Films you bought as "blind-buys"

[MinnieMe]

Atlantis CE- great, loved it, found CE at reasonable price
Brother Bear- loved it
Bug's Life- pretty good
Dave- haven't watched yet, got for $3 at walmart
Dinosaur- better than expected
Elf- haven't watched yet, got for less than $4 at gamestop
Emperor's New Groove CE- loved it, wanted CE before went OOP
Fire in the Sky- ok movie, bf insisted on the buy at gamestop
Fun & Fancy Free- animated classic, not bad
Home on the Range- disappointed but necessary as animated classic
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit- haven't watched yet, $6 at walmart
The Moonspinners- also $6 walmart buy, IMPRESSED with how much I enjoyed this as a blind buy
The Incredibles- definitely disappointed but bought used for cheap
Mulan- loved
Murder at 1600- haven't watched yet, another $3 walmart buy
Treasure Planet- liked a LOT, gamestop purchase
Vertical Limit- bf insisted, horrible movie, at least it was cheap!

I've never been really disappointed in a blind buy because usually if it wasn't that great I didn't spend too much on it anyway

[creid]

I really guilty of numerous blind buy movies and the total would reach over a hundred if you include all the Warners box sets I purchase where I have only seen 2 of the 5 movies. (With the Astaire/Rogers DVD set, I saw Swing Time & Top Hat but not the other three movies.) Then on top of that I have blind bought noir PD copies which probably do not count because I paid $1-2 per movie. Here are my favorite and not-so-favorite true blind buys:

Best: In July 2004, I just reading about noir movies, and I decided to purchase the Warners Noir Set Volume 1. It was pre-order $35 for five films, Out Of The Past, Murder My Sweet, Gun Crazy, The Set-Up and The Asphalt Jungle. I never saw any of these movies so I fretted over the decision to buy. I researched each movie and found all five movies got imbd user scores over 7.5 and Out Of The Past got an 8.0. All I can say I loved watching these movies with the commentaries and have turned into a noir freak. It was my favorite DVD purchase of all time because it so fun to blind buy movies you end up loving like Out Of The Past.

Worst: Death Sport is "sequel" to Death Race 2000, my favorite exploitation film of the 1970's. The sequel had Roger Corman producing and David Carradine starring again and this movie had Claudia Jennings (The Pamela Anderson of the 1970's) in it. I fretted over this buy on the Amazon marketplace because I could purchase a copy for under $3.00 before shipping. However, the imdb had a score of 3.9 and even the positive reviews are about how bad the filmmaking was. But I bought it from caiman who was none too happy to ship to me immediately. However the movie was really that bad and a 3.9 rating is kind. There is endless motorcycle scenes with random explosions all the time. David appears to drugged out most of the movie and the only person who seems to care is Claudia.

Lesson: Trust imbd as a good source if you would like a movie or not.

[Wonderlicious]

I have bought quite a few blind buys in the past, but I don't do it that much...

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (had only seen Legend of Sleepy Hollow section)
Brother Bear
Lilo and Stitch
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Back to the Future Trilogy (to an extent, hadn't seen last two movies in entirety)
Dogma
Finding Neverland
Moulin Rouge
Some Like it Hot

[stlewis75]

I know I've done the "blind buy" on about five DVD's, but the only ones I can think of right now are The Triplets of Belleville and Sleepy Hollow. So far I haven't been disappointed in my blind buys... luckily.

[Disney-Fan]

My blind buys -
Dinosaur
Bambi
Alice in Wonderland
Mickey Mouse in Living Color I+II

With the ones I have seen I haven't been disappointed yet. Either a great set, or a great movie!

