Digital Video Disorders

Like anyone with a stunted social development, I'm a big fan of movies, tv and all that sort of thing so I've done a bit of renting in my time. These days everyone wants to abandon the concept of renting videos in favour of buying DVDs. OK that's fine I guess, I'm not into telling people how to live their lives, but there's no pot of gold at the end of that rainbow...

It will hit you when its too late. When you're on your roof and you place the last DVD onto the pile that's stacked so high it comes out the top of your chimney. You suddenly realise that there is no room left inside for you and you're one of a growing number of people made homeless by their DVD collection. The logic behind all this hoarding is that it's good value. Why pay 7 dollars to rent a movie when I could buy it for only 14 dollars and 95 cents?! "I'm nobody's fool! Now I can watch it whenever I please!" but you won't, you idiot.

Anyway, I like renting and I've noticed a couple of strange problems that happen after getting out some movies, let's go through them, and you can tell me if they happen to you.

OBLIGATION SYNDROME:
This condition strikes when you've gotten more movies than you can realistically handle, your eyes were bigger than your stomach. The main culprit here I suppose is the "package deal" which encourages you to rent 5 more videos for (somehow) less money(?!). I'd like to see some statistics on how many cumulative years I've spent in the video store, wandering the weekly aisles, looking for movies that exist only in my head, phantoms and desires as unrentable as the wisdom of ages.
EFFECTS:
You get home and you watch 1 video (maybe 2) and the rest of them sit there. You would have us believe that you'll get around to watching them eventually, you just can't be bothered at the moment. Usually, the videos get returned unwatched. In some cases the videos can sit there for way too long and the victim enters a state of delusion...they cannot return them unwatched now as they've had them for too long. In their confusion, the renter believes it is better to incur the late fees than not watch them at all. The video store software does not forget and it ticks down the days, the renter waits to be "in the mood" to watch the videos but they are waiting for a moment that will never come.

MIDNIGHT COWBOY DISORDER/UNWANTED VIDEOSIS:
You're pretty special and you have amazing taste in movies, tonight you feel like getting that one movie you missed at the cinema, or you're gonna show your friends that movie that defines you as a person. You walk into the store with a dream, with a glint in your eye. You're going to rent up big and its going to be spectacular. Little by little, your confidence is eroded, the glint in your eye becomes a pleading look and eventually a cold stare as the clerk tells you that what you came in for is unavailable. You should just give up and do something else for the night, but you've gone to the store so you may as well rent something. Essentially you're forced to accept the best of whats available, but whatever, they seem OK, and they probably have well known actors in them.
EFFECTS:
By the time you get home you realise you don't like these movies. You have no desire to watch them and in fact you come to resent them. Like the babies you didn't want, they play on your mind, grating on you, demanding all your time. Fuck you! I never wanted you anyway! WHY DON'T YOU FUCKING LEAVE ME ALONE FOR FIVE MINUTES?! YOU'VE RUINED MY LIFE! Extreme cases of unwanted videosis can result in death.

I'm having this trouble right now with Volver, I never wanted to see it, why did I rent it? Fuck Volver. We can see that both these conditions lead to a decreased desire to watch the videos but the genesis...what kills the desire is different in each case.