Opinions on my DVD collection? (1 Viewer)

[Trevor Dwyer]

Thanks for that reply Jack, I really appreciate that as I really do want to talk about all the things that I have seen in these forums but haven't (until now) found the right place to do so. I have been a frequent visitor to digitalbits but have never looked at the forums.

I actually felt I should not mention how many discs I have but when I think about it I really want to talk about them - its the only thing I enjoy outside of work and I have spent approx £70,000 on the discs alone over the past 2/3 years.

This really is a forum with good people from what I have looked at so far.

Best Regards

Trevor

 

[Aaryn Chan]

Stil wrapped:

Mulan: Limited Edition
Little Mermaid: Limited Edition
Snow White: Platinum Edition
Evil Dead: Elite Edition
Evil Dead: Book of the Dead Limited Edition
Evil Dead II: Tin Special Limited Edition
Army of Darkness: Director's Cut Limited Edition
Terminator 2: Ultimate Limited Metallic Case Edition
Akira: Tin Special Limited Edition
Saving Private Ryan: Special Limited Edition

 

[StephenA]

This thread keeps slapping me in the face. Everyone who post their collections in this thread have cool collections. And hello and welcome to the newcomers to the hobby and HTF who posted in this thread. I've gotten quite a few new DVDs since I last posted in this thread. Here they are:

Zombie

Alien SE

Nightmare Before Christmas SE

Dead Alive

Men in Black Deluxe

Mortal Kombat

Spaceballs

Air Force One

Aliens SE

Running Man

Abyss SE

12 Monkeys

Return of the Dragon

Marked For Death

Outbreak

I can't believe how addictive the hobby is. I still have many more on my to get list. And many more from the future releases too.

 

[James L White]

I can't believe how addictive the hobby is. I still have many more on my to get list. And many more from the future releases too.

me too Stephen, OMG August 6th alone is loaded, just think of all the titles that have yet to be anounced that'll come out this year.I hate to think how much money I'm gonna spend between now and December 31

 

[Aaryn Chan]

Didn't know soo many people loves movies. I thought I was the only one on Earth.

 

[Joe Fisher]

I hate to think how much money I'm gonna spend between now and December 31

I currently have exactly $917.48 on preorder between now and 12/17/2002 .
StephenA:
May I recommend getting for your collection: The 13th Warrior, Pitch Black, The Rock(Criterion Collection) & Dark City.
Joe

 

[James L White]

I currently have exactly $917.48 on preorder between now and 12/17/2002

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! either you've got a ton f titles on pre-order or you like paying retail

 

[StephenA]

I have those titles on my wish list Joe F.

I'm glad I found this site, because now I don't feel alone with my love for movies and DVDs.

 

[Estevan Lapena]

Well, after looking at these peoples DVD collections, I feel sad. :frowning:
My set only consists of these disks, Hell im only 16 so cut me some slack.
Collection is only about 2 Yrs old.
1)12 Monkeys (DD Version)
2)2001: A Space Odyssey
3)Aliens - Special Edition (Director's Cut)
4)Army of Darkness Boomstick Ed.
5)Band of Brothers
6)Barry Lyndon
7)Barton Fink
8)Black Hawk Down: 3 Disk
9)Brazil - The Criterion Collection
10)Clockwork Orange
11)Die Hard: 5 Star
12)Die Hard with a Vengeance: 2 disk sp.ed.
13)Do the Right Thing - The Criterion Collection
14)Dr. Strangelove - Kubrick Collection #2 release
15)English Patient
16)Evil Dead,The Book of the Dead Ed.
17)Eyes Wide Shut - Crappy censored Reg.1 DVD
18)Fargo
19)Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Criterion Collection
20)Full Metal Jacket
21)Gladiator
22)Hamburger Hill
23)Heat
24)JFK : Oliver Stone Collection, 2 Disk non flipper
25)Leon: The Professional - Uncut International Version
26)Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
27)Lolita - Stanley Kubrick
28)Matrix
29)Memento - Limited Edition
30)Miller's Crossing
31)Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 2 Disk
32)Platoon - Special Edition (3rd one)
33)Pulp Fiction - Collector's Edition
34)Reservoir Dogs - Ten Years Special Edition
35)Road to Perdition (DD Version)
36)Saving Private Ryan - Special Limited Edition - DTS
37)Seven - 2 disk
38)Shining, The - Stanley Kubrick
39)Snatch - Superbit Deluxe
40)Spider-Man - Special Edition (Dads)
41)Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
42)Starship Troopers - Special Edition 2 disk
43)Terminator 2: Judgment Day - The Ultimate Edition
44)Thin Red Line - DTS
45)Three Kings
46)Usual Suspects - Sp. Ed. (3rd release)
47)Fight Club - Special Edition 2 Disk
48)Lord Of The Rings: FOTR (2 disk) (DADS)
49)Predator - DTS
50)We Were Soldiers (BROTHERS, I didn't like this movie)
51)Total Recall: Sp. Limited Ed. Tin.
52)Rear Window
53)Traffic: Criterion Collection
54)Taxi Driver: Collectors Edition
55)North By Northwest: Special Edition
56)Jurassic Park III: (BROTHERS)
THIS IS MY SET AS OF JULY 8th 2003. Because this fall it's going to get a huge update.

