How Many Of You Buy Things Without Seeing It?

[Spitfire]

Just wondering, personally I never buy a DVD unless I've seen it first and I know I'm going to like it. On a very rare occasion I will but that's either off recommendation from another trusted movie watcher or if the DVD is really cheap.

My Mom on the other hand is a DVD nut and buys everything that comes out, even if she's never seen it. She has so many DVDs she doesn't even watch them all. Half of them are still unopened, and some only because she lent them to people.

[Cure]

Nah, I only buy DVD's I like, and to like them I have to have seen them first. One time, though, I bought the Arrested Development season 3 set with seeing only one episode because I LOVED the first 2 seasons.

[Spitfire]

Nah, I only buy DVD's I like, and to like them I have to have seen them first. One time, though, I bought the Arrested Development season 3 set with seeing only one episode because I LOVED the first 2 seasons.

I did that too, I bought the 2nd season of The Brak Show cause I liked the first one, in my case though big mistake...

[Peanut]

A buy a lot of my random DVD's used at Blockbuster, so in most cases I haven't seen them.

[Jon]

I do a bit of both.

Getting some shows/movies I've seen before, as well as others that I haven't. Many times it's been fun getting to see something that's basically new to me.

[Mecha Cow]

Pretty much never, only when it's a movie I've been interested in and I've heard good things about. The only completely blind buys I make are random Jackie Chan movies.

[Jester]

I also do both. I buy movies I've seen and loved, movies with actors I love (I bought Cadillac Man (Robin Williams and Tim Robins) and Rubberface (Jim Carrey) from the $5.00 bin at Wal-mart, cause I love those (at least Robin and Jim) actors.), and movies that are a $1 or less (I recently bought 2 20 movies for $6.00 sets, Vampires and More and Cult Classics, which comes to $.30 each...some are not even worth that little) based on the advice of Wes from Scary Crayon who has reviewed quite a few Dollar DVD offerings.

[Time Mistress]

Depends. Most of of time I do buy "what I know" but sometimes I'll take a chance if it involves an actor or a franchise I like. For example would you buy a new TMNT DVD even if you hadn't see the episodes on it, or if it was an entirely new take on the TMNT? I most likely would if the description on the back sounded good enough. Price is always an issue too, sometimes you find hidden gems in the dollar bin.

[Spitfire]

Yeah I did that a lot actually because I always missed it on weekends so I'd just wait for the DVDs.

I know in the past I made some bad purchases, like the Lady Death movie...when I was a kid I'd just buy stuff if I thought the cover looked cool. Yeah huge mistake. I also did that with the Hellsing anime, the old one. I still have the Hellsing DVDs but I never watch them. Then again I don't watch the new series either.

Can't go wrong with awesome dialog like "I'm so f***ing hard right now!"

[Time Mistress]

My worst blind buy was an anime that I can't even remember the name of now. All I remember was that it was about some girl who fought in tournaments, traveled witth a doll/robot, and it was set on Mars. It was really boring.

[Peanut]

My one and only anime buy ever was completely blind. I mean completely. I hadn't seen anything on it at all, and I didn't even know what it was about. That was Afro Samurai, something I'm not one bit disappointed with.

[Barkworm]

I do it a lot. I actually buy a lot less films I already watched than ones I haven't seen yet.

[Zog the Equalizer]

The only movies I blind buy are Arnie movies from the five dollar bin. Who doesn't love bad Schwarzenegger one liners and explosions. Also I'll be buying Superman: Doomsday, Justice League: New Frontier, and Teen Titans: The Judas Contract when they come out, but thats just because it trust Bruce Timm

[Drtooth]

I pretty much do buy things I do have a feeling I will like. The only time I ever really got a DVD of something I wasn't sure of, it was a present. And I wound up liking it (It was ATHF if you wanna know). Sometimes I will go for something if it's marked down cheap.

The one regret I ever had was buying a 1 dollar disk called "Wacky and Packy" a horrible little Filmation piece of crap from the 70's. I watched like 3 cartoons there and tossed the disk out.

