Nightcrawler (Blu-ray SteelBook) (HMV Exclusive) [UK]

[LGrima]

Release date: March 2nd, 2015
Purchase link: here (ships only within UK)
Price: £14.99 (instore @ HMV) / £17.99 (online @ eOne)
Notes: Majority of print run qty to be sold by HMV
Initially listed as eOne Exclusive 1st.

Group buy: Click here or via Naughtius Maximus

Spoiler: Actual Photos

 

[UpsetSmiley]

HMV Trafford Centre confirmed price as...............
£14.99!!! Awesome price for an amazing movie!!!

Thanks bud, going to cancel my order and pick it up in-store instead.

 

[Noodles]

It looks like eOne Direct has online exclusivity and HMV has in-store exclusivity. I think it's a good idea but claiming it is actually exclusive is a bit of a stretch.

I really hope that's the case! I'd actually love to see them do this with more HMV exclusive steels... buying it online from eOne at £18 still works out cheaper for me (if it is definitely £15 in store), because it costs me over £4 just to get the bus to my closest HMV store.

 

[digitalbabe]

Title updated, majority to be sold by HMV.

 

[Norwichlad]

If there is still only 800 being made I'll keep my online order just in case can't get in store

 

[Punker76]

Personally, me and the GF thought this movie was ballbags. Ace performance, no doubt, but a great performance in a movie that dragged to the point of tedium with zero directorial flare and awful (to the point of distracting) soundtrack.
Just could not understand the rave reviews.

Oh, and I liked Under The Skin and wouldn't touch a Transformers movie with a barge pole, so I like to think I have, at least, a little taste

 

[pdbluray]

Personally, me and the GF thought this movie was ballbags. Ace performance, no doubt, but a great performance in a movie that dragged to the point of tedium with zero directorial flare and awful (to the point of distracting) soundtrack.
Just could not understand the rave reviews.

Oh, and I liked Under The Skin and wouldn't touch a Transformers movie with a barge pole, so I like to think I have, at least, a little taste

Nothing wrong with Transformers IMO.

Under the skin was pretentious crap, plotless and boring.

 

[CasuallyDressed]

Oh, and I liked Under The Skin and wouldn't touch a Transformers movie with a barge pole, so I like to think I have, at least, a little taste

Nope

 

[luke98]

mmmm HMV now tempted to preorder now but i want to see another steelbook of this title

 

[leelee17]

not the best artwork, to be honest but with the only other option being to buy the amaray edition i'll settle for this release.....

 

[Last Lizard]

Personally, me and the GF thought this movie was ballbags. Ace performance, no doubt, but a great performance in a movie that dragged to the point of tedium with zero directorial flare and awful (to the point of distracting) soundtrack.
Just could not understand the rave reviews.

Oh, and I liked Under The Skin and wouldn't touch a Transformers movie with a barge pole, so I like to think I have, at least, a little taste

Pretty much agreed. This might have been Jake's feint Travis Bickle turn but the movie itself was not his Taxi Driver by a ways off in my book. An easy pass on top of this art not doing anything for me at all.

 

[crag88]

I don't think the art work does this steelbook any justice but think its still worth purchasing.

 

[C.C. 95]

Pretty much agreed. This might have been Jake's feint Travis Bickle turn but the movie itself was not his Taxi Driver by a ways off in my book. An easy pass on top of this art not doing anything for me at all.

I don't understand all the comparisons to Travis Bickel and TAXI DRIVER.
If anything, Gyllenhaal's character was much more like Rupert Pupkin in Scorsese's KING OF COMEDY.

 

[lolwut]

Nothing wrong with Transformers IMO.

Under the skin was pretentious crap, plotless and boring.

Really? Nothing? Not even the terrible story, dialogue, and acting?

 

[snooloui]

Back artwork:

 

[vivaperu348]

Hmmmmm I think the back may have salvaged it.... a little bit. I wonder what the inside art will be.

 

[Last Lizard]

I don't understand all the comparisons to Travis Bickel and TAXI DRIVER.
If anything, Gyllenhaal's character was much more like Rupert Pupkin in Scorsese's KING OF COMEDY.

I agree, which is why I used the word feint. I think anytime people see a character reacting to themself in a mirror, violently or otherwise they're keen to make a quick superficial callback to that particular role/movie. Still I stand by my use of the example as I felt like Taxi Driver extends beyond DeNiro but Nightcrawler doesn't extend too far beyond Jake Gyllenhaal.

 

[C.C. 95]

I agree, which is why I used the word feint. I think anytime people see a character reacting to themself in a mirror, violently or otherwise they're keen to make a quick superficial callback to that particular role/movie. Still I stand by my use of the example as I felt like Taxi Driver extends beyond DeNiro but Nightcrawler doesn't extend too far beyond Jake Gyllenhaal.

Good points Lizard. I wasn't directly commenting on your take- your take just reminded me that so many people were making that comparison!
My take after the film was that it was interesting- but at the end of the day, there was no real 'meat' on the narrative 'bone' of that story. We hung out with a fairly sleazy guy for 2 hours, and found out the media is sleazy too.
Not much new there.
Gyllenhaal was very good with what he was given though.

 

[Flloydo]

Ahhhh swap them over now!!! Really like that back. Should be the front

 

[Prazzers]

I would like this steel if the colors were black and yellow like the poster artwork, etc.

 

[Norwichlad]