OK so I made it to my desert island named Baja, in a land far far away. I was able to bring my TV and DVD player thank goodness !! So here is what I would watch because no matter how often I watch these chosen titles I never ever get sick of them. Further below is a list of my actual dvd collection to date.
FILMS
TV SHOWS
Basically anything with Harrison in it would make in onto my list.
But if forced to only take a few it would have to be the Star Wars trilogy, the Indiana Jones trilogy, and Witness.
I love them all for very different reasons but Harry is the consistent factor.
What else, Bladerunner, Air Force One, The Mosquito Coast, Sabrina. So many many more.
I am a huge Stephen Spielberg fan. His early work with alien related films enthralled me.
ET and Close Encounters of the Third Kind are all time faves for their cast, storyline and amazing effects.
Both were about real people going about their real lives - when the unusual happens. The reactions by each character seemed so real and that made the storyline feel more real too.
When it comes to those kinds of movies I can watch over and over and never tire of them, Dirty Dancing is right up there. I have watched it more than 200 times.
Its soundtrack is one of the best, and a gorgeous cast and sweet storyline keeps me a permenant fan.
After a crappy week at work there is nothing better than some vodkas, chocolate and DD on DVD !
The Man From Snowy River is my all time favourite Australian movie. Sweeping cinematography, unbeatable score, poetic storyline and a talented cast. Its the perfect advertisment for a holiday in the Australian Alps.
And Tom and Sigrid !
What more can you say !
Two of the sexiest men of their time, Paul Newman and Robert Redford were a fantastic pairing in both Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Sting.
I love a sexy action flick. Keanu delivers the goods in both Speed & Point Break.
One of the sweetest time travel romances ever written was Somewhere In Time.
Jane Seymour and Chris Reeve had the perfect chemistry and were accompanied by a stunning location and beautiful theme.
When I need a good cry I watch Heart and Souls with Robert Downey Jr, Alfre Woodard, Tom Sizemore, Charles Grodin and Kyra Sedgwick.
A simple story about imaginary friends, lost souls, unfinished moments and angels, it mixes brilliant visual comedy and touching ten tissue moments.
I love the way Richard Curtis writes & directs a movie and I love his fantastic casts.
My faves that I can watch over & over are Four Weddings & a Funeral, Notting Hill & Love Actually.
I also enjoy Bridget Jones Diary and its sequel if I pretend Renee Zellwegger isnt in it !!!
Ghost is so hard to catagorise. Is it a romantic comedy - its funny and romantic, but the lead character is dead so that limits but doesnt prevent the romance.
The sexual chemistry between Swayze and Demi Moore is powerful and the comedic chemistry between him and Whoopi is just brilliant.
Never has an old sixties song been put to such good use while making pottery.
A stunning ending that never fails to make me cry.
Another favourite Spielberg film is Jaws. Love a big fish film !!!
Impeccably cast, its easy to overlook the dreadfully fake looking shark when the music is enough to scare the pants off you.
Ruined by too many inferior sequels, I stick to a regular viewing of the first and best.
For pure corn and a fabulous soundtrack I cant go past the goodfeel flick Grease.
I still remember seeing it at the drive-in when it was first released and spending my weekends re-enacting each and every scene in mini musicals with my neighbour Karen.
Speaking of corn !! The Pirate Movie is a marvellous little Aussie pisstake of The Pirates Of Penzanze.
With many of the original songs with a few additional lyrics, and fresh songs written for the movie, its a camp barrel of laughs filled with a hundred double entendre's.
Kristy McNicol is fun and Chris Atkins is gorgeous, but many scenes are stolen by Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr and Garry MacDonald.
One of the funniest days of my life was going to Werribee Mansion in VIC 20 years after the movie was made and re-enacting scenes all over the place !!!
What can you say about a movie that gets sexier and dirtier every time you watch it ! Rocky Horror Picture Show has kept me entertained for over 25 years.
I had my first kiss at the drive-in while Susan
Sarandon serenaded Rocky with Toucha Touch Me. I spent the middle of the 80's dressing up as characters and watching it repeatedly with friends over a few bottles of scotch.
Stand By Me is one of the sweetest coming of age boys movies ever made.
The casting, narration, soundtrack and bittersweet ending are memorable.
The final scenes with River Pheonix are all the more poignant as they reflect real life in a small way.
I recommend the DVD and in particular listening to the directors commentary.
For a downright sexy hot action flick - I cant go past Roadhouse.
Patrick Swayze just oozes his way thru this film with the occassional extra sexy swagger and growl by Sam Elliott.
The soundtrack is a great one too. Pure garage blues rock.
