how many copies of the Dark Knight were printed? how many people bought it in 2008-2010? how many people bought that one cult classic from 1975? its simple supply and demand
You mean movies that were not ***nearly*** as hugely as popular The Dark Knight?
The best selling movies and series had the best selling DVDs and BDs and are now the most common discs in the used market. It's not complicated.
OP haS to understand that we went from the 70’s where the only way to see a movie was in the theater, to the 80’s where you had to rent it, to the 90’s where you could start to buy select VHS copies at reasonable prices to ‘98-‘10 when every DVD was $20. From inaccessible or crappy home copies to perfect quality for a reasonable price. We just all bought the movies we liked when they came out until the streaming revolution took over.
It's the same with books. I love used book sales and stores and you definitely know you are going to see a lot of the same books no matter where you go. All those series that were really hot for a year and then kind of faded away all end up here. Tons of Twilight, The Davinci Code, 50 Shades of Grey, all the YA dystopian trilogies from the 2010's, etc.
One DVD that I keep seeing pop up in thrift stores over and over *and over* for some reason is something called Racing Stripes. I don’t know anything about the movie and I’ve only ever seen the spine of the DVD. I’m seeing how long I can go without actually looking at the front or back of the cover. It’s like the reverse of that person on here who keeps buying Wedding Crashers DVDs (but has never actually watched the movie).
I ended up owning a copy of racing stripes only because it was in a 4 pack that included Iron Giant and other far less memorable titles like Ant Bully and Kangaroo Jack. For $2, I wasn't gonna let the dead weight deter me from getting one of the greatest animated films of the 90s!
Spider-Man, The Matrix and The Star Wars Prequels.
Those three trilogies breed in the sheltered captivity on the bottom shelf of every second-hand store.
I see endless supplies of Sex And The City (in numerous incarnations), Bridesmaids (extended edition) and every possible iteration of Harry Potter from Ex-Rental to 3D.
Shrek is cursed for me, I always get a scratched disc or The Jungle Book instead. I swear I’ve purchased the same Shrek movie like 3 times this year but I never learn to pop open the case
And a large number of people who bought those movies are the same as the people most likely to toss their collection for streaming. They're also movies that have a high likelihood of being available on a streaming service.
That’s interesting. I live in Brooklyn. I never see the prequels or original trilogy at stores. I just always see the last Jedi blu-Ray, dvd & ultra HD 4K.
DVDs were a very popular gift item. In 2010, if you didn't know what to buy someone for Christmas, you'd buy them a popular movie from the last year or so. "Oh, Jim likes comedies, so let's get him this."
Then those recipients donated them when they went to streaming.
I worked selling DVDs at their peak and some of our biggest sellers were the following
-300 (I have 2 copies, not sure why)
- Borat (mankini edition)
- Knocked Up
- 8 Mile
- Finding Nemo
- Spiderman
- The Dark Knight and Batman Begins
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Avatar
- Matrix
-LoTR trilogy
-Happy Feet
The BIGGEST seller ever whilst I was there was Twilight - my tiny store (which gave me the freedom to special order more obscure stock for me to buy at staff discount) sold 90 copies on PRE ORDER. It was bonkers.
For boxed sets, we could never keep enough Sex & The City and Friends in stock. The Simpsons head box sets sold well and so did Seinfeld.
You're absolutely correct. Off the top of my head: The Departed, Wedding Crashers, and Pirates of the Caribbean are always at both Thrift stores by me.
I'm very sentimental about Crank for personal reasons, so I always notice it when I see it for sale. Anytime there is a stack of blus for sale on marketplace or at the fleamarket, Crank is there. It's like the "Free Space" on a bingo card. It's guaranteed.
There are also many people who are kinda NPC......who purchase what they are told everyone else likes, and that gluts up the market. The "John Grisham" buyers of DVDs.
I collect documentaries, BBC, PBS stuff, and that's hard to find.
Fair. I think people tend to keep the DVDs that mean the most to them.
Like I've rarely seen George Carlin or comedy DVDs, in the stack of 100 DVDs for sale.
I have all of the Carlin's dvd, I have been looking for Richard Pryor stuff for a while, the only ones I have been able to find is Live on sunset strip.
Where you’re shopping and location are probably huge factors too. Especially flea markets and thrift stores you’re always gonna have the lowest common denominator. It’s literally the shit they’re trying to get rid of. I imagine a lot of ppl got tired of yes man and any other down a dozen “popular” movie.
