I Feel So So Dirty....

Kintarō Hattori

About a week or so ago I ordered Taxi 3 from Play.com to round off the trilogy. One is pretty good, two is so so, but three is shockingly bad. I already had the other 2 on DVD so I HAD to do it just so I had them nice and neat on my shelf.

Are there any other films you've bought just to have in your collection for whatever reason even though you knew they were awful and really didn't deserve a place there?

You'll have to get Taxi 4 to complete you collection.

Basq

eo980 wrote: »

Are there any other films you've bought just to have in your collection for whatever reason even though you knew they were awful and really didn't deserve a place there?

'King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries' - I'll never watch them probably but got them cheap on CDWOW. Paid 99p for it after voucher.

'The Ring Two' - don't know why i bought it. Enjoyed the first one but think i got the second one cheap on Adverts.ie (or Boards FS Section).

Kintarō Hattori

Deleted User wrote: »

You'll have to get Taxi 4 to complete you collection.

What The Hell?!? I'm just after Goggling Taxi 4 and seeing that you are indeed correct. I can't believe that they brought out another after 3, they should have left it alone.
It was quite a struggle to get a copy of 3 on DVD as eBay is filled with what appear to be pirated copies or versions without subtitles. I've never seen it in the shops over here and couldn't believe my bad luck when they got it on Play. Thanks alot Darko, I probably wouldn't have known about Taxi 4 for a long long time.

I'm off to search Play now.

eo980

eo980 wrote: »

What The Hell?!? I'm just after Goggling Taxi 4 and seeing that you are indeed correct. I can't believe that they brought out another after 3, they should have left it alone.
It was quite a struggle to get a copy of 3 on DVD as eBay is filled with what appear to be pirated copies or versions without subtitles. I've never seen it in the shops over here and couldn't believe my bad luck when they got it on Play. Thanks alot Darko, I probably wouldn't have known about Taxi 4 for a long long time.

I'm off to search Play now.

Taxi 4 isn't out over here yet, though it shouldn't be too long beofre it is. I'm a bit of a fan of the films. You can stumble in at 4am stick one on and shut your brain off for 90 minutes of mindless fun. No one will ever confuse them with high art but they all do exactly what they set out to do. My biggest gripe with number 3 was the fact that they decided to dub Stallone for the French release but decided to keep his dub in for the European release.

mewso

Matrix 2 and 3. 2 is watchable and 3 contains one of the greatest comedy death scenes ever.

Jack Sheehan

My brother bought 'Ghosts of Mars' a few years ago dead cheap. Awful awful film.

Galvasean

Jurassic Park Trilogy. To set the record straight I dislike 3 a lot, but bought it for completions sake. Then the trilogy boxed set came out so I traded the 3 DVDs in and bought it. I just know I'm gonna fall for that trick again when #4 comes out...
I got all the Jaws movies for completions sake and also pretty much anything to do with Transformers which shows up on DVD, regardless of how bad. Ditto for anything involving giant reptiles (especially snakes) eating people.
I'll buy anything with Christian Bale or Jim Carrey in it... even Fun With Dick And Jane...

I'm such a tool!

Got Highlander the Source in the post this morning. I quite enjoyed it for the first hour when I saw it a year ago but the ending simply pissed on eveything Highlander was. I know I'll watch it a few times and enjoy it but I know that the real reason I got it was to rournd off my HIghlander collection.

Galvasean

Galvasean wrote: »

Ditto for anything involving giant reptiles (especially snakes) eating people.

+1. No matter how bad a film looks, if it's got anything big eating people I'm there. Got D-Wars the other day and enjoyed it immensly. Nothing beats giant Dragons fighting one another. It's easily up there with Frankenfish and Boa vs. Python.

senordingdong

Wait untill you see Taxi 4.

Nolanger

Abbott and Costello complete collection?

Pigman II

eo980 wrote: »

I already had the other 2 on DVD so I HAD to do it just so I had them nice and neat on my shelf.

An easier solution would have been to bin/sell Part 1+2. Your shelf would be even neater now and you'd have saved 2 hours of your life.

Are there any other films you've bought just to have in your collection for whatever reason even though you knew they were awful and really didn't deserve a place there?

No.

Kintarō Hattori

Pigman II wrote: »

An easier solution would have been to bin/sell Part 1+2. Your shelf would be even neater now and you'd have saved 2 hours of your life.



No.

A wonderful contribution as always Pigman II.

