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Movie purchases...I've purchased several in the last few of months.

Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Passendale, The Simpsons Movie, Sleeping Beauty, Ice Age, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Gladiator, Monsters vs Aliens, and a bunch of others.

All on Blu-ray. DVD is dead to me for movies.

And how many of those movies were recorded with a camera that films at 1900 pixels wide?

I could take those movies that are on a regular DVD at 1080 pixels and stretch it out to 1900 pixels with Nero Recode although, the pictures is bigger, it's not better.

I bought Robin of Sherwood complete collection. It is good. I'm going to see "Where the Wild Things Are" today.

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Disney's Up! for $10.00 from a guy at our local flea market who is raping a Blockbuster from the inside (or knows someone who is).

Are you referring to the closures of Blockbuster? Maybe employees get dibs on liquidations.

As for me I haven't purchased a movie but I did see 2012 last night and recommend anyone to go see this edge of your seat movie once.

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Up! for $10, nice! My g/f and her mom went to see 2012 over the weekend and they said it was a must-see. I thought it looked nice from the previews but reminded me of a certain 80s/90s Universal Studios ride.

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Universal Studios ride is to say the least, the movies cinematography and computer effects look so spectacular and real it gives you butterflies in your stomach. I think I'm going to watch it again.

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It just made me feel like it would be an experience in the same vein, all the "Ooh! It's gonna hit us! Look out!" type stuff.

I'll be seeing it sometime this week. Question- is there any substance to the movie or is it all about narrowly escaping disaster?

There's not much substance but the excitement value alone is worth seeing and the emotional scenes near the end were touching.

Now I'm going to see Precious.

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I got lots of DVD that I collected in last decade, but my collection got much bigger once I started buying whole seasons of tv shows. At the moment I have complete Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Missing season 4.0 of Battlestar Galactica, first 7 seasons of Friends, 4 seasons of House M.D., 2 seasons of L-word (got to love this one :D).

I'm planning to get a hold of BSG original series and 80's, as well as Star Trek series.

Was looking to buy Rome (HBO series) but it was a bit overpriced, so I opted to get it trough library.

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I buy b-movies - especially horror movies - regularly, searching thrift and secondhand stores for old VHS copies that in most cases will never be released on DVD. I just picked up The Blob (remake), Defcon 4, From Beyond, and Fire & Ice. I also picked up The Magnificent Seven, Rambo I, II, and III, Total Recall, Halloween I & II, and Terminator I, II, and III on DVD. What can I say? The price was right.

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I've been buying a fair amount of Blu-Rays lately, but most haven't been new buys so much as upgrades for movies that were just DVDs in my collection (in retrospect I shouldn't have waited so long to upgrade to Blu, since it means more movies to replace). I think the most recent "new" new movies that I've gotten have been Four Lions, Summer Wars, Monsters, Sideways, Dark City, and Up in the Air. Excellent films, each and every one of them.

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Yeah, I haven't bought any new DVDs since Blu Ray won the format war. Haven't been able to buy any Blu Ray either though.

I think the last DVDs I got were for Tremors IV and A Town Called Panic (everyone seek out the latter, it is amazing), and that's only because they aren't available on Blu-Ray. As time goes by I don't see that being a common reason, but there's still enough obscure films out there that may never get the format upgrade.

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