[Enchantress]

Quite a few of my dvds have been blind buys;

All 4 of my treasures,
Mean Girls,
Shallow Hall
School of Rock,
Romy and Michelle's high school reunion,
Pirates of the Carribean
Cast away
sister act 2
big fish *not fully seen*
spiderman
black hawk down *not yet watched*
house of flying daggers
crouching tiger, hidden dragon
Akira *not yet watched*
Ninja Scrolls
Nausicaa of the valley *not yet watched*
Kiki's delivery service
The cat returns
Spirited Away
The triplets of Belleville
The Iron Giant
Hercules
The Black Cauldron
Lion king 2 &3
Tarzan
Lilo and Stitch 2
Emp's new groove
Atlantis
Brother Bear
Toy Story 2

quite a few eh? Usually because they've been because of other movies, for example, Crouching Tiger was only £2 in a sale, so i was prompted to buy Flying Daggers, word of mouth has also influenced me, and so have good 'ol sales

[anger is pointless]

i saw rush hour on tv and liked it so much i bought it on widescreen dvd so i guess it wasnt a blind buy but i didnt know what the picture was gonna look like or what the features were but i bought it anyway does that count as a blind buy

[DaveWadding]

big fish *not fully seen*
Nausicaa of the valley *not yet watched*

Go watch both of them. NOW.

Two of my favorite movies

[Escapay]

Here's my list of blind buys, just going down my list a dvdaf...

Call Northside 777
Cocoon
Cocoon: The Return
The Gentleman's Agreement
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Girl Next Door: Unrated Version
House of Bamboo
The House on 92nd Street
How Green Was My Valley
Laura
Leave her to Heaven
Nightmare Alley
Panic in the Streets
Romancing the Stone
Somewhere In The Night
The Street With No Name
Sunrise
Whirlpool

Doogie Howser Season 2

Children of Dune
Dead Man's Walk
Dune
Lonesome Dove
Return to Lonesome Dove
Streets of Laredo
Sophie's Choice

The Cheap Detective
Hanging Up
Not Another Teen Movie: Unrated Extended Director's Cut

Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
The Black Hole
The Boatniks
Johnny Tremain
National Treasure
Newsies
Old Yeller
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Toby Tyler
Treasure Island
Tuck Everlasting
Treasures and CCF Sets
The Watcher in the Woods
The World's Greatest Athlete

Wallace & Gromit: Three Amazing Adventures

Brief Crossing

Swing Kids

Casino Royale
De-Lovely
The Dust Factory
The Princess Bride
Virginia's Run
Wicker Park

Beautiful Girls
In the Bedroom
Like Water For Chocolate
Playing By Heart
Serendipity
Three Colors: Blue
Three Colors: White
Three Colors: Red

The Basketball Diaries
Monster-In-Law
The Notebook

Domestic Disturbance
Explorers
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life
Paris When it Sizzles
A Place in the Sun
Roman Holiday
Sabrina (1994)
Star Trek: Nemesis
Young Sherlock Holmes

Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Algiers
The Birth of a Nation
Charade

Coupling: Series Four
The Thorn Birds

Billy Elliot
Ned Kelly

The Band Wagon
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Bette Davis Collection (with the exception of Now, Voyager, I haven't seen any of the others prior to buying this)
The Big Sleep
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Garbo The Signature Collection (with the exception of Camille and Ninotchka, I haven't seen any of the others prior to buying this)
How the West was Won
Jezebel
Joan Crawford Collection (I haven't seen any prior to buying this)
The Mosquito Coast
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
The Philadelphia Story
Rio Bravo
Splendor in the Grass
A Streetcar Named Desire
To Have and Have Not

Escapay

[Siren]

Kate and Leopold.....this was one, I had thought I was wacked to buy blindly, even previously viewed at Blockbuster.....I was SO happy I bought it
Bend it Like Bekham....Same as above. I absolutly LOVE this movie!!!
White Noise...Eh, could have just rented it, but its not horrible and it was cheap.
Shrek....yes, you heard it right. I never saw it in the theaters, thought it looked stupid. Got it for my daughter, LOVED it!
Ella Enchanted....same as Shrek. I like this movie more then my daughter does

[alienkattuk]

Shaft

[Disneybell]

blind buys for me
Bambi
alice in wonderland
the rescuers
lilo and stitch
lilo and stitch 2
loved all of those dinsey flicks
80s flicks
valley girl
say anythng
can't buy me love
about last night
the worst witch
the boy who could fly
loved all of those aswell
horror
fright night
april fool s day
sleepaway camp 1 and 2
both creepy
newer flicks
crazy beautiful
a lot like l ove
b/x of win dixie
ella enchanted
shrek
raising helen
i thought all were good
so i usually buy previously viewed movies from hastings you can get 3 for 20 so its a good deal on blind buys

[Prince Eric]

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

How is Steamboy? I got Akira as a blind buy, because you can't be an animation lover without seeing the "must" titles such as this one. I respect it, but don't love it. Is Steamboy much of an improvement? I like the lead's character design...

