The Avengers (Blu-ray/DVD, 2012, 4-Disc Set, Includes Digital Copy; 3D/2D)66 product ratings548312110Good valueEntertainingEngaging charactersSee all 38 reviewsAbout this productSee detailsBuy It NowSee all 14 Brand NewSee detailsBuy It NowSee all 23 Nearly NewSee detailsBuy It NowSee all 19 Pre-OwnedAll listings for this product548312110Good valueEntertainingEngaging charactersMost relevant reviewsSee all 38 reviewsby Avengers 3D blu- rayGreat product great movie for value !Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Newby Another good 3D movieI'm going to keep this review short and sweet, we all know marvel movies are very entertaining and well made. Its a must own for anyone who loves a good 3D experience. You can't go wrong, combining all out action with 3D is a recipe for success. So I recommend picking it up, hope this helps.Condition: Pre-ownedby spiderman dvdswe love them thanksVerified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-ownedby Got this for a friendsVerified purchase: Yes | Condition: Newby BEST Super Hero movie so far and of 2012 a must watch for anyoneBest super hero movie yet.
The batman movies are good but I wouldn't say that they anywhere come close to the recent marvel movies and this one is in a category on its own. The cast is top notch every actor plays their character very well. Mark Ruffalo takes on the roll of Hulk this time and as good as Edward Norton was in the last Hulk Ruffalo even does better. But for some reason the Hulk stories always have Bruce Banner in South America all the time hiding. This is the best comic Movie so far. The story is there as Loki is set to manipulate humanity and the Avengers on behalf of Thanos. This movie has a plot to it almost like a thriller how Loki works people against each other without them knowing it. You get to see almost all the Avengers battle each other like Ironman v Thor or Thor v Hulk. Watch as Loki turns the Avengers against each other from there inside Nick Fury's Flying Fortress which suffers the brunt of the Avengers battles. Watch as hordes of alien beings invade earth in an epic battle with The Avengers.
All I can say is this is a must see it is the best action/super hero movie so far. It's a must watch especially for Marvel fans and Action fans Read full reviewEverybody knows what a book looks like. Even as e-books become more popular, the basic idea is the same as it’s been for centuries: a rectangular block. And Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea is no exception—on the inside, at least. On the outside, however, the novel is something entirely new. The book will be available Jan. 7 in limited edition with what the publisher, Riverhead Books, is calling the first-ever 3D-printed slipcover, the result of a collaboration with the 3D-printing mavens at Makerbot. The white slipcover, into which the book fits neatly, features the letters of the title rising off the surface at an angle, and the idea all along was to do something unlike anything ever seen in the world of publishing, Riverhead’s art director, Helen Yentus, tells TIME: “I didn’t even think we’d be able to do it, because it’s such a new and innovative technology.”
In the end, each individual slip cover took 15 hours to print. Some test prototypes took up to 30 hours. Yentus has been a book-cover designer for more than 10 years and is used to being able to sketch any flat design and immediately see the idea on paper, but she had to learn from scratch what the printer technology was capable of doing. (One trick, she admits with a laugh, was asking her designer father to show her how to use AutoCAD to see what her ideas might look like.) The finished design was made for a special-edition run of 200 signed copies for sale—a number partially decided by how many could physically be printed in time for the shelf date. Not that the difficulties of the technology weren’t worth it to the designer already, even before the book gets to readers. “You get used to the six-by-nine rectangle where everything is flat,” she says. “Even now with digital we’re still designing in that same six-by-nine rectangle, it’s just much smaller. It’s really exciting to be able to think of coming off the page.”
But all that time and effort wasn’t just because the sleek look of the finished product was thought to be a good match for the book that’s inside, in which Lee (the author of Native Speaker) imagines a futuristic America—and it certainly wasn’t just for the heck of it. It wasn’t even just because being the first of anything is good publicity. (MORE: The Most Popular Book Among Critics in 2013 Was…) It’s hard to hold the On Such a Full Sea 3D cover without comparing it to the experience of holding an e-reader. The 3D case is thick, it has pointed edges, consumers would need to display it face-out or on a coffee table because it won’t fit neatly into a bookcase and, even though the book inside looks pretty much like any ordinary hardcover book, the slipcase is something different. It’s also way more expensive than most novels: the non-limited hardcover retails for $27.95 and the Kindle version is $11.99, but the 3D slipcover goes for a whopping $150.
That hefty price tag is one direction in which the publishing industry could move, at a time when the future of the physical book remains in question: providing fewer readers who are willing to pay more for each purchase with a reason to splurge for the physical object rather than the digital version, turning books into luxury objects. It’s not exactly a new idea (it’s how high-end publisher Taschen has been doing things for years and it’s also how books worked in the early days of printing), but it’s a new way of making it happen. And, as 3D printing becomes more common, it may well be a popular one. In a statement announcing the limited edition, Lee, the author, commented that the slipcover “re-introduces the idea of the book as an art object”—and art is something people are willing to pay for. Though Yentus says she can only speak for her own observations at Riverhead, she’s noticed an uptick in money and effort being spent on special effects and special projects.