dick_grayson

thanks dude. I'm not surprised (from your member name) that you lauded Fight Club. Drowning Mona has Will Farrell and is surprisingly funny, for those who haven't seen it. Also, I'm a big fan of Neil Labute, so Nurse Betty is a no brainer for me (also loved the movie). Dirty work was cheap at some 2 for $10 sale. Haven't watched it since I bought it though.

stinkeye

It's difficult to pick only 3 for these type of things:

Best:
Band of Brothers
Good Bad and the Ugly SE
Spartacus Criterion

Worst:
Bad Boys 2-no Bad Boys 1 to complete the duology?

Out Cold-I've never seen this, could I be wrong?

Walking Tall-I've seen Buford T. Pusser, and the Rock is no Buford T. Pusser

Bonus: 50 First Dates- It was better when it was the Wedding Singer.

Needed:
Army of Darkness: You can find a version of this in the store just by closing your eyes and pointing. For cheap too.

Dawn of the Dead, Ultimate Edition: Plan some vacation time for it.

The Great Escape SE: add to your WWII fix.

Bonus need: Adventures of Robin Hood - Errol Flynn makes Kevin Costner look like, well, Kevin Costner

Muad'Dib

This thread is fun. Here ya go Heartagram, nice collection BTW:

Best

Flesh Gordon - Collector's Edition (Great camp)
Frank Herbert's Dune - Special Edition Director's Cut (Excellent DVD set)
Alien Quadrilogy (Need i say more?)
Plus, all the rare horror movies that I have never seen but really want to.

Worst

Cool World (Like Brad Pitt much? heh)
Double Dragon
Waterworld (Eeek)

Most Needed

Robocop CC (Looks like you really like Robocop)
Dune CE (When it comes out)
Perfect Blue (Some good old screwed up anime)

Sessa17

Yeah, it's a good idea. And I've been skipped twice by the way

Here ya go Muad'Dib:

FAVORITES:
The Last Dragon - One of my litmus test DVDs for a collection & good taste.
Bubba Ho-Tep
Naked Lunch: Criterion Collection - Brilliant movie & one of the best treatments criterion has ever done.

WORSE:
Farenheit 9/11 =
Gothika: Full-Screen Edition = 1 eek for the movie, 2 for the fool-screen.
Mafia! =

MOST NEEDED:
Equillibrium - I'm shocked by how few people own this.
Dark City - By your taste, you should love this & it's only $5.
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas: Criterion Collection

fryinpan1

Sessa17

best
gift sets (Hellboy, Monster Legacy, LOTR)
Alien Quadrilogy
Kill Bill, Volume 1 (Full Color Japanese Version) - Limited DVD Box
Poison Ivy: The New Seduction

worst
Pumping Iron - 25th Anniversary Special Edition
Swordfish
3000 Miles to Graceland

most needed
The Last Samurai
The Terminator SE (2 & 3, but missing the original?)
De Niro and Pacino classics - Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Once Upon A Time in America, Heat, Godfather, etc.
you may like Rush Hour too

Muad'Dib

Equillibrium: I need this movie. I really enjoyed it, but it's a bit too expensive for me right now
Gothika: Full Screen Edition: Got it for xmas, and I haven't bothered to upgrade yet.
Dark City: I don't know why, but I didn't like this flick.
Fear and Loathing: On my wishlist.
The Last Dragon: Wow, I didn't think anyone liked this cheesy 80's flick.

I'd review yours but you just reviewed mine. I'll let someone else.

conscience

Sessa17

You have Foul Play! Don't listen to anyone. That movie is funny as hell.

You have The Phantom. I remember getting that on VHS a long time ago: a guilty pleasure. I remember seeing it in the theatre when I was 12. Good times.

Best:

Love the box sets you have!

Hitchcock Signature Collection
Hero Box
Warner Gangster Collection

Worst:

Really tough to find three. You have a great collection.

13th Warrior
Dirty Work
Mullholland Falls

Most Needed:

Battle Royale Regular Cut (IMO, better than the Extended cut)
John Cassavetes Five Films (try the set out!)
Monty Python And The Holy Grail/Meaning Of Life (you have the collection and LOB).



Anybody else want to 3 me, again?


http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.ht...&id=conscience

The Ferret

Conscience

Best 3
-The Office (hillarious)
-Saved By the Bell (stupid fun)
-Wish List (Casablanca, Ikiru - classics)

Worst 3
-Napoleon Dynamite (personal oppinion, I hated it)
-Golden Girls (never seen an episode, but I put it here for lack of masculinity)
-American Beauty (not bad, but your collections so good I had to choose a third)

Most Needed
-The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (to add to the other lonely westerns)
-The Third Man CC (everyone needs a bit of Orson, fun movie)
-Rashomon (since you've got Ikiru on the wishlist)

I like how you keep it quality > quantity, that's what I go for too.

Sessa17

I love this movie. I'm a huge early Chevy Chase fan & young Goldie Hawn is one of my all-time actress crushes.

