Must own DVD's?

[Joe Gardner]

I was just given a $100 gift certificate to amazon.com. I am all stocked up on music and books, but own no DVD's. So, what are your top 5 must have DVD's?

[Grendel]

Excellent question! Of course, the answers will vary depending on the type of movie you like to watch. Here's a good start:

Saving Private Ryan
ET
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (Director's Edition)
American Graffiti
Jurassic Park

Of course there's SO much more than this... the above is only a small beginning. You're lucky in that DVDs are almost ubiquitous now in the retail and rental market -- when I first got my player it was hard to find places to rent DVDs and the selection of titles for retail sale was pretty slim, and now it's everywhere. Rental prices are pretty much at parity with VHS so don't be in a hurry to buy -- you don't have to own everything you watch (a lesson I wish my wife would learn) and rent the movies you're curious about and buy the 'timeless classics' that you would want to watch over and over again. The problem I have is that once I've watched a movie I'm pretty much done with it unless it's a truly exceptional film -- I can rarely stand to watch a movie more than once, which makes me a good rental customer.

[cwodave]

The Blues Brothers DVD should be in everybody's collection. They added some things that woluldn't fit in the movie.

Dave

[chewa]

The ones I watch again and again are

Gladiator
Lord of the Rings (both)
Taxi 2 (French comedy thriller - it' great)
Final Fantasy - animation

[Bikedud]

I only own a few. All were gifts as I don't really get into buying movies. It's not like I have a lot of free time to watch a movie again and again. but:

Caddyshack
Blazing Saddles
The Patriot
Last of the Mohicans
Gladiator

[asinus]

Dazed and Confused
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
American History X
Donnie Darko
It Happened One Night
Casino

[UncaStuart]

Tough to limit it to five! How about:

Casablanca
The Usual Suspects
Singin' in the Rain
The Third Man
To Catch a Thief

[Guest]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Color Purple
Schindler's List
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Nightmare on Elm Street

[F1_Fan]

Office Space
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Monsters Inc. (don't laugh... it's a good movie)
Gladiator

[willic]

I favour "musicals" as any other genre I become bored with on repeated viewings no matter how good a film it was.
But with the added pleasure of a tunefull sountrack I can watch the same Movie many times.

Perhaps "Les Miserables"
"Singing in the rain"
" Evita"
or my own favorite (animated) "the Prince of Egypt"

[AdrianB]

Depends on your taste... but for a shotgun affect.

Classic:

> Lawrence of Arabia

Animated:

> Princess Mononoke (better story, action/romance/adventure) or Spirited Away (fantasy/romance)


Action / Romance / Adventure

> Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon


Opera

> Cosi fan Tutte (Mozart conducted by Harnoncourt stars Bartoli, Nikiteanu played by Zurich Opera, on ArtHaus label I think?


Drama / Musical

> Dancer in the Dark

[Guest]

If you can get "Chuck and Buck", you will not be disappointed. I was in the theater when it was released, and I was screaming for at least half the movie- it was scandalous! :eek:

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown was pretty freakin good too- that was the first time I'd seen a film by Almondovar, and it was wonderful.

You can't go wrong with "Hollywood Shuffle". It was great.

"Monty Python's the Meaning of Life" was hilarious. I loved watching every second of it.

"The Truth about Cats and Dogs"- yeah, it's a chick flick, but I loved Uma Thurman in that role. Jeanine Garafolo (spelling?) was excellent, and so was Ben Chapman and Jamie Foxx.

"Hoop Dreams"- the "Color Purple" of the Oscars that got completely snubbed for best documentary- remember that year, everyone in the audience attending the Oscars booed?

Koffee

[Raiyn]

Perhaps "Les Miserables"

I just took my girlfriend up to Atlanta to see that. Quite good.

[Erick L]

If you're into war stuff, I would strongly recommend the Band of Brothers serie.

