IRule
26th January 2007 - 07:16 AM
QUOTE (Mike-El+Jan 25 2007, 10:49 PM)
I figured we must have a few DVD collectors here among us. We can use this thread for news, reviews, and chat.
Just throwing out a couple of questions:
- How often do you buy a DVD of something you've never seen?
- What's on your shelf right now that you've never seen?
My DVD collection is pretty scary (I've been hardcore into buying/collecting since fall of 1999 and have easily spent $20,000.00 in the last 7 years or so on plastic discs) and I'm an avid film fanatic anyway (I really like going to the theater, but there are plenty of things I'll wait for on DVD).
To answer your questions:
1) I used to buy DVDs for films/TV shows I had never seen much more frequently than I do now. Especially in the first few years of my collection, I would buy films that were either well reviewed, considered genuine classics (that I had never rented or watched on AMC/TCM) or were on sale and looked interesting. I've literally gone through half of high school and all of college (and I was a business major, but I took every film class that Emory offered) since I started collecting DVDs, and many, many, many of my favorite films/DVDs were "unseen" purchases.
My DVD purchases have diminished in frequency since college (most of the good stuff has already come out - so I get TV shows, new releases and the occasional (okay, not so occasional) double-dip/updated edition). I've purchased seasons of TV shows I haven't seen in full in the last couple of weeks, but I can't think of any movies I've purchased since the first of the year.
2) When the internet was super-cheap for DVDs and I had tons of disposable income and no bills, I went CRAZY in terms of buying DVDs. As a result, I still probably have things on my shelf that I bought back in 2000 that I may not have watched all the way through (or that I've seen, but not the DVD). I recognize the insanity of buying stuff and then NOT watching it -- I actually started curbing that behavior sometime in 2001, right after I started college, because I realized just how many DVDs I purchased but didn't watch. Just doing a cursory mental scan (I'm at work), I know "Better Luck Tomorrow" is still sealed and on a shelf (and has been for like 3 years -- I KNOW, I KNOW), I've watched parts of seasons 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I got seasons 4, 5, and 6 recently), but not every single episode. Quills has been on the shelf for ages and ages (I keep forgetting to watch it), I'm sure there are more...but I've gone out of my way over the years to watch everything I buy.