I think everybody remembers a while back I was making plans to get some movies to donate to the local library since their video selection is rather poorly. Well last July I had a box full of them, all tested to make sure they ran, all checked to make sure they weren't ex-rentals, etc., and I took them down to see if they wanted them. The librarian who sorted through them had doubts about all the ones she hadn't seen, she wasn't sure if they ought to take the Rambo movies because she wasn't familiar with them. She wasn't sure about My Girl because she didn't know about it, or Return to Oz, didn't want the original Halloween, and she rejected the original Garfield cartoons since she wasn't sure about them, as well as the silent horror/mystery classics Phantom of the Opera and The Cat and the Canary, though she did take the Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin DVDs.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe nobody would've wanted the ones that she didn't approve of and sent back with me, but I think they should've kept them to try, and if nobody did, they could pull them for the next sale later on.
In the end though they DID take:
21 Jump Street, Season 1
First Blood
First Blood II
Scarface (1982)
The Best of Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton: The General and Steamboat Bill Jr.
Charlie Chaplin: The Kid and Tillie's Punctured Romance
My Girl
When a Stranger Calls (1978)
The Pagemaster
The Neverending Story
The Neverending Story II
Thelma & Louise
Matilda
Return to Oz
Dennis the Menace (1993)
Highlander
East of Eden
Alice in Wonderland (1933)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Fahrenheit 451
Metropolis (1927)
Dog Day Afternoon
The Poseidon Adventure
Boom! A documentary of Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies
Harold and Maude
And they rejected:
Phantom of the Opera
The Cat and the Canary
The Towering Inferno
Earthquake
Mad Max
Garfield as Himself
Garfield's Feline Fantasies
Garfield's Holiday Celebration
Garfield Travel Adventures
Labyrinth
Halloween
Freaks (1932)
Now in the last couple of weeks I have noticed that of the ones they kept, and put out, Rambo 1 and 2, Scarface, 21 Jump Street, both Buster Keaton DVDs, Charlie Chaplin, The Pagemaster, Dennis the Menace, Return to Oz, and BOOM! have all been checked out, some more than once. Those are just the ones that I know are off the shelf currently. I'm glad that people are getting some use out of the ones they kept but I wish they'd been more open minded about the rest. I do think that's a weird policy though that if you're not familiar with a movie, you won't take it. That's just my opinion though, what's everyone else think about it?
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe nobody would've wanted the ones that she didn't approve of and sent back with me, but I think they should've kept them to try, and if nobody did, they could pull them for the next sale later on.
In the end though they DID take:
21 Jump Street, Season 1
First Blood
First Blood II
Scarface (1982)
The Best of Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton: The General and Steamboat Bill Jr.
Charlie Chaplin: The Kid and Tillie's Punctured Romance
My Girl
When a Stranger Calls (1978)
The Pagemaster
The Neverending Story
The Neverending Story II
Thelma & Louise
Matilda
Return to Oz
Dennis the Menace (1993)
Highlander
East of Eden
Alice in Wonderland (1933)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Fahrenheit 451
Metropolis (1927)
Dog Day Afternoon
The Poseidon Adventure
Boom! A documentary of Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies
Harold and Maude
And they rejected:
Phantom of the Opera
The Cat and the Canary
The Towering Inferno
Earthquake
Mad Max
Garfield as Himself
Garfield's Feline Fantasies
Garfield's Holiday Celebration
Garfield Travel Adventures
Labyrinth
Halloween
Freaks (1932)
Now in the last couple of weeks I have noticed that of the ones they kept, and put out, Rambo 1 and 2, Scarface, 21 Jump Street, both Buster Keaton DVDs, Charlie Chaplin, The Pagemaster, Dennis the Menace, Return to Oz, and BOOM! have all been checked out, some more than once. Those are just the ones that I know are off the shelf currently. I'm glad that people are getting some use out of the ones they kept but I wish they'd been more open minded about the rest. I do think that's a weird policy though that if you're not familiar with a movie, you won't take it. That's just my opinion though, what's everyone else think about it?
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