Nice When the Reviews Still Hold
So, Eagle Eye was a movie that I saw last year, and by all accounts, I should have gotten it on DVD. I rated it an 8.5, well above my purchasing threshold (7-7.5), but apparently when it came out on Amazon, I forgot to add it to my cart and it just went unremembered by me. Well, upon looking back through my reviews and seeing this, I added it to my Netflix queue so I could watch it again in an attempt to figure out why I rated it so high but never got it. Honestly, I don’t have a good answer for that one. I enjoyed it just as much as I apparently did the first time (and also benefited from being able to understand things when they occurred in the movie since I remembered parts as it went along), and I really can’t think of a good reason to not include it with my next Amazon purchase. Being able to rent it on demand from Netflix does not count as a “good reason” because by those standards, I’d never buy another DVD again.
One thing that I’ve noticed on Amazon is that after the release of a movie, the price on the two disc version jumps significantly up while the standard version remains fairly low. Actually, both end up being discounted quite little, but before a movie comes out, the special edition is discounted much more heavily to only make it a few dollars more expensive. If there’s a copy of a movie for $15-20 and another for $30-35, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out which one I’m going to buy. Please note that this logic only applies to movies; video games fall under an entirely different set of guidelines.