I love buying and watching movies and tv shows. Preferably the physical type on DVD and Blu-ray. I can’t stand streaming as you don’t “physically” own the movie. My genre interests run anywhere from anime to war movies. I also prefer watching shows that have a lot of “behind the scenes” features as I love watching how movies and tv shows are made. So far, my collection numbers slightly over 900+ DVD’s/Blu-rays. Below is at least one sample picture of what I have.
So what does everybody else have?
What do you like to watch?
What are your favorite genres (Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Drama, etc.) of movies and tv shows?
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I grew up with it, in a way. My grandfather and his four brothers were in the theater “biz,” from owning theaters, to being distributor, to supplying product like popcorn and the like.
My grandfather, in his small town outside of Lubbock, ran Jaws in first release for ten days. Grossed US$11 grand against a five grand rental.
But, yes, tv, movies, the works have all been around me my entire life. Modern media has made keeping track of all of it simpler–there’s a few hundred items in my YT Watch Later.
Great collection! Are they in alphabetical order? 
Looking at your collection is like deja vu. We have similar interests in shows and movies. I too am a big collector and prefer hard copies as well. I redeem the digital copies included for the convenience.
Lots of sci-fi, action, and comedy. Not much in the way of dramas. I have plenty of that in my life already. Don’t need more of it. 
For the nostalgia factor have many movies in VHS though I cleaned out the majority of VHS many years ago. Still have a VCR and a CRT TV that when I get the hankering will pop in a tape to watch. Makes me appreciate the quality that DVD and Blu-ray all the more. Especially fun to watch movies where they hadn’t cleaned up all the artifacts from being shot on film.
I love TV and movie watching, but it will suck the life out of your model building time,trust me I know
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@ScaleModeler66
Most of them are, Yes.
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Like many here, I like anime, sci-fi, action flicks, and comedies. I especially like stuff from the 80s, a golden era of movies for me.
You will not find stuff like On Golden Pond or Yentl in my library. Not a slam on people who like movies without explosions or absurd situations, I’m just a simple-minded movie kind of guy.
That being said, I did like Wonderful Life (After Life in English), a Japanese movie about the recently departed, which delivers a powerful message about what true happiness in life is really about.
Most of my collection is about 60-70% sci-fi. But I also like comedy, action, adventure, history, documentary, war, and a few others.
Not into drama, westerns, romance, or horror. Horror genre is my least favorite. 
I can’t stand it. Unless of course it’s werewolf films. I love werewolf films. 
DOG SOLDIERS is my favorite.
I like watching horror movies and historical movies. I don’t have much of a collection anymore other than a handful of harder to get WWI era movies.
My OCD is smiling I appreciate your organization 
I definitely am an addict, especially for classic war movies. It does slow modeling progress if it’s too compelling, but some of my favorite modeling memories are long sessions at the bench with a particularly good movie on.
Most of my collection is on a hard drive. 
I can’t bear to watch DVD-quality resolution anymore. Though the way my eyes are going, soon I won’t be able to tell the difference…
While I’m not into horror, I do have and like Alien and Poltergeist.
The steak. It really freaked me out. The little lady too. When she revealed that the entity holding the little girl was the devil, it made the hairs on my arm stand up.
When I saw Alien in the theater, I was only 14. It scared the crap out of me. But now when I watch it, I just marvel at the sets and production design.
Aliens was more action film than horror, but I liked it too. The scene in the reactor when the aliens first start to move brought back the terror of the first movie.
One horror movie I thought was crazy scary until the end reveal was Phantasm. I watched it on TV recently, late at night with all the lights off. Yeah, it was still pretty scary. I just thought the coroner taking the deceased to be used as slave labor in another dimension was not very scary or compelling.
Oh and the clown. Poltergeist nailed that subconscious phobia! EVERYBODY hates scary clowns!
I watch nascar, on patrol live and the occasional cooking game show or man vs food. I probably watch 1-2 movies a year. Listen to podcasts for the news and current events and fall asleep watching rumble streaming service. In other words I don’t watch a lot.
Im addicted to OPL,lots of fun to see people talk themselves into getting arrested
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@Tojo72 Watching it makes me feel good about my life’s choices
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I haven’t increased my movie collection for the last few years due to the various streaming services. My favorites are in the war/history genre. I still do most of my modeling while a war movie that I’ve seen a hundred times, is on in the background.
With the few mentions of watching a movie while modelling, how does one do that?
I find myself focusing on the modelling, at most I would have music playing.
Sorry if I’m drifting off topic here.
I’ve never been much of a TV watcher, other then sports, or DIY type stuff. But i do have a collection of 1200* music cds. I refuse to get rid of them because of streaming stuff. I want a physical item.
For me the trick to having a movie on while modeling is to select a movie that you’ve seen in the past so that you know what’s happening so you’re not tempted to watch the movie.
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