Hey gobear is there a way to get a list of other peoples DVD collections on dvdaficionado. It’s a pretty cool idea to find people with similar taste.
I like your foregin films collection. There’s a few in there I haven’t seen. Have you seen Nowhere in Africa. It’s great! I really enjoyed it.
Yes. Just click the box next to one of the movies in your collection, then click the Who’s Got It? button at the top. The next screen will show you all the people who have that movie in their collections. Just click on a username and you can see their collection.
I finally got my list together at DVD Aficianado. Up front, I’d like to point out that some of those entries were given to me (e.g., Dirty Dancing, XXX, Monster From a Prehistoric Planet, Rollerball). However, others (e.g., Armageddon, Independence Day) were not. So I’m only partially to blame for any perceived lack of taste 
I also noticed that I have a surprising number of discontinued DVDs. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. In too many cases, though, it appears that they discontinued my version to release a spiffier ultra-deluxe-super-collector’s-director’s-cut edition.
I am concerned about my Living Dead collection, though. What are the “best” versions available for those? The ones I have are pretty much what I grabbed when I saw them, so I don’t know which versions are considered definitive, or which ones suck, or whatever.
Also, I actually bought the metal slip cover version of Terminator 2, but I no longer have the metal slip cover for some reason, so I picked the regular Ultimate Edition.
Oh - I also have a copy of Master and Commander, but I’m not sure which version, since a friend is currently borrowing it.
Here’s my collection. I don’t actually own all that many films, since I have easy access to a very good video rental place.
I only have two DVDs that weren’t in the database:
The Residents - Live on the Outskirts
The Bride With White Hair (my version is by Mercury Entertainment)
I can’t say I’ve got my list ready at DVD Aficionado. But with 473 titles, I’ve made a decent start.
Damn… I’m getting really jealous look at all of your DVD collections. Here in Japan DVDs are finally getting popular, but they still don’t sell much apart from mainstream titles. I’d say that on the bright side it saves me money, but DVDs cost so much more here that it’s probably a wash 
Anyway, here’s my list (apart from some Japanese titles that aren’t on the site).
I just want to say you people have been making me spend money and I resent it. Resent it, I say! Thankfully stuff like The Magnificent Seven and The Dirty Dozen can be gotten cheap ;).
By the way, this forum in general and this thread in particular inspired me to pick up Donnie Darko, which otherwise had slipped under my radar. Watched it last night and enjoyed its weirdness, so thanks :).
I want to play too!, here is my list
http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&id=unclviny
But some things did not show up like:
My burned Animaniacs discs (x3),
Bad to the Bone (a collection of 4 biker movies),
The Bears live at Club Cafe,
The Bob’s Sing,
11 volumes of the Carol Burnett Show,
CBGBomfug punk from the Bowery,
My burned Frank Zappa story,
Gong the Subterania gig 2000,
Kinky Friedman Proud to be an A**hole from El Paso,
Paco Delucia Light and Shade a portrait.
Weird Al Yankovic Live,
Unclviny
Loud and clear. I love that (very underrated) movie. Paul Bettany’s best work – hand’s down.
Anyway –
My personal philosophy precludes me from purchasing any movie that I think I won’t get my money’s worth out of by renting it multiple times instead. Obviously, most of you have cleared that hurdle. . .or you haven’t but you watch movies non-stop and repeatedly.
Hence, my DVD collection is
Almost Famous
Ferris Bueller
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill Vol. 1
The Big Lebowski
*
My VHS collection is
*
Koyaanisqatsi
Mr. Saturday Night
*
I won Mr.SN off the radio. I only watched it once.
BTW, I love my local video store. Rentals are $3 (if you buy the $15 pack for $45) with 3-for-2’s Mon-Thur. And, I like going in and trying to find movies.
There are others that could go on that DVD list, but just haven’t yet.
Let’s see, what DVD’s do I own…I just packed the damn things up, too!
