Top 100 DVD Census (2005 Edition) - Vote Now For Your Top 10 (1 Viewer)

[Jess-W]

Movies

1 Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Triogy
2 Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Ultimate Edition
3 Snow White Platinum Edition
4 Hellboy 2-disc Special Edition
5 Back to the Future: The Complete Trilogy -V2
6 Monsters, Inc Collector's Edition
7 The Lion King Platinum Edition
8 Finding Nemo
9 Superman: The Movie
10 Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Extreme DVD

TV

1 Gargoyles: Season 1
2 Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within

 

[Adam_S]

1. Lord of the Rings Extended Editions
2. Walt Disney Treasures On the Front Lines
3. Seven Samurai Criterion collection
4. Untitled: Almost Famous
5. Pollyanna Vault Disney Collection
6. Looney Tunes Golden Collection
7. Warner Bros. Legends Collection
8. Fox Studio Classics box set (sunrise, all about eve, how green was my valley, gentleman's agreement)
9. Fight Club original 2 disc release
10. Traffic Criterion Collection

TV:
1. Band of Brothers
2. Six Feet Under Season One
3. Cowboy BeBop
4. Simpsons Season two
5. His and Her Circumstances

 

[MikeHughes]

Hmmm, is this vote limited to Region 1 releases???

 

[rich_d]

FILMS

1. LOTR:EE TRILOGY
Sure I could knock it down but I'd rather just list what I believe to be the best.
2. 8 1/2
Fantastic film, amazingly silky b&w transfer plus interesting extras
3. FASSBINDER'S BRD TRILOGY
Three terrific films, not a dog in sight. Beautifully presented.
4. JEAN COCTEAU'S ORPHIC TRILOGY
O.K. I really like the guy's films.
5. THE RULES OF THE GAME
Great and important film, terrific release.
6. BRASIL
Only flaws are non-anamorphic and price.
7. CASABLANCA
We still have Paris.
8. MULHOLLAND DR.
No extras to speak of, no chapter stops. The film I enjoy watching. Terrific image and terrific audio.
9. NORTH BY NORTHWEST
My statement for a single-disc film with terrific extras including commentary and score only track for a fantastic low price. Yes, Vertigo and Rear Window are better films but they don't shine like this disc does.
10. THE MONDO CANE COLLECTION
Not a great film in the bunch but collectively weird enough and presented with much care and love to make my list. Just because. Note: Chinatown would have gotten this spot but I suspect a new release will be out in 2005.

TV

1. Twin Peaks - The First Season
2. Band of Brothers
3. Disney Treasures - Tomorrowland
4. The Simpson's - Fourth Year (the best year)
5. The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season One (notice how reviewers ignored season 3 and 4 like the quality went down or something, what nonsense).
6. From Earth to the Moon
7. The Office
8. Twilight Zone - The Definitive Edition - Season One (double dip for many or otherwise it would be much higher on my list. It is terrific.)
9. Disney Treasures - On The Front Line
10. The Prisoner:Complete Series

 

[Chris Farmer]

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Extended Edition
Fantastic films, extended cuts that truly ad to the depth and character of the movie, and some of the most extensive extras ever produced. The video on the first two movies has flaws, but it's still very good, and the audio is unsurpassed. This is the definitive statement of what the DVD format is capable of.

2. Gone With the Wind 65th Anniversary Edition
One of the greatest movies of all time gets the work and restoration it deserves. Probably the best DVD out there for a catalog title. A fantastic effort from the people at Warner Bros.

3. Alien Quadrilogy
Two classic movies, one very flawed one, and one dud. All get great treatment, including an attempt to restore the original intent for Alien 3 despite Fox's efforts to more or less bury it forever. The real Alien 3 never happened, but Fincher's vision can at least be glimpsed on this set.

4. Fight Club 2 Disc SE
One of the first DVDs to show what was possible is still one of the best. While the movie would have eventually gotten the recognition it deserved despite the theatrical bomb, there is no question that this DVD helped speed this process up enormously.

5. Black Hawk Down Deluxe Edition
Incredible A/V and a great movie. The extras are highly informative and go the extra mile to talk about not just the movie but also the real-life events that Ridley Scott did such a great job recreating.

6. Se7en Platinum Series
Fincher knows DVD and what you can do with it, and this extensive set is no exception.

7. Toy Story Ultimate Toy Box
Two modern classics that are already some of the greatest animated movies ever. Terrific extras, and incredible visual and audio quality.

8. Fantasia Anthology
Claire de Lune. Need I say more?

9. Warner Legends Collection
Three classic films, three classic DVDs. Don't make me pick just one.

10. Pearl Harbor Vista Series
Say what you will about the movie (I know I have), but this is still a fantastic DVD set on every level. The packaging is gorgeously done, the A/V is top notch, and like BHD, the extras are very well done both in terms of the movies and the actual events surrounding it. The movie doesn't deserve to make any "Top 10" list, but it's hard to deny the DVD.

