1. star wars trilogy
2. rotk ee
3. shrek 2
4. fahrenheitt 9/11
5. supersize me
6. passion of the christ
7. spiderman 2
8. kill bill (both volumes)
9. harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban
10.matrix trilogy box
11.day after tomorrow
12.bourne supremacy
13.battle of algiers
14.dawn of the dead 04 unrated
15.garden state
16.hellboy dc
17.eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
18.mean girls
19john cassavetes: five films
20.i robot
21.collateral
22.napolian dynomyte
23.school of rock
24.hero
25.dodgeball

kinky date movies (by john watters)
irreversible
freeway

best commentary
once upon a time in mexico

worst commentary
cheaper by the dozen

best special feature
clerks lost scene

worst
natonal geographic rotk

best bio pics
whats love got to do with it
malcom x

ultimate trash dvd package
showgirls

hottest sex scene
monster

limpist sex scene
big bounce

most annoying dvd feature
easter eggs

best of tv
seinfeld
arrested development
curb your enthusiasum
office
wire
the oc

best showoff scenes
kill bill bride vs go go
rotk elephant battle
spiderman 2 train battle
day after tomorrow tidal wave distroyes nyc
matrix revolutions loading dock battle

Only like half of those have even been released yet.

Hottest Sex Scene was in Monster?

Exactly. How can you rank the best DVDs if you haven't seen them yet? Sure puttin ROTK EE close to the top is a safe bet, but come on!

Good thing I hate Peter Travers anyway.

kinky date movie, Irreversible? urr.....

I believe that should be Monster's Ball.

Rip

I was thinking that too. Don't recall any hot and heavy in Monster.

Rolling Stone has a long enough lead time to publication that Travers may have advance screeners of some of the titles in question.

Travers is such a whore. He'll say anything to get his name used on the front of a DVD case or a print ad.

Nope, it was Monster.

Leaving this disc out:



destroys this list's credibility.

He should have just left out ROTK, Star Wars, The Matrix, and Battle of Algiers and just made it "My Top 25 Movies that came out this year and will probably be really good on DVD".

DOTD UE?
WB Noir Box?
WB Hitchcock Box?
GB&U SE?



Rolling Stone...

Does anyone else feel that the Cassavetes set is out of place...sandwiched between Mean Girls and I, Robot?

Totally unbelievable. Several of the movies have not been released and as mentioned by Loc Nar....nothing about Master and Commander?

No way. How can anyone take him seriously. That is absurd.

well, it does seem that he does have some of the movies that arent out yet.

also, travers mentioned the "bedroom" lesbian scene in "monster".
waters mentions that the reason, is not for the rape scene, but because the gay club is called and thats funny in his mind.
and travers gave 1 star reviews to both i robot and day after tomrrow btw

Pretty awful list. Did he just forget about Gone With The Wind? If I was making a Top DVD list of the year, I doubt I'd have any single-disc sets on there.

True

If any of you had actually read the article, you'd see that he talks a lot about the bonus features on each. He HAS seen them and obviously has the DVDs already.

Terrible list... just terrible...

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he is unaware that a SE of Goodfellas was released this year, and that SE is also available as part of a boxed set of Martin Scorsese films.

I think he doesn't know about Schindler's List either.

Does he really think Dodgeball is better than any TV DVD, or did he just have a rule about limiting his top 25 list to movies only?

TV shows were a separate list in a sidebar

best of tv
seinfeld
arrested development
curb your enthusiasum
office
wire
the oc

Even if he does have the screeners that still doesn't matter since the rest of the world has not had a chance to voice their opinion via purchases. Without knowing how well something sells, it is pretty much his personal opinion.

Anyway, that is my humble opinion....

really? it's his personal opinion??? who would have thunk it!

but to give a serious reply, reviewing dvds is tough: how much weight do you put on the movie itself, and how much on the extras that come along with it? clearly travers' list has movies picked for each specific reason, and i would think that dvd talkers of all people would understand that.

in the magazine, they had a picture from the movie of Christina Ricci and Charlize Theron kissing. Either way, it still doesn't make much sense.