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Sony BRAVIA KDL70W850B LED HDTV: This Sony BRAVIA HDTV's huge 1080p screen and Motionflow XR 480 technology ensure crystal-clear images with exceptional, cinematic quality. Built-in Wi-Fi lets you enjoy Netflix, Pandora and more.
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I was doing all my research into this TV reading all the reviews from various sites and was hearing all the negatives and issues with this TV(Radial Banding). Also read great reviews about the PQ and the size.So for the price i decided to go for it.Hooked it up yesterday and i love it,PQ is Fantastic,Screen is huge apps are great,speakers on the TV is the best i ever heard.I'm so excited i can watch the super bowl on this Monster and have my friends and family over.This is a must BUY 5/5.I also got a 5 year warranty so do not be afraid to get this model.you will not regret it!
My Best Buy number: 2611907907
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![The Wolf of Wall Street [2 Discs] [Blu-ray/DVD] [Includes Digital Copy] [Only @ Best Buy] [2013]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/4701/4701005_sa.jpg)
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The Wolf of Wall Street tells the story of Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), a man with aspirations of the wealth and easy life of the Wall Street stockbroker. He quickly learns the ropes under the guidance of Wall Street veteran Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey), an executive who is a reflection of everything Jordan wants. He's rich, confident, and knows the system. Mark advises cocaine, hookers, and masturbation as the keys to Wall Street success, advice Jordan takes to heart. Just as he's coming into his own, the stock market tanks, his firm closes its doors, and he's left without a job. His ambition to work the system leads him to a small, out-of-the-way firm that deals in penny stocks and pays a hefty 50% commission. He dazzles his co-workers and continues to expand his knowledge base. He sets out to start his own company: Stratton Oakmont. He's joined by his ambitious neighbor Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill) and the business grows quickly, operating under the goal of selling wealthy clients blue chip stocks, gaining their confidence with good returns, and pushing the lower priced and higher commissioned penny stocks afterwards.
My Best Buy number: 2611907907
What's great about it: Leo,Martin,Hill
What's not so great: Nothing
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![Walking with Dinosaurs [2 Discs] [Includes Digital Copy] [UltraViolet] [3D] [Blu-ray/DVD] [Blu-ray/Blu-ray 3D/DVD] [2013]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/3921/3921045_sa.jpg)
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The opening sequence features Urban as paleontologist Zack, who is bringing his nephew and niece to a dig site in the wilds of Alaska, though only his niece seems excited by the prospect. When they arrive at a trailhead, Zack and the girl take off while the teenaged boy stays behind, at which point a talking (well—there's talking, but no lip movement) crow arrives to get the kid interested in prehistoric times. The crow morphs into a primeval bird named Alex (voiced by John Leguizamo), who then introduces the audience to the main thrust of the story.
My Best Buy number: 2611907907
What's great about it: Dinosaurs
What's not so great: voice acting
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![Out of the Furnace [Blu-ray] [2013]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/3518/3518082_sa.jpg)
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There's a certain melancholy to a lot of country music that seemed to make Scott Cooper's Crazy Heart redolent with a kind of ragged sensibility that was perhaps best summed up by the title of its Academy Award winning song, "The Weary Kind". There's a different kind of sadness running rampant in Cooper's latest, the dour but often compelling Out of the Furnace, a film that in lesser hands might have been more of a straight ahead revenge thriller without much to recommend it other than a visceral killing or two. The revenge aspect of Out of the Furnace almost plays out as a tangent here, though, for there's a deeper tack that Cooper ends up exploiting, a penetrating examination of lives with no hope for a better future, but with an innate nobility nonetheless. That nobility is weathered, though, filled with the scuffs and scars of experiences that seem to echo some perverse mantra of "life isn't fair". While the film really concentrates on the travails of hardscrabble steel mill worker Russell Baze (Christian Bale), the film's dark, moody ambience is established from virtually the first moment with a modern day update of the iconic scene with Jimmy Cagney and Mae Clark in The Public Enemy, only in this instance we're dealing with a much more dangerously sociopathic criminal named Harlan (Woody Harrelson) , a character who isn't about to punish his nemeses with something as relatively harmless as a grapefruit. It's a startling opening scene, one which assault the viewer with virtually as much force as Harlan assaults his perceived antagonists in the film, and it quickly creates a stifling mood of terror and impending doom. That mood was palpable enough to actually foster a lawsuit filed by a group of plaintiffs who share a surname with Harlan's character and who claim the film maliciously maligns not just their name but their ethnic heritage (the plaintiffs are part of a recently state recognized Native American tribe which has yet to receive Federal designation).
