Movie Collection part 5: Current DVDs
Now that a bit of the history of my collecting has been recounted, I want to share with you the collection itself. I’ll start with the DVDs – the last remaining greats of the Great DVD Purge. ALIEN and ALIENS represent two top ten movies, that are also incredible special editions. I believe they were my introduction to the Fox collector’s series, numbered 10 and 11. I’m pretty sure ALIENS has been played a few dozen times throughout the past decade, until the Blu-ray hit. BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES was avidly watched when I was a child and would shape my interest and expectation for what Batman should be. I never picked up the fourth volume, one reason being that the show changed a bit and the edition was relatively difficult to find. It didn’t help that I wasn’t exactly going back to watch all of them, although I did for a brief stint when I would “do the treadmill” for a few weeks. I saw BLACK HAWK DOWN in an old theatre when I was going to university, with…