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BRAZIL
Singin' In The Rain
Blue Velvet
Wet Hot American Summer
John Carpenter's The Thing

my taste in films is pretty weird and these are actually films in my collection and i think they are essential.

Stolen DVD library? That is one of the worst nightmares I can think about. Well, I give you some reccomendations.

Top 5 guilty pleasures
1. Teaserama
2. Secret admirer
3. I spit on your grave
4. The Brady Bunch movie
5. Any obscure Kari Wuhrer softcore flick

Top bottom 5 films
1. A beautiful mind
2. Edtv
3. The paper
4. Ransom
5. Far and away

top five must :

SUSPIRIA (dario argento)
POM POKO (studio ghibli)
LONE WOLF AND CUB (no.5, forget title)
STYLE WARS (documentary on early hip hop / graf)
KUNG FU HUSTLE (cant resist, very very impressive)

guilty pleasures :

RESTLESS NATIVES (early 80s classic)
BEAT STREET (commercial hip hop movie 80s)
QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (classic sci fi)
THRILLER : A CRUEL PICTURE (nasty, but great)
OPERA (another argento, very 80s. very cool)

Domestic Titles
The Manchurian Candidate
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Rushmore - Criterion Colleection
Miller's Crossing
Videodrome - Criterion Collection (or Primer)

Foreign
In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection
24 Hour Party People
Fireworks
Battle of Algiers
Romper Stomper (or Y Tu Mama Tambien)

Imports
Mad Monkey Kung Fu (R3)
Triologia Tsukamoto (R2 PAL)
Delicatessen (R2 PAL)
A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, A Fistful of Dynamite (R2 PAL)
Riget (R2) (or God of Cookery)

Guilty Pleasures
Speed Racer DVDs
Interstella 5555
Star Ballz
The Street Fighter
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (or The Complete Daimajin)

STAY THE HELL AWAY!!!
Can't think of anything really...Anything Michael Bay is probably a good start (aside from Bad Boys...Bad Boys is good)

Sorry, I couldn't keep it down to five! It was hard to narrow things down to ten (even with additioanl categories, heh)...



Fave Domestic:

American Movie

Buckaroo Banzai

Donnie Darko (original version)

Ghostbusters

Memento

Mulholland Drive

Napoleon Dynamite

Secretary

Time Bandits (2 disc set)

Tron (2 disc set)



Fave International:

2046

A Tale of Two Sisters (2 disc set)

Brotherhood of the Wolf (2 disc set)

Casshern

The City of Lost Children

Ginger Snaps (Canadian, widescreen)

Of Freaks and Men

Oldboy

Run Lola Run

Three... Extremes



Fave Animated:

Akira (Special Edition)

Bros. Quay Collection

The Incredibles

Iron Giant (Special Edition)

Nightmare Before Christmas

Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years

Ren and Stimpy: The First and Second Season

Spirited Away

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space

Uncensored Bosko



Fave Black and White:

The American Astronaut

Ed Wood

The Elephant Man

Eraserhead

Freaks

Pi

The Saddest Music in the World

Shadow of the Vampire

Wings of Desire

Young Frankenstein



Guilty Pleasures:

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

Greg the Bunny

Kaiju Big Battel

Mars Attacks

Mystery Men

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

The Super Inframan

Tank Girl

The Young Ones: Every Stoopid Episode (3 discs)

I could give you so many more than five...

Domestic:
Taxi Driver
Star Wars Trilogy (I have the old, untampered with, vhs version, but I'll probably end up springing for the DVDs)
Exorcist
Lost In Translation
Punch Drunk Love (and every other PT Anderson movie)

Imports:
Musa: The Warrior
Allegro non Troppo (Italian spoof of Disney's Fantasia - really funny)
301/302
Asoka
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Junk

Guilty Pleasures:
Re-Animator (plus bride of and beyond)
Half Baked
A Life Less Ordinary (any Ewan McGregor movie, really)
Romeo Is Bleeding (any Gary Oldman)
Harry and the Hendersons
Teen Wolf 2 (What can I say, I love Jason Bateman)
John Carpenter's Body Bags (with guest appearances by Mark Hamill and Sam Raimi, if you can spot him!)

Bottom Movies
Q (quetxcoatl, although I would be surprised if you could find it on DVD)
The Avengers (It had potential, but it sucked)
The Guyver (sorry Mark Hamill)
I could think of a billion crappy movies.

OK, and can anyone remember the name of the movie where, in the beginning, Tim Roth swallows a HUGE ruby or other stone (he's ducking behind a wagon or something when he does it, in the mud), and then he has sex with a lady, and then it, uh, comes out later? I'm leaving a lot out here - that's just the beginning of the movie. But I can't for the life of me remember the name of it.

A tough call. These are my faves right now (though a few are all-timers).

Per Todd's categories, in no order within category...

