My DVD Collection!!

I have this bad habit of buying DVD's... today I complied "The List"
Pretty bad.... but most of them are un-opened and un-watched!
Am I the only one who does this....What do you buy!?!?!

THE DVD LIST
15 MINUTES
A.I. - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AFTERSHOCK - EARTHQUAKE IN NEW YORK
ALABAMA (CONCERT)
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (NOT DISNEY)
AMERICAN BEAUTY
AMERICAN PIE
AMERICAN PIE 2
ANALYZE THIS (2 COPIES)
AUSTIN POWERS - INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY
AUSTIN POWERS - THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME
BANDITS
BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
BOILER ROOM
CATS & DOGS
CHARLIE'S ANGELS
CHICKEN RUN
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON
DEATH RACE 2000
DESPERATE FOR LOVE
DETROIT ROCK CITY
DISNEY - 101 DALMATIANS (BOOT LEG)
DISNEY - AIR BUD
DISNEY - ANNIE
DISNEY - ATLANTIS
DISNEY - COOL RUNNINGS
DISNEY - DINOSAUR
DISNEY - DUMBO (BOOT LEG)
DISNEY - FANTASIA 2000
DISNEY - LADY AND THE TRAMP (2 COPIES)
DISNEY - LADY AND THE TRAMP II\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - MARY POPPINS\t\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - MELODY TIME\t\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - MONSTERS, INC.\t\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - MR. MAGOO\t\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - PINOCCHIO\t\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - POLLYANNA\t\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - RECESS SCHOOL'S OUT\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - SNOW WHITE (2 COPIES)\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - THE ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD AND MR. TOAD\t\t\t
DISNEY - THE BOOK OF POOH\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - THE JUNGLE BOOK\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - THE LITTLE MERMAID \t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - THE LITTLE MERMAID II\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - THE PRINCESS DIARIES\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - THE ROCKETEER\t\t\t\t\t\t
DISNEY - THE SWORD IN THE STONE (BOOT LEG)\t\t\t
DISNEY - TOY STORY 2\t\t\t\t\t\t
DR. T & THE WOMEN\t\t\t\t\t\t
EARTHQUAKE\t\t\t\t\t\t
FOOLS RUSH IN (2 COPIES)\t\t\t\t\t
GALAXY QUEST\t\t\t\t\t\t
GET SHORTY (2 COPIES)\t\t\t\t\t\t
GLADIATOR\t\t\t\t\t\t
HACKERS\t\t\t\t\t\t
HANNIBAL\t\t\t\t\t\t
HARDBALL\t\t\t\t\t\t
HARRY POTTER & THE SORCER'S STONE\t\t\t\t
HEAT\t\t\t\t\t\t
HEIST\t\t\t\t\t\t
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE\t\t\t\t\t
JACOB'S LADDER\t\t\t\t\t\t
JUNGLE BOOK (NOT DISNEY)\t\t\t\t\t
JURASSIC PARK I \t\t\t\t\t\t
JURASSIC PARK II - THE LOST WORLD\t\t\t\t
JURASSIC PARK III\t\t\t\t\t\t
KING PIN\t\t\t\t\t\t
K-PAX\t\t\t\t\t\t
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL\t\t\t\t\t\t
LARA CROFT - TOMB RAIDER\t\t\t\t\t
MATRIX\t\t\t\t\t\t
MEMENTO\t\t\t\t\t\t
MOULIN ROUGE\t\t\t\t\t\t
MY DOG SKIP\t\t\t\t\t\t
MYSTERY MEN\t\t\t\t\t\t
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S - CHRISTMAS VACATION\t\t\t\t
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S - VACATION\t\t\t\t\t
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S - VAN WILDER\t\t\t\t\t
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S - VEGAS VACATION\t\t\t\t
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?\t\t\t\t\t
OCEAN'S ELEVEN\t\t\t\t\t\t
OFFICE SPACE\t\t\t\t\t\t
PEARL HARBOR\t\t\t\t\t\t
PLANET OF THE APES\t\t\t\t\t\t
PULP FICTION\t\t\t\t\t\t
QUEEN OF THE DAMNED\t\t\t\t\t\t
ROSEWOOD\t\t\t\t\t\t
SEVEN\t\t\t\t\t\t
SHREK\t\t\t\t\t\t
SPACEBALLS\t\t\t\t\t\t
SWORDFISH\t\t\t\t\t\t
THE BIG HIT\t\t\t\t\t\t
THE BONE COLLECTOR\t\t\t\t\t\t
THE CRYING GAME
THE FLY & THE FLY 2
THE GREEN MILE
THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS
THE JACKAL (2 COPIES)
THE LONE RANGER COLLECTION - VOLUME 1
THE LONE RANGER COLLECTION - VOLUME 2
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
THE LOST BOYS
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
THE MASK (2 COPIES)
THE MUMMY
THE MUMMY RETURNS
THE NET
THE NUTTY PROFESSOR II
THE OTHERS
THE PATRIOT
THE PRINCE OF EGYPT
THE SIXTH SENSE
THE SOPRANOS - FIRST SEASON
THE THREE STOOGES - VOLUME ONE
THE THREE STOOGES - VOLUME TWO
THE TOMAS CROWN AFFAIR
THIR13EN GHOSTS
THREE AMIGOS
THREE KINGS
TITAN A.E. (CARTOON)
TITANIC
TRAFFIC
TRAINING DAY
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
WHAT LIES BENEATH
X-MEN

