mrcellophane

Yep. That's why I - a thinking individual with generally good taste in movies - own Doom. God, those comic-art steels are attractive.

I also own the deplorable adaptation of A Chorus Line because I cannot get rid of a musical (my favorite genre).

xizor42

I will forever own the holy trilogy of my 8th Birthday Party: Spaceballs, Masters of the Universe and The Garbage Pail Kids.

morriscroy

I've never done this before.

By the time I was buying a lot of dvds/blurays, surplus dvd and bluray cases were relatively inexpensive. (Both new and uses cases).

I usually keep a stock of a hundred surplus bluray and dvd cases, in case of really botched up packaging which scratch and/or warp the discs, or the discs are really difficult to take out of the packaging, etc ... which I transfer the original discs to surplus cases. (The original botched packaging is never used again).

ntnon

Cameos from favourite actors, which occasionally wind up being for seconds rather than minutes...

Also, to fulfill checklist criteria for the challenges. Often discover there's a reason I've never heard of these people..!

Alan Smithee

The movie version of A Chorus Line is the only version of that I've seen; though I have the original album on 8-track. I've always liked it; even the worst musical is better than the best of many other things.

rbrown498

Armageddon, simply because it's part of the Criterion Collection. I would not own it otherwise, because, until Rob Zombie's Halloween came out, it was my least favorite movie of all time.

digidoh

Because I thought it was another movie. So I bought the wrong title ... twice.

I bought the 1953 version of Titanic with Clifton Webb (the original Mr. Belvedere) on VHS a couple years ago, at a second-hand store at three tapes for a dollar. Then this past August I was able to buy it new on Blu-Ray for $5.00.

I believe it was the first movie I watched on TV from beginning to end. Except it wasn't. The movie I was thinking of was A Night to Remember, another dramatization of the sinking of the Titanic. And I already had THAT movie on VHS; don't remember if I bought it before or after I got Titanic VHS.

Hokeyboy

I own Life As A House only because my ex-girlfriend has a pivotal role in it. Otherwise, I can't stand that freakin' movie.

majorjoe23

A local independent video store had a Criterion section. They had a post it note on Armageddon saying "This is an anomaly."

shadokitty

The remake of Amityville Horror at a pawn shop because it was $2, and Transformers because the A-10's from my unit when I was in the Air Force were in it.

rbrown498

That's awesome! (and 100% the truth)

Alan Smithee

Armageddon was Criterion's last laserdisc. I might buy it for that reason alone if I ever find it.

milo bloom

I love finding $3 Criterions at thrift stores but I pass over every copy of Armageddon I see because I will not have that in my home.

Libby

for cool cover art, just to continue to make the collection look bigger and more impressive to show off at the expensive of cheap deals for movies I didn't particularly feel needed to be "must owned"

joltman

While not a DVD, I once bought a cheap CD by XTC only because I realized I had a CD by an artist that started with each letter of the alphabet except X.

Trevor

AGuyNamedMike

Hey, if it's my reason, it ain't stupid!

A tossup between the dozens of Star Wars versions I keep around (even on VHS!), the movie I was actually in, and OOP discs with special features that weren't brought forward.

Alan Smithee

At least their music is good. I've got a few CDs that I got for stupid reasons, mostly packaging-related.

darkhawk

because they were at dollar tree

Sid Ceaser

I have two copies on DVD. Just for 2x the laughs when I scan my library.

joltman

I had always wanted to buy They Might Be Giants just because it has the same name as one of my favorite bands, although it was OOP and too expensive. I did eventually see it and thought it was a pretty good movie, so I'd still like to own it for a normal reason now.

MANBREASTS

I own the 1984 movie "Thief of Hearts" because the sex scene in it with Barbara Williams was the first movie that I had actually masterbated to when I was a young man. It just happens that my parents had rented the movie and I watched it when they were not home. It was one of the very first dvd's that I bought and I really wish they would have released the international version that has the extended sex scene's that were on the VHS version.

Alan Smithee

I have that on CED- will have to check it out again. I bought "Virginia" on DVD partly because that was the first movie I ever saw that had a "money shot". (A kid in 8th grade sold me a VHS tape with that and 2 other copied porno movies on it, I eventually sold it to someone else because I was afraid of my parents finding it!)