Your DVD Collection — Page 5

I don't actually own many DVDs anymore.  I buy them, rip them as high-quality .mkv files onto my hard drive, preserving the audio commentaries and subtitles and all that jazz, and play them using my Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ media player box thingy.  I then sell the DVDs used, because, well, I never use DVDs anymore.

For movies that have multiple versions, I copy all of the ones I'm interested in.  Usually it's just one version (like the Apocalypse Now theatrical cut), sometimes it's multiple versions (like both versions of Army of Darkness or Terminator 2).

Anyway, here's what I have on my hard drives - well, this is everything that I know I purchased legally, as I'll freely admit to pirating some things.  Also, this is going to be a long list:

127 Hours
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010
28 Days Later
A Boy and His Dog
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Airplane!
The African Queen
Alice in Wonderland (Disney, '51)
Alien (theatrical)
Aliens (extended)
Alien³ (extended; replaced my DVD rip with a pirated BR-rip for the improved audio)
All the President's Men
Almost Famous (director's cut)
American Graffiti
American Psycho (uncensored cut)
An American Tail (replaced my DVD rip with widescreen HDTV rip)
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now (theatrical)
Arrested Development (all 3 seasons)
Attack the Block
Avatar (super long version)
Back to the Future trilogy
Bad Lieutenant
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Barry Lyndon
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
Batman: Year One
Batman: Under the Red Hood
Battlestar Galactica (miniseries, seasons 1-4, and Razor - fuck The Plan)
Beavis and Butt-head Do America
Beetlejuice
Being John Malkovich
Big Fish
The Big Lebowski
Billy Madison
Black Swan
Blow
Blue Valentine
Blue Velvet
Brazil (director's cut, or whatever the Criterion Disc 1 is)
Breaking Bad (seasons 1-3 legitimately, season 4 pirated)
Brick
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (all 7 seasons) and Angel (all 5 seasons)
Captain America: The First Avenger
Cast Away
City of God
Clerks. (theatrical)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (director's cut)
Coraline
Cosmos
Cowboy Bebop
Dances with Wolves (annoyingly long cut)
Das Boot ("uncut" version, aka miniseries cut)
Dead Alive (or Braindead) (US cut)
Death at a Funeral (the Frank Oz one)
Die Hard 1-3
Doctor Who (2005) Series 1-6
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (unrated)
Dogma
Donnie Darko (both versions)
Dumb and Dumber (unrated)
Dune (theatrical & Third Stage fan edit)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (theatrical)
Eastern Promises
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eulogy
Evil Dead (all 3; both versions of Army of Darkness)
Excalibur
The Exorcist (theatrical)
The Fall
Fanboys
Fantasia
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fargo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Criterion's slightly-extended cut)
Finding Nemo
The Fly (Cronenberg)
For All Mankind
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (unrated)
The Fountain
Freaks and Geeks
Fright Night (the remake)
Fringe (seasons 1-3 legitimately, season 4 to date pirated)
The Fugitive
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Futurama (seasons 1-6, counting DVD movies as S5 and Vols. 5 & 6 as S6)
Game of Thrones (season 1)
Get Him to the Greek (unrated)
Ghost in the Shell (theatrical, not 2.0)
Ghostbusters 1 & 2
The Godfather trilogy
Grandma's Boy
Grindhouse (theatrical)
Groundhog Day
