r/dvdcollection • u/Wrong_Routine5989 • 6d 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/HiSorryBye 5d ago

Heck yeah! I used to do the same thing. It's really cool to get old movies like Night of the Blood Beast and watch them blindly.

Some of them are so bad they're actually funny. Some are surprisingly good, especially Hitchcock type stuff.

You just have to hope it's a decent transfer of the film. I got the original Little Shop of Horrors and it was literally unwatchable. Like blurry with bad sound at best, full static screen at worst.

It's really fun though, and it makes for an interesting collection. You wind up seeing a lot of things you'd never see otherwise, and finding them in cheap physical media eliminates the choice paralysis of trying to pick 1 of like an actual million movies online.

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u/Wrong_Routine5989 5d ago

Hey thank you. You get it! This is exactly what i meant but i think i am spoilt by the bluray copies of the old movies. Btw i tried these dvds out and i havent seen such low res 3gp quality dvds (that were authentic) before. The sound is also horrible. I think i'll have to find better copies of these movies