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The Wire: The Complete Series for $72.49 on Amazon

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striKeVillain!]Love that scene.

"WHERE THE BOY STRING!?"
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Here's some other great scenes:

Omar testfies against Bird.
Alley face off between Mouzone and Omar
Bunk scolding Omar
Rooftop scene with Avon and String

Man, I need to re-watch it, lol.
 
Every bit of this show is quotable. There are multiple 100 best quotes from The Wire youtubes out there, it's greatness can't be contained.


YA BOI GAVE YOU UP....AND HE INN'T HAF TA TORTCHA HIS ASS NEITHA
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
Every bit of this show is quotable. There are multiple 100 best quotes from The Wire youtubes out there, it's greatness can't be contained.


YA BOI GAVE YOU UP....AND HE INN'T HAF TA TORTCHA HIS ASS NEITHA
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"Money Ain't Go No Owners, Only Spenders"'
 
zero_suit said:
Here's some other great scenes:

Alley face off between Mouzone and Omar
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other than this i agree with your post, including that i should rewatch it. this scene felt a bit too hollywood and not true enough to life for me or something. too set up. the other three are definitely among my favorite scenes in the show.
 
Stumpokapow said:
Bought, thanks, was about $81 Canadian shipped to Canada :)
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Well frig, why was it $90 for me? Ah well, still a good buy. Can't wait, I've been meaning to watch this show for a while now.
 
Seen the series a few times via my library and my friend's copies. While I own the first season (friend gave me his after a similar amazon sale a few years ago in order to hook me on the series), I now finally own the rest.

I'll probably try and watch 1 episode per night, but I'm afraid I'll get hooked on it like always and end up marathoning episodes and failing school.
 
I love The Wire. Favorite show.

Sent this to two of my friends who haven't seen it giving him the heads up and he says Big Bang Theory is better than The Wire (he hasn't even watched an episode of The Wire) and another one said they fell asleep watching it due to boredom.

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Shawsie64 said:
I love The Wire. Favorite show.

Sent this to two of my friends who haven't seen it giving him the heads up and he says Big Bang Theory is better than The Wire (he hasn't even watched an episode of The Wire) and another one said they fell asleep watching it due to boredom.

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Bout to get killed by saying this, but I watched the first season and the first 3 ep's of season 2 and I found it really boring, especially the McNulty scenes. Maybe it moves to slow for me or something. I always want to give it another try and finish the whole series but I get bored after a couple episodes. If I didn't like Season 1 is there a chance I would like any of the other seasons?
 
cacophony said:
Bout to get killed by saying this, but I watched the first season and the first 3 ep's of season 2 and I found it really boring, especially the McNulty scenes. Maybe it moves to slow for me or something. I always want to give it another try and finish the whole series but I get bored after a couple episodes. If I didn't like Season 1 is there a chance I would like any of the other seasons?
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I wasn't big on Season 1 my first time through. I watched Season 1 and 2, and thought it was okay. For some reason, it was completely transformed for me when I restarted watching again. Maybe my taste had developed, or maybe I just followed along a lot better the second time through. I now consider it one of the best, if not the best show I've watched.
 
TheExodu5 said:
I wasn't big on Season 1 my first time through. I watched Season 1 and 2, and thought it was okay. For some reason, it was completely transformed for me when I restarted watching again. Maybe my taste had developed, or maybe I just followed along a lot better the second time through. I now consider it one of the best, if not the best show I've watched.
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Yeah, you can't multitask while you watch The Wire, or you'll miss a lot of things.
 
cacophony said:
Bout to get killed by saying this, but I watched the first season and the first 3 ep's of season 2 and I found it really boring, especially the McNulty scenes. Maybe it moves to slow for me or something. I always want to give it another try and finish the whole series but I get bored after a couple episodes. If I didn't like Season 1 is there a chance I would like any of the other seasons?
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Nothing wrong with that. Different people have different tastes, and The Wire just may not be your cup of tea. Don't sweat it or force yourself to enjoy it. It'll probably have the opposite effect and make you resent the series.

