The HTF DVD Challenge 2004 (1 Viewer)

[Nick Sievers]

I told you it was hilarious. Did you end up buying or using Netflix? I find myself watching random episodes all the time which makes it a worthy purchase for me.

 

[Scott Weinberg]

You (among many other friends of mine) were correctaumdo when you assumed that, based on my personality and the sort of comedy I usually enjoy, I would dig Family Guy.

It just took the magic of DVD before I could appreciate it. Watching five consecutive episodes helps one to appreciate a given series - as opposed to maybe catching 3.5 episodes every two months.

So while I do not think it ranks above The Simpsons or Futurama, I do believe it's a damn funny show.

Thanks to DDD for temporarily selling the Vol. 1 set for $19.89!

 

[ChrisBEA]

Thought maybe I'd resurrect the discussion here! My luck has been holding, haven't missed a day yet.
I have removed my theater visits and moved them to a post in the 2004 Film list thread. Figured I'd keep my viewing in thier proper places.

 

[TonyD]

I'M Up to 93 total, but most are the free rents i get from my job at the local video store.
it's a great perk to get free rentals and get them before street date to watch at home.

i wonder how many who started this are still keeping track.

 

[ChrisBEA]

I'm currently at 167, 8 of which were borrowed disks. I can't remember the last time I rented anything. I remember working in a video shop back in the mid-late 90's (pre-DVD). I was bringing home tapes all the time! got turned on to some real good movies by blindly taking things home with me.

 

[Casey Trowbridg]

Put it this way, I'm a lot better at watching than I am at keeping track. I honestly don't think I'll make it there's just too much to watch and newer stuff gets added all the time. Just when I finish 1 I get 3 more you know?

 

[Chad A Wright]

My goal was to watch 1 a day and be through about 6 months in. I did very well for the first 2 months, but March has been very busy and I don't think I'll even get one ever two days done. But, I'll keep track still. I think I'll at least finish the challenge this year, which I didn't do last year.

 

[ChrisBEA]

I'm keeping track to see how far I get, but there is absolutely no way I'll get through my nearly 1300 and still growing collection in one year, maybe 2?

 

[Peng]

ok..ok...I dont even own one DVD

OK...Ok..I dont even own a DVD player

Can I do the challenge with my VHS/beta collection?

 

[PatW]

I'm late taking part in the challenge. I have close to 400 titles. I use to have over 500 titles but I thinned my collection a bit. Titles watched so far.

April

The Core
Billy Elliot
The Big Lebowski
Pieces of April
Dante's Peak
Total Recall
Rare Birds
Matrix Revolutions
Master and Commander
Wrong Men and Notorious Women Hitchcock Criterion Collection. - 5 movies

Plus Babylon 5 Season 5 if that counts.

 

[GregGS]

So are other people still keeping up with this? I'm just trying to watch all my unwatched DVDs (started out over 500), and not worrying about the extras. Actually, realistically, if I get to 200 or so unwatched by the end of the year, I'll be doing well I think, since I'll catch up midway next year (and then finally have time to spend on the worthwhile extras).

So far since I started (so February through May), I've watched 192 of my DVDs that I hadn't watched before. Trying to do this has made me a bit compulsive about watching something every day; it's also cut down tremendously on my purchases.

June (57 watched):
6/1: 2001 ****; True Grit ****1/2; Total Recall ****;
6/2: Wizards ****; Slaughterhouse Five ****
6/3: Eurotrip ***1/2
6/4: American Friend ***1/2
6/5-6/6: San Juan Islands, none watched
6/7: Blade Runner ****1/2
6/8: Robin Hood (Costner) ***
6/9: Rocky ****; My Darling Clementine ****1/2
6/10: Tombstone ****;
6/11: Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai ***1/2; Valley Girl ****; Any Given Sunday ***1/2
6/12 The Filth and the Fury ****1/2; The Gauntlet ***1/2;
6/13: Wild Things ****; Magnum Force ****; Broken Arrow ***1/2
6/14: Mission Impossible 2 ***1/2; True Lies ***1/2; The Messenger **1/2
6/15: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ****; Deliverance ****1/2
6/16: To Live and Die in LA ****; Posse ****
6/17: The Philadelphia Story *****; The Big Sleep+ ****
6/18: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ***1/2; A Chorus Line ***1/2; Catch Me If You Can ****
6/19: Snow White ****; Payback ***1/2; 12 Monkeys ****1/2
6/20: 2010 ****; Toy Story *****;
6/21: Toy Story 2 *****; Mr. Majestyk ***1/2
6/22: House on Haunted Hill (remake) **1/2; The Golden Voyage of Sinbad ****
6/23: UHF+ **1/2; Do the Right Thing *****
6/24: How the West Was Won ***1/2; Hart's War ****
6/25: Manhunter ****; Run Silent Run Deep+ ***1/2; The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 ****
6/26: Red Dragon ***; The Pride of the Yankees ***1/2; The Time Machine (1960) ****1/2; Network *****
6/27: Rio Bravo+ ***1/2; Star Trek TOS, Vol. 1 ****1/2; The Rocketeer+ ***1/2
6/28: None
6/29: Escape to Witch Mountain ****; Return From Witch Mountain ***
6/30: Spartacus ****

