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Was just thinking about my collection....and what it says about me...

Are you:

a) Nostalgia Freak - trying to recapture your youth by buying all TV broadcast during that period?

b) Blockbuster Buyer - as long as it`s got big production value, lots of special effects and a BIG 5.1 soundtrack then you`ll buy it, usually within a week of release.

c) Serious Filmy - you bought Citizen Kane as soon as it came out on DVD...

d) High Brow - mainly foreign arthouse for you...as well as a bit of Shakespeare, and possibly a few of David Lynch`s more `difficult` movies

e) Genre Collector - Horror, British comedy, Sci Fi etc ...

f) Box Set and Packaging freak - if it looks good, then you want it...

g) Bargain Hunter - if its going cheap, you`ll have one...

h) Cult Collector - trash, cheap horror, bizarre series...as long as it`s left of field, you`ll want it....

I`ve probably left someone out here...and I guess there`s a little bit of all of them in me though I think I err on a combination of a) e) f) and h)...... :/

Mine says, "You`re always skint, aren`t ya?"

a, c, d, e, h

But in mostly-equal percentages.

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I`m mainly in your A,C and G categories..
My collection runs to several thousand discs,the majority of which I may never see.
But since 1998,literally anything and everything I`ve seen before and enjoyed has been bought on dvd.
I arrived late to Laserdisc and had a mountain of stuff to get when I got an LD player,but I promised myself I would not play catch up with DVD,so I have bought every single title of interest to me as its released,which means I`ve wasted loads of money by not waiting.
Many titles I now leave for a while until they go down in price,but if I see something vaguely interesting under £10 I snap it up.
The old LD habit of rebuying new versions is also hard to get rid of.
I`m just an obsessive dvd collector.
However,for about a year I`ve considered whether its worth carrying on with dvd as within a year or so we`ll be back to square one with either Blu-Ray or HDDVD,yet I still carry on buying far more discs than I`ll be able to watch.
Where will it all end?
Bankruptcy probably

This item was edited on Thursday, 11th May 2006, 22:53

Mine says...

"You used to have a lot of spare money a while ago, dint`cha?"

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Mine says:

Good God, have you no taste or self control???

If you absolutely must categorise me - A, G & H

J Mark Oates

This item was edited on Thursday, 11th May 2006, 23:44

mine says "film geek" so H


_Whoot
pushing `pull` doors since 1992...

This item was edited on Friday, 12th May 2006, 17:09

It says I can`t afford enough DVDs

Snaps

I used to be seriously B and G, but now I`m more A and a picky B...

*edit* actually I`m also a J - which by my definition is collect a lot of music DVDs now too..

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This item was edited on Friday, 12th May 2006, 02:46

mine says A, E, H... :o



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