when you look through your collection and your mental lists of favorite movies or movies you just really like are you struck with certain titles that you wonder why you don't already have in your collection? maybe you even thought you did, but turns out you don't.

those certain titles that get lost in the calvacade of new releases each week and you may say to yourself i should get this and then perhaps just forget...

i was thinking about seeing "New Jack City" the other day and was almost certain i had it already. i looked through my DVD Profiler, but wasn't there. i still had this nagging feeling that i had it and perhaps just didn't add it online.

so i looked through all my 1200+ dvd's scattered about in organized chaos in my basement...lo and behold it was not there. now, i have this urgency to get it and add it. perhaps soon...

and i know there are a treasure trove of others that will jog my memory soon.

so what DVD's are you surprised are not in your collection?

Forbin Project -- even though it's FS, I want it

Is this WS in any other region?

i can't tell you how many times i've almost bought FRIDAY....but i guess now i'll wait for the upcoming SE

That never made sense. I burned a copy from my WS laserdisc before I sold it.


I'm missing a lot of Bogart Films.... and have never owned To Kill A Mockingbird.

Jaws - Considering that all of the movies I own are summer blockbusters, it's amazing that I don't own the first, especially since I love it.

Half Baked - weird, as that was one of my favourite movies in high school
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - can you believe that I only just got the dvd for my birthday today ?
Gremlins
Lost Boys
Starman
E.T.
Doctor Who (the version that started in 2005) first four seasons
Batman 1966 movie
Black Books seasons 2 & 3
Viva La Bam seasons 4 & 5
Poltergeist

Cyborg

Collateral. I went to watch it the other day and I don't have it. It's even on my dvdaf page. It could be a roommate though because i've seen it far too many times to not own it. Damn roommate

i often catch an old movie on tv and realize i actually don`t own it!

definitely have to add the following to my dvd collection:

usual suspects
boiler room
black rain
ferris buellers day off

My girlfriend said she's surprised I don't own all of them by now... does that count?

The original Star Wars movies. 2001. Not a single Marx Bros. or Laurel & Hardy DVD. Slap Shot. E. T. Jurassic Park. A Christmas Story. Young Indiana Jones. And the list goes on...

Jurassic Park trilogy
Schindler's List
E.T.
Silence of the Lambs

La Jetee / Sans Soleil Criterion.

Because I took it to work one day, and it disappeared. Pretty pissed about that.

Lol -mine, too. Seriously, though, there's nothing that comes to mind. Barring what I can't afford to buy, there's nothing that I want which I don't already have. And that's including the rather large, and seemingly ever growing pile of still unopened and yet to be watched movies in my collection. (What can I say? I'm a sucker for cheap DVD's. I'll take a chance on a lot of movies I'd otherwise pass on if they happen to be on sale for $2 to $5.)

You kidding me?...my Amazon Cart is packed...but..w/ paying for college, living, and buying dvds it's a hard life to balance.

I have like 8 Amazon wish lists. The main one for general movies is 7 pages long. I have MMA, TV shows, cartoons, horrorfest, dragon dynasty, superhero cartoons, and box sets on seperate lists.

Should've 12 Monkeys.

There are a lot actually. It seems like I'll occasionally go "I feel like watching _________ tonight" then go look at my shelf and be like "Wait... I don't have that?"

Did it the other night with Bruce Almighty. I could've swore I had it, yet it isn't on my shelf.

Talking about the original Willard in current horror not on DVD thread, I went to imdb to see who produced it. Bing Crosby Productions. Clicked on that to see what other movies they produced and who put them on DVD if any. On the list were the Amicus VAULT OF HORROR and TALES FROM THE CRYPT. At top of page picture of the Midnite Movie double feature cover. I thought WTF? Checked my MIDNITE MOVIE shelf, not there. Checked my DVD-Rs and there were the ones I made from my old vhs tapes. Can't believe I missed this somehow. Super cheesy brainfart.

The Dead Zone

I own every Cronenberg DVD except that one.
I like the movie, I just always forget that I do not have it.

i just looked at my list of Top 69 movies and the only one i don't have is Sly Stallone's "Lock Up". not sure i really need it though.

Star Wars Original Trilogy (in fact, the only movie I own is Episode II for some random reason)

Chasing Amy, the only Kevin Smith movie I don't own

The only one I can think of off hand that fits the OP's notion is Bourne Ultimatum, and I just bought that this past weekend. Eventually I'll probably get the blu-ray set but in the meantime I just noticed I never bothered picking it up and it was only $5 ($10 - GC) so I figure what the hell.

After looking at this thread a few more have been added to my list of ones I must get. The main one at this point is Cloverfield. I am amazed I dont have it.

I was surprised I didn't have Enemy of the State. I recently corrected that.