Anyway, I blind buy most of the used DVDs I get from video stories. The three most recent would be: Mystic River, I Heart Huckabees, and Punch-Drunk Love. I never have any complaints because I only buy movies that I've seen or that have gotten really good reviews or if they interest me.

[yankees]

Brother Bear: I was a little dissapointed by it... disney could have done better but pverall it was good and the phill collins songs were nice.

South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut: Being a fan of the show i thought I would like the movie and I was right I loved it.

Phantom Of The Opera(04 version): Loved the music great setss and actors and actresses one of my favorite films.

Gladdiator: Overated not really good
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Homemade Vaporizers

[castleinthesky]

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

How is Steamboy? I got Akira as a blind buy, because you can't be an animation lover without seeing the "must" titles such as this one. I respect it, but don't love it. Is Steamboy much of an improvement? I like the lead's character design...

The animation is Steamboy is very very good. However the story is lacking in a few areas, although it is not bad. I havn't watched it since it came out, so I really cannot remember tons of much more. However it is much less violent than Akira.

[Mushu2083]

Let's see

The Medallion
Mean Girls
American Beauty (my dad bought this for my mom and I HATE it)
Punk'd Seaon 1
Coupling the complete 4th season
Ice Princess
Robots
Lilo & Stitch 2
Stitch! The Movie
Lost in Translation
Snow Dogs
some Sailor Moon DVDs
Lion King 1 1/2
Blue Collar Comedy Tour
Blue Collar Comedy Tour rides again
Agent Cody Banks
Brother Bear
Haunted Mansion
Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Welcome to Mooseport
Big Momma's House
Rush Hour (do you understand the words that are comin' out of my mouf?)
Monster's Inc.

That's all I really remember for now. I'm so guilty of blind buys. My mom calls our TV cabinet drawers "Jamie's own personal Blockbuster".

[Escapay]

"Jamie's own personal Blockbuster".

LOL, same here. My mom has essentially banned me from buying DVDs (at least with her knowledge of me buying them so I have to be discreet), and whenever they feel like watching a movie, they go to Al-Buster's aka My Room.

Escapay

[memnv]

Just thought of my last blind buy. I believe it was Alexander and I bought it the day of release, I unwrapped it today and hope to watch it this weekend, I have 3 to watch that I rented first. Kingdom of Heaven,Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Unleashed. Another blind buy for me was King Arthur which I liked.

[PixarFan2006]

I Thought this sounded like an interesting topic, so I bumped it back up.

The Addams Family*
Alien*
The Aristocats*
Army of Darkness
Batman the Movie (Adam West)*
Big*
The Dark Knight
The Day the Earth Stood Still (50s)*
Ed Wood
The Evil Dead
Evil Dead II*
The Goonies*
Happy Feet
Hellboy*
Howard the Duck*
Howl's Moving Castle*
The Incredible Hulk (2008)*
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Karate Kid
Kill Bill Vol 1*
Lost in Translation*
MST3K the Movie
Napoleon Dynamite
O Brother, Where Art Thou?*
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Porco Rosso*
The Princess Bride*
Princess Mononoke*
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rocky*
Spaceballs
Star Treks 1*, 2, 3* and 4*
Superman 1-4 Collection*
The Terminal*
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgement Day*
Tootsie*
Transformers*
The Truman Show*
Uncle Buck
X-Men the Last Stand*

For Disney Films:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea*
The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian*
Home on the Range*
Mary Poppins*
Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl
The Shaggy Dog/The Shaggy D.A.*

I know it's surprising that I have blind bought so many movies. I just buy whatever I think I might like.