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![Homefront [2 Discs] [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD] [2013]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/4081/4081021_sa.jpg)
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Homefront belongs to a raggedy old breed of '90s homestead action thriller that refuses to go quietly into the night. Adapted from the Chuck Logan novel of the same name by none other than genre icon Sylvester Stallone, the film limps from one fight scene to the next without laying sufficient groundwork. The script is rife with cliché and bad dialogue, the story is both underdeveloped and unnecessarily convoluted, and the hometown heroes and backwoods criminals make one boneheaded decision after another. It doesn't help that the characters are reduced to two-dimensional caricatures, chief among them Jason Statham's umpteenth man of action -- hitting a rare trifecta as a former soldier, ex-cop and devoted single father -- and James Franco's southern fried cornbread kingpin, Gator Bodine. (One more time: Gator Bodine.) More troubling? The split-second beatdowns, splashy shootouts and 'splodey bits are as slick and improbable as they are overly choreographed and brutally edited... which would be all well and good if Stallone and director Gary Fleder subscribed to the Tenets of Big Dumb Fun. Particularly #7: Thou shalt not aim so high whilst firing so low. Homefront is Big Dumb Fun minus the fun, taking itself much too seriously while pushing its action too far over the top.
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![Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom [2 Discs] [Includes Digital Copy] [UltraViolet] [Blu-ray/DVD] [2013]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/3518/3518064_sa.jpg)
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5
No one is born hating another person because of th
on March 20, 2014
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This is a story of repression and violence, unjust laws and just struggles, imprisonment and freedom for a people and personified in one man's fight for equality by any means necessary. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom tells the story of the late Nelson Mandela, the man who was for most of the entire second-half of the 20th century the face of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement. Jailed for leading a violent revolt against the governing system but spared a death sentence in the name of "temper[ing] justice with mercy," Mandela's imprisonment only served to further spread the call for freedom and desegregation for South Africa's black population. The film is captivating and gripping, heartbreaking yet moving, violent yet understandably so. It's dominated by a powerhouse performance from Idris Elba as the title character and told with a keen understanding of narrative flow, historical importance, and entertainment value all rolled into one. Elba's performance was snubbed a Best Actor Oscar nomination, and the film deserved serious consideration to be listed amongst the year's nominees for Best Picture.
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![The Wolf of Wall Street [2 Discs] [Blu-ray/DVD] [Includes Digital Copy] [2013]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/3921/3921114_sa.jpg)
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The American dream or the American nightmare
on March 20, 2014
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The wolf is known as both a social creature amongst its kind, and particularly within its pack, and the devourer of anything else that gets in its way. It's an attractive but fearsome animal. It's sleek, refined, capable, and very dangerous. It's the perfect metaphor for the man who notoriously rose to power in the 1980s stock brokerage scene, the man who made himself a fortune and guided others to countless millions by choosing the right friends, knowing his enemies, and pouncing on every opportunity with the cunning, smarts, and determination necessary to not crush the competition but to rise to the top of his field, to quite literally become the "king of the world," or at least the world his vast fortune but narrow focus had built. But as these stories tend to reveal, his meteoric ascendancy wasn't built only on sweat, smarts, and lawful business practices. -- no matter how destructive -- that might even make Gordon Gekko stop and consider the ramifications. Director Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is notoriously vulgar and frank yet beautifully crafted and endlessly captivating in its recreation of a story that validates the dangers in too much of a good thing. Of course, whether anything in Jordan Belfort's life can be considered "good" is the secret little subtext beneath the chaos.
