Thinning of the herd (And need your help)

[biglummox]

With the birth of my first kid just days away (Due 4/8/07), last week I decided to sell a good portion of my DVD collection to help with bills. I also decided that I'm going to refine my buying habit a bit and only buy the movies that I really truly loved and know for sure I'll be watching again; most of the one's I'm selling are good movies but I probably should have just rented (that wasn't an easy realization).

So, here's my list of 300 movies I pulled from my collection (which was 1126), my wife agreed to part with some of hers too. With the announcement of the Sergio Leone Anthology the other day I'm putting my Man with No Name Trilogy set into the mix and resurrecting 3 films from this list. What 3 films are worthy of reclaiming? And, have any of you done something like this recently?

*Batteries Not Included
16 Blocks (Widescreen Edition)
28 Days (Special Edition)
50 First Dates (Widescreen Special Edition)
6th Day, The (2-Disc Special Edition)
8MM
Accidental Spy, The
Airheads
America's Sweethearts
American Dreamz (Widescreen Edition)
Anger Management (Widescreen Special Edition)
Around the World in 80 Days (Widescreen Edition)
Assault on Precinct 13 (Widescreen Edition)
Banger Sisters, The
Basic Instinct (Special Edition)
Behind Enemy Lines
Big White, The
Birth
Black Rain (Special Collector's Edition)
Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)(Going to get SE when it come out this year)
Blade: Trinity (2-Disc New Line Platinum Series Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Bone Collector, The (Widescreen Edition)
Break-Up, The (Widescreen Edition)
Bring It On (Collector's Edition)
Broken Arrow
Bulletproof
Byron Cage: Live
Can't Hardly Wait
Candyman
Capote
Center Stage (Special Edition)
Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Christmas with the Kranks
City Hunter
City on Fire
Clerks II (2-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Click (Widescreen Special Edition)
Cliffhanger (Special Edition)
Coach Carter (Widescreen Edition)
Cocktail
Cocoon
Coming to America (Going to get SE when it come out this year)
Corrina, Corrina
Cradle 2 the Grave (Widescreen Edition)
Cutting Edge, The
Da Vinci Code, The (2-Disc Widescreen Special Edition)
Dangerous Minds
Darkman
Dave Matthews Band: The Videos
Day After Tomorrow, The (Widescreen Edition)
Deep Impact (Collector's Edition)
Devil's Advocate, The (Special Edition)
Devil's Own, The
District B13
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (Widescreen Edition)
Domestic Disturbance
Domino (Widescreen New Line Platinum Series)
Don't Say a Word
Double Jeopardy
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Duplex (2-Discs)
Eight Below (Widescreen Edition)
Empire Falls (2-Discs)
Empire Records (Remix! Special Fan Edition)
Encino Man
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Entrapment (Special Edition)
Eraser
Everything is Illuminated
Evolution (Widescreen Edition)
Exorcism of Emily Rose, The (Widescreen Unrated Version)
Fahrenheit 9/11
Failure to Launch (Special Collector's Widescreen Edition)
Fallen
Far and Away
Fast and the Furious, The (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
Fatal Attraction (Special Collector's Edition)
Fever Pitch (Widescreen Edition)
Final Cut, The
Find Me Guilty
Fistful of Dollars, A (The Man with No Name Trilogy)
Flirting with Disaster (Miramax Collector's Series)
Fools Rush In (Double Feature w/ Main in Manhattan)
For a Few Dollars More (The Man with No Name Trilogy)
Forces of Nature (Widescreen Edition)
Forget Paris
Four Brothers (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
French Kiss
Frequency (New Line Platinum Series)
G.I. Jane
General's Daughter, The
Gift, The
Gladiator(2-Disc Collector's Edition)(I replaced this with the 3-Disc Extended Edition)
Glory Road (Widescreen Edition)
Godzilla (Deluxe Widescreen Presentation)
Golden Child, The
Gone in Sixty Seconds (Director's Cut)
Good Son, The
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The (The Man with No Name Trilogy)
Grizzly Man (Widescreen Edition)
Guardian, The
Guy Thing, A (Special Edition)
Hamburger Hill
Hanging Up
Heart of Dragon
Hide and Seek (Widescreen Edition)
High Crimes (Widescreen Edition)
High Tension (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Hollow Man (Special Edition)
Home Fries
Hot Chick, The
Hot Shots!
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Hurricane, The (Collector's Edition)
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Love Your Work
I.Q.
Identity (Special Edition)
Idiocracy
In Good Company (Widescreen Edition)
In-Laws, The (Widescreen Edition)
Indecent Proposal
Into the Blue (Widescreen Edition)
Intolerable Cruelty (Widescreen Edition)
Italian Job, The (Widescreen Edition)
Jackass: The Movie (Widescreen Special Edition)
Jacket, The
Jarhead (Widescreen Edition)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2-Disc Dimension Collector's Series)
Jerry Maguire (Deluxe Widescreen Presentation)(Going to get SE)
Jersey Girl
Joe Versus the Volcano
John Q. (Infinifilm Edition)
Johnny Mnemonic
Just Friends
