Wait, are we talking about penii again?
I'm a tad disappointed I didn't preorder
Rush (and I preorder almost everything usually), because at some point amazon lowered it to £19.00 I think, but still very happy I snagged one at £21.50 the day before it sold out.
It looks glorious, I'm going to watch the film for the first time tonight :
I held off going to see
Captain Phillips and
Prisoners in theaters for the exact same reason, I knew there would be a steelbook edition for both of them
(I'm getting the French one (FNAC) for
Capitaine Phillips and the German one for
Prisoners), and I know the chances of me loving those three films are about 99.99%. I saved a few bucks by doing so (this steelbook collecting addiction tends to be expensive).
For the past few months, when I have a say in the matter, when I go to the cinema I try to go and see only films I'm almost convinced will NOT have a steelbook edition, unless it's films I'm extremely excited about (e.g :
Gravity or
Wolf of Wall Street - it was predictible they'd get the steelbook treatment, but still) :
- Don Jon (above average romantic comedy).
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (average animated film that isn't Disney/Pixar).
- 12 Years a Slave (amazing Oscar film).
- The Wind Rises (the UK released a few Miyazaki films in steelbook, so who knows, but I'd be surprised if they followed through and released the rest of Miyazaki's filmography).
- Mea Culpa (actually it's typically the kind of film that'd get a steelbook, as it's a great hard-boiled action movie, but it's French, and there are barely 4-5 French films getting the steelbook treatment each year).
- Minuscule: la Vallée des Fourmis Perdues (amazing mute (no dialogue, just sounds!) French animated film).
- Jack et la Mécanique du Coeur (lovely poetic French animated film).
Those are the only films (+
Gravity +
Wolf of Wall St.) for which I purchased a ticket over the past 4 and a half months, given how so many films are announced in steelbook before they even get released in theaters!
Though I would be glad and very surprised if either of these 7 films eventually get a steelbook edition
.
