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[cp_evilref]

The below is my desired list of DVDs to own, those I consider ‘important’ for me to own. All of them I've seen, the ones in Bold I own, the others I plan on getting at some point. Please feel free to add suggestions onto the list. Films only, I'm up to speed on all the TV series I want to own (other than getting round to getting Season one of

Comments

[madcatlady]

And does it have to be "worthwhile" to be enjoyable? I note that most of the films on your list are either classics (modern and contemporary), Japanese, or ones that the majority of a certain social group seem to find necessary(eg Kill Bill). What's missing, for me, from that collection is an element of something *personal* - something that others may not consider cool or worthwhile, but you're gonna own up to liking anyway, cos sometimes all you really want to get from a DVD is mindless entertainment. (Remember, I know your deep dark secret....RCR!) However, you are saved from being completely, inextricably up your own arse by the inclusion of a couple of terrible but fun films as Starship Troopers and Pirates of the Caribbean :-)

[black_faery]

Also, for someone who has many 'classic' films on there, there are not so many old ones.

Is it the orginal 39 Steps you want to own or the remake?

[cp_evilref]

The original, I dislike the remake.

On which note I need to add Scaramouche, Cyrano De Bergerac, The Great race, Prisoner of Zenda, Henry V.

[cp_evilref]

Worthwhile isn't the same as enjoyable. But enjoyable isn't the same as 'wish to own and be able to watch anytime I like without going to Blocbusters'.

There are films I own that aren't on the list, and ones I'd left off my initial thoughts on it (as shown in comments above). Enjoying a film and wanting to own it aren't the same.

I debated putting Love Actually on, for example, and when I redo the final version and amke my amazon wishlist explode it will go on, but it wasn't in my initial thoughts on it. The list was also done as a way of structuring a 'what are the films I consider important to be seen in terms of Cinema as a whole while still being enjoyable'. Likewise Shrek - I enjoy but it's not one I feel I must own. It's one it would be nice to watch now and then but it's not an 'I should own this'.

[nichols_me]

Dude you havet put se7en up there, i hoipe for the sake of your soul that its mearly an oversight

[cp_evilref]

It is, and yes I have it. The list was very much what came to mind over a morning and got thrown in the word doc I was using to compile it all.

Soul still (mostly) intact.