 

[MikeHughes]

Movies:
1. Lord of the Rings: Extended Edition Trilogy
2. Alien Quadrilogy
3. Gone with the wind SE
4. Citizen Kane SE
5. Clerks 10th Anniversary
6. Lawrence of Arabia 3-Disc LE (Region 2 France)
Despite the wrong color timing, this is one hot package.
7. The Ultimate Matrix Collection
8. To kill a mockingbird
9. Carpenters The Thing CE (anamorphic re-issue)
10. Warner Legends Boxset

TV:
1. Dead like me Season 1 (some Network better pick up that series because I'm madly in love with it )
2. Band of Brothers
3. Shogun
4. Dune 3-Disc SE(Yes, I actually liked this mini-series, despite its cheap look )
5. Well, to choose a fifth one, I would actually have to roll some dice, because I can't decide.

 

[Dane Marvin]

Films:
1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Extended Edition Boxset
2. Gone With the Wind: Four-Disc SE
3. Casablanca: Two-Disc SE
4. Singin' in the Rain: Two-Disc SE
5. Citizen Kane: Two-Disc SE
6. Wrong Men & Notorious Women: Five Hitchcock Thrillers 1935-1946: Criterion Collection
7. Brazil: Criterion Collection
8. The Adventures of Robin Hood: Two-Disc SE
9. Almost Famous: Untitled Bootleg Cut
10. Spartacus: Criterion Collection

Television:
1. Freaks & Geeks: Yearbook Limited Edition
2. The Twilight Zone: The Definitive Season 1
3. American Dreams: Season 1 Extended Music Edition
4. Futurama: Volume 3
5. The Simpsons: The Complete Fourth Season

 

[David Galindo]

Some have been putting the Looney Tunes Golden Collection in the Television category...but I thought it was more appropriate in the Film category? Or am I wrong?

 

[Garrett Lundy]

Television:

1. SHOGUN
2. The Outer Limits (1963-1964) Season One
3. Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Collection Vol.5
4. Family Guy
5. Invader ZIM

Movies:

1. The Lord of the Rings (Extended Editions)
2. The Matrix collection
3. Robocop: Criterion Collection
4. Conan the Barbarian: Extended cut (best commentary ever!)
5. Heavy Metal
6. Dracula (1992): Superbit (Best contrast of a SB and a standard release)
7. Fight Club: Platinum series
8. Red Beard: Criterion Collection
9. Blade: New Line Platinum
10. Interview with the Vampire: DTS release.

 

[ScottR]

Films:

1. Gone With The Wind-4-disc SE (flawless)
2. Casablanca -2-disc SE (flawless)
3. Snow White Platinum Edition (beautiful)
4. The Adventures of Robin Hood SE (beautiful)
5. The Toy Box Toy Story/Toy Story 2 (perfect)
6. Meet Me in St. Louis SE (faithful)
7. Star Wars Trilogy (rockin')
8. Frankenstein Legacy Edition (smooth)
9. Spartacus Criterion Collection (faithful)
10.1776 Director's Cut (nice)


TV Shows:

1. I Love Lucy-Seasons 1 and 2 (silky smooth image)
2. The Twilight Zone: Definitive Edition (Season 1)(you are now in 1959)
3. Wonder Woman- Season 1 (color, color, color)
4. Ken Burns' The Civil War (epic)
5. The Thorn Birds (elegant release)
6. Seinfeld (perfect)
7. Gilligan's Island- Season One (lots of fun)
8. The Flinstones- Season One (memories restored)
9. The Beatles' Anthology (lots to learn)
10. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Reissue)(pretty much 1964 cut)

 

[Roger Rollins]

FILMS:
1. GONE WITH THE WIND SE
2. LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION 1 & 2
3. CASABLANCA SE
4. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN SE
5. WARNER LEGENDS COLLECTION
6. FIGHT CLUB
7. THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT-THE COMPLETE COLLECTION
8. NORTH BY NORTHWEST
9. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
10.(Sight unseen) WARNER GANGSTERS COLLECTION

(If it were anamorphic, I would include TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD...guess I'll have to wait for HD-DVD to see that one at its best

TELEVISION
1.FAMILY GUY
2.SOUTH PARK (Season boxed sets)
3.THE SIMPSONS
4.NIP/TUCK
5.ER
6.I LOVE LUCY
7.24
8.SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (1981 SHO)
9.THE SOPRANOS
10.THE SHIELD

(Honorable mention: HERE'S LUCY-A scary-bad series for the most part, but the disc was prepared with such quality, care & cleverness, that I have to give kudos)

 

[Steve_Knutzen]

FILM
1. Lord of The Rings Extended Editions
2. Fight Club: 2-Disc SE
3. The Usual Suspects: Special Edtion
4. Night of the Living Dead: Millenium Edition
5. Unbreakable: Vista Series
6. Re-Animator: Millenium Edition
7. Goodfellas: 2-disc SE
8. Dawn of The Dead: Ultimate Edition
9. Clerks X
10. Donnie Darko

TV
1. Freaks and Geeks- The Complete Series: Yearbook Edition
2. Seinfeld: Re-Gift Set (Seasons 1-3)
3. Simpsons: Season 3
4. Arrested Development: Season 1
5. Batman: The Animated Series: Volume 1

 

[Ben_@]