DOMESTIC

John Carpenter's THE THING (with crappy new cover but animorphic transfer)
BABE & BABE: PIG IN THE CITY
SUSPERIA (Anchor Bay 3 disc - not really a domestic film, but a domestic release)
JACKIE BROWN
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD

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IMPORTS

SPACED (UK 3 disc set)
PULSE (Kurosawa - I have the JP disc, but the HK is a better value)
BATTLE ROYALE (Tartan R0 set)
PUNISHMENT PARK (French R0 release - but I think there's an R1 disc now, too)
ALLIGATOR (Anchor Bay UK 2 disc)

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GUILTY PLEASURES

The CAPTAIN SCARLETT series (S.I.G.!)
THE RUNDOWN
BOA VS. PYTON (guilty, guilty, guilty)
STONE COLD (German or Japanese release)
THE APPLE (guiltiest of all?)

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STAY AWAY!

A BEAUTIFUL MIND
BIG FISH
BICENTENIAL MAN
PATCH ADAMS
TITAN A.E.

First off, I wanted to comment on Mike's (above) Fantastic taste in film...Saddest Music in the World and American Astronaut would be on this list if it weren't already mentioned up there!

Domestic:

Once Upon A Time in the West
Princess Mononoke
Guy Maddin Collection: Twilight of the Icenymphs/Archangel/Heart of the World
Dark City
8 1/2 (Criterion)
The Big Lebowski
Short Cuts (Criterion)
Magnolia

Imported

Dumplings
A Tale of Two Sisters (2 Disc Set)
3-Iron (2 Disk Set)
A Snake in June (you could go domestic on this one now though)
Vital (R3-Japan)
Come Drink with Me (Shaw Bros)
Paul Cox'sInnocence (Australian)

Guilty Pleasure:

They Live
Death to Smoochy
The Night Porter (Criterion)
Bubba Ho Tep
Dead Alive (New Zealand Cut)
American Movie

Stay away From:

9 Songs
Zu Warriors
Canadian DVD of Saddest Music in the World is severly cropped and grainy, pick up the American DVD of this film

Dang, I bought the Canadian version of Saddest Music in the World for the better price and cover art! I'm a sucker.

I wonder how many of Todd's missing DVDs were bought before the inevitable delayed special editions came out? This may be a good chance to get nicer versions of some faves. Conversely, how many are now out of print?

well this is a hard one. Just had a fire in my building and was wondering what i would do if i lost my dvdcollection. I'd probably try to get my entire collection back, pretty happy with how it's developing right now :)

anyway, i hate top 5's so i'll just give you the link to my dvdcollection:
http://www.dvdprofiler.com/mc.asp?alias=venger&acceptadult=true

hope this helps :)

i'm a sucker for good versions and am always looking for the best edition of a dvd.

Best Domestic:
Lost in Translation
Clerks
Citizen Kane

Best Import:
Festen (The Party)
Betty Blue
Pricilla Queen of the Desert

Guilty pleasures:
Dawn of the Dead

Worst, dont buy, burn the store that sells them:
Hide and Seek
The 6th Sense (Nobody with an IQ higher than the average temperature didnt figure this one out)
My homemade porn :-P

Top 5 Domestic

Zombie Holocaust
Guinea Pig Flower of Flesh and Blood
Videodrome Criterion version
Blue Velvet
BloodFreak

Top 5 Foriegn

Haute Tension
Cannibal Holocaust
The Mutilator
Oldboy
Nekromantic

Top 5 Guilty Pleasures

Charlie's Angels: Fullthrottle
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Viva la Bam: any of the seasons they all rock
La Bete(The Beast) 3 disc edition from cult epics!!!
Killer Condom

Also go to www.unearthedfilms.com for some sweet gore films. I highly suggest the Guinea Pig films and Rubbers Lover. Another good website is www.mediablasters.com and go to the Shriek Show section.

I'm not sure what's available anywhere. But for Guilty Pleasures:

Gossip
La Sirene Rouge
Series 7
Josie and the Pussycats
Made

and ten other great region 2s ...

Late Night Shopping
L'Appartment
The Red Violin
The Adam and Joe DVD
Love and Other Catastrophies
Taxi (original version)
I'm With Lucy
Lost In La Mancha
The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon
Run Lola Run

Sorry for not categorising them, but here's some more to consider:

- American Splendor
- Crumb
- The Twilight Samurai (I have R3, there may be a better version... apparently decent prints of the film are hard to come by)
- Japanese Story (R4)
- Porco Rosso
- My Neighbour Totoro
- The League of Gentlemen (I don't think I need to write this however)
- Waking Ned Devine
- Dancer in the Dark
- Poltergeist
- An American Werewolf in London
- Lilo & Stitch
- Almost Famous
- High Fidelity
- The Man Who Wasn't There

Some guilty pleasures there perhaps... I'd definitely second the motions for Ed Wood, Brazil (Criterion) and Lost in Translation as well.

Can't believe nobody mention The Evil dead films!
Todd I feel your pain. I've had my place broken into and I lost about 100 DVD's, my player and my Playstation. Some of the DVD's were Criterion releases not easily or cheaply available now. A couple of years before I had my place broken into for the first time and they stole all my CD's. They left only one, Ol Dirty Bastard, the bastards.
I'm no good with lists so I'll just say The Evil dead flicks and leave it at that.

I'm just gonna list a few top movies that I always go back too:

Six String Samurai
Dead Alive
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Mulholland Drive
Memento
The Man Who Wasnt There
Pi
Run Lola Run
Pulp Fiction
Gozu

ok, so thats what just happens to be infront of me at the time..