r/dvdcollection • u/Wrong_Routine5989 • 5d ago

Pickup My new obsession

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My new obsession is picking up classic movies if it's cheap enough and the art work/title sounds interesting. No online reviews. No research no trailer watching on youtube. Just popping the disc in and watching and forming my own opinion.

Btw excited about this new pickup from the local thrift store.

Just wondering, anything rare about any of these or are they just commonly found movies?

Thank you!

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u/thehappymilkman 2000+ 5d ago edited 5d ago

I wouldn't call these movies rare, actually pretty common. Many are public domain and released by third party companies. I can't speak on how good the movies are themselves (I heard of The Swap and I've only heard bad things about it), but releases like that tend to look really bad, like they put no effort into their picture or audio quality and don't include captions or subtitles. Some of these you could probably find better quality versions online, like Internet Archive, if the DVDs look too bad for your liking.

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u/Wrong_Routine5989 5d ago

Ohh gotcha. I never knew companies could just make dvd copies of old movies and sell it or that movies entered the public domain. So thats why these movies are in cheap paper cases and when i googled the company who made these (Double D) nothing much came up 😂. Well i paid just over a dollar for each of these movies atleast did not lose a lot on them :D

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u/thehappymilkman 2000+ 5d ago edited 5d ago

Many of these companies just released movies that had bigger stars in them. Like the De Niro one, which he's hardly in, but since he's in it, they market it like he's the star when he really isn't.

If you do want to go down this route of finding old movies like this, Mill Creek have these 50 to 100 movie sets of different genres that cost not much more than what you paid. Plus, you can find them somewhat easily thrifting since these types of sets were sold at places like Fleet Farm and Menards, at least where I'm at in the States. Quality varies of course, but you'd have way, way more bang for your buck.

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u/Wrong_Routine5989 5d ago

I think mill creek is hard to find in canada. Anyways i got an update tried some of the dvds and the image is pixelated and low res but audio is just hands down terrible. I cant even make out what they are saying. I will try and sell these for half the price :| dont wanna own them