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i watch alot of movies and in an age of streaming i'm a bit old fashioned and tend not to do that that often. i miss the days of going to the movie rental stores and browsing around seeing what was on sale and what wasn't renting well so they would be sold. getting the deals of buy 2 get 1 free or 5 for 20 bucks. the only one left in my area is bullmoose and i'm thankful for that! so i buy alot of my films i like to own my movies to watch whenever and for the special features that you cant get through streaming. this is what i picked up tonight.

american made
stand and deliver
the glass bottom boat
a star is born (original)
a star is born (remake)
gentlemen prefer blondes
vibes
thunderbolt and lightfoot
spookies
shazam
donnybrook
knives out
the professor

what have you recently added to your collection ? and do you buy or prefer to stream?

You got some nice choices there. The Glass Bottom Boat? Are you a fan of Doris Day? A couple of us here are fans of hers, including me. I only have a few films on DVD as I can't afford them and don't have the room to store them...but some people here have HUGE DVD/bluray collections. BTW, Welcome to MoFo:)

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well firstly thanks its nice to be here. its strange in the last few years i'v really come to appreciate the older movies way before my time that i'd have scoffed at in me teens and 20's but when i saw frank sinatra in i think one of the tony rome movies i liked it and started watching alot of his stuff and that led me to jerry lewis and dean martin who as far as i'm concerned are the greatest comedy duo ever and in watching alot of their stuff its lead me down other paths to different things . so no i dont think i'v seen alot with doris day but when i saw the cover i had to get it and i doubt i will regret it lol

The Glass Bottom Boat...Oh, you haven't seen it yet. It's a fun movie, very 1960s, which is cool to see. It's sort of like having a time machine.

Sinatra's cool, and I'm a big fan of Dean Martin, though not the Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin movies. Probably my favorite Dean Martin is the Billy Wilder film, Kiss Me, Stupid. Martin plays a performer like himself. It's a funny movie, of course most of Billy Wilder's stuff is great.

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Do I collect? Yes.


Collect or Stream... collect. DVD every time :)

I've never used online streaming or downloading, never will.
Bad picture and sound quality. Not worth the money. I'd rather spend £5 to £10 on a disc and enjoy the movie rather than get angry at the poor quality.

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o good i look forward to watching the doris day flick then! i'll look for your dean martin reccomendation too i havnt seen that one yet either.

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high five to you rodent thats dedication! i take it your in europe somewhere? why is it that every thing imaginable gets a bluray release there and not in the states!? i'm close to buying a region free bluray player just so i can get the movies i want in hi def

Believe it or not, BluRay hasn't taken off in the UK as much as you'd think.
DVD sales and stocks outrank BR by a huge amount.


My local HMV, the largest DVD/BR/CD outlet in the UK, has aisles and aisles of DVDs, and only maybe 3 shelves of BluRay.
50 movies max, compared to thousands of movies on DVD.

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Addition to that, ADSA by me also has about 10 shelves of DVDs, compared to less than half a shelf of BluRays.

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On the Waterfront
American Graffiti
The Searchers
The first season of Westworld
Stranger than Paradise (Jarmusch)
MindWalk

I splurge sometimes, but a lot of the time if you shop Amazon for the 1-3 or 3-5 dollar movies you can find some good ones. I have between 600-700 DVD's. or Blue Rays.

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hmmm interesting.. when i look for something on amazon that i know i wont find in my local store if its older or unknown almost always the bluray versions are region b/2 alot of netflix series as well.

Problem right now with HMV is they keep going into liquidation.
They used to have a deal where it was "£7 each, or 5 for £20"... now the best they do is something like "£10 each or 2 for £15".


I get the impression their previous deals were the reason for the constant bankruptcy.

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i love american graffiti thats a great movie. just finished season 2 of westworld i think i liked season one more. and damn! i forgot to look for the yule brenner original while i was there lol i have a couple thousand bluray dvd's myself also a prob a couple hundred vhs and 30 or 40 laserdisc

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all the movie chain stores as far as i know in the states are gone there are some random ones here and there and new england has bullmoose which is still hanging on but isnt strictly a movie place they have video games and music and books too. making a stand for a physical media lol

Just updated my thread about this tbh. Been a while.
Not sure of my count exactly, think it's about 500? No idea :D


I ditched all my old VHS tapes. Wish I'd have kept some of them though, some might have been worth something.
Original VHS releases of RoboCop, Predator... original Independence Day VHS with the hologram cover... and an original Jurassic Park VHS with the patterned and embossed plastic cover that looked like fossil bones... ah the memories :D

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i couldnt bring myself to get rid of em. a little embarassed to say that some movies i will still only watch on vhs till the day they die or i do lol its still hooked up to my current tv. horror titles especially on vhs had the best covers! fun fact because nobody owned vhs it to this day still has the record for the physical medium with the most movies

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I used to collect movies. I had the dream of someday being wealthy enough to have my own in-home movie library (in addition to a book library). The closest I ever got was a small wooden rack for DVD's and VHS's I used to have next to my TV. I still have most of them, but they are now in storage.