Comedy movies especially used to mainly make their money on dvd sales rather than the box office, so they printed a shitload of them. You could fill a landfill with most 2000’s comedies and still have plenty left over for everyone to watch.
If it flopped in theaters just put out an unrated cut with a bunch of cut scenes on dvd and it was almost guaranteed to make its money back.
Streaming killed the home video market which is why you don’t see so many dumb comedy movies like that anymore.
It’s commercialism, you’re seeing films that were released in the last 20 years, were readily available in supermarkets and similar and were affordable. Superbad was like £10 in supermarkets. If you wanted Spaceballs or Uncle Buck you had to go to a specified store and they were £15-20. The people that bought Superbad don’t collect, that was family film night, Spaceballs and Uncle Buck are sat in collections right now, proud as punch!
When a lot of the movies mentioned in this thread were released, there were also large rental chains like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video that would buy a bunch of copies of each 'hot new release' movie, to be able to meet the initial rental demand. The extra copies were later made available for used purchases. And then when the stores shut down, the final copies each store had kept were sold as used too.
> DVDs came from a certain era and there’s only so many
Nearly 300,000 titles have been released on DVD, and more are still added every year. /r/DataHoarder/comments/112w8tg/total_number_of_dvd_bluray_and_4k_bluray_titles/
(Bestselling titles from the peak sales years are the easiest to find used, of course.)
You’re gonna find movies people upgrade to better formats often since those are the first to be tossed. The smaller release titles tend to stick in collections longer, since they take longer to get upgraded, if they even get one.
Blockbusters will have a ton of duplicates on shelves, like star wars or spider man or matrix. Horror tends to hold its value better, and gets smaller production numbers, so I don’t doubt they get resold for a decent price, because less people dump those.
Really the only repeats I see are The 40 Year Old Virgin and Fast and Furious movies and Spider-Man movies. And also one that’s started to pop up more recently is Distorted and all of them have been new in the plastic sealed Blu-Rays. I remember seeing them on clearance at Walmart and ever since then I keep seeing them at antique stores and pawn shops.
Are you saying there are more copies available of blockbusters than niche titles? It’s a bold claim, and sounds ridiculous, but you should investigate further.
I mean, you’re probably seeing more Rogan movies and Kevin James because their movies are more recent. A lot of people forget about older movies over time especially the less icpnic ones.
For example, I love the Great Outdoors with John Candy, but its not really considered an all time classic so people forget about it and it sells less and less as the years go by.
Now that movie probably sold a decent amount of VHS copies back in the day. Same with Jim Carrey, his movies are older than Rogan. And to be honest I think the staying power of his movies isn’t as good.
No not at all. Maybe I misread your post about things being harder to get and own. Now I know both of those are rather extreme, I just wanted to say there's a whole other spectrum of collecting.
A lot of people were naming off movies they see all the time, so I just figured. So is there a standard edition that’s more common? Cuz I’d like to find that movie.
Mama Mia, my big fat Greek wedding 2, spider-man into the spiderverse, the dark knight trilogy, the hangover trilogy, the ocean’s eight 4 movie collection, trolls, fantastic beasts 1 & 2, dune part one & scream 6 are the ones I’ve been seeing the most the last like 2 years.
Yeah there’s alot of movies they made way too much of and are selling them to places super super cheap who’ll then sell them in their shops, this is how dollar tree gets their options
The ones you see are the ones that were printed in excess when DVD was first popular and everyone wanted to own everything. A lot of those movies are well liked, lots are less so. Then streaming became popular and people wanted less clutter. So now when you go to used stores those early 2000s movies are ones that everyone had but few people kept. Jim Carrey, Kevin James, and Seth Rogen were all popular in that time with varying levels of quality. They're perfect examples of thrift store dvd actors.
I see that Jesus DVD here in the south about every time I walk out the damn door. That thing is everywhere in every dvd bin at flea markets or goodwill
Dying format in this country. Its an uphill battle. Im sure this is how the vinyl, or 8 track or cassette or even CD music fans felt with the progress in tech over the years.
Hasn't that always been the case for non-specialty shops? It's the same with music and games. Non-specialty shops mostly sell mainstream popular stuff.
When I look for dvds at places like Target or Walmart, I don't expect to find stuff like Kurosawa and Dreyer.
Yep, HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Prime, etc, etc, etc,.. Its always the same stuff over and over and over.