My Best Buy number: 2611907907
What's great about it: Leo,Martin,Hill
What's not so great: Nothing
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![Saving Mr. Banks [Blu-ray] [2013]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/4120/4120077_sa.jpg)
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4
This is my film and I shall have my way!
on March 20, 2014
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A thick air of sentimentality, overly tidy storytelling and frustratingly sunny revisionism hangs heavy over director John Lee Hancock's Saving Mr. Banks, which never quite feels like the truest of true tales. And yet the sweet aroma of prickly playfulness and irresistible likability make it a positively pleasant film; brisk and earnest, with a touch of that patented Disney magic. Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks are spot on as persnickety author P. L. Travers and legendary filmmaker Walt Disney, and an absolute delight to watch. So too are Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford and B.J. Novak, even though Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith's screenplay push the quartet dangerously close to cartoon territory. Just be ready for a slightly different biopic than the film's trailers suggest. This isn't Walt Disney's story; it's P.L. Travers'. Scenes with Hanks donnings Uncle Walt's signature mustache and smile afford the man of the hour surprisingly little screentime in the first half of the film, while indulgent, overripe flashbacks to Travers' childhood (that are much too long and arrive much too frequently) cheapen the already on-the-nose proceedings with made-for-TV bluntness. Taken as a Golden Age Hollywood fairy tale, though, the utterly charming Saving Mr. Banks boasts just enough heart, humor and sincerity to almost, almost make up for its truth tinkering.
My Best Buy number: 2611907907
What's great about it: Tom Hanks
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![Frozen [2 Discs] [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD] [2013]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/535008fe-73cf-4b94-b09a-750e16f53178.jpg)
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5
Some animated films are worth melting for...
on March 20, 2014
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It isn't very often that a film lugging around so much baggage -- abandoned concepts, production delays, personnel changes, top to bottom rewrites, and eleventh hour alterations, just to scratch the surface -- ends up being anything other than a complete and total mess. It's rare enough to see a remotely functional movie emerge from the depths of production hell, much less a cleverly structured, memorably staged, wholly entertaining delight. And yet that's exactly what Frozen is: that rare diamond in the rough that defies all odds and delivers on both its promise and potential. Rounding out a four-film run that's given us new classics Tangled (2010), Winnie the Pooh (2011) and Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Frozen makes it difficult to deny that we're (at the very least) three years into a second renaissance in Disney animation -- the Lasseter Renaissance if you will -- an exciting era of wonder, laughter and joy ideally suited to the young and the young at heart.
My Best Buy number: 2611907907
What's great about it: Eveything
What's not so great: Nothing
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Wreck-It Ralph [4 Discs] [Includes Digital Copy] [3D] [Blu-ray/DVD] [Blu-ray/Blu-ray 3D/DVD] [2012]
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![American Hustle [2 Discs] [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD] [2013]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/3924/3924079_sa.jpg)
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4
Artful artifice
on March 20, 2014
Posted by: xphoenix23
There's an old adage that says "honesty is the best policy." Never has that been proven more true than in the story within American Hustle, Director David O. Russell's (Silver Linings Playbook, Three Kings) Oscar-nominated film that centers on con artists forced to pull off their biggest job yet when they're approached by the feds and given an ultimatum: reel in the bigger fish or reel off a few years behind bars. Cons, corruption, wild swings in emotion, love, lust, greed, spite, naiveté, and almost all variety of human emotions and dire consequences give the story shape and purpose. Yet for all of the interpersonal chaos and all of those broad narrative pieces, the film is just as much an intimate character examination that exposes man's drive on both sides of the law and the murky middle ground that's so often the real point of contention between the sides experiencing the pulling force that exposes both to the other's direction. Through it all is an oftentimes humorous rhythm and an only slightly bloated advancement through one of the year's most visually appealing, dramatically satisfying, and all-around fun films.
What's great about it: Actors,Director,Plot
What's not so great: Nothing
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Silver Linings Playbook [2 Discs] [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD] [2012]
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The Fighter [Blu-ray] [2010]
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