My DVD collection, broken down statistically...

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So if I showed this to anyone else they would probably commit me. But I think its cooler than all hell! And something you guys would appreciate.

Did this with a cataloging programing. Interesting to see. About 180ish of 250ish cataloged. Started creating graphs off it and lost interest in cataloging the rest =P. But its cool and weird to see some trends. The lists cut off at 1 for the few I posted, bit too large as is, any smaller and cant read names =/

By Actor - Brad Pitt is the man, but I didnt realize I liked his movies so much =P. This is also a little skewed because I cataloged a few Family Guy Sets so the voice actors are getting a credit for each season, gotta figure how to fix that programming.
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/6628/actorc.jpg




By Director - This will probably get real different as I havnt hit director box sets yet =P
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/3937/director.jpg




By Genre - Based off how IMDB categorizes and placed movies.
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And by Writer -
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/6319/writerv.jpg


Can list it out by a buncha different parameters, year movie was made, producer, studio, cinematographer =P


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Double fixed what the simple nitwit above messed up.

Last edited by willa on 11 Jun 2009, 7:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.

P.S. list of titles intentionally left off for more amusement incase anyone wants to figure out the movies =P.

I'll give huge brownie points to anyone who can guess which 9 movies of Brad Pitt I own ^_^. Based off writer/director you could probably get kinda close, but keep in mind those lists are cut off.

Given that my collection has 1447 directors, I'm not going to try to list them all but I'll list the directors for whom I have 8 or more films...
(and I'm not going graphical because then I'd have to upload the files somewhere first).

Steven Spielberg 19
Gerald Thomas 17
Clint Eastwood 14
John Carpenter 13
Bob Spiers 12
Richard Donner 11
Ridley Scott 11
Russell Mulcahy 11
Tim Burton 11
Wes Craven 11
Robert Zemeckis 10
Ron Howard 10
Christian Duguay 9
Hamilton Luske 9
Hayao Miyazaki 9
Joe Dante 9
Joel Schumacher 9
Woody Allen 9
Daniel Grou 8
David Cronenberg 8
David Mallet 8
George Miller 8
James Cameron 8
John Howard Davies 8
John Landis 8
Martin Scorsese 8
Mel Brooks 8
Michael Bay 8
Phillip Noyce 8
Sam Raimi 8
Terry Gilliam 8
Wolfgang Petersen 8

And here are actors for which I have 12 and above...

Tom Baker 33
John Cleese 26
Robin Williams 25
Sean Connery 25
David Fox 24
Robert De Niro 23
Samuel L. Jackson 23
Arnold Schwarzenegger 22
Dan Hennessey 22
John Stocker 22
Wayne Robson 22
Colin O'Meara 21
Harrison Ford 21
Susan Roman 21
Bruce Willis 20
Christopher Lee 20
Morgan Freeman 20
Clint Eastwood 18
Eddie Murphy 17
Joan Sims 17
John Hurt 17
Mel Gibson 17
Michael Caine 17
Rowan Atkinson 17
Drew Barrymore 16
Ian Holm 16
Keanu Reeves 16
Frank Oz 15
Kenneth Williams 15
Lance Henriksen 15
Patrick Stewart 15
Sigourney Weaver 15
Steve Buscemi 15
Steve Martin 15
Tom Cruise 15
Tom Hanks 15
Tommy Lee Jones 15
William Shatner 15
Bill Paxton 14
Charles Hawtrey 14
James Woods 14
Jon Pertwee 14
Kevin Bacon 14
Laurence Fishburne 14
Liam Neeson 14
Robert Englund 14
Sid James 14
Willem Dafoe 14
William Hartnell 14
Anthony Hopkins 13
Brad Dourif 13
Cary Elwes 13
Christopher Plummer 13
Donald Pleasence 13
Donald Sutherland 13
Gene Hackman 13
Ian McKellen 13
James Cromwell 13
James Earl Jones 13
Jennifer Saunders 13
John Malkovich 13
Michael Palin 13
Peter Cushing 13
Peter Sellers 13
Peter Stormare 13
Sam Neill 13
Sylvester Stallone 13
Ben Affleck 12
Brian Cox 12
Christopher Walken 12
Danny Glover 12
David Warner 12
Eric Idle 12
Ewan McGregor 12
Gary Oldman 12
Gene Wilder 12
Harvey Keitel 12
Jamie Lee Curtis 12
Johnny Depp 12
Peter Butterworth 12
Robbie Coltrane 12
Robert Duvall 12
Terence Stamp 12
Tim Curry 12
Val Kilmer 12
Vincent Price 12
Ving Rhames 12

I wanna see pics of your collection!!