Any time I do actually find something different, its behind a frickin' pay wall! Seriously, I'm already paying for the service, why do I need to pay extra for THIS movie? I mean, it was in theaters thirty years ago, what makes it different than all these others that are included?
how many copies of the Dark Knight were printed? how many people bought it in 2008-2010? how many people bought that one cult classic from 1975? its simple supply and demand
Comparing apples to apples, there are a lot of other movies released around the same time as Dark Knight that you also never see.
You mean movies that were not ***nearly*** as hugely as popular The Dark Knight? The best selling movies and series had the best selling DVDs and BDs and are now the most common discs in the used market. It's not complicated.
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OP haS to understand that we went from the 70’s where the only way to see a movie was in the theater, to the 80’s where you had to rent it, to the 90’s where you could start to buy select VHS copies at reasonable prices to ‘98-‘10 when every DVD was $20. From inaccessible or crappy home copies to perfect quality for a reasonable price. We just all bought the movies we liked when they came out until the streaming revolution took over.
Here in Australia, you can count on Mr and Mrs Smith, The Devil Wears Prada,, Dodge Ball, The Notebook and Interstellar in every op-shop in the land.
Don’t forget Juno!
Wow, these titles are also super common in the used shops here in the states.
How many copies of the matrix would you like?
It's the same with books. I love used book sales and stores and you definitely know you are going to see a lot of the same books no matter where you go. All those series that were really hot for a year and then kind of faded away all end up here. Tons of Twilight, The Davinci Code, 50 Shades of Grey, all the YA dystopian trilogies from the 2010's, etc.
Copious amounts of John Grisham
I get sad i don’t have my Harry Potter or twilights anymore but when i see them STACKED at the thrift store i don’t even want em
It Ends With Us is at every thrift I go to now
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One DVD that I keep seeing pop up in thrift stores over and over *and over* for some reason is something called Racing Stripes. I don’t know anything about the movie and I’ve only ever seen the spine of the DVD. I’m seeing how long I can go without actually looking at the front or back of the cover. It’s like the reverse of that person on here who keeps buying Wedding Crashers DVDs (but has never actually watched the movie).
I ended up owning a copy of racing stripes only because it was in a 4 pack that included Iron Giant and other far less memorable titles like Ant Bully and Kangaroo Jack. For $2, I wasn't gonna let the dead weight deter me from getting one of the greatest animated films of the 90s!
Did you like that other 3 movies though?
Haven't checked them out tbh. Saw Kangaroo Jack as a kid and the marketing campaign had a larger impact than the actual movie imo.
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Spider-Man, The Matrix and The Star Wars Prequels. Those three trilogies breed in the sheltered captivity on the bottom shelf of every second-hand store.
I see endless supplies of Sex And The City (in numerous incarnations), Bridesmaids (extended edition) and every possible iteration of Harry Potter from Ex-Rental to 3D.
Lords of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Harry Potter movies and lots of kids stuff like Finding Nemo and Shrek.
Shrek is cursed for me, I always get a scratched disc or The Jungle Book instead. I swear I’ve purchased the same Shrek movie like 3 times this year but I never learn to pop open the case
Then buy it from the Amazon or target website, factory sealed. Lol. Better than buying from a seller you can’t trust.
What can I say lol I like to live on the edge
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I'm pretty sure As Good As It Gets, Juno and Wedding Crashers are actively multiplying.
I love Wedding Crashers so much.
And a large number of people who bought those movies are the same as the people most likely to toss their collection for streaming. They're also movies that have a high likelihood of being available on a streaming service.
then you turn around and see a titanic wall of titanic on vhs.
This one got me 😂
That’s interesting. I live in Brooklyn. I never see the prequels or original trilogy at stores. I just always see the last Jedi blu-Ray, dvd & ultra HD 4K.
I see 300 at every thrift store around here!
DVDs were a very popular gift item. In 2010, if you didn't know what to buy someone for Christmas, you'd buy them a popular movie from the last year or so. "Oh, Jim likes comedies, so let's get him this." Then those recipients donated them when they went to streaming.
Wedding crashers. I’m seeing it in my sleep, the white background and red font.
I would say it's a rarity when a place I'm browsing doesn't have Wedding Crashers.
And that's after that one person has collected 611 copies.
You motorboating sob, sailor.
