hey my cousin is rich and he is giving me like 300! bucks for nothing(ok once i cut his grass, not marijuana)

but any way simce i just got a new sorround sound and a new dvd player please tell me which dvds are a must have besides the ones im gona list

Resoveir dogs
kill bill 1+2
Pulp fiction i already have
A ClockWork Orange
One flew over the cuckoo;s nest
Taxi driver
Godfathers 1+2 ( 3 i didnt like)
Goodfella(all that i can remember0

so basicaly tell me which movies are good to own or just casue there great movies... if its on dvd format



Resevoir dogs

definetely look into buying a few rare obscure DVDs. Check out this website;
http://revengeismydestiny.com/

Citizen Kane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rushmore
Fisher King
Sixth Sense
FARGO
The Professional
The Royal Tennenbaums
Signs
Raising Arizona
The Fifth Element
Natural Born Killers
Trainspotting
and your mamma.

WHOA...Not sure about 'Fifth Element', RED...

What about *Magnolia?
*Full Metal Jacket?
*American Beauty?
*Fight Club?
*Four Rooms?
*Donnie Darko?
*Punch Drunk Love?

Ok... I think thats all i can remember... But def. check out a few of those..

Blockbuster has that new program where u can rent whatever you want, and return it whenever you want, as much as you want---for one month i think its like 24 bucks, but the first month is 15.... so you could always do that, and then watch some of the movies we listed for you, and make your own decision as to whether or not you like them...

Good luck!

Everyone's tastes are different, so you have to ultimately decide. J Michael's suggestion to rent a few to see if you like them might be a good idea! However, a few older suggestions:

THE BIRDS
THE SEARCHERS
12 ANGRY MEN
CAPE FEAR (with Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck)
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
FATHER GOOSE

And a couple of more "newer" suggestions:

THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE
ROAD TO PERDITION
BATTLE ROYALE
BILLY ELLIOT
A FISH CALLED WANDA
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
THE EXORCIST

Just opinions. Good luck and congrats on the windfall!

Anything by Hitchock is sure to add spice to any DVD collection.

I also reccomend the special editions of LOTR. Teh behind the scenes stuff they have on there is priceless to no end.
I would also reccomend
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
Napolean Dynomite (when its released)

Any movie with a freakin' huge explosion is your sound is going to be good!

yeah the sound is so dang cool

Although these aren't exactly classics, although i could argue that Amelie is, Dick Tracy(warren beatty movie version)and Amelie are two films heavily reliant on color that look beautiful in dvd. The difference between the vhs and dvd copies of these films is night and day

PARTICLEMAN

OOPS!! SRY BUT WHY DID U CHANGE AVATAR YOURS (was) COOL

Just promoting Shaun of the Dead until it comes out. On September 25th, i'll go back to the "Wet Hot American Summer" one... for you..and only you.

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Be sure to check out the Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy (which is; a fistful of dollars, for a few dollars more, the good the bad and the ugly). Those are some of the best movies ever. Hitchcock and Kubrick are good to look for too.

Nice!

dont' buy any of the Tarantino DVDs if you haven't yet.

rumours are that for X-mas they're releasing a Tarantino boxed set, and all the DVDs in the set will be the Special Editions.

so you know. save yourself the grief and some money.

=P

also, since this is going to turn into just a list movies thread, i'll suggest movies that will actually put your new surround sound system to good use:

Panic Room
Seven
Indiana Jones boxed set
Gladiator
T2
Jurassic Park


And there's this AMAZING set of DVDs, that shows videos, behinds the scenes, and come with very interesting and insightful books about the followig directors:

Spike Jonze
Michel Gondry
Chris Cunningham

The series is called The Work of the Director.

actually maybe i'll make a thread about just those DVDs. they're very good. and very informative and inspiring. i really really suggest that all of you go out and buy them if you're serious about working with film (even if it mostly music videos). if you want to ignore this and not get the DVDs, even better, since that means the few of us who already got these DVDs will have an advantage. =P

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rumours are that for X-mas they're releasing a Tarantino boxed set, and all the DVDs in the set will be the Special Editions.

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stuff like this is really starting to annoy me, i meen, its pretty sad when they start whoring even mor emoney from fans fo films. and ppl wonder why we've sunken to the depths of illegally downloading films off of the internet, its cause we are sinking down to their level. that'll teach those ****ers!!

HDK so,... you dont have alot of money.

Who cares rite, im poor too my house is crowded and i sleep in the couch. So i wont be buying movies but i will still have them thanks the coourtesy of computers internet and my friend .

yeah, ive just been relly pissed off lately at this. especially w/ like LOTR where there is like so many versions released. they released a wide and standard version as 2 seperate dvds, yet I own "Body Heat" and "Alterred States" which are a double sided dvd with both standard and wide screen versions (which is important to me as I have a massive wide screen tv, but also have a small tv in my room that for some reason cuts down the widescreen mode). just *****s. I also own Pulp Fiction, except my Pulp Fiction isn't the dvd version special edition, its the laser disk version, on dvd. i meen i got it for x-mas, how were my folks to know the difference, sure im glad to have it but i cant doa ny dvdrom **** on it liek u can on the special edition and there is no behind the scenes etc... i meen these studios and such ppl ***** about it, but theyve driven us to it in alot of ways. I saw Kill Bill Vol. 2 a week and a half before the DVD came out (I saw it twice actually), and now I wanna buy it, but I know theyre just gunna release another version with both films in a pack, except I got kill bill vol. 1 for my b-day. I'm thinking that while I wanna be honest and faithful to filmmakers i reall like, QT for example, but it's just too hard to be when it hurts ya so much. I coulda seen Vol. 2 like 3 months earlier had i downloaded it. I thinkt he only good dvd's are those of dead directors now. why? because i dont have to worry about a newer version with a director commentary coming out like it did for Platoon (i got that a couple years ago for x-mas, before the special edition came out). I'm a filmmaker and i learn so much from director commentaries. I've bought and rented countless films simply to learn from the commentaries and become a better filmmaker. DVDs have turned into Britney Spears, the same crap as u had back in 1999, but its taken just enough articles of clothing off to keep u coming back for more.

there's actually going to be 6 Kill Bill dvds. Believe that?