DVD mania

[Bernie]

AAAAaaarrgh!  Somebody stop me please!

We've put off getting a DVD player til now precisely 'cause I knew what would happen -- but my mother-in-law gave us one three weeks ago for my wife's birthday.

And.....

I've spent almost $300 bucks in 3 weeks.

And I haven't even scratched the surface.

And most of it is genre/bad movie/Something Weird type stuff.

God help me when I start getting into the REAL movies.

We need to form a DVD-buying support group.

Who else is having trouble keeping a hand on the DVD pursestrings?

[The Burgomaster]

I have no control over my DVD purchases. I have somewhere around 1,000 DVDs now. I buy around 225 - 250 a year, and I suspect that those numbers will only increase as time goes on.

[Bernie]

Geez, Andrew, I think I'm starting to feel better...

[Andrew]

I am in much the same boat as Burgomaster.  My collection probably has 1000 DVDs or more and I just keep buying them.  Of course, it does not help that many of the movies we like end up in the $9.99 range (sometimes for 2 or even 4 movies on the DVD.

Soon as you get that player, it is like you become a serious collector of movies.  My friend Todd found this out the hard way.

[Bernie]

Heck, I was a serious collector of movies with VHS -- got overflowing shelves of the things to prove it.  But there's so much great oddball crap available on DVD! An embarrassment of - what? - "riches" doesn't seem to be the word to refer to The Mighty Gorga or Starman or Hercules in New York....

[Ash]

You guys are serious DVD-aholics!

I only have about 15 of 'em.

I can just imagine a 12 step DVD-aholic support group.

The moderator begins by saying...
"Please stand up and introduce yourself"
"Hi everyone.  My name is Burgomaster and I'm a DVD-aholic."
"it's ok Burgo....at least youve recognized that you have a problem."

Burgomaster then sits down, puts his head in his hands and cries while the rest of the group pats him on the back and tries to console him.

They say...."It's ok Burgo we're here for ya buddy."

haha!

Just kidding Burgo!



Post Edited (06-13-03 16:01)

[The Burgomaster]

My problem is that I had about 700 VHS tapes, and then DVDs came out. I've been slowly but surely selling my VHS movies on Ebay and other places, but I still have a few hundred sitting around. Now I find myself spending even MORE money because I need to buy all the NEW DVD releases, PLUS I need to buy DVDs of all the stuff I had on VHS. It seems like a vicious, endless circle.

I'd probably be better off standing in the bathroom and flushing money down the toilet.

[The Burgomaster]

I think the all-time champion is an intern who used to work with me. He said he had about 3,500 DVDs (I never saw them, but I don't think he was lying). And that was almost a year ago. He must have well over 4,000 by now.

I MUST CATCH UP!

I MUST CATCH UP!

I CANNOT REST UNTIL I HAVE 4,000 DVDS!

[Bernie]

Well, I've only got about a dozen .... so far.

Those two scary words ... "so far"

And I have NO INTENTION of completely replacing my VHS's unless the DVD version of a movie has significant extras (for example, the MSTs that include the original movies or the special edition of Monty Python & the Holy Grail).  They've served me fine up to now, and will until they snap, crackle and pop!

I mean, how good a copy of "Wild Guitar" do I need, anyway? (Please don't answer that!)

[jmc]

I joined Netflix a couple of years ago and that's helped keep me from buying everything, especially stuff I'll probably only watch once.  They have a lot of the Something Weird titles.

[Mr_Vindictive]

I am a serious DVDaholic.  I have nearly 200 DVDs, which isn't bad considering I've only been buying for about a year and a half or so.  I now have a wife and a child, and have had to stop my buying.  It's so damned hard.  Especially now that the Family Guy season 1+2 box set is out.

It's painful!

PAIN!

PAIN!

[The Burgomaster]

Skaboi wrote:

> I am a serious DVDaholic.  I have nearly 200 DVDs, which isn't
> bad considering I've only been buying for about a year and a
> half or so.  I now have a wife and a child, and have had to
> stop my buying.  It's so damned hard.  Especially now that the
> Family Guy season 1+2 box set is out.
>
> It's painful!
>
> PAIN!
>
> PAIN!
>
>

I'm with you! Every time I buy DVDs, I say "This is the last batch I'm buying for at least a month."

Then something great (or maybe even something TERRIBLE) gets released and I end up buying it. It's a never ending process.

[raj]

Bernie, we all support you in buying DVDs.  
I'm shocked that I only have about 40, but then I also have a serious vinyl habit to feed as well. . .

[Bernie]

Well, we do have some video stores in the neighborhood for DVD renting (just saw About Schmidt last week) but we're the type of people who, if we like something, will watch it over and over and over again -- and the worse the movie, the more we watch it.  (Just yesterday, my wife said, "Oh, I'm in the mood for Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla"  -- I mean, ya gotta love a woman like that -- except that now she absolutely has to have the DVD version with the Sammy Petrillo interview!)

[George]

Check out the previously viewed bins.  Most DVDs from Hollywood Video have all of the goodies with them.  Blockbuster will give you the movie and case but not much else.