July (60)
7/1: The 39 Steps ***1/2; Blazing Saddles ****1/2
7/2: The Graduate *****; Clerks Uncensored **1/2
7/3: My Fair Lady ****1/2; There's Something (More) About Mary ****
7/4-7/5: Out of town
7/6: Melvin and Howard ****; Bananas ***1/2
7/7: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ***1/2; The Princess Bride *****; To Die For ****
7/8: Notting Hill ****
7/9: Forrest Gump ****; Christine ***1/2
7/10: The Nightmare Before Christmas ****; Texas, Adios+ ***1/2
7/11: Swimming With Sharks ****1/2; Universal Soldier ***; Suburbia ***1/2; Eraser ***1/2
7/12: Carrie ****; The Blob ***1/2
7/13: Hellraiser 2 ****; Hellraiser 3 **1/2
7/14: None
7/15: Swiss Family Robinson ***1/2; Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh ***; The Rage: Carrie 2+ **1/2; House ***1/2
7/16: First Men in the Moon+ ***; Family Plot ***1/2; To Catch a Thief ****; Ben Hur *****; The Essential Clash ****; Duran Duran ***1/2;
7/17: Mission Impossible ***1/2; Dangerous Liaisons ****; The Big Easy ***1/2
7/18: The Exorcist ****
7/19: The Wedding Singer ****; True Stories ***1/2
7/20: Avengers '66 Vol. I ***1/2; Avengers 66 Vol. II ****
7/21: None
7/22: Zoolander ***1/2; Back to the Future ****1/2
7/23: Back to the Future 2 ***; Back to the Future 3 ***1/2; Take the Money and Run ****
7/24: Abba - Gold+ ***** (for the enjoyable songs more than for the goofy videos); The Work of Director Chris Cunningham+ ***
7/25: Weird Al Yankovic Ultimate Video Collection ***; The Usual Suspects ****1/2; Quadrophenia ****
7/26: A Hard Day's Night ****
7/27: Joe Bob Briggs Presents The Double-D Avenger **** (.5 for movie, 3.5 for commentary)
7/28: Rocky 2 ***1/2
7/29: Rocky 3 ****; Rocky 4 **1/2; Rocky 5+ *
7/30: The Enforcer ****; Sudden Impact ***1/2; The Dead Pool **
7/31: Django+ ****; Django Kill+ ***; The Mummy+ ***1/2; The Mummy Returns+ ***1/2

August (55 watched):
8/1: Piranna+ **1/2; Casablanca *****
8/2: The Man Who Would Be King *****
8/3: Superman ****1/2; Superman II ***1/2
8/4: Zulu+ ****;
8/5: The Snake Pit+ ****1/2; Peyton Place+ ***1/2
8/6: Desk Set ***; Alien (Extended) w/Commentary ****1/2; Aliens (Theatrical) w/Commentary ****1/2
8/7: Alien 3 (Extended) w/Commentary **; The Unforgiven+ ***1/2
8/8: Alien Resurrection (Extended) w/Commentary ***; Manchurian Candidate (original) ****
8/9: The Diary of Anne Frank+ *****
8/10: Kill Bill V. 2 ****
8/11: The Puppetoon Movie+ ****1/2
8/12: One Million Years BC ****; The Lion King ****1/2
8/13: The Outlaw Josie Wales ****; Vertigo *****; Fatal Attraction ****
8/14: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre+ ***1/2; Mother, Jugs and Speed ****
8/15: Fathom+ ***1/2; Bandolero+ ***; Myra Breckinridge+ *
8/16: Darkman ***1/2
8/17: Goodfellas *****
8/18: After Hours ****
8/19: Devo Live ***1/2
8/20: The Lost Boys ****; Soft Cell: Non-Stop Exotic Video Show ****
8/21: Mad Monster Party ***1/2; Tootsie ****
8/22: The Mod Squad+ **1/2; The Replacement Killers ***
8/23: Emma ****1/2
8/24: Star Trek: The Motion Picture **1/2
8/25: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn ****; Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ***
8/26: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ****
8/27: Star Trek V: The Suck **; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ****1/2; Hunt for Red October ****
8/28: Patriot Games ***1/2; Clear and Present Danger ****; Swamp Thing ***1/2
8/29: Never Say Never Again ***; Casino Royale **1/2
8/30: The Caine Mutiny *****; Duel ****
8/31: The Avengers '66 Vol 3 ****; The Avengers '66 Vol 4 ****1/2

