# Movies Worth Purchasing. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2012, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326 "2012-06-16T08:15:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![srm13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@srm13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/srm13)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/1 "2012-06-16T08:15:52Z")
So, today I got notice that my video store (and subsequently, my job) is finito. This means I get first dibs on movies for sale. Any suggestions as to what I should waste my money on? My store has (had) a wonderful cult section, as well as an adequate foreign section. PLEASE HELP 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/2 "2012-06-16T14:28:50Z")
I’m just going to list my favorite movies: Eternal Sunshine Punch-Drunk Love Adaptation The Truman Show Ghost World The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters Dr. Stranglove One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest High Fidelity Nosferatu Metropolis There Will Be Blood Garden State Fargo Bride of Frankenstein Harold & Maude To Kill a Mockingbird Citizen Kane Better Off Dead The Artist Network 50/50 The Goonies Freaks Rushmore American Splendor Election Eraserhead Best in Show The Graduate 2001: A Space Odyssey Wall E ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/3 "2012-06-16T17:41:34Z")
Depends on how much you have to pay for each, and how much money you have to spend. Cult films and hit foreign films should be relatively easy to (later) sell on eBay or wherever, and maybe even make a small profit. So I would buy what I liked - so if you can’t sell it, you are not upset about the fact. People can always probably find a copy of Titanic or the big blockbusters, but it might be more fun/challenging to be able to buy Harald and Maude, or Blechtrommel, or Das Boot or some other films at a discount. Knowing me, I would spend far too much getting all of the cult/foreign films and just have them - selling them if I see I can get the right price, but keeping them if I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Syme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Syme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syme)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/4 "2012-06-17T04:56:39Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > I’m just going to list my favorite movies: > > Eternal Sunshine > Punch-Drunk Love > Adaptation > The Truman Show > Ghost World > The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters > Dr. Stranglove > One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest > High Fidelity > Nosferatu > Metropolis > There Will Be Blood > Garden State > Fargo > Bride of Frankenstein > Harold & Maude > To Kill a Mockingbird > Citizen Kane > Better Off Dead > The Artist > Network > 50/50 > The Goonies > Freaks > Rushmore > American Splendor > Election > Eraserhead > Best in Show > The Graduate > 2001: A Space Odyssey > Wall E Good selection. I bought last week, the one at the top of your list. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/5 "2012-06-17T08:08:50Z")
Carnel Knowledge The Last Detail MASH Bullitt Play Misty For Me Five Easy Pieces The Haunting ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/6 "2012-06-17T10:02:41Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > The Haunting You mean the 1963 b&w version, right? Also if your store has Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, you should grab that. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/7 "2012-06-17T10:31:58Z")
> [@DataZak](#): > > You mean the 1963 b&w version, right? > > Also if your store has Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, you should grab that. Yeah..the Liam Neeson version is horrible. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/8 "2012-06-17T11:57:30Z")
There’s a really obscure movie out there about a war amongst the stars, where a young farmboy dreams of leaving his mundane existence to go out into space and become a hero, where he encounters an evil regime that is ruling the galaxy with an iron fist. I think it’s called _Jaws_. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/9 "2012-06-17T11:58:57Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Yeah..the Liam Neeson version is horrible. Liam Neeson made a version of _Seven Samurai_? I’d like to see that. _re-reads thread_ Oh. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/10 "2012-06-17T12:05:50Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Liam Neeson made a version of _Seven Samurai_? I’d like to see that. > > _re-reads thread_ > > Oh. Never mind. But there is a Steve McQueen version of Seven Samurai which is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/11 "2012-06-17T14:31:18Z")
> [@Syme](#): > > Good selection. I bought last week, the one at the top of your list. Thanks! 🙂 **Eternal Sunshine** is my all-time favorite!! ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/12 "2012-06-17T15:46:22Z")
One of my favorite movies is [_The Stunt Man_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stunt_Man), which I hear tell is a cult favorite. Perhaps your store has it. It is a terrific, overlooked masterpiece and I highly recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/13 "2012-06-17T16:27:23Z")
_The Incredibles, Dark City_ and _The Lord of the Rings_ trilogy are all great movies that have lots of cool special features on the DVDs. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/14 "2012-06-17T19:00:21Z")
I held off buying a DVD player for a long time. Then they released _The Fellowship of the Ring_ and the first season of\* Buffy the Vampire Slayer\* in the same week, and I felt compelled to buy the player and the discs. I held off buying a Blue-Ray player for a long time. Then they released the extended edition of the _Lord of the Rings_ trilogy and the Kenneth Branagh version of _Hamlet_, and I felt compelled to buy the player and the discs. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/15 "2012-06-17T22:25:31Z")
Spanish films **[rec]** and\*\* [rec]2\*\*, and their American counterpart, **Quarantine**. And the \*\*Paranormal Activity \*\*trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/16 "2012-06-17T22:46:59Z")
Why buy? Rip. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/17 "2012-06-18T00:10:36Z")
Miller’s Crossing. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/18 "2012-06-18T00:21:11Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > But there is a Steve McQueen version of Seven Samurai which is pretty good. That’s the one with the Cowboys, right? I think I saw that once as a very young kid, when I was too young to appreciate it. Might try it again. ---
**Author:** ![srm13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@srm13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/srm13)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/19 "2012-06-18T07:01:08Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Spanish films **[rec]** and\*\* [rec]2\*\*, and their American counterpart, **Quarantine**. And the \*\*Paranormal Activity \*\*trilogy. I probably will purchase Rec. Quarantine’s not high on my list though, and I dislike Paranormal Activity a lot. Poltergeist on the other hand… > [@DataZak](#): > > You mean the 1963 b&w version, right? > > Also if your store has Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, you should grab that. Yeah, probably gonna take that. One of my staff members loves it though, and we only have the one copy.. > [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > I’m just going to list my favorite movies: > > Eternal Sunshine > Punch-Drunk Love > Adaptation > The Truman Show > Ghost World > The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters > Dr. Stranglove > One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest > High Fidelity > Nosferatu > Metropolis > There Will Be Blood > Garden State > Fargo > Bride of Frankenstein > Harold & Maude > To Kill a Mockingbird > Citizen Kane > Better Off Dead > The Artist > Network > 50/50 > The Goonies > Freaks > Rushmore > American Splendor > Election > Eraserhead > Best in Show > The Graduate > 2001: A Space Odyssey > Wall E Already own Eternal Sunshine hahaha soooo good. The Artist isn’t out yet btw, I’m buying that elsewhere it seems. Altogether, a solid list though. I already had plans of buying Harold and Maude, Citizen Kane, Freaks, Fargo and the Truman Show. I’m more interested in picking up cult flicks and foreign movies that I’d have trouble finding elsewhere. Going to get Repo! The Genetic Opera, Pink Floyd the Wall, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Little Shop of Horrors, Bottle Rocket, and Pi for sure. Then I’ll raid the horror section at the end for mindless crap at the end when everything is a dollar. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326/20 "2012-06-19T07:09:33Z")
Dont Look Now if only for the allegedly real sex between Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. But its also an awesome psychological horror film. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worth-purchasing/625326.md?page=2)