Jamz3k

Thinkin of spending some money on DVD's tonight as i've just hit my overdraft and in for a penny in for a pound and all that!

so what would be your top 10 DVD's you MUST own, so i can go out and buy them?

Petem95

Shawshank Redemption
Aliens
Terminator 2
Predator
Casino Royale
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (so thats 3)
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Scarface

That would probably be my 10 I reckon

Edit: V for Vendetta should be in there really!

Minitrue

LA Confidential. On Film4 later too if you need a sample before you buy.

Jamz3k

is casino royal actually that good? heard great reviews about it but have never really been a big James Bond fan! The Rest i have!

Bubba po

Pulp Fiction

Aliens

LA Confidential

Sin City

Toy Story

******

League of Gentlemen Collection

Shawshank Redemption

- are a few of my favourites. If you can't quote loads of it after one hearing, it's not worth owning.

corradoboy

Band of Brothers R1 DTS (6 discs)
LOTR Trilogy Platinum Extended Editions
Alien Quadrilogy
Ultimate Matrix Box Set (10 discs)
Sin City Recut, Extended, Unrated R1 DTS
Master & Commander R1 Extended DTS
Jurassic Park R2 Japan Superbit DTS
The Haunting R1 DTS


If you must include Casino Royale it has to be the R3 Korean DTS version, with the torture scene unedited and the sound unmolested during the bathroom killing.

Bubba po

Surely a decent film doesn't depend upon the quality of its rendering onto disc? If it's worth having, then its quality would transcend the quality of its medium. Just a thought.

PS, I can't wait for Eldorado to come out on R2 Japan Superbit DTS.

corradoboy

A big screen TV and kicking AV set-up steers you more towards the action popcorn movie for shallow thrills. I can enjoy bombs and explosions 'til the cows come home, but I am quite prepared to watch deeper meaningful stuff as and when it's shown rather than spend hard earned owning it. The PQ and audio becomes much more important when the equipment highlights how good or bad it can be, a bit like not putting 30 quid remoulds on your Ferrari.

Each to their own though. If you're watching in mono on a 20" Matsui then you won't get much benefit from the DTS ES 7.1 Matrix audio channel and your attention will naturally focus on other elements of the work.

turbomatt

iTrader: (1)

1)thin red line
2)Heat
3)Man on fire
4)Rocky 1
5)First Blood
6)Aliens
7)Goodfellas
8)Usual suspects
9)Pulp fiction
10)Big trouble in little China

Bubba po

So you buy DVDs to 'appreciate' your technology, then. OK, it's a good job no-one was asking for recommendations of DVDs with any artistic merit. It reminds me of TelBoy with his 60 grand(?) stereo system, listening to Phil Collins and imagining that his rhodium mains fuse makes one iota of difference.

corradoboy

Please don't generalise me. I have some equipment, but it is by no means expensive, just well chosen to do the job I want. Discounting the TV there's less than 1k's worth. To enjoy it at its best sometimes it pays to source the media from further afield. The UK market tends to get the bargain basement bare essentials version when it comes to movies, and by sourcing them from elsewhere my listening and viewing pleasure can be increased, and quite bizarely, they are often cheaper too.

Everyone appreciates different things, or sometimes the same things for different reasons. Why jump all over them because you don't personally agree ? I understand you are a musician, and if so, why do some guitar players need a Taylor, Wilson, Gibson or Les Paul (or whatever they are) when they could play the same chords on an Argos guitar ?

I listed movies I enjoy and they tend to be vapid, shallow action films which benefit from exagerated special effects to make them superficially impressive, but they are fun and that's what I like sometimes. I also like Shawshank, Schindlers and a host of deeper films, but they don't jump out at me when I just want to switch off my brain on an evening and relax so I don't tend to buy as many titles like that although I do enjoy them when I choose to view them.

unclebuck

300

best film ever

StudentScooby

The butterfly effect

unclebuck

That's it!! That's where I've been going wrong.


No wonder all my music sounds sh*te....

Lee247

Aliens
The Green Mile
Sixth Sense
Schindlers List
Saw
White Noise
The Day after Tomorrow
Scrooge (Alisatir Simm version)
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars (all of them)

I've gone past 10, haven't I

unclebuck

The Green Mile
Jaws
Zulu
Close Encounters
Saving Private Ryan
Signs
Pulp Fiction
Aliens
The Sound Of Music
Terminator (All)
Bladerunner
Mad Max 2
Unclebuck

That'll do pig, that'll do....

Suresh

Pulp Fiction
The Usual Suspects
Memento
La vita e bella
Shawshank
Cidade de Deus
Seven
The sixth sense
Cars (because my little boy loves it)
Crash


I'd add Sin City and Once Upon a Time in the West (for the soundtrack alone) if the top dozen were being sought I have a cracking home theatre system and quality widescreen tv at home and it helps to bring a near cinema experience to the living room.

corradoboy

UB, Curious that you choose Green Mile over Shawshank and when you say "All" for Terminator, you do know there was a 3rd Personally I prefer BoB over SPR too. Jaws waiting to see what the 30th anniv release is like before I replace my old VHS copy. Same with Bladerunner, new version due with a decent 5.1 mix later this year.

stevie boy

in no particular order

falling down
go
enemy of the state
shawshank
full metal jacket
high fidelity
hot shots
hot shots 2
the big lebowski
pulp fiction

carl

No votes for the Italian Job or Grand Prix?
Get Carter must be in there somewhere
Also Top Gun if only for the first 10 minutes...

unclebuck

I just decided that Green Mile is a lot better on balance of two brilliant but similar genre 'films. So I left Shawshank out.

Yes, of ocurse I'm aware of T3, and I loved it as much as the others. Waiting for T4 now....

Band Of Bros was a TV series IIRC? So not elligable here? If so I'd like to include the brilliant 'Taken' TV series in my top ten.

Jaws - the only one is the original. That's why it makes the list.

Bubba po

Personally, I don't know. My main guitar is a Squier Strat from 1982 and the other one is an Antoria neck with a homemade body. There is an upper limit beyond which further spending makes ****-all difference. I think the mathematical term is the "asymptote". I think it's sad to watch crap films simply because they have lots of frills that show off the technology to best effect.

I think the Luddites had the right idea, sometimes.

stara

the life of brian
the matrix
the commitments
anchorman
nacho libre
topgun
first blood
a clockwork orange
the shining
this is spinal tap

unclebuck

Pah! - be honest You would chop that old board in for a proper vintage Les Paul tomorrow if you could justify it.

miff13

What no

Face Off!
Good Will Hunting
Ronin

Best has to be Heat, fantastic film

unclebuck

Aye up - gay alert...

Turbohot

Shine
Scent of a Woman
Beautiful mind
Schindler's List
Ronin
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Born On Fourth Of July
Mad Max series
Matrix (-es)
Speed 1 (leave further bull**** extensions)
Ace Ventura
Seven
The Sixth Sense

There's loads! Buy loads of nice films, the ones you can watch over and over and not get bored.
Enjoy them

kbsub

Saving Private Ryan
Gladiator
Master and Commander
Full Metal Jacket
Brotherhood
Kingdom of Heaven
Green Mile
Wallace and Gromit (curse of the were rabbit)
The Blues Brothers
Platoon

In no particular order

stara

i'd say nowt if i were you mr von trapp

Janspeed

iTrader: (1)

Debbie "does" Dallas
Cicciolina at the Farm
Pamela and Lee
Baywatch (all seasons)
Paris Hilton's Home-movie
Deep Throat
Toy Story
Cars
Day of the Dead
Gone with the wind