Just Like Heaven (Widescreen Edition)
K-19: The Widowmaker
Kiss the Girls
Lake House, The (Widescreen Edition)
Land of the Dead (Unrated Director's Cut Widescreen Edition)
Last Boy Scout, The
Last Holiday (Widescreen Edition)
Lawnmower Man, The (New Line Platinum Series)
Laws of Attraction
Legend of Bagger Vance, The
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Widescreen Edition)
Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The
Little Black Book
Longest Yard, The (Widescreen Edition)
Lost Boys, The (2-Disc Special Edition)
Lost in Space (New Line Platinum Series)
Lot Like Love, A (Widescreen Edition)
Love Potion #9
Maid in Manhattan (Double Feature w/ Fools Rush In)
Majestic, The
Manchurian Candidate, The (Widescreen Edition)
Medallion, The
Memoirs of a Geisha (2-Disc Widescreen Special Edition)
Mercury Rising (Collector's Edition)
Message in a Bottle
Miami Vice (Unrated Director's Cut)
Millions (Widescreen Edition)
Monster House (Widescreen Edition)
Monster-In-Law (2-Disc New Line Platinum Series)
Muppets Take Manhattan, The
Murder in the First
Murderball
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
National Treasure (Widescreen Edition)
Natural, The (Going to get SE when it come out this year)
Navy Seals
Newton Boys, The
Night Listener, The
North Country (Widescreen Edition)
November
Object of My Affection, The
Officer and a Gentleman, An (Going to get SE when it come out this year)
Old School (Widescreen Unrated Edition)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Only You
Open Season (Widescreen Special Edition)
Open Water (Widescreen Edition)
Out of Time (Special Edition)
Outbreak
Outsiders, The (2-Disc Special Edition, The Complete Novel)
Pay It Forward
Payback
Peggy Sue Got Married
Perfect Murder, A (Special Edition)
Phantom of the Opera, The (Widescreen Edition)
Phone Booth
Picture Perfect
Point Break (Pure Adrenaline Edition)
Polar Express, The (Widescreen Edition)
Poseidon (Widescreen Edition)
Prelude to a Kiss
Prime (Widescreen Edition)
Proof
Punisher, The
Pushing Tin
Rainmaker, The
Raising Helen (Widescreen Edition)
Random Hearts
Reign of Fire
Replacement Killers, The (Extended Cut)
Resident Evil (Deluxe Edition)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2-Disc Special Edition)
Riding in Cars with Boys (Special Edition)
Rising Sun
Roger Dodger
Rookie, The (Widescreen Edition)
Rudy (Special Edition)
Rumor Has It... (Widescreen Edition)
Runaway Jury (Widescreen Edition)
Rundown, The (Widescreen Edition)
Sabrina
Save the Last Dance
Saving Silverman
Scanner Darkly, A
Scoop
Scorpion King, The (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
Scrooged
Seabiscuit (Widescreen Edition)
Secret Window
Sentinel, The (Widescreen Edition)
Shade
Shape of Things, The
Shark Tale (Widescreen Edition)
She's the Man (Widescreen Edition)
Shopgirl
Short Circuit
Simon Birch
Sinatra: The Classic Duets
Single White Female
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The (Widescreen Edition)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
Sky High (Widescreen Edition)
Sliding Doors
Snakes on a Plane (Widescreen New Line Platinum Series)
Something New
Something to Talk About
Space Cowboys
Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume 1
Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume 2
Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume 3
Spanglish
Spartan
Spawn (New Line Platinum Series Director's Cut)
Spy Game (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
Squid and the Whale, The (Special Edition)
Stay
Stepford Wives, The (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
Super Size Me
Sweet November
Sweetest Thing, The (Rated Version)
Swordfish
Taking Lives (Unrated Director's Cut Widescreen Edition)
Tears of the Sun (Special Edition)
Three to Tango
Thunderbolt
Tin Cup
Titan A.E. (Special Edition)
Tombstone (Going to get Extended Edition)
Tommy Boy (2-Disc Holy Schnike Edition)
Trading Places (Going to get SE when it come out this year)
Transporter 2
Transporter, The (Special Edition)
Tron (2-Disc 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
Tuxedo, The (Widescreen Edition)
Twisted (Special Collector's Edition)
Underworld (2-Disc Unrated Extended Cut)
Underworld Evolution (Widescreen Special Edition)
Unfaithful (Widescreen Special Edition)
Unfinished Life, An
Uptown Girls (Special Edition)
Van Helsing (Widescreen Edition)
Vanishing, The
Very Bad Things
Wag the Dog (New Line Platinum Series)
Waiting... (2-Disc Widescreen Deluxe Unrated and Raw Edition)
Walking Tall
Wedding Date, The (Widescreen Edition)
Wedding Planner, The
Weekend at Bernie's
Weekend at Bernie's II
What About Bob?
What Dreams May Come (Special Edition)
Where the Red Fern Grows
Whole Nine Yards, The
Whole Ten Yards, The (Widescreen Edition)
Wicker Park
Willow (Special Edition)
Wimbledon
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (Widescreen Edition)
Windtalkers
Wolf Creek (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Working Girl
X-Files, The (Enhanced Widescreen)
xXx (Widescreen Special Edition)
Yours, Mine & Ours (Widescreen Edition)
Zathura (Widescreen Edition)

