Much better phrasing of the topic.

Gimmie a break.

Exactly. Nobody is attacking you.

We are so glad you agree!!! Bravo.

Are you kidding? It's like the guy smeared smeared hamburger all over himself and leaped into a yard of pit bulls!

Nobody attacked him. He created a topic that sparked an interesting discussion. Just because some people disagreed with him, doesnt mean we were attacking him.

Interesting discussion like some people calling me petty and saying I don't deserve friends?

Not personal attacks at all.

Whatever, I'll let it be, I guess in the end it's really not a big deal.

Just so you know, we're not ashamed of your collection.

Well, maybe except for Jack

To each his own, but I'll give you 10 to 1 odds that your friend-of-a-friend-of-someone-down-the-street gets laid more often than you, just based on the fact that he has Dodgeball in his collection.

I have Dodgeball too Does that cancel it out?

One of the sorta-blind buys; haven't seen that since it hit theaters (when I was much younger, geez 1996 theatrical release!) so I don't remember if it's good or not, but I liked it then. 11 Years ago. It was cheap for the deluxe or whatever so I went for it.

edit: No wait, Jack is my g/f. I was thinking of Patch Adams that I got cheap. I claim no responsibility for Jack :P

I'm probably most ashamed of owning DBZ Season 2, but BB had it cheap a while back. I'm such a sucker. I never even liked the show when it was popular.

Jesus, it was a general statement, I did not name you in my post. For reference:

You posed a general question(your choice of wording, not mine, i.e. ashamed) and I posed a general answer. You rephrased your question which in turn makes my response even less of a personal attack if it were even one to begin with.

Sorry, I didn't consider your post an attack, it had some good points. There were a few others which were basically just people saying I was petty and deserved no friends, stuff like that. I should have quoted; I was replying to the post above mine:
And I did not name you in my post either.

Ah, I was reading back and I see you were the one to post this:
I didn't remember who posted it, but I guess I was talking about you. Although it doesn't name me, isn't it sorta implied since I am the OP? So, that wasn't meant to be a personal put down?

But your other, longer post actually made some points. Why am I sucked into this again?

thomkai - now if you had just said that you get ashamed when you see someone with a collection of dvds in the wrong OAR, the results would have been much different...

I for one do question someones tastes when I see a collection with (with what I consider) crap. Not talking about someone who has a few questionable titles, but someone who has 15 - 20 dvds, and most all are crap (ie King Ralph). Just makes me wonder about them...

I was with friends this weekend joking about this subject. I had to find a film to watch in my friends' collection and couldn't find a thing I wanted to watch (too mainstream for my taste) and they just laughed at my reaction. We undestand each others tastes...and I'm proud of my cult movie collection which they get a kick out of. Was I ashamed of their tastes? No, but ONLY because they are always willing to try a crazed Jess Franco flick or an "Emmanuelle" every now and then. If they were the type who only did mainstream fluff, then I'd scoff at their collection. But I don't...because they have a wild streak thanks to me but not the budget to buy everything they want to buy.
But you can't help but sometimes and look at someone's things and think, "...what the HELL are they thinking?????" It's wrong...but it's all too real.

I can see the OP's point. I have a live-in girlfriend, and we store our movies on our own separate shelves on opposite sides of the room, mainly because I consider a large portion of the movies in her collection to be terrible. It may seem ridiculous (and I suppose it is), but I don't want anyone thinking I own the complete Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman or Gummi Bears or Fraggle Rock.

On the other hand, she doesn't want her friends looking through the DVD's and coming across Cannibal Holocaust or I Spit on Your Grave. Some of her friends that have taken the time to look through my collection have literally been horrified by some of the covers and content descriptions of a few of my movies.

I'm ashamed of hers and she's ashamed of mine. I'll never like Fred Astaire and she'll never like Freddy Krueger. Call us petty, but the seperation works better for both of us.

Great story...well told!

This is the problem with DVD collectors' skewed view of the world. I mean, why cant Lucio Fulci hang out with Jim Henson? Why can't Jane Seymour and Heather Langenkamp sit at the same table?

Break down these walls.

Can't we all just get along!

& Why can't Jason Voorhees hang out with Bea Arthur, Larry Sanders chill with Mark Harmon or Inspector frost solve cases with Samantha Stephens?

No it wasn't meant as an insult, just a general off-the-cuff response. Truce brother.

Yeah, that's pretty much it--I don't talk about movies much with someone in my family, as he doesn't seem to have much of a, I dunno how else to put it, refined taste. Sure, he has Reservoir Dogs, but the rest is excreble. So bad it erased that part of my memory. He had watched Once Upon a Time in America and HATED it. That just boggles my mind. I don't know where to go from there. I can't comprehend hating that movie. And then not really being able to articulate why. That's what bugs me.

you're telling me...

had some out of state guests come into town last weekend and I was chucking some exploitation discs into boxes.

I did get however get the kids hooked onto 'Kimba the White Lion'

No problem, truce


I also wanted to say, this thread HAS brought up a lot of interesting points, and I'm starting to evaluate just how judgmental I am (which I will admit has been a flaw of mine for some time). You know what they say though, I'M not crazy, the WORLD is!

I too was tepid at the concept of adding my girlfriend's collection to my own, especially on DVDAf (which until about 2 weeks ago was linked in my sig), where all of DVDTALK COULD SEE!

But alas, we have nearly identical taste in movies, and the only thing she likes that I don't care for is the entire Disney Collection of movies, but even that's acceptable around these parts.