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (both are the extended versions)
The Simpsons: Season 3
24: Season 2
PCU
Clerks: The Animated Series
Office Space
Spiderman
Star Trek: First Contact
X-Men 2
Galaxy Quest
Ocean’s Eleven
Titan A.E.
Cube
Not a great list. I also used to have the first two seasons of Futurama, but they were inside a five-disc DVD changer, and then that DVD changer was stolen from my place. All I had left were two DVD’s from season 2, so I threw both sets out, with plans to re-buy them.
As you will see if you click there’s a warning as I have an Adult Title listed.
OK, here’s mine. Got a long wayws to go compared to some folks around here.
As one can see, very much a guy’s (or maybe big kid’s) list, I think. Got Invader Zim on the way, too. Like 'em all, really; haven’t picked up any real clunkers except an earlier copy of Zulu that was an absolute shite pan ‘n’ scan from a faded TV print. Apparently there are a lot of those floating around.
Biffy the Elephant Shrew: Man, that’s one gobsmackingly eclectic list. I had no idea Beany and Cecil was out on the shiny disk. Now I’ll havta get me some of that.
My pathetic collection. I think I have more, but I keep forgetting to update when I go home, so I can only remember 15. Also I have to really, really like a movie to want to own it, and I don’t even like all the movies in my collection.
Seriously, who can afford 473 DVDs? Even at a discount of $15 each, that over $7,000! Do you not eat?
I only have 345, but I do not pay anywhere near $15 per–my average, not counting box sets, is around $7.16 because I know how to bargain hunt. In addition, because I was an early convert to DVD way before most people, I’ve had more time to build my collection over the years.
Although I have sunk quite a bit of money in my DVDs, the cumulative cost is no more than a trip to Europe for a week, and I have more for my money than memories and a photo album.
O.K., I’ll bite:
DVDs – (120 titles, 143 discs).
Concentrations: James Bond, early Hitchcock, cult movies.
About a Boy
Against All Odds
A.I. [2 discs]
Air Force One
Animal House
Apartment, The
Beautiful Mind, A [2 discs]
Bela Lugosi Triple Feature Marathon
Big Easy, The
Blade Runner [Director’s Cut]
Blair Witch Project, The
Body Heat
Bottle Rocket
Bourne Identity, The
Bridget Jones’ Diary
Carrington
Casablanca
Cast Away
Catch Me If You Can [2 discs]
Chicago
Chicken Run
Citizen X
Cliffhanger
Dangerous Liasons
Das Boot
Dead Ringers
Desperately Seeking Susan
Devil In a Blue Dress
Die Another Day [2 discs]
Diner
Dish, The
Don’t Look Now
Duel At Diablo
Enemy At the Gates
Excalibur
Far From Heaven
Fargo
Fight Club
Fish Called Wanda, A
For Your Eyes Only
Forgotten Silver
Four Weddings and a Funeral
From Russia With Love
Gladiator [2 discs]
Goldeneye
Goldfinger
Gosford Park
Great Escape, The
High Fidelity
History of the World, Part I
Husbands and Wives
Impromptu
Independence Day
Interiors
In The Bedroom
In the Line of Fire
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Kiss the Sky
L.A. Story
Lawrence of Arabia [cloth box SE: 2 discs]
Life As a House
Magnolia [2 discs]
Miller’s Crossing
Mishima
Monty Python And The Holy Grail [SE: 2 discs]
Murder By Death
NASA [documentaries]
Ninth Gate, The
North By Northwest
Notorious [Criterion SE]
Novocaine
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ocean’s Eleven (the remake)
Odd Couple, The
Office Space
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Paris Trout
Pavement: Slow Century [music: 2 discs]
Pee Wee Herman’s Great Adventure
Pi
Princess Bride, The
Purple Rose of Cairo, The
Raising Arizona
Re-Animator [2-disc Millenium SE]
Requiem for a Dream
Rocky and Bullwinkle, Vol. I [4 discs]
Ronin
Room With A View, A
Royal Tenenbaums, The [Criterion, 2 discs]
Rush
Sabotage
Secret Agent, The
Shadow of a Doubt
The Simpsons, Vol. I [3 discs]
Sliding Doors
South Park: Bigger, Faster, Uncut
Spartacus [2 discs]
Specialist, The
Spy Who Loved Me, The
Star Wars, Episode One: The Phantom Menace [2 discs]
Star Wars, Episode Two: Attack of the Clones [2 discs]
Sum of All Fears, The
Sweet Smell of Success, The
Swordfish
“10"
Terminator II [metal slip SE: 2 discs]
39 Steps, The
Thorn Birds, The [2 discs]
Three Kings
3 Three Stooges episodes
Tomorrow Never Dies
Twelve Angry Men
V.I. Warshawski
While You Were Sleeping
Wicker Man, The [88-minute version with making-of doc.]
