Here's are the selections that everyone will be voting on. Voting will last till 10 p.m. central time Friday. For everyone that made it on this list, good luck and you can plead your case to everyone why your choices are the best. To the one's who did not make the list, sorry but thanks for playing and thanks for the ideas for movies its appreciated. Keep in mind that these people are competing for a prize. Anyway onto the choices:

Selection #1: Alfonsosoriano
CEMETERY MAN $ 9.59 x = $ 9.59
DEAD ALIVE $ 7.42 x = $ 7.42
BOTTLE ROCKET $ 4.79 x = $ 4.79
MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN $ 4.79 x = $ 4.79
CREEPSHOW $ 4.79 x = $ 4.79
SPIDER $ 4.78 x = $ 4.78
DARK CITY $ 4.79 x = $ 4.79
BLUE VELVET SPECIAL EDITION (WIDESCREEN) $ 7.53 x = $ 7.53

Your Subtotal: $ 48.48

Selection #2: ESC24
Go $ 4.80
Bottle Rocket $ 4.79
Frequency $ 5.80
The Last Boy Scout $ 5.80
Frailty $ 4.79
Boomtown-1st Season $ 14.81
Baseketball $ 4.84

Total - $45.63

Selection #3: OwlAtHome
THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE $10.69
JACOB'S LADDER $7.42
HARD TIMES $7.53
JUNIOR BONNER $7.53
SILVER BULLET (STEPHEN KING) $7.48
FIVE EASY PIECES $7.53

Subtotal: $ 48.18

Selection #4: DVDKing
THE NAKED GUN SET $ 12.76
AMERICAN GRAFFITI $ 7.58
VIRIDIANA (CRITERION) $ 17.96
THE WILD BUNCH (SE/2D) $ 10.69

Subtotal: $48.99

Selection #5: devynal
THE NAKED GUN SET $ 12.76
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (SE) $ 15.84
FARGO-SPECIAL EDITION $ 7.59
EXPLORERS (WS) $ 4.82
FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR $ 7.55

Total: $ 48.56

Selection #6: Space Monkey
THE THING (CE) $7.48 - scifi/horror
UNFORGIVEN (2DISC/SE) $16.45 - western
THE UNTOUCHABLES $6.27 - crime
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER $6.22 - espionage/military
JOY RIDE $5.74 - suspense/thriller
ABOUT A BOY (WS) $6.82 - comedy(you own a lot of Hugh Grant titles)

Your Subtotal: $ 48.98

Selection #7: Illenium
SERPICO $ 4.79
FOLLOWING $ 4.80
BROKEN FLOWERS/LOST IN TRANSLATION $ 15.48
GHOST DOG $ 4.79
GALAXY QUEST $ 4.84
RAISING VICTOR VARGAS (SE) $ 4.78
THE EXPERIMENT $ 4.78
SPIDER $ 4.78

Total: $49.04

Selection #8: justbarelymovin
ERASERHEAD $ 12.93
FOLLOWING $ 4.80
PRINCESS MONONOKE $ 13.39
REPULSION $ 8.89
CEMETERY MAN $ 9.59

Total: $49.60

Selection #9: Filmmaker
RED DRAGON - $4.84
THE GREEN MILE - $9.58
DO THE RIGHT THING: Criterion Collection - $23.99
TAXI DRIVER: Collector's Edition - $11.13

Total = $49.54

Selection #10: ryuryu2949
Event Horizon CE $10.84
Dark City $4.79
To Catch a Thief $4.79
The Gift $6.27
Serpico $ 4.79
Following $ 4.80
Lost In Translation $7.58
Bottle Rocket $ 4.79

Total = $48.65


That's the choices. Good luck everyone.

Here's the link to the contest if you would like to know more. Link to Contest

Space Monkey gets my vote.

Another vote for Space Monkey. The only title could have been The Thing and it would still have my vote.

Tough choices but I had to go with Alfonsosoriano

about 12 hours to go and it looks like there are 3-4 front runners right now, but i could easily see just about everyone being in contention down the stretch.

To defend my picks, here is my explanation from the othert thread:

Event Horizon CE ($10.84) -- A great sci-fi movie, but also probably the scariest/freakiest movie I have ever seen. And you can't hate on Laurence "Morpheus" Fishburne. Plus, the CE of this dvd has great audio, visual, and extras.

Dark City ($4.79)-- Worth it for the Ebert commentary alone, but also is a wonderful, thought-inducing movie. And Jennifer Connelly is very yummy.

