Gifts for Movie Lovers
A Variety of Creative Options Exist for Film Buffs
Gift choices for the movie lovers on your list are not limited merely to DVDs.
It’s easy to just grab a few popular DVDs as gifts, but a little extra thought and effort can provide presents that you will be proud to give and the recipients will be thrilled to receive. Whether you’re buying for the movie theater-goer or the movie-renter, be sure to follow this one crucial piece of advice: Focus the gift on the preferences of the person receiving the gift, not the person giving it.
Gifts for the Movie Theater-goer
- Gift certificates for a convenient movie theater or cinema grill. The gift should include the price of admission for two and some snacks, if possible.
- Passes for a nearby film festival. (This gift would be contingent upon convenient timing and location.) Passes typically range from about twenty-five dollars to hundreds of dollars.
- If film festival passes aren’t practical, you can always contact the festival office and ask about purchasing one of its posters from previous years instead.
Gifts for the Movie-renter
- Popcorn or movie candy gift baskets. You can buy them already prepared at some linen, gift, and grocery stores, or make them yourself. Contents may include a popcorn container, popping corn, various flavored seasonings, cooking oil, boxed movie candy in popular flavors including chocolates, caramels, and fruit chews. Baskets can also contain novelty items (such as coffee mugs or toys related to a certain theme, including romance or action). You might want to add a DVD or two that keeps with the theme of the basket.
- Gift cards to movie rental stores and electronics stores that carry movies. Make sure that the gift card covers the price of what you consider to be a nice selection of merchandise.
- Remote control caddy for keeping the equipment close at hand. With today’s modern media rooms, keeping the remote controls under control sometimes seems impossible. You can find remote control caddies online, at retail stores, and electronics stores. You might want to consider having it engraved or customized if there’s time.
Gifts for All Movie Lovers
- Books on the movies. Find genres that the gift recipient enjoys such as romance, date movies, science fiction, horror, chick flicks, action-adventure, Hong Kong cinema, or westerns. You can even focus on specific subcategories including women in the movies, dreams on film, travel-related movies, or films directed by certain directors (such as Federico Fellini or Tim Burton).
- Subscriptions to entertainment or movie magazines. Make sure to send a card (or confirm that the magazine publisher sent notification) to ensure that the magazine arrived.
- Movie art and memorabilia. You can find wall hangings, pictures, sculpture, standees, movie stills, press packets, posters, prints, and novelty items relating to just about any movie. Try looking in movie rental stores, electronics, linen, gift, and novelty stores, science fiction or specialty stores, and at online auctions.
- Movie soundtracks from favorite films. These are available at most music, electronics, retail, and discount stores.
- Games for movie lovers, including board games and boxed sets with DVDs on general or specialized topics. Try looking in bookstores, retail stores, and online.
To learn more about popular movies on DVD, read reviews of Blades of Glory, Next, and Wild Hogs.
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