Gosh, I think I could retire on the money you have spent on unopened, unwatched DVD's. :laughing:

Oh My Gosh!!!!!!!! I'm coming over to your place to watch movies LOL.

We have only just got a D.V.D player so I haven't got any D.V.D.'S but I do have a few videos -

Almost Famous
Amadeus
A Night At the Roxburry
Billy Eliot
Bridget Jones Diary
Chicken Run
Crouching Tiger Hiden Dragon
Days of Thunder
Dogma
Eat Drink Man Woman
Ever After
Happy Gilmore
Jerry Maguire
The Karate Kid
Nottinghill
Outside Providence
The Princess Bride
Remember the Titans
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare in Love
Shrek (Love that so much)
Speed
Ten Things I Hate About You
You've Got Mail

A very strange collection LOL.

@ Lhezzza: Are you starting a retail or video rental business or what?!

That's quite a collection! We recently got a DVD player, but I don't know that there are many movies I could justify owning. So far, the only exceptions are:

1) The Schoolhouse Rock Collection

2) The Lord of the Rings Movies (waiting til Nov. 12 for "expanded" edition)

Enjoy!

Lizza your DVD collection looks like mine! We have something like 130 DVDs. We've watched most of them, but there are a few that I got because I wanted to see the movie and never got around to it. I went through a phase when we first got it and still had money. LOL Now we have to be real picky since money is tight.

Lord of the Rings is definitely a must-have though! I agree with you there Bill.

I only have about 12, give or take a few. Most are Disney and hubby has his Redux Apocolypse Now. I can't forget Harry Potter!

I got my Dvd player simply because they started releasing The X-Files by season. So, now my meager collections looks like this:

The X-Files Seasons 1-4 (working on getting 5, damn money )
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 1&2
When Harry Met Sally
X-Men
Robin Hood (not Disney)
The Aristocats (Disney)
Say Anything (LOVE IT!!! If you like the movie get the DvD, great features.)
Return To Me


I think that is it, but I know I want to own more .

Oh Goodness..... I bought another Disney Movie on-line this morning....

Beauty and the Beast

(an all time favorite!)

Yeah, I know I'm a junkie!!!

We haven't purchased a DVD player/recorder as we've invested a lot in our video collection, which we've been working on for 10 years. A dying medium - but it makes no sense for us to invest in DVD unless it's recordable, and the industry standard hasn't been set yet, so if you record on a DVD recorder, you can't necessarily play it back on a different manufacturer's machine.

I included movies in my "obsession" list.

Including the movies we have recorded (sometimes 2/3 on one tape), we have 744 movies. All have been watched, many of them multiple times. Hubby has (what today is diagnosed as) "ADD" - attention deficit disorder. He works better if there's lots going on around him, and he can't fall asleep unless something's playing on the TV.

Because we we live in an R.V., most of them are in storage at any given time, but we "rotate" them out regularly.

I'll list our favorites (not in any order).

