My current DVD movie collection.

[TahitiNut]

Casablanca (1942)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
American Beauty (1999)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Graduate (1967)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Groundhog Day (1993)
As Good As It Gets (1997)
American Graffiti (1973)
Animal House (1978)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Tootsie (1982)
The Big Chill (1983)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Grand Canyon (1991)

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So, judging from the above, what am I missing? (I have a couple of dozen VHS movies, too.)

It must be a movie I enjoy watching many (more than 3) times.

On edit - Oops! Forgot to include Roman Holiday. Fixed.

[FlashHarry]

1. Have a look at mine and see...

1. About a Boy
2. Adaptation
3. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938—2-disc)
4. AI: Artificial Intelligence
5. Alien
6. Almost Famous: Bootleg
7. Amadeus (Director’s Cut)
8. Amélie
9. Animal House
10. Annie Hall
11. Battle of Britain
12. The Beatles Anthology
13. A Beautiful Mind
14. The Big Lebowski
15. Black Adder: The Complete Collection (Box Set)
16. Blazing Saddles
17. Boogie Nights
18. The Bourne Identity (2002)
19. Bowfinger
20. Braveheart
21. Brazil (Criterion)
22. A Bridge Too Far
23. Brideshead Revisited
24. Brotherhood of the Wolf
25. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
26. Casablanca (2-disc Special Edition)
27. Catch 22
28. Chasing Amy
29. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
30. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
31. The Clash: Westway to the World
32. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
33. The Coca-Cola Kid
34. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
35. Crimson Tide
36. Dangerous Beauty (a.k.a. The Honest Courtesan)
37. Dangerous Liaisons
38. Dark City
39. Die Another Day
40. Doctor Zhivago
41. The Dogs of War
42. Don’t Look Back (Bob Dylan)
43. Dr. No
44. Dr. Strangelove
45. 8 1/2 (Criterion)
46. Excalibur
47. Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill
48. The Exorcist (25th Anniversary Edition)
49. The Fast and the Furious
50. Femme Fatale
51. The Flight of the Phoenix
52. Gangs of New York
53. Gimme Shelter (Criterion)
54. Gosford Park
55. The Graduate
56. A Hard Day’s Night
57. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
58. Henry V (Branagh)
59. A History of Britain (Box Set)
60. The Hunt for Red October
61. Indiana Jones Collection (Box Set)
62. Jaws
63. LA Confidential
64. The Last Temptation of Christ (Criterion)
65. The Last Waltz
66. Lawrence of Arabia
67. Led Zeppelin (2003)
68. Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same
69. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Criterion)
70. The Lion In Winter
71. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
72. The Long Good Friday (Criterion)
73. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition)
74. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Edition)
75. Lost In La Mancha
76. Lost in Translation
77. Mad Max
78. The Matrix
79. Memento
80. A Mighty Wind
81. Minority Report
82. The Mission (2-Disc)
83. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
84. Monty Python’s Life of Brian
85. Monty Python’s Meaning of Life (2-Disc)
86. O Brother, Where art Thou?
87. Office Space
88. Old School (Unrated)
89. ? (Pi)
90. Requiem for a Dream (2-Disc)
91. The Right Stuff
92. RKO 281
93. Ronin
94. Round Midnight
95. The Royal Tenenbaums (Criterion)
96. Rushmore (Criterion)
97. The Score
98. The Seven Samurai (Criterion)
99. Sexy Beast
100. Slap Shot
101. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
102. This is Spinal Tap
103. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
104. Stigmata
105. Straw Dogs (Criterion)
106. Stripes
107. The Stunt Man
108. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
109. Three Kings
110. Time Bandits (Criterion)
111. Traffic (Criterion)
112. The Transporter
113. 24 Hour Party People
114. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
115. X-Men 1.5
116. Yojimbo (Criterion)
117. Young Frankenstein

[TahitiNut]

3. Well, the only one's I see that might qualify are ..

... Blazing Saddles and Lawrence of Arabia. I was thinking Fargo might be the next one. I need a Coen Brothers representative and that's probably the best.

[CatWoman]

4. Fargo is most excellent

I have the VHS version, but can't wait to score the DVD.

:hi:

you nut!!

[alvis]

8. Miller's Crossing or Big Lebowski

I think it's hard to pick just one of the Coen's films, but I would say either Miller's Crossing or Big Lebowski. Fargo is great too.

[Zomby Woof]

21. those are my two picks

After them, "Raising Arizona" and "Barton Fink".

[TahitiNut]

9. Oh, I should've honored "Slap Shot," too.

That and Bull Durham are sure candidates.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. Nice collection, you have some of my fav's in there

Especially American Graffitti and Steel Magnolias.