1. Alien Quadrilogy
2. Fight Club
3. Lord of the Rings EE
4. Brazil Criterion edition
5. Dark City
6. The Ultimate Matrix
7. This is Spinal Tap
8. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Platinum edition
9. Disney Treasures: On the Front Lines
10. Hellboy Director's Cut

 

[Mark_vdH]

01. The Passion of Joan of Arc: Criterion Collection
02. Gone With The Wind: 4-Disc 65th Anniversary Edition
03. The Stanley Kubrick Collection (Remastered)
04. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition
05. The Godfather Trilogy
06. Rebecca: Criterion Collection
07. The Battle of Algiers: Criterion Collection
08. Capturing the Friedmans
09. Once Upon a Time in the West
10. The Right Stuff: Special Edition

TV:
01. Seinfeld: Seasons 1-3
02. The Simpsons: Season 4
03. Das Boot
04. Band of Brothers
05. Twin Peaks: Season 1

Best import-only title: Riget/The Kingdom: Series 1&2 (4 disc set)

 

[Planet_jake]

Best DVD's Ever Released:
1. John Cassavetes: Five Films - The Criterion Collection
2. Fanny & Alexander - The Criterion Collection (5-Disc Set)
3. Gone with the Wind - Four-Disc Collector's Edition
4. Brazil - The Criterion Collection
5. The Leopard - The Criterion Collection
6. The Movies Begin - A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894-1913
7. by Brakhage: And Anthology - The Criterion Collection
8. Videodrome - The Criterion Collection
9. THX 1138 - The George Lucas Director's Cut
10. Walt Disney Treasures: Walt Disney On the Front Lines

SO yeah, Kudos to Criterion as usual, for releasing the two greatest achievements in the history of Home Video and have a nice day.

 

[Jough]

Well, the Looney Tunes could go either way, but of course you may list TV DVDs in the overall list - I just wanted to include a separate TV-on-DVD list since people requested that last year.

And I think we can allow releases from other regions, as long as you specify which region. However, it's unlikely that a non-region-1 release will make the top 100, so including one on your list is like voting for Nader. Do so if your conscience requires it, but know that you're throwing away your vote.

 

[Byron_T]

Top DVD's

1. LOTR EE Trilogy
2. Dawn of the Dead (UE)
3. Ikiru (Criterion)
4. Memento (LE)
5. Band of Brothers
6. Fight Club (2-Disc)
7. Battle of Algiers (Criterion)
8. Seven (2-Disc)
9. Clerks X
10. Star Wars Trilogy Box

Top TV on DVD

1. Band of Brothers
2. X-Files sets
3. Sopranos sets (Season 3)
4. Simpson sets (Season 4)
5. Seinfeld (Seasons 1,2,3 Box)

 

[scottLarson]

Movies:
1.LOTR:EE
These are my fav. movies of all time. Peter Jackson and crew did a great job of adaption of the hardest books to adapt to a movie.

2.The Utimate Ric Flair Collection:
It's six hours plus of Flair.Enough Said

3.Black Hawk Down:three disc edition
My fav. war movie and there is a great documentary

4.Original Star Wars Trilogy-
It's about damn time to have Star Wars on dvd.

5.Alien Set-
Two great movies in this collection. Along with great documentaries

6.Dawn of the Dead UE-
My fav. horror movie done in three different verisons

7.Indiana Jones-
Three Great movies.

8.T2-UE
One of the greatest actions movies ever. One of the first great dvd's in dvd history that I got.

9.Clerks X-
Typical great Kevin Smith dvd. I'm waiting for Mallrats X

10.Casablanca SE
One of the Greatest love stories of all time.

TV
1.Freaks and Geeks
The LOTR of TV sets
2.Simpsons Season 4
Um it's Season 4 of the Simpsons.
3.Futurama-
Another great job by Fox
4.Looney tunes Golden Collections-
The kings of cartoons shorts are on dvd

5.Cheers
There not much for featurates but it's the tv show that speaks for it's self

 

[troy]

My vote below:

Top 10 DVD Movie
1) Pulp Fiction: Collectors Edition
2) The Godfather Collection
3) Seven Samurai: Criterion Collection
4) Rashomon: Criterion Collection
5) Casablanca: Special Edition
6) The Matrix
7) Terminator 2: Ultimate Edition
8) Amadeus: Special Edition
9) Amelie: Collectors Edition
10) Superman: The Movie

 

[Mike.B]

Okay, I decided to rank mine based on which ones I would first re-buy if something happened to my current collection.

Movies on DVD

1) Star Wars Trilogy
2) Goodfellas - Two-disc SE
3) The Godfather Collection
4) Alien Quadrilogy
5) The Adventures of Indiana Jones - Complete Collection
6) JFK - Two-disc SE
7) Halloween - Limited Edition
8) Traffic - Criterion Collection
9) Dawn of the Dead - Ultimate Edition
10) Chinatown

TV on DVD

1) The Simpsons - Complete 4th Season (if I had to choose just one)
2) Seinfeld - Season 3
3) Homicide: Life on the Street - Complete 4th Season
4) South Park - Complete 2nd Season
5) Sports Night - The Complete Collection