Makaveli

I liked Taxi 3. Yeah, they have gotten progressively worse but they are still fun to watch.

Worst film I bought to complete a set, Candyman 3. Awful.

mike65

Completist is surely a definition of idiot, no?

Mike.

Karl Hungus

mike65 wrote: »

Completist is surely a definition of idiot, no?

Mike.

Hardly. Obsessive compulsive perhaps, but not idiocy.

L31mr0d

mike65 wrote: »

Completist is surely a definition of idiot, no?

Mike.

i'd tend to agree with you. People who have mentally handicapped themselves into pointlessly needing to complete collections of whatever just for completions sake rank really low imo of intelligence (possibly below creationists )

Also, there is a distinction between someone who collects books, music or movies that they actually like and people who just collect to form a collection. Its people that enjoy the collecting rather than what they have collected that I can't think highly of.

mike65

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Hardly. Obsessive compulsive perhaps, but not idiocy.

L31mr0d alludes to why its idiocy - spending time and money on quality is fine, on stuff thats junk but part of a series/collection is misguided to say the least. Its like those strange folk who order the Complete Works of XXX which sit on groaning shelves never opened, never mind read.

Mike.

johnny_ultimate

Yeah Id agree that it tends to be a bit of a waste buying things for completion if you dislike certain entries in the series. I have no intention of buying Spiderman 3 on DVD even though I have the first two, because the third film turned out to be a huge disapointment. No point wasting valuable time or money on purchasing it.

It does make sense when you actually do enjoy something passionately though. If I like a TV show in particular than I will buy each progressive boxset to even out my collection, unless said show had a particular drop in quality (e.g. the last two series of Red Dwarf). But I will watch those shows, and Im hardly going to buy the latest installment in a franchise simply because I own the prequels.

Buying DVDs just because they are cheap is definitely an odd one though. Never understood why someone would pay money to see a film they will never watch / know it is a dud simply because it is a fiver. Thats a fiver that can go towards something you want to see. Sure, I have blind bought DVDs out of curiosity, but only ones Ive wanted to see. But going into HMV and buying 'White Chicks' because it is 4.99 is the definition of foolishness. Well, not the dictionary definition, but you get the point.

Kintarō Hattori

mike65 wrote: »

L31mr0d alludes to why its idiocy - spending time and money on quality is fine, on stuff thats junk but part of a series/collection is misguided to say the least. Its like those strange folk who order the Complete Works of XXX which sit on groaning shelves never opened, never mind read.

Mike.

I can see what your saying Mike, and I would agree with it to a point. However its one bad film out of three and its not expensive. Might as well have it. Who knows with repeated viewings it might grow on me.

So I would hardly say that I'm idiotic in this instance. €9.49 isn't going too far.

Pigman II

eo980 wrote: »

A wonderful contribution as always Pigman II.

You're welcome

L31mr0d

eo980 wrote: »

I can see what your saying Mike, and I would agree with it to a point. However its one bad film out of three and its not expensive. Might as well have it. Who knows with repeated viewings it might grow on me.

So I would hardly say that I'm idiotic in this instance. €9.49 isn't going too far.

made me think of this ad(handbag) although thats probably being far too preachy :rolleyes:

I think you are missing the point, you only bought Taxi 3 so that you could have the 3 movies together on your shelf, and now that you know there's a fourth, your off to buy it regardless of how rubbish it is. This is classic OCD because you feel compelled to complete a collection of movies regardless of whether you are going to watch them again. I'd actually like to get inside the head of a collector and see what purpose they apply to these collections.

L31mr0d

L31mr0d wrote: »

made me think of this ad(handbag) although thats probably being far too preachy :rolleyes:

I think you are missing the point, you only bought Taxi 3 so that you could have the 3 movies together on your shelf, and now that you know there's a fourth, your off to buy it regardless of how rubbish it is. This is classic OCD because you feel compelled to complete a collection of movies regardless of whether you are going to watch them again. I'd actually like to get inside the head of a collector and see what purpose they apply to these collections.

It may be OCD but when he stumbles in pissed out of his skull at 4am some morning at least he knows they'll be there waiting for him to watch. And believe you me, there are'nt many DVDs that beats Taxi and it's sequels when it comes to drunken DVD entertainment.

mewso

Deleted User wrote: »

And believe you me, there are'nt many DVDs that beats Taxi and it's sequels when it comes to drunken DVD entertainment.

Drunken DVD entertainment....hmmm...I can think of a few more and some of the titles might be printable.