To Catch a Thief ($4.79)-- Hitchcock and Cary Grant on the cheap. Plus, along with Lifeboat (which you own), this is one of the few Hitchcock movies not in either of the WB or Universal boxset collections.

The Gift ($6.27)-- Directed by Sam Raimi, this is a very good mystery-suspense-thriller. Plus you get to see Katie Holmes' hoo-hahs. Best hoo-hah scene in film in a very long time. Plus, this is one of those "make you think about it afterwards" movies.

Serpico ($4.79)-- Al Pacino is one of his best performances. Plus, great directing work by Sidney Lumet. A hallmark of 70s cinema and a treat if you enjoy character performances.

Following ($4.80)-- If you liked Memento, you can't go wrong giving this a shot for less than five bucks. Nice extras too.

Lost In Translation ($7.58)-- I love Scarlett, but this movie would work wonderfully even without her beauty. A perfect Bill Murray vehicle. Great performances here, and Coppola captures the emotions perfectly. One of my favoriate films from 2004.

Bottle Rocket ($4.79)-- Wes Anderson teaming up with the Wilson boys to have a good time. Just a great partnership doing what they do best. And again, for under five bucks, this is a steal.

So there you have it.
8 movies.
Scares, laughs, boobies, and character pieces.
An eclectic collection, but all films that are highly rewatchable.

Enjoy.

ESC24 gets my vote because of Boomtown. Great choice.

Can I make an addition to ESC24’s selection? Toss in either Icon (miniseries with Patrick Swayze) for $3.39 after discount, or Danielle Steele’s Jewels (another miniseries) for $3.99 after discount, still under $50.

And I’m leaning towards ESC24’s choices but haven’t finalized my decision (between him, Illenium, and Alfonsosoriano).

Nice, I made it to the top 10 this time!

I won't win this one, but I'd like to encourage the OP to check out Ghost Dog anyway.

I should have known there was no way Whitey would allow a list with DO THE RIGHT THING to win, but truly, Kocheese99, you've just got to find a way to buy that soon...

I actually had that one for awhile, but i ended up trading it on the boards here. It would be worth picking up again.

Voted SM just because he has THE THING in there. Always gets my vote!

I went with devynal. Explorers and Flight of the Navigator could almost be considered part of my childhood.

I went with SpaceMonkey as well, good overall selection. Gonna be some great blind buys if he hasn't seen them.

Just to let everyone know. I may not get back by 10 p.m. I'm going to a movie and i will be back asap and will end the poll then. Sorry.

I am a bit surprised. Most voters here would seem to have three or four $5-$6 titles over a criterion. Quantity over quality.

OK the poll is now closed: the winner is Space Monkey with the following selection that i will be ordering tomorrow morning:

THE THING (CE) $7.48 - scifi/horror
UNFORGIVEN (2DISC/SE) $16.45 - western
THE UNTOUCHABLES $6.27 - crime
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER $6.22 - espionage/military
JOY RIDE $5.74 - suspense/thriller
ABOUT A BOY (WS) $6.82 - comedy(you own a lot of Hugh Grant titles)

Your Subtotal: $ 48.98
Just let me know which prize you want: Disney, Criterion, TV, Special Ed., or the Mystery Box.

Damn. Another year another thinking I had a chance to win halfway through!! Haha.

So what does Space Monkey get?

{Cue the inspirational music} What a way to start the day! I'd like to thank DVDTalk for enabling me to have an account to enter the contest. To the members who voted for my picks, it was an honor just to be nominated with all the other great orders, but I couldn't have won it this time without all of you, the fans. And most importantly I'd like to thank Kocheese99, without whose generous contest none of this would be possible. Thanks! {exit stage left}


I mainly did this for the fun of it. Like most, I love movies/dvds and enjoy recommending to others. So hopefully you'll find a lot of entertainment value with my selections and won't regret picking up any of the titles from the order.

Since the prize is icing on the cake... In the spirit of this contest, I will leave it up to you to decide which you'd like to award me. My collection is linked in my signature in case you need to check it and I guess I'll email you my info.

Thanks again Kocheese99 for another great contest.

Pick a Criterion for him, Kocheese99--everyone needs more Criterions!

well he went with the mystery choice which could be anything. I'll take a look at your collection and see what i can come up with.

I can't believe I lost--I was the only one with Event Horizon for goodness sake! And to a collection with "Joy Ride." Jeez. But I'm not bitter or anything, lol.

ryuryu2949, not to rain on your parade, but EVENT HORIZON sucks all kinds of eggs; I'm happy for Kocheese99 that he ducked that particular bullet...