I think you are slim on indies and foreign films so I recommend

My Life As A Dog
Anything by Akira Kusosawa but especially Ran and Mishima
Baghdad Cafe

and for the musical feelgood side of life:

Priscilla Queen of the Desert and
To Wong Foo

For the absurd:
The Gods Must Be Crazy

For a great movie with the director's ending which was NOT on the big screen and is BETTER:

The DVD version of Stigmata

Oops! Forgot HAROLD AND MAUDE!

[CatWoman]

5. LOL -- The Gods Must Be Crazy

what's that sound?

"BOOP"

:D

[TahitiNut]

6. Good thinking, luv!

Baghdad Cafe is a definite possibility. Harold and Maude for sure. I think Ran would be my Kurosawa choice. The Gods Must Be Crazy was a novelty favorite of mine when it first came out (I'm showing my age again), but experience has told me they didn't go far enough. (I was thinking A Man and His Dog might fit, too. It's Pleasantville on acid.)

As you might tell, I have a slight bias for Kasdan and rehearsed ensemble casts. (Dark comedy, too)

[glitch]

7. The Gods Must Be Crazy is out on DVD?

When did that happen? Thank you! That's a tip I can use!
I also recommend Raising Arizona as well as Fargo.

[geniph]

10. Monsoon Wedding, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Malena

(for starters in the foreign films selection)

Where's the musicals? I'd expect some classic musicals - Singin' In the Rain, My Fair Lady, etc., in that collection.

Definitely I'd add the Coen Brothers to that...Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Fargo, Blood Simple, O Brother Where Art Thou.

My collection would be much the poorer without Christopher Guest - I have all four of the "mockumentaries" - This is Spinal Tap, Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, and A Mighty Wind.

Once Were Warriors and Whale Rider for the Maori films.

Bend It Like Beckham for those of us who like soccer.

and the great documentaries - Bowling for Columbine, The Thin Blue Line, Dr. Death, Capturing the Friedmans, etc.

The mystical-nature films - Winged Migration, Fly Away Home, The Secret of Roan Inish.

and of course, if you fancy fantasy - the Lord of the Rings films, Willow, Legend, etc.

The Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, We Were Soldiers, A Clockwork Orange (yes, I ran out of easy categories).

[TahitiNut]

18. All good movies.

So far, however, I've watched each of the movies I own more than a half-dozen times and some as often as 15-20 times ... and I'll still watch them again and enjoy seeing something new. That's the (rather high) standard I'm trying to keep. (No, I'm really not slow or simple-minded. And I love the outdoors and outdoor activities.)

I don't think I could own Winged Migration without owning Fly Away Home and vice versa. They really belong together, imho.

I'm pretty sure I'll get West Side Story for both its extraordinary musical value but also as a good pairing with Shakespeare In Love.

If I were to get My Fair Lady, I'd have to pair it with Pretty Woman.

While I don't know if they'd meet my re-viewable standard, I think Willow, Ladyhawk, and Princess Bride would make a good trifecta ... especially if supplemented with Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

I'll pass on Clockwork Orange since Strangelove is the Kubrick work I like best. (You might notice my list is rather free of violence, particularly of the kind in Orange, even though I liked the movie and recognize its merit. I saw it in its orginal theater run.)

I loved both This Is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind but they don't quite yet meet my re-viewable standard.

[Zomby Woof]

11. Lawrence of Arabia

[CatWoman]

12. Is that the sequel to

Zomby in Arizona?

:hi:

[Zomby Woof]

13. nyuk nyuk

Yeah... we both live in the desert and are uniters instead of dividers. :P

[ikojo]

14. Hello, my name is Ikojo and I have a DVD habit....

Here's a short list of what I have....

Godfather Trilogy
LOTR: Fellowship
LOTR: Two Towers
SW Ep I: Phantom Menace
SW Ep II: Attack of the Clones
Freaks and Geeks
Chappelle's Show Season One
Abbott and Costello Movie Collection Volume One
Schindler's List
X Files Seasons One through Seven
ST: Next Gen Seasons One and Two
Starsky and Hutch Season One
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Grand Hotel
ET Extraterrestrial
Queer as Folk Season One
Artificial Intelligence
Bend it Like Beckham
Meet the Parents
Shattered Glass
Matrix
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolutions
Animatrix
Prince of Egypt
Master and Commander
Pirates of the Carribean
Sopranos Seasons One and Two
Ed Sullivan: The Beatles Episodes
Dead Man Walking
Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Grapes of Wrath
Fiddler on the Roof
Diner
Liberty Heights
Pianist
Lost in America
Bowling for Columbine
Awesome Truth Seasons One and Two
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Wonderland
Boogie Nights
Saturday Night Fever
Dogma
Clerks: The Animated Series
Daria
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Punch Drunk Love
About Schmidt
From Hell
The Believer
Hasidism in America (a documentary)
Triumph of the Will (yes THAT one)
Nosferatu
Harry Potter One and Two
Distorted Morality (Noam Chomsky)
Doctor Who: Key To Time Box Set
Doctor Who: Robots of Death
Doctor Who: Talons of Weng Chiang
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
Real Women Have Curves
Scarface
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Seasons One through Three
Whale Rider
Kadosh
West Side Story

There is more trust me.....