Nerin

Got Highlander the Source in the post this morning. I quite enjoyed it for the first hour when I saw it a year ago but the ending simply pissed on eveything Highlander was. I know I'll watch it a few times and enjoy it but I know that the real reason I got it was to rournd off my HIghlander collection.

have you seen highlander,the search for vengeance. its the anime, brilliant!
nothing could ever be as bad as highlander2 urrrrggggggh

Cokehead Mother

I stopped liking nip/tuck after season 2 but bought 3 and 4 anyway. 5 is being shown now, and I tried to watch it but just wasn't interested. I will buy 5 on the day it comes out.

nerin

nerin wrote: »

have you seen highlander,the search for vengeance. its the anime, brilliant!
nothing could ever be as bad as highlander2 urrrrggggggh

I have and I was singing it praises earlier today over on this weeks film of the week thread. The game is looking pretty damn good so far, just ssaw the trailer on the Source DVD and I shall be buying the game the day it's released.

Kintarō Hattori

L31mr0d wrote: »

made me think of this ad(handbag) although thats probably being far too preachy :rolleyes:

I think you are missing the point, you only bought Taxi 3 so that you could have the 3 movies together on your shelf, and now that you know there's a fourth, your off to buy it regardless of how rubbish it is. This is classic OCD because you feel compelled to complete a collection of movies regardless of whether you are going to watch them again. I'd actually like to get inside the head of a collector and see what purpose they apply to these collections.

I'm far from a collector. I buy the occasional DVD and I like the odd watch or two, but that's about it.
I don't drink much, once a month maybe, I don't smoke, there's little I spend my moola on. So what if I want to spend a few euro to have the third movie and perhaps the fourth (pending a watching) in a series. If its absolutely rubbish then its possible I wouldn't buy it (4 that is).
I have two superman movies, I don't feel complelled to buy the others. I have the newer Star Wars movies but not the originals.

Far from a collector I am.

Makaveli

eo980 wrote: »

I have the newer Star Wars movies but not the originals.

Ugh.

I'd say a lot of people buy a film to complete a series blindly. As in they liked the first one or two and bought the next one without reading up on it. That's what I did with Candyman 3, it was cheap and it had Tony Todd so it can't be that bad. Wrong. I wouldn't buy a Candyman 4. Just like I haven't bought any Family Guy since season 3, or Simpsons after season 10.

cuppa

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I have no intention of buying Spiderman 3 on DVD even though I have the first two, because the third film turned out to be a huge disapointment. No point wasting valuable time or money on purchasing it.

Think u all ready did waste the time and money ,might aswell go all in.

IamBeowulf

cuppa wrote: »

Think u all ready did waste the time and money ,might aswell go all in.

Got Spidey 3 to complete the trilogy even though it's 2.5 hours of rushed overblown underwritten sh1te Bought T3 even though that too was horrible.

However, nothing will possess me to buy Star Trek 1,4,or 5. They sucked the biggy.

kowloon

Isn't there some rule about even numbered trek films?

Don't think theres anything wrong with collecting, fills in for the gathering instinct we no longer need to survive.
Almost everyone collects something if you look past the obvious.

However, collecting Uwe Boll films should be punishable by death.

gandalf

It could have been far far worse, you could have bought the US remake of Taxi, a crime against films in the extreme!!!!

mike65

kowloon wrote: »

Isn't there some rule about even numbered trek films?

yep, its not true though as ST MP (no1) was pretty good if overlong, while Search for Spock is as good as 2 or 4 in my book. 5 was cheapo rubbish though. I havn't seen one since then so can't comment on 6 to infinity.

Mike.

Pigman II

When it comes to Star Trek movies the original ruling was "Even number = good, odd number = bad).

However thanks to Frakes and co, I think the new ruling should be TOS = good, TNG = bad. Even Final Contact (which is almost universally agreed to be the best TNG movie) is quite boring on rewatch. It's basically a zombie movie for kids with a bit of piss-poor time-travel mumbo-jumbo thrown in to plaster over the cracks.

In the meantime I've acquired an appreciation for the "bad"/odd Trek movies. 1 and 5 in particular. For example the single most powerful scene in ALL Star Trek occurs in part5 when McCoy is faced with his father on his deathbed. It's the rare moment where that franchise reaches beyond it's pulpy roots.

L31mr0d

kowloon wrote: »

Isn't there some rule about even numbered trek films?

Don't think theres anything wrong with collecting, fills in for the gathering instinct we no longer need to survive.
Almost everyone collects something if you look past the obvious.

