I just saw:

I am now reading:

Sigh.

Here is an alphabetical list of the films (and one TV series) that are currently in my Netflix queue. Some are new releases, others are older movies I’ve always wanted to see.  If you’ve seen any of them and have an opinion one way or another, please let me know by leaving a comment. In addition, feel free to make other recommendations.

1. The Assassination of Jesse James
2. August Rush
3. Becoming Jane
4. Conversations with Other Women
5. Dan in Real Life
6. Death at a Funeral
7. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
8. Dirty Pretty Things
9. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
10. Dogfight
11. The Dreamers
12. Frida
13. The Golden Compass
14. The Good German
15. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
16. I Am Legend
17. I’m Not There
18. The Iron Giant
19. King of California
20. The Kingdom
21. Lars and the Real Girl
22. Lions for Lambs
23. Live Free or Die Hard
24. Lust, Caution
25. The Magdalene Sisters
26. Margot at the Wedding
27. The Motorcycle Diaries
28. Murder in the First
29. Mysterious Skin
30. No Reservations
31. P.S. I Love You
    
32. Palindromes
33. Pan’s Labyrinth
34. Paris, Je T’aime
    
35. Paycheck
36. Reservation Road
37. The Savages
38. Sweeney Todd
39. Things We Lost in the Fire
40. Tin Cup
41. We Own the Night
42. The Wire, Season 1
43. Y Tu Mama Tambien
44. 27 Dresses

Thank you in advance!
 

Hi, my name is Jo and I have a problem. I collect things. Specifically, DVDs which I may or may not ever have time to watch again in my lifetime.

I could justify my habit by asserting that it is healthier than smoking, drugs and drinking…but I won’t. Everyone has their vice.

We have a winner! Brian K. correctly identified the actor and actress in this contest, and he will receive a $15 iTunes gift card.

Tom Cruise

1. Austin Powers in Goldmember (cameo, but it counts)
2. Far and Away (just for “you’re a corker, Shannon!” in a horrible Irish brogue)
3. A Few Good Men
   
4. Jerry Maguire
5. The Last Samurai
6. Magnolia
7. Minority Report
8. Mission: Impossible
9. Mission: Impossible II
10. Mission: Impossible III
11. The Outsiders
12. Rain Man
13. Top Gun

(on the wish list: The Firm)

Julia Roberts

1. Closer
2. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
3. Erin Brockovich
4. Mystic Pizza
5. Notting Hill
6. Ocean’s Eleven
7. The Pelican Brief
8. The Player (uncredited cameo)
   
9. Pretty Woman
10. Steel Magnolias

(on the wish list: Conspiracy Theory)

Here are the runners-up…

• Gene Hackman: 11
• Kevin Costner: 10
  
• Matt Damon: 9
• Hugo Weaving: 8 (six are from Lord of the Rings & Matrix trilogies)
  
• Tim Robbins: 8
• Michael Douglas: 7
• Hugh Grant: 7
• Laura Linney: 7
  
• Emma Thompson: 7

So who is represented the most in YOUR collection?

And by the way, are you more likely to leave a comment on a post if there is a potential prize involved? I’m still contemplating the perfect gift to reward the person who leaves the most comments (on either blog) this year…

And I’m back.

TV/TiVO

• NCAA Women’s Basketball Final (I’m a Bay Area & Pac10 girl; go Stanford!)
  
• 30 Rock (returns on Thursday)
• Canterbury’s Law (Damages lite)
  
• Dirt (total guilty pleasure)
• John Adams (HBO miniseries)
  
• Medium (Anjelica Houston has been a great addition)
  
• The Office (returns on Thursday)
• The Riches (not loving new season yet)
  
• Samantha Who? (returns tonight)
• Scrubs (returns on Thursday)
  
• Survivor (finally admitting that I watch it online)
  
• Top Chef

Netflix

• Pirates of the Caribbean 3
• X-Files, Season 9, Disc 1
  

iPod/iTunes

• Jericho, Season 1

I am also looking forward to the return of Bones and Brothers & Sisters next week, as well as Season 1 of The Wire on DVD.

And so I’m off to post a Lost blog, and then catch up on last week’s Men in Trees. The weekly viewing commences now.

At last count, I own just over 260 DVDs (not including multiple discs in box sets of TV series, trilogies and collections). You’d think that I’d have a fabulous media shelf in place to admire my babies collection, but no. You know those under-bed plastic storage bins from Target? Imagine several of those, filled to the brim with DVDs. Hidden. Sad.

Let’s
make this a little more interesting. The first person to correctly note
both the actor and actress who appear the most in the movies from the list below will win an iTunes gift card.

