Films you bought as "blind-buys"

Timon/Pumbaa fan · Post by **Timon/Pumbaa fan** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:39 pm

Since there has been a thread about whether a certain UD member should buy "Batman Begins" as a blind-buy, I was wondering, have there been films you have bought as blind-buys.

To be honest, I have yet to buy a movie as a blind-buy. If I really want to see a movie that I haven't seen in theaters, I can rent it, and if I REALLY love it, in the end, I'll buy it.

And pretty much all the other movies I have on DVD I've seen at the theaters, or saw it before some other way.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:41 pm

Chicago-Blind buy, heard great stuff about it. It was vastly disappointing, and I'm now trying to sell on amazon marketplace.

jediliz · Post by **jediliz** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:01 pm

you mean like buying a movie you didn't see in theatres?

I bought Santa Clause2 instead of renting it.

Ice Princess

Tuck Everlasting

All bought and never saw in theatre.

Is this what you meant?

JiminyCrick91 · Post by **JiminyCrick91** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:05 pm

Yes a Blind buy is a "buy" of a programe that you have not seen.

rexcrk · Post by **rexcrk** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:10 pm

Lion King 1 1/2 is the only one I can think of that I have.

Robin Hood · Post by **Robin Hood** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:23 pm

That's what blind buy means? I thought it meant you were just buying something to say you had it.

Movies I have bought as blind buys:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Apple Dumpling Gang
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Babes in Toyland
Beach Blanket Bingo/How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Blackbeard's Ghost
The Boatniks
Blazing Saddles
Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Davy Crockett: 50th Anniversary Double Feature
First Kid
Flight of the Navigator
Freaky Friday
The Gnome-Mobile
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
The Island at the Top of the World
Johnny Tremain
The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
The Love God?
Man of the House
The Moon-Spinners
No Deposit, No Return
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Return from Witch Mountain
Savage Sam
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Son of Flubber
The World's Greatest Athlete
Third Man on the Mountain
The Three Lives of Thomasina
Treasure Island
The Watcher in the Woods

davina · Post by **davina** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:34 pm

Yes I have. I'm a romance nut so if it's that type of movie I usually buy it. I did that with Sweet Home Alabama and Fever Pitch and I love them both. I also did it with Jersey Girl and Two Weeks Notice and I didn't care for either one. I just have a bad habit of buying before viewing. My husband is forever getting onto me for it.

Zoltack · Post by **Zoltack** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:03 pm

Men in Black II was the blind buy that made me realize that it is always worth renting before you buy because this movie wasn't very good at all.

Roger Rabbit · Post by **Roger Rabbit** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:08 pm

Actually, my one and only blind buy was The Perfect Storm, and thankfully, I liked it, but I never blind buy anymore...rent first, then I won't get stuck with it if I don't like it.

danamichelle · Post by **danamichelle** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:14 pm

Blind Buys would be over half of the movies in my collection.

dvdjunkie · Post by **dvdjunkie** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:20 pm

Got two movies today on a 'Blind Buy'.......I picked up Unleashed the Unrated Director's Cut with Jet Li, Bob Hoskins and Morgan Freeman. The other movie was "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants".......I thought I would surprise my wife with it and she was very surprised. I didin't tell her I bought it at Best Buy because I got 15,000 bonus points as a Reward Zone member for getting it.

As far as Blind Buys go, I probably am guilty more of blind buys than I would like to admit to. Have only been burned once or twice in all these years. I will continue to blind buy in the future. Generally I am pretty cautious and it has to be a movie that I have heard lots of people talk about and that I didn't get a chance to see in the theater. Then I take the chance.

castleinthesky · Post by **castleinthesky** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:40 pm

Most Disney DVDs
a lot of the Ghibli films
Akira and Steamboy
Alexander (still havn't watched it)

so it goes · Post by **so it goes** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:39 pm

Oh my goodness, somewhere around half my dvd collection is blind buys. I have gotten a lot used for buy 2 get 2 and most of those were blind buys. Also a lot of vhs that I got on the cheap have been blind buys.

I tend to have a pretty good idea of what I am going to like so I don't have much of a problem with blind buying. Cds and books are the same, rarely have I gotten something that I didn't like. Some stuff I wouldn't revisit for a while, but I have been pretty lucky in the blind buy department. Actually, Once A Upon A Time In The West was a blind buy and is now in my top 3 movies. So yeah, I blind buy alot, but I won't give a list because it is pretty long.

memnv · Post by **memnv** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:05 pm

I have about 50 blind buys, most of them I got on the days of release, some I still have not watched like:
Master and Commander The far side of the world- And I have had this for 1 and 1/2 years
Others that I have bought and Watched and enjoyed:
Scary Movie 3
The Village
Hostage
Assult on Precint 13
Hellboy
Starsky and Hutch

I think don't think that I have had a movie that I have not been happy with. I have been lucky

RJKD23 · Post by **RJKD23** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:55 pm

I'm guilty of blind buys. Yea...

MOST of what we own, we've seen. Half of half of our collection are blind buys (I think that makes sense) or in numerics 524/2 = 262/2 = 131 DVDs are blind buys, around so.

What can I say? I like movies--especially romantic comedies!

Half of our romantic comedies are blind buys. Some I could live without.

Oh yea. Sometimes we rent. Just sometimes.

MickeyMousePal · Post by **MickeyMousePal** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:12 am

Most of the DVD's I bought are blind buys.

Key · Post by **Key** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:44 am

I've had quite a few blind buys, but the only one that really sticks out in my mind is Memento because I ended up loving it so much.

Since I work at a video store now, I don't really do blind buys... Well, granted I did get Memento as a blind buy from the store I work at cause it was cheap and I was pressed for time on what to get. d:

waltmad · Post by **waltmad** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:46 am

nearly all blind buys.why pay twice

. didn't like it ? sell it.

Kingpopper · Post by **Kingpopper** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:15 am

Off the top of my head. Some of these you may never heard of.

Pi
Running Time
Maxium Overdrive
The Fear
Killer Clowns from Outerspace

Isidour · Post by **Isidour** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:48 am

hellraiser:the deaders
The cube
bad boys
the wicked
temporada de patos
eternal sunshine of a spotless mind
taxi
finding Forrester
Bais toi
requiem for a dream
cold mountauin
John Q

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