Buying DVDs/Blu-Rays of Movies You Don't Like

I assumed that the Avatar Blu-ray inspired this thread. Haven't bought it yet, but might when it's on sale used everywhere before the year's out.

Because THE FINAL FRONTIER came with the rest of the box set.

I don't seem to have anything I don't like on Blu-ray. Yet.

However, if Killer's Kiss is ever released on Blu-ray, even though it's cheesy Kubrick juvenilia, I will buy it because it's Kubrick. I would buy a sack of dog shit if it was a Kubrick sack of dog shit.

I'm not even buying Blu-rays of movies I do like for the time being. When I first put my HD system together I ran out and bought a few of blus but then just decided to reactivate my Netflix account. Looking at all of the movies I already have on DVD I began to really ask myself if I NEED to own these. How many times do I put these in and watch them? Couldn't I just bump them to the top of my queue if the desire to do so hits me? Considering the amount of media out there, whether it be films, tv series, books, etc. , how much time do I actually have to devote to watching a single film over and over and over? Not much. So for the time being I'm just a renter. And this is working out just fine for me.

Sure, I want to see what Avatar looks like on Blu but not so badly that I can't wait for it to become available on Netflix in a month. The same goes for other releases, especially ones I didn't like but might want to check out just for the HD audio/visual experience. And holy shit the money saved...the money saved. Honestly don't know why people would be buying films they didn't really like when just renting them is an option.

Only loan to the closest of friends who don't live too far away. That's my rule for loaning in general not just movies.

When it comes to Blu-rays, it really just seems like some are collecting the audio/visual experience of a particular film at this point. I admit to being wowed by it when I first upgraded, but again, not so wowed that I'd rush out to buy a disc for that factor alone.

Used dvd bins, and the two Mom And Pop shops that I frequent are like crack to me as well. Sometimes I come back with nothing, and other times I've got 4 or even 8 movies from one haul.

I try not to blind buy movies that I at least think I won't like, but I paid 7 bucks for the 2 disc edition of Backdraft at a pawnshop and wish I hadn't done that.

Fair enough, I bought POTC: AT WORLD'S END on Bluray because it was cheap and I already had the first two. Stupid, yes, but I'm sure others will admit to that irrational need to complete the set. It works the other way, too. I own the first DIE HARD on Bluray and even if the whole set was cheaper, I'd rather pick up the next two movies individually than own the collection with LIVE FREE AND DIE HARD because fuck that movie. To hell with Bald Willis Boxart! I'll take WITH A VENGEANCE Hairpiece Boxart any day of the week.

As for AVATAR, I don't dislike the movie, but I can see myself watching the movie again. And I really don't need the upcoming set with bonus features I won't watch.

Oh, and I paid $5 bucks for SUPER MARIO BROS. on DVD for the elevator scene.

I suppose Star Trek would fit. I don't hate it, but I'm not crazy for it however I gotta say that the blu-ray is very impressive and that it has a nice collection of features that are actually interesting to watch.

I picked up the DVD of Ralph Bakshi's Wizards, a movie I never really liked. Why? Cheap and because it's sometimes amusing. And by sometimes I mean never.

I subscribe to the same library justification.

I bought DIE HARD 2 because it was really cheap, and it was a cold, rainy day, and I was in the mood to own a movie with a snowy/Christmasy atmosphere.

I bought QUANTUM OF SOLACE because I had a voucher and am pathetic.

I own Argento's Phantom of the Opera and Mother of Tears, and a number of Fulci's films because I'm a completest concerning official releases from those two filmmakers and Mario Bava (who never made a hate worthy film in his life).

Yeah, if a director's important, I'll pick up his movie regardless of quality, but I'll never pay full price for it. But when I see The Company on DVD for 3.99, I am going to own that son of a bitch.

Same goes for Melinda & Melinda.

Oh, Ripoll, no!

Car boot sales, when you can pick a film up for 50p it's worth doing even if your not sure about it.

One day I am going to want to go through Allen's entire filmography, and that means suffering through September and Alice and What's Up Tiger Lily? and Melinda and Melinda and all of his shitty movies. But I do it because I'm a superfan and superfans do superthings.

You gotta leave that one off the list.

I bought GI Joe on blu ray on black friday. I regret it, having not seen it, but it should of stayed that way.

Exactly. I'd have sold my DVDs a while back but now that I've got company on the reg it's nice to have a library just for people to go through and pick something out to watch.

ahahaha I'm imagining Parker getting progressively angrier the more that Patrick posts

I imagine I'm in the minority about What's Up Tiger Lilly?, but I find it absolutely hysterical and somewhat ahead of its time.

GiJOE is awesome. I recently acquired the blu for it.

I paid $5 for the AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE movie for the boxart and the intro and end.

Here's a good question: why the fuck do I still own SUICIDE KINGS? It was a $5 blind buy so it doesn't really apply to this thread. I was told it was great years back, but after watching it and finding out it's shit, I realized that just about every douchebag fratboy owned the movie. I should go buy THE BOONDOCK SAINTS as punishment.

I don't know why I still own Suicide Kings either. It's really not good.

I love it too, Parker.

