Some movies or TV shows are simply too good to have in your DVD collection. Consider, for example, Requiem for a Dream. It’s a deeply harrowing movie about four friends and relatives whose formerly happy lives collapse into absolute horror because of their drug addictions. TemplarJ and I came out the cinema when we saw it feeling deeply shocked and drained, it was so powerful.
Do I admire Requiem for a Dream deeply? Yes.
Do I want it in my DVD collection? No.
Ditto David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers. Brilliant movie but there’s no way on Earth I’d watch it again.
So this week’s question is:
Is there a movie or TV show that you can’t have in your DVD collection?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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