I recently obtained a DVD player. I have started a list of movies that I wish to purchase, rather than rent repeatedly. I couldn’t decide which to start with, so I had the bright idea to go through the list alphabetically. I haven’t thought of movies for each letter. And I ran into a conflict at “B”. So here’s my partial list. Please give your opinion on which “B” movie to get first and fill in the others.
Already have: Bedrooms & Hallways and Gosford Park
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Bandits or Bottle Rocket
Clerks
Dogma
Erik the Viking
F
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hedwick and the Angry Inch
I
J
Koyaanisqatsi
L
Moulin Rouge
N
O Brother Where Art Thou
Princess Bride
Q
Raising Arizona
Sixth Sense
T
U
V
W
X-Files: Fight the Future
Y
Z
Flirting With Disaster Living Out Loud Notorious Terminator, The or T2 (special ed.) Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Victor/Victoria or Vertigo Withnail & I Zardoz (horrible fantasy movie with Sean Connery in a giant diaper-thingy, but has a Boorman cult, and you did list Erik the Viking, which is likewise awful in a misbegotten, grandiose way, and which suggests to me you might like this one. *Whew!/i])
For the B’s I’d choose Bottle Rocket. Definitely, definitely. Tho Brazil would be better IMHO. Or Blazing Saddles or Ben Hur.
I see you’ve got 2 Kevin Smith movies listed. Might I suggest Jay and Silent Bob Stricke Back? Or John Q.
And you simply must have the Criterion edition of Time Bandits.
I don’t think we have the same taste in movies, but I’d fill out your missing categories with:
Fifth Element or Face Off
Idle Hands
Legend
Near Dark or Nightbreed
Q (yes, it’s better than Queen of the Damned)
Unbreakable
Very Bad Things
Willow or Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
Young Frankenstein (no contest here)
Z…Z…Z; almost drawing a blank here. Unless you’ve got a fetish for bad Scott Baio movies (Zapped), I’d say one of the Zorro movies.
Fantasia 2000: Although this was originally done in Imax, so it might lose a lot on a small screen. I’d love to see the Rhapsody in Blue sequence again.
The Importance of Being Earnest: Funnier than Gosford Park,much funnier.
L. A. Story: Sweet, smart and funny at the same time, my favorite romantic movie. (Which might explain a few things, actually.)
And as great as Raising Arizona is, I’d have to go with The Right Stuff for R.
F - Fight Club, Forrest Gump, Friends (all 8 series
I - Independance Day, In The Bedroom, In The Line of Fire
J - Jurassic Park, JFK,
L - Legend of Bagger Vance, Lady Vanishes, Last Emporer
N - Network (astonishing movie, OK DVD),
Q - Quick and the Dead (I love Sam Raimi),
T - Terminator I/II, Total Recall, Tin Cup, Third Man, Three Kings
U - U571, Ulee’s Gold, Under Siege
V - Vertigo, Vanilla Sky
W - Who Framed Roger Rabbit,
Y - Yound Guns I/II, Yanni Live at the Acropolis (only joking :D)
Z - Zero Effect
… if you are starting to build a DVD collection then I’d recommend downloading DVD Profiler
It lets you search for all movies on DVD and keep track of your collection. Great piece of freeware.
Thanks everyone, I don’t know how I missed Unbreakable and I had completely forgotten The Joy Luck Club. A few others are listed that I’ve not seen, but now I know what to rent.
And you scare me, Horseflesh. Two excellent suggestions, but then you also listed Willow and Zapped! [sub]I know Zapped was a joke, but c’mon, you remembered it’s existence.
