View Full Version : Do you even buy "movies" anymore?


BuddyHinton
03-08-2007, 11:36 AM
I don't. $20 for an hour and a half movie when I can get 24 eps of my favorite shows for $30-40? Hours more entertainment of stuff I LOVE; guaranteed? I buy MAYBE two movies a year.

Chocolate Moose
03-08-2007, 12:04 PM
I do, if I’ve rented it and absolutelylove it….oh, and if I can get it for 75 cents on ebgay!

AB
03-08-2007, 04:40 PM
I do, some movies I want to keep and rewatch and I like some of the extras
you get with them.

BuddyHinton
03-08-2007, 05:08 PM
Maybe I shouldn't have been so extreme, what I meant was it's such a low priority vs TV Boxsets it isn't funny.

Lets See: The Rockford Files Season 3, $27, 22 hours+ of CLASSIC Jim Garner... or $19.99 for 95 minutes for the Pick of Destiny..? Hmm...

Mr. Television
03-08-2007, 05:23 PM
I buy movies all the time. I find quite a few of them for $10 or less.

AB
03-08-2007, 05:23 PM
Yes I see what you mean. Value wise you get more for your money with the
box-set, right?

Superstar
03-08-2007, 05:39 PM
I do. I haven't bought many movies lately because there hasn't been many that I've been interested in. But if a movie I liked/wanted to see comes out, I'll buy it.

BuddyHinton
03-08-2007, 05:59 PM
Yes I see what you mean. Value wise you get more for your money with the
box-set, right?

Uh......YAAAA!!

But it's beyond that, it's completely a lopsided benefit for the boxset.

Eric Paddon
03-08-2007, 06:38 PM
Not as much as I used to because TV on DVD nowadays rates a higher priority but I still keep my eyes open. Most of my favorite films have DVD releases now, but I still want to see certain titles I still have the Laser Disc of finally get out (Samson And Delilah, 1936 Show Boat etc.)

mlingerfelt
03-08-2007, 10:39 PM
I have all my favorite movies TV shows are my priority.

BuddyHinton
03-09-2007, 02:36 AM
I have all my favorite movies TV shows are my priority.

ditto.

TJL
03-09-2007, 06:51 AM
Over the past few years I have probably bought more TV DVDs than movie DVDs.

I guess some TV shows have more "rewatchability" than movies.

storrs19
03-09-2007, 09:14 AM
I do, but only classics (Bogart, Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, etc.)
As with my television I only like the good movies most of which are black and white. Warner Brothers has done a great job in creating "Warner Night At The Movies" which recreates a night at the movie theater in showing a short, a cartoon, a newsreel, and a trailer along with the movie. Other studios need to take note of this and start doing so. Also the multi-disc sets of movies like "The Maltese Falcon", "Casablanca" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy" are packed with nice extras.

Robert 13
03-09-2007, 11:19 AM
I don't buy many movies anymore unless it's something from that past that gets released for the first time. Other than that, I do agree it is worth it to get a dvd set since there is more for you to watch. But, then again, I enjoy watching 30-minute shows. It might just be a personal preference. :)

Ant-Lox
03-09-2007, 03:10 PM
I haven't bought a movie in a while. I either record them off cable or rent them.

Corolla
03-09-2007, 03:13 PM
I don't buy movies very much either.

canuckkidd
03-10-2007, 02:12 PM
I only buy movies that I know that I will re-watch over and over again. Much of the movies I have bought lately have been 80's movies that I grew up watching and wanted to watch again because I had not seen the movie in a long time. All these movies have been under $15, instead of just renting them, I would rather just pay the extra few dollars to own them. The last movie I paid full price for over $20 was Dawn of the Dead in 2004. I saw this movie in the theaters and promised myself I would buy it the first day it came out on DVD.

freshprinceofLA
03-10-2007, 05:19 PM
I only buy movies if I find them cheap or if I really like the movie.

TVQuack
03-11-2007, 11:59 PM
Nowadays I will only buy movies that I don't plan on seeing an HD/BluRay version coming out....I still by TV shows on dvd though....if the rest of Cheers would just be released......

Dude111
05-02-2026, 12:41 PM
I buy VHS tapes from either Salvation army or Ebay/Amazon...

If I had a VIDEODISC player,I would buy those also!!

I have 1 CED (Poltergiest (1982)) but sadly I do not have a player....

tlc38tlc38
05-06-2026, 07:08 PM
At this point I already own all the films I want on VHS, DVD, or Blu-ray.
There are a few TV shows I’d still like to buy that have been released and some that I’d definitely buy if they are ever released.

Mace Dolex
06-09-2026, 12:57 AM
I already have the movies that I like and know will watch often but when it comes to newer movies absolutely not unless it's an umpteenth anniversary collector edition but the last Bluray I bought was The Flash movie and that was in 2023.