Describe your DVD collection

Cafe Society
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Consider Blu-Rays to be DVDs for the sake of the discussion. How big is it? Is it mosly TV shows, theatrical movies, porn? Is there a a theme? Have you everything certain writers/directors/actors have done? If you’re married, do you have a joint collection with your spouse, or separate ones?

Et cetera.

I’ll begin by admitting my collection is almost non-existent; I prefer to rent rather than buy. I own all of three DVDs: Signs, Superman Returns, and What Dreams May Come. There used to be a lot of porn as well, but I tossed that out quite a while back.

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I’d say about half of my collection is animated films, mostly Disney and Pixar stuff. The rest is a combination of movies either I or my wife like to watch repeatedly. I have about 110 or so DVDs, much of which is in a box somewhere, I moved recently.

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I have probably 30 seasons of TV on DVD, mostly Joss Whedon-related or Looney Tunes Golden Collections. I’ve got around 100 DVDs of my favorite films, and another 100 or so kids movies and TV shows for the little ones.

Lately, though, I’ve moved to Blockbuster’s mail service. I rip each movie and mail it back, and delete it from my computer after watching it. That’s probably technically illegal, but it’s analogous to timeshifting a broadcast movie with a VCR. I watch it once per rental, just on my schedule. I don’t make copies for friends or anything like that. And I still buy it later if I really like it.

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I probably have a couple hundred dvds. Most which are action/adventure/sci-fi pics. A lot of computer animated stuff (pixar/dreamworks). Box sets of Indy Jones, Star Wars, LOTR. All the Harry Potters, Spidermans, Pirates of the Carribean. And a good helping of my wifes romatic comedies.
I think I have only a couple TV shows; Office s.1-2, Larry Sanders Show, Rankin&Bass/Peanuts holiday stuff.

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I think long and hard (stop snickering) before I make a purchase anymore. I’ll now only buy movies I know have re-watch value. For now, it’s a lot of science fiction like Alien, 2001, BTTF, Close Encounters, LOTR, Pixar stuff, and other solid dramas like Shawshank, Se7en, Fight Club, The Shining, things of that nature. Using that logic, I’ll buy maybe 5 to 10 movies a year… tops.

I maybe have around 80 or 90 movies in my library now.

Then there’s the kids collection, which I’m surprised the laser hasn’t burned a hole yet in the substrate of the 100s of DVDs they’ve accrued.

ETA: As much as I LOVE television, I’ve found there’s not much re-watch value there for me. As most of the programming I enjoy are episodic and of an unraveling nature, like 24, LOST and Battlestar. Once the cat’s outta the bag, I’m done with it.

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Hundreds. Probably six hundred or more. They fill a large portion of the closet in our spare bedroom. I’d say it’s mostly movies, but there are plenty of TV shows as well.

There are some discs in there that are just plain odd; I was an “early adopter”, and in those early days of DVD, there wasn’t much to choose from. Some studios hadn’t even decided whether they were going to support DVD at all! Buying a DVD that they produced to “test the waters” was almost a political tactic, a way to encourage them to produce more content. That’s how I ended up with stuff like Quest For Camelot andThe Mask of Zorro, at least.

The largest genre represented is probably “horror”, because many of the best horror movies are hard to find, and thus it’s easier to buy them than rent them.

Directors: off the top of my head, I seek out movies directed by Peter Jackson and David Fincher. I have most Terry Gilliam movies, too, but not all of them, because there are some that I don’t care for.

My wife and I have never combined our collections; she only has a few, and she doesn’t want to look through my big mass o’ movies to find hers.

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I have about 150 DVDs, no Blu Ray. The leading genre would be suspense/horror, especially vampire flicks (Blade I/II/III, Vampires, The Breed, From Dusk 'til Dawn, Interview w/the Vampire), followed by some westerns. 1/3 to 1/2 are movies I found at a used place or cheap ($5). I’ve revisited the 1980s to some degree, picking up stuff I know I like if it isn’t too pricey. Some animation (mostly Disney), no porn.