So what do you think?

[TahitiNut]

15. I think ...

... I've never before seen Abbott and Costello Movie Collection Volume One and Schindler's List next to each other in the same list. Never. But anyone who likes both Whale Rider and Rocky Horror Picture Show has the kind of mind that I like.

[Mobius]

23. Tell me how many INCLUDING VHS

it ok, I am a dvdholic too :hug:

[ikojo]

32. I have never counted them but I am sure I have

well over 200 DVDs. I never got into collecting VHS tapes because I am a stickler for quality and extras. A good quality VHS tape only has two hours of film and $20 or more is too much to spend for just two hours.

DVDs now that is a different story. I look for extras because a commerically available DVD can fit almost 10 gigs worth of data onto it.

If I like the movie or TV show then the extras are not as important.

[Streetdoc270]

16. Shakespear....

Henry the 5th (Kennith Brannagh)
The Birdcage
Priscilla Queen of the Desert

[Ilsa]

17. Today I added

Edward Scissorhands and Sense and Sensibility to my collection ($6 each). I also have To Kill A Mockingbird. Wish I had Groundhog Day. Looking Forward to adding Love Actually when the DVD gets through its initial rental phase and the used ones go on sale.

[TahitiNut]

19. "Love Actually" is a truly remarkable movie.

I'll have to see it again before I'll know if it meets my re-re-viewable standard, but it had me laughing and tearing up both. I've never ever seen such an ambitious "survey" of love. It works ... and that's pretty amazing.


Groundhog Day was (and continues to be) surprising to me. It meets my re-re-viewable standard and yet it's a clean, clear, and deceptively simple movie. Bill Murray's performance is as highly nuanced as any I've seen and stunningly makes the romance between him (who I don't really think of as a romantic lead) and Andie MacDowell (who makes my heart pant) truly believable.

[Mobius]

20. Im not typing out mine

A monkey would most likely be able to type out Pi to 100 digits purely by chance, before Id finish.

[scottcsmith]

22. Here's my collection

For the most part. I know I've forgotten a few.

Alien (20th Anniversary Edition)
Alien (Director's Cut Edition)
Aliens (Special Edition)
Alien 3
Alien Ressurection
Amadeus (Special Edition)
An American Werewolf in London
Apocalypse Now Redux
Army of Darkness
Aswang (very low-budget horror flick)
The Awful Truth (Michael Moore's TV show), both seasons
Austin Powers
Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me
Austin Powers: Goldmember
Back to The Future, I-III
Battle Royale
Battle Royale (Special Edition)
Battle Royale II (Special Edition)
Before Night Falls (never seen it, not sure how it got into my collection)
Blade
Blade II
Blade Runner (Director's Cut)
Blood Feast: All 'U' Can Eat (Unrated Director's Cut)
Blazing Saddles
Blue Man Group -- The Complex Live
Bowling for Columbine
A Bug's Life (first release on DVD, not the Special Edition)
Cabin Boy
Caddyshack (Special Edition)
George Carlin (Jammin' in New York & Doin' It Again)
George Carlin (Personal Favorites)
Casualties of War
Combat Shock (another low-budget Troma release)
Contact
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Crow (Special Edition)
Dark City
Darkman
Dawn Of The Dead (Dutch release w/ Dario Argento cut, and the newly released version Divimax version)
Day of The Dead (Divimax version)
Death Becomes Her
Dead Alive (Peter Jackson's great zombie movie)
Devil's Advocate
Die Hard (Special Edition)
Die Hard 2 (Special Edition)
Die Hard With a Vengeance (Special Edition)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dogma (Special Edition)
Dressed to Kill (Special Edition)
From Dusk till Dawn (Special Edition)
Evil Dead (Special Edition)
Evil Dead II (Special Edition)
Excalibur
A Few Good Men
Fiddler On The Roof
First Blood (Special Edition)
Fleetwood Mac: The Dance
Flesh for Frankenstein (Criterion Collection)
The Fly (1986)/Fly II (1989) Double-feature
Friday the 13th (Region III, unrated version)
Freddy Vs. Jason
Full Metal Jacket
Ghostbusters (Special Edition)
Hannibal (Special Edition)
Happy Gilmore (the very first DVD I ever purchased)
Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
The Howling (Special Edition)
Hollow Man
Ichi the Killer (Uncut Special Edition)
The Hulk
Island of Death (yet another low-budget horror flick)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Junk (Japanese zombie flick)
Friday the 13th: Jason Goes to Hell
Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
JFK
The Jerk
The Jamie Kennedy Experience, Season One
The Last House on The Left
The Last Temptation of Christ (Criterion Collection)
Lethal Weapon
The Life of David Gale
Lost in Translation
The Matrix trilogy
Memento
Men of Honor
Men in Black
The Muppet Movie
Monsters, Inc.
Monty Python, Live!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Life of Brian (Criterion Collection)
Monty Python and the Meaning of Life (Special Edition)
Monty Python, Life of Python
The Mask
Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut)
New Order 316
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
An Officer and a Gentleman
Office Space
One Hour Photo
The Princess Bride
Platoon (Special Edition)
Pink Panther, the Revenge Of
Predator
Pulp Fiction
Punch-Drunk Love
Re-Animator (Millenium Edition)
Reservoir Dogs (Special Edition)
Robocop (Criterion Collection. AWESOME, unrated director's cut!)
Chris Rock, Bigger and Blacker
Chris Rock, Bring the Pain
Best of the Chris Rock Show, Vol. 2
Roger and Me
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Running Man (Special Edition)
Salo (I thought this was the Criterion Collection version. Beware when you buy movies on Ebay!)
Se7en
Shrek
Silence of the Lambs (Special Edition, not the Criterion Collection version)
Spaceballs
Spawn (movie version)
Spider-Man (movie version)
This is Spinal Tap (Special Edition)
Stargate (Special Edition)
Starship Troopers (Special Edition)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Special Edition)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Special Edition)
Star Trek VI (crappy first DVD release)
Star Trek: Nemesis
Superman: The Movie (Special Edition)
Superman II
Superman III
Terminator (Special Edition)
Terminator II (Ultimate Edition)
Terminator II (Extreme Edition)
Terminator III
Terror Firmer (Troma schlock-horror flick)
There's Something More About Mary
The Thing (Collector's Edition)
Throw Momma from The Train
Total Recall (Special Edition)
Toxic Avenger IV (Another Troma schlock-horror flick)
24 Hour Party People
Underworld
National Lampoon's Vacation (20th Anniversary Edition)
Versus (Japanese action/horror/zombie flick)
Videodrome
What About Bob?
UHF (Weird Al!)
The Wedding Singer
X-Men
X-Men 1.5
X-Men II

