West End

Howards End (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
$39.95
The film itself is superb, beautifully directed, wonderfully acted, and elegantly staged. It is worth owning in your dvd/blu library. But let me tell you my story.....ordered this via prime, and it arrived in two days, I always look forward to Criterion releases, and love my blu-ray movies. I went about my business the day the blu arrived, and when the appointed hour arrived for me to finally relax, I opened the packaging, and put the disc in my player, and I was surrounded with all my snacks and looking oh so forward to this film, which I had seen several times before. The movie started, and Vanessa is walking outside Howard's End within a minute or so, and I see not film grain, but dreaded digital artifacting (noise) in that dark scene. It even went on as the movie moves into brighter scenes. I said to myself, they sent me a regular dvd in a blu-ray package, I'm sure of it. I stopped the movie, reexamined the packaging, it says blu on the back, what the hell. I went online to see if others had the same problem, nothing on the web, except i see on amazon one guy saying it looks bad. Sorry, this thing looks worse then the dvd. I read some glowing reviews about the blu quality of this release, they have to be crazy or my disc is defective. The odd thing about it, in the documentary on the disc, they show in standard def the opening scene I mention at the beginning of this entry, and it looks better in standard def, then the actual hi def scene in the movie, ie., it is certainly softer then the high def but it has no artifacting or noise. I would not be surprised if there is a re-pressing so to speak of this Criterion release in the future.

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$14.00
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West End Girls (2001 Digital Remaster)
$0.99

Junta IMP WEG11010
$33.29
Players represent various office holders in the ruling Junta. Depending upon his office and the various cards he holds, each player has a certain number of votes. These are important as they must first elect El Presidente and then vote on the budget that he proposes. Here's where it can get sticky. El Presidente draws cards face down from the money deck (which varies in denomination from $1 to $3) and must propose a budget for the year, distributing the money as he sees fit amongst the various offices. Of course, loyalty to him is usually rewarded, while those pesky 'thorns in his side' are usually cut off completely. The beauty of all this, though, is that El Presidente can - and most always does - keep some of the loot for himself. And since no one but he knows the value of what he drew, no one knows how much he's keeping. Suspicion is always keen. / / Players may attempt to assassinate the other players by guessing where they will be from among five locations. Players who successfully assassinate another player take that player's money, as the only safe money is the money that has been deposited in a Swiss bank account, and the only way to get to the bank is to survive the assassination round. / / If the players are unhappy, and there is an excuse, they can call for a coup, where the opposition players seek to take control of a majority of the power centers. Rebel players control the forces of the role which they were assigned (e.g. army, navy, air force), and players loyal to El Presidente do the same, seeking to control the strongholds until the rebellion is quelled. / / The goal is to amass the greatest wealth secreted away in your Swiss bank account.