Last movies I watched: “Nightstalker,” about Richard Ramirez. It was an interesting flick but imdb gave it a 3.8 because factually it was waaaaay inaccurate. Hey, it was $3.

Also, “Replacement Killers” because I seem to be collecting Mira Sorvino. Not a bad flick; better than the others I have with her in them (Norma Jean & Marilyn, Angel of Death, Final Cut).

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I have no real idea of how many DVDs I have but I would guess around a hundred. Have some TV DVDs like Entourage, Dexter, earlier CSIs, and a bunch of films, no Bluray and only a couple animated things like Shrek. Unfortunately I bought a lot of my favorite films when VHS was still primary and I don’t have the money to rebuy on DVD. I own drama and comedy mainly, no horror and a few that could be considered action. To give an idea, some of the DVDs I watch the most are Lost in Translation, 40 Year Old Virgin, Grandmas Boy, Royal Tenenbaums, Saved, etc. So basically goofy comedy and good indie-type films. If you include my tapes I have movies like Goodfellas and Casino. I wish I had money to buy more TV box sets, I would love most all of the HBO and Showtime series and also stuff like House and Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the Office.

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I think I have about 25 or 30 DVDs. At least half of them are film adaptations of Shakespeare. Probably three-fourths of them, including all of the Shakespeares, are movies that I have used or think I might use in one of my classes; not that I don’t watch them for pleasure, but “does this have any conceivable function as a teaching tool?” is usually the question that determines whether I buy or rent.

On the other hand, I have used some odd things in class. I can’t remember why I decided one year that it would be a good idea to watch Training Day in freshman comp, but there it is.

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I have a few hundred. At the beginning, I bought movies I loved, and would watch multiple times (Fincher films, Coen brothers, Wes Anderson, etc.). Later, I would buy movies offered at Blockbuster (they had a "prepay for this blockbuster movie, get 10 free rentals). I did that nearly every month for a year or so, and accumulated a lot of Pixar, LOTR, Harry Potter, etc.

Then as prices would dip down significantly for select titles, I realized that $15 was WAY too much for a movie, and only bought DVDs on sale ($4-5 at BB or CC), and then only movies I was either interested in, or would have rented.

I’ve picked up a few TV shows (The Office, Arrested Development, It’s Always Sunny, BSG, Firefly) that I enjoy watching repeatedly.

For the next generation, I don’t plan on buying anything. I’d much rather save my money and rent through Netflix or Blockbuster. They have a much larger library than I’d ever be able to accumulate, bluray is backwards compatible, and I’m buying a house soon. Plus, why would I buy titles to watch on a decent TV, when I could use that money to upgrade my home theater?

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Mine falls into three categories.

  1. Epics. These are those great movies that I watch once/twice per year. El Cid, the Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, Greatest Story Every Told.

  2. TV. I actually buy some tv stuff which I mainly watch over long weekends or when I’m sick. I’ve got all of Star Trek Orignial, Next Generation, Soap, and I"m working on Queer as Folk and the West Wing.

  3. Holiday. I’ve got a good collection of Christmas movies. I figure they’ll get watched a couple of times in December every year.

The rest of the collection is made up of bargain dvds I’ve picked up over the years, some animated movies that I enjoy which I can put on when there are kids over, and some Genesis concert dvds.

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I have:

A shelf dedicated to Fantasy
Two shelves dedicated to Animated
A couple of shelves filled with various SF and Action
A few shelves filled with TV and Stand-Up comedy, and one-off specials, mostly UK, and some US
And then a bunch of Miscellaneous.

I don’t organise by title, but by genre, and by association (e.g. all my Spielberg titles are together, as are all my trilogies, and all my Pixars, etc).

I don’t have any DVD porn (except the stuff I helped produce myself, but that was for work, not pleasure).

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I have probably about 10 DVDs. I rarely watch movies more then once and since I have Netflix, if I want to, I can just re-rent it. Besides as much as I love instant gratification, there’s something about waiting for the DVD to show up in the mail that I love.