[TahitiNut]

25. Which ones have you watched ...

... from beginning to end, in the last 6 months? Which ones have you watched at least twice in the last year?

I'm at the point where if I don't watch one of my movies in the last year, I'll be more than likely to sell it, give it away, or throw it away. Sadly, one or two of my Monty Pythons are approaching that point. (My collecting days are over. I'm now just too tired of having 'stuff' for the sake of having 'stuff.')

[Kenneth ken]

29. also missing Hitchcock n/t

[proud patriot]

24. Ya got to get SHREK

Great movie :thumbsup:

[TahitiNut]

26. One of the downfalls of being child-free ...

... I've not yet even seen it. I just recently rented Nemo and enjoyed it - but I'd not buy it. :shrug:

On edit: My inner child is now Animal House age. Of course he has been for over 35 years. :silly: (I lived Animal House. The correlations are amazing to me.) Psychologists say we get 'stuck' at those ages because we didn't get enough. They're right, imho.

[neverborn]

27. REQUIRED VIEWING

• 28 Days Later
• American Beauty
• American History X
• A Beautiful Mind
• Bowling For Columbine
• Clerks
• A Clockwork Orange
• Election
• Fight Club
• Girl, Interrupted
• Heathers
• House on Haunted Hill
• Identity
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• Joy Ride
• Lord of the Rings
• Mallrats
• May
• Memento
• Murder By Numbers
• Natural Born Killers
• Not Another Teen Movie
• Pulp Fiction
• Requiem For A Dream
• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Seven
• The Green Mile
• The Mothman Prophecies
• The Ring
• The Rules of Attraction
• Training Day
• The Shining

[Kenneth ken]

28. you're missing Hitchcock n/t

[TahitiNut]

30. This is true.

I'm considering Rear Window or North By Northwest. Psycho was a cultural icon and superb movie, but I'm torn between Grace Kelly (also in To Catch A Thief) and Eva Marie Saint. I think any of the three would meet the re-re-viewable standard, but I'm leaning towards North By Northwest, since it's probably (arguably) Hitchcock's best. I might have to do two since Grace Kelly was, as I understand it, Hitchcock's favorite actress in his films.

[Kenneth ken]

31. I really like Hitchcock

so I have all the ones you mentioned, plus more. Grace Kelly is terrific in Rear Window and To Catch A Thief. Cary Grant is more enjoyable than Jimmy Stewart IMO, so I like To Catch A Thief a bit better of the two. I want Spellbound, but keep not finding in the store. I should probably order it.