I've been getting philosophical with my DVD hobby lately. I've been wondering, am I collecting or am I just hoarding DVDs? Everytime I go to these sales, I act like it's the last sale ever and grab everything I could even the titles I only kinda want. I'm picking up titles because they're cheap.
Out of 350+ legit titles I have, I would say 20% are still unwatched, 50% I've only watched once, around 30% I've watched more than once. I have 4 box sets still untouched. I consider a title to be sulit if I've watched it more than once. That's been my goal, to watch everything twice but it's darn near impossible. I've tried putting a quota by watching 1 DVD a day, 2 on weekend but it's difficult. With the new titles coming out as I add more to my collection, I think it's safe to say that majority of my collection will never be watched more than once. By the time I get around to it, DVD rot would've probably eaten some of it.
My collection is just small time compared to what some of you die hard collectors have. I wonder what your ratio of single watch, unwatched, and multiple watched titles?
I don't hoard or get movies just for the sake of building up a "collection." There's a ton of special edition gift set DVDs of uninteresting or really bad movies out there that I don't even go near to.
Rhetorical question time: If you're grabbing DVDs left and right only because they're cheap or what have you, what do you think that says about you and your attitude towards movies/films and television shows? If these were books, would you buy all the titles on the bargain bins? Would you get Arthur C. Clarke's
Astounding Days and Merriam-Webster's 2004 Dictionary?
I have a lot of unwatched DVDs, too. But they're titles that I like. I'll get around to watching them eventually when the mood requires it. That's the key, there should be no pressure. Just be glad that if you want to see a good movie, you can easily pick it out of your own shelf anytime
you want.
Just because you've watched a DVD only once, it doesn't mean it isn't
sulit. I have about the same number of DVDs as you -- and I can recall that I've only seen my copies of
Forrest Gump,
Saving Private Ryan,
Pulp Fiction,
Hot Fuzz,
The Iron Giant,
In the Mood For Love, etc. only once. And I've had some of these DVDs with me for years. Does that "de-value" them in my "collection?"
For me, it doesn't. Sobrang sulit pa rin na meron akong kopya ng mga ito kahit na hindi ko sila gaano napapanood. For you, you may have to answer that on your own or listen to what others have to say in these forums. Why are you getting so many DVDs?
I apply the same philosophy I have in purchasing and reading books. DVDs are like that, and are just as awesome.