Meg Ryan is the Queen of romantic comedies and I love her in Sleepless In Seattle and You've Got Mail.
My fave is Kate and Leopold because Hugh Jackman gets to show of his numerable talents and looks damn hot to boot !!!
Ahhhh I need at least one Clooner moment on my island so I choose Out Of Sight.
He is so delectable in this that its hard to know why Jennifer Lopez didnt marry him - I mean - she marries everyone else she meets !!
The scene in the car boot is hot - but there is a scene with her in a hotel lobby and George in a lift that always sticks in my mind.
As spares I would definitely have Oceans 11 & 12.
"I love it when a plan comes together" The A Team was my first real TV addiction. It co-incided with the advent of the VCR and I immediately started taping every episode.
I still have them all - on old beta tapes!
Dirk Benedict was my fave. Playing the charming sexy Templeton Peck, he was the ladies man, the con man, the corvette driving man !
He was the well dressed sexy one - always calm regardless of what crisis surrounded them. And he ALWAYS got the girl.
Initially my love for Battlestar Galactica was due to the movie that was released on Aussie screens in the 70's.
What I didnt know back then was in the US they were getting a TV series.
It was 2004 before the series was released on DVD and I was able to discover what I had been missing.
Two of my all time favourite aussie actors - Sigrid Thornton and John Waters - starred in the brilliant 1983 mini series All The Rivers Run, based on the brilliant Nancy Cato novel.
Set on the Murray River in the age of paddle steamers, it followed the life of the strong willed Delie, artist and paddle steamer captain.
Cheers was such a great show filled with incredibley complex characters that really grew over the years. It was an era when sexist pigs were funny - before PC !!!
I was in Boston for 6 hours once. The only thing I did was get a taxi from the airport to the Cheers bar and buy some T shirts !
Growing up without a TV for the better part of the 70s and early 80s meant that there were a few classic shows I never got to see.
Over the years I have caught repeats and grew to love Happy Days and all its cast. I need time on my desert Island to watch the entire series.
Like Happy Days, Mork and Mindy was a show I "met" via repeats. It gave the world the extremely talented Robin Williams and watching him in his younger days gives an insight into the hidden comic genius.
I would love to rewatch Remington Steele. I havent seen repeats in years.
Even back then it was perfectly obvious Pierce was born to play James Bond, but contracts and timing meant that it was the 1990s before he filled the suit and grabbed the martini. Remington Steele was a great rehearsal.
Moonlighting is one of those shows I consider a classic. The volumptuous sexy and very sassy Cybill Shepherd played a woman who inherited a private detective agency run by David Addison played by new guy Bruce Willis.
With excellent snappy scripts to work with Cybill & Bruce bounced off each other and the sexual tension was amazing !!!
Technically there were two MASH groups. There was the first cast - with Trapper, Henry Blake, Frank & Radar. And there was the second series with BJ, Winchester and Col Potter. The rest of the gang remained the same with Hawkeye, Father Mulchahy, Hotlips and Klinger. Episodes that stay in my mind are the one where Hawkeye didnt get to say goodbye to Trapper, when Henry dies and when Radar returns home.
There was the hilarious Hotlips and Frank affair, Potters love for Mildred and his horse, Klingers crossdressing, the misbehaviour of Hawkeye -
but also his humanitarianism when it counted. He was the shows conscience and the very final episode was testimony to that. This is a show I can truly was over and over and never tire of it or fail to learn something from it.
Brendan Frasier could easily play Indiana Jones' son in a future sequel !
He has the same rugged good looks and wry humour.
Thats why I like the Mummy and its sequel Mummy Returns.
They are so like the Indy movies in the "boys own" adventure with a grin.
The special effects are fantastic and the rest of the cast were well picked.
John Hannah is a true delight in both films as is Oded Fehr - woo sexy !!
Quantum Leap is a show I dearly awaited a DVD release. I have most of the episodes on video.
I loved the many issues it dealt with as Sam leapt into the lives of people in so many era's.
Like many series it got a little wobbly in it final series. In particular it got a bit preachy.
I loved Sam and Al's relationship.
In 2006 I started buying the boxed sets and reliving the eps.
The Wonder Years was a true joy to view.
The sensitive narration, the attention to the era's detail, the realism of each and every character, the sheer poignancy of the script, the use of a brilliant soundtrack.
I loved watching Kevin grow and experience the late 60's and early 70's.
The final episode (along with many others) still brings tears to my eyes.
I love a good hospital drama, the earliest I remember were Quincy & St Elsewhere.
For true quality the 90's brought us Chicago Hope & the show that outlasted them all, ER.