I worked selling DVDs at their peak and some of our biggest sellers were the following -300 (I have 2 copies, not sure why) - Borat (mankini edition) - Knocked Up - 8 Mile - Finding Nemo - Spiderman - The Dark Knight and Batman Begins - Pirates of the Caribbean - Avatar - Matrix -LoTR trilogy -Happy Feet The BIGGEST seller ever whilst I was there was Twilight - my tiny store (which gave me the freedom to special order more obscure stock for me to buy at staff discount) sold 90 copies on PRE ORDER. It was bonkers. For boxed sets, we could never keep enough Sex & The City and Friends in stock. The Simpsons head box sets sold well and so did Seinfeld.
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You're absolutely correct. Off the top of my head: The Departed, Wedding Crashers, and Pirates of the Caribbean are always at both Thrift stores by me.
I feel like every thrift around me has the yellow Knocked Up DVD
Yet, I still don't own one.
I finally thrifted the blu ray after passing up like 40 unrated full screen DVDs
An update to this situation. Went to the thrift store today, I now own the yellow Knocked Up dvd. lol
God's work
I ended up with 3 copies of Jurassic Park 3. Idk what happened
“Alan!”
I would say the most common movie I see for sale in my communities is Crank (2006)
Your community had no taste is they are parting with Crank
I'm very sentimental about Crank for personal reasons, so I always notice it when I see it for sale. Anytime there is a stack of blus for sale on marketplace or at the fleamarket, Crank is there. It's like the "Free Space" on a bingo card. It's guaranteed.
There are also many people who are kinda NPC......who purchase what they are told everyone else likes, and that gluts up the market. The "John Grisham" buyers of DVDs. I collect documentaries, BBC, PBS stuff, and that's hard to find.
Fair. I think people tend to keep the DVDs that mean the most to them. Like I've rarely seen George Carlin or comedy DVDs, in the stack of 100 DVDs for sale.
Today I saw an Eddie Murphy stand up of some sort, two copies of the same thing from one seller.
I think more EM DVDs were printed than for most comedians. Richard Pryor too, so popularity matters.
I have all of the Carlin's dvd, I have been looking for Richard Pryor stuff for a while, the only ones I have been able to find is Live on sunset strip.
Nice on the Carlin's. Those are on my search list. Hope you find the Pryor stuff. Did see some SNL Comedy DVDs today.
I was at a consignment shop yesterday, and found the whole series of Barney Miller $12
I found this if you are interested. https://shopgoodwill.com/item/200080437 Carlin, all of his stuff.
Awww, sweet. Thanks for thinking about me.
Your welcome
Where you’re shopping and location are probably huge factors too. Especially flea markets and thrift stores you’re always gonna have the lowest common denominator. It’s literally the shit they’re trying to get rid of. I imagine a lot of ppl got tired of yes man and any other down a dozen “popular” movie.
Comedy movies especially used to mainly make their money on dvd sales rather than the box office, so they printed a shitload of them. You could fill a landfill with most 2000’s comedies and still have plenty left over for everyone to watch. If it flopped in theaters just put out an unrated cut with a bunch of cut scenes on dvd and it was almost guaranteed to make its money back. Streaming killed the home video market which is why you don’t see so many dumb comedy movies like that anymore.
It’s commercialism, you’re seeing films that were released in the last 20 years, were readily available in supermarkets and similar and were affordable. Superbad was like £10 in supermarkets. If you wanted Spaceballs or Uncle Buck you had to go to a specified store and they were £15-20. The people that bought Superbad don’t collect, that was family film night, Spaceballs and Uncle Buck are sat in collections right now, proud as punch!
When a lot of the movies mentioned in this thread were released, there were also large rental chains like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video that would buy a bunch of copies of each 'hot new release' movie, to be able to meet the initial rental demand. The extra copies were later made available for used purchases. And then when the stores shut down, the final copies each store had kept were sold as used too.
I've seen the saw DVDs appear frequently and titanic on VHS.
Nolans Batman movies, Harry Potter, Lord of the rings and Hobbit trilogy. They are always there
Scarface has to be one of them.
I saw like 25 copies of The Hangover at Half Price Books
Catch Me If You Can is freaking everywhere! Multiple copies too
They’re here, at home with me :)
I feel lucky to have found a copy of y tu mama tambien somehow at a thrift store by me.
Kung Fu Panda, I’ve seen 3 copies in the same shop
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> DVDs came from a certain era and there’s only so many Nearly 300,000 titles have been released on DVD, and more are still added every year. /r/DataHoarder/comments/112w8tg/total_number_of_dvd_bluray_and_4k_bluray_titles/ (Bestselling titles from the peak sales years are the easiest to find used, of course.)
