You know you've qualified as a film buff/maniac when...

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You rent several DVDs out, knowing them to be poor but you have to know them...

― MG, Friday, 25 February 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You own several DVDs, knowing them to be poor, but you have to know them...

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

You've got Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: The Motion Picture in multiple formats.

― Huk-L, Friday, 25 February 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

You rent several DVDs you already own, but don't realize it because it's the season of free screeners and you're drowning in promo copies and then you lose the real copy of the film, replace it with the screener PROPERY OF MIRAMAX etc., and send it back to the store so you don't get in trouble. R0ck3t V1d30, eat my scam!

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

.. and that was it?

― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 26 February 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I rented the x-rated version of Last Tango in Paris once, bought it the next day, realized that I had bought the cut version, and so returned the cut version to the store and kept their version.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Saturday, 26 February 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

This does not make me a film buff. It only makes me dishonest.

On with the thread.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Saturday, 26 February 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

you... eat popcorn... during a movie.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 26 February 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually I eat caviar.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 February 2005 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

then you've qualified as a caviar buff/maniac.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 26 February 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Yum!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 February 2005 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Good story -- I went to the video store to rent Fucking Amal (inspired by '90s poll) and asked the clerk. I wasn't sure of the alternate title (now I know: it's 'Show me Love') so I said 'Do you have Fucking Amal?' and the girl at the desk looked sorta startled. I said, 'it's not like that. It's probably in foreign.' And she said okay, and looked-up the title on her screen. She directed me to the back of the store. She said 'it'll be in the WAAAY back' which of course means THE PORNO SECTION. I was a little miffed. I mean, I know it's a queer flick (and going to the - mostly soft-core - gay section is uncomfortable enough for me, a skinny single guy with scruffy facial hair and tailored jeans) but seriously. Adult? Whatever. I go to the back of the store and look among the really nasty gonzo porn. Nothing. Not there. I'm probably back there three or four minutes looking at the boxes of frighteningly dirty pictures trying to find Fucking Amal. I can't. I go up front again, blushing, and say to the woman 'I couldn't find it - can you help me / look again?' and she says yes, leads me to the back of the store and shoots me the hairy eyeball as she puts the picture in my hand. I say thanks, and she turns away before I walk off. I look down. In my hand:

FUCKING THEM ALL!
Bisexual booty-call!
a new hardcore ODD-ASS-y.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Saturday, 26 February 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That's almost like the beginning of The Fluffer (where Citizen Cum is mistaken for Citizen Kane, cue sorta wacky hijinx).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 February 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

haha! a similar thing happened to me recently when i wanted to rent THE EDGE ft. anthony hopkins & alec baldwin. i asked the clerk for it and she looked it up on her computer and said "uh, follow me," and led me straight to the porn section! fluster and bluster ensued

(not NEARLY as good as your story)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 26 February 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCKING THEM ALL hahahahaaa

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Saturday, 26 February 2005 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't find any listings for it online. I googled it, but ... too bad. Use your imagination.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Saturday, 26 February 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

you... eat popcorn... during a movie.

i'm a film buff and i haven't been into the popcorn ritual since i was a kid. i'm not even sure i like popcorn that much. seems like empty calories.

junior mints and raisinets are where it's at.

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 27 February 2005 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Now you know that when you tell someone about it at a party, you need to spell. A-M-A-L.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Sunday, 27 February 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

...when you don't have to tell people about it.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 27 February 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

eighteen years pass...

you are insufferable at every gathering and glassed someone at a bar over a flippant comment about Wild Strawberries

― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 January 2024 18:24 (two years ago)

featuring Bibi Andersson....from???

― frogbs, Monday, 22 January 2024 18:33 (two years ago)

True film buffs use VHS, the perfect medium for film.

― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:05 (two years ago)

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