Billy Zane is the man, I proudly love this movie (plus it has a young & hot Zeta-Jones). Funny that everyone who has looked at my collection so far as pointed this movie out.

Worst:

Thanks, I admittingly own a lot of bad movies b/c I love a lot of bad movies. But Ouch, 13th Warrior is literally I think in my top 5 all-time favorite movies.

Yeah, I really want this, it's on my wish list.

I would but somebody beat me to it.

conscience

Foul Play:

I have to get this one day. I literally have it on my entertainment center right now checked out from the library. I saw it on TCM about a year ago.

You still can. It won't take you long. I have like 70 movies total. I'm very selective.

OH and what the heck is ICE PIRATES? From the cover (although little) looks like it stars George Michael circa 1984)

Damed

The Ferret:


BEST

LOTR:ROTK EE
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly SE
Shawshank Redemption SE



Worst

Coldplay - Live 2003
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Fight Club - only because you should have the 2 disc SE



Most Needed

Dawn of the Dead UE
VideoDrome CC
Alien Quadrilogy

Damed

Oh, and my collection:

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&id=damed

conscience

This show is hilarious! My mom and I (since I live at home and go to college - I'm almost 21) went in on it together. So it's 1/2 mine, but the show is funny.

Yeah, another note about the masculinity thing: A lot of my friends ask why I have Queer As Folk. I actually found it at the jokey lot for about 30 bucks (seeing as how it is going for around 60-70), and after watching, it turned out to be a very funny, yet dramatic show about a group of friends who happen to be gay. Probably won't spend the 70 bucks to get the rest though).


I actually used to have TGTBATU when I got it from the Target mishap, but I sold it when someone offered much more than what I paid. (I knew I should have gotten two).

TTM and Rashomon as well as Citizen Cane and a few other Criterion Kurosawa are written down in my wish list notebook. I still have to place them in my AF wish list.

That's the best thing to do, IMO. (as I later learned after having about 300 discs ).

Best:

La Dolce Vita (gotta get this one day)
Godfather Collection
Raginig Bull (again, another I want. Might pick up the Scorsese collection on my birthday in August).

Worst:

Austin Powers in Goldmember (damn that Beyonce ruining this movie. SHA-ZAM!)
Fight Club
Coldplay (love both these two, but out of your collection the worst - (can't wait for Coldplay's new cd in June/July).

Most Needed:

Mean Streets
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (the best one)
If Casablanca is on your list, try any 1940's Bogart films.

Sessa17

It's only the greatest sci-fi movie EVER. All you need to know is it has a cast of Ron Perlman, Angelica Huston, former LA Raiders Defensive lineman John Matuszak, & Robert Urich, & has a jive-talking robot, killer unicorns & space herpes

Random though, maybe I should break my collection into folders at DVDAF, everyone else seems to have.

Since your collection is so small.

FAVORITES:
The Vanishing - The Criterion Collection - One of my all-time villain performances.
The Office DVDs - Litmus test for humor, well done.
Ride in the Whirlwind - You are a king for having this, I thought I was the only one on earth who liked this movie. The DVD blows, I still have my VHS of it.

WORSTE:
Lost in Translation - I said in another collection, 1 of the most overrated films in recent years.
Napoleon Dynamite - I can't stand this movie, but I know most love it.
The Golden Girls - My mom use to watch this when I was a kid... ugghh.

MOST NEEDED:
The Red Violin - Seems like you would dig it. Great movie I always plan on getting myself.
High & Low: Criterion - A little odd that Ikuru is your only Kurosawa. It doesn't seem like you'd like his Samurai stuff, but this is a tremendous thriller starring Mifune in a very different role for him.
Chinatown - Its so cheap & it seems like we both like the same type of Nicholson.

WOW, your only 21, (I'm 23), you are like me, I thought you were so much older by your collection, & a lot of people say I have old-man taste.

You were only 14 when you joined here? Thats pretty young.

bballing

One more for The Ferret:

Best 3

Star Wars Trilogy
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Goodfellas

Special props for Coldplay live

Worst 3

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Volume 1 (nothing else to pick)


3 most needed

Heat special edition
Back to the Future Trilogy
Rushmore - The Criterion Collection

My link-

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.ht...1&id=bballer08

conscience

Sounds like something I need to see.


I was on a Nicholson kick (still am) and I found this, The Shooting, and Rebel Rousers at the jockey lot for $1.00 each. I could not pass that up. Yes, the dvds suck hard, but the movies were actually good.

You suk! j/k I can see how the first two (and the third) can be split 50/50 between audiences.

I saw The Red Violin on either IFC or Sundance and loved the score. I need to rent again and really sit down and watch.

I am trying to balance which Criterions I want and ones that I would rent or check out from the library. Ikiru: when watching this, on a recommendation for Kurosawa from a college professor, was brought to tears. I have seen High & Low - from the library and was blown away. Might have to revisit it again.

