Kevin's Watch

Just wondering what DVDs you guys watch . . .

Oh yeah, someone in my family, as a graduation present, bought me The Godfather DVD box set. I still haven't gotten around to watching it, because I don't care for shoot-'em-up pictures.

I don't know if you're joking or not, so I'll take this seriously.
The Godfather and Godfather II are awesome, the best ever IMO.
Godfather III should never have been made. Go ahead and spend an afternoon or evening with The Godfather-you won't regret it!

Oh, I can watch just about anything except if its too violent. The main we watch repeatedly though, is Fellowship of the Ring, in both its forms. Pretty much every day my kids don't have school or wrestling tournaments one or both will watch it.
I'm really glad they have finally set a release date for the Two Towers! Fresh Meat!!

I have the theatrical and the extended versions of LOTR DVD. I love listening to the commentaries on the extended - pity there's no Viggo in the commentary though.
Blue Velvet, Blair Witch Project, Band O f Brothers (boxset), 24 1st season (boxset) Psycho (with Vince Vaughan and Anne Heche), A Perfect Murder and ABBA - The Winner Takes It All are my favourites thus far.

DVDs I intend asking Santa for include:
TTT theatrical and Extended
Harry Potter 1 & 2
Star Wars Episodes 1 & 2
Walking with Dinosaurs
Walking with Beasts
But I'm always on the lookout for more

Unfair topic 2 the DVD impaired! I'll sue! Rich bastards! Elitists! "Eat the rich!" Revolution! "Down with the Shah!":D

I haven't gotten around to getting many DVDs.

Fight Club (a friend borrowed it and never returned it, but technically, I still own it)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Labrynth

Tapes
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness
Clerks
Chasing Amy
Heathers
Tombstone
Braveheart (hart?)
Dark City
The Prophecy

those are all I can remember at the moment, though I know I have a lot more.

I buy used dvd's from the video rental place, and Target has the new releases marked down several dollars if you can get there the first week they're out.

I rarely buy DVDs (so far only good films I have that I bought are Evolution and LotR), but my dad gets a lot of the latest films soon after they come out (I'll be watching Matrix Reloaded pretty soon).

Today I watched 28 Days Later, and it is an amazing film. The opening is great - they had to totally close off central London to film that sequence.

Oooh ! I wish I could get The Prophecy on DVD.

I only buy DVDs that I know I will watch many times.
(or childrens classics that will be watched again and again...)
I have bought:
The Godfather I & II (listening Foul?)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory (listening Infelice? ha ha.)
The sound of music
Goodfellas
Yellow submarine (wunderbar)
LOTR
Wicker man
Beavis & Butthead 3 disc set
Wizard of Oz
this can't be more than a twentieth. I ramble. I go now.

I have a small DVD collection with titles like "The Shawshank Redemption", "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" and "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane - Rock & Roll Detective" (arguably the best vorspiel movie ever).

The only DVD that I own is The Seven Samurai.

Anybody seen the movie Six-String Samurai?

I will sneak in to tell you the videos I own...
The Hi-Lo Country
Dances with Wolves
The Fawlty Towers box set
China Moon
Braveheart
The Invisible Circus
Legends of the Fall
The Firm
The Bumblee Flys, Anyway
The Apu Trilogy
A River Runs Through It
Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
The Depradieu Count of Monte Christo box set

Damelon wrote:The only DVD that I own is The Seven Samurai.

First modern action movie and still the best ever! Heil Mifune!

I was just joking about The Godfather, by the way! Wish I owned the box set, is all . . . Anyway, I've got:

Apocalypse Now
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Goodfellas
Shawshank Redemption
The Deer Hunter
The Matrix
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan
Terminator 2
Scarface
Eagles: Hell Freezes Over
Spider-Man
Unforgiven
The Green Mile

And my two favorites:

Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition
and
The Beatles Anthology

Eagles - Hell Freezes Over.......What painful memories that tour brings back ....... I sat on the phone all day to buy tickets to that concert and got them in the end .... only to have to give them away as I had to go into hospital the day before the concert.

I'd love to get that DVD to help make up for what I missed out on.

Dvd's eh? I'll say I don't have nearly as many as I wish.
ST Episode I
ST Episode II
Shrek
Superman I
Batman I
Batman III
Batman IV
Spiderman
Daredevil
HULK (just got that)
Matrix Reloaded
Predator
TRON
NL's Christmas Vacation hah
Final Fantasy the Spirits Within
Cast Away
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Commando
It's A Wonderful Life
Aliens
MIB II
The Puppet Masters
Army of Darkness
Reign of Fire
Pearl Harbor
2010
The Avengers
Raising Arizona
Minority Report
Ghost Ship
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
The Man in the Iron Mask
LOTR Fellowship
LOTR Two Towers
Star Trek I
Star Trek II
Star Trek X
Detroit Rock City
Logan's Run
Evolution
Sleepy Hollow
The Family Man
Space: 1999 box set.
Ugh… I can't type any more.
There are at least 10 more.
I have about 45 to 50 vhs tapes that don't duplicate the films above. When I get a dvd I give my old vhs stuff to my friends.

I got about 1000 videocasettes but only about 20 DVDs :

Sunday Too Far Away
Storm Boy
That Eye The Sky
The Lighthorsemen
The Custodian
Silver City
Salute Of The Jugger
Nostradamus Kid
Heaven's Burning

... forgotten the rest.

I intend to purchase Finding Nemo and Terminator III in the next few weeks. I can't help myself.

The reason we got a DVD player in the first place is because we wanted Twin Peaks season 1 on DVD because the VHS quality on those is abyssmal. So That was the first thing we got. Since then we've aquired several more, my favorites being:

FOTR extended edition
Amelie
Six Feet Under season 1
Chicago
Moulin Rouge
Lilo and Stitch
Planet of the Apes box set
Harry Potter 1&2
The Shipping News
American History X - I have to emotionally steel myself for this one.
Toy Story 1&2


But some of my favorites are also on VHS:

Schindler's List - This one too.
American Beauty
the Terry Gilliam trilogy - TB, BM, and HG
Magnolia
Ladyhawke
Trainspotting
Ever After
Run Lola Run
The Straight Story
Rushmore
Fight Club
Titus
The Wall
Pulp Fiction
most of David Lynch's movies
and many more.