That being said, I love The Wire, but the exaltation it receives is a bit comical. You would think the show gives people blowjobs based on some people's excessive praise, or how they refuse to accept that any show may ever be on par with it.
 
Bought, thanks for the heads up. Never saw it before, but I've been hearing the praise for a long time now. Also paid around $90 for it (in Canada), the extra going to shipping and duty amount held. From my experience, a good chunk of the duty amount is usually refunded though.
 
Amir0x said:
i already own this. Best show of all time.

I'm waiting for the Blu-Ray set now :(
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Pretty sure the creators have said this will never happen. It was shot in 4:3. I don't remember the specifics but I remember the creators basically saying "We shot it in 4:3 and in standard def because that's how we wanted it to look."

Personally I gained a whole new appreciation for the show after watching it again. The show is a lot more than just the story's twists and turns, and rather than getting bored since I already knew what was going to ultimately happen, watching it again allowed me to see all of the really clever foreshadowing in the show, and appreciate how realistically the relationships between characters change.

Plus, and this could be more of a personal thing since I really don't watch much TV and I'm not used to something with this many characters, watching especially the first season again was almost like a totally different experience since I finally understood who all of the characters were. The first time through the show just throws names out left and right, and stuff will happen like a character will die off-screen and other characters will just talk about it. In particular, if I'm remembering right, the character Byrd (or just Bird I guess, don't know how he spelled it) is referenced a lot but rarely actually seen, or if he his he isn't addressed by his name in person.

So yeah, show got better for me on the second viewing. I'd love to watch it again but the show's so long that it's intimidating planning on watching an episode a night or whatever to get through the thing. I've actually seen the first season four times and the second three times because every time I've tried to do the whole series again something will come up and I'll miss a night I planned to watch it, and then I get behind, and then I leave for a week, and eventually I just stop.
 
I've never seen the show, but the comments I read made me very curious when it was gold box before for about $100. When I saw it again as a gold box deal last night, I just ordered one.
 
cacophony said:
Bout to get killed by saying this, but I watched the first season and the first 3 ep's of season 2 and I found it really boring, especially the McNulty scenes. Maybe it moves to slow for me or something. I always want to give it another try and finish the whole series but I get bored after a couple episodes. If I didn't like Season 1 is there a chance I would like any of the other seasons?
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this is why we can't have nice things
 
dr3upmushroom said:
Pretty sure the creators have said this will never happen. It was shot in 4:3. I don't remember the specifics but I remember the creators basically saying "We shot it in 4:3 and in standard def because that's how we wanted it to look."
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http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/inside-hbos-the-wire

The Wire is shot entirely with Panavision cameras. David Insley let us know that, "These later episodes of the show are shot Super 35, 3-perf, and that saves a lot of money because that means we're shooting about three quarters of the film we used to. But we're only using the 4 x 3 part, so we're losing the edges of the 16x 9, but it's less than we were using when it was 4-perf, so (the image is) somewhere between a Super 16 image and a standard 35 (mm) image."
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And perhaps the final contrast to the rest of high-end episodic television, The Wire for each of its five seasons has been produced in good old fashioned 4 x 3 standard definition. DP Dave Insley recalled, "The reason the show has stayed 4x3 is because David Simon thinks that 4x3 feels more like real life and real television and not like a movie. The show's never been HD, even 4x3 HD and that (SD) is how it is on the DVDs. There is no 16x9 version anywhere." As a viewer with an HD set I will point out that like much of SD television that makes its way to HD channels, it appears that HBO utilizes state-of-the-art line doubling technology. It may still be standard definition, but line doubled it looks considerably better on a high definition set than it would on a standard definition set.
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Guess this I should just pick up the DVD boxset.
 
Just got the eBay set. Gave it a chance, but 95% sure it is a bootleg. Alas, the cost of doing business on eBay. Anybody have the 2008 set for comparison? This looks like a good copy, but it has some flaws. The biggest one is that these are single layer discs. Can anybody (preferably with the 2008 edition with the box that breaks to open, although I believe the discs/sleeves are identical anyways) confirm that disc 1 season 1 is dual layer (around 8 gigs rather than around 4)? There are other possible flaws, but that is probably the easiest thing to identify for a certainty.
 
