The first part of my James Bond Video Collection covers the non-Laserdisc formats. The blue DVD box has Dr. No, Goldfinger, Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Licence to Kill, Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies.
Sold all of my HD-DVDs except for Casablanca, The Thing and Terminator 2. The rot lottery is just too much gambling for a format where all transfers are also on Blu-Ray.
As for stuff I added, I added Laserdiscs of Top Gun (AC3) and A View to a Kill…
Added the CAV Laserdisc of Raiders of the Lost Ark, as well as the VHDs of The Third Man and North by Northwest.
Here’s my small Sergio Leone collection
Inside Out is really overrated. It’s plot was mentally tormenting a girl for no reason whatsoever.
Another 35mm print got scanned recently, and it is an IB print that has footage that the UHD lacks.
Man is the Warmest Place to Hide
Added Terminator 2 Blu-Ray 3D (UK Import) for my T2 on every format collection.
Gave Last Picture Show Criterion 4K to an online friend who wanted it
Not only is Fortnite seriously overrated, the reason it’s worse than Hong Kong '97 or the NES Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde game is that it attempts and succeeds at selling gambling to kids. That is obviously immoral of anyone to do.
The prequels are in fact worse than the sequels. Jar-Jar Binks, Anakin, midicholorians and some of the worst dialogue ever put to film are why the prequels are not good films.
The hills are alive with the Sound of Music
Added
Looney Tunes: Stars of Space Jam Japanese Laserdisc
Raiders of the Lost Ark 4K
The Conversation Blu-Ray
Pre-Ordered
The Boy and the Heron 4K Steelbook
Sold
Half of my Beta collection
Gone With the Wind (1939)
1 star out of four
Scarlett O’Hara is just as manipulative and self-centered as Bella Swan, and just as unsympathetic. Speaking of unsympathetic, the rest of the white cast is fine with owning slaves, and Rhett is abusive to Scarlett. The only saving graces are the cinematography and some of the sets. Might very well be one of the most overrated films out there. The Oscars made a huge mistake when they gave this Best Picture.
Gone with the Wind is severely overrated, and either Wizard of Oz or Stagecoach should have won Best Picture that year. None of the main characters are likeable in any way, and Scarlett is just as big a self-centered bitch as Bella from Twilight.
Added 4 Kid Favorites: Looney Tunes Features DVD, The Thing CED and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Vol. 3 Blu-Ray
Added Terminator 2: Judgment Day (French HD-DVD) and An American In Paris (Video8) to my collection.
Gave the VHS of Back to the Future to a friend whose never seen it.
Jaws 2 has one of the most underrated John Williams soundtracks out there. Almost every piece in this score is awesome, and it’s a film I’m glad exists because of the score.
For me, my personal Indy canon is this:
Temple of Doom
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Last Crusade
Fate of Atlantis
Crystal Skull (TM2YC Edit)
EU novels will be added as I read them
Added (used copies):
Animal Crackers (1930) {Laserdisc}
Cape Fear (1962) {DVD}
Casablanca (1942) {Cartrivision}
The Clock (1945) {Laserdisc}
Double Indemnity (1944) {Laserdisc}
Bought during Criterion Flash Sale:
Days of Heaven (1978) {4K Ultra HD} [Upgrade from DVD]
EO (2022) {Blu-Ray}
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) {Blu-Ray}
Seconds (1966) {Blu-Ray}
Cinema is not disposable entertainment. It is a serious artform with the ability to move people to tears, make people laugh, ask meaningful questions about ourselves and make us question reality.
Added My Fair Lady (1964) Fullscreen AC3 Laserdisc. Fullscreen Laserdiscs with AC3 are rare, and that’s why I bought this one.
Also added the 2008 UCE Blu-Ray of Casablanca (1942) and Criterion Laserdisc of Sling Blade (1996).
Gave the Skynet Edition of Terminator 2 to a friend (keeping the 2015 edition for my Blu-Ray copy)
Added The Polar Express 4K. Upgraded All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) to a German Mediabook Blu-Ray that features an extended cut.
Also got two legit VCDs from 1999: The Sound of Music (1965) Filipino edition and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Hong Kong edition.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is the greatest film released in the year I was born, but Gladiator won Best Picture for films released that year.
Here’s what my Betamax collection looks like at the end of 2023.
It is wrong to assume that your digital movies will be preserved by the studios, who recently cancelled films as tax write-offs and deleted films from digital collections. The only way to legally own a film is through physical media.