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Contest: Win 'Rushmore' on Criterion Collection Blu-ray!
Mon Aug 06, 2012 at 12:25 PM ETTags: Contests, Giveaways, The Bonus View, Fun Stuff (all tags)
You like free stuff, don't you? How would you like a free copy of Wes Anderson's hilarious 'Rushmore' on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection? Head on over to the blog today for your chance to win!
The Bonus View is Giving Away 20 Blu-rays During Sunday Night's Golden Globes Live-Blog!!!
Fri Jan 13, 2012 at 02:40 PM ETTags: Bonus View Digest, Fun Stuff, Contests, Giveaways (all tags)
I know you sit around waiting anxiously for the next edition of the Bonus View Digest. Well, here we are again, but this time we've got a mega-special announcement. This coming Sunday The Bonus View will be alive with activity. Normally, we're silent on Sundays, but we'll be live-blogging the Golden Globes on the 15th and we hope that you'll join us. Oh and there's more! We'll be having TONS of giveaways!
Last year we had tons of fun during our live-blogging events. The Oscars were a blast and we gave away a bunch of free Blu-rays to other chatters. This year the live-blogging Golden Globes event will be even bigger. We're giving away 20, count them 20, Blu-rays to all of you who will be joining in on the chat with us. Not only will you be able to chat with us live and get showered with our unfiltered wit, but we're also showering you with prizes galore. How could your Sunday night get any better?
So, we hope you'll join us for our live-blog on Sunday. Everyone is welcome and we hope to see you all there. Josh and Aaron will be there running things and hoping to make the chat go as smoothly as possible. It should be a lot of fun. Don't miss it, or you'll miss your chance at scoring some free movies along with missing out on some great camaraderie between writers, readers, and movie buffs.
Besides the impending live-blogging event – which everyone is coming to, right? – we had a lot of fun at The Bonus View this week. Check out some of the highlights below.
Blu-ray News
Josh covered the weekly look at the new Blu-rays hitting store shelves this week. This was the week to pick up hot films like 'Moneyball,' and 'Killer Elite.' Also, 'Boardwalk Empire' hit Blu-ray this week, which should have HBO fans in a buying frenzy.
With Uncovered, Aaron discussed some of the newly released artwork for upcoming titles like 'Immortals,' 'J. Edgar,' and the highly anticipated 'Bond 50' anthology. Aaron also returned to his popular feature Off The Shelf where he revisits movies that have been sitting on his shelf for a while. This time he rewatched the stop-motion favorite 'Coraline' and observed 20 random things about it.
Theatrical News
There was no shortage of theatrical news this week, starting off with a trio of reviews from Luke Hickman. He reviewed 'Joyful Noise,' 'Contraband,' and the unsettling drama 'We Need to Talk About Kevin.'
Luke also covered 2011's Biggest Box Office Bombs. E discussed the very unfunny, and might I add depressing trailer for 'The Three Stooges' in this week's Trailer Park.
This week's Mid-Week Poll also had to do with going out to the cinema. We asked you which critically acclaimed movie of 2011 was your favorite film. The conversation has grown to one of the most popular threads on the site. Weigh in with your opinion now.
Home Theater News
Watch out for those supposed 3000 hour rated projector bulbs. In the post 507 Hours Josh found out the hard way this week that these bulbs may not last as long as they're supposed to.
If you don't feel like hitting the theater this weekend and would rather check out what you can stream into your home check out our weekly Netflix Stream and VUDU posts. If you're looking for a recommendation, Josh recommends an erotic thriller starring Rob Lowe (I know, sounds awesome right?) in his VUDU Diaries post called 'Bad Influence.'
That's it for this week. Be sure to join us this Sunday at 8:00pm EST/5:00pm PST for our live-blogging coverage of The Golden Globes. Remember, we're giving away at least 20 Blu-rays during the telecast so you're odds are very good when it comes to winning. So join us for a night of fun, laughs, and contests. We hope to see you there! And by there, I mean right here!
