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I have a lot of movies.
So many that it would probably be embarrassing were I to actually count them.
In addition to purchased movies, I have a lot of stuff that I "timeshifted" from cable, although I've gotten over that for the most part. (which are tapes that have 3-4 movies each on them).
DVD Extras helps in that regard.
A lot of the films that I considered must buys are ones that have some particular, usually pleasant association with my childhood ... multiple copies of various formats of The Great Escape attest to this, as does purchasing In Like Flint and Our Man Flint shortly after getting a DVD player.
Sometimes it's a matter of quality ... like Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.
Sometimes it's a matter of not-quality ... like Mars Needs Women.
Other times it's the fact that "I really liked that" ... thus my collections of Wiseguy, Twin Peaks, and Star Trek, The Original Series.
I was just thinking back to the night (a LOOOONG time ago) when I bought my first VCR. That night I immediately purchased two movies: 2001 and Little Shop of Horrors.
That seems to have colored my video and DVD buying from that point on.
Films that I saw in a theater and thought were way cool to an extreme get bought ... Backdraft, Dances with Wolves, and Better off Dead are all in my hands.
Sometimes it's cheapness. Dementia 13 was $5. So was Creepshow.
Other times, I must admit, it's that bugaboo that gets all of us ... "Oh, what's this box in the mail? Pearl Harbor? Goddamnit. I forgot to send the motherfucking card back and now that I've opened the box you can't invisibly reseal and put back in the mail as 'refused, return to sender' it's going to cost me as much as the movie not to keep the goddamn thing ..."
This is how I purchased Minority Report and the first two Lord of the Rings films (which I still don't like).
Being able to refuse those things on the phone, and then online has significantly improved my ability not to buy movies that I don't want.
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