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Understood

Been collecting since 1999, have a spreadsheet helping me with the viewing planning.

Cap.Jack told me, 'sea turtles mate'.

Most people can probably set aside the time to watch a movie a day. It spirals from there.

I would imagine a lot of us have jobs and subscribe to streaming services. Or we have cable and watch movies when they're on a channel we get, or dvr them for later. Sometimes we go to the theater to see a new movie.

Interesting, you have much more experience than I do lol, I just got into movies and I was also -4 years old when you started collecting.

I watch movies mostly by renting or purchasing on iTunes. They have most things I have ever wanted to watch.

There’s honestly not a lot of great movie selection on the popular streaming services.

Mubi or Criterion Collection are good though.

But tbh I watch as many movies as I can at the cinemas, especially at film festivals as sometimes those movies never have a life on digital.

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I buy exploitation movies, mainstream movies, in physical, but not the latest ones. I buy older ones. They rock. I dig in past culture instead. This how I build my collection and knowledge.

DVDs, Blurays, streaming, movie theaters

Tubi is free

Try your library

As for time, not having friends or other hobbies helps.

I watch roughly 250-300 movies a year, roughly 100 of them in theaters. What allows this:

1. Theater subscription services mean that there is no additional cost to seeing more movies. I occasionally get concessions but I'd say as my theater-going increased my concessions spending did not.

2. I work from home, which means I have no commuting time and can often double dip on chores during work

3. I have no kids or real responsibilities

4. I don't really do much other visual media - I rarely watch TV shows and don't really ever watch YouTube or tiktok or whatever.

I started a cheap DVDs collection since there’s a sale near me once a month that has them from $2 to $4. Sure they’re not 4K or Blu-ray but for such a low price I’ll settle. Streaming is fine but it’s nice to know I have my favorites in physical form in case my internet is being bad or I can’t find a good stream for a movie.

Combination of methods for me - free stream from library, old DVD service, DVR (mostly TCM), free stream with adds, occasional one month streaming membership to knock out the ones I've wanted to see on that service.

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One thing id highly recommend is finding and following local non profit organizations which organizes free film screenings. I dont know if you have that kind of thing where you live though, worth checking out. There are some in my area so i can watch free stuff once a week or so on big screen. Other than that film festivals!! They are usually cheaper and a great experience overall.

Sometimes streaming since not everything is released on physical media now. But Mostly DVD/Bluray or VHS, I'm a film collector

I have legal subscriptions to Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV, hbomax, Paramount+ (which includes Showtime) and Hulu.

There is also an excellent theater less than 10 minutes from my house which serves food and alcohol to your seat. I can check their web site 15 minutes before showtime to see how many tickets have been sold before deciding to go see a movie. I saw "Cocaine Bear" there Friday after seeing the showing was almost 50% sold. I thought the audience reactions would make the movie even more enjoyable. (I was right; the movie might be a little slow paced to watch at home.)

Tubi is insane. It's like that musty independent video store that has all the stuff Blockbuster wouldn't dare put on a shelf. If they had an ad-free option I'd pay for it.

Largely through streaming. I feel like Netflix, Disney+ and Prime have a pretty good selection of movies, and if you use a VPN you can access many more that would have been unavailable otherwise. Case in point, I saw Broker before it even released in my country by switching my location to South Korea on Netflix. It also should be mentioned that there are free streaming services like Pluto TV, Plex and Tubi that have a good selection of content as well.

The cinema is also an option, and I generally prefer watching movies on the big screen if they interest me. This year seems to have a good library of releases too which helps.

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It really is amazing how many great movies have no good home video releases, aren't available on digital download, or aren't on any streaming services. I would gladly pay for these movies if there was actually a chance to do so

I’m just lazy and poor

I have like 5 services and I still search around on the free YouTube movies channel

I mean I am too lol

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Where I'm from, you can pay the equivalent of about $23 per month and have unlimited access to over 60 cinemas in the city I live in. With this subscription I generally go to the cinema 2 to 5 times per week, which makes a movie cost anywhere from $1 to $3 depending on how many times I've gone that month.

In addition to that I do enjoy collecting blu-rays and have no problem buying them used. I sometimes get some good finds for $2 at a second hand shop near me, otherwise there are plenty of deals to be found online.

I also very regularly record films that play on TV and finally you can find so many great movies from all over the world available freely and legally online.

I worked at a cinema for my first job and have kept on the books and doing the occasional weekend shift there even tho now I have a corporate job. Sometimes they’re rough shifts, but worth it to just be able to walk into a cinema without paying on an off day.

Back when l lived with mom prior to her passing, and Netflicks mailed dvds, l rented hundreds of movies that were difficult to find (do they still do that??).

I would search for unwatched movies on the icheckmovies.com website and picked the most critically acclaimed films. Because of this, l'm ranked in the top 1% of users. I LOVE that website!

I’ve always got a “to be watched” stack yay high (literally in the past, figuratively these days). Doesn’t bother me too much, I figure a lot of bookworms and gamers have their “stacks” too.

Well, that just means I am old :-P

I started collecting when VHS was still around... got rid of those pretty soon as Dvd came out as those cassettes just were huge and not as durable... memory lane :-)

Yeah, I've watched my fair share of VHS tapes at my grandparents house, those were classics.