Hannibal Lecter movies (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal)
Harry Potter movies (all 8; all theatrical cuts)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Heat
Help!
Hot Fuzz
Howl's Moving Castle
I Am Legend (alternate cut)
I Love You, Man
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Inception
The Incredibles
The Incredible Hulk (Ed Norton)
Indiana Jones (all 4; yeah, I know, but I don't hate 4 as much as everyone else)
Inglourious Basterds
The Iron Giant
Iron Man 1 & 2
Jack Ryan movies (The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger)
Jackass 1-3 (don't have the .5's, though)
Jackie Brown
James Bond movies (all of them except the '60s Casino Royale)
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Kick-Ass
Kiki's Delivery Service
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Kingdom of Heaven (director's cut)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
L.A. Confidential
The Land Before Time (replaced my DVD rip with widescreen HDTV rip)
Let the Right One In
Life (as narrated by David Attenborough)
George Romero's Living Dead movies (all of em, even Land [DC], Diary and Survival)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (director's cut)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (theatrical and extended)
Love Actually
Mad Max (all 3)
Mallrats (theatrical)
Man with No Name (all 3)
All 13 Marx Brothers movies (The Cocoanuts through Love Happy)
MASH
The Matrix
Mean Streets
Mission: Impossible 1-3
Moon
My Neighbor Totoro
Natural Born Killers (director's cut)
The New World (extended)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Office Space
Open Your Eyes (or Abre los ojos)
Pan's Labyrinth
Pi
Pink Floyd The Wall
The Pink Panther
A Shot in the Dark
Inspector Clouseau
The Return of the Pink Panther
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Planet Earth (as narrated by David Attenborough)
Porco Rosso
Primer
The Princess Bride
Pulp Fiction
Pushing Daisies (both seasons)
[REC] (1 and 2)
Requiem for a Dream (uncut)
Riddick movies (Pitch Black, Chronicles, and Dark Fury)
The Road
Road to Perdition
Role Models (unrated)
The Rules of Attraction
Run Fatboy Run
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Shaun of the Dead
The Shawshank Redemption
Sherlock (series 1 legitimately, series 2 pirated)
The Shining
Six-String Samurai
Snatch.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Spaced (both series)
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Star Wars trilogy (still have the GOUT DVDs; DJ's GOUT V3 is what's on my hard drive; I also have the prequel DVDs and Ady's theatrical Ep I)
Stargate (unlabeled, so I don't remember if it's the extended or theatrical cut)
Taken (uncut)
Terminator 1 & 2 (both versions of 2)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ('74)
Thank You for Smoking
Thor
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ('74)
There Will Be Blood
The Thing (Carpenter)
The Thief and the Cobbler (Recobbled cut)
This is Spinal Tap
THX 1138 (theatrical)
Tommy Boy
Toy Story 1-3
Trailer Park Boys ("The Big Dirty")
Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day
Up
Up in the Air
The Usual Suspects
Vacation & Christmas Vacation
WALL-E
Watchmen (super long cut)
Whatever Works
Where the Wild Things Are
Woodstock (director's cut)
The X Files (seasons 1-7 and the first movie, fuck everything else)
X-Men (1, 2, 3, and First Class; fuck the Wolverine movie)
Youth in Revolt
Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Wow...so yeah, that's everything that I've purchased legitimately.  There's probably more that I've deleted over the years because I never watched it and needed hard drive space.

