what are DVDs for, anyway?

[oiran]

I'm wondering if I'm doing this wrong. I've been getting some really disgusting disks from Netflix, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm doing something aberrant by simply watching DVDs and being really pretty passive about the whole DVD experience. Based on the condition of the things I get in the mail, I'm not nearly as interactive with the DVDs as some of you (general, in a world sense, not just an LJ sense) seem to be.

[Poll #288390]

I am trying to watch Angel S1 disks and I have to repeatedly smear them with this nerdy audio/video goo that Mr. Glove has around so that I can get them to play at all. I'd say that at least three-quarters of the disks we get from Netflix have serious problems with crusted splooge of one sort or another, as well as deep gouges that seem to have been gnawed into them. People, if you don't like the movie, please don't take it out on the disk.

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[rhyo.livejournal.com]

So far, I've used Netflix to get some obscure stuff:
Fellini movies (much better when I was young and watching them at the art theater in a consciousness-altered state), Ingmar Berman (Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, ditto), A Soldier of Orange, Woman in the Dunes, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago, An American in Paris, Brigadoon and a bunch of others I can't remember. Those discs were all in good shape.

The season 2 Oz discs, however, were not. What surprises me, though, given those flimsy envelopes, is that they survive shipping AT ALL.

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

The last time I did a search for some obscure movies on Netflix, I couldn't find them. They also didn't have the due South DVDs, and I do really want to see those. Of course, it's been a few months, and I should check again before complaining too vociferously. Besides, the only options here in Nashvegas are Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. Hollywood is the lesser of two evils, but not that much lesser. And complaining about how foreign movies have been cut for explicit sex without being labeled as such to a nice young Baptist man/clerk is just painful for everyone and frustrating for me. Explaining, "But I rented it because I wanted to see graphic sex," makes heads explode.

[rhyo.livejournal.com]

Explaining, "But I rented it because I wanted to see graphic sex," makes heads explode.

One takes one's pleasures as they come. Can't get graphic sex? Exploding Baptist heads run a close second.

I tend to rent from 4 categories:
Foreign Language and International
Documentaries
Classics
Independent (although a lot of the stuff in here is mislabeled)

I have the first 2 seasons of Due South on DVD, plus the pilot on VHS if you'd like to borrow them.