 

[Estevan Lapena]

I hate paying retail for Criterion’s, not only are the extra expensive but living in Canada, they are twice the price of the retail price,

I.E: DO THE RIGHT THING = 59.00 w/o 14.5% tax, (Quite a dent in a 16 year olds wallet)

Now I was wondering where do all these people who have their BIG collections get their movies from!? There are people with a library of film and disks that most likely equate to the value of a brand-new Porsche.

 

[StephenA]

My collection has grown considerably since I last posted in it.

Estevan: You just gotta look around for sales, go to stores that sell used ones, go to flea markets and pawn shops, etc, and you can get your collection to grow considerably.

 

[ChuckSolo]

First of all, good choices guys. I have amassed a collection of about 200 DVDs in the past 3 years. I would have more (much to my wife's chagrin) but I don't like to duplicate movies I have on VHS (over 350). I find myself wanting to more and more since I am itching to see movies in the digital format that I now only have on VHS; especially since movies with HI-FI Dolby Surround pale in comparison to DTS and Dolby 5.1. One thing is that I have no comedies. I dislike comedies and mostly stick with Drama, Sci-Fi, Action and especially Horror. I am anxiously awaiting the release of a collection of George Romero's zombie movies, in a boxed set, if it ever happens. I have the 30th anniversary edition of "Night of the Living Dead" but I hesitate paying 50+ bucks for "Dawn of the Dead" and "Day of the Dead." I read in FangoriaMagazine that rumor has it that Romero is currently working on a film called "Twilight of the Dead." I hope that happens, it would be a must have for me.

 

[Derek_McL]

Fascinating thread I agree that collecting DVDs is very addictive. I keep trying to stop,for example when I started about five years ago I never thought based on what I got on VHS I would ever purchase 100 but now I've got almost 300 ! I've also got DVD recording equipment and often record movies of TV which has slowed my buying of official DVDs a bit in recent months.

Here is my collection of officially released film DVDs like Patrick I much prefer classics. For a change its in roughly chronological not alphabetical order :

