DVDs My Family Owns
Submitted by jim on Thu, 03/15/2001 - 11:29
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- Aliens (1986)
- Amelie (2001)
- Beauty & the Beast (1991)
- Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
- The Bourne Identity (2002)
- Braveheart (1995)
- Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
- Bull Durham (1988)
- Chicken Run (2000)
- Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
- The Complete Musketeers (1973, 1974)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- Cowboy Bebop, The Complete Sessions
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
- Emma (1997) (TV)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- Futurama, The Complete First Season
- Galaxy Quest (2000)
- Gladiator (2000)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Hero (2002)
- Homicide: Life on the Street, Seasons 1 & 2 (TV)
- Hopscotch (1980)
- Ice Age (2002)
- The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
- The Iron Giant (1999)
- Jaws (1975)
- Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
- LA Confidential (1997)
- Lilo & Stitch (2002)
- Lost in Translation (2003)
- Mary Poppins (1964)
- The Matrix (1999)
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
- Memento (2000)
- Men in Black (1997)
- Monsters Inc. (2001)
- Moulin Rouge! (2001)
- The Muppet Movie (1979)
- Nobody's Fool (1994)
- O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
- Out of Sight (1998)
- Panic (2000)
- Persuasion (1995)
- Peter Pan (2003)
- Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
- The Princess Bride (1987)
- Pride and Prejudice (1995)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- Shakespeare in Love (1998)
- Shanghai Knights (2000)
- Shanghai Noon (2000)
- Shrek (2001)
- The Simpsons, The Complete First Season (TV)
- The Simpsons, The Complete Second Season (TV)
- The Simpsons, The Complete Third Season (TV)
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
- Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- Sleepy Hollow (1999)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- Stuart Little (1999)
- Suicide Kings (1998)
- Tombstone (1993)
- Toy Story (1995)
- Toy Story 2 (1999)
- Zero Effect (1998)
Author Comments:
You'll have to guess which ones are mine, my wife's, or my daughters'. A task which is complicated by our various overlapping tastes. For example, Amelia and Ella's (ages 6 and 2) current favorite movie is Singin' in the Rain.
Congrats, Jim! I hope you enjoy at least half as much as I have enjoyed mine. Widescreen, remastered (often restored) glory!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Thanks, I'm pretty psyched! I was really tired of buying movies on VHS that I knew I'd want to keep and rewatch. I'm looking forward to replacing the stuff that we rewatch alot.
Funny, I remember as a kid hating widescreen. Just didn't get why anyone would want the picture smaller. :-) I've completely flip-flopped - I can't believe I ever preferred pan-and-scan.
Hey, what would you say to cloning this list? I would be curious which movies you've found worthy of purchasing on this marvelous format.
Sure. I'll have to wait until I get home and can actually look at my collection (I'm not rich, so it ain't real big yet), and then I'll create a clone.
Great idea!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
My cloned list is now posted.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Jim,
Did you get a chance to check out the Thermian Audio Track on this disk? I'm super-interested in seeing if this is a legit feature or not.
Sorry, I've been meaning to do writeups on these discs for some time. As for Galaxy Quest, the Thermian audio track is the real deal - the whole movie dubbed into the Thermian native tongue. At least, I assume it's the whole movie, since I only watched five minutes or so. It's kinda funny, but grows tiresome quickly. I imagine drunk or stoned it's a hoot, but that doesn't help me with my teetotaller tendencies. :-)
But the disc does have some of the most entertaining deleted scenes I've seen on a DVD. It's obvious that most of them went through the entire post-production process before being cut, so they look great. And several are really funny. There's a great scene where Alan Rickman is being shown his quarters and bathroom, custom-desiged for "his" anatomy.
Jim, do I understand you to say you've just come back from a trip to Scotland? I think I do. To quote Crocodile Dundee: you lucky, lucky b******!
I demand a huge e-mail spelling out all the details.
:-) A perfectly reasonable demand. I'll work on it.
Jim, did you just get a new DVD and not mark it on your list?
Yeah, I just added Mary Poppins and The Muppet Movie. I didn't flag them 'cause I was rushed (and I'm having some problems getting the styles to work in my current browser of choice (Opera), but that's a different story).
Jim, is that the new Beauty and the Beast disc?
That's the one!
jim, you've got just a few more DVDs than my collection
my VHS collection is even more pitiful. hee hee...
I would have to wholly agree that the "Galaxy Quest" deleted scenes are fantastic. I wish they hadn't been left out of the movie - some are that funny. The added footage in the original "Alien" is pretty good, too.
