@sammydog01 Cool. I used to have King Kong Escapes, but loaned it to someone (before making a copy) and never got it back. Guess I’ll have to buy it again.
@craigthom I don’t own Godzilla Returns. I do have Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1974). Here’s a photo of most of my collection:
I couldn’t find my favorite, Godzilla &Mothra the Battle for Earth, so I just ordered another copy (packaged with Godzilla vs King Gidorah). I also own the new Gamera trilogy, UFO the complete series, Space 1999 the complete series, the Daimajin trilogy, Time Tunnel, Super Robot Red Baron, Iron King, and a handful of Ultraman sets. And my all time favorite to watch with an adult beverage, Matango, Attack of the Mushroom People. And that’s just my geekiest stuff.
@sammydog01 The one next to Tokyo S.O.S. is the Millennial one, right? They are the only Millennial films with continuity. I don’t see the 1974 one. I think I see two different packages of Classic Media’s Terror or Mechagodzilla, but those skinny ones are hard to read.
The third Rebirth of Mothra has finally been released in the U.S. by Sony, but it’s part of a three-movie package.
There was a 2004 Gamera film, Gamera the Brave. I have it on Blu-ray, but it’s out of print now. It’s not as good or as dark as the trilogy, but it’s better than a lot of the Showas.
I bought the region-free player today to replace my broken one, which I bought almost fifteen years ago specifically to buy the Millennial films on eBay, before Sony started releasing them here. I bought the Hong Kong versions, because they were cheaper than the Japanese and had English subtitles.
@craigthom OK, I took a photo of the DVD but the imgur beta is throwing me. Here it is: http://imgur.com/a/LKO5o
It says 1974 on it. I have forgotten all the different series. Which ones are the millennials? The skinny ones are from a big boxed set: http://imgur.com/a/5TlAr
I also have Gamera the Brave on DVD. It was fun and kid-friendly.
I may have to pick up the third Rebirth of Mothra. Those were fun too.
Thanks for reminding me about these movies. I think I’ll watch one tomorrow.
@sammydog01 the first two “periods” are named for the contemporary emperor, but they also divide nicely at the gaps when Toho took breaks. The Showa films are from the first through the Seventies. The Heisei ones are from Return/85 through the Nineties.
Then the success of the Gamera trilogy convinced them to start again. The Millennial movies are Godzilla 2000 through Final Wars.
I have no idea what fans still call the new one, or if there will be more than one.
I think the third Nineties Mothra film may be Blu-ray only.
The only boxset I own is Battlestar Galactica. I bought it for my husband when all the streaming services lost it a while back. We cannot go long without rewatching the entire series. So Say We All.
Babylon 5 is the only television show I own on DVD. I loved that show. I watched all of them when I first bought the set, but haven’t watched them again…although maybe it’s getting close to time to revisit it. At least it’s not politics.
Other than that, I cannot imagine buying a TV show on DVD to watch again. Once in a while I watch something on On Demand (mostly Samantha Bee’s new show), but almost all TV I watch is with my eyes closed.
I’ve never bought a Blu-ray, because they came out after internet service and hard drives became cheap and fast enough to wean myself off of DVDs.
Shelves full of plastic cases are nice to look at but digging discs out of them and putting them in a player does feel really quaint compared to just pressing play in a menu.
There was a time… In the age of young teenage angst and UPN. Where I would venture to my local Suncoast Video, at a now dystopian mall, and preorder every season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD (including freebies).
They were my most prized possession… Until I needed money years later. Onto eBay they went.
I still buy a lot of Blu-Rays, and a few DVDs. They still look better than streaming, and I like owning them. I can rip them myself if I want to be able to stream them.
I used to buy DVD sets but now we just get them from Netflix. I realized we just about never re-watch stuff. But we have Star Trek (TOS, TNG seasons 3-7, DS9, and the good movies), Buffy, Monty Python, SCTV, Fawlty Towers (aka Flowery Twats), LOTR, Arrested Development, Star Wars (as best as possible, anyway), a bunch of MST3k, Harry Potter, Pee Wee’s Playhouse, lots of Pixar, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Kids in the Hall, Simpsons seasons 1-4, Fishing with John, most Wes Anderson, most Terry Gilliam, and a few more things I’m too lazy to go downstairs and remind myself of.
Only DVDs we still have are LoTR, Princess Bride, Toy Story (and sequels), MP Holy Grail, and the original Danger Mouse series. Might still buy LA Confidential
/image LA Confidential
West Wing… collected season by season at my local used CD/DVD store (now a chinese takeout place). Lent them to my sister with explicit instructions that the entire series is to be kept together. She passed them on to her daughter, which probably means that one season is with my niece, two are with her brother-in-law, two are with friends from college she no longer communicates with, and the rest are in a moving box labeled “Miscellaneous Kitchen Utensils.”
