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It's weird. I've changed a lot since the first days of DVD. I couldn't get enough, I had to buy every movie I "loved" on DVD, usually the day they were released I was rushing to Best Buy to make sure I got a copy. That lasted for several years. Soon after the dust cleared I realized that "Hey, I haven't even unwrapped some of these movies and it's been a year since I bought it!!" or I maybe watched a disc one time and it got packed on a shelf never to be seen again.
That's when I realized collecting movies just because I "like" them was a huge waste of my money and time (and space) so I pretty much quit doing that. I liked having more money in my pocket.
Then we had our first kiddo, and there was REALLY no time to sit and enjoy my former pride and joy "home theater". So when the need arose to escape into a movie, I just rented it and guess what, I was cool with it. Plus I noticed that most movies I "loved" didn't hold up too well over time and seeing it again was sort of blah. Not always, there are still some movies I will watch multiple times (Big Lebowski) and enjoy thoroughly.
As we evolved into Blu Ray, I pretty much left the "gotta own this one!" world behind for you diehard collectors, oh I may get the bug once a year to buy something to watch with my 8 year old (Avengers stuff mainly) but again, we thinking back, they are sitting around in a bin somewhere and haven't been seen since release date, and there is little desire to do so.
So when I say I MAY grab a movie I liked from my past for $5, it doesn't mean I now "dislike" the movie suddenly, no, it just means I don't feel like paying a premium for a movie I liked 30+ years ago that may or may not hold up well after re-watching it all these years later.
I know diehard enthusiasts like we find around here rarely understand things like this, but it's how I feel having outgrown the "must have" world of movie collecting/watching.And this whole "upgrade to get those extra pixels! (hello 4K etc)" mentality is so off my radar, it's almost a sickness for some.
Note that I still have a nice 6.1 set up with my 55" TV and it looks, sounds great, but today it's mainly used to watch kids TV shows and on some occasions, we stream movies from Netflix, Google Play etc. and ya know what, we are quite content with it being this way.
Life moves on. Many of you will come to that realization some day soon I'm sure. Mark my words, all this "collecting": of every movie (multiple copies of same movie at times) will end and you will wonder why you blew $1000....$2000....$5000+ on these movies and equipment.
It's weird. I've changed a lot since the first days of DVD. I couldn't get enough, I had to buy every movie I "loved" on DVD, usually the day they were released I was rushing to Best Buy to make sure I got a copy. That lasted for several years. Soon after the dust cleared I realized that "Hey, I haven't even unwrapped some of these movies and it's been a year since I bought it!!" or I maybe watched a disc one time and it got packed on a shelf never to be seen again.
That's when I realized collecting movies just because I "like" them was a huge waste of my money and time (and space) so I pretty much quit doing that. I liked having more money in my pocket.
Then we had our first kiddo, and there was REALLY no time to sit and enjoy my former pride and joy "home theater". So when the need arose to escape into a movie, I just rented it and guess what, I was cool with it. Plus I noticed that most movies I "loved" didn't hold up too well over time and seeing it again was sort of blah. Not always, there are still some movies I will watch multiple times (Big Lebowski) and enjoy thoroughly.As we evolved into Blu Ray, I pretty much left the "gotta own this one!" world behind for you diehard collectors, oh I may get the bug once a year to buy something to watch with my 8 year old (Avengers stuff mainly) but again, we thinking back, they are sitting around in a bin somewhere and haven't been seen since release date, and there is little desire to do so.
So when I say I MAY grab a movie I liked from my past for $5, it doesn't mean I now "dislike" the movie suddenly, no, it just means I don't feel like paying a premium for a movie I liked 30+ years ago that may or may not hold up well after re-watching it all these years later.
I know diehard enthusiasts like we find around here rarely understand things like this, but it's how I feel having outgrown the "must have" world of movie collecting/watching.And this whole "upgrade to get those extra pixels! (hello 4K etc)" mentality is so off my radar, it's almost a sickness for some.
Note that I still have a nice 6.1 set up with my 55" TV and it looks, sounds great, but today it's mainly used to watch kids TV shows and on some occasions, we stream movies from Netflix, Google Play etc. and ya know what, we are quite content with it being this way.
Life moves on. Many of you will come to that realization some day soon I'm sure. Mark my words, all this "collecting": of every movie (multiple copies of same movie at times) will end and you will wonder why you blew $1000....$2000....$5000+ on these movies and equipment.