However, collecting Uwe Boll films should be punishable by death.

I like to collect memories of places i've visited, and knowledge to expand my understanding of the world. My philosophy is that I came into this world with nothing, and i'm going to leave it with nothing so why bother. Collecting material objects is just another burden you are giving yourself in life. Ask yourself, if your house was burning would you really run back in to save that taxi collection, if not then why bother. I always use the burning house scenario to ask myself what I really value in life. There is also enough new and old media to never have to rewatch/listen/read anything twice. Instead of buying a movie to watch over and over again why not just watch a new movie everytime you have the time to.

Kintarō Hattori

I like to collect memories of places i've visited, and knowledge to expand my understanding of the world. My philosophy is that I came into this world with nothing, and i'm going to leave it with nothing so why bother.

I don't believe your in a position to call anyone an idiot L31mr0d. As stated already I wouldn't call myself a collector but I do have many many DVD's. At least half of the movies I bought I had never seen before and the other half I enjoy and will watch them several times over.

Ask yourself, if your house was burning would you really run back in to save that taxi collection, if not then why bother.

Of course I wouldn't but I do enjoy having the option of going over to my DVD's on a quiet night in and picking out a movie and putting it on. It's all about choice.

I always use the burning house scenario to ask myself what I really value in life.

Now indeed you are getting very preachy. So because someone has possessions they are an idiot with no sense of value on the important things in life?
I don't think my 'collection' of DVD's are important but I do enjoy sitting down to watch a movie with my missus or mates.
The most important things in my life are my other half, my health and happiness and my friends and family. I don't think having a 'collection' of movies has skewed my perspective on anything.

Instead of buying a movie to watch over and over again why not just watch a new movie everytime you have the time to.

As I mentioned already at least half of the movies I have I'd never seen when I bought them. Rentals are redicuously expensive and it is often just as cheap to buy the movie. Plus I like having the option of watching a movie more than just once.

I think you are in an unusual position with your beliefs. Most folk collect items along the way for one reason or another, be it CD's, DVD's, books, cars whatever. They do this because they enjoy it for one reason or another.

Galvasean

Deleted User wrote: »

+1. No matter how bad a film looks, if it's got anything big eating people I'm there. Got D-Wars the other day and enjoyed it immensly. Nothing beats giant Dragons fighting one another. It's easily up there with Frankenfish and Boa vs. Python.

You and I = kindred spirits.

I bet you watched Primal Force the other night.

Galvasean

kowloon wrote: »

However, collecting Uwe Boll films should be punishable by death.

*has House of the Dead and Alone In The dark (the commentry is hilarious!)*

actually between me and one of the guys I live with we have ALL of Uwe's (region2) DVDs.
We allso like the Wicker Man remake...

Galvasean

Galvasean wrote: »

You and I = kindred spirits.

I bet you watched Primal Force the other night.

I did and loved it. Perlman was superb as always, and all the film was missing was a 30 foot snake or two.

Galvasean wrote: »

*has House of the Dead and Alone In The dark (the commentry is hilarious!)*

actually between me and one of the guys I live with we have ALL of Uwe's (region2) DVDs.
We allso like the Wicker Man remake...

Uwe Boll makes some very entertaining films. He's recut House of the Dead and shot some more scenes to turn it into a comedy. The man is a genius, just watch the opening of Postal to see that.

Galvasean

Deleted User wrote: »

Uwe Boll makes some very entertaining films. He's recut House of the Dead and shot some more scenes to turn it into a comedy.

It wasn't a comedy to begin with?

Galvasean

Galvasean wrote: »

It wasn't a comedy to begin with?

Like myself you seem surprised by that revelation. I actually believed that it was going to be a philosophical study of the atrocities of war on the human psyche. Seems I was mistaken.

L31mr0d

eo980 wrote: »

...call anyone an idiot... you are getting very preachy... someone has possessions they are an idiot with no sense of value on the important things in life?

ok nowhere did I say anyone was an idiot. But the fact of the matter remains the title of this thread and your opening comment alludes to the buying of Taxi 3 as a waste of money but something you nevertheless purchased out of compulsion. What i'm saying is this compulsion is pointless. Sure people collect, but its the purpose of the collection that i'm questioning.

Someone who builds a collection of movies they like and will watch and rewatch I understand (albeit their sentiments might be different to mine) but someone who collects purely for the sake of collecting I will never understand. People who collect stamps, or belly button fluff, or bottle caps... etc.

