Goat3001

This is exactly what I would have posted. If I had gotten into renting instead of blind/discount/new release buys I would have about 100 less DVD's (I have about 300 now). My mentality was "why rent it for $5 when you can own it for $15!" or "$5.50 for Spy Game! What a steal!". Idiotic move on my part.

Now, I've gotten into renting via Blockbuster Online so there is no charge per rental. I get to see the movies that I would have bought blind (such as Juno, Sweeney Todd etc) and if the movie is good enough to own I'll jump in and buy the DVD later down the line when I can get it on sale. That way my collection may never get huge but the quality will be better.

rehmus

im not a big fan of the movie, but i would like to second this post... i mean you could similarly argue that elements of Hitchcock's Psycho are cliche cause they've been ripped off so much...

im not saying michael bay isnt a d-bag, nor am i saying he has anything of substance in common with Hitch, but it does warrant mentioning that this film had some original qualities... as even Armageddon did for effects.

Scott45

Not buying "Yellow Submarine" when it was out even though I had just bought a Playstation 2... I chose the cheaper VHS tape.

I chose poorly.

SledHeavy

Indeed, I keep thinking that this could had been a great, great movie. It had the perfect cast and the right plot, but it just fell completely and utterly short because of Michael Bay. His ideas really do go only as far as action sequences.

I don't know if I'd give him enough credit to say he developed the action cliche either, maybe just that he is an action cliche, lol. When I think action cliche I think of Stalone and schwarzenegger.

I mean at this rate take any 1-2 star action movie and it's easy to call it cliche because there's bound to be another grip of movies it resembles. Kill Bill for example is a cliche of samurai theater in a way. But when you add enough special effects a 2 star movie suddenly becomes a 3 star movie. And this really really bothers me. This effect also tends to make cliche movies rather overrated, dreg and overbearing, yet people still call it entertaining.

And I'm really no more guilty of that than anyone else. Hence why I bought the movie, and why I regret it.

tanman

All those blind buys at $10 and $5 that I thought was such a good deal.

Buying all of the Batman movies (yes all) at $10 each and they are in snappers.

Buying Voyager for about $40-50 a set used at movie gallery because I thought it was a steal and then not watching it up until this day when they are $35 new now. I bought many seasons of Next Gen for more but don't regret it one bit.

The illusionist I bought for like $4 on Black Friday last year thinking it was the Prestige (haven't watched it yet though so maybe it will turn out alright).

My biggest DVD regret is NOT buying the First couple waves of disney treasures. I was in school at the time but I really should have picked them up.

story

My dad was super-cool and bought me the $22 DVD of Bicycle Thief for Christmas, 2006... The next month I heard about the upcoming Criterion release. I haven't opened the version he bought me, and I haven't bought the $32 Criterion. I doubt he would ever find out if I got rid of his gift and upgraded, but he was so excited to get me something I've been wanting for a long time.

I'll take ideas on how to get rid of the old version and make some cash from it to go toward the new one.

DeadMADMAN

Fair enough but I disagree. I think those cliches were around for a while. I could think of a few instances such as the Dukes of Hazard or Beverly Hills Cop or Terminator...the list goes on and on. However, I would concede that Bay may have been the first to make them so ridiculously over the top. Personally I can suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy a fair amount of cheesy action films but I draw a very clear and noticeable line at Michael Bay. But who am I to talk? I've got such a vast array of ridiculously over the top low budget horror movies that it would probably make me lose credibility.

mdnitoil

Agree on the cliches already existing well before The Rock was made. Bay just turned them into groaners. I guess that's a talent of sorts.

Disc-Flipper

I regret being impatient and buying so many Region 2 and 4 releases -- paying international prices and putting up with my glitchy region-free player - when most of them eventually came out to Region 1 with better versions.

BobSchlapowitz

I regret not buying several out of print WWF DVD's before the Vince McMahon revisionist history machine blurred out logos and changed music and commentary.

SterlingBen

Seconded, I wish I had figured it out earlier to as I probably spent about the same on my first 500 discs.