1886 - 1913 : Landmarks of Early Film - Volume 1

1909 - 1929 : Slapstick Encyclopedia

1914 - 1918 : Charlie Chaplin Collection Vol 1

Charlie Chaplin Collection Vol 3

Charlie Chaplin Collection Vol 4

Charlie Chaplin Collection Vol 5

Charlie Chaplin Collection Vol 6

Charlie Chaplin Collection Vol 9

Charlie Chaplin Collection Vol 10

1914 - 1925 : Chaplin - The Artist In His Prime

includes Tillie's Punctured Romance,

The Kid, The Gold Rush and other shorts

1914 - 1917 : Charlie Chaplin Marathon Vol 1

1915 : The Birth of a Nation

1915 - 1933 : W.C. Fields Six Short Films

1916 : Intolerance

Joan the Woman

1916 - 1921 : Charlie Chaplin Marathon Vol 2

1919 : Broken Blossoms

The Cabinet of Dr. Calligari

1920 : Way Down East

The Saphead

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

1922 : Nosferatu

Robin Hood

1923 : Our Hospitality

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1924 : Sherlock Junior

The Thief of Bagdad

1925 : Phantom of the Opera

The Eagle

The Lost World

Seven Chances

1926 : The Black Pirate

Battling Butler

Metropolis

The Lodger

Sparrows

Laurel and Hardy Solo Shorts Vol 3

1927 : The General

October 1917

1928 : Steamboat Bill Junior

1928 - 1937 : Lost Films of Laurel/Hardy V 4

1929 : The Iron Mask

Blackmail

1930 : Juno and the Paycock

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Blue Angel

Laurel and Hardy : Brats/Helpmates (German)

Laurel and Hardy : Hog Wild (German disc)

Animal Crackers

1931 : Laurel and Hardy : Be Big/Laughing Gravy

Laurel and Hardy : Come Clean (German disc)

Laurel and Hardy : Beau Hunks (German disc)

Pardon Us (German disc)

City Lights

Dracula

Frankenstein

1932 : Horse Feathers

A Farewell To Arms

Laurel and Hardy : The Music Box

Pack Up Your Troubles (German disc)

1933 : The Invisible Man

42nd Street

King Kong

Duck Soup

Hallelujah I'm A Bum !

Sons of the Desert

1934 : It Happened One Night

March of the Wooden Soldiers

The Thin Man

Laurel and Hardy : Them Thar Hills (German)

1935 : The Thirty Nine Steps

The Bride of Frankenstein

1936 : Modern Times

Things To Come

Flash Gordon

Our Relations (German)

1937 : Lost Horizon

Way Out West

Nothing Sacred

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1938 : The Lady Vanishes

Bringing Up Baby (German)

1939 : Mr Smith Goes to Washington

Stagecoach

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Wizard of Oz

Gone with the Wind

1940 : The Philadelphia Story

Santa Fe Trail

Pinocchio

Fantasia

Rebecca

His Girl Friday

The Bank Dick

The Mark of Zorro

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

1941 : Citizen Kane

The Maltese Falcon

Meet John Doe

Sullivan's Travels

How Green Was My Valley

1942 : Saboteur

To Be or Not To Be (German disc)

In Which We Serve

Road To Morocco

Holiday Inn

1943 : Casablanca

Shadow of a Doubt

1944 : Arsenic and Old Lace

Henry V

Going My Way

1945 : Brief Encounter

The Spiral Staircase

Scarlet Street

Blood On The Sun

Spellbound

1946 : The Stranger

The Big Sleep

The Best Years of Our Lives

It's A Wonderful Life

Till the Clouds Roll By

Notorious

Duel In the Sun

Great Expectations

1947 : My Favourite Brunette

Road to Rio

Angel and the Badman

The Paradine Case

1948 : The Red Shoes

Oliver Twist

Red River

Fort Apache

Key Largo

1949 : The Third Man

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

Adam's Rib

On the Town

1950 : Annie Get Your Gun

All About Eve

Sunset Boulevard

1951 : Royal Wedding

An American In Paris

Strangers on a Train

The African Queen

A Place In The Sun

1952 : High Noon

Singin' In the Rain

Road to Bali

The War of the Worlds

1953 : Shane

Genevieve

From Here to Eternity

1954 : Them !

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

On the Waterfront

Vera Cruz

A Star is Born

Brigadoon

Rear Window

1955 : Guys and Dolls

The Night of the Hunter

Rebel without a Cause

1956 : High Society

The Searchers

The King and I

1957 : Sweet Smell of Success

Paths of Glory

Twelve Angry Men

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Funny Face

1958 : A Night to Remember

Vertigo

Gigi

A Tale of Two Cities

The Old Man and the Sea

The Big Country

South Pacific

1959 : Some Like It Hot

North by Northwest

Rio Bravo

Ben Hur

1960 : The Magnificent Seven

Spartacus

The Apartment

Psycho

1961 : West Side Story

1962 : To Kill A Mockingbird

Lawrence of Arabia

The Manchurian Candidate

Birdman of Alcatraz

1963 : Charade

Cleopatra

Zulu

The Great Escape

The Birds

Jason and the Argonauts

1964 : My Fair Lady

1965 : The Sound of Music

1966 : A Man for All Seasons

1967 : The Jungle Book

Bonnie and Clyde

1968 : Bullitt!

