DVDs you have to have

[Proteus_MST]

A Fish called Wanda
Fierce Creatures
Life of Brian
Monty Pythons and the holy grail

(and all movies from/with Monty Pythons I don´t remember at the moment )

[Nostromo]

None, really. If I want to see a movie, I rent it.

Maybe if I had kids. They can watch a movie over and over again.

[Dis]

I already own the dvd's I have to have.

Terminator 1 and 2. The abyss. Pulp Fiction. Dumb and Dumber. I also have wayne's world and bill and ted's excellent adventure. master and commander. the man with no name series, Unforgiven, Platoon. There are a few others movies I have, but they aren't must haves.

Actually a movie I want just for it's campiness is Commando. I actually bought First Blood the other day at walmart. Real cheap. I love cheesy 80's action movies. I need to get Invasion USA as well.

[Lord Avalon]

What, no love for Dirty Harry? (DH, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, throw in The Dead Pool just for completeness.)

Unforgiven, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, High Plains Drifter, Hang 'em High, The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Samurai 1-3 (about Miyamoto Musashi)

Alien, Aliens

Enter the Dragon

Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon

The Great Escape

Some Like It Hot

Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Mad Max, The Road Warrior

James Bond movies (through Roger Moore)

Breaker Morant

The Longest Yard (Burt Reynolds)

Some comedies: Airplane!, Hot Shots, 48 Hrs, Beverly Hills Cop, Stripes, Caddyshack, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Marx Brothers, Smokey & the Bandit, Big, Home Alone, National Lampoon's Animal House, NL's Vacation

Agree on Terminator 1 & 2, Godfather 1 & 2, Commando, Monty Python (HG & LoB), A Fish Called Wanda, LOTR

I'm sure more will come to me later...

[reds4ever]

Goodfellas
LOTR
Star Wars

And good call with Animal House Avalon. Best "college" movie ever.

[Kassiopeia]

The third season of the new Battlestar Galactica. Right now please.

[Zkribbler]

Re: DVDs you have to have

Originally posted by Pekka
... and then this movie called Safety Last! .. that left an impression I'll never forget. I remember gasping for air when that guy was hanging on that clock tower.. such a performance!

You're thinking of Harold Lloyd He, Chaplin and Keaton were the Big 3 of silent comedy.

I also saw Harold Lloyd in Speedy, where he plays a baseball-fanatic cab driver. In one scene Babe Ruth (yep, the real one) gets into his cab and has to make it to the ball park in a hurry. Lloyd does a hectic race through traffic, spending most of the time turned around gushing over the Babe. Ruth does great "takes" as the hurdling cab just misses head-on after head-on.

[Pekka]

Right. And you know stunts back then were dangerous. THey still are of course, but they had even less support then so everything must have been calculated well.. like Buster Keaton. Crazy tricks!! ANd some of them you can't calculate, it's like one shot, good luck.

[Lord Avalon]

Die Hard 1 & 2 (I didn't like 3 as much)

Silence of the Lambs

The Manchurian Candidate (Frank Sinatra)

Shane, High Noon

Das Boot

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Lethal Weapon series

Chinatown

The China Syndrome

Annie Hall, Manhattan, Sleeper

Excalibur

Risky Business

[Ned]

While this may deserve its own thread, but have any of you see either of the new High Definition DVD's, Blu Ray or HD-DVD? Is there a noticeable difference?

[Bkeela]

I've given up buying DVDs. The ones on my shelf have only been watched once or twice. The real reason I bought them was to somehow own a part of their magic, but that is an illusion. You can no sooner own a movie than you can the moon.

I've even caught myself watching films broadcast on television which I own on DVD.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Ned
While this may deserve its own thread, but have any of you see either of the new High Definition DVD's, Blu Ray or HD-DVD? Is there a noticeable difference?

There's a huge difference in quality of a high def DVD vs standard def, if you've got an HDTV.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail and Life of Brian
Star Wars series

As for TV, I just spent this Black Friday finishing off my Seinfeld collection, getting the new season, plus a couple seasons I was missing in the middle!

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Star Wars series

Which version?

[Imran Siddiqui]

The whole damned thing (TPM for at least the advances in special effects).