Hard to be frugal with movies

 

Is it possible to be a cheapie and still enjoy the overwhelming amount
of media out there? I have friends who could have a substaional amount
of money saved but pour it all into buying games, movies, etc.  They
have closets and drawers full of the stuff.  So much that they can't
even find what they need not because they are messy.

Theater prices are insane. One movie director said that ticket prices
should be $20 per person because consumers were not shouldering enough
of the cost.  I could see how one family could easily put $100 + into
a movie by going to the theater, buying the dvd, and then buying the
bluray. The market is so saturated with selection even $15 is way high
for a disc when its already made zillions at the theater.  Or what
about $30 + for a bluray? This is total insanity and I'm not sure why
consumers put up with it.

Or if your a gamer why do people pay 60 dollars for a game that is
literally only 10 - 20 hours long? I wait until the prices come down
but even then I turn around and sell as soon as I finish it.  This is
such a hassle I've almost completely quit games.

I've been with netflix for a very long time. They are awesome. I've
seen a lot of older things and now I mostly look forward to new
releases. Its very tough to get a new release. To top it off netflix
made a deal to have a 1 month delay on some new movies.  I'm at the
point where I refuse to buy videos or go in a theater.  I could pirate
all the stuff but my conscious gets in the way.  It also feels just as
wrong to pay the prices they ask. Whats a frugal person to do? have
more patience or stop watching movies?

I had most of my small video collection among other things stolen when
my house was robbed several years ago. This was a wake up call for me
that we never own anything.  I have a job where I thought it would be
one of the last places to lay people off. Its starting to happen and
even rumors of the place closing in the future.  I'm fairly confident
yet that my job will be fine but it has renewed my interest in living
a minimalist life style.

 

Spork wrote


Yep, hordes just steal it off the net.


Those that steal it off the net have an even bigger problem in that regard.


Sure, havent been in one of those for something like 35 years.


Fuck him.


And save even more when stealing it off the net.


Hordes dont, they steal it off the net.


They're fools with more money than sense.

Corse if no one did that, there wouldnt be many more games produced.


More convenient to get stuff off the net.


Mine doesnt.


Steal it off the net.


Steal it off the net.


We didnt even get a recession.

 

In article
 wrote:


exactly how many is "hordes"?

 

rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com (Rod Speed) wrote:

I'm fortunate to live in a town with a "second-run" discount theater.  
If a movie looks like it might be amusing but not necessarily worth a
$9 ticket, I can wait a couple months and see it for $1.

Unfortunately, there don't seem to be as many second-run places around
as there once were. :(

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On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dan Birchall wrote:


That's because the bedbugs ate them.