MOVIES

• 9 to 5
• Absolute Power       
• Ace Ventura, Pet Detective   
• Ace Ventura, When Nature Calls
• Adaptation
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• All the President’s Men               
• Almost Famous                
• Amadeus   
• Amelie         
• American Beauty                             
• The American President   
• Anchorman            
• Annie Hall   
• Antonia’s Line   
• As Good As It Gets              
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
• Austin Powers in Goldmember           
• Basic Instinct
• Batman Begins
• Best in Show
• The Big Chill                 
• Blazing Saddles           
• Bonnie & Clyde
• Boogie Nights
• Bounce*            
  
• Bound               
• Bowfinger             
• Boys on the Side
• Bridget Jones’ Diary    
• Bridget Jones, Edge of Reason
• Brokeback Mountain
• Bruce Almighty
• Bull Durham
• Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid           
• Casablanca   
• Casino Royale           
• Charlie’s Angels   
• Chasing Amy
• Chicago        
• A Christmas Story
• Closer   
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
• Contact   
• The Contender
• Cop Land           
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• The Cutting Edge*  
  
• Dances with Wolves   
• Dead Again   
• Dead Calm
• Dead Poet’s Society
• The Departed
• Devil’s Advocate     
• Diner         
  
• Dirty Dancing
• Donnie Brasco               
• EdTV   
• Election
• Elizabeth
• Enemy of the State           
• Erin Brockovitch   
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Far and Away
• Far From Heaven           
• Fargo   
• A Few Good Men
• Field of Dreams
• Finding Nemo        
• A Fish Called Wanda 
• Forrest Gump   
• Four Weddings & a Funeral       
• Freeway   
  
• Galaxy Quest           
• The Game   
• Garden State        
• Gattaca
• The Gift
  
• Girl, Interrupted       
• Gladiator               
• Go            
• The Godfather (trilogy)
• Gods and Monsters
• Gone With the Wind
• GoodFellas   
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Good Will Hunting
• Gosford Park   
• Hannibal
• Heathers
• Heavenly Creatures
• High Fidelity   
• The Holiday
• The Hours                
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• The Ice Storm       
• In the Line of Fire
• In the Name of the Father       
• Indiana Jones (trilogy)               
  
• Inside Man
• The Island        
• It’s a Wonderful Life               
• Jaws
• Jerry Maguire   
• The Jewel of the Nile           
• JFK
• Juno
  
• Keeping the Faith
• Kissing Jessica Stein 
• Knocked Up
• L.A. Confidential               
• L.A. Story
• La Bamba
• The Last Samurai
• Legally Blonde
• Life as a House
• The Life of David Gale
• Little Children
• Little Miss Sunshine 
• The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
  
• Lords of Dogtown
• Love Actually
• Magnolia               
• Mask               
• The Matrix (trilogy)
  
• Memento
• A Mighty Wind
• Minority Report
• Mission: Impossible (trilogy)
  
• Monsters, Inc.        
• Moonstruck
• Moulin Rouge
• Much Ado About Nothing               
• Mystic Pizza 
• Mystic River
• The Natural
• The Notebook
• Notting Hill             
• No Way Out
• Ocean’s 11   
• Office Space
• Once
  
• The Opposite of Sex
• Out of Sight           
• The Outsiders
• Parenthood                
• The Pelican Brief
• Pink Panther Film Collection (the 5 original movies)
  
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl               
• The Player               
• Playing by Heart 
• Postcards From the Edge             
  
• Presumed Innocent
• Pretty Woman
• Pride & Prejudice   
• Pride & Prejudice (BBC version)
• Primal Fear           
• The Princess Bride
• Prizzi’s Honor
• Psycho               
• Pulp Fiction              
  
• Rain Man
• Rear Window               
• Rebecca   
• The Remains of the Day 
• A River Runs Through It
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
• Romancing the Stone
• Romeo + Juliet
  
• The Rookie
• The Royal Tennenbaums
• Rudy
• Saved
• Say Anything
• Sense & Sensibility           
• Shawshank Redemption   
• Shrek    
• Shrek 2
• Sideways   
• The Silence of the Lambs   
• Silverado
• Sin City                           
• Six Degrees of Separation
• Sixteen Candles                 
• The Sixth Sense               
• Sleepless in Seattle
• Sliding Doors
• Spaceballs   
• Spanglish           
• Spellbound
• Spellbound (03)                
  
• Star Wars (all 6 films)
• Stealing Home       
• Steel Magnolias
• Stranger Than Fiction               
  
• Strangers on a Train   
• Stuck on You   
• Suicide Kings   
• Superman Ultimate Collectors Edition (all 5 films)
  
• Sweet Home Alabama   
• Swordfish
• The Talented Mr. Ripley           
• Thank You For Smoking        
• Thelma & Louise               
• The 39 Steps
• The Thomas Crown Affair
• There Will Be Blood
  
• Thirteen Days     
  
• To Catch a Thief           
• To Die For
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Tootsie   
• Top Gun
• Total Recall
• Traffic               
• The Truman Show
• The 25th Hour
• Underworld
• The Untouchables
• The Usual Suspects
• V for Vendetta        
• Vertigo
• A View to a Kill
• The Village   
• Waitress
  
• A Walk On The Moon
• When Harry Met Sally
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory           
• Wonder Boys  
  
• The Woody Allen Collection (8 films)
  
• Wyatt Earp       
• The X-Files: Fight the Future
• X-Men
• X-Men: The Last Stand
  
• You Can Count On Me
• Young Frankenstein   

TV

• 30 Rock, Season 1
• Arrested Development, Seasons 1 – 3
  
• Best of Will Ferrell – SNL
• Damages, Season 1
• Extras, Season 2
• Friday Night Lights, Season 1
• If These Walls Could Talk 1 & 2
  
• The L Word, Seasons 1-2
• Lost, Seasons 1-3
• The Office, Seasons 1-3
• Queer as Folk, Season 1
• Sex & the City, Season 1-2
• Six Feet Under, Seasons 1-2
• The Sopranos, Seasons 1-3
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Season 1
• Survivor, Season 2
• Wonderfalls, Season 1

Hey, everyone has a hobby. This is mine.

Thanks for playing! Good night, and good luck.