I thought you weren't a Tom Baker fan...

I have almost 900 titles.

Interview with the Vampire
Seven
Twelve Monkeys
Fight Club
Snatch
The Mexican
Oceans Eleven
Babel
Burn After Reading...?

In bold what is right. Close! Now, I actually discovered a glitch. Twelve Monkeys I own, but it for some reason isnt reading the credits, so I actually own 10 Brad Pitt movies. Found a few others for some reason they are not picking up the credits.

So, you are missing 4.
Here are some actors in those 4 movies. In no particular order
Christopher Walken
Minnie Driver
Robert DeNiro
David Duchovny
Gabriel Byrne


And I wanna see pics of these other collections! I woulda been pushing 400ish but a few years back I got annoyed at my collection, just so much crap that I bought on it's release days, or just on impulse so I cleaned house and grabbed literally anything I'd seen once or hadnt seen yet and sold em on ebay. Cleared out about a 150 or so. Now everything I own I bought because I would want to watch it more than once. There are a few impulse buys that turned out to be garbage. I've bought a few bad Blu-Ray movies, that I knew would probably stink, but just cause I wanted some good special effects/actions to watch on my TV in high def.

willa, can you please shrink your statistical graphs? You're not allowed to have any pictures that disrupt the formatting of the WP threads.

Doesnt disrupt the layout for me one bit. You must be using a stinky browser, solution, uninstall IE, download Firefox or Chrome.

I have OCD... I have to collect them.

Sadly I don't have any pictures of my DVD collection. Shortly before we moved to a bigger house (to accommodate the collection), I removed most of them from their plastic covers and put them in those suitcase things. I've thrown out all the plastic covers but I still have all the paper inserts.

I've got all the covers (front and back) scanned into my database anyway, so I can browse whenever I feel like it.

Right now, my collection stands at 2155 and averages about 200 additions per year (though I'm running out of things to buy).

I don't have a problem with popcorn flicks... I just know that you have to be in the right mood to watch them.

What we have here is a failure to communicate. The posting specifications in the Wrong Planet rules specify, and I quote, 'Ensure that links and pictures in posts fit the page format'. And I would say that the majority of users still use IE. So, change the pictures, please.

Why not use a table, like an SPSS output file, suitably modified?

I like the pretty colors of bar graphs. I did give ample warning as to their size.

You did ask nicely. But, then you quoted a rule that makes no sense. Maybe the rule should be adapted to say "Fits the page format of those people living in the archaic ages and still use IE on super small monitors"

Otherwise, I just cant see how I'm breaking a rule, it doesnt distrupt anything for me. Who are you...really? Who sent you to harass me? Was it Steve? steve.....


p.s. 129 Views. 1 person having viewing trouble. Your browser must not like CSS, try reinstalling.

BTW Quatermass...

1. I'm not having any trouble but I'm at work on Chrome!! and at 1680x1050.

2. There's lots of other threads on WP who do even worse things with pictures but they don't get into trouble about them.
- methinks it's because you find this thread interesting enough to want to look at them.

Oh and here's an interesting set of stats...
My collection by country of origin.

I've tried a spacing trick which might work on my PC but will probably look rubbish everywhere else.


78 Australia
10 Canada
15 China
2 Czechoslovakia
48 France
24 Germany
1 Hungary
1 Iceland
7 Ireland
1 Israel
8 Italy
57 Japan
1 Netherlands
5 New Zealand
1 Poland
3 Russia
2 Scotland
3 South Korea
7 Spain
4 Sweden
2 Switzerland
356 United Kingdom
1519 United States
2155 TOTAL