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Topic: TV Star Trek -Blu-Ray ?
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Frank Angel
Film God
Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 06-06-2014 08:11 AM
Yah, we have the hunter instinct, but there must be some of the GATHERER instinct going on in there someplace too because it's certainly is hard to resist the call of the compilation sets.
It's the Collector's Syndrome; I stared realized some time ago, that I would need to live to about 2200 to be able to watch all the DVDs, BRs, 35mm, 16mm prints I have collected and then be watching without sleep for 24hr a day while at the same time, having earphones on so I could listen to all the CDs that I have and all the LPs that I saved because they are unique.
For awhile I used to rationalize collecting by thinking, well I keep this stuff because surely my kids will have these great films to watch. But the kids have very little interest (mostly none) in anything THEY didn't see when they were young.
It was incredibly satisfying to me when THE HOUSE OF WAX was FINALLY released in 3D. I thought the kids (I say kids...they are in their 30s) would be just as thrilled. They couldn't care less. It's becasue that film was in MY personal experience, never in theirs. I never saw the TV Star Trek series, so owning it doesn't move me, although I must say, the re-runs I have seen are far from impressive. The opening theme music alone is so gawdawful hokey (something you could hear in a porn movie) that I almost can't get past it to watch the actual show.
I never saw BEN HUR, and yah, I have the 35mm technicolor print (mag, my friends, MAG!), but not because I am terribly interested in it as a movie, but because of the special technical aspects of it -- but I didn't bother with the BR release (I also happen to be one of Charlon Heston's biggest non-fan, but that's besides the point). Point is, it's not referenced to a WOW experience in my youth. I think that maks a BIG difference in what you collect. Yet, I have a print of CAROUSEL as beat red as you will ever see, and I won't give it up for love of money because my moms took me to see it was a kid; will I buy the BR (hope it is stunning), you bet.
I think subconsciously we collect because it's a way to retain a bit of our Youth...a way to hold on to our past and keep it close to us. That's not a bad thing, just a slightly irrational when you come to think, why would I even consider buying another 40 hours of program material when I have enough to last way past my life line....I mean, WAY past?! Because we are human beings and some irrationality is what makes us a terrificly interesting species.
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