1969 : The Wild Bunch

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1970 : Waterloo

Patton

1971 : Dirty Harry

The French Connection

1972 : The Godfather

Cabaret

1973 : The Sting

1974 : Farewell My Lovely

Chinatown

The Godfather Part II

The Towering Inferno

1975 : Jaws

1976 : The Outlaw Josey Wales

All the President's Men

1977 : Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1979 : Porridge

Apocalypse Now

1980 : Raging Bull

Time Bandits

1981 : Excalibur

Chariots of Fire

1982 : E.T.

Blade Runner

Gandhi

1983 : The Right Stuff

1984 : Amadeus

1985 : Back to the Future

1986 : Platoon

1987 : The Untouchables

1989 : Glory

1990 : Goodfellas

The Godfather Part III

1991 : JFK

1992 : Chaplin

1993 : Jurassic Park

1994 : The Shawshank Redemption

1995 : GoldenEye

Braveheart

1996 : 101 Dalmatians (free with 1st player)

LA Confidential

1997 : Titanic

1998 : The Mask of Zorro

Saving Private Ryan

2000 : Fantasia 2000

Gladiator

2001 : The Patriot

As someone quite rightly says its up to you what you spend your money on and everyone's tastes are different. Although I have some modern films most of them just don't excite me.

 

[Estevan Lapena]

Oh I too am awaiting for those 3 disk releases of Dawn of The Dead and Day of the Dead. I think that spending 50+ dollars of a bare bones OOP DVD of "Dawn" that most likely will come back in syndication is a waste of money. (Anchor bay always re-re-re-releases, Evil Dead and Armies of Darkness comes to mind)

As for my collection, its getting a large boost, just got payed a hefty sum of cash and I think im going to get, Traffic:Criterion, Hearts and Minds: Criterion, Robocop: Criterion, Re-Animator:ME and perhaps Night Of The Living Dead: ME (By Elite, which I heard was going OOP SOON!).

Not to mention the new releases coming my way, Alien Quad., Indiana Jones, Goodfellas (eventually)and Scorsese collection (eventually).

StephenA: Living in the culturally and retail dead zone that I reside in, Its hard to come by pawn shops ect... Even in Vancouver. All there is, is a bunch of GAP'S.

 

[ChuckSolo]

Just a side note. I just ordered the new 2 disc version of "Day of the Dead" with 5.1 sound track from www.deepdiscountdvd.com for 18 bucks. Release date is the middle of August.

 

[Jeff_HR]

I took the plunge with DVD profiler too. My listing is not complete yet. I still need to enter more than 200+ DVDs. I sure could use a bar code scanner.

 

[Dan Shogren]

Here's my pathetic collection slowly accumulated after 3 or 4 years.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

The Evil Dead: The Book Of The Dead

Clerks

Toy Story: The Ultimate Toy Box

Fight Club

The Simpsons: The Complete Second Season

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones

A Walk In The Clouds

X-Men 1.5

Family Guy Volume 1

The Bourne Identity

Back To The Future: The Complete Trilogy

The Terminator

UHF

Die Another Day

The Prisoner: Set 1

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Snatch

The Fifth Element

Memento

An Evening With Kevin Smith

Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters & Marvels

Spider-Man

The Ring

Catch Me if You Can

Minority Report

Old School unrated

The Matrix

The Animatrix

South Park: The Complete First Season

Office Space

Unbreakable

Monsters, Inc.

The Royal Tenenbaums

Pearl Harbor directors cut

Signs

Night of the Living Dead Millenium edition

The Lord Of The Rings:FOTR Extended Editon

The Truman Show

The reason my collection is so small is because i have no job, (My only source of money is my allowence) and because my parents insisted on renting for a couple years. MY collection has been increasing more rapidly as of late because my allowence has increased and im buying a dvd (or two) a week, rather than one dvd every two months.

 

[Jeff Flugel]

Dan, that's a pretty impressive list for a collection built on allowance money. And any kid (or adult, for that matter)with THE PRISONER set in their collection is doing just fine in my book.