Biggest regret was buying Julian Donkey Boy and Star Crash

BullGooseLoony

Holla. Sometimes, I wish the WWF would go out of business, so this blurriness could end.

Jaymole

This is also my biggest regret,ie:
Bought The Graduate from the UK as it was anamorphic, and an anamorphic SE comes out 2 months later in Region 1.

There are about 30 to 40 more I can name...I wish there was a way I could get rid of my region 2 UK DVDs...looks like the only way for me is to drag them over to England on my next vacation and try to sell them to a store there.

I also regret not picking up some DVDs that later went OOP, such as The Red Desert, which I remember holding in my hand in a store to buy, then at the last minute putting it back thinking I can get it some other time.

Mr. Cinema

I enjoy most of the Judd Apatow brand of films. So I blind bought Walk Hard BD thinking it would be funny. Oh how wrong I was. That was the fastest listing on ebay I've ever created.

sigill

I regret buying hostel parts 1 and 2. I like the horror genre but these two films were way over the top. Its like they were just trying to do the sickest thing possible and see whether they could get it through the sensors.

Randy Miller III

Probably buying tons of "pretty good, but mostly because they're cheap" DVDs when I worked at a used record store. I found a few good blind buys and turned some decent profit on eBay, but I still have a box of stuff I'll probably never get around to selling.

Geddlo

I got the Trigun set too. What a bad series. My anime tastes have pretty much dwindled to non-esistant these days but at the time I would blind buy it all even with other, cheaper, means of seeing them. I even had Appleseed: Ex Machina in my hands today, was tempted because John Woo had a hand in producing it. I put it back on the shelf.

Steelbook dvds are killing me. I like them so much, I'll buy something just because its in a steelbook, be it video game or dvd. I got teh steelbook Cloverfield today over the regular dvd.

I regret getting the Matrix complete collection since I really only enjoyed part 1, and I havent even watched that part of the collection.

wildman1037

Mine?

Alone in the Dark

Ooof!

Brian Shannon

No regrets at all. I buy what I like to watch repeatedly, I never rent. I love every dvd in my collection.

DeadMADMAN

I hear ya. I have a coworker that is obsessed with wrestling. We bonded when we first met because we had such an affinity for the old school glory days of Hogan Vs. Warrior or even up to Michaels Vs. Undertaker (Hell in a Cell) but he won't shut up about Randy Orton and this and that and I just cant stand what McMahon has done to the business.

Sure it was always fake and over dramatic. I always looked at it as a comic book. Now it is just a soap opera complete with pregnancies and affairs and miscarriages and people dying. To top it off I cant even get good copies of the old shit because McMahon wants to save a few pennies. God I hate that asshole.

rider555

The Rise And Fall of ECW.I picked it up at the local pawn shop for $3.00.I bought it since,besides the fact it was cheap,it was 2 disc and I am a big fan of Terry Funk.
I watched disc 1 and since I had never even seen a ECW match,I was unfamiliar with nearly all of their roster(besides Funk of course).
I realized that the chances of me ever watching it were again were slim,not to mention the fact that a certain coment made by one of the Dudley Boys,really offended me,I hawked it on eBay.I didn't even watch 1 match on disc 2.

brayzie

Begotten when it first came out. I was used to 14.99 DVDs and didn't want to pony up the 19.99 for a movie that had a good cover and description, but never heard of before.

Tarazan 2-Disc Disney edition for $20 used. I should have bought it and my life wouldn't have been happier that day.

La Femme Nikita even though I didn't know how awesome it was at the time. I always passed it up (the SE).

Future Kill, cause even though they didn't use the original giger cover, I could have made a custom and had a cool looking sci-fi/horror dvd in my collection.

joe_b

Without question, my #1 regret was buying the Blade Runner collector's set that came with the film cell, poster and lobby card reproductions. I love the movie, but I think I paid over $70 for that thing when it first came out. I never pay extra for bonus movie related collectibles these days - I don't know what possessed me to spend that much on them back then.

Deadman31

All the TV sets I bought. I hate the way most companies handled their releases, mainly changing music, using cut episodes and most of all when they would stop releasing them in the middle of the series.

starseed1981

Bowling For Columbine