A lot of my DVD's have been blind buys, but I'm usually pretty sure I'm gonna love it so it's not SO risky. Ones in italics, I haven't watched yet.
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Anna Christie
Auntie Mame
Baby Mama
Best Foot Forward Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason
The Champ
Chicken Little The Corpse Bride
The Devil Wears Prada Dillinger
Dreamgirls
Enchanted
Fantasia 2000
Flying Down To Rio Guys And Dolls
Hairspray (2007) Happy Feet
The Incredibles Johnny Belinda King Kong (original)
The Last Unicorn The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Love Actually
Mamma Mia
Meet The Robinsons
Memoirs Of A Geisha
Monster House
Monster In Law Music And Lyrics
Newsies
The Polar Express
Ratatouille
Rent Robots
The Stepford Wives (remake) Sweeney Todd (musical movie)
Wall-E
This isn't counting the massive collection of public domain shit I've amassed over the years.
- Basic Instinct 2
- Castle in the Sky
- Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (IWMMB)
- Dreamgirls *
- Femme Fatale *
- Finding Neverland
- From Hell
- Hairspray
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Juno
- Mamma Mia!
- Monster House
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Penelope
- Peter Pan (2003)
- Sex and the City: The Movie (IWMMB)
- Shrek the Third
- Star Trek II, III, IV *
- Stardust
- Superbad (IWMMB)
- Teeth *
- The Cat Returns
- The Prestige
- The Simpsons Movie
- V for Vendetta
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona *
* – not yet watched
IWMMB – I want my money back
Hmmm... Not bad. But I'm more of an impulse-buy guy. I certainly didn't really need/want half of these movies, but they were calling out to my OCD-persona, so I had to buy them.
You like crap like Basic Instinct 2 and Catwoman, but want your money back for Sex and the City??
Ugh.
"Hip hop frightens you, doesn't it....Hmmm...Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate. Hate leads to endlessly posting threads about stupid white people. Hmmmmm....."
Bambi II
Bewitched (2005) *
Broadway: The American Musical
Cheaper by the Dozen
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1957)
Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
Classic Caballeros Collection
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Madagascar *
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Mickey's House of Villans
Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
Monsters, INC.
Ratatouille
Shrek 2
Shrek the Third
Snow Dogs
So Dear to My Heart
Star!
Superman Returns
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Victor/Victoria- 1995 B'way Prod.
Howards End
The Godfather Trilogy
Mrs. Miniver
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
El Cid
JFK
Citizen Kane
Dr. No (have not seen it 'cause of PowerDVD 8!)
1776 (seen some of it)
Brokeback Mountain
The Horse in the Grey Flannel Suit
Island at the Top of the World
Escape to/Return From Witch Mountain
The Gnome Mobile
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Tex
There's probably lots more but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
Not many, really.
Snow White was pretty blind.
Pete's Dragon
Jungle Book
Hey Arnold! the movie(sold)
Toy Story 2(VHS)
Lady and the Tramp 2
Spider-man
Spider-man 2
Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Some Air Bud movies
the Pacifier
The Strangers
Derailed
Dolls*
The Departed*
Me, Myself and Irene
Glitter*
Liar Liar
The Blair Witch Project
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The Funhouse*
A Fish Called Wanda*
Sideways
Role Models*
Horton Hears a Who!*
She's The Man
Pulp Fiction
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Step Brothers
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Halloween
Halloween II
Wedding Crashers
Child's Play
Child's Play 2
Child's Play 3
Bride of Chucky
Seed of Chucky
Saw
Saw II
Saw III (bought the trilogy pack which had the first 3)
Saw IV
Saw V
The ones that have been *'d are the ones I haven't watched yet. The only movie out of all these that I really did not like at all and regret buying was Step Brothers. That movie was just plain awful. Hated every minute of it and I got bored. Walk Hard is a close second, but I liked it much better than Step Brothers.
I'd say that at least half of my Blu-ray collection (70 discs and counting) were blind buys. Some were good, some bad, others..... truly awful (I'm looking at you, Burn After Reading). My favorite blind buy would probably have to be Pineapple Expess. I got that one after hearing terrible things about it, but Judd Apatow's and Seth Rogen's names eventually led me to buy this one and it is now one of my favorite comedies in the last five years. Dopey fun.
On a seperate note, I've realized that while I enjoy some of the blind buys I've made, I don't love many of them, and am thinking of selling some on eBay in bulk. Is there any smart way of going about this? i.e., Knowing what movies to pair with on a sale? Pricing? etc....
