The New DVD and Blu Thread

Post by **Ben** » February 27th, 2006, 1:22 pm

And I bet that was on VHS, right?

Meg...this is THE NEW DVD THREAD!!

Post by **Meg** » February 27th, 2006, 2:10 pm

No, it was a DVD. My VHS player wonked out, remember? And I'll take DVDs over VHS ANY day.

Post by **Wonderlicious** » February 27th, 2006, 2:39 pm

Meg wrote:Geeze. I think I've gotten, like, one movie in the past four months.

That's actually very good of you. I'm insanely greedy and am approaching the 100 mark now (88 to be precise). And around 90% have been bought in the past two years. I am slowing down a bit, though. Yeah, just a bit...

Post by **Ben** » February 27th, 2006, 4:59 pm

88 over the last two years?

That's slow! I'm at about 100 every six months...gotta cut down, gotta cut down, gotta cut down...

Post by **Meg** » February 27th, 2006, 5:00 pm

I think I have about 20 DVDs total.

Post by **eddievalient** » February 27th, 2006, 11:28 pm

I have about 170 or 180 dvds after (close to) 5 years. On average I buy 2 or 3 dvds a month, some new, some used, some bargain bin. The supermarket I work at has a video store and they always get 10 or 12 copies of new movies so after about a month they sell off a few of those copies for about $10. I get a lot of movies that way. On topic, the last dvd I bought was Ultimate Avengers, which I highly reccomend for anyone who enjoys action movies. The build up is kind of slow in places but the last big fight scene is definately worth the price of admission.

Post by **Meg** » February 28th, 2006, 7:46 am

I'm going to record it when it comes on Cartoon Network. Looking foward to it!

I have 23 DVDs, and of that I only watch about 18 of them.

Post by **Ben** » February 28th, 2006, 10:18 am

I'm not going to count how many I have.

I don't want to feel depressed or guilty!

Post by **Macaluso** » February 28th, 2006, 10:33 am

You guys are rich. I only have 26

Post by **Meg** » February 28th, 2006, 11:39 am

Quality, not quantity!

Post by **Wonderlicious** » February 28th, 2006, 1:10 pm

Meg wrote:Quality, not quantity!

Very true. Very very true.

Post by **Ben** » February 28th, 2006, 10:22 pm

We're not rich!

You think with that many DVDs we still have money to burn? I'm broke!!

BUT...every one is a gem - I never blind buy and have seen every film in my collection and they all have a reason for being there.

I'm not saying I've WATCHED every one...but I have seen all the films...

Post by **Macaluso** » February 28th, 2006, 10:28 pm

Meg wrote:Quality, not quantity!

It is quantity when they're all quality

Post by **ShyViolet** » February 28th, 2006, 11:50 pm

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I'm not saying I've WATCHED every one...but I have seen all the films...

Ha ha...

You think with that many DVDs we still have money to burn? I'm broke!!

Yeah tell me about it...that's why I'm holding off on buying Wallace and Gromit and Corpse Bride. (Never even saw either of them!!!!!

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They played for a really short time here and I couldn't get anyone to go with me....

Also, since we mentioned Don Bluth in the other thread, I just want to say that I've really become interested in his work and would like to collect his films too....(even the "mediocre" ones.

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Post by **Ben** » March 1st, 2006, 9:52 am

Bluth is funny...despite being burned once too often I still go back to the well, and his films somehow all seem better when remembering them.

I think "hey that wasn't so bad" (the mid-80s/early 90s stuff) and think about collecting it. Then I see a TV airing and think "when the heck am I really going to sit down and watch that over something else again".

About theater going...to be honest I have to say that I'm starting to hold off. Cell phone lights waving about in the rows ahead, people yakking all through the movie, kids screaming and yelling in kids movies (imgaine that!), which happen to be the most kind of films I go and see...it's sometimes not worth it.

Plus you pay to see the movie (that's two of us) and even without drink and food I'm likely to pick up the soundtrack. Factor in the DVD if it's a goodie and wow - I remember spending around $80 on Finding Nemo to see it in digital, then the CD, and the DVD.

With staggered releases and early DVDs it means I could have held off Chicken Little from three weeks ago and waited till sometime in the next couple of weeks to catch it on DVD, which I would have done anyway.

I still, of course, go and see the big anticipated movies, but some films (like Flightplan, Memoirs Of A Geisha and Munich) I'm sadfully getting more and more happy to wait at home for. Of course, if I didn't have a twelve-foot projection screen and super-dooper surround it might be a different story, but it's simply more fun at home.