SerArthurDayne said:
Just got the eBay set. Gave it a chance, but 95% sure it is a bootleg. Alas, the cost of doing business on eBay. Anybody have the 2008 set for comparison? This looks like a good copy, but it has some flaws. The biggest one is that these are single layer discs. Can anybody (preferably with the 2008 edition with the box that breaks to open, although I believe the discs/sleeves are identical anyways) confirm that disc 1 season 1 is dual layer (around 8 gigs rather than around 4)? There are other possible flaws, but that is probably the easiest thing to identify for a certainty.
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Did the disc come wrapped in plastic baggies? And yes Disc 1 Season 1 is a Dual Layer.

I'll post some pictures right now with a comparison.
 
Mistouze said:
Best television show ever. Really.

But don't expect a big action cop show going in.
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Its one of the best works of fiction in any medium. It makes the Soprano's look like a show written for 10 year olds.
 
JLG- said:
Did the disc come wrapped in plastic baggies? And yes Disc 1 Season 1 is a Dual Layer.

I'll post some pictures right now with a comparison.
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Yes. I assume that means I got the same bootleg as you. I'll contact the seller I guess, but I'd still appreciate pics if you have them. Pretty well done. Materials quality is low, but the actual printing quality is much higher than a typical bootleg.
 
SerArthurDayne said:
Yes. I assume that means I got the same bootleg as you. I'll contact the seller I guess, but I'd still appreciate pics if you have them. Pretty well done. Materials quality is low, but the actual printing quality is much higher than a typical bootleg.
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Here are the comparison pics that i sent to Paypal, i was able to get my money back and keep the set since the seller never responded to me or paypal.

This is what it should look like when you put it in your PC:
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This how the fake one looks:
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Bottom of the disc comparisons:
Authentic:
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Fake:
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^ The bottom looks legit it even states that it's a DVD9 but it really is just a 4.7gb DVD.

I have more pics i took of the disc that had cosmetic damage and disc flaking i'll upload those to if you like.
 
No, that will do. I appreciate you going to the effort. I know better than eBay DVDs, but I figured I'd take a chance. Oh well.

Actually, I know better than USED DVDs you buy without physically seeing them first. They have flooded half/Amazon as well.
 
HeadlessRoland said:
Did you pay using a CC through paypal? If so demand a refund and if they give you any shit cancel the purchase with your CC company.
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I'll get it taken care of one way or another, but I'll try to be friendly with the guy first. Thanks for the advice, though.
 
Just to let you all know David Simon and co. aren't getting points on the package on the DVDs so if you're feeling like buying the set just to put money in their pockets don't bother.
 
Finished the show yesterday.

Woah.

Greatest show ever, although Deadwood still retains the crown as far as writing goes, but not by much.

The most powerful, heart wrenching scene ever:

When Bubbles' sponsor visits him in the pysche ward and Bubbles upon seeing him falls apart because he can't bare to confront someone who truly sees him and is someone he respects.

Every time I think of that scene I get all choked-up.

My wife comes home from overseas on Sunday night and on Monday I'm going to start watching the series all over again with her. I hope she likes it.
 
Yay! I got a bootleg too from ebay. What should I tell the sellar about it? And another thing, don't know if its the bootleg or not, but how is the quality of the video for the series? Video quality is dark and lots of artifacts so I'm taking a good guess that the official set doesn't have any issues?
 
I've never seen the show but don't have the money to buy it and I have so many other shows on my backlog that people keep begging me to watch (like Breaking Bad). Maybe some day...
 
Pretty sure there's always a 50% off sale on HBO dvds and blu rays every christmas. Might only be at Best Buy though, not sure about where else. Few years ago I took advantage of it and got The Wire, Sopranos, Deadwood and SFU

single HBO seasons used to be like 70-90 dollars each by themselves, these sets are already a steal at full price
 
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