I guess I should post in the "obsessions" topic - making lists definitely falls under that category for me.

Added The Butterfly Effect to my collection.

If I paid for it, and the studio got a cut of the money I paid for (i.e. I bought it new, not used), then I'm gonna do whatever the fuck I want with it.  They got my money, so whether I still have the disc or not isn't any of their damn business.

And I'm certainly not making any profit by selling them - I'm still losing a decent chunk of change (if I get 50% of what I paid for it back, that's way above average), and that money's not being taken away from the studios at all.  They still got their percentage from me.

If there's legal ramifications to that, they can charge me or sue me, but they can be damn sure I'll fight it until I win or can't fight anymore.

I purchased a used copy of Stop Making Sense on DVD today.  That's about all I have to contribute to this discussion.

Added The Road (2009) to my collection.

I've bought so many DVDs since when I last updated, I'll have to have them all in later. Or never.

Here's one long list of all the DVDs I own compiled for the pleasure of readers who don't want to go back through all the posts in this thread to find out what it is I own =P


The Beast from 20000 Fathoms (1953) and Them! (1954), both on one disc (the first film's defective, though, and won't play on my player past the halfway point)

The Butterfly Effect (2004) (theatrical and director's cuts)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961), both on one disc (I want to get rid of this DVD, though, as neither film catches my fancy or is in particularly good picture quality)

Cloverfield (2008)

The Dark Knight (2008)

Dirty Harry (1971)

Dracula (1931), Drácula (Spanish version) (1931), Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), all together in a four-disc set

Event Horizon (1997)

1408 (director's cut) (2007)

Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), both in a two-disc set

The Good German (2006) (another DVD I want to get rid of)

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Misery (1990)

The Prestige (2006)

The Road (2009)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

The Shining (1980)

The Simpsons (seasons 2 & 8)

Spider-Man (2002)

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Stargate (director's cut) (1994)

Strangers on a Train (American and British versions) (1951) (another DVD I want to get rid of)

Superman (1978), Superman II (1980), Superman III (1983), and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), all together in a four-disc set

The Terror (1963) and The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), both on one disc

The Village (2004)

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)

DVDs I've added to my collection ...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (theatrical cut) (1966)

Independence Day (threatrical cut and special edition) (1996)

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

Jurassic Park (1993)

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)

The Machinist (2004)

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

Mutant X (season 2)

Mystery Men (1999)

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

The Simpsons (seasons 1 & 3)

Sliders (season 1)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Soylent Green (1973), The Time Machine (1960), Forbidden Planet (1956), and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), all together in a four-disc set

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Super 8 (2011)

Superman: The Animated Series (Volume 2) 

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (special edition) (1991)

DVDs I've removed from my collection ...

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

The Beast from 20000 Fathoms (1953) and Them! (1954), both on one disc

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961), both on one disc

Cloverfield (2008)

The Dark Knight (2008)

1408 (director's cut) (2007)

The Good German (2006)

The Prestige (2006)

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Strangers on a Train (American and British versions) (1951)

The Village (2004)

SilverWook said:

Anybody find any discolored discs in their collection recently? Seems to be a thing with some discs about a decade old now.

I have a few DVDs that look, for lack of a better analogy, waterstained. I don't think most of them are a decade old, though -- one I bought brand-new only a few months ago.

skyjedi2005 said:

People still buy DVD's?

I haven't the budget to get anything better. Besides, I'm satisfied with DVD-quality definition -- I don't need anything better.

I only wish the movies I want to own were more available. For someone largely limited to buying secondhand DVDs and DVDs available in local supermarkets (I can't buy anything online), it becomes a pain in the ass to find anything.  

SilverWook said:

Anybody find any discolored discs in their collection recently? Seems to be a thing with some discs about a decade old now. Doesn't seem to affect playability yet, but it's still a point of concern with something that may be out of print and expensive to replace.

Bad enough I have to worry about labels falling off of Laserdiscs inside the player now.

Yes. Around the time i used my backup windows DVDs to re-install Windows. Instead of reading the install disk it burned some weird image data on my backup DVD to make it unreadable that wasnt visually there before!

^Seeing as ChainsawAsh hasn't logged in since July 27, he may never actually read your reply.

I assume you're talking to me ...

I don't own the GOUT or have ever watched a copy, so I can't say how it is. It'd sure be an improvement over my degrading VHS copies, at any rate.

TV's Frink said:

Ziggy Stardust said:

Jokes aside, what about Gump makes you loathe it so much?

Zemekis is a hack director and has no respect for his fans.

 You must think Back to the Future is a fluke then.  It's spelled Zemeckis, by the way.

Just got gifted my sister-in-laws kid's DVD collection.

I now have

Just DISC 2 of Shrek, Shrek 2, 101 Dalmatians, Cinderella

Barbie Fairytopia 2: Mermadia (I kinda liked I have to admit). 

A bunch of Backyardigans, Go Diego Go, episodes, and a disc of "The Archies"

Land Before Time VIII.

And I bought "The Dark Knight" the other day used for $2.

stretch009 said:

TV's Frink said:

Ziggy Stardust said:

Jokes aside, what about Gump makes you loathe it so much?

Zemekis is a hack director and has no respect for his fans.

 You must think Back to the Future is a fluke then.  It's spelled Zemeckis, by the way.

I think you missed the joke.