screaming into the void

Just ordered the full series of the Expanse on blu-ray and I'm super stoked about it. I absolutely loved the series and will definitely be watching it again one day in the future, but I don't actually like Amazon Prime's video selection enough to keep paying for it. From the reviews, it sounds like bonus features for seasons 5 & 6 are non-existent, which sucks, but at least I'll have a physical copy of them. Not too often shows released to streamers get physical releases.

Got the first three discs from Netflix as part of my race to see how many movies I can get from them before the DVD rentals end in September. The movies I got are:

Of these, I've only seen Bullet Train. I was too young for Scream when it came out and I only recently started getting into non-sci fi horror. Unfortunately, Scream was a DVD copy so I'll have to buy a blu ray copy later down the line but at least I can finally watch it. I'm not sure about the Menu, but every gifset I've seen has been unhinged in a way I enjoy so I'm looking forward to it.

Yesterday, Netflix announced that they're going to be ending their DVD plans in September. Which I get, but also kinda sucks because I was thinking about restarting that as it's a good way to watch a lot of new & classic stuff that isn't available on streaming.

However, I realize I also have a potential opportunity here. If I get 2 8TB drives to upgrade my NAS storage, I think I'd have enough storage to be able to get the 3 discs out at a time plan and pirate the ever-loving-shit out of their movies until the service ends. I'm very curious as to how many movies I'd be able to rip in the next 5 months before it ends.

Really debating whether or not I want to start buying movies regularly again or if I want to start getting Netflix home delivery again. Maybe both? I'm not sure. I feel like I'm on the cusp of getting back into serious collecting mode, I just haven't decided one way or the other yet.

The biggest part of movie collecting is rarely, if ever, paying full price for a movie. I've got about 500 movies in my collection and very, very few of them were bought full price. Most cost less than $10 each.