Quatermass

Well I tried to check out my nearest Big Lots today, but the store is small and was so crowded with people and so crammed with stuff it was not practical. Plus they only had one cash register open and the line was halfway to the back of the store. The dvd rack is near the registers so you'd have to block the narrow aisle in order to bend down to see anything that wasn't at eye level. I did see a couple of the recently mentioned titles but it looked like they were all $3. I might try to go back later tonight. I wish they would move into one of the big abandoned retail buildings that are all over town. As busy as that store is, I'm sure they could afford it.

Dr. Phibes

I finally got my Batman (for $2), so I'm happy. My store had the usual crap on the DVD rack, but I checked the electronics section and found piles of stuff. Also saw I couple I hadn't seen listed yet (could've been listed, I just didn't see them) A Very Long Engagement 2-disc and Broken Flowers for $4. There were other new titles but I can't remember any apart from Red Eye, but I don't know how much that one was.

lolitazz

They have some $13 sets of I love Lucy and Movie packs. Kind of expensive IMO

Cardsfan111

I was at a Big Lots yesterday and picked up 2 Collectors Tins, 'Best of the Lucy Show' & 'Wits and Wisecrackers.' The Lucy Show tin contains episodes of Dick Van Dyke as well, over 8 hours of material on 3 DVDs. The Wisecrackers set contains The 3 Stooges, Abbott & Costello, Little Rascals and Charlie Chaplin with almost 9 hours of shows on 3 DVDs.

These were $7 - the cashier indicated she'd never seen them before. When I looked them up online at a few places, it showed a release date of 11/20 at Best Buy, Amazon etc so it looks like these are brand new. These other online places had them from $11-14 (with shipping factored in). There was one other tin available that I passed on a 'Martin & Lewis' set.

BobO'Link

The infamous "Black Friday" Thursday-Friday-Saturday ad was in my paper this morning.
Page 3 - "Friday Only Deals" shows "Major motion pictures! Assorted DVDs. Many popular titles to choose from! $2 each."

Here is what is pictured:

Christmas with the Kranks
Mr. Deeds (Sandler)
Charlie's Angels Full Throtle SE
Bottoms Up
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Being Julia
Old Gringo
The Squid and the Whale
Love and a Bullet
In the Cut
Hush
Yoyeux Noel
Lords of Dogtown
Missing
Nine LIves
Anacondas
8mm2
Population 436
Hollow Man 2

No mention in the ad of any of the other titles reported. As with BL, YMMV.

With the exception of "Batman: The Complete 1943 Movie Serial Collection" I have been able to pick up all others from the larger lists I was interested in at $3. I *may* go back Friday for a final look as the only store in my area is only 1 mile from my front door.
Happy hunting!

DeepSleep

My local Biglots had the following Sony/Columbia/Tristar DVDs on a big table:

Gunslinger's Revenge
Vampires: Los Muertos
The Red Dwarf (French language film)
The Tenants
Pursued (Christian Slater)
The Hunt for Eagle One
USS Poseidon: Phantom Below
The Debut

They also had many other titles, but they have already been mentioned/listed.

clintilona

For those having trouble finding some of these titles at their Big Lots (or don't have one nearby at all), I just found alot of the recent added titles and a few more at my local FYE priced $3.49 each ($3.14 w/ Backstage Pass)...Plus they are Buy 3 Get 1 Free.

I picked up A River Runs Through It: Deluxe Edition, The Guns of Navarone: Special Edition, Philadelphia: Anniversary Edition & The People vs. Larry Flynt: Special Edition for $9.42 plus tax.

Some of the titles I remember in addition to the above were:
8mm 2
Awakenings
Blue Lagoon and Return to Blue Lagoon
Blue Thunder (SE)
Cutting Edge: Going For The Gold
Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2 disc SE
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Knock Off
London
Master Of Disguise FS
Meltdown (Jet Li)
Memento: Limited Edition
Monster Special Edition
Mothman Prophecies
Mozart and the Whale
Mr. Deeds
Net, The 2.0
Silver City
Squid and the Whale SE
Stealing Harvard
Steve McQueen Box Set (Baby, The Rain Must Fall / The War Lover)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones)
Under Suspicion
Urban Legends
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
Where The Truth Lies (unrated / Atom Egoyan)
Wild Things / Wild Things 2 (Wild Things R rated FS)
Woods, The
XXX
XXX: State of the Union

CapRockBrewingCo.