I kind of stopped collecting when I realized that once I owned a movie, I rarely ever watched it again (unless I had a guest I wanted to show it to because they'd never seen it, or if they had a particular hankering for a specific film).

I liked to collect sci-fi, ship & seafaring movies, documentaries, certain classics and box sets of movies with sequels.

Close. However, there is one last existing Blockbuster Video Rental Store in the US (and the world actually) in Bend, Oregon.



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I sold my DVDs except for about 30 favorites. I sold my CDs too.

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I still collect, but have gotten much more particular about which movies I'll buy. The most recent ones I bought were Toy Story 4, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Joker.

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With music I manage to find it much more easy to embrace virtual ownership but with fillums I still very much prefer physical ownership so I guess I kinda do collect. That's not to say I don't stream through legal/safe means though, as I find the availability via that route especially helpful when preparing for things like the MoFo period/genre countdowns for instance.

Me too...I wonder why owning a movie causes a non desire to watch it?

Generally speaking it's because you know you can watch it whenever you want, which also means you can put off watching it until 'another time' as often as you want.

Probably true for me. Back when I first got into older movies I wanted to watch all the Busby Berkeley musical movies I could find...only my library didn't have many. So I ended up buying three boxed sets. 15 years later and there are still some movies in that set that I haven't watched. And that's why I gave up buying movies.

I've never heard of Bullmoose. Is that just a local store? It sounds like it's similar to Game Stop, before they stopped selling DVDs.

I buy a lot of DVDs, but I'm cheap, so I usually only buy them at garage sales, flea markets, and on Black Friday if they have good sales. I haven't counted them, but I probably have around 1000 DVDs.

I still have a lot of my old VHS tapes too, and I even still have a working VCR. I rarely watch them, but I just haven't decided to give them up yet.

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I collect popular movies I've never seen if I catch them in a thrift shop. I also grab my favorite movies to own if I see them. I also started buying some favorites on YouTube. I also put movies I've always wanted to see on my Netflix list if it's on there but they usually end up sitting around like a DVD too. But that's mainly because I find myself not in the mood for them until it's too late.

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I'm also cheap when it comes to picking up dvd's/blu rays. Make a trip a couple times a year to the previously owned movie shop and won't spend more than $.99 on a dvd or more than $2.99 on a blu ray. If I see a blu ray for $.99 and it's something I've heard of there's a good chance I'm grabbing it unless I've already seen and hated it. Sometimes I'll splurge on a 3D movie (has to be under $10) or a Criterion edition (gone as high as $15) if it's something I really like. I take all my VHS to Goodwill once I have them on DVD and don't like buying digital copies at all.

I dig where you're coming from as I too miss the old days of movie rentals,but I do collect and love it.

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I still have lots of disks and it has a lot to do with my psychology and, yes, this makes NO sense. After a day of doing almost everything on-line, there's something about having media that doesn't come from the web that's appealing on a completely psychological level, like being cut off from news, entertainment (other than what I'm watching) and the world in general. After midnight, I want something that's not coming in from outside. I have lots of physical media, much of it really bad, especially old horror-sci-fi, completely disorganized and my choices of what to watch are completely arbitrary. That's the point of it.

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I like to have a physical collection so I prefer to buy my movies instead of streaming. I collect films of my favourite actors, I have all of Chaplins films, I am also collecting films with Chow Yun-Fat and Denzel Washington too. I also have a collection of films from world cinema and a collection of adventure/treasure hunt films like Indiana Jones, The lost city of Z and so on.
I also used to collect steelbook DVDs but i haven't bought any for a long while.


Me and my wife used to like renting movies too back when rentals were a thing. We still do in a way as there's a shop called CEX and they have a 50p DVD section. We'll buy a film from there, watch it then give it to a charity/thrift shop unless it turns out to be a great film and we keep it, lol.

