DVD of the year so far?
 

After a huge and expensive May for most of us, I wanted to see what is the early frontrunner for DVD of the year. My vote goes to Master and Commander Special Edition, great movie and a great DVD.

okay so who voted 'Other' and what DVD is it??

Panic Room 3D SE: No contest.

Regardless of the "quality" of the movie, this is an impressive DVD set, even if you hate the movie.

The effort that went into the 3 packed discs for this is very impressive and is comperable to Godfather of jampacked DVDs: Alien Quad.

Rules of the Game: Criterion Collection. The definitive release of the greatest movie ever made. It's not only the DVD of the year, it's the DVD of all-time.

Master And Commander SE is my choice. It had class.

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Well, I'm not going to vote in the poll... It's not fair since I haven't watched every single DVD released to date... That said, my personal favorites of 04' to this point are... Enter The Dragon SE and Good, the Bad and the Ugly CE.

Master and Commander might have the best packaging...

Panic Room might have the best extras, I need to pick that one up at some point (if it ever goes on sale) and give it a spin...

However, the best is yet to come...

I can't decide between The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly and Rules of the Game.

Definitly Panic Room 3Disk, nothing can compete with the quality of that extras (So Far)

Shrek 2

Master & Commander 2 disc CE with it's excellent feature, extras, reference picture and DTS sound, and packaging.

So, I take it that nobody in this thread owns the Freaks and Geeks Yearbook Edition? That may be the best DVD *ever*, let alone this year so far...

Rules of the Game / Panic Room are fighting hard for 2nd place, though...

Okay, SIX people have voted OTher? What other (and better) discs are there then those listed?

yeah, hello?

BTW I voted for the Chappelle DVD

Definitely. Either version of Freaks and Geeks would easily top the listed titles (The Yearbook is the greatest SE packaging ever). Panic Room is the tops of the theatrical releases.

No way, man. The Aliens vs. Predator DVD blows this one out of the water. Hell, even Garfield had better picture quality and extras. Not to mention the impressive easter eggs hidden on Spiderman 2.

Not to mention the EE of Jackson's King Kong blows the TE away.


Oh, I voted for Panic Room

Master and Commander SE, no contest.

I third this notion, and declare this poll null and void without its inclusion. Otherwise, I loved the Master and Comnmander SE. :up:

...but I was lucky enough to review 'em BOTH, so I'm biased...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Collector's Edition - Amazing packaging...gorgeous restoration...great extras...and its one of the best movies ever created!

What a rediculous list!

My list would be:

Scenes From a Marriage
The Grapes of Wrath
Naked Lunch
My Darling Clementine
Disney Behind the Front Lines
Devil and Daniel Webster

...and the winner would be Disney Treasures: Tomorrowland

Futurama Volume 3.

Panic Room, even though i don't have it.

Futurama Vol 3 was the best for me.

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i voted for the good the bad and the ugly...great movie, and it has very cool packaging, great promo cards, awesome special features (documentaries), and an extended remastered cut of the movie etc...

was expecting more (in quality) from panic room - obviously there are a ton of extras in the set, but so many were "this is how to make a movie - film school" type features - special effects etc. - while many may be interested in these types of features, i am more interested in interviews with cast and crew (and yes, i know there was some on there) - i guess i was just let down - plus they took off the DTS track....

master and commander was also excellent...as was freaks and geeks...LOTR ROTK was good for a first release, but as we all know, it is nothing compared to the relase we will see later in the year...

just my $.02

Where is Freaky Geeks????

My bad.

neither of my top 2 choices have been included. I'll go for The Great Escape SE and of course....The Grapes Of Wrath.

Guess I'm a weirdo but I have to go with Naked Lunch: Criterion as my pick for best of the year so far.

Freaks and Geeks by miles.

FYI gang... Naked Lunch CC was released on 11/11/03.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('03).

Great, informative documentary, 3 audio commentaries, metal face plate and "crime scene" cards, deleted scenes. Superb dvd for a decent and fun movie.

I voted Other, partly because I don't have any of the other 9 DVDs listed. :)

I'd have to go with Torch Song Trilogy, since it's my all-time favorite film, and I'm thrilled to finally have it on DVD. It could have been bare-bones (and it practically is) and it'd still be my favorite, but I really enjoyed Harvey Fierstein's commentary. :up:

Rob

Had to go for Master and Commander. All around great disc but there's still a long way to go in the year.

Other - Disney treasures On The Front Lines is the best set I've seen all year.

The answer is Freaks & Geeks. Is this a trick question?

D'Oh

Then my vote goes to Stray Dog: Criterion - great extras & it's about time this was released.

My vote went (once again) to:

The Rules of the Game: Criterion Edition

Honorable mentions:

Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series
The Marx Brothers Collection
The Monster Legacy DVD Gift Set
Northern Exposure: The Complete First Season (winner of "Most Overpriced...")
Walt Disney Treasures: Walt Disney On the Front Lines

Freaks and Geeks