*=Not Yet Watched (Or have only seen bits and pieces)

[Lazario]

Scanners
Shredder
Vanilla Sky
The Woods (2005)
Monkeybone
Legally Blonde
Bad Moon
High Tension
The Devil's Rejects
Hell of the Living Dead (haven't watched)
Dead Heat (haven't watched)
Angel Heart
Bedazzled (Elizabeth Hurley)
Brokedown Palace
Cold Creek Manor (still haven't watched it yet)
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
Donnie Darko
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Earth Girls Are Easy
Fahrenheit 9/11
Female Trouble
Final Anaylsis
Freeway
Gia (had seen small part of it)
Gossip
Hard Candy
Jennifer 8
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
The Living End
The Loved One
Marathon Man
Naked Lunch
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Red Eye (still haven't watched it)
Safe
Seconds
Slums of Beverly Hills
Splendor (Gregg Araki)
Sugar & Spice
Swept Away
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Tenant
The Truth About Cats and Dogs
Vegas in Space
Vibrations
The Virgin Suicides
Zoolander (only a small part of it)
The Ben Stiller Show
Fat Actress: First Season
Fawlty Towers: Complete Collection
French & Saunders - all 4 original BBC-Warner compilations
Massive Attack: Eleven Promos
The Bad Seed
Carnival of Souls
The Comedy of Terrors
The Raven (1963)
The (Fall of the) House of Usher (1960)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
The Haunted Palace
Tower of London (1962)
House on Haunted Hill (1958)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The Premature Burial
Masters of Horror: Incident On and Off a Mountain Road, Dreams in the Witch House, Dance of the Dead, Deer Woman, Cigarette Burns, The Fair Haired Child, Haekel's Tale, Imprint, Family, The Screwfly Solution
Meet the Feebles
Open Water
Phantom of the Opera (1925/1929)
Spider Baby
Cat's Eye
Strait-Jacket
The Tingler
Tomb of Ligeia
Tales of Terror (1962)
Twice Told Tales
Chillers
The Newlydeads
Beyond Evil (still haven't watched it)
Space Zombie Bingo (still haven't watched it)
Firestarter 2 (still haven't watched it)
Return of the Boogeyman (turned it off halfway)
Don't Look Down
Children of the Damned
Village of the Damned (1960)
Bones
The Boogey Man (1980)
Burnt Offerings
The Church (1989)
God Told Me To (1976) (aka- Demon)
Inferno (1980, Dario Argento)
Manhattan Baby
The Others
Patrick (1978)
Riding the Bullet
Voodoo Academy
Bad Taste (1987)
Basket Case
Blue Sunshine
Brain Damage (1988)
The Brood
C.H.U.D.
Cat People (1982)
The Crazies
Critters 2
Frogs
It Lives Again
Island of the Alive
Monkey Shines
Monster in the Closet
Piranha (1978)
Q: the Winged Serpent
Rabid
Shivers / They Came from Within
Sisters
Slugs
Society
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
Squirm
Street Trash
The Stuff
Uzumaki
Audition
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Black Christmas (1974)
Cat o' Nine Tails (1970)
Christmas Evil / You Better Watch Out
Deep Red
Deranged (1972)
Motel Hell
The Doctor and the Devils (still haven't watched it yet)
Fright (1971)
Hell Night
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
I, Madman
The Initiation
Mountaintop Motel Massacre
Just Before Dawn
May (2002)
Opera (1987)
Phantom of the Opera (1998)
Phenomena
Popcorn (1990)
Private Parts (1972)
Satan's Little Helper
Sleepaway Camp 3
The Stendhal Syndrome
Tenebre
Trauma (1993)
The Vanishing (1988)
Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Who Slew Auntie Roo?
What's the Matter with Helen?
The Company of Wolves
Def by Temptation
Ginger Snaps
The Hunger (1983)
Innocent Blood
Martin (1976)
Vamp (1986)
Wolfen
The Beyond / Seven Doors of Death (1981)
Bio Zombie
Cemetery Man
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
Dead Alive / Braindead
The Dead Next Door
Deathdream / The Night Andy Came Home
Demons
Demons 2
House by the Cemetery
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie / The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Nightmare City
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Zombie (1979) / Zombie Flesh Eaters