Putting my collection on hold

[Buddy Ackerman]

Originally Posted by adamhopelies

I guess this is an extension of the whole blind buy debate, though one might see a level of authority in a label who've done you well in the past and you're therefore be more willing to give them the benefit of the doubt when a title you've never heard of comes along.

You're absolutely right - for those who blind buy then having confidence in a distributor for cherry-picking their titles is a good way to do it. I know I discovered Lifeboat (along with a couple of others) through MoC and don't regret it for a second.

I think my point (and that of others) is to those people who are just buying for the sake of having a 'complete' collection by a certain distributor or marketing brand. Which, as I noted in my post, means that I'm sure a lot of them end up with very fine collections - certainly it's better for them to, say, collect MoC than the Sony Classics Range and end up with M as a completist blind buy than The Da Vinci Code.

But some people take such ownership over a brand that they get angry when they release something they don't like because it interferes with their collection - they have to either skip one and 'ruin' it or buy something they don't like. That's a step beyond for me - having to complete a 'set' of disconnected films simply because of the logo on the spine is an odd motivation and a bizarre thing to become obsessive about. (Going further with the ownership people take over a brand, you only have to look at what happens when someone feels Arrow should release a film they like - and what happens when they have no plans to but instead release films that don't appeal to that person - to see how petulant people can be)