Must Have DVDs

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

HONEY (WS)

BWAHAHAHAHA!

Man, I hope that was free or something.

I like that it's widescreen too, because you wouldn't want to miss any part of that movie.

 

[Negative Zero]

yes, i freely admit that i'd willingly be Jessica Alba's favourite lounge chair. yeah i know the movie isn't a great work of film, but i didn't watch it for it's artistic merits guilty pleasures indeed.

~NegZ

 

[TracerBullet42]

Don't forget Fight Club! Great movie, with great extras, including the hidden catalog. Fun stuff.

Hey, did you know that you can drink your own urine? It's sterile.

 

[CCamfield]

Hm... must have DVDs? That's tough. But it's on my mind, as I am moving to Japan shortly (and temporarily) and won't be able to take every DVD in my collection with me.

Off the top of my head, from my collection:

- The Superbit edition of Lawrence of Arabia. Who cares about special features? Sometimes it's great just to have an amazing looking film. LoA is an epic movie and benefits greatly from having two entire discs for just the picture and sound.
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit. A fun fun film, and special features can be nice...
- Adventures of Robin Hood. ...as well as restoration. The restored edition of this Errol Flynn film looks incredible and also has nifty features like behind-the-scenes footage that was actually taken back in the 30s and survived.
- The Killer, and Hard Boiled. I have the Winstar DVDs which according to www.loveandbullets.com are just about as good as the Criterions, and didn't cost me $200.
- Wing Chun (Tai Seng DVD). While little known, this is, IMO, Michelle Yeoh's best movie. She plays a female martial artist fighting off bandits, while her boyfriend (played by Donnie Yen) comes home after many years and confuses her with another young woman. HK action movie/comedy and very good.
- Iron Monkey (non-US release). Original soundtrack, nothing cut, on which note I guess I should also mention
- Fist of Legend (Taiwanese release). In this case, the North American release's dub glosses over political content and changes the relationships between characters, by altering their dialogue. BAD DUBBERS! BAD BAD BAD!

 

[Enchantress]

Wow, let me see here.... Best movies for DVD collection....

Buffy
X-Men 1 & 2
Spiderman
Meet the Parents
Little Shop of Horrors
Anime.....lots and lots of anime.....
The Mummy and the Mummy Returns. NOT the Scorpian King
Sleepy Hollow
The Nightmare Before Christmas
All extended Lotr editions
South Park
Batman
There's Something About Mary
Elizabeth
POTC
Meet Joe Black
The Emperor's New Groove
Anything by Pixar Animation Studios
Big
American Beauty
Shakespeare in Love
Merlin
The Lion King 1 and 1/2. the second is kinda crappy.
Spirited Away
Moulin Rouge!
Star Wars Trilogy
Blade 1 and 2
Face/Off
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Kill Bill
Braveheart
The Rock
Practical Magic
The 10th Kingdom
The Terminator Trilogy

I'm positive that I'll think of more, but in the meantime this is a fortune in movies already.

 

[Rackhir]

The Princess Bride (I can't believe that nobody suggested it)
Prime Suspect Vol. 1-6 (One of the best british police stories)
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Hot Shots, Top Secret, Airplane
LoTR Extended editions
Dark City
Ringu (Original Japanese movie The Ring was based on)
Equilibrium
12 Monkeys
LA Story
Coupling (3 Volumes - One of the funniest Britcoms ever!)
The Entire Blackadder Collection (Great Extras)
The Killer, Hard Boiled
What Dreams May Come (some unbelievable visuals)
House of Cards Trilogy
Project A-ko (possibly the funniest pieces of Anime ever)
Escape From NY - SE
Babylon 5 TV Collection
Strange Days
Macross Plus
Penn & Teller's Bul#$it

 

[Celtavian]

re

Conan the Barbarian Collector's Edition gets my vote. A really wonderfully-done DVD.

The audio commentary featuring John Milius and Arnold Shwarznegger is both very funny (both men have great senses of humor) and very informative (you'll learn about the trouble the filmmakers had with both the MPAA and animal-rights activists). The disc also features high video quality, deleted scenes added back into the film (including a great conversation between Subotai and Conan as they prepare for the final battle), trailers, production stills, and an interesting documentry about the making of the film. The only weak point of the DVD is the audio quality of the movie itself; no surround sound, only stereo.

This DVD is a must-own for anybody who enjoyed Conan the Barbarian.

I've got to get this DVD. I didn't even know they had one out.

 

[Welverin]

Don't forget Fight Club! Great movie, with great extras, including the hidden catalog. Fun stuff.

Just make sure to get the right one, I've seen it in store recently despite it's disappearing a while ago, so don't worry about finding it.

 

[Enchantress]

Has anyone mentioned the current Harry Potter movies? I would deffinitely want them in my DVD collection.

 

[Padril]

BRAM STOKERS DRACULA

I do hope this is the superbit version since the original DVDs encoding was very substandard.

Since no one seems to have mentioned these I will

Krull
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather boxed set
Metropolis
Babylon 5 Series 1-5 boxed sets

Padril