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What DVD(s) Do You Watch A Little Too Much?

FearFactor47 said:
Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2!
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Damn straight!

I watch that, and:
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Office Space
Brianna loves Jenna 😀
Resevoir Dogs
Boondock Saints
Garden State (let's face it Natalie Portman's the hottest girl on the planet)
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
Akira
High Fidelity
and so many more.
 
jsw said:
Many of those previously listed, as well as The Fifth Element.
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There's just something about that movie that compels me to watch it everytime it's on television. I have it on DVD too.

In college it was (granted on VHS)...

The Man with Two Brains
Ice Pirates
Wall Street
Blame it on Rio
Kentucky Fried Movie

These five films were on two tapes and we'd just play them over and over. I've seen each of these films at least sixty times. Hey I lived in the same apartment for three years and we had no cable and got horrible over air reception! Nowadays there isn't anything I guess. Maybe Bad Lieutenant...
 
I do not own a single DVD of my own 😱 And now I'm waiting for Blu-Ray to start my collection! I've also never owned a DVD player--I play movies to TV from my PowerBook.

But I do WATCH a lot of DVDs, rented or borrowed (Netflix is great), and Firefly has gotten more than its share of re-watches. I'm more likely to own TV series than movies, because I could loan discs out, or watch an episode here and there.

Ultimately I'd like to own:

Firefly/Serenity
Buffy and Angel
Galactica
Twin Peaks
One Foot in the Grave

I'm not so sure about movies--occasional re-rentals fit my habits for them. Maybe, if I ever start a movie collection:

Amelie
City of Lost Children
Brazil
Beloved and Below (two best ghost stories ever)
Being John Malkovich
Memento

I've also thought of starting a dystopia collection:

Blade Runner
City of Lost Children
Delicatessen
Brazil
Kafka
Dark City
The Trial
 
what i watch too much of is:

LOTR: All three of em
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind
Alien: quadtrilogy
Punch Drunk Love
Donnie Darko
Saving Private Ryan


Bless
 
It's hard to find the time anymore to watch DVD's over and over. Back in college we didn't have cable, so movies like Dazed and Confused, Mallrats, and The Doors (to name just a few🙄 ) were played over and over and over.

Today, if I were to watch anything from my collection a little too much, it would probably be either High Fidelity, Almost Famous, or my new one, Elizabethtown.

I really like a movie with an exceptional soundtrack!
 
i watch Fight Club probably more often than the rest of the bunch.
Pulp Fiction gets a run for its money too
ummmm the Matrix movies get used a lot too.
Sin City gets a work-out because everyone seems to want to see it when they come over here.
Office Space
Star Wars (all of them depending on who's here)
oh and Reuben and Ed... it's a funny but rather unknown movie that i get a lot of people to watch. 🙂 it's on tape though :-/
i watch a lot of HBO series' on comcast on demand (Sopranos, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, Carnivale, etc)

i dunno, i guess it all depends but those seem to be the most oftenly repeated ones.
 
RugoseCone said:
jsw said:
Many of those previously listed, as well as The Fifth Element.
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There's just something about that movie that compels me to watch it everytime it's on television. I have it on DVD too.
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I just set up an HDTV for the first time in my life, got an HD cable box, and almost immediately saw that The Fifth Element was offered - free - in high-def. This must be the upcoming release for high-def DVDs. Man, it looks spectacular.
iBlue said:
i watch a lot of ... comcast on demand
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As the reigning MR Comcast On Demand cheerleader 😉, you'll be happy to know that the HD section is just as good as the others. Or maybe you already know. I'm a wee bit late to the HD party.
 
Office Space, Dodgeball, and Anchorman

And the total eclipse of the heart music video, but thats not a DVD, but I can certainly make it one.
 
jsw said:
I just set up an HDTV for the first time in my life, got an HD cable box, and almost immediately saw that The Fifth Element was offered - free - in high-def. This must be the upcoming release for high-def DVDs. Man, it looks spectacular.
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good movie! i watch that whenever it's on HBO or whatever too.
i use Ruby Rod's "bzzzzzzzzzzzzz" (buzz off) gesture and sound to get my 3 year old out of my face sometimes too. 😀 don't you wish you could be put to sleep like that too? have someone come push a button and ......... *thud*

