How many DVD's are too much?

[Ryuukie]

First of all, yah! Sweet holiday. This is my first Memorial Day that I didn't have to work in four years.

Second, I'm spending the day cleaning. As I started arranging my DVD's I thought about giving them all away but for about 10. I never ever watch them. So, what's the point in keeping them. Let them clutter up someone else's life and, who knows, someone else may actually get enjoyment from them.

But, of course, which to keep. Here's what I decided upon:

Sleeping Beauty -- it's my favorite movie of all time
Twilight
Showboat
The Ten Commandments
Gone With The Wind
Cleopatra
The Boys in the Band
Death Note
All Seven Seasons of Buffy

 

[boxerdudeuk]

i have an appleTV box and find now that i've got it - i barely watch dvd's ever except for on the unit that pumps a movie into the flatscreen in my bathroom.

i'm considering just ripping a bunch of them and giving them all away. i've probably got at least 300 i could get rid of.

 

[JakeBequette]

First of all, yah! Sweet holiday. This is my first Memorial Day that I didn't have to work in four years.

Second, I'm spending the day cleaning. As I started arranging my DVD's I thought about giving them all away but for about 10. I never ever watch them. So, what's the point in keeping them. Let them clutter up someone else's life and, who knows, someone else may actually get enjoyment from them.

But, of course, which to keep. Here's what I decided upon:

Sleeping Beauty -- it's my favorite movie of all time
Twilight
Showboat
The Ten Commandments
Gone With The Wind
Cleopatra
The Boys in the Band
Death Note
All Seven Seasons of Buffy

...Really?...​

 

[racer2438]

we about 90, and we add to our collection often..

 

[operafan]

I have about 15 or so. There aren't that many things I want to see over and over again. Of course, one third of my collection is made up of the first 5 Harry Potter films. I'm a fan.

The rest I'm very much like dystopian visions:
Blade Runner
Artificial Intelligence: AI
Minority Report
The Fifth Element

The three Lord of the Rings

and Polar Express........oops! Doesn't fit with the others, but I love it.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

OK, seriously?

THAT is your list of DVDs? Fucking Hell, are you a 14 year-old Evangelical girl?

 

[darrow]

OK, seriously?

THAT is your list of DVDs? Fucking Hell, are you a 14 year-old Evangelical girl?

There is nothing wrong with Gone With the Wind and Buffy.

That is all.

 

[Edward Twinkletoes]

i have an appleTV box and find now that i've got it - i barely watch dvd's ever except for on the unit that pumps a movie into the flatscreen in my bathroom.

Does it well when it does that?

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

There is nothing wrong with Gone With the Wind and Buffy.

That is all.

Unless you're not a 14 year-old Evangelical girl.

 

[Lasosa]

I only have about twenty DVDs. Just my all-time favorites.

 

[giorgiobaby]

about 260 here

 

[rareboy]

I'm with Jasun...

Anyhow, we have about 500 or so, including many BBC series.

If the ten you kept are the best you had, then it sounds like they all belonged in the dumpster.

 

[Paws]

The future of movie medias are hard disks anyway, neither DVD nor Blu(e?)ray. Why fill up your room with plastic boxes if you can have all your movies on a 2.5" disk?

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

Hey Mr. Porn Guy, aren't you a Buffy fan???

I was more talking about the Disney, the biblical epics and that Vampire movie written by a Mormon who wrote a book about how Vampires save themselves for marriage.

 

[Jayden]

I have far too many. Andy warhols movies as well as John waters I would have to keep.

 

[G-Lexington]

Passing judgment on our DVD collections, are we? This should be interesting.

First off, I'm stunned how many I own. It's a bit nebulous which of our DVDs are "mine", which are "Pubert's", and which are "ours". I'm listing just the ones that would presumably be predominately watched/enjoyed by me.

* Treasures - Films from the American Archives
* More Treasures - Films from the American Archives
Probably the most watched by me. Really old, mainly silent films found and preserved, most with new musical accompaniment
* Akira Kurosawa - Four Samurai Classics (Criterion)
- Seven Samurai
- Hidden Fortress
- Yojimbo
- Sanjuro
* Hidden Fortress (again)
* Spirited Away
* Princess Mononoke
* Microcosmos, a film about and starring insects
* Green Pastures, an odd but cool Biblical fantasy with an all black cast and crew from 1936.
* Royal Space Force/Wings of Honneamise (anime)
* Robotech - the Macross Saga
* Lupin the Third - World's Most Wanted
* Top Cat - the complete series
* Police Squad - the complete TV series
* Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume II
- Angels Revenge
- Cave Dwellers
- Pod People
- Shorts Vol 1
* Prince Live at the Aladdin, Las Vegas
* The Work of Michel Gondry (music video collection)
* The Work of Spike Jonze (music video collection)
* Sampler of "The Work of" four other music video directors
* Devo - The Complete Truth About De-Evolution
* They Might Be Giants - Direct from Brooklyn
* Duran Duran - Greatest
* Journey - Live in Houston 1981
* DVD of Pubert and I swimming with dolphins
* Cat Sitter Volume II, video footage of birds in the wild. And yes, my cats like it. We jokingly call this DVD "our cats' stories".

Plus I have quite a few that I never watch, and in fact am not entirely sure how I ended up with.

* Incubus, satanic/horror film with William Shatner in Esperanto.
* Forever for Now, a local film features some friends.
* a few promo anime films a friend sent me: Black Jack and Appleseed. Never gotten around to watching either.
* Hanukkah - Tales & Tunes, Miracles & Wonders, picked up for a couple bucks for a white elephant gift, mainly for the insane dreidel on the cover.

Enjoy.

Lex

 

[blackbeltninja]

Why fill up your room with plastic boxes if you can have all your movies on a 2.5" disk?

Because when the 2.5" disk fails or gets stolen, you're screwed.

I have a hatful of films on DVD; all my favourites and classics, all collectors' editions, none of which I bought because they were there/cheap and I had money to burn.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day Extreme Edition
Alien Ultimate Ed
Aliens Ultimate Ed
Series 7: The Contenders
Event Horizon
Fight Club
Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
All three Lord of the Rings 4-disc editions
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The extraordinarily luxurious 3-disc edition
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Blackhawk Down
Apocalypse Now (the dossier edition)
Wallace and Gromit: the original shorts and the Were-Rabbit movie


TV:
Futurama (3 original series; 1 pirate)
Scrubs 1-5
The Complete League of Gentlemen (BBC series)

Gifts:
A Clockwork Orange
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Scent of a woman
Borat

Pirated:
Can't Hardly Wait
Baseketball

Music:
Pearl Jam: Touring Band 2000, Live at the Garden 2003, Live at the Showbox
A Perfect Circle: Amotion
Incubus: Look Alive, Enjoy Incubus vol 2, Alive at Red Rocks, The Morning View Sessions

And my newest acquisition, due Thursday: The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus, all 45 episodes of LSD-induced 60s trippiness.

-d-

 

[Jayden]

JD. I love Trans. Nobody I know has ever seen that movie

 

[boxerdudeuk]

White Squall

we know why you like THAT one... lol

 

[Paws]

Because when the 2.5" disk fails or gets stolen, you're screwed.

Same goes with DVDs, they can get scratches or be stolen.