Win 'Kung Fu Panda 2' on Blu-ray!
Wed Dec 28, 2011 at 02:15 PM ETTags: The Bonus View, Contests, Fun Stuff (all tags)
Did Santa bring you all the Blu-rays you wanted for Christmas? What, no? Well, let's see if we can fix that by offering you the chance to win 'Kung Fu Panda 2' on Blu-ray. Doesn’t that sound like a good idea? We thought so! Read on after the break for all the instructions on how to enter.
Thanks to our friends at Dolby Labs, we have two copies of 'Kung Fu Panda 2' to also give away. Each is a 2-disc Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy combo pack, so you’ll be covered no matter how or where you (or your kids) want to watch the movie.
Now how do you win? That's easy. We’re going to do this one as a haiku contest. (Yes, we know that kung fu is Chinese and haiku is Japanese, but go with it anyway.) To win the prize, you must come up with a creative 'Kung Fu Panda'-themed haiku in the standard 5-7-5 format. That means 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and another 5 syllables in the third line. For example:
Fat bear leaps through air
With athletic grace. Too bad
Gravity’s a bitch
The winners will be chosen at our own subjective discretion based on whichever responses we enjoy the most. As mentioned earlier, we have two copies of the Blu-ray to give away.
Entries are limited to 10 haikus per person. That should give you plenty of opportunity to craft a good submission, but will also help us to avoid any potential appearance of awarding prizes based on volume rather than quality.
The deadline for entry is this Friday, December 30th. The winner will be announced next week. Good luck, everyone!
Hop on over to the contest announcement to post your entries!
Win ‘The Art of Flight’ on Blu-ray!
Mon Nov 14, 2011 at 03:20 PM ETTags: The Bonus View, Contests, Fun Stuff (all tags)
The Bonus View is having another contest!
Thanks to our friends at Dolby Labs, The Bonus View has three Blu-ray copies of the snowboarding documentary 'The Art of Flight' to offer lucky readers.
Whether you snowboard yourself or are just a spectator, 'The Art of Flight' features truly mind-blowing footage of the world’s best snowboarders performing amazing stunts on some of the toughest terrain on the planet.
The Blu-ray presents it in stunning 1080p video and thunderous Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio. This is a hell of a demo disc for your home theater, and it can be yours easily.
Head on over to the contest announcement on The Bonus View to find out how to enter!
New Bonus View Contest: I’m Gonna Git You, ‘Sucker Punch!'
Tue Jun 28, 2011 at 04:30 PM ETTags: The Bonus View, Contests, Fun Stuff (all tags)
That's right! The Bonus View is running another contest already! Did you miss Zack Snyder’s hot-chicks-with-samurai-swords-and-machine-guns action flick 'Sucker Punch' when it played in theaters earlier this year? If you’d like to check it out now, perhaps we can provide you with a free Blu-ray copy!
We’re going to do this as another of our ever-popular photo caption contests. All you need to do is go to the contest announcement on The Bonus View come up with a funny or clever caption for the image we have posted over there, then post your caption in the comments.
The caption can either be a made-up line of dialogue or something that describes the image. The winner will be chosen at our own subjective discretion based on whichever response we enjoy the most. We have one copy of the Blu-ray to give away.
Entries are limited to 10 captions per person. That should give you plenty of opportunity to craft a good submission, but will also help us to avoid any potential appearance of awarding prizes based on volume rather than quality.
This contest is only open to entrants from the domestic United States. We will not ship internationally (whether you’re a U.S. citizen or not). Employees of High-Def Digest or Internet Brands and their families are not eligible. Standard contest rules and conditions apply. People who have won any of our previous contests within the past one year are also not eligible to win, but may get Honorable Mentions.
The deadline for entry is this Friday, July 1st. The winner will be announced next week. Good luck, everyone! Now go check out that image and post your entry for the caption contest!
New Bonus View Contest: I’m Gonna Git You, ‘Sucker Punch!'
