From Dave Switzer:
Here’s what I see when I look at these two lists. I see that there are
two kinds of movies that people rent: Academy Award Nominees and crap.
People wanted to watch Michael Clayton (good movie, btw) and No Country For Old Men (boring, IMO) so they could have some idea of which should win the Oscar. And people wanted to watch Good Luck Chuck
(for some unknown reason) but knew based on its horrible box office
performance and reviews that they would probably only want to watch it
once — and even then probably only for $1 at Redbox. Baby Mama and Fool’s Gold are in this same league too.
King:
Click his (Dave Switzer's - PM) link to see the chart. I rarely rent DVDs except when I
travel (and nowadays I just download a rental and toss it on the iPod.)
The movies I own are ones I want to watch over and again, which are
seldom on the TV. (Note: I do not buy premium movie channels with my
cable.) I own about 50 DVDs, many of them TV series. When Littlest was
littler, we bought all manner of movies for her. Why? Because your kid watches movies 20, 30 times in a week, and often it's just one movie. I was joking with colleagues about the one Number One Son watched one night five times, Harry and the Hendersons.
Godawful crap, and every time it would end, even at 3am, he'd wake up
from the couch and cry for someone to restart it (this was in the days
of VCR, so someone had to rewind, and he was four and not as skilled at
operating the machine as Littlest, who was potty- and VCR-trained at
about the same time.)
Here's what I left in King's comments:
I don't recall *ever* renting a DVD, but I own about 60-70 or so. Like
you, these are either TV series, music DVD's, or movies I want to watch
again and again. I guess if I don't want to watch it more than once, I
don't want to watch it at all if I have to pay anything for it.
My wife has a polar opposite set of preferences. She buys almost nothing and hardly watches the few movies she buys (at least relative to me). But she rents a half-dozen movies almost weekly and watches them all.
The kids are 7 and 8, so I'll let you guess about their DVD habits. Here's a hint: King described the preferences well in his last paragraph.
My wife has a polar opposite set of preferences. She buys almost nothing and hardly watches the few movies she buys (at least relative to me). But she rents a half-dozen movies almost weekly and watches them all.
The kids are 7 and 8, so I'll let you guess about their DVD habits. Here's a hint: King described the preferences well in his last paragraph.
We own about every kid movie imaginable: Cars, Toy Story 1 and 2, Monsters Inc, Mary Poppins, etc. We also own several SpongeBob sets as well as many others. Like King said, the kids will watch movies over and over and over again. We also have a DVD player in our Honda that works wonders keeping the kids occupied on road trips and we play both bought and rented movies in the Honda regularly. But if they were bought, I most likely bought them. If they were rented, my wife rented them.