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Aug 26, 2015 - 7:16 AM
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mstrox
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There was a good stretch of time in my early-to-mid-20s that I purchased movies just because they were cheap ($3 at Big Lots, $5 at Wal Mart) and I'd wanted to see them. I probably have near 1500 movies now, and certainly at least 300 are movies/TV seasons I've never watched. With Netflix, Amazon Prime, Redbox, we've been much better in the past five years of only buying movies that we want to add to the collection, and reselling the ones that we watch and don't think are worth keeping around.
With a spouse who is very picky about what to watch, it's hard to push for some of these cheesy unwatched movies, but I refuse to get rid of them until I at least try them. And with a kid on the way in a few months, I really need to whittle things down substantially.
EDIT: Oh, you're talking about SCORES for movies I've never seen? I'd say probably half and half. I mainly buy because I like the composer, or the genre. Sometimes I see a movie and am moved to buy the score, but more often than not I don't pay enough attention to the score while watching a movie to catch it unless it's really in my face.
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Back in the seventies, in my film music collecting infancy, in order to get Bernard Herrmann's music for the four Ray Harryhausen films I had to get the Phase 4 collections. For a while there I had many selections from films I had not yet seen. From listening to the incredible music on these albums I made sure I saw the Hitchcocks and others as they came around on tv. I consider this an excellent education! It started me watching movies purely because of the composer on a number of occasions.
These days there are still a few cds in my collection that are soundtracks to Morricone's Italian westerns, that I haven't seen, though I'm getting through them slowly.
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Aug 26, 2015 - 7:31 AM
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Martin B
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Oh, a good 75-80% of my collection are for movies I've never seen.
I came to film scores from the music side rather than a film side. Very few of the scores I own I've bought due to a connection with a film; I like the music first and foremost. I listen to samples/youtube/etc and if it's something I like then I buy. There certainly are scores I've bought after seeing a film but it's not a pre-requisite.
To me it's odd that you need to have seen a film to be able to enjoy the music, or not buying wonderful music because you haven't seen the film. If you don't like James Horner fine, if you don't like the score fine, but not to buy something as (IMO) beautiful as Wolf Totem just because you've never seen the film.....
If I only bought scores of films I'd seen, my collection would be a hell of a lot smaller, I would have more money but my life would be poorer for the lack of some amazing music from the likes of Herrmann, Goldsmith, Williams, Bernstein, Kaper, Rozsa, Tiomkin, Barry, Morricone, Waxman, Mancini to name but a few and the enjoyment I get from listening to them.
But each to their own, everyone is different or want different things.
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Mostly things I've never seen.
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Vast majority are for films and shows I've seen. For me, most score collecting connects to the films and TV shows, so much less inclination to purchase for things I haven't seen. But I have a big collection, so there could still be numerically quite a few for things that I haven't seen.
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Even some Bond, believe it or not.
I don't believe it.  Go fix that.
I have some. Especially if you count compilations. It's usually a Goldsmith. Maybe a couple of Williams or Herrmann.
Now scores to movies I have seen and can't stand? Way more of those. But I'm sure that's another thread.
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60-80 % of my collection I have not seen the film. I think this topic pops up every now and then, which is fine. I actually meant to start one of these in the spring of 2014 when I started a project of my own. I keep a detailed list of what I own, so I just started going through that list, taking out what I've seen, and then making it my mission in life to see those I haven't. That has proved to be somewhat difficult in cases of 1930-1950's films, or some smaller (or dare I say 'tiny') independent projects whose scores are released by MovieScoreMedia and the likes. Also a big predicament is my Morricone collection, which today stands at 310+. Most of those early films have never even been transferred to VHS or television format, so it's rather impossible to get to see them anywhere. Helping me with this, however, is another project I have going on simultaneously, which is "(at least) 1 film everyday". I'm watching my all-time favourites and new things and everything in between. I'm going through certain director's catalogues, checking what I don't already own, ordering it and so on. For instance, I'm doing De Palma, my collection was missing his film Home Movies, I ordered it, and when I watch it, I'll be able to cross off Donaggio's score from my list.
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