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Will I Make 92 Days without watching any horror?

What are you smokin?... There is no way!
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Re: Will I Make It?
« Reply #90 on: August 19, 2009, 06:51:21 AM »

I've collected a lot of things over the years, and typically with all these things I amassed the collections by sheer volume. It was a personal trait (character flaw?) of mine, which I managed to control a couple of years ago. Although I still buy a lot of dvds in comparison to 'normal people', it is nowhere near the ridiculous levels I used to buy at.
Theres probably a name for it, and a psychologist will probably link it to an underpriveleged upbringing etc, but the outcome is a lot of dvds etc!


I call it a character attribute...at least I hope so since I do the same thing! :laugh:

Glad to see I'm not alone!  :hysterical:
When do we begin therapy? :-X

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Re: Will I Make It?
« Reply #91 on: September 01, 2009, 03:20:04 PM »
Well... This is it. The beginning of my last month without horror. In 30 days (counting today) I will be starting my Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon.

This year I must do my best to beat last year's totals:

Movies: 100
TV Eps: 45
Other:   2

I am confident when it comes to the TV Eps and Other... but Not so sure I can watch more then 100 movies also!  :-\

I am surprised... you guys been pretty easy on me this year!  :P
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Re: Will I Make It?
« Reply #92 on: September 01, 2009, 06:05:14 PM »
I am surprised... you guys been pretty easy on me this year!  :P
Don't knock it ;)

We may just be waiting for the home stretch, when you are really aching :devil:

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Re: Will I Make It?
« Reply #93 on: September 01, 2009, 06:07:46 PM »
 :laugh: Probably!
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« Reply #94 on: September 01, 2009, 08:04:04 PM »
Well... This is it. The beginning of my last month without horror. In 30 days (counting today) I will be starting my Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon.

This year I must do my best to beat last year's totals:

Movies: 100
TV Eps: 45
Other:   2

I am confident when it comes to the TV Eps and Other... but Not so sure I can watch more then 100 movies also!  :-\

I am surprised... you guys been pretty easy on me this year!  :P

Is that the rule...that you have to beat each previous year's totals?  At 100 movies, this means you have to see close to 4 movies a day.  I'm not sure what TV episodes you'd watch...stuff like Angel and Buffy, I guess...maybe the spookier episodes of The Twilight Zone?  And what the heck were the two items that fell under the "Other" category?  Maybe a cartoon or two...like that big orange monster chasing after Bugs Bunny?

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Re: Will I Make It?
« Reply #95 on: September 01, 2009, 08:37:46 PM »
Not really a rule Roger... more of a goal.

As for TV Series episodes... What I do is...

- Halloween episode of any series (regardless of genre)
- Supernatural
- Buffy
- Angel
- Dracula: The Series
- Beyond Reality
- Eerie Indiana
- Goosebumps
- A Haunting
- Kingdom Hospital
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker
- The Night Stalker (remake series of Kolchak)
- Masters of Horror
- Tales from the Crypt
- Vampire High

I have a load of horror related TV Series!  :devil:

As for Other... I usually save that for documentaries and shorts.  Like I have a documentary on some of the great actors of the classic horrors such as Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr. , Bella Lugosi... Peter Lorre... and so on. Then I have a couple DVDs of short horror stories such as Fangoria's Blood Drive (parts 1 and 2).
Pete

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Re: Will I Make It?
« Reply #96 on: September 01, 2009, 08:48:32 PM »
As for Other... I usually save that for documentaries and shorts.
You better watch the rest of the 100 Years of Horror dvd this time :whistle:
Horror isn't only vampire movie :tease:

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« Reply #97 on: September 01, 2009, 08:54:30 PM »
Vampires, Werewolves & Zombies! (Oh my!)  :P

I do plan on watching several more of those documentaries in that set though!  :thumbup:
Pete

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Re: Will I Make It?
« Reply #98 on: September 02, 2009, 07:19:59 AM »
Is that the rule...that you have to beat each previous year's totals?  At 100 movies, this means you have to see close to 4 movies a day.  I'm not sure what TV episodes you'd watch...stuff like Angel and Buffy, I guess...maybe the spookier episodes of The Twilight Zone?
Well, October is 744 hours long. So there's Pete's ultimate limit :devil:

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Re: Will I Make It?
« Reply #99 on: September 02, 2009, 08:41:29 AM »
Unless he starts to watch multiple movies in parallel :laugh:



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Re: Will I Make It?
« Reply #100 on: September 02, 2009, 08:44:00 AM »

I've collected a lot of things over the years, and typically with all these things I amassed the collections by sheer volume. It was a personal trait (character flaw?) of mine, which I managed to control a couple of years ago. Although I still buy a lot of dvds in comparison to 'normal people', it is nowhere near the ridiculous levels I used to buy at.
Theres probably a name for it, and a psychologist will probably link it to an underpriveleged upbringing etc, but the outcome is a lot of dvds etc!


I call it a character attribute...at least I hope so since I do the same thing! :laugh:

Glad to see I'm not alone!  :hysterical:
When do we begin therapy? :-X

I believe this would include me too.  :lol

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« Reply #101 on: September 02, 2009, 12:02:54 PM »
Is that the rule...that you have to beat each previous year's totals?  At 100 movies, this means you have to see close to 4 movies a day.  I'm not sure what TV episodes you'd watch...stuff like Angel and Buffy, I guess...maybe the spookier episodes of The Twilight Zone?
Well, October is 744 hours long. So there's Pete's ultimate limit :devil:

 :laugh: believe it or not... I do have to sleep some time!

Now that it is just under a month I pulled out the signature ticker!  ;D
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Re: Will I Make It?
« Reply #102 on: September 02, 2009, 03:09:58 PM »

I've collected a lot of things over the years, and typically with all these things I amassed the collections by sheer volume. It was a personal trait (character flaw?) of mine, which I managed to control a couple of years ago. Although I still buy a lot of dvds in comparison to 'normal people', it is nowhere near the ridiculous levels I used to buy at.
Theres probably a name for it, and a psychologist will probably link it to an underpriveleged upbringing etc, but the outcome is a lot of dvds etc!


I call it a character attribute...at least I hope so since I do the same thing! :laugh:

Glad to see I'm not alone!  :hysterical:
When do we begin therapy? :-X

I believe this would include me too.  :lol


I'm pretty much immune to compulsive buying. I only buy DVDs if I want to watch them and if I'm able to do so within a short time frame after the purchase. Aside from a very small number of titles that are now OOP (I can count them on one hand) that has never caused me any regret.
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Re: Will I Make It?
« Reply #103 on: September 02, 2009, 04:12:14 PM »
I'm pretty much immune to compulsive buying.
Not me :laugh:
I've so many movies that I've bought that I don't feel in the good mood for watching after receiving them. By exemple I've the Angel Guts boxset who was a costly purchase that I haven't watch after more than a year and many Code Red title that I've got even if I know that those movies are particullary bad and cheap.

I didn't even watch yet the Space 99 set that I've bought from Eric last year :whistle:

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Re: Will I Make It?
« Reply #104 on: September 02, 2009, 04:20:18 PM »
Trust me - if you saw my unwatched list you would all feel better  :bag: :-[

My definition of unwatched may differ from others - I only call something watched when I have seen the purchased dvd. I do not include the many discs I own that I may have already seen on video, tv or cinema.

Lets just say that I have discs that have celebrated 10th birthdays alone  :bag: