Do you make it a point to collect movies of a favorite actor/actress?

[yoda313]

So do you have a collection of movies of a particular actor or actress? Or do you just collect movies you actually like? Do you buy something just to complete a set or do you only buy ones you intend to watch often?

For some reason I've started looking out for Schwarzenegger action flicks. I don't know why. I guess it started with Terminator 1 and 2 on dvd. From there I got True Lies. Just recently I got at garage sales the following - Predator, Last Action Hero and Jingle all the way (the last one on vhs). I think I have twins on vhs somewhere but can't remember.

Oh yeah I also have Kindegarten Cop on vhs also - haven't watched it yet but its there.

I also recently picked up the Bourne trilogy on dvd at a garage sale. Again I have yet to watch it (I know Schwarzenegger wasn't in it but this is in regards to collecting sets). I also have Robocop on tape that I have dubbed to dvd (all three - again haven't started watching em yet - though I have seen the first one all the way through).

And i got Short Circuit 1 on dvd just the other week after having Short Circuit 2 for a few years now. I also have all jurassic Parks, Indiana Jones, Mummy and of course Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.

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Back to the question - do you make it a point to collect movies from a particular actor/actress? Or do you just get the movies you know you'll watch regularly?

[guns1inger]

I am more likely to look for works by a particular director than an actor or actress (I have a good collection of Hitchcock, Kubrick Leone, Argento, Scott - Ridley and Tony, Fincher, Kurosawa etc), but if a film has appeal, for whatever reason, it will probably end up in my collection. I also a large collection of Hammer films - Dracula and Frankenstein, of course, but also the one-offs and aberrations, and similar films of the era from competing companies - Amicus etc. I have the Leone-Eastwood Dollars trilogy on DVD and now Bluray, but then I also have other films from each (Eastwood as actor and director, Leone's Once upon a time trilogy). Some directors and actors I appreciate, but don't like all of their works. David Lean is a director that I admire greatly, and I think Lawrence of Arabia is one of the greatest works of cinema ever made, but Dr Zhivago and Love Story do nothing for me. So I have Lawrence, and Lean's Oliver, but not the other two.

[gadgetguy]

I just collect movies I like with little regard to who's in them, who directed them, or who produced them. I tend to collect all of a series, (Star Trek, Star Wars, TLOR, etc.) but that's primarily because I liked the series.

[deadrats]

there's a few actors/actresses that i think consistently put out a good performance and seem to know that a script will be good, examples:

johnny depp

john cusack

edward norton

kurt russel

i have a hard time thinking of a bad movie that any of these guys were in.

salma hayek (only because she's so hot)

as for directors, robert rodriquez because he's one f'd up dude, anything either written by, directed by or that stars quentin tarantino because i'm pretty sure he's insane.

other than that clint eastwood's work, both as an actor and director, almost all his stuff is top notch (watch gran turino).

[yoda313]

watch gran turino).

Made in Michigan if I'm not mistaken - Flint I think.....

Still haven't seen the movie yet. But if I'm right that was one of the first movies to be made in the recent uptick of hollywood films shooting in the state.

[lordsmurf]

The only "by person" movies I've really ever collected is anything from Kevin Smith.
Any TV show, special episode, cartoon, movies, recorded live performance, etc -- I must have it.
With Kevin Smith, it's just endless laughs.

Even his appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher was pretty funny.

[BJ_M]

I'm up to about 60tB of movies on the NAS's - lately been concentrating on Concerts and Musicals pre 2000