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09-27-2003, 09:54 AM
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Quick POLL: Are you a TRUE Completist?
A thread over in Software got me thinking about this. It seems some people are picking up the upcoming Star Trek V SE even though they admittedly hate the film. Needless to say I just can't relate to this behavior which is why I'm doing this stupid poll. 
Most of us here are collectors but that often gets confused with being a completist.
A true completist is someone who is irresistibly compelled to collect all of a particular Film series, Director's/Actor's catalog, etc, even though they hate/dislike some of the films.
Thankfully I've never suffered from this malady. 
So are you a TRUE Completist?
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09-27-2003, 10:47 AM
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I used to be a true completist, but I suffer no more from such unfortunate fate |
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09-27-2003, 11:00 AM
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Ditto to what Cary said. Thank heavens.
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09-27-2003, 03:20 PM
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I suffer (as do many on this forum, I think) from being mildly obsessive—but I don’t really need to get all of the films of a series or a director or an actor or all the Criterions.
On the other hand it someone has a copy of Salo I could get on the cheap… 
ˇTime is not my master!
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09-27-2003, 03:55 PM
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I probably have complete sets of some things (e.g., Star Trek: TNG), but it's only when I like everything in the set. I certainly would never buy anything I don't like, and for that reason I don't own every Hitchcock or Wilder or Bogart, etc., nor even the complete Simpsons (I skipped season 1).
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
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09-27-2003, 11:48 PM
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Not really. If my feelings are lukewarm, I might complete a set - the Bond films are a good example. But I assure you that despite owning the remaining Trek films, I will never purchase or view that monstrosity known as Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Gahhhhh, what an awful film. I still have memories of viewing that film theatrically on opening weekend; simply one of the worst film experiences of my life.
- Walter.
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09-28-2003, 03:19 AM
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Me neither. I own 21 Fassbinder DVD's since BRD Trilogy arrived today, but I haven't bought Querelle and likely won't because its the one less than satisfying film of his I've seen.
I own all the Coen Bros. films (except RA because the DVD sucks) but if I don't like Intolerable Cruelty, I won't feel compelled to buy it.
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Last 10 Films Watched:
The Guard From Underground - C / Halloween (2007) - B-
Retribution - B / Frontiers - C
The Third Mother - B+ / The Mist - A
Diary of the Dead - B+ / The Invisible Man - B+
Inside - B / The Crazies - B
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09-28-2003, 10:40 AM
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