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As the reigning MR Comcast On Demand cheerleader 😉, you'll be happy to know that the HD section is just as good as the others. Or maybe you already know. I'm a wee bit late to the HD party.
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i am late to that party too... in fact i have yet to arrive, but i'm working on it 😉 if only my husband wanted a HD telly as much as i do. (ironic twist of male-female roles eh?)
 
iBlue said:
don't you wish you could be put to sleep like that too? have someone come push a button and ......... *thud*
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I do! The Taser works well on the kids (well, not for sleeping, but for the "push a button and thud" aspect) but not so well on me (the spasms do tend to tire me out a bit, but I feel too energized to sleep after the current cuts off). A 5th Element sleep button would be well appreciated.
 
iBlue said:
if only my husband wanted a HD telly as much as i do. (ironic twist of male-female roles eh?)
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Indeed. My wife's been pushing for one for years, and I only recently decided to give in - found a cheap but decent 1920x1080 set, finally. It is ironic and counter-intuitive, I agree. 😉
 
jsw said:
Indeed. My wife's been pushing for one for years, and I only recently decided to give in - found a cheap but decent 1920x1080 set, finally. It is ironic and counter-intuitive, I agree. 😉

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I do! The Taser works well on the kids (well, not for sleeping, but for the "push a button and thud" aspect) but not so well on me (the spasms do tend to tire me out a bit, but I feel too energized to sleep after the current cuts off). A 5th Element sleep button would be well appreciated.
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my son has always been a very good sleeper but i could use that button on a friend's kid. her daughter is such a pain in the ass with sleep.

and part of my problem with the HD tellies is that i don't want to get just any old HDTV, i want to get a phenomenal one, once and for all. like a huge LCD flat screen HDTV to mount on the wall. this will run me $3,000 at the very very minimum. there is no way my husband will go for that unfortunately. 😡 he's mean like that.
 
Pretty much any Christopher Guest movie (Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show etc)

The humor is just so subtle and brilliant that there is something new to laugh about with each viewing.
 
iBlue said:
...like a huge LCD flat screen HDTV to mount on the wall. this will run me $3,000 at the very very minimum. there is no way my husband will go for that unfortunately. 😡 he's mean like that.
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I got a 37" (yes, I know, not huge) Westinghouse that does 1920x1080 (truly - I hooked up the mini to verify it) and cost me $1534. If you can swing that, trust me - the HD content will hook him. Sports, nature, movies... it all looks amazing. Sure, he walks by it in the store. But at home, on the wall? He'll want it, and that $1500 investment might fetch you your $3000+ TV a few months down the road. 😉
 
nagromme said:
I've also thought of starting a dystopia collection:

Blade Runner
City of Lost Children
Delicatessen
Brazil
Kafka
Dark City
The Trial
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Dystopia Collection! I like it! I own all listed but Kafka, The Trial, and Delicatessen. The last is FINALLY being released on DVD according to Amazon so I can add that real soon. But the others will first be added to my Netflix queue since you've got them with films I own and really enjoy.

Thanks!
 
jsw said:
I got a 37" (yes, I know, not huge) Westinghouse that does 1920x1080 (truly - I hooked up the mini to verify it) and cost me $1534. If you can swing that, trust me - the HD content will hook him. Sports, nature, movies... it all looks amazing. Sure, he walks by it in the store. But at home, on the wall? He'll want it, and that $1500 investment might fetch you your $3000+ TV a few months down the road. 😉
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not too shabby... hmmmm.... 😎 i don't think i can swing that $ amount at the moment but i imagine in the next year or so i might be able to pull it off. that's a good price, and it gives me hope. thanks 🙂
 
• Dumb & Dumber
• Shaun of the Dead
• Anchorman
• Men in Black (whenever it's on HBO)

They just never get old...
 
surely no one here watches
the movie "Clue" as much as
i do...

-to make a long story short
-too late

i love that freaking movie...

my family guy dvds also get their
fair share of use.
 
iBlue said:
not too shabby... hmmmm.... 😎 i don't think i can swing that $ amount at the moment but i imagine in the next year or so i might be able to pull it off. that's a good price, and it gives me hope. thanks 🙂
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They'll be even better and cheaper in a year. I took a chance with the Westinghouse brand, and it's not the best LCD ever made from a backlighting point of view, but I'm quite happy with it.

OT: Another DVD set I watch way to much of? Anything sold by Disney. Children apparently are incapable of becoming bored with a movie.
 
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