Tue Jun 28, 2011 at 04:30 PM ETTags: The Bonus View, Contests, Fun Stuff (all tags)
That's right! The Bonus View is running another contest already! Did you miss Zack Snyder’s hot-chicks-with-samurai-swords-and-machine-guns action flick 'Sucker Punch' when it played in theaters earlier this year? If you’d like to check it out now, perhaps we can provide you with a free Blu-ray copy!
We’re going to do this as another of our ever-popular photo caption contests. All you need to do is go to the contest announcement on The Bonus View come up with a funny or clever caption for the image we have posted over there, then post your caption in the comments.
The caption can either be a made-up line of dialogue or something that describes the image. The winner will be chosen at our own subjective discretion based on whichever response we enjoy the most. We have one copy of the Blu-ray to give away.
Entries are limited to 10 captions per person. That should give you plenty of opportunity to craft a good submission, but will also help us to avoid any potential appearance of awarding prizes based on volume rather than quality.
This contest is only open to entrants from the domestic United States. We will not ship internationally (whether you’re a U.S. citizen or not). Employees of High-Def Digest or Internet Brands and their families are not eligible. Standard contest rules and conditions apply. People who have won any of our previous contests within the past one year are also not eligible to win, but may get Honorable Mentions.
The deadline for entry is this Friday, July 1st. The winner will be announced next week. Good luck, everyone! Now go check out that image and post your entry for the caption contest!
Win The Adjustment Bureau on Blu-ray!
Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 04:05 PM ETTags: The Bonus View, Contests, Fun Stuff (all tags)
Time for another contest over at High-Def Digest's The Bonus View! Thanks to the generosity of Universal Studios Home Entertainment, we have two Blu-ray copies of 'The Adjustment Bureau' to give away! How do you win? Read on to find out.
For this contest, two lucky winners will each receive one Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack copy of 'The Adjustment Bureau' starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.
The theme of this contest is adjustments. For your chance to win, we want you to post in the Comments section over on the blog, with your answer to this question: What one element or aspect of an existing movie do you wish you could adjust? Even the best of movies typically have something wrong with them. Maybe it’s a miscast actor, or a bad musical score, or shoddy visual effects, or just one bad scene that stands out and derails an otherwise good movie. If you had the power to go back in time and alter the course of one movie, what would you fix?
For example: If we had this power, we’d like to replace Keanu Reeeves in 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' with… anybody, really. Reeves is terribly miscast in that movie, and his wooden performance stands out badly among an otherwise stellar cast. How about we take Carey Elwes (who has another part in the movie) and put him in the Jonathan Harker role, and then grab Tim Roth and put him in the smaller role that Elwes plays? That would do. That’s what we would fix.
We're allowing up to three entries per person, but please keep them short. (Less than 200 words would be good.)
The two winners will be selected based on our own subjective discretion. This contest is only open to entrants from the domestic United States. We will not ship internationally (whether you’re a U.S. citizen or not). Employees of High-Def Digest or Internet Brands and their families are not eligible. Standard contest rules and conditions apply. People who have won any of our previous contests within the past one year are also not eligible to win, but may get Honorable Mentions.
The deadline for entry is this Friday, June 17th. The winner will be announced next week. Good luck, everyone!
Hurry over to The Bonus View's contest announcement to add your entries!
Win a $100 Gift Card From eBay and HDD for Mother's Day
Mon May 02, 2011 at 02:50 PM ETTags: eBay, Contests, High-Def Digest, Fun Stuff (all tags)
Mother's Day is this weekend! THIS WEEKEND! If you're anything like us, these floating holidays have a maddening way of sneaking up on you. Every year we find ourselves scrambling at the last second to find the perfect Mother's Day presents.
eBay always makes last minute gift giving a snap, because we can find just about anything on there. Now they're making it even easier to get your mom the perfect present, because in a partnership with High-Def Digest, eBay is giving away a $100 eBay gift certificate in this exclusive contest.
