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Arrow Stranger Than Fiction Special Edition: Blu-ray Preview
Will Ferrel stars in Stranger Than Fiction, back on Blu-ray again, wrapped up in the very-attractive holiday packaging of "Special Edition." Or rather, wrapped in Sony's attempt to slide another hand into your wallet with a film that many were surprised to see on Blu-ray in the first place – it's certainly not an audio or video masterpiece, and it wasn't exactly a blockbuster release that everyone was looking to snap up.


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This movie was surprisingly good. It was unexpected, and a fairly big departure from Ferrel's normal "stupid humor" movies. I loved Emma Thomsan's character also. Not exactly a blockbuster movie, but I found it to be very entertaining. Fortunately I didn't buy it the first time around because it was a bit pricey, but I may pick up this SE version (or maybe a hopefully cheap copy of the first release).
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This movie was surprisingly good. It was unexpected, and a fairly big departure from Ferrel's normal "stupid humor" movies. I loved Emma Thomsan's character also. Not exactly a blockbuster movie, but I found it to be very entertaining. Fortunately I didn't buy it the first time around because it was a bit pricey, but I may pick up this SE version (or maybe a hopefully cheap copy of the first release).
It's okay, this website just has a huge hate-on for Blu Ray. You'll learn to tune it out.

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Like the Toshiba XDE commercials I heard on the radio over the weekend? LOL. "Get an upscaling player for *near*HD quality from your DVDs".
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Whew! This conversation just went right over my head.

Garcia says - "the movie was surprisingly good" and that he'll get the Special Edition.

Sheep answers back about a "hate Blu-ray here"

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Like the Toshiba XDE commercials I heard on the radio over the weekend? LOL. "Get an upscaling player for *near*HD quality from your DVDs".
Were you guys talking to each other?

I gotta do some digging in the forums or something, there are some serious inside jokes I'm not getting.
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My first comment was about the movie itself. Sheep is commenting on the fact that Blu is not in high praise here and mine was in response to that regarding XDE, Toishiba's follow up BD competition now that HD DVD is dead. Not exactly inside jokes, but things that you would need to be up on to find humor in maybe?
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Whew! This conversation just went right over my head.

Garcia says - "the movie was surprisingly good" and that he'll get the Special Edition.

Sheep answers back about a "hate Blu-ray here"

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Were you guys talking to each other?

I gotta do some digging in the forums or something, there are some serious inside jokes I'm not getting.
What JG said. I have never seen one article from you guys about the new formats that doesn't bash Blu ray. No one likes a sore loser.

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Well your tag line slandering Sony for wanting to release a fairly good movie on Blu Ray was a pretty big tip.

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That would be libel actually. If it were a malicious attempt to defame Sony.
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