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When counting movies...


...do you count boxsets based on the number of movies, the number of discs, or as one release? What are your thoughts on this important question?

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I'm not a collector but I'd say you should count every individual movie

Hopefully Laura, Stone and KOWALSKI chime in, they are pretty big movie collectors

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I would say that I have one box set with X amount of films. So I'd count the fims as separate entities to the box set, which is just the packaging.

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I agree. I have several double features that have one box with 2 films on 2 different discs. I go as far as to get another blank case, down load and print 2 original individual covers and make them 2 separate movies.

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i would base it on the number of movies.

back when i used to buy cds, and i bought a boxed set of albums - like sly and the family stone's set of all their albums, or an ennio morricone box of three different soundtracks - i wouldn't call that one album. it's 3 albums, or 6 albums, or whatever.

i would say the same here.

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Agreed

Nice purchases btw👍

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Individual movies. If I have the boxset for Back to the Future, those are 3 separate movies to me.

If you really wanted to cause some chaos on these boards, you could ask which way is the best to organize them.

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I currently own 190 films on either DVD or Blu-ray.
Of that 190, I count The Lord of the Rings as one film, not three.

I guess that I should also add that I count my copy of The Ten Commandments as one film even though there are two in the container ... the 1923 B&W silent film and the 1956 epic with Charlton Heston as Moses. Both were directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

Therefore, I suppose I could claim that I own 191 films, or 193 if I categorize The Lord of the Rings as three separate films.

For now however, I'll go with 190, until Monday that is, when the count will increase by one when the Blu-ray of Their Finest (2016), a film I ordered yesterday, gets delivered.

Oh yeah, I also count my DVD copy of O. Henry's Full House (1952) as one film even though it is comprised of five different stories, as well as story intros and other tidbits of information narrated by John Steinbeck, all totaling 118 minutes in glorious black & white.
Those stories are ...
The Cop and the Anthem w/ Charles Laughton, David Wayne, Phillip Tonge, Richard Karlan, Thomas Brown Henry and Marilyn Monroe
The Clarion Call w/ Richard Widmark and Dale Robertson
The Last Leaf w/ Anne Baxter, Jean Peters and Gregory Ratoff
The Ransom of Red Chief w/ Fred Allen and Oscar Levant (directed by Howard Hawks)
The Gift of the Magi w/ Jean Crain and Farley Granger

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3 FLICKS ON ONE DISC IS ONE DISC TOWORDS YOUR DISC TOTAL...BUT I COUNT BY TITLES...SO 3 FLICKS ON ONE DVD IS 3 MOVIES...WHENEVER I DESCRIBE MY COLLECTION I SAY I HAVE NORTH OF 20,000 TITLES IN MY COLLECTION

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