Bundled DVD's

I wouldn’t say that I have the largest DVD collection in the world, but I will say that I have substituted quantity with quality. Having said that, I am real hesitant to introduce my dvd shelf to anything of or related to crap. If you add to that my ability to see through marketing strategies combined with my determination to never fall for their tricks and/or illusions, then it’s probably easy to understand the obvious problem I have with bundled DVD’s. It’s my uncompromising nature that keeps me from buying a great movie with a poor one, a classic with a dud, Silence of the Lambs with Red Dragon. I will never settle.

It’s easy to fix, my stubbornness. I could easily buy the bundled set, sell or trade the crappier DVD for something I want, and then have two movies that I want in my collection instead of just one, but that’s not the point. I will never buy crappy bundled DVD’s because I’m not going to let that particular store think they are fooling me with their piggyback DVD scheme. If I want to buy Robocop it doesn’t mean that I enjoyed Robocop 2. Maybe I only wanted to see one cop, the beginning, how he got robotized. I don’t need any more robo after that.

I’m not saying that I don’t understand it. I think it’s a great way to sell dvd’s that normally wouldn’t be sold at the level that they are sold at when bundled with a more popular, new dvd. However, like everything else, an inch turns into a mile. You have bundle conglomeraters, that’s what we’ll call them [the people that choose which DVD’s to bundle], that stretch the limits of what should be bundled. Kill Bill 1 and 2 makes sense, Ace Ventura/Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls make sense, but Big Momma’s House/Juwanna Man crosses the line. It’s like the bc’s [for short] start looking for common denominators, such as:

Bc 1: “wait, rewind it, see that guy in the background? Smoking that cigarette?”

Bc 2: “snap, yeah.”

Bc 1: “he has the same chili bowl as the oracle in the matrix.”

Bc 2: “the oracle didn’t have a chili bowl haircut.”

Bc 1: “no, but she was mixing something in a bowl and it looks like the bowl might have fit on his head.”

Bc 2: “you’re a genius.”

Bc 1&2: “The Matrix/Grease bundled set.”

The proceeding scenario is exactly the kind of power that bc’s have when consumers enable them by settling and buying a B movie just because you get a good deal on movie A. As a result, when I see a bundled movie I refuse to buy it. I won’t be fooled and I won’t enable, unless of course it’s a boxed set, in which case everything I said prior to this goes out the window, that’s a completely different circumstance.