I picked up Memento LE, In the Cut Unrated DC, and Evening with Kevin Smith 2 at the Big Lots about 20 minuted from my house the other day. All for $3 each. I'm going to have to keep stopping by that place!

docdoowop

So I thought I'd get there this morning for the 7 am opening and clean up on the $2 Tri-Star titles, spending $50 to get the $10 off a future visit coupon. What the hell!? Nothing new and they're all still $3. Turns out I misread the ad. The two buck DVDs are FRIDAY ONLY. Sixty mile round trip for nothing, except I picked up the two disc, 16 episode set of Richard Boone in "Medic" for $4.

abintra

A couple of other titles I don't believe have been mentioned yet. Either $2/$3 (YMMV).

I'll Do Anything
Love Stinks
Mr. Jones (anamorphic although it doesn't state it)
Sweet Talker
Would I Lie to You? (seen this from $2-$4)

docdoowop

Forgot to mention. While browsing the Columbia/Tri-Star selection at the Coon Rapids BL this morning I had a choice: A $4 "previously enjoyed" copy of "Squid and the Whale" or a brand new one for $3.

lolitazz

Also, there is a $10 off $50 purchase before 11:00am, Friday, Saturday & Sunday Interesting...

hilts

Stopped at Big Lots just before closing today and saw a few of the Mill Creek 50-packs I had not seen before, priced at 13.00 - Horror, Science Fiction, Nightmare Worlds, Mystery Classics. Nothing else new today.

jpdude

All i can ever find at our local Big Lots is a bunch of crap movies that nobody has ever heard of, and most all of what they have is used stuff that's obviously rewrapped.

creekdipper

Don't feel too badly, Doc...you weren't the only one. The wife & I made a trip (about 8 miles there) & discovered the save thing. We had a good laugh about it & then went across the street to Walgreens & bought 10 bags of M&M's for my Sunday School class of middle-schoolers (will add other goodies such as popcorn tins & a good book for their Christmas gift).

Will try again today (there are 3 Big Lots within a 50-mile radius where we live but don't know if it's worth the gas to visit all of them...unless we also stop at the other Target, Best Buy, CC, etc.). Anyway, thanks to this forum, I've already ordered online quite a few of the deals offered by the other stores.

docdoowop

Awright! Found these $2 titles this morning at the Brooklyn Center BL. I think they're all new to the current list. All WS unless noted.

America's Sweethearts (WS & FS)
Battle of the Brave
Blankman (FS)
Castle Keep (1969 Lancaster, Falk FS)
Cowboy (1958 Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon FS)
Desperate Measures (FS)
Escapist
Guns of Navarone SE
Into the Sun
Mixed Nuts (FS)
Old Gringo (WS & FS)
Punchline (WS & FS)
Savior (WS & FS)

Still searching for the Steve McQueen 2fer.

TexasDVDer

I saw the Steve McQueen double feature. Among others I picked up the 1943 2-disc Batman serial. I got eight total. First time I've found any decent DVDs at my local Big Lots

The Valeyard

Just got back from my nearest Big Lots. Picked up:

An Evening With Kevin Smith: Evening Harder
Blue Thunder: Special Edition
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within - Special Edition
Closer
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

All were 2 bucks. They had a bunch of Lifetime Movies I thought about getting but decided to see how the rest of my day went first.

chris_sc77

still no Batman today...
However i did finally find Steamboy and Crimson Rivers 2 for $2 a piece. Also I found The People Vs. Larry Flynt : Special Edition for only $2. I about shit when i saw that title there. I have never seen a good bargain for this one.

docdoowop

OK guys....I've got extras of Batman, White Nights, Steamboy and a few others. Looking to trade for the McQueen 2fer.