I collect DVDs, but I also stream. Especially with a tv show - Homeland, e.g. - it takes FOREVER to be released on dvd. So some shows I stream right away. Ozark, e.g. I find the film quality in my iPad to be perfect. Except in the case of Roma, which looked awful.

Don’t know how many DVDs I own, but none of them are BluRay.

I’m not much of a one for keeping old things, but wish I still had my vhs of Bad Lieutenant. Infuriating that only a “cleaned up“ version exists now.

Opposite for me. I re-watch all the time & it’s comforting to me to own my dvd collection. I’m an avid reader, but my dvd collection means more to me than my dedicated “bookroom”.

I like to collect, but I'm too stingy to buy films often. I'm perfectly fine using streaming and the library to watch films. I don't like the idea of buying digital films though.

Haha, I got Casablanca a year ago and I still haven't watched it. (though a big reason why is because my family isn't interested in it.)

I mostly put off watching films I own because I don't have to worry about due dates or them being "taken off."

I'v certainly stopped buying films that are likely to be a "one and done" viewing, that's definitely something streaming is helpful for. Equally though I actually think the last decade was actually very good for quality releases of great cinema, third party labels set a much higher standards than the studios themselves did really playing up the advantage of buying, the best quality, more extras and often booklets with interesting info in them.

I do both, but I prefer to collect. Some movies you just have to have- like Le Mans 66,Narnia,Ted,The Sure Thing etc.

Hi
I do collect movie since 1992. It's all start when my favorite movie begun to disappear in those video club. Since that time everything i saw i own it making my collection around 25 000 film in vhs, dvd and blu ray. Do I Sound crazy... What do you think. But since i realize i wont have the time to see all my collection before the end of my life i serously thiking to stop buying any dvd. Beside with all that streaming my children seam not interested at all into my collection so i guest it will finish in carbage afther i'm gone...🤔🤔🤔

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I still like collecting. The last time I bought movies was 3 weeks ago. I got:

The Irishman Criterion blu ray
A Christmas Story blu ray
Home Alone 1 and 2 blu ray
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation blu ray
Annie (1982) dvd
A Flintstones Christmas Carol dvd
Buttons a Christmas Tale dvd
The Christmas Club dvd
A Christmas Love Story dvd
Classic Christmas Favorites dvd

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I easily have about 1,000 + movies on DVD. I like to have physical data because I live in the sticks of Japan, and that comes with certain streaming down sides.

I've recently started collecting complete box sets of TV shows I like. So far, I've got the complete collection of Beavis and Butthead, the Andy Griffith show, The original Star Trek with captain Kirk, Little house on the prairie, Hogan's Heroes, the Brady Bunch, and Married with Children.

I'm a huge collector of movies,way back,starting in 1979, video of course,my first selection of tapes were Rebel without a cause,The Texas chainsaw massacre,and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid,and Deliverance,way before Dvd, I amassed over five thousand tapes,still have them,and most of the titles now on Dvd,I also still watch ,my videos,it's just that they Carrey a strange sentimental value for me,I always buy ten movies a week,no matter what,I don't go for this streaming,it's not the same,I like the boxes of my purchaser's and it makes Moro exciting to watch on Dvd,you listed a few favourites of mine , especially Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, remember taping it of the TV in the late seventies,then buying.it.i have one room devoted to my collection,including memorabilia,I have many of the originals film posters framed,with the stills ,just like they had outside cinemas,only my favourites,The Sting, Butch Cassidy,Dirty Harry,The Bonds,Bronson movies,and seventies disaster movies.

I was collecting DVD's. After years of having used the good and reliable DVD, I'm mostly watching this materials on my desktop computer. I wanted to 'modernize' or 'upgrade' my ' outdated' entertainment situation. So I purchased some Blu-ray disc boxes. How to train your dragon, Madagascar, T-34, Hobbs & Shaw, Mr. Peabody and Sherman. Unfortunately, I ran in a lot of troubles playing my Blu-ray discs. And I still haven't fixed those issues until this day. So in another attempt to ' upgrade' my situation, I did some months ago, or are they years? I don't know anymore. I have decided to try streaming. And I'm liking it. I don't have any trouble anymore with playing movies. And quality is okay. It also solves the issue with having not enough space to keep all those discs. Currently I'm not having a lot of space availlable to do so, probably will never have that. So streaming is probably the future way I will be going.
Long story short, I was collecting for years. Not anymore now.

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