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Top 50 DVDs
Muftakkabe327 writes "TheForce.net points to UGO's Top 50 DVDs feature where Star Wars makes a healthy appearance at #11. Whether that's high enough to keep fans from rioting remains to be seen. Other nerd-friendly fare on the list include Evil Dead, Lord of the Rings, Ghostbusters, Akira, Dawn of the Dead, Freaks & Geeks and Led Zeppelin. "
It is obviously not rating the movies themselves, but rather the DVDS total content, as in special features, etc, contained on the disc and bonus discs. Even given that, it is a bit surprising that Men In Black would beat out the Star Wars Box Set.
From my understanding they rate THE DVDS not THE MOVIES. So they based it on stuff like picture and sound quality, commentary value, menus, features, and packaging. The suckiest movie in the world (Pearl Harbor) can still make an impressive DVD for audio/video buffs and those interested in filmmaking (features)
Our Top 50 DVDs of All Time. Remember, these aren't the Top 50 Greatest movies of all time - we are judging how worthwhile the actual DVD is in terms of quality and extras.
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THIS IS NOT BASED ON SALES!!!!! This list a rating of the DVD's as a whole. They weren't rating movies or The Godfather Trilogy would be a lot higher than #49. This was an attempt to highlight those DVD's that have a lot of great extras that enhance the value of the DVD above and beyond simply owning the movie.
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#50. Monsters, Inc.
#49. The Godfather Collection
#48. Beauty and the Beast
#47. The Shawshank Redemption
#46. The Fifth Element
#45. Saving Private Ryan
#44. Field Of Dreams
#43. Jackie Brown
#42. 12 Monkeys
#41. The Killer
#40. Dark City
#39. Hellboy
#38. THX 1138
#37. Black Hawk Down
#36. Gladiator
#35. The Sixth Sense
#34. Superman: The Movie
#33. The Royal Tenenbaums
#32. Memento
#31. Daredevil
#30. X2: X-Men United
#29. Rushmore
#28. Boogie Nights
#27. Blade II
#26. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
#25. Almost Famous
#24. Back to the Future
#23. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
#22. Pearl Harbor
#21. Tron
#20. The Goonies
#19. Indiana Jones
#18. The Mummy
#17. Se7en
#16. Stargate
#15. Clerks X
#14. Akira
#13. Escape from New York
#12. Star Trek Movies
#11. Star Wars Trilogy
#10. Ghostbusters
#9. Dawn of the Dead
#8. Men In Black
#7. Fight Club
#6. Terminator 2
#5. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
#4. The Evil Dead
#3. Ultimate Matrix
#2. Alien Quadrilogy
#1. The Lord of the Rings
Best Music DVDs
#5. Saturday Night Live
#4. The Who - The Kids Are Alright
#3. The Last Waltz
#2. Led Zeppelin
#1. The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
Best TV DVDs
#5. The Office
#4. Mr. Show
#3. Band of Brothers
#2. The Simpsons & Futurama
#1. Freaks & Geeks
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I noticed that The Blade Runner is conspicuously missing.
If they were rating the overall DVD package, and not just the film on its own merits, then damn right it shouldn't be in there.
The current transfer (at least the one available in the UK) is quite dark, and the quality is nothing special. If I remember correctly (and I haven't bought it, because I reckon they'll bring out a better transfer/set), it includes next-to-no extras.
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The Extended Edition DVD sets of all three Lord of the Rings movies pretty much has completely redefined the new standard of excellence and completeness for DVD's.
Look at what you get in the Extended Edition LoTR releases:
1. Longer versions of the film, which often help with improving the continuity of the movie.
2. Dolby Digital 5.1 EX AND DTS-ES 6.1 soundtracks.
3. Four audio commentary tracks, something that has never been done before (to my knowledge).
4. Supplementary discs with so much useful information it would take days to view them all.
In short, the LoTR EE releases probably are the best examples of fully taking advantage of the DVD format.
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The Goonies in the top 20? Are they out of their tiny little minds? Who made this list? Harry Knowles?
Akira is a good film, but I can think of at least six others (Miyazaki, for example) that are more deserving of that slot.
The fucking GOONIES????
Boogie Nights is one of the most overrated films in the past quarter century.
Pearl Harbor??!?!? OK, now I know monkeys were involved in the compiling of this list.
I'm sorry, but if a movie is just fundamentally poor, I can't see any point to owning the DVD no matter how many bells and whistles are put on there.
Jesus Bouncing Feathery Christ, the Goonies!!?
If you were a kid or a teen during the 80s, The Goonies is one of those films that may hold a special place in your heart.
Yeah, the cold, dark dead part that eventually grew into full blown misanthropy. The Goonies was there to start me down that slope. That was one of the films that inflicted that astonishing uber-dumbass Corey Feldmen upon civilized folk.
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Why are you spreading FUD about Citizen Kane? Available subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese # Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) # Commentary by Orson Welles biographer Peter Bogdanovich # Commentary by Roger Ebert # Disc 1: # Feature Film # 1941 Movie Premiere Newsreel # Gallery of storyboards, rare photos, alternate ad campaign, studio and personal correspondence, call sheets and other memorabilia # Disc 2: # Two-Hour Documentary: The Battle Over Citizen Kane, details the power struggle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst # Number of discs: 2
Where are the TV series DVDs? Many of those are way better than some of the movies on that list ("Escape from New York"? Did they even watch this stuff?)
The number one all-time DVD set of any kind is, of course - utterly and indisputably: Firefly.
It's not on the list because the DVD edition of Blade Runner SUCKS! It's double sided, but one side is the full-screen version of the directors cut and the other is the wide-screen version of the directors cut (when I don't even think they had a VHS full-screen version of the directors cut). If they were going to make it double-sided they should've at least included the theatrical edition on one side. Also, the menus sucked (it was just some generic WB menu), only 2.0 Dolby Surround (no 5.1 mix?!), no special features (not even the obligatory theatrical trailer), and a "collectors edition" that was nothing more than the regular DVD with some extra posters thrown in for only $55 more. If there's any DVD the list is missing it's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eigth Dimension, which has got to be one of the most impressive DVD releases I've seen.
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