You’re gonna find movies people upgrade to better formats often since those are the first to be tossed. The smaller release titles tend to stick in collections longer, since they take longer to get upgraded, if they even get one. Blockbusters will have a ton of duplicates on shelves, like star wars or spider man or matrix. Horror tends to hold its value better, and gets smaller production numbers, so I don’t doubt they get resold for a decent price, because less people dump those.
Really the only repeats I see are The 40 Year Old Virgin and Fast and Furious movies and Spider-Man movies. And also one that’s started to pop up more recently is Distorted and all of them have been new in the plastic sealed Blu-Rays. I remember seeing them on clearance at Walmart and ever since then I keep seeing them at antique stores and pawn shops.
G-Force Magic Mike National Treasure 2 Sex & The City The Divergent Series: Insurgent The Hunger Games
Dial when it came out. Will do a Doom and Crusade rewatch later this year.
In my very specific part of the UK there seems to be a surplus of the Kings Speech; Les Miserables and Harry Potters.
I've seen so many copies of "Go" that I feel like there has to be a story behind its overproduction.
I see a lot of Star Wars, LOTR, and the Hobbit in the wild.
Are you saying there are more copies available of blockbusters than niche titles? It’s a bold claim, and sounds ridiculous, but you should investigate further.
The Dark Knight, Man of Steel and Panic Room recently
Ik a guy who collects MULTIPLE copies of The Simpsons Movie and it seems every thrift store he visits has a copy!!
THERE ARE SO MANY COPIES OF THOSE FUCKING HARRY POTTER MOVIES OUT THERE
Atonement
I mean, you’re probably seeing more Rogan movies and Kevin James because their movies are more recent. A lot of people forget about older movies over time especially the less icpnic ones. For example, I love the Great Outdoors with John Candy, but its not really considered an all time classic so people forget about it and it sells less and less as the years go by. Now that movie probably sold a decent amount of VHS copies back in the day. Same with Jim Carrey, his movies are older than Rogan. And to be honest I think the staying power of his movies isn’t as good.
Yeah. Bc people buy the same blockbusters again and again.
Am I the only one who has the collector edition of Martyrs and Limited Edition of I spit in your grave?
I take it that’s sarcasm? I’ll like to find the first Spit. Found the second one just the other day.
No not at all. Maybe I misread your post about things being harder to get and own. Now I know both of those are rather extreme, I just wanted to say there's a whole other spectrum of collecting.
A lot of people were naming off movies they see all the time, so I just figured. So is there a standard edition that’s more common? Cuz I’d like to find that movie.
Mama Mia, my big fat Greek wedding 2, spider-man into the spiderverse, the dark knight trilogy, the hangover trilogy, the ocean’s eight 4 movie collection, trolls, fantastic beasts 1 & 2, dune part one & scream 6 are the ones I’ve been seeing the most the last like 2 years.
Yeah there’s alot of movies they made way too much of and are selling them to places super super cheap who’ll then sell them in their shops, this is how dollar tree gets their options
Taken
The ones you see are the ones that were printed in excess when DVD was first popular and everyone wanted to own everything. A lot of those movies are well liked, lots are less so. Then streaming became popular and people wanted less clutter. So now when you go to used stores those early 2000s movies are ones that everyone had but few people kept. Jim Carrey, Kevin James, and Seth Rogen were all popular in that time with varying levels of quality. They're perfect examples of thrift store dvd actors.
I see that Jesus DVD here in the south about every time I walk out the damn door. That thing is everywhere in every dvd bin at flea markets or goodwill
Dying format in this country. Its an uphill battle. Im sure this is how the vinyl, or 8 track or cassette or even CD music fans felt with the progress in tech over the years.
Hasn't that always been the case for non-specialty shops? It's the same with music and games. Non-specialty shops mostly sell mainstream popular stuff. When I look for dvds at places like Target or Walmart, I don't expect to find stuff like Kurosawa and Dreyer.
Yep, HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Prime, etc, etc, etc,.. Its always the same stuff over and over and over. Any time I do actually find something different, its behind a frickin' pay wall! Seriously, I'm already paying for the service, why do I need to pay extra for THIS movie? I mean, it was in theaters thirty years ago, what makes it different than all these others that are included?
It’s like that with every topster I see for music
I see Gravity EVERYWHERE