My first was Diabolique, about 4 years ago. I now have around 105.

I'm fairly certain it was The Seven Samurai, back in '99. Currently at 239 on hand with the October 25th titles pre-ordered.

-- Jim

Mine was Robocop, and it was also one of my first DVDs. Now that I think of it, this was a damn cool thing to own in Finland back in May 1999, because very few people had a DVD player and hardly anyone had even seen the complete theatrical cut of Robocop (the Finnish VHS release was heavily edited). I still cherish the release, and refuse to get the MGM because of the truncated aspect ratio.

Mine was Armageddon. It was I think my first DVD purchase - I had gotten the others as gifts along with my player. And though I know how many of you feel, I like that movie.

Silence of the Lambs. Back in the no minimum $10 off heydey of DVD buying it was the only one that interested me.

Same here.

Time Bandits/Brazil purchased the same day during "Nobody Beats the Wiz" going out of business sale.

Pygmalion

Hard Boiled: originally saw a video of the laserdisc and was blown away. The movie still stands the test of time as the greatest gunplay action scenes ever. Woo the man.

Wow this is an old thread. Amazing how my tastes have changed. I remember buying Chasing Amy and Clerks both the same day at Best Buy. I absolutely loved them both and watched them numerous times. Nowadays, I can never see myself ever watching a new Kevin Smith movie again.

Picked up Time Bandits and Silence of the Lambs in November of 1999 from reel.com.

I purchased Seven Samurai (#2) and Beauty and the Beast (#6) at the same time very early 1998. The last one purchased was Ikiru (#221). I only have about 30 of them.

I think my first was probably the Royal Tenenbaums. I saw it at Blockbuster for $9.99 pre-viewed and thought it was a steal. nowadays its pretty easy to come by.

seven samurai!

I only actually own two.... my first was "Silence of the Lambs" and my second one is "My Own Private Idaho"

Chasing Amy followed by Royal Tenenbaums and Traffic.

I bought four at the same time. Braveheart, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Exorcist (the version you've never seen), and Goodfellas in 2003. Hell of a late start.

I only have 84 Dvds, which I actually thought was a large collection.. until I went on the internet and found Dvdtalk.com and saw YOU peoples ogre-sized collections! Nice site.

Silence of the Lambs CC and Sid and Nancy CC.

Only have 2:

My 1st was Chasing Amy, the 2nd was The Rock.

had no idea what Criterions were when I got them

LD: Seven (cost me ~$120 back then )

DVD: Seven samurai

Laserdisc: Not sure, I got the Vengeance Is Mine directly from Criterion (they would also sell directly back then, even to overseas. Got an official Criterion T-Shirt with printed signatures from the directors they'd released films by as a gift), and I already had one or two already.
DVD: I had Seven Samurai (v1), Beauty and the Beast (v1), Hard Boiled, The Killer all on preorder, so the one that was actually released first.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. My girlfriend bought it for me after a fight.

I bought Battle of Algiers, Spartacus, and Slacker at my first big DDD sale.

Brazil: CC. My girlfriend bought it for me.

I don't remember, maybe chasing amy.