There is nothing that makes me lose the desire to watch a DVD like purchasing it.

Am I alone on this? I get suckered into the Target DVD deals for like $7.50, and my inner dialogue goes something like this:

“I NEED TO HAVE THAT MOVIE!! That movie is AWESOME! Come on Nate, just buy it. You know you want to. I mean $7.50 is like the cost of one late night movie ticket. Once you own it, you can watch it anytime you want.”

Sometimes I give in to this inner demon, and sometimes I hold strong and resist the urge. But one thing remains constant, almost immediately after I purchase a DVD I will watch it once and then I will put it in the ever growing collection of DVD’s that never get watched again.

Even stranger, is that sometimes the movie will stay on the shelf long enough that it will show up on cable TV, and as I am channel surfing and run across the Cable (edited with commercials and all) version, I will sit down and watch the frickin’ MOVIE! I have even caught myself watching the movie, and thinking: Man this movie is great! But, do I walk ten steps and put the DVD in… NO!

I find that this happens to varying degrees depending on the category of movie that I am purchasing. This buy and forget attitude happens less often with comedy’s and action movies, than it does with drama’s. Maybe that is why drama’s always get the Academy Awards for Best Picture? It is kind of a consolation so that some poor shmucks like me feel better about owning it and never watching it. At least I purchased a movie that some random Academy thought had high quality, that helps me sleep at night.