Amazon.com - Chain Reaction
I’ve been having a total blast lately with Amazon.com. I know everyone uses Netflix nowadays and I respect that. People have limited space in their homes/apartments. Also everyone wants to either view films on the cloud and not actually have to look at collections. That makes sense to me. Clean is good. Efficient is the future. But one problem with that line of thinking is that movies and films are a social thing…even if you watch them alone. If you are talking with a friend about a favorite movie, and you mention how some part of it had an effect on your outlook on a specific part of life. Your friend may get really interested in your opinion and ask about the film. And if you actually own the DVD or VHS tape in your collection, then you can simply say, “Come over and let’s watch it! I love that movie, I don’t mind seeing it a 3rd time.”
Can you see how social and cool that is? Now you and your friend can have a blast enjoying the film and it is one more thing you two can talk about while waiting in line for curly fries.
But let’s change the scenario. Let’s say you have a favorite movie that effected your outlook on life. But you don’t actually own it. You just saw the movie using Netflix. And after discussing the film your friend is interested in it. So you say, “Yeah! You should Netflix that movie some time, or else wait for it to be added to the streaming area.”
Do you see how that is lame? Instead of actually hanging out with your friend, you basically gave him or her homework. Not to mention that he/she might already have a super long cued up list of movies already. And she doesn’t want to mess up her position in line to get, “Lost Season 3 – Disk 2.” She could have waited forever for that disk to come in. So actually she will get the movie you suggested in about 2 months.
Actually having a film collection is much more conducive for being social and feeling more confident in life.
So I’ve been using Amazon.com a great deal for music, and I decided that I’d give it a chance on movies as well. A month and a half ago I purchased for full price a New version of Highlander 2: The Quickening – Special Edition DVD. That was super cool, because I wanted to make sure I had an unopened one.
But after that there was a movie that I wanted to see, but I kept forgetting about it. It is called: Chain Reaction, it is a 1996 movie with Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman. A lot of people make fun of this movie, but that is probably because they know very little about sonoluminescence. The awesome part is that I got the film in USED DVD format, for 81 cents and $3.00 shipping. So it cost me in total $3.81 to own the movie in pretty good condition. And I will definitely keep it in my collection. I also watched part of the movie with my mom after I saw it alone in my room very late at night in the absolute dark.
And I have to say that paying under $4.oo to own a used DVD on something that is exactly a film that you want to see it great. Do you need to be careful about people who have only a few ratings and may be shady sellers? Yes, you do. But I haven’t had a problem yet. Although I don’t recommend getting used copies of Series DVD’s like Star Trek or STDS9 used, because there are a great many bootlegs out there. So you would probably want to consider getting a new copy directly from Amazon.com if they have it in stock. But for little movies that are from the 90’s and stuff, people are generally pretty cool.
So I just got Lawnmower Man in the mail today and I’m stoked to watch it. Lawnmower Man only had a cost of 54 cents plus $3.00 shipping. So that was totally rad. The condition of the box was OK. It had a removed sticker on the back. But I’m not going to cry.
Now some people might say, “Why get DVD’s and VHS if you can get it on Blue Ray?”
My answer to this is: “I don’t have Blue Ray dude.”
-Tyler