Top 5 DVD's most looking forward to this coming year?
 

I know there are threads for the specific release dates, but for all the release dates starting with tomorrow Jan. 6 (for known release as of today), Can be based on movie or just anticipating specs of bonus materials...what are your top 5 DVD's you are most looking forward to in the near future?

No order...
1. Lost in Translation
2. Swimming Pool
3. Freddy vs. Jason
4. Thirteen
5. tie: American Splendor/Secret Lives of Dentists

Schindler's List
Splash 20th anniversary
Last two seasons of Buffy
Star Wars OT (hopefully)
Gilligan's Island: Season 1

LOTR: ROTK Extended Edition
Star Wars OT if it comes out
Mystic River
Matrix Revolutions
drawing a blank on a fifth one at the moment.

1. Star Wars OT (ANH, ESB, ROTJ)
2. Return of the King: Extended Edition
3. Forbidden Planet (2-Disc SE)
4. Schindler's List
5. TMNT (new) Various Releases (Jan. 13th vol. 5&6, March 23rd vol. 7&8)

1) The Postman Always Rings Twice ('46)
2) My Darling Clementine
3) Dawn Of The Dead SE
4) LOTR: Return Of the King EE
5) Tie:
The Accidental Tourist
The Prisoner Of Second Avenue
The Searchers SE
Gone With the Wind SE
Meet me In St Louis SE
A Room With A View SE

its hard to pare it down to 5.
January alone has 3 titles that have been high on my want list ever since i got my first player.

Star Wars
Seinfeld - don't care for season one, but hey at least it is a start!
Ultimate Ric Flair collection volume 2 (there will almost certainly be one)
SpiderMan 2
Cold Mountain

Playtime Criterion - based on restored 70 mm elements
Dial M for Murder - If it happens
Laura - Ditto
Chinatown 30th Anniversary Edition - If there is one
Mary Poppins (SE)

1. Married with Children Season 2
2. Married with Children Season 3
3. Married with Children Season 4
4. Married with Children Season 5
5. Married with Children Season 6

Star Trek original series box set(s)
LOTR - Return of the King EE
Kung Fu - Season 1
Seinfeld - Season 1
Star Wars trilogy (Snowball's chance in hell for original version.)

The DVDs that I am most looking forward to in 2004:
Return of the King EE
Kill Bill
The Last Samurai
Troy
Underworld
Matrix Revolutions (or a Matrix box set with a better transfer on first one)

Open Range
Lost in Translation
21 Grams
Rules of the Game - Criterion
American Splendor

I'll throw in with ctyankee and hope (again) for Dial M for Murder, though I'm not holding my breath. I'd also like to see The Spy Who Came in from the Cold make its way onto an available DVD, as well as Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Lumet's Prince of the City -- both of which make my top five should they be announced. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane and Magic (Anthony Hopkins) would be nice, too.

Honorable mentions: The Human Stain; The Station Agent, Swimming Pool.

1. Ed Wood
2. Freaks and Geeks complete series
3. Star Wars
4. Seinfeld
5. Return of the King

Hopefully another simpsons series
and maybe Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow

Return of the King - Extended
Mary Poppins - Special Edition
Room With a View - Special Edition
Maurice - Criterion
The Devils - promised Region 2 UK special edition

oh and more Futurama :)

NYPD Blue 03
ROTK: EE

1) LOTR: Return of the King EE
2) Kill Bill (combined version)
3) Dead Like Me (Season 1)
4) Star Wars OT
5) D.C. Cab (ok, maybe not coming out this year, but one can hope, right?)

The Shield : Season 2
Mystic River
Vanishing Point
Matchstick Men
Superfly

1. X-Men 2.5
2. Pearl Harbor 2: Pearlmageddon (unless this is already out elsewhere)
3. Star Trek VI: SE
4. Terminator 2: SSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEE
5. Charlie Chaplin Collection: Superbit

1)LOTR: Return of the King EE
2)Cold Mountain
3) Master and Commander
4)Kill Bill (Both movies)
5)Spiderman 2 (Dvd collection)

1. ROTK EE
2. Schindler's List
3. 21 grams
4. Star Wars OT
5. Kill Bill combined

Mary Poppins SE sounds good :D Hopefully ER Season 2 will come out also.

Here's mom's list:
1. Seinfeld Season 1
2. Seinfeld Season 1
3. Seinfeld Season 1
4. Seinfeld Season 1
5. Seinfeld Season 1

I forgot to mention (if the rumors are true) = Heat SE, and Goodfellas SE

Ed Wood

Kill Bill (Both Volumes)
LOTR: ROTK EE
Matrix Box Set
Seinfeld
GI Joe Season 1

1. Ikiru Criterion

2. Rules of the Game Criterion

3. Lost in Translation

4. Return of the King Extended Edition

5. 21 Grams

With Ikiru coming out today, I will bump all others up and add Floating Weeds Criterion to number 5.

Hmm...

Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2
Return of the King
Master & Commander
The Last Samurai
Star Wars Episodes 4-6
Ed Wood
Goodfellas SE (Yes, I know)
Shawshank Redemption SE
The Lower Depths-Criterion
Thirteen
Wonderland
Seinfeld Complete Seasons
Friends Complete Seasons

1. Hour of the Wolf
2. Persona
3. Clifford
4. Meet Me in St. Louis
5. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

And King Kong, L'Age d'or, The Cremaster Cycle, and The Films of Kenneth Anger Vol. 1, if they finally happen.