Ooh, the Futurama first season. I was thinking about getting that, but I was going to wait till the price went down a bit. Can't wait to hear your comments!
I've never seen the show before, but I have high hopes given my admiration of The Simpsons. It's kinda a leap of faith, but it was birthday money so I felt bold. And I'd run out of episodic stuff to exercise in front of, having run through my first two Simpsons seasons and the entire Cowboy Bebop collection. I've watched the first two episodes and I'm not quite into the characters yet, but I'm enjoying it. I'm surprised that so far all my laugh-out-loud moments have been slapstick moments. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, but my inclination is one of mild concern. It's still early though!
While we were hanging out in London, a friend of mine showed me the last two episodes of "Cowboy Bebop." It was actually my first exposure to anime (not including Strong Bad as a Japanese cartoon - if you know what I'm talking about, you rule), but it interested me. I may have to pick up a few of the earlier Cowboy Bebop sessions.
I know Strong Bad, but not as a Japanese cartoon. I'll have to check that one out.
You've never seen any Miyazaki movies (Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away)?
Up early, you say? Well, for me, it's 1:10.
As for Strong Bad, go to "sb e-mails" and find "japanese cartoon" (scroll down just a little). Then if you're familiar with the old version of Homestar, go to toons, click on shorts, and go to "20x6 vs. 1936."
And no, sadly, I have never seen any Miyazaki movies.
Okay, "japanese cartoon" rocked. It's now my favorite Strong Bad of the dozen or so I've seen, although I still really like "some kinda robot" (the bottom one) as well. Thanks for the tip!
As for Miyazaki, for pete's sake man, run, do not walk, to your nearest video store and snag a copy of Spirited Away!
"Japanese cartoon" is awesome, but my favorite will always be "sisters."
Damn you AJ, how you play me. :-) Now "sisters" is my favorite.
Are you guys talking about Homestar Runner?
Yup, I don't really dig the other Homestar Runner stuff, but Strong Bad is a hoot. You've seen it?
I'll have to agree: Strong Bad is awesome. What do you think of Coach Z and his terrible Duluth accent? ;-D
Ali... Ali's sister... Ali... Ali's sister... LOL
And yes, dgeiser13, we are.
Jim, are you enjoying the Futurama?
Yeah, I liked it. Not as much as The Simpsons, but enough that I'll give the second season a shot (although perhaps I'll rent first). My experience was certainly negatively colored by watching it while exercising. Oh to be young again, when I could just sit around, eat chips, and not gain weight.
Thank you for calling the film Raiders of the Lost Ark! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Don't ask me way (I'm not really sure), but a big pet peeve of mine is when a film is retitled after the fact. Don't even get me started on George Lucas (It is called Star Wars, darn it! S-T-A-R W-A-R-S! A New Hope wasn't even part of the scroll when it first hit the theaters! And it ain't the fourth film, it is the first! Arghhhhhhhhhh! This reminds me of an idiotic box set a few years ago which renumbered the Chronicles of Narnia in 'chronological' order, majorly messing with the effect of the series as written...)
Maybe I need a massage... :)
I've heard great things about the Indy discs. You dig?
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I am TOTALLY with you on the name thing. I hate all this revisionist, directors cut (in most cases), add-in special effects, let's make those cell phones instead of guns, CRAP. It really upsets me. Someday those bastardized versions will be the only ones we have, you just wait.
It was, is, and always will be Raiders of the Lost Ark.
But believe it or not, I haven't had a chance to watch them yet! Netflix is keeping me buried in movies I haven't seen yet. I'll try to remember to post some thoughts here when I get to see them. Remind me when they pop up in my "Seen" lists...
Alrighty, I watched the beginning of Raiders, and it looks fabulous! In fact, it looked weird it looked so great. I was right on the cusp of being allowed to see that movie in the theater when it came out (I was 11), but my folks ending up thinking it would be too intense for me. So I think all of the countless times I've watched that movie its been a crappy Yokelvision unremastered VHS edition (or the cable TV edition). To see it in remastered widescreen glory is a bit startling.
So the print is fantastic. I'm sure one of these days I'll check out the bonus disc, but it might not be for awhile.
lol hey jim i took you up on your challenge in the Author's Comments and have been trying to guess whos dvds are whos! lol but i'm stuck on one, you'll have too tell me
Monsters Inc. = this could be enjoyed for all ages, you'd guess that kids would love this movie but i know when i saw it (i was 15) and loved it and so did my parents! Help! if i had to guess i'd say its your wife's dvd, but thats a guess.
Help!
:-) Ostensibly the Pixar movies are for the kids, but really we adults love them just as much.