Owning movies at home...

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By HUGE, I mean maybe more than 20?
Maybe after a few posts here, I'll revise that number.
I have no idea what an average home library is like other than one of my sister's collections

Just got a few new movies tonight at the mall (along with a headache I can't shake).
I have a small library of movies in both VHS and DVD.
Mostly Indies(American films as well as foreign), Documentaries, and Foreign films from places like Iran, Belgium, Australia, Japan, etc.

Here's the ones I came home with tonight....

-The Machinist (a really great movie... haunting)
-Memento(another great movie... it says on the back of my hand that I should tell you I now own two copies - VHS and DVD)
-Mission Impossible (#1 of the Tom Cruise pics - daughter really likes them and we have #'s 2 & 3 already)
-Castaway(I'm into wilderness survival and know one of the guys they got their information from)
-K-Pax(a family favorite)
-an anime that's in her room right now and I can't remember the title of.(something new for us)

For Christmas, I bought my daughter Season 5 of MONK.... her favorite show

We wanted to buy... but didn't...
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle
Totoro (we have a bad copy)
Lord of the Flies
The Outsiders
Cool Hand Luke
The Big Lebowski (I think my daughter may have gotten that one for me for Christmas)
North by Northwest
and others....

A quick tally shows I have approx.
46 VHS
80 DVD (includes instructional)

So I guess I have to revise the HUGE COLLECTION number to something above what I have?
I just figure I have less than everyone else.

Last edited by wsmac on 18 Dec 2007, 4:48 am, edited 1 time in total.

I'm probably going to declare myself a winner...

My name is Gavin and I'm a movieholic. It's only been a few hours since my last purchase...

I've got, at last count.... 1815 DVDs (though it's probably considerably higher given that TV Season box sets only count as 1)

Oh, and yes, I developed a database for it and fill it in constantly with waayyy to much info.

OMG! You have a serious... uh... collection?...

How long does it take you to watch them all?

Do you have movies you've watched before like in the theatre?
Do you have a bunch of television shows?

MONK and 24 are the only ones we own and I see those as my daughter's movies more than mine.

WOW!... I'm still in awe of your collection!

Oh... and I see this is my 1500 post!

I have a fairly large collection, but more TV shows than movies. I have 90 actual discs all up.

These are:

Black Books full series collector set (3 discs)

Blackadder set (4 disc set)

Bottom box set (3 disc set)

Dilbert complete series set (4 discs)

Doctor Who: Ghost Light (1 disc)

Doctor Who: The Complete First Series box set (5 discs)

Doctor Who: The Complete Second Series box set (6 discs)

Frank Herbert's Dune and Children of Dune (2 three-disc sets)

The League of Gentlemen series 1, 2, 3 and Christmas special (6 discs all up)

Monty Python's Flying Circus (7 disc box set)

All 8 seasons of Red Dwarf (18 discs all up)

The Young Ones box set (3 discs)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2 discs)

Dylan Moran: Monster Live (1 disc)

Chopper (1 disc)

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (1 disc)

The Python Pack (4 discs with ANFSCD, Holy Grail, and Life of Brian)

Meaning of Life special edition (2 discs)

All three Pirates of the Caribbean films (6 discs all up)

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1 disc)

Resident Evil and Resident Evil Apocalypse (2 discs all up)

Shrek 2 (1 disc)

A DVD that came free with a Playstation magazine.

The Making of Silent Hill 2 DVD that came with the game.

Quatermass,

Good to see you have Dr Who - I have all the DVD's except Key to Time set which is an "after-Christmas" purchase.

Considering all your Bond postings, why don't you have all the bond films? I do ... even the ones that aren't the best.

I do have a lot of DVDs that I saw at the cinema and liked (my film taste range is huge) but obviously with 2 kids, I don't get out much so I often buy a movie based on the cover or reviews.
Sometimes they turn out to be turkeys but I have OCD type problems getting rid of them.

I've got no space either...

Wow gbollard, you have the equilalent of a British Manor library of DVDs!
I have lots of boxsets of a handful of shows, esp. Poirot, Marple, Murder She Wrote, X-files, etc. Although they're mostly mystery type shows, I watch them over and over again, I guess I'm more interested in the environment created in the films as opposed to their storyline.

Oh yes, and I have the entire Monty Python of course. The one thing I don't understand is why MAD TV released Season 1, and then a collective Best-of Seasons 8-10. Where are Seasons 2-7? They don't seem to have been released, does anyone know why not?

I rarely purchase DVDs, despite what my collection says. Many I get through my local library system if I can (in the case of most classic series Doctor Who stories, or anime series like Evangelion or Planetes). My library now has Ultimate Editions of the first 20 Bond films, as well as both versions of Casino Royale. You do have to remember that I have limited resources, and a good chunk of purchases are made around the time I get money either from sporadic data entry jobs, or around Christmas or my birthday (I intend to order the Doctor Who story Curse of Fenric through Ezy DVD post-Christmas, and perhaps Planet of Evil too). Not only that, but I have a family friend who has the James Bond films on DVD that I may ask to borrow at her convenience. So it isn't just about purchasing, but rather using whatever resources at your disposal.

I also tend only to get films and TV shows that I will enjoy time and time again, and I only like a few Bond films enough to consider buying them (Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, Licence to Kill, Tomorrow Never Dies, Die Another Day and Casino Royale). I also discovered that I got bored of the Who stories I had, and now only have Ghost Light from the classic series.

I had to sell quite a bit of my collection last year to put petrol in the car - it was murder. Still, the collection is gradually recovering and I can't say I really miss much of what I off-loaded (perhaps aided by a crap memory at times).

I have a friend with a massive collection but they are almost all pirated. I can't do that. I just can't. I had to ask my friend to stop burning things for me and they got really offended. Does this mean I am weird? Anyone else NEED to have only legitimate DVDs in their collection?

mine are all legit.

I don't pirate movies - at first it was just quality but I guess I like having anti-piracy adverts at the front of my films.

I prefer legit DVDs (I only have one actual pirate, one someone brought back from Cambodia of Silent Hill), because not just of quality, but also special features issues. I want special features, period. And preferably DVDs with subbies. That said, I have no objection to people bringing me DVDs from overseas that are legitimate (my copy of Chopper was given to me by relatives from Scotland (they thought I was still THAT interested in Chopper Read), and thus Region 2, so I need a computer or a region-free DVD player to play it).

Those anti-piracy ads piss me off something fierce. I don't dowload whole movies and TV shows from websites. I may stream them on YouTube in some cases, or view clips, but never download whole things (although you can do so legitimately off certain services like IGN). For one thing, those sites'd be crawling with hackers and malware.

Yeh, I see your point. Gotta watch those anti-piracy adds - they are just SO good. Gives you time to get settled all comfy-like.

I haven't been able to pirate stuff since I realised that so many people's incomes rely on legit sales. Social conscience I guess.

It's more of a choice of quality as far as I am concerned. Not social conscience. Social conscience does play a role, but it is quality that is the main driving force for me. I'm not a video and sound quality freak. I just want it as good as possible, and with lots of special features.

I don't personally understand the need to possess books and movies. I retain possession of 2 or 3 books that I refer to periodically, the rest I give away.

Oh man, don't get me started on books.... I LOVE books, love the smell, the feel, just being able to dip into another world. I somehow more complete when I have books around me. Don't care if I can read it online - always better on paper - where I can take it outside, don't have to be reliant on electricity, such freedom, such stimulation.

I would take books over movies any day.

I work in a Library. I'm surrounded by hundreds of thousands of books. It's so nice of the Library to take care of them for me. I have access to all of them and I don't have to take them with me when I move!