Hello everyone, the weekend is done again and today I had a question based on my experience this weekend.
Over the years the way I get my movies changed a lot. I would rent lot of them ever since the VHS tapes. I always loved taking my time and just look at all the spines to see if there were titles that looked interesting. I could easily spend more than an hour picking out movies. Not having any internet you didn’t have any idea if a movie was good, but through the years I perfected my choices. I usually could tell by the way the cover looked if a movie was worth watching. I didn’t buy too many movies yet, but once the DVD came out I started collecting. I was buying lots of them in specialist stores, which since have disappeared unfortunately.
The internet has made everything a lot easier and I buy most of my DVDs (haven’t made the leap to Blu Ray yet) online now. Since I still had some gift certificates I decided to go to the shop for a change and just take my time going through lots of DVDs to get some interesting ones. It really was a feeling which I missed and thoroughly enjoyed (I’ve added the movies I bought after the break). If Netflix ever is introduced here I think my habits would change even further.
This week’s question: Do you still buy movies and do you miss the days when you could spend ages selecting what to get?
These are the movies I bought:
| The Social Network
One of my favorite movies of last year and which I still didn’t own. Looking forward to rewatching it! |
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Babies
As I became a father almost three months ago this looked like a very interesting documentary where 4 babies are followed through their first year. Interesting to see the differences between the cultures of raising a child. |
| Russian Ark
The concept of this movie seemed very interesting. It’s a movie which is a single 95 minute shot where you travel through 3 centuries of Russian history in the Hermitage museum in St.Petersburg. Heard good things about it. |
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| Etre Et Avoir
I’ve seen the cover of this DVD so many times, but actually never saw it. This documentary is about a school in a small French village. I have the feeling that it will be a very nice one to watch. |
Do you still buy movies and do you miss the days when you could spend ages selecting what to get? What was the last DVD/Bluray you bought?
I buy movies whenever I can, though most of the ones I have left to buy are expensive ones like Criterion DVDs that I have to have shipped from America which costs 15 bucks more than the rental price for each DVD and isn’t exactly convenient but I generally can’t complain. I own most of the English-language movies I ever really want to own anyway, and mainstream DVDs are easy and cheap to find. Haven’t really made the Blu ray transition yet. I own a Blu Ray player and 6 Blu rays but I’m so used to DVDs and buying Blu rays is even more expensive so currently I’m at a loss there.
Sounds like an impressive collection! I’ve got one of those Ikea bookcases which is full, so I’m slowly creating a stack besides it.
I wonder if Blu Ray is success, as I actually don’t know any friends who have a player or buy them. Personally I don’t have the feeling I’m missing out on much either.
Being a student, you can understand that I don’t really have a budget for collecting DVDs, so I usually get them online or go to the cinema, but when I will have enough money, yeah, I will be collecting DVDs, especially the ones that I love, the classics, the guilty pleasures. Speaking of the latter, one of the first DVDs I got was Dirty Dancing 🙂
The internet has been a big reason why so many videostores are closing down, they really can’t keep up with the convenience.
Everyone has their guilty pleasures. i probably have quite a lot of them in my collection too 🙂
I don’t buy so many DVDs now, a lot of the DVDs I watch are rented through LoveFilm. I made this transition as I kept running out of space on my shelves! They were filling up with DVDs that I would perhaps only watch once, so it didn’t seem worthwhile to keep buying them. Haven’t made the leap to Blu-Ray yet, my TV isn’t that huge so I don’t think it’s worthwhile. I don’t really miss going into a shop and buying DVDs because I would invariably spend more money than I initially intended!
Wish we had something like that over here. My cable provider supposedly offers something, but will need to upgrade my receiver first.
I know that issue of running out of space! Especially when you usually only watch a movie once like you say. Hahaha, yeah I did want some other DVD’s while shopping but decided to try and just use my gift certificate. Ended up having to pay a little bit more, but not too much 😉
I love to buy movies. I still buy them often. I can totally relate with you. Even now I tell my wife to roam around the mall while I spend time in HMV just browsing and looking for deals. Even though the Internet is there, I don’t think I’ll ever give up physically buying DVDs.
There aren’t many shops anymore unfortunately that got big selections. I ended up at a shop with a lot of alternative films, which is why I bought the DVD’s I mentioned. Whenever I’m in the UK I always enjoy browsing HMV!
I regularly buy DVD’s online (usually from play)
Interesting question, Nostra… At last count I have about 230 DVDs in my collection. However, I haven’t bought a DVD for quite a while.
Like Russ I joined LOVEFiLM because I’ve only really watched the DVDs I own once. Renting seemed a much better idea 🙂
Yeah, I can totally understand that. I usually watch things once since I want to see new movies 😉
Of course there will always be some DVD’s that you just got to own though!