Not sure if this is the right part of forum or if it's been covered before but I haven't been on here much recently so... I was just wondering whether people's movie buying habits have changed over the years and why? When I first started posting on DVD Maniacs I was just getting into cult cinema and with the growing DVD market/ steady income I was spending cash on new releases - Blue Underground, Mondo Macabro, Severin, Criterion, Arrow etc etc. Probably used to spend quite a chunk of my wage on DVDs.... Then Blu Ray came along and films were re-released, then 4K and I just lost interest in he buying part and then mainly rented (when postal rental was a thing...). Then came the streaming services and my collecting started to fizzle out. However, I started back up again via the 2nd hand market - so here in the UK that's mainly charity shops and car bootsales. Of course the titles were very much dependent on the people selling them/ donating them and most were UK releases, the majority DVDs. However, I've snagged some obscure stuff over time and actually find this element of collecting (the "hunting") more enjoyable, with a lot of films unlikely to be watched.
I've been posting some of the stuff I've been picking up on the forum and some of it is crap but I just like finding obscure stuff for cheap. Also during lockdown I decided to try to see how many of the 1001 Films To Watch Before You Die type lists I can find out in the "wild" and it's become a bit of a challenge... Of course it could be a very piss poor middle age crisis I'm having but anyone else have similar ebbs and flows, changes in direction or purge and then restart? Just curious...
I've been posting some of the stuff I've been picking up on the forum and some of it is crap but I just like finding obscure stuff for cheap. Also during lockdown I decided to try to see how many of the 1001 Films To Watch Before You Die type lists I can find out in the "wild" and it's become a bit of a challenge... Of course it could be a very piss poor middle age crisis I'm having but anyone else have similar ebbs and flows, changes in direction or purge and then restart? Just curious...
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