[cowabunga14]

My dad and I do a bit of both. I mean, for me I have a couple cult horror films on DVD like Eraserhead, The Thing, The Toxic Avenger, and Bubba Ho-Tep, which I didn't see before I bought 'em, but I knew they were gonna be good because of my interest. I watched Reservoir Dogs on the tube last night, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna get it on DVD anytime soon.

In my dad's case, it depends because, for example, he likes James Bond movies a lot and I'm sure he's seen most of 'em before he got 'em on DVD, but he sometimes buy movies that he hasn't seen before.

[Janus Prospero]

Mostly I only buy DVDs after seeing them first, but there are a few exceptions:

If I've heard a lot of good things about it, and the risk is worth it
If t's really cheap
If I'm desperate to see it and I wanted to rent it, but they've all been rented out.

[Warhorse]

I do it all the time. Mostly when it comes to kids stuff. I watch a lot of little kids in my spare time, so I'll buy films that seem like it will be appealing to the kids, and sometimes not.

Some of the ones I have bought without seeing first.
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
Cars
Finding Nemo
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
POTC DMC
Saving Private Ryan
Pearl Harbour
Forrest Gump
Romeo and Juliet
The Quick and the Dead
LA Confidential
Ghost Ship
Armegeddon
And I bought all of my Sopranos without seeing them first, and what a good buy that was!

[Brodie]

I do sometimes, like The Host, and Monster Squad.

It really depends.

[gobo]

If it's related to a collection I'm working on, the completist in me won't let me have a moment's peace until I look into acquiring a copy whether I've seen it or not. Such is the case with TMNT, Peanuts (Charlie Brown & Snoopy), DC characters (with a lean towards animation), ViewAskew (Kevin Smith) releases, Highlander & Street Fighter II. While there are parts of some of these collections that suck horribly (probably the majority of it in Highlander ^_^), I just have to complete the set. I'm OCD like that... suckaz. O_o

[Mandi-chan]

It's a bit of both for me...

Most of the dvds I buy are movies or shows I've already seen.

I also tend to buy movies or shows that I've seen trailers for but never got a chance to see, if they look like something I'd love...then there's a good chance it'll wind up on my shelf.

99% of the time, I love what I buy...if I don't like it, then it can be sold.

[mattmanw54301]

I have Netflix, so I just add it to my queue and watch it first. I remember when this movie Behind the Mask came out. It came out Tuesday. It was in my mailbox Tuesday, cause they shipped it out early. I decided to buy it and had it in my collection Wednesday.

I suppose the closest I get to blind buys are director's cuts. I love horror films, so alot of DVDs that I get are 'unrated' or 'uncut'. For example, I saw Death Proof as part of Grindhouse back in April. But there is a new Extended Cut coming out Tuesday which I will get.

[MrPliggins]

I tend to buy (and watch) tv shows more than movies. Usually it's something I've seen though. Last blind tv show I bought was Xmen Evolution season 3 because it was cheap and I heard it was good.

[Jester]

I bought Stuart (Smalley, I'm good enough...)Saves His Family (Used VHS) and It's Pat with out viewing them to finish my SNL films collection (I've yet to buy Blues Brothers 2000, but part of me wants to omit it due to it's lack of Belushi.) Those are god-awful films, Pat more so than Stuart. Then again I tend to like bad films...but only so bad they're funny like Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space.

[Drtooth]

I tend to buy (and watch) tv shows more than movies. Usually it's something I've seen though. Last blind tv show I bought was Xmen Evolution season 3 because it was cheap and I heard it was good.

Most of the stuff in my collection is Television.

[Swany]

I only buy DVDs if I've seen them (Hot Fuzz as an example) or if a friend has told me its good. (Scrubs, Anchorman). And I cant say I've ever been dissapointed with a purchase.

Also I tend to steal DVDs off my brother if I like it and he doesent notice. Like His Zoolander DVD.

[VaughnMichael]

I do this more with cd's than I do movies I usually rent things on netflix first.