My Movie Collection
I’m a movie junky. Been watching movies for as long as I can remember. In my final moments alive, my last words will probably be a quote or reference. I used to watch movies on VHS until the cassettes were scrap. The earliest of films I can recall where Gojira, Alien, Ghostbusters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to name a few. Carpenter (with Halloween) and Cronenberg (with Videodrome) alone explain why I’m slightly fucked up.
With the advent of DVD back in the late 90’s I began collecting any and all films I liked the most knowing that discs would endure my rewatching much better than VHS. I’ve amassed a collection I know count in pounds instead of quantity.
I lived on campus while attending college and the nearest video rental store was an hour’ walk away. Not everyone owned a car or wanted to pay the exorbitant prices of a taxi. Walking wasn’t always the option for many, certainly not during the very feral winters we had (pussies). I quickly became the number one source for occupying people’s evenings. Thinking back at the regularity of renters, I would of easily of paid back a third of my collection if I had charged a buck or two.
With the rise in popularity and availability of Blu-rays and my trusty PS3, I’ve begun collecting those too but only under the situation in which the movie has that certain attention to its visuals that require 1080 of bleeding quality.
Six years and a little more than 160 movies and TV series later, I look back at my collection and realize that a lot of them just aren’t as amazing as they used to be. I’ve parsed through them all and divided them into three categories: keepers, droppers, and, the dreadful, undecided.
Below I’ve listed all the movies I own, excluding TV series. I’ve provided an expanded list including TV series—with runtimes, editions, collections and more—attached to this post (Numbers & Excel). If you are interested in purchasing one or more of the following, drop me a line and we can look into it.
Keep
The movies in this list are kept for various reasons ranging from dearly loved (Eternal Sunshine, London) to pure comedic genius (Holy Grail, Lord of War) to utmost respect in its making (Miami Vice, Brick) and down to simply fun (True Lies, Crank).
- 007: Casino Royale (2006)
- 007: Quantum of Solace (2008)
- 300 (2007)
- 2046 (2006)
- Alien Quadrilogy
- Alien (1979)
- Aliens (1986)
- Alien 3 (1992)
- Alien Resurrection (1997)
- American Beauty (1999)
- Away We Go (2009)
- Batman Begins (BD) (2005)
- Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
- Big Fish (2003)
- Brick (2006)
- Clerks (1994)
- Crank (BD) (2006)
- Crank 2: High-Voltage (BD) (2009)
- Dracula (1992)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Ghostbusters Collection
- Ghostbusters 1 (1984)
- Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
- Heat (1995)
- Inside Man (2004)
- Iron Man (2008)
- Jackie Brown (1998)
- Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
- Juno (2007)
- Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)
- Kill Bill Volume 2 (2004)
- Leon, The Professional (1994)
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (2006)
- London (2006)
- Lord of War (2005)
- Man on Fire (2004)
- Memento (2000)
- Miami Vice (2006)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
- Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008)
- Ocean’s Trilogy
- Ocean’s 11 (2001)
- Ocean’s 12 (2004)
- Ocean’s 13 (2007)
- Oldboy (2003)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Redbelt (2008)
- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- Rob Zombie’s Halloween (2007)
- Serenity (2005)
- Sin City (2005)
- Slumdog Millionaire (BD) (2008)
- Snatch (2000)
- Star Trek (BD) (2009)
- Terminator 2 (1991)
- The Boondock Saints (1999)
- The Brothers Bloom (2008)
- The Crow (1994)
- The Dark Knight (BD) (2008)
- The Fountain (2006)
- Indiana Jones Trilogy
- The Temple of Doom (1984)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- The Last Crusade (1989)
- The Prestige (2007)
- The Virgin Suicides (2000)
- The Wrestler (BD) (2008)
- True Lies (1994)
- Unbreakable (2000)
- Videodrome (1983)
- Wall-E (BD) (2008)
- Watchmen (BD) (2009)
Don’t Keep
If you think any of the movies in this deserve to be reconsidered in the keep pile, I am curious to your arguments and thoughts. Else, you can add them to your collection.
A lot of the movies here I hold with much respect (JCVD, I’m Not There) and enjoy very much (Office Space, Fargo) but somehow don’t resonate with me as perfectly as those I’m keeping.
- 16 Blocks (2006)
- 300 (BD) (2007)
- A History of Violence (2005)
- Aliens Versus Predator 2: Requiem (2007)
- Babel (2006)
- Black Hawk Down (2001)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Body of Lies (2008)
- Broken Flowers (2005)
- Bruce Lee Ultimate Collection
- The Big Boss (1971)
- Fist of Fury (1972)
- Way of the Dragon (1973)
- Game of Death (1979)
- Game of Death 2 (1981)
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
- Déjàvu (2007)
- Dick Tracy (1990)
- Dune (1984)
- Enemy at the Gates (2001)
- Fargo (1996)
- Falling Down (1992)
- From Hell (2001)
- Gangsters Ultimate Film Collection
- American Gangster (2007)
- Carlito’s Way (1993)
- Casino (1995)
- Scarface (1983)
- Gladiator (2000)
- Gone Baby Gone (2007)
- Goodnight, and Good Luck (2005)
- Hero (Ying Xiong) (2002)
- I’m Not There (2007)
- Jarhead (2005)
- JCVD (BD) (2008)
- Le Collectionneur (2002)
- Mad Max (1980)
- Office Space (1999)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
- Operation Swordfish (2001)
- Rambo (2008)
- Ronin (1998)
- Saturday Night Fever (1977)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- Silent Hill (2006)
- Smokin’ Aces (2007)
- Star Trek Original Motion Picture Collection
- The Motion Picture (BD) (1979)
- The Wrath of Khan (BD) (1982)
- The Search for Spock (BD) (1984)
- The Voyage Home (BD) (1986)
- The Final Frontier (BD) (1989)
- The Undiscovered Country (BD) (1991)
- Taken (BD) (2008)
- The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)
- The Bank Job (2008)
- The Black Dahlia (2006)
- The Departed (2006)
- The Hannibal Lecter Collection
- Manhunter (1986)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Hannibal (2001)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
- The Incredible Hulk (BD) (2008)
- The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
- The Wrong Guy (1997)
- THX 1138 (1971)
- Total Recall (1990)
- Walk The Line (2006)
- X-Men Trilogy
- X-Men (2000)
- X2: X-Men United (2003)
- X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
- Yamakasi (2001)
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
Undecided
If you would like to help in decided wether I should keep these or not, feel free. They are brain twisters.
For example, I’d like to keep movies like Gattaca and Mnemonic for inspirational references when writing or imagining science-fiction scenarios. But at the same time, I don’t watch them with enough regularity to want to keep them.
- Adventureland (2009)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Big Trouble Little China (BD) (1986)
- Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
- Domino (2005)
- Gattaca (1997)
- Interview (2007)
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
- Lucky Number Slevin (2005)
- The 13th Warrior (1993)
- The Terminal (2004)
- The Truman Show (1998)
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