Dr. Strangelove (is my favorite movie of all time)
The In-Laws
Simon
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Young Frankenstein
Most of the Abbott & Costello movies.
(Favorite is A&C Meet Frankenstein & the Wolfman)
Strange Brew
All the Pink Panther movies
Many Rocky & Bullwinkle episodes (most valuable is the Pottsylvania Creeper)
Many Woody Allen movies. Favorite is Love & Death
The National Lampoon Vacation movies
Monty Python: Life of Brian
Monty Python: MP and the Holy Grail
All the Fawly Towers series
All the Black Adder series
We have a lot of Bill Murray movies (favorites are Where the Buffalo Roam and The Man Who Knew Too Little)
..a lot of John Candy movies:
Love SCTV and just about anything Harold Ramis and Christopher Guest have done
Club Paradise
W.C. Fields: Bank Dick, My Little Chickadee and International House
Lots of the Stooges.
Other Peter Sellers: Murder By Death, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, Being There
Volunteers
Lots of Sgt. Bilko (Old TV show w/Phil Silvers)
Most of the Honeymooners episodes (including many "Lost" episodes and "Hidden" episodes)
Most of the Marx Brothers movies
All the Bing Crosby/Bob Hope "Road Picture" movies

Mystery/Action/Drama

All the Agatha Christie movies that were made with Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot
Murder on the Orient Express
Most Hitchcock movies. Favorite is Rebecca
Room With A View
All of the Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes movies
Most Charlie Chan movies
The 13th Warrior
Jaws
Lord of the Rings (new)

Henry V (Kenneth Branaugh)
A Man for All Seasons
Beckett
Lawrence of Arabia
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 version with Charles Laughton and Clarke Gable, NOT the version with Marlon Brando)
Scarface
The Godfather series
Boondock Saints
Many Humphrey Bogart Movies (Favorites: The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo and Casablanca)
Rollerball (the OLD one with James Caan)
A lot of the James Bond movies
All the Bruce Lee movies


Sci-Fi:

Aliens (all of them)
All Star Trek movies (Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan is favorite. There is no other movie where the soundtrack is better matched to set moods - not even Amadeus)
Apollo 13
Capricorn One
Marooned (Gene Hackman at his absolute best)
Escape From NY
The Thing (1951 and 1982)
Of course, all the Star Wars movies
All the Planet of the Apes movies (the old ones)
Outland
West World
Matrix
Independence Day

War:

Sink the Bismark
Torah! Torah! Torah!
Stalingrad
A Bridge Too Far
Das Boot
Ice Station Zebra
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Fail Safe: one of the most chilling cold war movies made
Von Ryan's Express
The Great Escape
Many more


Horror:

The Shining (the OLD one, with Jack Nicholson)
The Hitcher
Psycho Series (again only the OLD one, with Anthony Perkins)
Bela Lugosi movies (Favorite is Dracula)
Lon Cheney (Favorite is Wolfman)
Exorcist and Exocist III (George C. Scott is GREAT)
The Mummy movies - old and new
Vincent Price movies
Boris Karloff movies


Westerns:

Many John Wayne flicks
The Wild Bunch


I could go on almost forever. ...and I'm sure I'm forgetting some that I absolutely LOVE.

And yes, as we travel around the country, we often find Video stores going out of business....

Love X-Files and Say Anything.

We also have lots of Disneys - Favorite is Jungle Book.

Also forgot The Odd Couple and Odd Couple II. Odd Couple II was made 17 years after the end of the television series, and it was the best sequel ever made.

Obviously I have no opinions about this...

Bill...I love The Lord of The Rings!!! I can't wait for the next one!!!
Leslie, you have two of my favorites on your list..."10 Things I Hate About You" (first movie I ever saw Health Ledger in ) and Nottinghill (Hugh Grant is so sexy and I love Julia Roberts!..that guy in his underwear is hilarious!! :laughing: )

Laurie, don't feel bad...up until last Christmas, we did not own a DVD, and only now have one because it came with the new Playstation we bought for the kids. I just couldn't justify buying one and spending the money on it when we have so many videos and like you said, you can't really record on most of them...I tape my soap opera every day while I'm at work, and even if we could record on one, I don't know if you could program it to come on and tape at a certain time???
Anyway...we have one with the playstation, and have had it for a year almost, but still have not bought one single DVD. I don't even have a clue how to use the DVD player. I'm sure it's not that hard, but reading the directions that came with it it sounded a bit confusing.
Plus the playstation is in the kids room, so we would either have to bring it in and hook it up in the living room everytime we wanted to watch a DVD, or watch it on the kids TV. Too much of a hassel.

