Once again Black Friday is now on Thursday, right after Thanksgiving dinner. So I got to eat a delicious dinner and then drive to Best Buy. This wasn’t a spur of the moment decision, but the result of a year’s worth of patience and research. I had been buying a lot of Blu-rays this year, so there wasn’t much more that I really wanted, plus I don’t feel like this has been a particularly strong year for movie releases, so I really only wanted about five titles.
Similar to last year, Best Buy’s ad generally had the best deals and their Black Friday ad came out in early November. Walmart had a decent ad, but it didn’t say what all they had for sale, instead saying “50 titles at this price,” but only showing 8 titles, leaving you no clue on the other 42. Target had a few okay deals. Frys didn’t really even try this year, with only a small selection of 4K movies for $1 more than Best Buy’s price. I came up with this list of Best Buy picks (the last numbers are the Rotten Tomato and Metacritic scores):
- Avengers Infinity War, $6.99, 84/68
- Black Panther, $6.99, 97/88
- Blade Runner 2049, $5.99, 87/81
- Manchester by the Sea, $3.99, 95/96
- Paddington 2, $5.99, 100/88