The joy of being a collector...

[Toyboy like a hole in the head Find all posts View Profile Close Toyboy]

I don't know if I read any reviews for HOT FUZZ. I try not to read reviews much anymore, since that's usually where my real beefs end up. :(

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Back to the topic of this thread - I have really bad luck when it comes to procrastinating on purchases, meaning that whenever I do finally get around to buying something there will be an announcement the next day that a better version is coming soon.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

That's one bonus of being OCD about getting stuff the day it comes out. You wind up double dipping a lot, though at least you get it, have it sitting on a shelf beside you still sealed and unwatched and providing you with comfort before it gets re-released in a better version - which you'll inevitibly buy.

I've gotten better about that in the last year or so, but at one point I had five different versions of Cannibal Holocaust for some reason. I still have three versions of the Beyond. I don't know why. Different extras that I probably won't watch again I guess.

[Toyboy like a hole in the head Find all posts View Profile Close Toyboy]

I've slowed way down on my DVD purchases in the last few years, thinking that we'd see a BD boom on niche titles but that hasn't really panned out.

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It's starting to pick up but not the way DVD did when it first launched and we had an awesome landslide of awesomeness.

[Mike Howlett Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mike Howlett]

I think I saw the 3 SCREAM films in the theater and liked them for what they were... good popcorn horror movies. The first, obviously, was my favorite and it's the only one that I have any memory of any more. I doubt I'll be picking up the Blu-Rays. Besides, my wife despises Courtney Cox.

[Ian Miller Flattery and foreplay Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Miller]

Like I said in my faux-aggressive post, I saw all three theatrically and certainly enjoyed myself during each viewing but have had no desire to revisit them.

In terms of new media and releases, I'm almost always behind the ball, and the one time I decide not to be, what did I pre-order? The MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE rip-off edition! Oh well, that 35.00 is loooong gone.

[Todd Jordan Smut is good. Find all posts View Profile Close Todd Jordan]

That happens to me too. I didn't want to miss out on Massacre. I just got that Pinky set after its been out for quite some time. Like Toyboy, I've backed way off on buying stuff. The Pinky box was the first in months.

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I still buy too much stuff. DVDs, BDs, CDs. I buy a lot of them, and I don't even have the space. I just have OCD. It bugs me not having something I know I'm gonna want.

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Back to the topic of this thread - I have really bad luck when it comes to procrastinating on purchases, meaning that whenever I do finally get around to buying something there will be an announcement the next day that a better version is coming soon.

No need to worry about wandering OT...I enjoy the repartee and reading all this stuff. I am in the same boat as you though; finally buying something I had pondered for faaaaar too long usually means a fresh "new and improved" edition, or BD of DVD, is approx. a few weeks away. It's uncanny! I eventually broke down and bought the steelbook "Complete Dossier" DVD edition of Apocalypse Now a short while back and what do you know? The BD was announced within weeks of me doing so...

As for having too many editions of a title: I'm ultra-crazy when it comes to this, I have been told. Having three or four discs of one title is absurd to me, especially when I might have one that eclipses them all. So, as I can't be arsed with eBay, trading, secondhand stores who might give me a dollar for something I paid forty for, and the like, DVD has become so disposable that I usually just bin the excess. I look at this way: if they're worth nothing outside of the (limited) collectors market...why bother keeping them, or spending more than they're worth to get rid of them?