Film & TV on DVD: The JOpinionated Collection & Contest
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.
When I grow up, I want a floor-to-ceiling media cabinet like this:
I am always loaning out stacks of movies to friends on maternity leave (and there have been an alarming number of those in the last two years), so I made a list to keep track. And of course it’s alphabetical.
This is my current inventory, including absolute favorites and guilty pleasures alike. You might notice that a few are marked with an asterisk; those are the ones I cannot take credit for or don’t want to admit owning, films which my better half and I disagree on.
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.
So get cracking. Take a look at the lists above and see if you can figure out which actor and actress appear the most in the DVDs above. All entries must be left as comments below.
Thanks for playing! Good night, and good luck.