'Highlander 2: Renegade Version'. I hate the movie with a passion, but I bought it because I'm a franchise completer: I can't have parts 1 and 3 of a franchise and NOT have part 2...my bookcase looks odd. This is the same reason why I own 'Blade Trinity', 'The Godfather Part III', several Star Trek films, and several Bond films.

For the longest time, I thought I had seen Boondock Saints because Suicide Kings was so forgettable. The fact that Young Indy was in both, plus the frat boy fans, made my mind peg them as the same movie. Thankfully, I still have yet to see Boondock Saints.

Becuz brah it takes u back to the college dayez when u were rapen bitchez every Thursday Friday Saturday and sometimes Sundayyyyyyyy

Follow up question for the completeists, why? I mean, seriously, why do you need to own all of a director's films? I'm one of the biggest DePalma apologists on CHUD but there's no way in hell I'm spending good money on Mission to Mars or Raising Cain.

I'd pay $2.50 for MISSION TO MARS just to see Tim Robbins' grey, dead face again.

Ha, i recently caught a little Mission to Mars on cable and totally forgot it was directed by DePalma. Hahaha i thought it was some random dude. Movie's so average.

Anyways, completionissm wise, i don't do Directors. I tend to do movie series.
I own all 3 Matrix films, Pirates films, All bonds, and i WILL buy quantum at some point. Yadda, Yadda.

You're being very kind by calling it average. It was painful. And I'm the guy who thinks Black Dahlia is great.

I have the Underworld sequel. It was one of the first Blu Rays I bought, and I only got it because Best Buy had, if I remember exactly, a "buy 2 get 1 free" promotion (or maybe a 3 for $40 thing or something similar) and there was a very small amount of titles to choose from. So leather clad Beckinsale trumped whatever other crap was on the list.

It remains unwrapped.

Like I mentioned before, it can be very interesting to watch a director's entire career all the way through, and if a used copy of Raising Cain is only 3.99, why not?

Haven't you ever done what Ripoll is talking about, Parker? Really the only way to fully appreciate the Masters. Skipping the "bad movies" is missing the point. In such an anthologized context, even failures can prove artistically fascinating.

Not many video stores carry the more obscure Woody Allen movies. Or the more obscure Altman movies. Etc. Again, I don't pay full price for them right when they come out, but when 3.99 is CHEAPER than I'd pay to rent Curse of the Jade Scorpion somewhere, why not?

Netflix?

Lack of space on my shelves.

As for the first part:

Terrible for getting the movies you want when you want them. I used Netflix for instant and as a big repository of movies that I've always wanted to see but haven't yet.

And again, we're talking about 3.99. I'm not spending 27 bucks trying to track down a VHS tape of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. I'm by no means a rich man, but this seems to me to be a pretty simple solution.

I was talking to a real live girl about this last night (only one though, sorry guys) and I brought up the concept of streaming media and how I feel like I shouldn't even own my DVD collection anymore just because it takes up too much fucking space in the living room.

So, long story short, I might possibly end up doing what Devin mentioned in that one Devin's Advocate and going all-streaming. Not sure what to do with all the leftovers, but the idea of not having to cart boxes of DVDs everywhere when moving sounds kind of magnificent, especially since I don't really know when I'm going to need to watch Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man ever again. Thanks, drunk purchases!

I don't think I've ever bought a movie I didn't like. If there's something of merit to it and the price is reasonable, I'll get it. I'll let the regret kick in later.

Like, oh... that fucking AVATAR Blu you just bought, Nooj?!

Precisely. I don't not like Avatar. I just found it very mediocre and disappointing, which is almost worse. The visuals were the merit and the price was reasonable. And as I said, the regret kicked in later when I found the gorgeous visuals to be completely uncinematic. It makes sense! Who says it doesn't!!!

A similar situation to the one I just mentioned is with Quantum of Solace. That particular movie was one I found VERY disappointing, but still had a couple merits here and there. Not enough for me to go out and pick it up though. I borrowed it from a friend. It is a gorgeous looking movie. AND it looks cinematic!

With certain movies I find disappointing, I find that I often can't ignore them the way I do with a movie I dislike.

Funnily enough (to me at least) I don't really buy discs anymore because I've found I'm actually much more likely to want to rewatch a movie if I don't own it. So buying movies I like makes me less likely to watch them repeatedly.

As for buying movies I don't like, there are a few and I do it because they are good films and I wish I actually did like them (like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ... which is sitting unwatched for going on what, 8-9 years now).

I think the answer here is to take the discs out of their cases. I looked at getting rid of my DVDs and decided that there wasn't much point (unless I absolutely thought that I'd never want to watch a film again, ever, and didn't want anyone knowing I had ever owned it) so I just took them all out of their cases and put them into CD cases. I went from having shelves and shelves of DVDs to having two little books of them and a few that I wanted to keep in their cases.

I bought Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....I hated it in theaters, and I hate it today. I was weak..I saw Indiana Jones on a DVD and bought it anyways.


I also bought Doom. But that was a blind buy that I did not even finish.

I saw that for 10 bucks and ended up getting BEOWULF instead.

Speaking of BEOWULF, I love the part where Malkovich says "hey let's ask Jesus for help" and Anthony Hopkins is all like "lol no Beowulf is better"

Fuckin' OCD. Clinically diagnosed. I figure buying a copy of Cat in the Brain is healthier than tracing all the grout in the bathroom with my finger.