| Blair | Resistance is Futile! |
Registered: October 30, 2008 | Posts: 1,249 |
| Posted: | | | | I created (most) of this list a few years back. Locating and expanding it a bit today I thought you all might enjoy it You know you are a DVD/movie addict if... ...each wall of your home is a shrine to a different actor, actress, director, writer, etc....each day you ponder whether to buy food or starve and buy a few more movies....you have Ebert and Roeper on speed dial....you regularly recite every word of a movie as it plays....every Friday night you preform a movie scene in front of your home to attract guests for movie night....collecting the autographs of everyone involved in every movie in your collection is not just a pastime; it is a way of life....you buy another copy of a film that you knowingly already own in order to meet your quota for the week....you can recite the full end credits of several films from memory....when in need of money, you would more quickly sell your home than any of your DVDs....you rent a warehouse by the year to store your movie prop collection....in the event of a house fire, your first instinct is to save your DVD collection rather than old family photos and keepsakes....you have DVD deals and coupons down to a science. You go buy DVDs, and the store gives YOU money....you reschedule important dates (your own wedding, for instance) so that they don't interfere with film events....you have your own custom-built reserved seat in every theater in your area....it's not your fault for buying so many movies. It's the film industry's fault for continuing to release them....stores stock all of their movies by special guidelines given to them by you....you can't remember your mother's birthday but can remember the release dates of all of your favorite films....you know how to connect anyone to Kevin Bacon in only two degrees....you recite film credits in your head to lull yourself to sleep at night....you own several lifetimes-worth of DVDs but keep buying "just in case" a specific one comes to mind to watch....you have had whole conversations with someone using only movie titles as responses....movie premieres are held in your home because your entertainment room is larger than the local theaters....your DVD collection's mass has a noticeable gravitational pull on other objects in the room....from your home, you provide your own version of Netflix streaming video to dozens of customers....you plan all of your special events around related dates mentioned in films....the typical person finds loose change between the cushions of his or her couch, but you find loose DVDs between yours....you often ponder what a film would have been like if [insert name] had been the lead role, producer, or director of a film and act out this variation in your mind....on a regular basis, you have to use DVD Profiler to tell you where you have stored the DVD you are trying to hunt down....you name all of your children after your favorite film-related persons despite your spouse's constant protests....by selling all of your DVDs, you would have enough money to purchase an island. . . Australia, for instance....all of the movies you purchased last year were laid end to end, they would circle the earth at least twice....the weight of your DVD, prop, and poster collection could easily sink a tanker or crash a plane....your DVD collection falls from its usual resting place and causes a 6.0 Richter Scale earthquake....you buy multiple copies of each DVD so that you can organize one set by title, another by director, another by producer, etc....you consider your 100,000 DVD collection to be a single item. Each "piece" is inseparable from the next....your primary goal in life is to own at least one copy of every DVD ever made....Blockbuster rents from YOU....you refer to all of your conversations about films as a "Bonus Commentary"....your username appears in the contributor's list for every entry on IMDb....the weight of your collection causes your house to lean. ...and finally (of course)... You know you are a DVD/movie addict (or maybe just very bored) if you feel the odd need to create or add to a list like this. | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
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| Eagle | Registered: Oct 31, 2001 |
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| Posted: | | | | Thanks for the update. | | | Marty - Registered July 10, 2004, User since 2002. |
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