Also, Laurie, I know this is off topic, but you mentioned your hubby has "ADD"....my brother has been diagnosed with that, and he thinks for sure I have it, he says it is hereditary, and that both mom and dad had it, he is sure. I have read a very good book on it, and I think I probably DO have it...but I am not being treated for it. To be treated or it, I would have to go through a bunch of tests in Des Moines (70 miles away) because they don't do that at our small local clinic or hospital. And my husband thinks it is a bunch of bologna, so he doesn't think I need to be on any medication for it. (he's just that way...he also doesn't believe in anti-depressants. )
Anyway, just had to throw that in. I have soooo many symptoms of ADD!!!

Okay, back to the DVD discussion!! :laughing: (sorry)

I forgot - I just bought hubby the 1st season of Sanford and Son on DVD. It is his fav show of all time.

Wow! It seems like the trend here is that you either have A LOT of DVD's or you have hardly any. :LOL: As for hubby and I, I think we fall into the catergory of having alot. I think we have somewhere around 50, maybe more, maybe a few less. Hubby is really picky about his DVD's. He won't let ANYONE at all borrow them because he is afraid of them getting scratched or broken. Plus, they are kind of expensive.

Next on our list of DVD's to get is Monsters Inc., The Glass House, Moulan Rouge, Monster's Ball, A Walk to Remember...I could go on and on and on...

We got our DVD player about 2 years ago and we went nuts buying DVDs. :laughing:

Hubby LOVES Sanford & Son. Adrienne - does your Hubby like All In The Family, too? (Same era of show). It's up there on our favorites list.

Surprisingly, I don't have any DVDs yet, although I had CDs before I had a CD player I've already asked for a combo VHS/DVD player for Christmas, and I know what DVDs I'm going to get first:

Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings super deluxe edition
Rose Red (Hey, I liked the mini-series, and the DVD is way cheaper than the tape)
Evil Dead deluxe edition

Spooky - I think your Hubby's right to be picky about the DVDs. I personally think it's a terrible medium. All the extras and the quality are cool - but they do get damaged so easily. We have a lot of CDs, and it's SO frustrating to spend that money and then have them get scratched or something.

Laurie, DVDs are actually tougher than they look. Earl is notoriously hard on everything - CDs, console games, everything. We haven't had one DVD get scratched or broken, and he plays them on his computer, we take them to friend's houses, etc. I am very careful with them, but Earl just isn't that careful with much of anything.

One of the things I like about DVD is that you can't wear it out, and it doesn't get brittle after a few years. If you ask Earl, and I have to agree on this point, the sound and picture quality is a ton better than VHS. But we also have the full surround sound, yadda yadda yadda. I'm completely sold on DVD.

Also wanted to add that Strange Brew is finally released on DVD, as of yesterday I think. I'm so excited. I'm not usually that into comedy, but that one is classic, eh hosers?

I would say "Take off, eh?" but one can't argue about the quality thing. But I also think that so far you've just been lucky. I hate to sound like some old woman, but I've lived through Vinyl, 8-track, cassettes, CDs, etc. and I kind of compare the VHS and DVD to cassettes and CDs. With cassettes and VHS tapes, there's always the problem of the tape getting caught in a dirty machine, and they definitely "wear out" over time. I don't like VHS better than DVD. I'm just pissed that as long as the world is going digital, just pick a better medium! Look at the mini-disk. It comes in it's own "container," so you have all the advantages of the quality of CD or DVD, but you don't run the risk of scratching them. Kind of like when with computers they moved from actual floppy discs to what you know as a floppy disc - which is the original version of a floppy disc contained in a plastic casing.

OMG !!!!!!!!!!!
Hey , I have 2 teenagers here who got berserk as I showed them this huge list of DVD's you have !!!! When can they come ??

I don't have many DVD's either, most of my movies are on VHS. The few DVD's I have are:

The Mummy Returns
Lord Of The Rings 2-disc set
From Hell 2-disc set
Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back 2-disc set
Jeepers Creepers
The Others 2-disc set
The Fast And The Furious
Star Wars Episode 1 2-disc set
Queen Of The Damned
Rush Hour 2