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"DVD Collection...What's in yours?"

I've been a DVD'ist for about a year now and now have about 60 or so in my collection. Admittedly, not everyone a classic so i'll try to blame all the suspect discs on someone else. The first one I got was Men in Black, obtained some eight months before I got my DVD player. Try as I might, I couldn't get a decent picture using it on my CD player. Mind you I got an even worse result using it in my video recorder! No, not really, I just knew that I would buy a DVD player eventually and Men in Black was secured thanks to a winning bid on the old Coke Auctions site. I only had to drink forteen million gallons of fizzy drink to get it too. What a bargain! Top film and disc though. I also got Deep Blue Sea in the same Auction. When I eventually splashed out on my player, it came with two free films, namely X-Men and Erin Brokovich. Being a bit of a fan of weird mutant like creatures, I was happy to get a Julia Roberts film and X-Men is a favourite of mine too. Good old Filmaday has contributed some eight or nine films to my collection including High Fidelity, The World is Not Enough, Lake Placid and Charlie's Angels. I chose the latter of these having not previously seen the film and this was probably the first disappointing addition to my collection, but there were more to follow. Being a bit of an Internet competition fan, I have won several DVD's from various sites including the abysmal Duets ( Gwyneth Paltrow singing? ) and Space Cowboys ( begs the question, why? ).
Some of my favourites include Hollow Man, Terminator 2, What Lies Beneath, The Thing and Best in Show. Hollow Man is the perfect film for DVD, offering endless bonus material as well as brilliant special effects. Terminator 2 sits proudly atop my DVD stand in it's tin box. Mind you it wouldn't matter what film it was, I just love the tin box! What Lies Beneath wasn't a widely applauded film but I like it anyway. The Thing is an all time classic and when I saw it in the shops for next to nothing, I just had to have it. For an old film in DVD terms, it has a generous helping of extras. Best value for money DVD in my collection. Best in Show is one that not many will have heard of and is a documentary style film about a dog show and various odd characters involved in it. Very funny.
Before going any further, I have a confession to make. Amongst my collection is a Steps DVD...there, i've said it. It's my girlfriends, honest. If ever there was an argument to go back in time to the silent classics!
Since I discovered DVD my visits to the cinema have become almost non existent. As a result I do tend to buy DVD's before i've seen them, sometimes regrettably. I hadn't seen Tomb Raider before buying it and was very disappointed with the movie. Suffice to say I have only watched it once. The same goes for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, I just can't see the appeal.
Being a family man ( by the way, that's another title I won on this website) I have many family films. The brilliant Shrek, the impressive Harry Potter thingy, the for kids only Cats and Dogs and the terrible Grinch.
So what of the future then. I have a list as long as my arm of films i'm waiting for. The new Star Wars, Spider Man, The Others, Lord of the Rings ( not long to wait now ) and From Hell are just a few that will one day be added to my list. Just watch some jerk go and invent a new medium to view films on now and i'll have it all to do again.

Lord of the Rings R1 will be turning up for me next week.

Two weeks ahead of the US/UK street date too! :)

I ordered Evil Dead 3 on R1 DVD the other week, not sure when it's coming out on R2 though.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> *shows respect for Mojo's Dawn and Evil Dead collection*

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Thanks :) I'm gonna get Evil Dead 3 when it comes out, and I was gonna get Night Of The Living Dead from SR for like £5 or whatever it was, but I think they took it off the site. I dunno whether or not to buy Day Of The Dead, as although I'd like to own it, it's like £15-20 and that's a lot to spend on a mediocre film

And cipro, you have a mostly excellen collection

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Or a Blonde thing?
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Maybe

Also Evil Dead

Lets see - The ones I can think of:

Star Wars The Phantom Menace
Monty Python The Holy Grail
Monty Python Life of Brian
Monty Python The Meaning of Life
The Green Mile
Final Fantasy
Childs Play 2
Childs Play 3
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Jurassic Park III
Pitch Black
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Road Trip
Titanic
Jaws
Goldeneye
The World is Not Enough
Live and Let Die
Stigmata
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Titan AE
Gladiator
Fight Club
The Blair Witch Project
Blair Witch 2
Sleepy Hollow
Tomb Raider
Hannibal
Silence of the Lambs
Walking with Dinosaurs
American Psycho
Charlies Angels
Village of the Damned
Scream 3
Blade Runner
Planet of the Apes
What Lies Beneath
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Or a Blonde thing?

Rosalind wrote:
> Shes got a large collection though so she proboaly needs then to be in
> alphabetical order so that she find them...I am the same with my CD
> colllection, I have 800 CDs so if they are not in alphabetical order
> then i can't find what i want to listen too......
>
> or then again maybe its just a girl thing.
>
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800? Jesus!
Yup they're in order so I can find them easily.
Probably is a gurl thing.

I’ve built up quite a substantial collection of DVDs sinse I first got my DVD player on my new PC a few years back.

Die Hard
Die Hard 2: Dies Harder
Die Hard With A Vengeance
Armageddon
U-571
Three Kings
Exit Wounds
Saving Private Ryan
Enemy At the Gate
The Rock
The Thing
Fight Club
Hard Boiled
M-I: 2
Sleepy Hollow
Purple Storm
Soldier
Con Air
Face Off
X-Men
Snatch
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Gone in 60 Seconds
Ronin
Aliens
Pitch Black

My brother’s collection
Gladiator
Casino
Goodfellas

My Mum’s collection
The Mummy Returns
What Women Want
The Last of the Mohicans
Interview with a Vampire

Reg. 1
Black Hawk Down
Donnie Darko
The One
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

On Pre-Order
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> For the pure geek effect Myst was kind enough to put her collection in
> alphabetical order.

Shes got a large collection though so she proboaly needs then to be in alphabetical order so that she find them...I am the same with my CD colllection, I have 800 CDs so if they are not in alphabetical order then i can't find what i want to listen too......

or then again maybe its just a girl thing.

Bimbo