First 10 DVDs you'd replace if they were stolen

[Rob Babcock]

What are the first 10 DVDs you'd have to replace if they were lost or stolen? I realize ten would just be a drop in the bucket, but I'm thinking of the ones you watch most frequently or would most hate not to have in the house.

[outsider]

Nine Inch Nails: Live: And All That Could Have Been
Fight Club
Futurama vol. 1-4
South Park Season 1-4

[Az B]

Another Futurama fan!

I'd also replace Saving Private Ryan, all of Miyazaki's movies, Lord of the Rings, The Tick, and Hithhiker's Guide.

There's also some music videos too.

This will be a timely topic soon when HD-DVDs become available!

[rgriffin25]

Well since I have waited 7 years for the SWTrilogy to come out I would have to put those on the list. It would really depend on the mood I am in. For now I would have to say:

Seven Platnium Edition
Patriot SB
Saving Private Ryan DTS
LOTR Trilogy
Office Space

[Gerald]

Nancy Sinatra - Movin' With Nancy.

Akira.

Kill Bill Vol 1.

Kill Bill Vol 2.

Spirited Away.

Fantasia 2000.

Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis.

The Lord of The Rings Trilogy.

The Love Hina boxed collection.

The Chobits boxed collection.

[Markus]

Lord Of The Rings trilogy
Matrix Trilogy
Fist Of Legend
Man On Fire
Scarface
Casino

I would most likely replace alot more, but the list was 10.

[djoxygen]

I have to cheat since LOTR, Matrix, and Futurama would be 10 titles...

LOTR:EXT series
Matrix series
Futurama series
Fifth Element - Superbit
Final Fantasy: Spirits Within
Finding Nemo
Monsters, Inc
X2
The Princess Bride
Tapeheads

[Clint DeBoer]

LOTR, Farscape Season... (OMG, that's more than 10!)

[Rob Babcock]

Okay, I think it's fair to consider an entire season as one DVD. If you can only buy it as a set, then realistically it has to be viewed as such. I have all four seasons of Farscape, as well as all seven of Star Trek: TNG. Those are two things I'd never part with under any circumtances.

[Duffinator]

Counting boxed sets as one....

Blade Runner
Caddy Shack
Animal House
The Matrix Trilogy
T2
X-Files: Fight the Future
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Star Wars Trilogy
The Godfather Trilogy (just in case you have to break out the mattresses)
Silence of the Lambs

That makes seven movies for Harrison Ford

[WorkerBee]

Ha....this is a fun one. :D

Monsters Inc.
Finding Nemo
Shrek
Lilo & Stitch
Harry Potter I&II
Tortilla Soup
Quigley Down Under
Star Wars I&II
Under the Tuscan Sun
My Big Fat Greek Wedding

[Pat D]

Casablanca
To Catch A Thief
My Fair Lady
Oedipus Rex
Walking with Cavemen
The Maltese Falcon
The Sound of Music
The Nutcracker
A Christmas Carol
Prehistoric Planet

[Rob Babcock]

Cool. I've been too chicken to commit yet to my personal 10, but certainly Casablanca would be one of them.

[psyclobe]

bladerunner
life of brian
snatch
5th element
seven samurai
lexx (season 2)
airplane
young frankenstein
brazil
apocalypse now

[Rob Babcock]

Theatrical Bladerunner of the directors cut?

[psyclobe]

The director's cut of course.

[Mudcat]

A Christmas Carol


The Mr. MaGoo version, or the George C. Scott version?

[farscaper]

LOTR, Farscape Season... (OMG, that's more than 10!)


Frell! I've been cloned. My list would be the same.

If I had to change it up, then I would look at Futurama and/or Family Guy.

[mcwilson]

Godfather
Godfather Part II
The Usual Suspects
The Dream is Alive (IMAX)
Remember the Titans
Matrix
Matrix Reloaded
Shawshank Redemption
Slingblade (Reckon I can get some mustard with those biscuits?)
Gladiator
Jurassic Park

Sorry that's 11, but I couldnt' cut one more. If I had to cut one more, it'd probably be Slingblade, because my wife makes me watch it alone.

[nick_danger]

I'm going to count multiple DVD packs as one:

Star Wars Trilogy(original)
Alien Quadrilogy
Family Guy collection
Matrix (only the first one)
Office Space
GoldenEye
Heat
Terminator 2
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Braveheart

[sjdgpt]

With a few comments added :D

Shawshank Redemption May be the best movie ever.

Casablanca Long Live Black & White and Ilsa & Rick

Saving Private Ryan May we never forget

Mr. Roberts Fonda, Lemon, Cagney

Field of Dreams As many times as I see it, it is still a tear jerker

The Jungle Book Oops, sorry, got that one on Tape

48 Hours (I) Nick & Eddie doing what they do best

Lethal Weapon (I) Mel & Danny at their best

Indiana Jones, Trilogy Harrison Ford having fun


and my all time favorite:

Hell is for Heroes Steve McQueen Bobby Darin Fess Parker
Harry Guardino James Coburn
and in his screen debut.....
Bob Newhart.




Damn, where are the movies with the babes in them?

Oh, that is on that other collection :D

[goodman]

I wouldn't replace any of 'em until they come out on Blu-ray!

[hopjohn]

Blade Runner
Scarface
Eagles Hell Freezes Over
Rounders
X-Men 2
The Godfather
Office Space
Apocalypse Now original
LOTR -ROTK
This is Spinal Tap

[furrycute]

Carl Sagan's Cosmos boxset
World at War boxset
Tenchi muyo OVA boxset

[nick_danger]

I wouldn't replace any of 'em until they come out on Blu-ray!
So you wouldn't replace any of them? ;) It sounds like all the major studios are backing HD-DVD. I hope Sony doesn't try to split the market like the Beta fiasco.

[djoxygen]

So you wouldn't replace any of them? ;) It sounds like all the major studios are backing HD-DVD. I hope Sony doesn't try to split the market like the Beta fiasco.

Actually, Nick, it's looking like pretty close to a 50/50 split right now.

Sony has their own studios plus MGM (which they recently bought) and as of this AM, Disney (which includes all of their subsidiaries like Touchstone, Miramax, etc...) supporting Blu-Ray.

HD-DVD has Warner, Universal, Paramount, and New Line.

Fox is the last major hold-out, but it looks like they're leaning ever-so-slightly toward Blu-Ray. If that's the way they go, the marketshare percentages will line-up within a few percent of dead even.

Aside from the actual Sony-controlled houses, none of the deals are exclusive, so as the format lanch dates approach, don't be surprised to see some shifting of alliances or even hedging of bets with some of the same titles announced for both platforms.

The other big advantage Sony has is the bully pulpit of the Playstation. If the history of consumer electronics is any guide, dedicated HD players will debut at a price point of close to $1000. If the PS3, which Sony will probably initially sell at a loss for well under $500, has Blu-Ray movie playback capability, there will be a whole lot more Blu-Ray than HD-DVD hardware out there by mid-2006. Combined with the Sony-owned studios, even a 50/50 marketshare split of DVD releases going into the HD format launches will be hard to overcome by the HD-DVD Forum-aligned studios.

Any way you slice it, though, the war's going to be ugly.

The only small comfort I have right now is that since the software layer is almost completely identical between the 2 formats, it shouldn't be too difficult for someone to build a dual-platform player. Who will risk the politics to do so is another problem entirely. (You can bet it won't be a Sony or Toshiba name on the faceplate, though.)