Wicker Man, The [limited-ed. wooden-box 2-disc set]
Withnail & I [Criterion]
Wonder Boys
Young Frankenstein
What I most want next: more cult movies (Spinal Tap, Ravenous, Flirting With Disaster, Rushmore, Dark Star; and '60’s - '70’s cheesy anthology horror flicks), a lot more Woody Allen, more Criterions (Carnival of Souls), more Monty Python, more early Hitchcock (The Lady Vanishes, Saboteur, Foreign Correspondent) and Polanski (Repulsion), and some Kurosawa.
:smack:
I left out a couple:
Batman ('60’s made-for-TV movie, with Adam West & Burt Ward)
The Good Girl
It’s only a single disc collection, but it has most of the episodes I was hoping for, including “There’s No Such Thing as a Sea Serpent” (The Ballad of Snorky), which is my choice for the single greatest cartoon of all time.
Well, I’m not going to critique, but I will say that I tend to be very selective in what DVDs I end up owning. I have to really, really, really like a movie–there are plenty of films I’ll acknowledge as terrific, classic, 10/10, etc. that I’m still not interested in owning or have a hard time seeing myself revisit (though a few films on my list are my wife’s, not mine). When everything’s said and done, I’ll be surprised if I have more than 500 titles total.
As far as individual lists, I can’t help but notice I gravitate towards older and foreign movies (by percentage) more than the other contributors to this thread, and most of the lists have films I’d never ever consider owning (per above), though some I’ll readily admit to having enjoyed. I do feel obliged to mention a couple lists in particular that I do like, though:
Tamerlane: Extremely cool, diverse, and eclectic. From Kiezlowski and Truffaut to Curse of the Demon and Bubba Ho-Tep. I’ll certainly own The Conversation, Local Hero, The Long Goodbye, The Man Who Would Be King, The Wicker Man and Show Me Love and I’m impressed you have them all. There’s very little that’s predictable about your list and most of your titles, though I don’t plan on owning them, I wouldn’t mind owning, which is quite unusual indeed. A particular shoutout to Angels & Insects which I’m now reconsidering…
Kasper Hauser: Winsor McCay, Stan Brakhage, Brothers Quay, Cocteau, Fuller, Rene Clair, *Trouble in Paradise, M, Z, *the Carl Dreyer box set + (of course) the eponymous Herzog. And Love Me Tonight’s on DVD! Holy crap, I had no clue! Gotta hunt that down ASAP! I think this most resembles what my collection will end up looking like (though a little lighter on the animation, for practical reasons). Very very nice.
Mine, at the moment :
http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&id=candidgamera
Hmm… unless I’ve got a few buried around here…
There are many things on VHS which I intend to replace on DVD when the opportunity arises.
Pretty much what gobear already said. I keep an eye out for bargains. Video stores like Blockbuster sell off their DVD’s after they’ve been on the shelf a couple of months. I also buy DVD’s at pawn shops and flea markets.