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I had a triple feature this week: The Post, All The President’s Men, and Spotlight. Felt nostalgic for a free and competent press. And I enjoy all three, but Spotlight is a little more difficult to watch, they don’t pull any punches.
I own all three on DVD. Two of them I bought used for two or three bucks. If you enjoy thrift stores, there are shelves and shelves of DVD’s for two bucks a piece. Both movies and series. I got West Wing for less than $10 for the full series.
You can also get them used on Amazon, Walmart and other retail outlets that support private sellers – a lot of them are thrift stores that ship out. And physical Walmart stores have these great bins of older movies to wade through, most $5 or less.
Don’t have a DVD player? Thrift stores and even new are relatively inexpensive.
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After a conversation with Cole a few years ago, I bought the full series of Leverage, used. So glad I did. Previously, it streamed free on FreeVee, and now it’s behind a paywall at Amazon. I can watch anytime I want for less than $15.
I’m not the only one, search on DVDs vs Streaming and you’ll find a bunch of articles on why folks are making the switch
From The Verge, Emma Roth wrote about streaming fatigue:
Here I am at Walmart, elbow-deep in decades of movies as other shoppers wheel by without so much as a glance. The bin, about four feet tall, is overflowing with DVDs, to the point where I have to start piling them up on one side just to get anywhere near the center. I’m picking out the movies I’m going to indulge in over the weekend, shuffling through copies of Sonic the Hedgehog, an all-in-one Ben Affleck movie collection, Gremlins, and a hodgepodge of other flicks.
I pull out some old films I’ve never gotten around to watching, like The Ring and the Crank collection (yes, I know I’m behind), and toss them into my shopping cart. The variety in Walmart’s DVD bin is seemingly endless: and for a price of about $5 per disc that you can hang onto forever, you can’t really go wrong. (So long as you don’t care about the highest-quality viewing experience.) The movies will soon make their way into my PlayStation 4 and will hopefully save me from having to pick something out on a streaming app. Walmart isn’t the only place I’ve started looking for DVDs, either. Thrift stores, flea markets, the library, and even my local mall’s FYE have also become places I frequent to get my hands on oft-ignored discs.
After spending years reassuring myself that I don’t need physical copies of movies because of streaming, DVDs have officially reentered my life.
Just some ideas to help as we find more and more reasons to turn our backs on these corporations.
Anyone have any recommendations for more films or series on journalists or politicians who aren’t evil? I may need to expand my collection
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