Only 5 huh? I can think of alot more but here is my list:

1. ROTK:EE and TE
2. Star Wars Trilogy
3. Matrix Revolutions
4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
5. Freddy vs. Jason

Others like Spiderman 2, Van Helsing, or any other rocking summer movie too.

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Star Wars Trilogy Ep4-6
LOTR ROTK EE
Freddy VS Jason
Matrix Revolutions
Goodfellas SE

1. Star Wars OT
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Extended Edition
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Theatrical Edition
4. Mary Poppins SE
5. X-Men 2.5

In no particular order:

LOTR-ROTK
LOTR-ROTK - EE
Star Wars 4, 5, 6
Last Samurai
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

That's actually 7 if you count Star Wars as 3! Sorry!

1. Goodfellas SE
2. Ed Wood SE
3. Lost In Translation
4. Kill Bill (both)
5. The Rules of the Game:CC and Ikiru: CC

Rules Of The Game - Criterion
Dawn Of The Dead SE
The Final Countdown - Blue Underground
Kill Bill Vols 1 & 2
Zatoichi (Kitano) - R2 Japan

1 King Kong 2 disc SE w/ Son of Kong remastered as easter egg, come on WB make this a reality.

2. LOTR Return of the King EE, Nuff Said.

3. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Remastered and restored, 2 Disc Box al la West Side Story, with Eastwood, and Wallach commentary, Please hear this MGM.

4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/ The hound of the Baskervilles licened from Fox to MPI, so they, can incorporate it in ther wonderfull collection.

5. Song of the South Disney Tresures Wave 4

some i know are not in the works, but there is hope

1. The Rules of the Game/La Règle du jeu (Renoir/1939/Criterion)--January 20th

2. Ingmar Bergman Collection: Persona/Shame/Passion of Anna/Hour of the Wolf/The Serpent's Egg (MGM)--February 10th

3. Diary of a Country Priest/Journal d'un curé de campagne (Bresson/1950/Criterion)--February 3rd

4. Ikiru (Kurosawa/1952/Criterion)--January 6th

5. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges/1944/Paramount)--not announced yet


10 Honorable Mentions
La Dolce vita (Fellini/1960/Koch Lorber vs Paramount)
Kings of the Road (Wenders/1976/Anchor Bay)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett/1977/Milestone)
In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder/1978/Fantoma)
Eisenstein: The Silent Years (Criterion)
The Leopard/Il Gattopardo (Visconti/1963/Criterion)
L'Age d'or (Buñuel/1930/Kino)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson/1966/Criterion)
Floating Weeds & A Story of Floating Weeds (Ozu/1959/1934/Criterion)
Freaks (Browning/1932/Warner)

1. American Pie Super Ultimate Definitive Edition
2. Americian Pie 2 Super Ultimate Definitive Edition
3. American Wedding Ultimate Edition
4. American Wedding Super Ultimate Definitive Edition (though I heard might be pushed back to 1Q '05)
5. American Pie Trilogy box set Penultimate Quasi-Definitive Deluxe Edition . . .

Ah, but seriously . . .

1. LOTR Trilogy box set (will settle for ROTK EE)
2. Star Wars Trilogy (both versions) box set (will settle for the SEs)
3. Howards End (Criterion)
4. Aladdin / Pocahontas / Lilo & Stictch / Mary Poppins (Disney 2 disc SEs)
5. Disney Treasures Wave 3
and the best for last. . .
What's Happening Season 3 (where Rerun bootlegs the Doobie Brothers concert!)

and my wish, some Six Million Dollar Man & Bionic Woman episodes, particularly Doomsday is Tomorrow (will settle for more R2's)

All of the above---and

Heat 2-disc Special Edtion
Shawshank Redemption 2-disc Special Editon
After Hours

1. Lord Of The Rings: ROTK: EE - What else?
2. Simpsons Season 4 - Hopefully the quality stays the same as the previous ones.
3. The Critic - One of my favorite shows.
4. Seinfeld - Supposedly it's going to come out around the end of the year, or early next year. We'll see.
5. Goodfellas SE - if it happens. If not, the Kill Bill.

LotR: Return of the King
Star Wars Trilogy
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton
Aliens: Collector's Edition
TBA*

*Have to see what hit movies come out this Summer.

LotR: RotK - EE
Star Wars Trilogy
Kill Bill (unabridged)
Schindler's List
Lost in Translation

Kill Bill 1 & 2
Star Wars Trilogy
ROTK: EE
Goodfellas/Casino SE
Bad Santa

1. ROTK EE
2. Star Wars OT (crossing fingers for non se)
3. Matrix Revolutions
4. Kill Bill
5(tie). King Kong(crossing fingers)
Mary Poppins SE
Last Samurai

1. Star Wars (OT)
2. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - (EE)
3. Forbidden Planet (2-Disc SE)
4. The Last Samurai
5. Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country (SE)

Honorable mentions: Babylon 5 - The Complete Fourth & Fifth Seasons, Red Dwarf - Series III & IV, The Matrix Revolutions, Blade Runner (3-Disc SE) Yeah, I know, we're more likely to see little green men on Mars before we see a Blade Runner SE, but hope springs eternal.