My DVD Collection

All the movies are in their original aspect ratio unless noted with an (f).  If I liked a certain edition of a DVD, I’ll make a note to tell you that it’s recommended.

MOVIES

Akira

Alien – Two-Disc Collector’s Edition

Aliens – Two-Disc Collector’s Edition

All Dogs Go to Heaven/All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 – Double Feature (f)

Atomic Blonde

Back to the Future – The Complete Trilogy

Bambi

Banjo the Woodpile Cat

Barry Lyndon*

Batman

Batman Returns

Batman Begins

The Dark Knight

Batman: Under the Red Hood

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Best in Show

The Big Lebowski

Black Hawk Down

Blade Runner – The Director’s Cut

Blade Runner – The Final Cut

Blade Runner 2049

Bond: GoldenEye

Bond: Casino Royale

Bond: Quantum of Solace

Bond: Skyfall

The Boondock Saints

Das Boot

The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Ultimatum
The Boxtrolls

Braveheart

Brazil 

Bringing Up Baby (f)*

The Cable Guy (f)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Charlie Wilson’s War

Children of Men

A Christmas Carol (1984)

Mickey's Christmas Carol

A Christmas Story (f)

Nation Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (f)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Cinderella (1950)

Citizen Kane

Comic Book: The Movie (f)

The Conversation
Coraline

Corpse Bride

The Crow

Dark City – Director’s Cut

Dead Alive

The Departed

Desperado

Die Hard

Die Hard with a Vengeance

Live Free or Die Hard – Unrated

Django Unchained

Doctor Zhivago

Doubt

Dracula (1958)
Dragged Across Concrete

Dumbo

Dune (1984)

Dune (2021)

Dunkirk

Edward Scissorhands

Elf

The Emperor’s New Groove

Equilibrium

Escape from New York
Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn

Evil Dead III: The Army of Darkness – Screwhead Edition

Eyes Wide Shut

Fantasia

Fantasia 2000

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Fight Club

Firefox

The Fly (1986)

The Fountain

The Fox and the Hound and The Fox and the Hound II – 2-Movie Collection

Frozen
Fury

Ghostbusters

Gladiator

The Godfather Trilogy 

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Good Bye, Lenin!

A Goofy Movie
The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Great Mouse Detective

Grindhouse - Double Feature

Guardians of the Galaxy

Hard Boiled

Hard Candy

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (f)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (f)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
The Hateful Eight

Heat

Hellboy

Home Alone

Horton Hears a Who!

How to Train Your Dragon

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

Inception

The Incredibles

Independence Day

The Indiana Jones Trilogy

Inglourious Basterds
In the Mouth of Madness

Iron Man

Iron Man 2
Isle of Dogs

Jack Ryan - The Hunt for Red October

Jack Ryan - Patriot Games

Jack Ryan - Clear and Present Danger

Jack Ryan - Sum of all Fears

Jack Ryan - Shadow Recruit

The Jerk

The Kingdom

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Knocked Up

Krampus

Kung Fu Panda

Kung Fu Panda 2

Lady and the Tramp

The Land Before Time

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last Unicorn

Legend – Ultimate Edition

The LEGO Movie
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

The Lion King

The Little Mermaid
The Lives of Others

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Extended Edition

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Extended Edition

The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King – Extended Edition

Lucky # Slevin

Mad Max: Fury Road

Man of Steel

The Man with Two Brains (f)

The Matrix

The Matrix Reloaded

The Matrix Revolutions

Miller’s Crossing

Minority Report

Mission: Impossible: III

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

Mister Roberts

Mulan

Network

The Nightmare Before Christmas

No Country for Old Men

The Nutty Professor

Oliver and Company

Pan’s Labyrinth
ParaNorman

The Passion of the Christ

Pinocchio (1940)

The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

The Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Point Break

Predator

The Prestige

The Princess and the Frog

Pulp Fiction

The Quick and the Dead (1995)

Raising Arizona

Ratatouille

Red Dawn

Redline

The Reluctant Dragon - RD feature only

Requiem for a Dream – Edited Version

Robin Hood (1973)

RoboCop (1987)

Rock & Rule

Saving Private Ryan

A Scanner Darkly

Scarface

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

The Secret of NIMH

The Shining

Signs

The Silence of the Lambs

Sleepy Hollow

Slumdog Millionaire

Smokin’ Aces

Speed Racer

Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Special Limited Edition (includes theatrical and special)

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back – Special Limited Edition

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi – Special Limited Edition

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Sunshine

Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Team America: World Police – Unrated

The Terminator

Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Special Edition

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Thief

The Thing

The Third Man

30 Days of Night

This Is Spinal Tap

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

3:10 to Yuma (2007)
THX 1138 - Director's Cut

Toy Story

Toy Story 2

Toy Story 3

Transformers: The Movie – 20^th Anniversary Special Edition

Tron

Tron Legacy

28 Days Later

2001: A Space Odyssey

Ultraviolet – Unrated

Unbreakable

Up

V for Vendetta

Wall-E

War of the Words (2005)

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

Where the Wild Things Are

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Winnie the Pooh (2011)

X2: X-Men United

Zoolander

Zootopia

TV

Arrested Development - Season 1
Arrested Development - Season 2
Arrested Development - Season 3

Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water

Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 2: Earth

Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 3: Fire

Batman: The Animated Series – Volume 1

Batman: The Animated Series – Volume 2

Batman: The Animated Series – Volume 3

Cowboy Bebop – Remix: The Complete Collection

Death Note – Vol. 1

Death Note – Vol. 2

Freakazoid! - Season 1

Freakazoid! – Season 2

Gargoyles – Season 1

Gargoyles – Season 2.1

G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero/Revenge of COBRA

G.I. Joe – Season 1.1

G.I. Joe – Season 1.2

G.I. Joe – Season 2

G.I. Joe Resolute

Invader ZIM – Vol. 1: Doom Doom Doom

Invader ZIM – Vol. 2: Progressive Stupidity

Invader ZIM – Vol. 3: Horrible Holiday Cheer

King of the Hill – Season 1

Lonesome Dove

The Looney Tunes Show – Season 1:1

The Looney Tunes Show – Season 1:2

The Office (UK) – Complete Series and the Special

Seinfeld – Seasons 1-2

The Simpsons – Season 3

Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) – The Complete Series

South Park – Season 10

Star Wars: Clone Wars – Vol. 1

Star Wars: Clone Wars – Vol. 2

Talespin – Vol. 1

Talespin – Vol. 2

Talespin – Vol. 3

Teen Titans – Season 1

Teen Titans – Season 2

Teen Titans – Season 3

Teen Titans – Season 4

Teen Titans – Season 5

That Guy with the Glasses – Vol. 1 (Autographed)

*Part of a 4-Movies TCM Collection that includes Adam’s Rib, Philadelphia Story and Woman of the Year.  I haven’t seen these other movies.  For some reason, Bringing Up Baby is on the 

Most Disappointing Character Designs

[Watching Return of the King]

“Oh my gosh, I can’t wait to see Shelob, she’s gonna be so cool!

She has horns and a neck and a really big butt (which Tolkien went into an odd amount of detail about) and other cool things because she’s a fantasy creature.  I can’t wait to see what creative and cool design the use for her and…

...

 …

wtf that just looks like a normal spider.”

Sometimes adaptations like to change the designs of characters.  Often this is good and can result in a creative and pleasing new look for the character.  Many times, however, it’s disappointing to those of us who had expectations of what our favorite heroes or villains look like.  These designs can be grotesque, silly or simply bland.  For this list, I’m mostly doing adaptations of specific characters, even if it is tempting to take the opportunity to complain about what Underworld tried to pass off as werewolves.  I'm not going to not the actor playing the role unless I feel that bad casting was a contributing factor.

 

24. The Wampa

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition (1997)

What made the Wampa’s cave an effectively suspenseful scene was that the audience did not know where the creature was in relation to Luke.  Lucas, having apparently forgotten what he learned in Common Sense Filmmaking 101, decided to show the Wampa milling around at the other end of the cave so we can see what a “horrible” creature it was (it was eating).  The “horrible creature” looked like a giant, bipedal Bichon Frise.

23. Scarecrow 
Batman Begins (2005)

I like the mask, but I have a problem with the rest of the costume (or lack thereof).  The simple two-piece suit does not match the mask at all.  Scarecrow could have worn a brown duster and a flannel shirt, which would have fit the character and Nolan’s down-to-earth visual style.  There is a short time where we see him in a sort of loose straightjacket look, but we don’t even get a good look at him like that.  He also could have used a better costume in The Dark Knight since he had time to make one, but he’s back in a two-piece. 

This promotional photo makes him look like he's popped himself.

22. Adrian Veidt
Matthew Goode, Watchmen (2009)

The intention of this costume design was to mock the infamous Batnipple Suit in Batman & Robin.  This is odd because they made Silk Spectre II’s costume more practical even though that costume was supposed to make fun of the impracticality of superheroine costumes.  The awkwardly miscast Matthew Goode doesn’t help, either.  I would have cast Sean Bean, Aaron Eckhart or Nicolaj Coster-Waldau. 

21. Catwoman 
Dark Knight Rises (2012)

In contrast to Michelle Pfeiffer’s memorable costume in Batman Returns, this bland suit looks like a tasteful version of a “sexy cat” Halloween costume favored by girls who have no imagination.  The serrated high heel is pretty cool, though.

 20. Beast

X-Men: First Class (2011)

They got it right in X3 with a full human face, and so did Avatar with the design of the Na’vi.  Those were both good non-furry cat anthro designs.  But people, unless you’re going full furry, don’t do the cat mouth.  It just looks silly.  For the record, I prefer Beast with a human face, as opposed to looking like that mimbo from Starfox Assault.

19. Scarecrow

Henry Polic II, Batman the Animated Series, "Nothing to Fear" (1992)

 Scarecrow's debut in this excellent show was a bit disappointing considering how dark the show was.  The episode was great, of course, but this unintimidating design is odd for a character whose entire point to be scary.  I liked this design as a small child because it actually looks kinda cute.  Fortunately, he got better and better.

 18. Cobra Commander 
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

It has some sort of nostalgic 90’s GI Joe feel to it but it looks like a spider’s butt.  Cobra Commander’s costume was great-looking.  Apparently they did away with the hood because it reminded people of the Klan.  It’s too bad there wasn’t an equally iconicthing he could wear.  At least Retaliation fixed this design.

 17. Snake Eyes

GI Joe: Rise of COBRA (2009)

Hey, he looks pretty faithful to the cartoon…until you take a closer look at him and realize that his mask has facial features on it.  That’s kinda weird.  His whole suit has muscle tone molded onto it and seems to be made out of an impractically stiff material.  At least his design in Retaliation looked good.

16. Hawkeye 
Avengers (2012)

Hawkeye has a memorable costume that’s purple and blue (my favorite colors).  This bland getup makes him look like the cheapest leatherdaddy.

 15. The Joker

The Batman (2004-8)

The Joker + An Orangatan.  This show had a thing for needlessly odd character designs.  I was tempted to add The Joker from The New Adventures of Batman, but that was more of an art style flaw than a character design flaw. 

 14. The Wicked Witch of the West

Mila Kunis, Oz The Great and Powerful (2013)

Sam Raimi could have used a design similar to the original, which would have matched his style.  Instead he slavishly followed the design of the 1939 classic.  It doesn’t help that Mila Kunis is way too cute, and the prosthetics protrude abruptly from her soft features in a way that’s incongruous.  It also features a makeup trope I hate: adding pointy eyebrows to demonic characters to make them look more “evil.”  To makeup artists everywhere, that doesn’t work.  Stop doing that.

 13. The Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

Everyone has already commented on this off-putting design.  At least they get a point for actually making the Turtles look different from one another.

 12. Grown Spike

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, “Secret of my Excess” (2011)

The show led me to believe that grown dragons look like this.  It’s a great design, and I would love Spike to have looked like that because I like him.  Also, I hate this episode, so I don’t accept it as canon anyways.  I’d also like to make a Dishonorable Mention of the show’s interpretation of Tirac, but that may be more of an art style thing.

What good is power if you can't wear a pink cape?

 11. Almost Everyone in Game of Thrones (2011-)

I can’t help but notice that the characters of A Song of Ice and Fire are often described as having very memorable character designs.  I understand that some makeup effects need expensive CGI, and that Peter Dinklage is too beautiful to disfigure, therefore Tyrion has a scar that magically crossed his face without touching his nose.  Less than understandable is Roose Bolton, who is described as looking like an evil, terrifying version of Tommy Wiseau in a pink cape.  In the show he looks like someone’s alcoholic uncle.  This show should have been an anime.    

 10. The Joker

Brent Spiner, Young Justice (2010)

I always wondered what The Joker would look like if he was a GQ model.  Brent Spiner’s unbelievably bad voice acting doesn’t help.  Compare that to Mark Hamill, and that’s another point to Star Wars.

  9. The Sentinels

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

They look like something out of an animated football interstitial.

  8. The Lizard

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

The Lizard is one of the coolest-looking villains in the Spider-Man universe.  The lab coat and the purple pants are iconic, and it’s good to have a lizard’s jaws so he can actually bite things.  This version looks more grotesque than intimidating.

 7. Deadpool

Ryan Reynolds, X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

Yeah, enough people have complained about this one.

 6. The Penguin (When He’s Running Around in a Onesie)

Danny DeVito, Batman Returns (1992)

An interesting entry since he’s also on this list.  In his suit, he looks awesome, but he spends a great portion of the movie literally dressed like a baby.

 5. Green Goblin

Spider-Man (2002)

This unbelievably bad costume is worse when you consider some of the great concept art they made for it.

 4. Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck (1986)

This movie was supposed to be animated movie.  So instead of a lovable funny animal cartoon we got this off-putting monstrosity. 

 3. Shelob

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

I was waiting so long to see Shelob on the big screen and this is what she looked like.  That is the most generic, blandest spider you could possible come up with.

 2. All the Transformers

“Transformers” (2007)

Megatron looks nothing like himself.  Starscream really looks nothing like himself.  Optimus has a mouth (which they hid from us in the promotional material).  Bumblebee was 70’s Camaro (a fitting car) until he turned into a new Camaro because product placement.  And don't get me started about not casting Frank Welker as Megatron...

 1. Koopa

Dennis Hopper, Super Mario Bros. (1993)

What part of “fire-breathing turtle-dragon” did these bozos not understand?

Top Ten Most Deserving Best Picture Winners

Sometimes the Academy gets things right.  Naturally, there are none from the genre spike of the 80’s.

10. Gone with the Wind

1939

D: Victor Fleming

 

9. Lawrence of Arabia

1962

D: David Lean

8. Schindler's List

1993
D: Steven Spielberg
Very poignant. 

 

7. The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

D: David Lean

6. The Deer Hunter

1978

D: Michael Cimino

 

5. Patton

1970

D: Franklin J. Schaffner

 

4. Ben-Hur

1959

D: William Wyler

 

3. Gladiator

2000

D: Ridley Scott

I don’t care what Doug Walker or any one else says.  Gladiator is a great movie.  It’s pretty refreshing that a movie that actually was my favorite of the year won this award so recently.  However, I think Best in Show is a very close second and should have been nominated.

 

2. Casablanca

1943

D: Michael Curtiz

1. The Godfather

1972

D: Francis Ford Coppola

I did not include Godfather Part II on this list because I actually liked The Conversation better.

HONORABLE MENTIONS  

Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood) 

Very good movie, but my favorite from that year was Army of Darkness.  I think that Porco Rosso and The Last of the Mohicans should also at least have been nominated, too.  

The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme)
I liked Terminator 2 more, but it is a movie whose flaws people tend to forgive because of how much fun it was.

No Country for Old Men (2007, The Coen Bros.) 

I think 2007 was a slow year for movies.  My favorite was Grindhouse, a feature that I thought was more than the sum of its parts.  I loved Ratatouille despite its having flaws, and Persepolis should have been a nomination.  At least No Country is a good movie, and this this was an overdue award for the Coens.

  

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, Peter Jackson)

This was not my favorite Lord of the Rings movie, nor was it my favorite movie of 2003.  If any movie of this series deserved the award it was the first one.  However, if this was meant to be a retroactive award applying to the Trilogy as a whole, I suppose it would be a deserving one.  I’m also happy that for once the Academy awarded a fantasy.  

Birdman (2015, Alejandro G. Inarritu)
The Grand Budapest Hotel was better, and Calvary should have been nominated.