[Cronos]

if it were me, i'd probably go with the following, good films IMO and they're the ones i'd be more likely to watch more often

Devil's Advocate, The (Special Edition)
Clerks II (2-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Tron (2-Disc 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)


i hope i never have to thin my collection

[biglummox]

Originally posted by Cronos
Devil's Advocate, The (Special Edition)
Clerks II (2-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Tron (2-Disc 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)

Yeah, those are good ones.
I remember loving Tron as a kid and I watch it again about a year ago just after I got that DVD (which I was totally stoked about, excellent features on the DVD) I realized how much it had aged. It was of course spectacular and awesome when it came out in '82 but now it's more of a 'great memory' type of movie for me.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

The Muppets Take Manhattan
Sinatra: The Classic Duets
Wag the Dog (New Line Platinum Series)

[biglummox]

Originally posted by Brando @$$ Fat
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Sinatra: The Classic Duets
Wag the Dog (New Line Platinum Series)

Yeah, I'm hoping the do for the Muppets take Manhattan like they did for the Muppet Movie and Muppet Christmas and come out with a better release.

The Sinatra one was a definite hard choice, as I own a great deal of his records.

I'm also hoping for a better release of Wag the Dog, as it was one of the pre-2000 DVD releases...

Good choices...
Man, this may be a bit harder than I thought...

[Tayzlor]

Are you really going to listen to these suggestions? I mean, are you going to tally the title with the most votes and save it from being sold?

[Otis Driftwood]

I'd go with:

National Treasure
Scrooged
The X-files

All rewatchable, fun films.

[biglummox]

Originally posted by Tayzlor
Are you really going to listen to these suggestions? I mean, are you going to tally the title with the most votes and save it from being sold?

Good question.

No, it's more of a "If this were YOUR collection and YOU could only save 3 of these movies which ones would YOU choose" sort of thing. I still haven't decided which ones I'M going to save, and they may be some of the ones other people would choose or maybe not. I'm just curious what other people would choose, and that will HELP ME with my decision. Because when someone else makes their choice for what they would save I will contemplate their choices for my own and then decide why I choose that movie to sell in the first place.

I'll be deciding which ones to save myself sometime this weekend and I will be posting my decision here, and we'll see how close my choices where to other peoples. I don't base my decisions on what other people think are good movies but it does help. That's one of the things that are so great about movies and sites like JoBlo. Everyone seems to like/dislike movies for different reasons and it's interesting when people have the same tastes. It's what brings us all here in the first place. And that's when the whole world exploded in one big orgasm of unity... sorry for the long answer but I felt that question deserved a good explanation.

[biglummox]

Originally posted by Otis Driftwood
I'd go with:

National Treasure
Scrooged
The X-files

All rewatchable, fun films.

I agree.

I thought National Treasure was much better than the expectations I had for it. With a National Treasure 2 in the works I'm expecting maybe a re-release of it with NT2 on DVD; and if it is just as good I might pick them up as a bundle.

Scrooged is one of my favorite movies so I'll be picking up the 'Yule Love It Edition' if that ever actually comes out...

Man, I do miss the X-Files TV show, I still need to get those Box Sets. I'm also hoping with another possible X-Files movie in the works that maybe we'll get a better release of this too.

As you can tell, I picked a lot of these DVD's to sell now because I'm hoping for better releases in the future and I knew I could get some $$$ for them now. I've been such a DVD fanatic the past few years that this really was a hard decision. But I did have to fess up with myself that the more DVD's I bought the harder it was becoming to find the time to watch ALL of them, which made it harder to justify my purchases. I also managed to convince my wife that part of our deal is that I get to rejoin Netfilx so we can rent more movies rather than me buying them all...

[biglummox]

For enjoyment and rewatchability (is that even a word?) factors I kept:
In Good Company
Runaway Jury
And my wife decided to keep:
Empire Records

That was tough decision with some very good movies in this pile... Thanks to those who responded.

I'm going to try to sell this whole bundle of DVDs to one customer, hoping for about a $3 per/ DVD average... we'll see.