TLeeTx2012

Finally scored one of the Evening with Kevin Smith 2s this morning on my way into work. Grabbed it and a Blue Lagoon 2fer for a xmas gift. Still have one more Big Lots to check out on my lunch break which is coming up in 5 min.

JediJones

I hit 2 Big Lots in eastern PA yesterday and 4 more today. The only ones I couldn't find that I wanted were An Evening with Kevin Smith 2 and Casualties of War Extended Cut. Here's a list from the titles mentioned in this thread of what I found. Looks like I saw practically every title mentioned except for maybe 10 titles, unfortunately including 2 I wanted. I did pick up at least a dozen I wanted so this really turned out to be a sleeper that was the best Black Friday DVD deal of the year. The cheapest price and the most unique selection with something for everybody...

8mm 2
Ali
America's Sweethearts
Anacondas
Awakenings
Batman (1943 Serial Collection)
Bats
Being Julia
Blankman
Blue Lagoon and Return to Blue Lagoon
Blue Thunder (SE)
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius SE
Body Double (SE)
Bottoms Up
Breakfast on Pluto
Charlies Angels (2-disk Superbit)
Charlies Angels 2: (pg-13 rated SE)
Christmas with the Kranks
Closer
Confessor, The
Craft, The SE / Wild Things unrated
Crazy In Alabama SE
Crimson River Part 2
Cruel Intentions 2
Cruel Intentions 3
Cutting Edge: Going For The Gold
Dark, The
D.E.B.S.
Death Tunnel
Don't Come Knocking (Wim Wenders)
The Escapist (Jonny Lee Miller, Andy Serkis)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2 disc SE
Flatliners
Fog, The
Forgotten, The
Freedomland
Fun with Dick & Jane (Fonda)
Godzilla (1998): Monster Edition (2006)
Greatest '70s Cop Shows
Guns of Navarone, The
Gunslinger's Revenge (Harvey Keitel, David Bowie)
Heights
High School High
Hollow Man 2
Hollywood Homicide
Hush FS
Identity
I'll Do Anything
Imaginary Heroes
In My Country
In The Cut (unrated)
Joyeux Noel
Last Action Hero 10th anniversary FS
London
Lords Of Dogtown \"Original Theatrical Version\"
Lords Of Flatbush
Love Stinks
Mary Reilly
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein FS
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein FS/WS combo
Missing, The SE
Mixed Nuts (FS)
Monster Special Edition
Murder At The Presidio (Lou Diamond Phillips, Victoria Pratt)
Mr. Deeds
Nine Lives
Old Gringo
Passenger, The (Antonioni)
People Vs. Larry Flynt: SE
Population 436
Prisoner (1955 film - Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins)
Punchline (WS & FS)
River Runs Through It, A (DE)
Roxanne FS
Second Chance, The
Silver City
Single White Female
Squid and the Whale SE
Stealing Harvard
Stealth (FS)
Steamboy (DC)
Steve McQueen Box Set (Baby, The Rain Must Fall / The
War Lover)
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones)
Under Suspicion
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
Vampires: Los Muertos
Warriors of Heaven and Earth
Where The Truth Lies (unrated / Atom Egoyan)
White Knights SE
Wild Things
Wild Things / Wild Things 2 (Wild Things R rated FS)
Wild Things: Diamonds In The Rough
Woods, The
Would I Lie to You?
XXX

Steve

also saw
St. John's Wart
Dead Birds

Can't really recommend either except as a throw-away rental for $2. Little replay, imho.

The Valeyard

I saw a XXX: Director's Cut (2 Disc) today as well as a regular XXX and the sequel.

Proglodite

Either the Big Lots in Ashboro, NC was totally creamed this morning, or they were never given much inventory. I showed up around 11am and there were only a few discs left on a display that didn't look like it could hold very many in the first place. Angels Over Broadway (Rita Hayworth) would have been a good one if I didn't already have it. Only disc I wound up getting was The Squid and the Whale for $2...who knows when/if I'll get around to watching it. --Peter