Here is the list of the DVDs I possess.
Alien Legacy
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Region Code: 1Contains the 4 Alien movies:
Favorite Factor: 5/5 |
Blues Brothers CE
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Region Code: 1This 12 minutes longer Special Edition contains an excellent anamorphic transfer and a 5.1 sound remix. Else, it contains a hour-long new "Making Of" documentary.Favorite Factor: 5/5 |
Braindead
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Region Code: 2 (German release)The full uncut version of this splatter comedy by Peter Jackson (US Title: "Dead Alive"), with German and English language tracks. It does not contain any significant bonus materials though - although the picture and sound quality (3rd edition) are amazing.Favorite Factor: 3/5 |
Buena Vista Social Club
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Region Code: 2An excellent music documentary by Wim Wenders. Very good picture quality, with anamorphic transfer and uncompressed Dolby Surround sound. Also, there are musicians' biographies and videoclips.Favorite Factor: 5/5 |
Das Dschungelbuch (The Jungle Book)
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Region Code: 2This one is the only Disney DVD in my collection, and my favorite Disney animation movie. The DVD offers many languages, however, absolutely no bonus materials. But it was a bargain.Favorite Factor: 3/5 |
El Mariachi/Desperado
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Region Code: 1This Director's Double Feature is the ultimate version of Robert Rodriguez' "El Mariachi" and "Desperado" to possess. It has anamorphic transfers of the picture, director's great commentary tracks on both films and interesting "Film School" making of features.Favorite Factor: 5/5 |
Das Fünfte Element
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Region Code: 2The German release of "The Fifth Element" contains an anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 picture, English and German soundtracks and 80 minutes of bonus material.Favorite Factor: 3/5 |
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
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Region Code: 1An astonishingly good picture transfer of this Sergio Leone classic which I consider the best Western ever. Also, it contains 15 minutes of footage from the Italian Director's Cut in Italian language (subtitled). A classic!Favorite Factor: 5/5 |
L.A. Confidential
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Region Code: 2An excellent modern film noir with top cast including Kevin Spacey, Russel Crowe and Kim Basinger. The DVD has an excellent picture and sound quality, has 3 language tracks, and tons of special features.Favorite Factor: 3/5 |
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels - Director's Cut
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Region Code: 2 (UK)This one is a 9 minute longer Director's Cut of the British black comedy "Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels". The additional scenes contain more plot development, plus outtakes during the credits. Also, a very cool booklet is included. Pitily, no other bonus materials apart from a theatrical trailer is there.Favorite Factor: 4/5 |
Die Maske des Zorro (The Mask Of Zorro)
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Region Code: 2This old-fashion adventure movie has an excellent picture and sound quality, and great bonus materials.Favorite Factor: 3/5 |
Meet The Feebles
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Region Code: 2Another classic by Peter Jackson. This macabre parody on the "Muppet Show" is pervert, sick and absolutely hilarious! The DVD has not many bonus features, however it has German and English soundtracks.Favorite Factor: 3/5 |
Natural Born Killers - Director's Cut
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Region Code: 1This is the unrated Director's Cut of Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers". It is yet sicker, meaner and more brutal than the theatrical version. It also contains a commentary by Stone, deleted scenes with Stone's intro, and a BBC documentary.Favorite Factor: 3/5 |
Payback
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Region Code: 1The black comedy with Mel Gibson is simply cool. The DVD has excellent picture quality, lots of trailers and a small "Making of" featurette.Favorite Factor: 4/5 |
Pulp Fiction - Collector's Edition
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Region Code: 4This Australian DVD release contains an excellent 16:9 enhanced PAL picture transfer, English language tracks in DD 2.0 and 5.1, and offers lots of bonus features like: Deleted Scenes with director's comments; Theatrical Trailer; Making Of Featurette; Bios & Interviews, and an isolated music track.Favorite Factor: 4/5 |
Robocop - Director's Cut
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Region Code: 0This Criterion Collection features the Unrated Director's Cut of "Robocop", complete with a very informative making of text and a commentary by Verhoeven, Neumeier etc. Also a classic.Favorite Factor: 5/5 |
Taxi Driver CE
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Region Code: 2The ultimate version of Scorsese's "Taxi Driver". It contains a great Making Of, lots of production stills and trivia facts, an anamorphic picture transfer and the English sound remixed in Dolby Surround. Also, it contains the complete movie script with possibility to jump to a scene directly.Favorite Factor: 5/5 |
The Terminator
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Region Code: 0One of the oldest DVDs out there. The picture (non-anamorphic) and the sound (mono) are average, but the movie is a must-have classic and one of my favourites.Favorite Factor: 5/5 |
The Thing
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Region Code: 2The classic existentialistic horror movie by John Carpenter with Kurt Russell. This Collector's Edition has an excellent (though not anamorphic) picture and sound quality. Also, it has tons of bonus materials, for example, a 80 minute documentary "Terror Takes Shape", or a commentary track by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell.Favorite Factor: 5/5 |
True Romance
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Region Code: 2This movie is a star vehicle and contains excellent dialogue by Quentin Tarantino. The DVD has a great picture quality, however, only the German language track. No other extras.Favorite Factor: 3/5 |
Vampires
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Region Code: 1This DVD of John Carpenter's Vampires has a great picture and sound quality. However, the movie itself is not really that great, and the bonus features don't make up for it: a trailer and a pretty boring commentary by John Carpenter.Favorite Factor: 2/5 |
Yellow Submarine
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Region Code: 2One of my most favorite movies on a great DVD. The disc contains the DD 5.1 remixed version in 5 languages, plus the original mono English track. The commentary tracks, the Making Of and the animated menus are a great job, too.Favorite Factor: 5/5 |