My DVD collection--as eclectic as they come

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I shop for my DVDs online. I go to a specific website to purchase them as among the least expensive store online (they even pay postage!), and in my account there, I maintain a "wishlist" of films and TV series for which I am hankering to have on permanent format.

The wishlist gets long sometimes, and since I only have a modest fixed income every month, I can only buy up to a certain amount. The fact is, though, that by being slow but steady, I have been able to add a good number of my favorite shows and films to my collection.

Since I buy from my wishlist, it doesn't matter within a given month which items I end up getting, because I've already taken the time to add items to the list and they are things I want.

Well, I just got my monthly DVDs and I had to laugh at the diversity I got this month. I bought 4 films this month, rather than any TV (although one of the films is from HBO). They are:

Grapes of Wrath
Pay It Forward
Syriana
Mistrial

That's pretty much across the spectrum, don't you think?

The ones from last month were

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Arabian Nights (a TV miniseries)

Some are B flicks that I just enjoyed (Serpent and the Rainbow--yes, I have a thing for Bill Pullman!, Dreamscape, Brainstorm), some are top of the line great films (Crash, Shakespeare in Love, Schindler's List), and some are older films which I just had to get (To Kill a Mockingbird, Mildred Pierce, The Three Lives of Thomasina). Of course I have some "big box office" films in there as well, but not as many as some might think. And of course, my SG-1 collection (all 8 seasons so far boxed sets) and MacGyver (all 6 seasons).

So--does your DVD collection have a theme, or are you all over the place like I am? Or both?

[Floogeldy]

1. Thanks for the important information.

:)

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3. How so?

[Deja Q]

2. Judge for yourself:

Blake's 7*
Star Trek - The Original Series and all 10 movies (even "Nemesis"!)
I Spy (NBC, 1965-1968)
The Planet of the Apes (classic movie set)
Die Hard trilogy
Death Becomes Her*
Superman I and II
The Mamas and the Papas
Fly Jefferson Airplane
Futurama
Doctor Who* (the original series, 1963-1989)
James Bond (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Live and Let Die, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, Goldeneye, Die Another Day)
The Piglet Files
9 to 5
Married With Children (seasons 1-5, stopping after 6)
Roseanne (seasons 3 and 4, stopping after 7)
The Best of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
Red Dwarf (I-VI, VIII)
The Golden Girls (seasons 1-5 so far)
Good Times (seasons 1-3)
Are You Being Served? (Set one, containg volumes 1-6)
The Best of the Chris Rock Show (vols 1 and 2)
Three's Company (seasons 1-5)
Sliders (seasons 1 and 2)
V (the first two miniseries)
Neverwhere
Mork and Mindy (season 1)
The Prisoner

Those are the central tenets of my collection

* denotes the title has at least one Region 2 Disc, though I stick to Region 1 when possible

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4. I gather you like comedies?

And some SF, I see. My favorite category!!

[Deja Q]

9. Comedies and British TV...

I also forgot to add "Alexei Sayle's Stuff"* into the mix...

[CBGLuthier]

5. Some off the top of my head before I go to bed

Monty Python, TV show and all movies.
Brazil
I, Claudius
Worlds Greatest Animation
Fantastic Planet
Several volumes of The Thunderbirds
Zardoz
Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights (no typo, got both releases)
Magnolia
Punch Drunk Love
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
Nosferatu (silent version)
Amphibian Man (russian SF)
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Music Man
Several volumes of a series of short film collections that came out containing La Jette among others
12 Monkeys
Arsenic & Old Lace
Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House
Citizen Kane
Lawrence of Arabia


And a bunch of others. Rather short on comedies. Lots of SF, animation, some drama.

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Interesting:

"Several volumes of a series of short film collections that came out containing La Jette among others"

La Jetee was on TCM tonight and I TIVoed it. I haven't seen it in many years. Great piece.

[CBGLuthier]

10. Yeah, if I hadn't watched it last weekend

Would have tonight. Did catch the Hermes shorts and the Lynch ones.

Baadasss Grandkids was probably the film of the night for me. :-)


If u didn't tivo the hermes set, they are on again in a few hours. Worth checking out.

[AngryAmish]

6. Did you see the movie: "City Of God"

I'm middle aged but I think it is the best movie I have ever seen.

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8. No

I haven't. Is that the one with Patrick Swayze about India?

[AngryAmish]

12. It is a Brazilian movie

goto Netfix dude

[zonkers]

7. I obnoxiously reviewed every movie you posted in your thread!....

:shrug:

Grapes of Wrath - Ford,Fonda, two legends.. The haunting faces of the bit players... unforgettable. Great photography.

Pay it Forward - would not go near it, I can smell a sappy stinker.

Syriana -- saw it. Muddled full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

Mistrial -- no idea what it is.

Serpent and Rainbow - something cool about it, almost s good but not really. Sorry, Wes.

Forbidden Zone - Barely remember it. Peter Strauss, Ringwald. Silly Starwars rip off.

Brainstorm - morbidly fascinating mess. Poor Natalie Wood.

Dreamscape - never saw it.

Crash - pretentious and actorly. No thanks. The ensemble cast on Oprah was enough for me.

Shaksespeare in Love. How did this mediocre film win Oscars? A mystery.

Schindlers List - Too sad. Never saw it.

To Kill a Mockingbird -- Classic. Maybe the best child performances ever. Peck's the man.

Three Lives of Thomasina -- no idea what it is.

SG-1. Never really saw it.

MacGyver. Not for me. Never really saw it.


And yes, this is a very diverse list of films.

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11. Oh well

It's obvious our tastes do not commingle much. :)

[zonkers]

13. Some comingling. I'll still come over and bring the popcorn. n/t