Owning movies at home...

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I'm also using movies as an instructional guide for my kids since they're visual - well, that's just an excuse.

eg: My eldest got into trouble for not knowing about palm sunday and other things but after watching selected highlights from; King of Kings, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Passion, he got it.

I tried to use parts of Mad Max to explain why he shouldn't go on the road but when I asked "what did you learn from that", he said "that lady shouldn't have run down the road" - that was before diagnosis so I should be forgiven for expecting a generalization.

got a couple o' hundred. The Missus buys them, so I don't keep track of them that much (mostly they're kids movies, and the granddaughter is watching the 200th iteration of Happy Feet..

Is it me, or is the 2nd trilogy of Star Wars movies a thinly-disguised commentary on the Bush Administration?..

I have a database as well, but mostly for books. A good chair, a good book, and a good light are all I ask...

As far as I see it, the second trilogy of Star Wars had more in common with the 1st century BC Roman Empire -- and the rise of the Caesars -- than it does with George Bush.

Besides, a lot of the story was already mapped out when the first three movies came out. If there are similarities between that and the Bush admin. it is more likely because the actions of the Bush admin. follow a repeated historical pattern.

I usually save up for about one DVD a month -- got a pretty decent size collection but not as HUGE as many other people's. A basic pattern: Lots of Ghibli and Pixar, LOTR movies, a few Johnny Depp flicks, and lots and lots of DS9. ...And quite a few that don't fit into any of those categories.

I have few films but quite a few TV shows. I have all of the Mighty Boosh (plus Live DVD), all of the League of Gentlemen, all of the Peep show DVDs, plus a Nighty Night, Nathan Barley, Extras, Futurama, King of the Hill and Family Guy.

I love listening to the commentaries and seeing the out-takes.

Last time I counted...181 dvds.

Quite big...but not huge.

I have a huge collection (over 800 titles), and I view some titles more often than others. I have big plans for those titles after I graduate from college, and get my own place. By this, I mean getting a huge plasma TV and home theater system.

Tim

No, I don't keep records of that.

Tim

I like to buy just about any movie that I remotely liked. I have at least 40 movies, a few TV shows, and there are still plenty more that I want.

I don't own any movies. I can't stand to watch something I already seen no matter how good.

no...more like who's lost the CD that goes in the now-empty case...

I don't think I have any downloaded DVDs but all up, I have about 30 or so including a series of "Please Sir", Series 1 of "Are You Being Served?", "Little Miss Sunshine", "Garfield", "Col'n Carpenter", "The Devil Wears Prada" and some others that I've forgotten. My favourite is "Kenny".

Sanity music often does cheap DVD deals around Christmastime so that is how I got quite a few of my DVDs. Three Christmases ago, my entire collection was stolen and some of them have never been replaced. I was too honest with the insurance company and didn't get much of a pay-out. There was a previous theft in September and I said there were two separate thefts so they applied the excess both times.

Dowloaded music is a bit of a different issue - the sort of stuff I've after is mostly from the 70's and early 80's and I can't find it in the shops. I now have a BoPo card and my daughter is going to show me how to go into Amazon and order stuff. Some of the music is available on Greatest Hits compilations on the net so I'd rather buy it if possible.

My CD collection is a bit out of control (at least 500) and then I have around 400 cassette tapes, 300 45 records and 200 LPs. I hope to convert the music on the tapes and records to mp3s and put onto CDs but it will be a big big project.

I only have one DVD, that of the movie "Four Minutes," the biography of Roger Bannister.

I probably have around 150+ DVD's (not counting those B-Movie box sets with 20 or 30 movies), but I am leaning more towards collecting books (since they are better value for money, and my imagination has the budget to do the stories better justice than most of Hollywood).

The problem is books aren't as cheap here as overseas (relative to DVD's), but considering I can watch most movies at most twice vs the many hours spent lost in a book justify the extra expenditure. Plus a stacked bookshelf makes me look more literate