I think I’m up to Season 9 of Hawaii Five-O. I think this is where the show starts to get a little goofy.
(I buy discs, because as I may have mentioned, crappy internet.)
Only a few Blu-Rays but we bought a lot of DVDs when we upgraded our VHS collection. But the special stuff would be the complete Firefly and Space: Above and Beyond collections, LOTR, some Star Trek (including animated series), Gettysburg, a selection of anime (Lodoss Wars…)… stuff that was hard to find in many cases.
I don’t trust Comcast or other ‘streaming’ services that I’ll be able to watch a movie I ‘bought’ from them in 10 or 20 years. As long as I have a working DVD or BluRay player, or have ripped the movies to local online storage (keeping the disk as archive) I’m good to go.
I sold off all my Simpsons and MST3k DVDs after I moved apartments. Honestly, I can watch them all online. All the MST3k is on YouTube, and there’s certain website where you can “watch” a “cartoon” “online” that lets me watch the Simpsons.
Because you really need something to watch when a squirrel takes out the interwebs.
I have all of the Godzilla movies on DVD.
@sammydog01 Cool. I used to have King Kong Escapes, but loaned it to someone (before making a copy) and never got it back. Guess I’ll have to buy it again.
@sammydog01 Even Godzilla Returns (Godzilla '85)? Even Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (the original, not Terror of Mechagodzilla or the '90s or '00s one)?
@craigthom I don’t own Godzilla Returns. I do have Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1974). Here’s a photo of most of my collection:
I couldn’t find my favorite, Godzilla &Mothra the Battle for Earth, so I just ordered another copy (packaged with Godzilla vs King Gidorah). I also own the new Gamera trilogy, UFO the complete series, Space 1999 the complete series, the Daimajin trilogy, Time Tunnel, Super Robot Red Baron, Iron King, and a handful of Ultraman sets. And my all time favorite to watch with an adult beverage, Matango, Attack of the Mushroom People. And that’s just my geekiest stuff.
@sammydog01 The one next to Tokyo S.O.S. is the Millennial one, right? They are the only Millennial films with continuity. I don’t see the 1974 one. I think I see two different packages of Classic Media’s Terror or Mechagodzilla, but those skinny ones are hard to read.
The third Rebirth of Mothra has finally been released in the U.S. by Sony, but it’s part of a three-movie package.
There was a 2004 Gamera film, Gamera the Brave. I have it on Blu-ray, but it’s out of print now. It’s not as good or as dark as the trilogy, but it’s better than a lot of the Showas.
I bought the region-free player today to replace my broken one, which I bought almost fifteen years ago specifically to buy the Millennial films on eBay, before Sony started releasing them here. I bought the Hong Kong versions, because they were cheaper than the Japanese and had English subtitles.
@craigthom OK, I took a photo of the DVD but the imgur beta is throwing me. Here it is:
http://imgur.com/a/LKO5o
It says 1974 on it. I have forgotten all the different series. Which ones are the millennials? The skinny ones are from a big boxed set:
http://imgur.com/a/5TlAr
I also have Gamera the Brave on DVD. It was fun and kid-friendly.
I may have to pick up the third Rebirth of Mothra. Those were fun too.
Thanks for reminding me about these movies. I think I’ll watch one tomorrow.
@sammydog01 Hey, was Godzilla on the Monster Island one with the aliens that were going to eat the kids brains? Haven’t seen that one in forever.
@sammydog01 the first two “periods” are named for the contemporary emperor, but they also divide nicely at the gaps when Toho took breaks. The Showa films are from the first through the Seventies. The Heisei ones are from Return/85 through the Nineties.
Then the success of the Gamera trilogy convinced them to start again. The Millennial movies are Godzilla 2000 through Final Wars.
I have no idea what fans still call the new one, or if there will be more than one.
I think the third Nineties Mothra film may be Blu-ray only.
@walarney That doesn’t ring a bell, but it does take place at an amusement park.
The only boxset I own is Battlestar Galactica. I bought it for my husband when all the streaming services lost it a while back. We cannot go long without rewatching the entire series. So Say We All.
Babylon 5 is the only television show I own on DVD. I loved that show. I watched all of them when I first bought the set, but haven’t watched them again…although maybe it’s getting close to time to revisit it. At least it’s not politics.