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I was going to say pathetically small, but I just found out there’s at least one person in the world with fewer DVDs than me. A few of mine are French and German, since I watch those film to practice the languages - at least, that’s what I’d tell anyone who asked why, out of all the movies in the world, I own Mostly Martha. (Also, I like it.) A few childhood favourites. A couple TV series, and BBC period miniseries.

Most of my DVDs I burned myself, mostly off the TV, complete with pop-up ads from the CBC along the bottom. My father’s a broadcast engineer, and editing out commercials with the DVR is his favourite hobby. Really. Actually, if you count self-made DVDs, probably the major part of my collection is the new Doctor Who series, all four seasons.

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I have around 25-30 DVDs.
A bit are concerts (Pink Floyd, Drive By Truckers, Steve Miller Band, Zappa plays Zappa)
Some are Animaniacs Seasons 1-3
One is SNL’s first season.
I have all the Scrubs Seasons on DVD.
I have all the 10th anniversary Quentin Tarrantino Films (Up to Jackie Brown, and waiting on Kill Bill, though I do have Death Proof).
I have a bit of Kevin Smith’s Films (Clerks 1,2, and waiting to get the others).
I have a few Romantic Comedies that I’ve enjoyed.
And Black Snake Moan and Stranger than Fiction and the special edition of Hot Fuzz.
Oh, and Batman Begins/Gotham Nights. But those were a gift.
And then I have like 10-12 DVDs of Various Kung Fu Films and Japanese films given to me over the years.
And I have the Warriors on DVD. Just because.

That’s my collection pretty much. I don’t really buy DVDs except for ones that are PACKED with bonus features (hence why I have the 10th anniversary ones or special editions of films).

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Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.

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We have somewhere on the high side of 550 DVDs. Quite an eclectic mix - TV: Buffy, Angel, B5, a few seasons of SG1, quite a bit of British TV (Chef!, Avengers, New Avengers, Vicar of Dibley, Fawlty Towers, 'Allo!, 'Allo!, Manchild, etc.), Brisco County, Eureka, Firefly, Charmed, Dream On, many more. All sorts of box sets - James Bond, Lord of the Rings, Looney Toons. Everything Clint Eastwood, John Wayne and Charles Bronson have ever done. Lots of Pixar. Lots of Kurasawa.

Let’s just say we are never at a lack for something to watch.

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eta: I found an old spreadsheet of the collection through #375. It had:

40 Action
5 Adventure
16 Animated
6 Beach
128 Comedy
2 Documentary
7 Drama
3 Epic
1 Erotica
3 Fantasy
5 Kurosawa
29 Musical
20 Romance
9 Sci-Fi
1 Thriller
58 TV
5 View Askew
16 War
19 Western

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You can see my collection here. I have [del]wayyyyy too much crap[/del] very wide tastes :smiley:

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The collection is 99% my choice, mostly because my wife really doesn’t like to watch things more than once. This is an incomprehensible world view to me. However, I am also the one with the good memory for what we’ve seen, so occasionally my wife will admit she doesn’t remember the plot and is OK with seeing a film again.

I haven’t counted recently, but I expect my current library is in the 400-500 range. There is the SF area, with The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, When Worlds Collide, This Island Earth on one side, and Alien, etc., Star Wars, Blade Runner and so on on the other.
Various classics including Metropolis, King Kong, M, Grand Illusion, Sunset Boulevard. Thrillers and heists and capers including Saboteur, The Third Man, Rififi, The Killing, The Italian Job, Heat.
Westerns including My Darling Clementine, Shane, High Noon, Little Big Man, Silverado, Unforgiven.
WWII including ones that got it wrong for propaganda reasons like Bataan and Air Force, and ones that got it right, like Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and They Were Expendable. And A Walk in the Sun, Guadalcanal Diary, Attack!, Battleground.
Blockbusters like Lawrence of Arabia.
Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Le Samourai.
The Battle of Algiers, Platoon, The Boys in Company C.
The Duelists, Women in Love, The Manchurian Candidate
TV like Peter Gunn, Secret Agent.
And then musical comedies, documentaries, animation, action . . . whee!