Now, you're just dying to learn how to win one hundred bucks of free eBay merchandise, aren't you? Well, the contest rules are pretty simple. Head on over to eBay's Mother's Day page and pick out three of your favorite Mother's Day items. Probably the items that you would buy if you were lucky enough to win the gift card. Then come on back to the forums on High-Def Digest and post your choices in the eBay giveaway thread linked below. The winner will be selected at random.
That's it. That's all you have to do. Now you're entered into a contest that will possibly make you the best son or daughter ever. That is assuming you actually use the gift card on your mother!
Check out the eBay Mother's Day contest here, then visit the forum discussion below to post your gift picks and enter the contest!
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Enter the blog, er, grid, and win TRON and TRON LEGACY 5-disc set on Blu-ray!
Tue Apr 12, 2011 at 09:35 AM ETTags: The Bonus View, Contests, Fun Stuff (all tags)
Did you like the 'Black Swan' contest The Bonus View had recently? Then just wait till you hear what they're giving away this week! The complete 5-disc 'Tron' and 'Tron: Legacy' 2-Movie Collection on Blu-ray (which includes both 2D and 3D copies of the second film).
That’s right, The Bonus View is going all the way here. The prize is the 'Tron' and 'Tron: Legacy' 5-disc Blu-ray package that includes all of the following, packaged in a slipcover with sweet lenticular 3D artwork.
'Tron: The Original Classic' (Blu-ray)
'Tron: Legacy' (Blu-ray)
'Tron: Legacy' (Blu-ray 3D)
'Tron: Legacy' (DVD)
'Tron: Legacy' (Digital Copy)
You've probably had enough caption contests recently, so they're throwing a little culture into the mix. This one is a haiku contest. To win the prize, you must come up with a creative 'Tron'-themed haiku in the standard 5-7-5 format. That means 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and another 5 syllables in the third line.
Check out The Bonus View for examples and further details
The winner will be selected based on our own subjective discretion. We have one copy of the prize to give away, so there can only be one winner. Entries are limited to 10 per person. That should give you plenty of opportunities to craft a good submission, but will also help us to avoid any potential appearance of awarding prizes based on volume rather than quality.
The deadline for entry is this Friday, April 15th. The winner will be announced next week. Good luck, everyone!
Go to The Bonus View for details and to submit your Haiku masterpieces!
Enter the blog, er, grid, and win TRON and TRON LEGACY 5-disc set on Blu-ray!
Tue Apr 12, 2011 at 09:35 AM ETTags: The Bonus View, Contests, Fun Stuff (all tags)
Did you like the 'Black Swan' contest The Bonus View had recently? Then just wait till you hear what they're giving away this week! The complete 5-disc 'Tron' and 'Tron: Legacy' 2-Movie Collection on Blu-ray (which includes both 2D and 3D copies of the second film).
That’s right, The Bonus View is going all the way here. The prize is the 'Tron' and 'Tron: Legacy' 5-disc Blu-ray package that includes all of the following, packaged in a slipcover with sweet lenticular 3D artwork.
'Tron: The Original Classic' (Blu-ray)
'Tron: Legacy' (Blu-ray)
'Tron: Legacy' (Blu-ray 3D)
'Tron: Legacy' (DVD)
'Tron: Legacy' (Digital Copy)
You've probably had enough caption contests recently, so they're throwing a little culture into the mix. This one is a haiku contest. To win the prize, you must come up with a creative 'Tron'-themed haiku in the standard 5-7-5 format. That means 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and another 5 syllables in the third line.
Check out The Bonus View for examples and further details
The winner will be selected based on our own subjective discretion. We have one copy of the prize to give away, so there can only be one winner. Entries are limited to 10 per person. That should give you plenty of opportunities to craft a good submission, but will also help us to avoid any potential appearance of awarding prizes based on volume rather than quality.
The deadline for entry is this Friday, April 15th. The winner will be announced next week. Good luck, everyone!
Go to The Bonus View for details and to submit your Haiku masterpieces!
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