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brooklynboy49

(287 posts)
3. Way Too Many To List
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 11:23 PM
Mar 2014

Last edited Mon Mar 17, 2014, 11:56 PM - Edit history (1)

I compiled a massive library of DVDs over the years, only to learn of the coming of HD (Blu-ray) discs in the not too distant future. So, I have a lot of movies twice. I haven't repurchased everything I had on DVD, I have tried to follow a simple rule -- Only repurchase on Blu-ray movies I'll watch repeatedly. For example, I have The Godfather trilogy on DVD. But I didn't buy it again on Blu-ray. I did buy Airplane! a second time, because I know I'm gonna watch it again and again as the years roll by. The Godfather is, obviously, an infinitely "better" movie, and I wil] watch it again. But not nearly as often as I'll watch Airplane! and the other movies I've bought on Blu-ray.

With that fascinating background in mind, here are some of the movies I have on Blu-ray:

Airplane! (Not gonna bother with italics, I'll be here all night lol)
When Harry Met Sally...
The Princess Bride
The Help
Say Anything
The terminator
Alien
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Blazing Saddles
Casablanca
The Adventures of Robin Hood
She's Out of my League
Bad Teacher
Whip It
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill I and II
Secretary
Mean Girls
Clueless
High Anxiety
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
There's Something About Mary
Crazy Stupid Love
Horrible Bosses
Wedding Crashers
Groundhog Day
La Femme Nikita
Leon: The Professional
Election
Being There
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Rebecca
Shaun of the Dead
Moonstruck
Anchorman
Out of Sight
Fever Pitch
50 First dates
The Italian Job
Raising Arizona
The Naked Gun
The African Queen
The Scary Movie movies
The American Pie movies
The spaghetti westerns
The Maltese Falcon
Juno
The Reader
Run Lola Run
Body Heat
Heathers
Shawshank Redemption
Knocked Up
Starman
Romancing the Stone
Office Space
Vicki Cristina Barcelona
Volver
Manhattan
Hannah and Her Sisters
Lost in Translation

That's about a third of my Blu-ray collection. Also several TV series -- Mad Men, Breaking Bad, How I Met Your Mother (partial), etc.

Just a few DVDs, to provide an example of movies I haven't bought a second time:

A Man For All Seasons
The Usual Suspects
The Shootist
Rio Bravo
Midnight Cowboy
Boyz n the Hood
Freah
Liar Liar
Jagged Edge
Erin Brockovitch
Bad Boys
Sleepless in Seattle
Sleeper
The Misfits
Hitch

etc.

Plus DVDs not yet released on Blu-ray:

Educating Rita
Kids
An Unmarried Woman
Places in the Heart
Killing Zoe
Ghost World

That doesn't even scratch the surface of my collection. I love movies. Movies, music and baseball are my three passions






Just a few. longship Mar 2014 #1
Wow! I actually have The Lathe of Heaven, too! scarletwoman Mar 2014 #2
Criterion. longship Mar 2014 #5
About once a year or so, I'll splurge on a Criterion Collection movie. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #7
My Criterions brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #8
IMHO, Godfrey belongs in every movie lover's library :) brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #12
"The Defenestration of Carlo" <== alternative title longship Mar 2014 #13
Way Too Many To List brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #3
Quite the collection! Let's see, we have Princess Bride and Big Lebowski in common. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #6
Forgot to add, "The Last Place on Earth" - 1985 BBC TV mini series, broadcast on PBS. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #4
I own Lebowski too ProudToBeBlueInRhody Mar 2014 #9
The Big Lebowski seems to appeal to all tastes - your list is certainly VERY different from mine, scarletwoman Mar 2014 #14
The movies are own are generally "party films" ProudToBeBlueInRhody Mar 2014 #21
Ah well. Since my youngest left the nest, I live alone. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #22
My "essentials" collection Little_Wing Mar 2014 #10
Oh wow - I forgot Coppola's "Dracula"! That's another one I have in my own collection. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #15
Gary Oldman is such a great Dracula Little_Wing Mar 2014 #17
Oh yes! He's an amazing actor no matter who he plays. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #19
Yes, Mohicans is violent and not very authentic in its native people's portrayal Little_Wing Mar 2014 #26
Oldman was a great villain in Leon: The Professional brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #23
Agreed, Giamatti is very good and so versatile Little_Wing Mar 2014 #25
At the risk of beating a dead horse... brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #27
Have missed it, but on my list of "should watch" films Little_Wing Mar 2014 #28
Four jumped off the page for me brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #11
It would be interesting to do a poll and find out how many people DON'T have Lebowski on their scarletwoman Mar 2014 #16
Liam & Jessica Lange had incendiary chemistry in Rob Roy roaw n/t Little_Wing Mar 2014 #18
OMG, yes! I cannot tell you how many times I fantasized about that scene at the Standing Stones... scarletwoman Mar 2014 #20
I think you may have misconstrued my feelings for Rob Roy brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #24
Oh, don't mind me. I just got carried away. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #30
One that I had to have was Bette Davis's Beyond the Forest, only it's not on DVD. valerief Mar 2014 #29
Action Movies jim601 Mar 2014 #31
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