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06-27-2005, 05:02 PM
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Available titles you want but have put off buying?
I've got a bad habit, and I want to know if I'm alone. Also, this thread could serve as impetus to buy some of these titles. You see, I tend to want titles--sometimes quite badly--but I never end up getting them. An example is My Bodyguard and Breaking Away. When these were first announced, I was ecstatic. I didn't want any titles more than I wanted those. But, a couple of years later, I still haven't gotten either. They could be out of print by now, as far as I know. Also, I am a big Bogart fan. I've seen the lion's share of his films via TCM, AMC, and VHS purchases and rentals. But, I only have about three of his titles on DVD. This, in spite of the fact that some of my favorites like High Sierra and Roaring Twenties are available. Speaking of that, I still haven't gotten the Warner Gangsters box, which is about the most exciting thing I've seen on DVD. When DVD first came around, my number two film was Public Enemy. Well, it's out, and I don't have it. My number one film? Asphalt Jungle. Do I have it? Can you guess? :b
This bizarre habit does have an occassional upside. I never got around to buying more than a handful of the Universal Hitchcocks, and the boxset will be the better option than if I had bought them individually. Still, I really ought to start actually buying DVDs I want.
P.S. I signed the petitions and was dying for widescreen Willie Wonka. Maybe I'll get it soon.  |
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06-27-2005, 05:19 PM
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I put off the 14 Universal Hitchcocks because I didn't want to pay $200 for the two 8-disc sets. However, I did end up getting Psycho for $9. I really wanted Vertigo, but I could never get myself to pay $30 for the DVD.
In the past, I held up on a lot of titles so I could get better valued box sets. For example, I almost got Criterion's DVD of The Bank Dick. Universal's W.C. Fields box set is a much better buy and has a better master of the film.
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06-27-2005, 05:31 PM
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I am waiting for a better versions of Double Indemnity, A Streetcar Named Desire, Network, Ben-Hur (Sep.), The Maltese Falcon, Wuthering Heights, The Deer Hunter (Sep.), The Wild Bunch, Stagecoach, The Searchers, Bonnie and Clyde and The Wizard of Oz.
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06-27-2005, 06:23 PM
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I can't help you. As dvds I want become available I pick them up. I can't imagine not buying the dvds I want.
"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
"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk
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06-27-2005, 09:40 PM
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Sorry, Greg, I don't understand, your logic escapes me.
If I want it, I buy it, if I don't want it, I don't buy it. Works for me.
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06-27-2005, 09:52 PM
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It escapes me, too. It's weird. It's not even a money factor, as My Bodyguard and Breaking Away were very cheap. Ah, well. I think I'll start with the Gangster boxset and try to knock out this list.
Actually, I'd need to research when some of these titles came out. That might be my answer. As soon as I started buying TV sets, my movie buying came to an almost dead halt. There were a few exceptions, but I've purchased very few movies the last couple of years.
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06-27-2005, 11:47 PM
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I typically really want rare versions of films -- such as the Version Integral of Leon (The Professional) which was for the longest time only available as an obscure Japanese release, or the Alan Smithee version of Dune -- but then once these rare films actually get released in the US and are no longer rare or obscure, I feel as if there's no real urgency to get them anymore. Not sure if that is like what you are describing.
'Our ideas of perfect are so imperfect' -Sam Phillips
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06-27-2005, 11:57 PM
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Heh. I don't know that it's the same, but I do suspect it was a mistake to make this thread. I'm the only weirdo with this problem. |
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06-28-2005, 12:34 AM
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Nah, I'm a weirdo too. There are a few DVDs I want to pick up but I just can't bring myself to buying them. I think part of it is an addictive want of buying the disc and I know once I get it home I probably won't watch it. There have been several in the past that I actually did buy and still haven't watched so I'm recognizing the signs.
My name is Paul, I'm a DVD addict, and I have a problem. 
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06-28-2005, 08:47 AM
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Well I haven't gotten them yet, but now I want them... the Harry Potter movies... however i'm so anal that I don't want the first two in taht slip case and the third in a keepcase. Silly, I know... Maybe they'll release them all in keepcases when the next movie comes to dvd.
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