[Richard D]

As I'm still in the dark ages, I'll have to assume these videos have been released on DVD :) :-

It's a Wonderful Life
(Ideally all the Capra/Stewart films)

The Box of Delights
(1980's BBC production)

Star Wars - a new hope

A Canterbury Tale
(Powell & Pressburger)

The Lady Killers
(Again you really want all the Ealing Comedies)

[late]

Hi,
Ok, here's some good choices. Amadeus (the old DVD is awful, get the new one) Soapdish, great movie to spring on friends and family that haven't seen it.
Aliens never fails to get my heart pounding. If you liked Farscape, the picture and sound on the dvd will thrill. If you can find Get Shorty, that is something I just cue and play every few months. And lastly, O brother where art Thou. YMMV

[Dude]

Breaking away
American Flyers
The Professional
Sniper
Deliverance
Platoon "ok I had to add this one" :rolleyes:


-Dude

[Ba-Dg-Er]

Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
Snatch / Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Seven
Gladiator

[Cipher]

Saving Private Ryan
Slap Shot
The Matrix
Apocalypse Now
Black Hawk Down

[smoore]

Breaking Away...I just got it on line for $9.95.
Steve

[danr]

Fear of a Black Hat

[drcrash]

Pulp Fiction
Dark City
Run, Lola, Run
Amelie
White Christmas

[Aggressor]

Requiem for a dream
The Matrix
American History X
The Shawshank Redemption
Dont be a menace to South Central

[Bobsled]

Lets not forget:

Resevoir Dogs
Wildthings
Deliverance
Capefear (the new one)
The Dear Hunter
Palmetto
A Perfect Murder
Sleepers
Good Fellas
Donnie Brasco
Scarface
Dog Day Afternoon
Predator (the first one - staring Governor Arnie)
Fargo

Is that enough?

[MI_rider]

The Godfather box set.
Cool hand Luke
Casablanca
One flew over the cukoo's nest.

Any John Wayne or Clint Eastwood Westerns

[heresy]

Spend it all on the Band of Brothers box set.

[Rev.Chuck]

1.Fist full of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad The Ugly as a box set.
High Plains Drifter
2.MadMax(undubbed)
3.Road Warrior
El Mariachi
Time Bandits
Star Wars, don't think it is on DVD but worth having as a tape.
Any Sean Connery as Bond flick.
4.Clerks
Ronin
Taxi Driver
BoonDock Saints
Suicide Kings
5.Fight Club

[smoore]

Hey Reverend...are you really a Rev.? What kind?
Steve

[Anders K]

1. Midnight Cowboy
Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman

2. Grand Canyon
Danny Glover, Kevin Klein

3. Heat
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro

4. LoneStar
Chris Cooper, Kris Kristofferson

5. The Fifth Element
Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman

[justalittlepup]

Usual Suspects
Snatch
Resevoir Dogs
Boodocks Saints
Heat

Get the theme here?

[superchivo]

I've got more than a couple of DVDs, but the ones I watch over and over are:

Band of Brothers box set
The Great Escape

[el Inglés]

Uncle Buck , ( John Candy )
The Blues Brothers
For Better or Worse ( Kim Catrell +Robert Hays )
Split Second ( Rutger Hauer )
So I Married an Axe Murderer ( the Austin Powers guy )

[jeff williams]

blade runner.. phillip k dick -sci-fi.
the tenant.. roman polanski -psyche.
akira.. animae -sci-fi.
fight club.. mystery?
faster *****cat-KILL!KILL! russ myers -t+a.

you mean I can't use the word *****cat?

o.k -rhymes with wussy, as in wussy p.c language controls.

[temp1]

Unforgiven
Dr. Strangelove
Halloween
Seven Samuri
The Apartment

[Poppaspoke]

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Manchurian Candidate
Paths of Glory
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
The Wild Bunch
A Hard Day's Night
Citizen Kane
Solaris (original Russian version)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Day of the Jackal (orignal version)

Sorry, that's more than five.

[BlastRadius]

Blade Runner
Akira Kurosawa's RAN
Moulin Rouge
Saving Private Ryan
Anna and the King

[turtle]

American Yakuza
(Ryo Ishibashi, Viggo "Aragorn" Mortenson)
Heart was in my throat, big sap that I am.

Pedicab Driver
(Sammo Hung, Billy Chow)
If you like HK action you MUST see this film!

Hard Target
(Jean Claude Van Damme, Lance 'Bishop' Henricksen)
Only JCVD film worth watching, the only John Woo film, post Hong-Kong, worth seeing also.

Grosse Point Blank
(John Cusack, Dan Akroyd "Meep Meep!")
Excellent Hitman film with a humorous edge.

Lethal Weapon 1
(Mel Gibson, Danny Glover)
Martin Riggs @ his insane best.

The Hunted
(Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro)
The knife fighting in this film is awesome.

A Nightmare Before Christmas
(Jack Skellington?)
"What's this? What's this?"

Slap Shot
(Paul Newman, Hanson Brothers)
Old time hockey!

[temp1]

Did you get any DVDs yet??