Films you don't really like but bought because you're a completionist
Goes hand in hand with the other thread I posted on movies you didn't like but bought for audio/video. This one is about being a completionist.
I have a bunch of these flicks that I've bought simply to have every movie in a series/franchise or episode of a TV show. Most recently, Matrix Ressurections comes to mind. |
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I used to do this more. I’ve gotten better about not being so OCD and feeling the need to buy things I don’t like simply to fill a gap in my collection.
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Lesser Dario Argento films would be an example for me, like Dracula 3D, and I'd buy Mother of Tears even though I found it completely unwatchable on TV. I'm trying to back away from just-for-the-sake-of-completionism, but it'd be tough to have a near-complete Argento filmography and not fill in those few dreadful gaps.
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I'll eventually get Matrix Resurrections when the price is right.
Otherwise, every single Transformers movie fits in this thread for me. |
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Halloween 4, 5 and 6. Will probably get the latest Matrix also, maybe that’ll be better with repeated viewing. Probably will never buy Space Jam 2 at any price though.
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re: Films you don't really like but bought because you're a completionist
Texas Chainsaw Massacre New Generation
Texas Chainsaw 3D Leatherface (2017) Alien Covenant A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Terminator Salvation Fear and Desire (Kubrick) |
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I used to do this all the time, but realized so many sequels in my collection just suck, and I was never going two watch them. I don't mind if there's a good story arc, but please, one Shrek movie is enough.
Anyway, I sold off a lot of stuff in the past two years. |
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Every Crow film and TV other than the original
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I'm not a completist. I only buy films I like.
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I attempt to get everything from my favorite directors. Other than maybe three or four, they’ve all had misfires. So I have a fair amount that I don’t ever foresee watching again.
DePalma: Greetings, Wedding Party, Dionysus In 69, Redacted, Passion, Domino Landis: Schlock, Kentucky Fried Movie Dante: the Hole Cohen: Private Files Of J Edgar Hoover, Full Moon High I know there’s a bunch more. That’s just off the top of my head. |
re: Films you don't really like but bought because you're a completionist
Originally Posted by Norm de Plume
(Post 14064410)
I'm not a completist. I only buy films I like.
Likewise. |
re: Films you don't really like but bought because you're a completionist
Matrix series was first that came to mind.
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The Matrix series. Matrix Revolutions I didn't care for. I've toughened up and now only care for the first Matrix. I still haven't bought any on 4K.
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The Matrix series looks great on 4k. Only bummer is that they didn't include the Animatrix in the new boxset, so I kept the blu-ray boxset.
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re: Films you don't really like but bought because you're a completionist
Originally Posted by Kurt D
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I'll eventually get Matrix Resurrections when the price is right.
Otherwise, every single Transformers movie fits in this thread for me. |
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For me, I can't think of any movies.. but I've had a problem with TV series for sure. Especially those CW Arrowverse shows that I really have no desire to finish watching.
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Originally Posted by The Cow
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For me, I can't think of any movies.. but I've had a problem with TV series for sure. Especially those CW Arrowverse shows that I really have no desire to finish watching.
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re: Films you don't really like but bought because you're a completionist
Batman and Robin
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re: Films you don't really like but bought because you're a completionist
The Force Awakens
The Last Jedi Rise of Skywalker |
re: Films you don't really like but bought because you're a completionist
Originally Posted by ViewAskewbian
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I'll do you one better. I bought these in a set of all the movies + Bumblebee for audio/video AND completionism. Annnnd, to make matters crazier, the set didn't include the bonus discs with the longer making of docs on the films so I bought those, created my own case to hold all the discs and sold off the extra discs allllll for movies I think are mostly kinda terrible. That's when I knew I had a problem. I mean, not Alan Smithee level or anything but still... :p
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Originally Posted by Kurt D
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I've been a bit all over the map with them. I got Bumblebee on 4k disc, but some of the other Transformers, bought BDs used for 2 bucks a pop! (I may even have one or two streaming only, so it's a whacked out collection.)
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I own pretty much every Disney animated theatrical release, nearly all of which were bought before I had kids in the anticipation of someday wanting to watch them with my kids. Now that I have kids, we have watched a lot of them, but almost always by streaming them on Disney+ instead of pulling a disc out and putting it in.
I think that's about it other than some titles in boxsets that I don't care about. I used to have a lot more, but have purged them over the years and the ubiquity of titles available to stream has mostly stripped my physical purchases to movies I truly love. That's a pretty big change for me, mainly in the past year. For example, I'm a pretty big Marvel fan and have 4K discs of everything through Spider-Man Far From Home (as well as 3D discs of about half of them), but have yet to pick up Black Widow, Shang Chi or The Eternals. I actually liked each of those to some degree, but not enough to buy them when I can stream them at such high quality via something I'm already paying for. |
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the most recent Star Wars Movies immediately come to mind when I see this thread. :(
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Originally Posted by jpcamb
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the most recent Star Wars Movies immediately come to mind when I see this thread. :(
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I've found myself not buying all the Disney/Pixar main releases like I used to. I may even get rid of some of the ones that didn't age so well.
I stopped collecting all the Hannibal Lector films when they started getting too derivative. All I have now is SOTL on Criterion Blu and three different versions of Manhunter on DVD. |
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