UGO's Top 50 DVDs of all-time
I stumbled across this list when browsing UnderGroundOnline, for no particular reason. It's not a site I regularly go to, but I found my way to it a week ago when looking for stuff on the upcoming Sin City movie. I'm proud to say that we have a lot of the DVDs on the list. Keep in mind that this list ranks DVD quality, not necessarily movie quality, and the DVDs featured here would be special edition/criterion/vista series editions of discs when appropriate, and not bare-bones edition. Here's the list along with notes on which ones we have in bold:
- #50. Monsters, Inc.
- #49. The Godfather Collection (Just got it for Christmas. Still have to watch them)
- #48. Beauty and the Beast
- #47. The Shawshank Redemption (This is for the new 2 disc, 10th Anniversary edition, which I also just got for Christmas, and haven't watched yet)
- #46. The Fifth Element (This is for the Superbit edition, not the new special edition)
- #45. Saving Private Ryan (*This is for the 60th Anniversary D-Day Edition, which I have, but the dts version that only came in a collector's edition set with two other documentaries, which I don't have)
- #44. Field Of Dreams (the Anniversary Edition, which I still haven't watched since I got it for my birthday)
- #43. Jackie Brown
- #42. 12 Monkeys (largely here for the accompanying documentary featurette)
- #41. The Killer
- #40. Dark City
- #39. Hellboy (the director's cut)
- #38. THX 1138
- #37. Black Hawk Down
- #36. Gladiator (I do have Gladiator, but it's the single disc version)
- #35. The Sixth Sense (the Vista Series edition, jam-packed with features I haven't watched)
- #34. Superman: The Movie
- #33. The Royal Tenenbaums (the Criterian Collection one)
- #32. Memento
- #31. Daredevil (the 2 disc release, not the Director's Cut, which I also have)
- #30. X2: X-Men United
- #29. Rushmore
- #28. Boogie Nights
- #27. Blade II
- #26. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
- #25. Almost Famous (the bootleg edition with Untitled. I really have to watch the special features on this one, particularly the commentary with Cameron Crowe and his mom)
- #24. Back to the Future (the whole trilogy, just got this for Kim's birthday)
- #23. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- #22. Pearl Harbor
- #21. Tron
- #20. The Goonies
- #19. Indiana Jones (the trilogy. I still haven't watched the special features disc)
- #18. The Mummy
- #17. Se7en (the New Line Platinum Series edition. It's funny, I made sure to special order this edition, and still haven't seen it. I should check out the DVD Rom features some time)
- #16. Stargate
- #15. Clerks X (still haven't watched the original cut, but the documentary on disc 3 is probably the best DVD featurette I've ever seen)
- #14. Akira
- #13. Escape from New York
- #12. Star Trek Movies
- #11. Star Wars Trilogy (I still haven't watched the special features disc)
- #10. Ghostbusters
- #9. Dawn of the Dead (The Ultimate Edition of the original movie)
- #8. Men In Black
- #7. Fight Club (the two disc special edition)
- #6. Terminator 2
- #5. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- #4. The Evil Dead
- #3. Ultimate Matrix
- #2. Alien Quadrilogy
- #1. The Lord of the Rings (the extended editions, of course)
I have 17* of them, so that's pretty cool. The ones I don't have I don't really want, although reading about the Ghostbusters and The Fifth Element DVDs have intrigued me on them. I really don't watch my DVDs that thoroughly though. I think I'm just not lonely enough, I guess. That, and I blame this damn internet. It takes the bulk of my time. That, and TV Box Sets on DVD. For those curious, their Top 5 of those were: