Your top 10 dvd's!!!

mantis
mantis Posts: 17,032
edited April 2002 in Music & Movies
What are you top ten dvd's.Why?Sound?Movie?Picture quality?
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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    edited April 2002
    What are yours? I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

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  • kanicker
    kanicker Posts: 86
    edited April 2002
    Please don't crit me tastes:

    1. Apocalypse Now: Redux
    2. Fifth Element DTS
    3. U2: Live From Boston
    4. Star Wars: Episode I
    5. 12 Monkeys
    6. Brazil Criterion
    7. X-Men
    8. Braveheart
    9. Godfather Trilogy
    10. Fantasia 2000

    Yeah I know they are nearly all recent DVD releases... I've had a player for four years... it just worked out that way.
  • wodom1
    wodom1 Posts: 1,054
    edited April 2002
    1. American History X
    2. Pulp Fiction
    3. Reservoir Dogs
    4. Braveheart
    5. K-Pax
    6. Patton
    7. A Few Good Men
    8. The Matrix
    9. Lethal Weapon 4
    10. Gladiator
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited April 2002
    1. Akira(THX ver) - great audio and video. Anime makes a great video test.
    2. Matrix - everybody knows about the lobby scene.
    3. Fantasia 2000 - Sounds and looks great. The daughter likes it.
    4. Jimi Hendrix-Live at the Isle of Wight. - It's Hendrix. It's actually a stereo CDV, but Red House will blow your socks off.
    5. Sound of Music - This is what WS was designed for.
    6. Terminator 2 - Everybody knows why.
    7. Dune (Frank Herberts mini-series version) - Could you imagine all the rewinding and fast-forwarding of VHS.
    8. The Patriot - The deleted scenes would've given this movie an NC-17.
    9. The Phantom Menace - Great bass and surround. The added material in the pod race should've been in the theater. "Yousa people gonna die?" compared to finding out what happenned to the 10 (or-so) other racers?
    10. Rental **** - It's all good in surround.

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  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited April 2002
    1) Heat
    2) Godfather Trilogy
    3) Platoon
    4) T2
    5) Matrix
    6) Gladiator
    7) Pulp Fiction
    8) Unforgiven
    9) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
    10) Braveheart
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,032
    edited April 2002
    OK Micah you better hold up your end!!!!

    10)Last Action hero-just out of control scenes!
    9)The Fifth Element-Superbit-Bruce Willis'Milla Jovovich-thats why!
    8)Fight Club-you can't be that **** up.
    7)Men In Black-In DTS-They make a great team
    6)The fast and the furious-Eye candy,fast cards,Eye candy.
    5)Gone in 60 seconds-Elenore-enough said
    4)Pearl Harbor-good story and great test DvD
    3)Crouching tiger Hidden Dragon-Michelle Yeoh,Zhang Ziyi-babes
    2)Star wars ep1-a must for fans-another great test disc.
    1)Jay and Silent BOB strikes Back-Just to funny,I love all of them.

    Now Micah- let me see your's..............That doesn't sound right!!
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  • lax01
    lax01 Posts: 496
    edited April 2002
    This is based on PQ and SQ, not quality of film, like acting or directing.

    1.Fifth Element-Superbit: Superior Video and Audio
    2.Fast and the Furious- Universal's masterpiece
    3.Training Day: Great Video and Audio (though only DD 348kb/s)
    4.Fight Club: What a great movie!
    5.Matrix- Great Audio, not so great video(green filter, I know it was meant that way)
    6.Heat- Great Audio and Picture
    7.Desparado-Superbit: Absolutely stunning black levels
    8.Blade- REFERENCE QUALITY! VIDEO + AUDIO!
    9.SW I: The Phantom Menance: What a horrible movie but what great surround effects! ALOT OF DISTURBING EE!
    10. Pearl Harbor- Great Audio, not so great storyline
  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited April 2002
    In no particular order:

    1) Atlantis - One of Disney's best IMO and very good sound.
    2) Star Wars Episode I - Because it is Star Wars and the others aren't on DVD (yet).
    3) Eagles Hell Freezes Over - The best live music DVD I've seen and the Eagles are one of my favorites.
    4) Jurassic Park - Because it is the first JP and I like them all.
    5) Toy Story - Disney's Best.
    6) The Princess Bride - One of my all time favorite comedys.
    7) Animal House - I could watch this movie anytime.
    8) The World Is Not Enough - Bond...James Bond.
    9) The Planet of the Apes (the original) - It was ahead of its time and still a great movie.
    10) The Mummy - A fun flick to watch.
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  • goingganzo
    goingganzo Posts: 2,793
    edited April 2002
    Moulin Rouge- great audio and video
    Top Gun - old but good
    Shrek - very cool
    the haunting - great audio and vid a scary moveie that gave me the creaps
    sphere - good plot
    Atlantis - have to put that sence beauty and the beast is not on dvd yet
    x - good plot but different
    matrex - watchet that movei to many times
    Titan A.E. a good all around movie
    Lost In Space very cool plus i lived the tv series

    my movies are in no piticular order i had troubble with the top ten i could have gone to 20
  • johnnyamerika
    johnnyamerika Posts: 382
    edited April 2002
    1. Fight Club - THX Tyler Durden Goodness, my favorite film :)
    2. Akira - THX Kaneda Goodness, my second favorite film :)
    3. Saving Private Ryan DTS version - sound and video that grips you and won't let go, my favorite sounding DVD
    4. Jurassic Park DTS version - Spielburg + DTS = amazing, pretty much tied with SPR for favorite sound.
    5. Moulin Rouge - Smoltering Temptress :D
    6. Desperado - Stunning use of audio, Superbit even better
    7. Princess Mononoke - Beautiful animation and great sound, even better movie
    8. Dances with Wolves DTS - Beautiful movie, great sound :)
    9. Office Space - I watch it so much it hurts
    10. Gladiator - great DTS sound and good picture, watch the fight scenes, skip the rest
  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    edited April 2002
    Tough choices from among my paltrey 120 or so DVDs, but here are my two lists:

    Top 10 for quality DVD film experience (best film rendering on DVD), DVDs that really make me a fan of the medium because they look and sound so damn good after years of horrible P&S VHS versions:

    AMADEUS -- and a SE is on the way, hoo-doggies!
    ALIEN -- nothing, and I mean nothing, equals chapters 11-12 for flat out big-bug terror.
    BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI -- a spectacularly beautiful widescreen image, finally!
    CAPE FEAR (1961) -- stunning widescreen B&W is perfectly rendered.
    DEAD CALM -- a great little scary flick, and looks and sounds great even tho it's non-anamorphic and only stereo.
    THE EXORCIST (25th Anniv Ed) -- the best possible version looks and sounds amazing.
    LA CONFIDENTIAL -- a DVD rendering so detailed that you can see the electronic edits and bad hairpieces!
    LEAVING LAS VEGAS -- a beautiful image and great sound.
    LAWRENCE OF ARABIA -- the best looks the best on this DVD set.
    NORTH BY NORTHWEST -- glorious digital restoration, a great DVD.

    Top 10 for effects (DVD experience) quality, the DVDs I use to show off:

    AMADEUS -- opening scene, with the absolute best version of the 25th symphony, first movement, ever; always chilling and a great show-off moment for a good sound system.
    12 MONKEYS -- cool, enveloping surround environment.
    BLADE -- pounding, cannon-like gunfire and music.
    CONTACT -- chapters 11 & 12 are a great demo (and so is the opening sequence).
    PINK FLOYD: THE WALL -- awesome multichannel restoration of great music.
    DAS BOOT -- claustrophobic, enveloping, totally "immersive" DVD experience
    THE FUGITIVE: SE -- chapters 5 & 6, when the train barrels into your lap!
    TWISTER: SE -- opening sequence
    DIE HARD: SE -- chapter 37 (I think), the "Chair Bomb," big exposion makes subwoofer go boom in impressive ways.
    RONIN -- loads of car chases, thunderous gunfire and nice image rendering make a cool demo disc.
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