarah Conner Chronicles is yet another example of why they need to drain the swamp at Fox. Great picture, great sound, great track, great cast, SUPERB plots, great show. Lots of extras, and the menu is confusing like the first season. Didn't need the cancelation. Recommended on Blu-ray, accept no substitutions.
My Best Buy number: 2681094446
My Best Buy number: 2681094446
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Watch this if you want to live.
on April 29, 2017
Posted by: Victreebong
from San Diego, CA
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A great show that was unfortunately cancelled by the same knuckleheads who cancelled Family Guy and Futurama. TSCC picks up after T2, and incorporates very little from Rise of the Machines, pretty much ignoring what happened with that anomaly.
They add a little quirk with Summer Glau's female cyborg unit as the show's bruiser, young love interest, and friend to John Connor. S1 sets up the relationships of all the characters while throwing in the occasional T-800 attack. Unfortunately the 07-08 Writer's Guild Strike cut into the season and lots of minor lose ends of S1 get dropped when the show returned in S2, but nothing that was overly significant to the major plotline going on. Picture is gorgeous, sound is great, there's machines in the episodes and the special effects are pretty spot on. The menu is terrible though. This was released during the infancy of Blu-ray, so the menu is not as navigable as current discs from WB. Lots of extras for the first season, I haven't watched all of them though.
Definitely recommended for fans of the Terminator series.
My Best Buy number: 2681094446
My Best Buy number: 2681094446
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The AT&T Prepaid card makes it easy to pay for your services. Add the money to your AT&T Prepaid (formerly GoPhone) account.
 

I’m lookin to drop my contract w/ a well known company but I need a hotspot on my phone. Does att prepaid provide a hotspot?

They do, it’s extra, and NOT unlimited. That’s where they get you, the same way they had limits on texts and pics back in the early 2000s. (AT&T knows they have to make their money somehow and right now it’s on data caps.)

However, older contracts with AT&T are grandfathered in to allow hotspots with their plans, even if they’re unlimited. The two catches are that they’re 1) obviously grandfather claused and therefor not available for new contracts, and 2) if you change your plan it’s expunged. Getting a new phone that requires a different plan can also void the clause.
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The AT&T Prepaid card makes it easy to pay for your services. Add the money to your AT&T Prepaid (formerly GoPhone) account.
 

On AT&T prepaid card plans, do you have to renew monthly, or do you have at least a 3 month or 6 month card plan?

The balance on the account (attached to the phone’s SIM) has to be correct for whatever “plan” you first selected when you bought the phone, and renews every 30 days. There is no rollover data or balances on these accounts. Every 30 days, the plan renews and the balance deducts the monthly plan’s amount. The prepaid cards however, have 90 days from date of purchase to be added to your phone’s balance.

Even though it’s not a contract phone, you still have to start out with a plan, which reflects how much data the phone is allowed to use and therefor how much you have to have in the phone’s balance.
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