September (50 watched)
9/1: The Avengers '67 Vol 7 ****1/2
9/2: The Bridge on the River Kwai *****; Blood Simple ****1/2; Lady From Shanghai ***1/2
9/3: Miller's Crossing ****; The Man Who Wasn't There ****; O Brother Where Art Thou ****
9/4: Cold Comfort Farm ****; Day of the Jackal+ ****; Stop Making Sense ****1/2
9/5: Escape From New York ***1/2; Kama Sutra+ ***
9/6: Yellow Submarine ****1/2; The Incredible Adventures of Wallace and Gromit ****; Monty Python's Flying Circus V.2 ****
9/7: MP Flying Circus 3 ****; MP Flying Circus 4 ****
9/8: MP Flying Circus 6 ***1/2; MP Flying Circus 7 ***1/2
9/9: MP Flying Circus 8 ****; MP Flying Circus 9 ***1/2; MP Flying Circus 10 ***1/2
9/10: MPFC 11 ***1/2; MPFC 12 ****; MPFC 13 ***; Monty Python's Flying Circus 14th and Final DVD! Alas, only *** (could be because I was pretty burnt out on the ol' Python's by this time)
9/11: Avengers 67 V.1 ****1/2; Avengers 67 V.2 ****
9/12: Avengers 67 V.3 ****; Avengers 67 V.4 ****1/2
9/13: Avengers 67 V.5 ***1/2
9/14: Avengers 67 V. 6 ****
9/15: Avengers 67 V.8 ***1/2
9/16: Best of Triumph ****1/2; Back to the Beach ***
9/17: X2 ***1/2; Play It Again Sam ***1/2; Titanic (1953)***1/2
9/18: The Hills Have Eyes+ ***; Charade ****; The Unbearable Lightness of Being ****1/2
9/19: Matrix Revolutions ***; A Simple Plan ****
9/20: The Who Live at the Isle of Wight Festival ****
9/21: Barbarella **1/2; Smile ****
9/22: The Beguiled ***1/2
9/23: The Bad Seed ****1/2; Who's That Knocking on my Door+ ***1/2
9/24: Mary Poppins ****1/2
9/25-10/3: Cruising, no DVDs watched!

 

[ChrisBEA]

Finally had a few days where I didn't watch anything.
A few factors led to this: my PC died, I cleaned out the room and alphacatized my disks. Yard work...
I still have a good pace going. may have another coupla slow days when my PC parts finally arrive and i can build my new rig.

How's everyone else?

 

[Scotty_McW]

I hear you with this. But I do enjoy it.

I'm doing ok, my purchasing is slowing down now, so I should be able to finish it. Besides, I'm on vacation in a few days so I should be able to get alot of movies watched that week.

 

[TonyD]

just upped my list.

at 170 so far.

 

[ChrisBEA]

COme on Tony, you got work to do!
I am currently at 295.
It'll slow as we get further into summer...

 

[ChrisBEA]

COme on Tony, you got work to do!
I am currently at 295.
It'll slow as we get further into summer...

 

[ChrisBEA]

Up to 371, can't believe how many I've watched!
Been at least 40 a month all year.

 

[Mark Zimmer]

Hokey smokes Chris! Of course, having to write reviews of half the stuff I watch slows me down quite a bit but that's still an impressive total.

 

[ChrisBEA]

I've started writing reviews, but not of everything, and lately it has been mostly theatrical releases.

Please take a look at my blog, I try to update it with soemthing daily.

 

[ChrisBEA]

Anyone still here?
Up to 443 and counting.....