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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Nr. 1 of my collection: Le Cinquième Elément (The Fifth Element) bought in 1998 just as my Sony DVD Player which I still have and use. | | | Martin Zuidervliet
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on 23rd August 2001 This was followed a few days later by X-Men and Volume 1 of Xena: Warrior PrincessQuoting RossRoy: Quote:
Bought a few weeks before I received my player. Same here; the player was an (a bit early) Christmas present and I had quite a few discs by the time it turned up! The sad thing is that I've never actually watched the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon DVD as my buying has been out-stripping my watching ever since! Oh, and I'm still using the same player now, nearly 7 years later... | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong | | | | Last edited: by Voltaire53 |
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| Registered: December 16, 2007 | | Posts: 926 |
| | Posted: | | | | The Getaway in 1998, in a time when DVDs were really much too expensive. Great movie, updated by now but I still have 'm. Then it became silent and it took another two years before I bought my second one.
Btw, if you like The Getaway and didn't read the novel, you really should. Same goes for all movies based on books by Jim Thompson. Tavernier's Coup de Torchon has Noiret as a scoundrel but you should read POP. 1280. Interesting to compare. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 106 |
| | Posted: | | | | My first one was Almost Famous (the bootleg cut)...bought it when I got my first player. |
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Posts: 663 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't remember my first DVD, but I remember buying my first player. I was graduating college in the fall of 2000 and after selling my books back I went to the local Wal-Mart, the only real store in town, besides the mom and pop stores and bought a GE player for $129. Had just enough cash on me for the player, but no movies.  When I got home from school I would rent them from the library, since they had quite a collection, but now I've got myself quite a little collection. | | | We're on a mission from God.
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| Registered: May 23, 2007 | | Posts: 83 |
| | Posted: | | | | my first DVD was Basic Instinct i'm sure most guys know why. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 188 |
| | Posted: | | | | Dark City
One of my favorite movies, and I am eagerly awaiting the director's cut coming out on July 29th. It's also coming out on Blu-ray, so Panasonic had better release the BD50 by then! | | | | Build a man a fire and you keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire and you keep him warm the rest of his life. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | The first DVD I owned was "Project: ALF", a pretty bad piece of filmwork, my only excuse for owning this is, that it came with my first DVD-player.
The first DVD I bought was "A Beautiful Mind". | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | We had no DVD player, but were waiting on the customization (additional memory and ZIP drive upgrade) of our new Macintosh computer with a DVD drive. The day before the Mac was to be ready, we bought Saving Private Ryan at Costco. Within two weeks, we also bought both a DVD player and a portable DVD player. | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| Registered: May 23, 2007 |  Posts: 69 |
| | Posted: | | | | Now that I asked the question, my memory is improving... I bought Fargo at Costco in Seaside California in about June of 1997. It wasn't until I came back to Vancouver that I bought my player - I happened to have my 83 year old mother with me at the time.
It was so much fun to explain what I was buying. I think she finally got it and what a vast improvement they were over video cassettes.
As I recall she gave me, (a father of 3 and husband of 24 years at the time), that look that only a mother can give you, as if to say... "can you really afford this dear?"
Heck, I already had Fargo, I had been pre-approved by my wife for the purchase and my mom was still looking out for me!
I miss her... | | | | Blu-ray Enthusiast!!! |
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| Registered: May 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,033 |
| | Posted: | | | | The Highlander. Got the two pack with the 10th anniversary directors cut and the renegade version. I have since, upgraded my copy of the first movie to the immortal collection and gave the 10th anniversary to my brother, and gave the box they came in to a friend that had the two movies but not in the box...I sometimes think maybe I should have hung on to them though
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| Registered: August 8, 2007 | | Posts: 32 |
| | Posted: | | | | Me, Myself, & Irene. Summer of 2000 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 90 |
| | Posted: | | | | I got my player and movies all in the same day in January of 2000. That player is still running without any problems. The Movies were The Matrix, American Pie unrated, and Silence of the Lambs Criterion.
American Pie is the only title I haven't double dipped on. | | | | The artist formerly known as TylerDurden_73 |
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| Registered: February 7, 2008 | | Posts: 22 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm pretty sure that 'Twister' was the first feature film released on DVD, but it wasn't my first. My first was Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. This would not have been my choice but it was a gift from my brother-in-law. My first reaction was "Uh, thanks...I think. You know I don't actually have a DVD player, right?" His response was "Here, open this gift next." Big smiles all around as I unwrapped my first DVD player. I have a good brother-in-law. Wap |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | My first was Small Soldiers, sometime around New Year 1999. | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
Registered: May 29, 2000 (at InterVocative) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 811 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think it was Fried Green Tomatoes, but might have been Strangers On a Train |
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