About Chinatown. I had this. And I love the film, don't get me wrong. But I looked on my town's library website and I found that a lot of my films can be checked out from the library including this one. Except for my Criterions I sold a lot of my films (because of this). But I am regretting getting rid of most of my Nicholson discs (I'm getting over it though) The Last Detail (though being his best performance) was a definite keeper.

I'm actually 20. 21 in August. (So I made a mistake I was only 11 when I saw The Phantom if -from IMDB- it came out in June)

But yeah, like I told a lot of people time and again in my life - I would rather have a conversation with a group of 40-50 year olds over a lot of people (not all) my own age. Not trying to go all sob story, but I basically had to raise myself when I was young and was always around adults (as I am an only child). I remember when I went to the library and looked in the VHS department and saw the Tramp (Chaplin) on a video cover. Rented City Lights and was into film from that point on. Reminds me I have to get that film - costs a lot though.

IN 98/99 I begged my mom to buy me a 1 disc dvd player that was $350 ( ) and it was full speed ahead from there.

It's cool to see another young adult into film like me

Bugg

bballing

=faves=
Unforgiven - 10th Anniversary
Boogie Nights - New Line Platinum Series
Die Hard - Five Star Collection

=worst=
Coming to America
Léon: The Professional
Top Gun (Both versions)

=needed=
True Romance
Terminator
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The Ferret

Another for bballing

fav 3
-Good Will Hunting (always loved this movie)
-There's Something About Mary (^)
-Snatch/Caddyshack (both great)

worst 3 (tough)
-Mystic River
-Kingpin
-Gladiator

Most Needed
-Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (I like it more than Snatch)
-Godfather Trilogy
-Groundhog Day

Bugg
fav 3 (a lot of great stuff)
-Amelie
-Bicycle Thief
-From Russia With Love

worst 3
-Blair Witch 2
-Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
-The Postman

most needed (nearly impossible, you've got it all)
-On the Waterfront
-Naked Gun Trilogy
-The Ox-Bow Incident

The joy I get out of this is just creepy.

Mindcrime

for The Ferret

Best 3
-Fight Club
-Family Guy
-Godfather Collection

Worst 3
-Goldmember
-Star Wars Trilogy (I never got into it)
-Coldplay

Most Needed
-True Romance
-American History X
-Dances With Wolves

You may not have much but it's a quality start....

OldBoy

i still was skipped once, can someone do me so i don't have a fit? tanks berry much!
bugg you there?

Sessa17

I got you. But now I must be done again

Finally someone Region Free besides me.

FAVORITES:
Big Trouble in Little China: Special Edition - My all-time favorite movie
The Killer: Criterion Collection - Do you really have this? Good job if you do
Chopping Mall - Anyone who has this is the cat's pajamas.

WORSTE:
The Twins Effect (Hong Kong DTS Edition) - Dreadful movie, so many better genre films you should have over this one.
Independence Day: Five Star Collection - One of my least favorite movies ever.
Chicago - Yuck.

MOST NEEDED:
Rompre Stomper - You have Chopper & American History X, so you should love this. Russell Crowe's most underrated movie. The 2-Disc is OOP but worth it if you can find it.
Undead - Your region free & seem to dig zombie movies. This is a kick-ass Australian zombie flick, only the first half is good but it's worth owning.
Brazil: Criterion Collection

OldBoy

see notes in bold above...thanks for the picks sessa!

OldBoy

i'll do you as my last bid for the nite...

Best:
1. "Battle Royale: Starmax Version" (sick region free minds think alike)
2. "They Live" (a no holds barred classic!)
3. "Kill Bill Japan LE" (i just love that big yellow box!)

Worst:
1. "Red Sonja" (Conan, not so much!)
2. "The Replacement Killers" (John Woo, not so much!)
3. "The Big Lebowski" (i know i will get flamed, but i am sorry, i just didn't like it!)

Most Needed:
1. "The Devil's Backbone" (you have "Cronos" and this follows in that tradition for Del Toro)
2. "The Killer" (you have "Hard Boiled", even if you can't get the Criterion, get the Fox-Lorber...i think better movie than HB)
3. "Raging Bull CE" (sessa, sessa, sessa)

Sessa17

I don't want to short you a recommendation.

Spaced: The Definitive Collection - If my entire collection had to be destroyed & I could only keep 1 DVD then this is it. TRUST ME, you will love this. It's a British TV series created & starring everyone from Shaun of the Dead. It's hillarious & the entire series is loaded with homages to movies, half the fun is figuring out what movies they reference. Any film fan, especially one that loves horror, sci-fi, genre owes it to themselves to buy this. Go to Amazon.uk & you can pick it up for around $40.

Raging Bull & Devil's Backbone I sold back both original releases when the upgrades were announced but I've yet to buy them, but they will be bought eventually. The Killer is one of those I always plan I buying, but I've seen it about a thousand times so I always end up getting something else.

OldBoy

hmmm....i'm still working on the "Romper Stomper" 2-discer.