Derek_McL: That's an amazing collection you got there...most impressive. I'm also a big classic movie buff, but I'm lagging WAY behind you on that score.

Well, here's mine. Since I've been overseas for a year, I've scaled my DVD purchasing WAAAAY back, alas. So now I'm quite behind in a number of great releases. So please note, most of these were purchased prior to July 2002.

Doing this from memory, as I'm away from my beloved shiny discs at the moment:

HEAT

RONIN

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL

THE IPCRESS FILE

DR. NO: SE

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE: SE

GOLDFINGER: SE

THUNDERBALL: SE

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE: SE

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE: SE

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER: SE

LIVE AND LET DIE: SE

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN: SE

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME: SE

MOONRAKER: SE

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: SE

OCTOPUSSY: SE

A VIEW TO A KILL: SE

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS: SE

LICENSE TO KILL: SE

GOLDENEYE: SE

TOMORROW NEVER DIES: SE

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH: SE

NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN

DEADLIER THAN THE MALE

STARSHIP TROOPERS

STARSHIP TROOPERS: ROUGHNECKS VOL. 1

WATERWORLD

THE ROAD WARRIOR

HORROR EXPRESS

THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES

THE 7 FACES OF DR. LAO

DEEP RED

SUSPIRIA: SE

PHENOMENA

INFERNO

SUPERMAN: SE

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

ULTRAVIOLET: THE COMPLETE SERIES

LORD PETER WHIMSEY: STRONG POISON

LORD PETER WHIMSEY: HAVE HIS CARCASE

LORD PETER WHIMSEY: GAUDY NIGHT

BLACKADDER I

BLACKADDER II

BLACKADDER THE THIRD

BLACKADDER GOES FORTH

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: SEASON 1

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: SEASON 2

RED DWARF: SEASON 1

RED DWARF: SEASON 2

FATHER TED: SEASON 3

DR. WHO: THE FIVE DOCTORS SE

STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE: SE

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN

STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME

STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY

BABYLON 5: IN THE BEGINNING/ THE GATHERING

QUATERMASS AND THE PIT

THE DAY THE EARTH CUAGHT FIRE

THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON

BEND OF THE RIVER

THE FAR COUNTRY

THE SEARCHERS

THE WAR WAGON

THE COMANCHEROS

CHISUM

BIG JAKE

NORTH TO ALASKA

SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON

THE UNDEFEATED

HATARI!

FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES

TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA

THE BIG COUNTRY

COMPANEROS

MANNAJA

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

THE WILD BUNCH

THE PROFESSIONALS

BITE THE BULLET

DUEL AT DIABLO

DANCES WITH WOLVES: SE

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

FRIENDLY PERSUASION

OPERATION: PETTICOAT

CASABLANCA

KEY LARGO

THE BIG SLEEP

FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL

SLING BLADE

THE GREAT ESCAPE

AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY

AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME

THE ABYSS: SE

THE THING: COLLECTOR'S EDITION

THE NIGHT STALKER/ THE NIGHT STRANGLER

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

THE SIXTH SENSE

HARD BOILED

HALLOWEEN

THE MATRIX

THE FIFTH ELEMENT

THE TERMINATOR: SE

TERMINATOR 2: ULTIMATE EDITION

DIE HARD: 5 STAR COLLECTION

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON

ENTER THE DRAGON: SE

SHALIN MASTER KILLER

ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA

PRINCESS MONONOKE

TOTAL RECALL

TRUE LIES

BLADE

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

THE FOUR MUSKETEERS

VERTIGO

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY

GHOSTBUSTERS

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

LOTR: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: EE

ALIEN

EXCALIBUR

NORTH BY NORTHWEST

JAWS

PRIME SUSPECT 1

PRIME SUSPECT 2

RIO BRAVO

EL DORADO

THE UP IN SMOKE TOUR

BLACK SABBATH: REUNION TOUR

...and I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

 

[Rob P S]

http://www.dvdspot.com/list.php?memb...ude&list=owned

 

[Alf S]

I'm confused...what exactly is the point of this thread??