I'm not harping on about it being a waste of money, or the fact that it shouldn't give you joy to see your collection of Taxi movies complete. I'm asking what is the point in buying a movie you find "shockingly bad" (your words) just so you can have them neat on your shelf?

eo980 wrote:

but three is shockingly bad. I already had the other 2 on DVD so I HAD to do it just so I had them nice and neat on my shelf.

Kintarō Hattori

L31mr0d wrote: »

I'm not harping on about it being a waste of money, or the fact that it shouldn't give you joy to see your collection of Taxi movies complete. I'm asking what is the point in buying a movie you find "shockingly bad" (your words) just so you can have them neat on your shelf?

One movie hardly makes me a collector and yeah why the hell not. I've only seen it the once and as I said it may yet grow on me.

mike65 wrote: »

Completist is surely a definition of idiot, no?

Mike.

L31mr0d wrote: »

i'd tend to agree with you.

L31mr0d

L31mr0d wrote: »

ok nowhere did I say anyone was an idiot.

that doesn't mean I didn't allude to it, lol

listen, i'm far from saying you don't actually get some form of satisfaction from completing your collection. I'm just asking for you to explain its purpose.

I too used to collect when i was much younger. I remember being able to get all but one pog in a series, it ate me up inside not getting that one pog and having my collection incomplete. I came across the dusty box of pogs a while ago and asked myself "what was the point". All that frustration and money spent collecting circular pieces of cardboard with pictures on them, for what? I've never concerned myself with purchasing anything since then that wasn't useful to me in some way.

I also understand that this is a natural crutch of humans that marketers take advantage of. Take the James Bond movie collection, along the side of the DVDs is a picture that can only be seen fully when all the movies are bought and stacked together in order. The marketers know a person will be compelled to complete the picture and buy all the movies. The same is true of the plethora of collector magazines where they hook you with the first one being really cheap and giving you the first part of something that you will have to buy hundreds of more magazines to complete.

Laserface

beleevin' all the lies that they tellin' ya
buyin' all the products that they sellin' ya
you're braindead..you gotta fu.........*blank*

Kintarō Hattori

L31mr0d wrote: »

listen, i'm far from saying you don't actually get some form of satisfaction from completing your collection. I'm just asking for you to explain its purpose.

I think you're taking this far more seriously than myself. I don't think I can answer your question for you as I don't think of myself as a collector.

I've seen the other two movies and liked them. I've seen the third one once and thought it was quite bad. There are plenty of threads here where people have watched a movie once and disliked it only to watch it subsequent times and actually like it then for various reasons.

I have the other two movies so I don't think buying the third one makes me a victim of any marketing department. I have two bond movies, I don't plan on buying more anytime soon.
I would agree that the super special fantastic editions where you get little extra for your money are silly. I wouldn't buy something for a token extra.

As I stated above, I think your asking the wrong person for the answer to your question.

Wacker

I'm fairly good for not buying the dodgy films in a franchise. I only own the second parts of both the Spiderman and X-Men franchises, for example. There are some dodgy films that I ended up with as it was the only way to get the good films (The Godfather box set, and Superman. Superman 1 - 4 was €20, whil 1 & 2 was €30?!?). I only own the first three seasons of 24, as I heard that the rest isn't great.
The exception for me is Alfred Hitchcock movies. I own 19 of them, and I intend to get all his movies from 1940 onwards. Topaz wasn't much good, beither was Marnie, and Family Plot wasn't good at all. And yet there you go.
I also am completely unwilling to get rid of DVDs, no matter how bad they are or how unlikely I am to watch them again. I actually have two copies of the Matrix (I bought another copy in the States as the headbutts aren't edited out), and I never dropped the original into Gamestop. Also, I own and hate both of the sequels, but I only hated them on seeing them on DVD. I won't be getting rid of them either.

Jack B. Badd

eo980 wrote: »

I already had the other 2 on DVD so I HAD to do it just so I had them nice and neat on my shelf.

Customer: "Excuse me, those books over there....?"
Bernard: "Ah, yes, Dickens. The Collected Works of Charles Dickens."
Customer: "Are they real leather?"
Bernard: "They're real Dickens."
Customer: "I have to know if they're real leather, because they have to go with a sofa. I'll give you 200 pounds for them."
Bernard: "Are they leather-bound pounds? Because I need leather-bound pounds to go with my wallet. Next!"

Which reminds me...I need to complete my collection of Black Books.