Other than that, I cannot imagine buying a TV show on DVD to watch again. Once in a while I watch something on On Demand (mostly Samantha Bee’s new show), but almost all TV I watch is with my eyes closed.
@Shrdlu
http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/doctor-who/news/a800083/doctor-who-narrowly-beats-babylon-5-to-be-named-your-favourite-science-fiction-show-of-all-time/
I’ve never bought a Blu-ray, because they came out after internet service and hard drives became cheap and fast enough to wean myself off of DVDs.
Shelves full of plastic cases are nice to look at but digging discs out of them and putting them in a player does feel really quaint compared to just pressing play in a menu.
There was a time… In the age of young teenage angst and UPN. Where I would venture to my local Suncoast Video, at a now dystopian mall, and preorder every season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD (including freebies).
They were my most prized possession… Until I needed money years later. Onto eBay they went.
Harry Potter.
My wife has watched each of those films (not exaggerating) about 20-30 times.
/giphy RIP Severus Snape
My Seinfeld and Curb sets. Yum. I also decided to start buying all the Simpsons DVDs, but have stopped for now.
I don’t buy from the internet though. Only used places in town.
Not TV related, but the LotR extended edition DVD sets are a necessity.
@vanslaterco
Yes! I had those too. Oh gosh, I miss those bookends.
I still buy a lot of Blu-Rays, and a few DVDs. They still look better than streaming, and I like owning them. I can rip them myself if I want to be able to stream them.
I used to buy DVD sets but now we just get them from Netflix. I realized we just about never re-watch stuff. But we have Star Trek (TOS, TNG seasons 3-7, DS9, and the good movies), Buffy, Monty Python, SCTV, Fawlty Towers (aka Flowery Twats), LOTR, Arrested Development, Star Wars (as best as possible, anyway), a bunch of MST3k, Harry Potter, Pee Wee’s Playhouse, lots of Pixar, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Kids in the Hall, Simpsons seasons 1-4, Fishing with John, most Wes Anderson, most Terry Gilliam, and a few more things I’m too lazy to go downstairs and remind myself of.
Traditionally, DVD box sets are a Christmas gift for my father.
@djslack Re-gifting, why didn’t I think of that? We have a few collections and most of them never make it out of their cellophane.
Only DVDs we still have are LoTR, Princess Bride, Toy Story (and sequels), MP Holy Grail, and the original Danger Mouse series. Might still buy LA Confidential
/image LA Confidential
@compunaut I didn’t know Danger Mouse was even out there to purchase. I was excited to find figures at Toys R Us last week.
West Wing… collected season by season at my local used CD/DVD store (now a chinese takeout place). Lent them to my sister with explicit instructions that the entire series is to be kept together. She passed them on to her daughter, which probably means that one season is with my niece, two are with her brother-in-law, two are with friends from college she no longer communicates with, and the rest are in a moving box labeled “Miscellaneous Kitchen Utensils.”
Public Libraries are awesome
@Sedorner Not worth the hassle where I am - evidently the discs here are most commonly used as frisbees for the dog.
I think I’m up to Season 9 of Hawaii Five-O. I think this is where the show starts to get a little goofy.
(I buy discs, because as I may have mentioned, crappy internet.)
so…yeah…
That unit is 6"x6" -ish
Top 2.5 shelves are boxed sets. still have another box of dvd’s to load onto it…
I may have a problem…
@earlyre Did you buy the Blu-Ray player?
@Barney Do you have a Purpl-Ray player?
@earlyre I have a 6"x6" DVD shelf full of Spinal Tap DVDs.
@SSteve Nope, but it would be nice. However, I did buy this Blu-Ray player.
No. No need for another.
@earlyre Then you don’t have a problem. Yet.
Only a few Blu-Rays but we bought a lot of DVDs when we upgraded our VHS collection. But the special stuff would be the complete Firefly and Space: Above and Beyond collections, LOTR, some Star Trek (including animated series), Gettysburg, a selection of anime (Lodoss Wars…)… stuff that was hard to find in many cases.
I don’t trust Comcast or other ‘streaming’ services that I’ll be able to watch a movie I ‘bought’ from them in 10 or 20 years. As long as I have a working DVD or BluRay player, or have ripped the movies to local online storage (keeping the disk as archive) I’m good to go.
I have the complete series of The Thunderbirds…
@somf69 Nice!
@sammydog01 and I’m pretty sure I have all the Speed Racer episodes too.
Carol Burnett
I sold off all my Simpsons and MST3k DVDs after I moved apartments. Honestly, I can watch them all online. All the MST3k is on YouTube, and there’s certain website where you can “watch” a “cartoon” “online” that lets me watch the Simpsons.