DVD Meme

[bobquasit]

Don't blame me. unquietsoul5 tagged me with this meme.

Oh, who am I kidding? I could have ignored it. I'm just taking the opportunity to brag about all my DVDs.

1. Total number of films I own on DVD/video:

DVDs: Currently 155. But that counts 10 DVDs of Sebastian's, and Teri's Disney DVDs. It also counts 13 multi-disk TV series sets (generally including 5 or more disks each) as one DVD per set. Plus there are other multi-disk sets, including two which I'll be getting in the next week or two. So 155 is the low end; the high end is easily over 200.

But then, I'm an early adopter.

As for videos, that's almost impossible to calculate. There were 9 pre-recorded videos on the DVD shelf. I know that Teri has almost every Disney movie on VHS someplace, but I didn't see them. Sebastian probably has 40 vhs tapes too. But if you're talking vhs of all sorts, I probably have over 300. That includes ones on which I have three movies taped on each; for example, The Terminator, Aliens, and John Carpenter's The Thing are on one tape. Not to mention thousands of hours of SCTV, Monty Python, MST3K, and rarities from the early days of Comedy Central.

Unfortunately most of them aren't labeled, and 95% of them are in boxes in the basement. :(

2. The last film I bought:

The last film I got was Spirited Away; it was a birthday gift. I can't remember what the last DVD I bought was, but the next two I'm buying are SCTV Vol. 3 and the Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy miniseries.

3. The last film I watched: Yellow Submarine. We've seen it at least ten times in the past two weeks. It's Sebastian's new favorite, and I couldn't possibly express how cute it is to listen to him singing along with all the songs.

4. Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me:

The Third Man
Army of Darkness
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Big Trouble In Little China
Casablanca

Of course, that leaves out TV series (like SCTV and The Prisoner), which would otherwise be on the list. And there are lots of others, of course. There's no exact order, except that The Third Man is absolutely number one.

5. Tag 5 People and have them put this in their journal:

Oh, they're not going to like this...
tprjones
tcpip
klyfix
charibdis
kahlage

Sorry!

Comments

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I was wondering who was going to eventually get me to do this!

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

I cannot, in good conscious, help to spread a chain meme. :) However I'll gladly shanghai your comments thread to give my answers. :P

1. Total number of films I own on DVD/video:

Let's count: Evil Dead (I'm on the DVD!), Doc Savage, RHPS, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (VHS, icky), and Blind Fury. So, five.

Although, I subscribe to both Netflix and Blockbuster Online, and with two days notice I can have nearly any movie you might want. I consider this to be my real entertainment library, they just hold onto it and take care of it for me. So, in that sense, about 35,000.

2. The last film I bought:

That would be Evil Dead.

3. The last film I watched:

Free Enterprise, which is a must-see for any 30-something sci-fi fanatic type, especially fans of Star Trek.

4. Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me:

This is so hard to narrow down to, but here goes:
* The Tao of Steve
* The Milagro Beanfield War
* The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
* RHPS
* The Army of Darkness

5. Tag 5 People and have them put this in their journal:


Not gunna do it. Wouldn't be prudent. At this juncture.

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll bite: How did you end up on the Evil Dead DVD?

Army of Darkness is God. It just irritates me that there are, what - five different versions out on DVD? Annoying, because no ONE of them has all my favorite bits.

I agree about Free Enterprise: very funny, very good, and smart. And Shatner steals the show.

Glad to see another Blue Blaze Irregular. Did you ever sign up? And did you know that Big Trouble In Little China was originally the script for "Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League"? If you haven't seen it (unimaginable), you should.

You know, now that I think of it Kurt Russel has been in some of my favorite movies! He was great in John Carpenter's The Thing, and in Used Cars as well. Which are both outstanding, although in totally different ways.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Sign up? You mean there was a real Blue Blaze Irregulars? Am I too late to join? :)

I do indeed like BTiLC muchly, and it would probably be in my top 10. The main reason it's not in my top 5 in favor of those first two are their links to New Mexico, where I spent a few years and which I consider to be my spiritual homestead.

As to me on the Evil Dead DVD: http://www.livejournal.com/users/tprjones/8847.html#cutid1

:)

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Seriously? "Big Trouble in Little China" is from the BB sequal that was never made? Where'd you find that out?

I think I llke "Big Trouble" more than "Buckaroo Banzai"; while BB is extremely interesting and I like the theme music I can't say that I really felt that it truly was successful.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Question: By The Third Man, do you mean the 1949 Orson Welles movie? I've never heard of that one, and want to make sure I watch the right one (hey, if it made your top five, and you've got Buckaroo on there thus showing you are a man of refined tastes, I've got to watch it, right?)

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Yes, although Orson Welles didn't write or direct it - he starred and did write one memorable speech, though.

It's...different. Just incredibly grown-up and utterly amazing; you can watch it over and over and get more from it each time. In some ways it's reminiscent of Casablanca, but darker, reflecting the difference between WWII optimism and the reality of the Cold War. If you watch it, please let me know what you think!

Hmm...maybe I should make a recommended movie list. Or list all my DVDs, anyway; those that I'm not too embarrassed about, anyway.

Sounds like a project.

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I can't really do the query thing in an orderly fashion as I'm having another of my little mental semi-befuddlement periods. But we'll responded in a disorganized fashion.

While I have several DVDs, there're all Anime save perhaps for some stuff on "The Animatrix" DVD. Most are TV series, some are OVA (direct to video), and I have a few anime movies (two of the "Tenchi Muyo" films, the two "Neon Genesis Evangelion" films, a remarkably medocre "Slayers" thing that played in theatres, and I think that's it).

Last film I've watched was "Metropolis"; not the original Fritz Lang classic but the Anime film based on a comic by the same guy who did "Astro Boy." Certainly inspired in part by the old silent film; the robot from that is a statue in this one at one point unless I was hallucinating. Kinda dark, and reminding me yet once again that it makes no sense to ever make robots that have true self-awareness, that can be said to be "thinking" as we do. Visually darned striking.

I'm not really a movie devotee type, so I don't really have a "movie that means a lot to me" thing, really.