K-man's LD/DVD Collection

Kman's Laser Disc/Digital Video Disc Collection

(Completed entering laserdisc collection data September, 1999)
(Updated with latest DVD data December, 2000)

This is the top-level page for lists/info about my laser disk collection. As of December, 2000, I have 141 movies on either LD or DVD which are listed in these pages. My total collection is really has about 30 more titles, but I'm only including movies here, not other that I own like karaoke, music, computer animation, special features, and demo LD's and DVD's.

In November of '99, I finally broke down and bought a DVD player, and I've added titles since then and added a column for whether the title is on DVD or LD.

From here you can do this:

Check out the ``short listing'' of my LD's. From this page, you can also view the pages by a number of different sorting arrangements (alphabetically, by rating, by year, length, etc.). You can also search through the database from this page, including searching for actors' names, or titles, etc. Please note that ``date last watched'' is likely not very accurate since I didn't pay attention to keeping track of this between April '98 and September '99.
- A word about primary genres
- A word about K-Ratings (i.e., K-man's ratings)
Check out the ``long listing'' of my LD's. From this page, you don't get the sort options, but you can see columns containing the names of the primary stars of each movie.

At some point, I might also add links (probably in the long listing page only) to the Internet Movie Database.

A word about the Primary Genre

For the ``Primary Genre'' column, I used info on the IMDB site. There were three things that I don't quite like about the way they listed the genre's of the flicks:

(1) I think they list too many genre's for most of their films (3 or 4 where 1 or 2 would do). For example, the IMDB gives the film Sneakers a total of 7 different genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller; it's arguable whether or not you can attribute the genre's romance, thriller, mystery, drama, crime to that film.
(2) Where more than one genre is listed, the IMDB seems to not be consistent about how they are ordered. In some instances, the first genre listed could arguably be the ``primary genre'' of the film, but in other instances, the genres seem to simply be listed in alphabetical order. Therefore, some films might have ``action'' listed as their primary genre with in fact it might primarily be a Thriller, for example.
(3) Sometimes I think the a particular genre assignment is just plain wrong. For example, one of the main themes the film Point Break revolves around is a string of bank robberies, yet IMDB does NOT list ``crime'' as one of the genres.

A word about the K-Rating

I may at some point in the future make a file in which I explain the ratings I assigned to each flick. One would hope that I would tend to own many more films on LD with ratings of 5-10 than 1-4. In fact, at the time of this writing, 37 flicks received a 1-4 while 86 received a rating of 5-10.

Here are the basic guidelines:

10: In order for a film to get a K-rating of 10, it needs to be a superb film, one that really is exciting or interesting to me, or one that caused a strong emotional response. This is the type of film that I've likely already watched several times and one that I'm likely to watch again and again over the years (good thing I've got it on laser disc).
9 or 8: A 9 is an awesome K-rating. It means that I supremely enjoyed this film and am likely to watch it alot. The film might have touched me, but didn't move me quite as much as a 10 flick.
7, 6, or 5: These films are average or above average, and while I'm likely to watch these more than once, I probably wouldn't watch them more than once in a period of a year or two.
4 or 3: Ya gotta wonder why I even own these, really. Probably I was interested in seeing a particular actor or actress or perhaps I bought the film without really knowing what it was about, then was vastly disappointed after viewing it.
2 or 1: These are flicks I'd probably prefer to trade or maybe just throw out (or use them for frisbees). Why I bought them in the first place, I'll never know; I must have been asleep or drunk at the time.