ER survives major cast changes because it has the strongest storylines. (and it did have The Clooner !).
For sheer escapism I loved Melrose Place.
A show that basically started off normal before it segued into total insanity.
Heather Locklear gueststarred for years !
Everyone slept with each other, married each other and hated each other. Every apartment complex should survive this much excitement.
For me it spawned the first TV drinking game - drink if Alison tells Billy she still loves him etc
Can it really be ten years already?
This addiction feels like it only just began.
The cast of Friends are my age and did and said the things I did and said every day.
They furnished thier homes the way I did, dressed the way I wanted to if I was that thin, gathered in the coffeehouse I longed to have below my apartment.
I have the entire series on DVD and never tire of it.
JAG will always be the show that introduced me to the delights of David James Elliott - YUM.
After a shaky intro with a few cast changes, it settled into the Harm & Mac partnership and chemistry that works so well.
With a great quirkiness that helps equalise the seriousness of each case - I love it best when sparks are flying.
I miss Admiral Chegwiggen !!
I just adore Drew Barrymore. She has had such a huge life that really she should be 40 already - yet she isnt even 30 !
Ever After is a sweet remake of the Cinderella story. I love the feeling of the movie, the setting, the costumes, the casting.
I also love her in 50 First Dates, The Wedding Singer, and Never Been Kissed.
2005 bought something new to my tv screen.
The wonderfully dark, witty, sarcastic, dry humour of Desperate Housewives.
With perfect casting and a gorgeous "too good to be true" streetscape - I love the way the males are totally secondary characters in this show.
I also love how none of the women are perfect - each one has her faults.
Another newbie in 2005 was Lost.
I love that at no point does there appear to be any chance of ever finding out what this show is actually about !!
Clever storylines and ever cleverer slow reveals.
I am already collecting boxed sets and recording every episode!
I admit it - I am a reality tv junkie !!
Survivor will always be the best - in production quality it surpases the others. I have watched every season bar Marchesa which wasnt show in Oz.
I am also an Amazing Race fan and was glad to see it moved from the 11.30pm timeslot to a more reasonable 8.30pm !!
I will also admit to being a Big Brother junkie, an occasional Australian Idol fan, and ummm ok The Bachelor !!!!
TV SHOWS IN MY DVD COLLECTION
FILMS ALREADY IN MY DVD COLLECTION
UPDATED: October 2012
A - N
Air Force One - special edition
All of Me
America's Sweethearts
An American Werewolf in London
An Officer and a Gentleman
A Perfect World
Apollo 13 (2 disc special edition)
A Time To Kill
Australia
Back to the Future Trilogy (4 disc collectors edition)
Battlestar Galactica (Original AU release film)
Big
Black Dog
Bladerunner (directors cut)
Blue Tornado
BMX Bandits
Breaker Morant
Bridgets Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones Edge of Reason
Brokeback Mountain
Burn After Reading
Charade
Chicago
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (2 disc special edition)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (3 disc ultimate edition)
Dave
Deep Impact (special 2 disc edition)
Demolitian Man
Dirty Dancing
Divine Secrets of Ya Ya Sisterhood
Dog Fight
Down With Love
EDTV
Encino Man
End of Innocence
End Play
Eliza Fraser
ET The Extra Terrestial (2 disc special edition)
Ever After
50 First Dates
Fatherhood
Firewall
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Ferris Buellers Day Off, Bueller.....Bueller Special Edition
Flaming Star
Flash Gordon
Flesh & Bone
Flightplan
Fools Gold
Fools Rush In
Four Weddings & a Funeral
Frank - A Life in Song
Gallipoli
Ghost
Gladiator
Grease
Hancock
Hardball
Heart and Souls
Heaven Can Wait
Highlander
How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days
I Am Legend (2 disc edition)
In and Out
Independence Day (2 disc special edition)
Indiana Jones Trilogy (4 disc set)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Innerspace
Intolerable Cruelty
I Robot
Jaws
Jumping Jack Flash
Junior
Kate & Leopold
Keeping Mum
Leatherheads
Little Nikita
Love Actually
Love Me Tender
Lucas
Mamma Mia
Mosquito Coast
Mrs Winterbourne
Murder By Numbers
Music & Lyrics
Never Been Kissed
UPDATED: October 2012
All The Rivers Run
All The Rivers Run 2009 3 disc release
All The Rivers Run 2
Battlestar Galactica (complete series 7 disc set)
Bosom Buddies season 1
Brides of Christ
Correlli
Friends (Seasons 1 thru 10)
Moonlighting (Season pilot)
Moonlighting Season 1
Quantum Leap Series 1 (3 disc set)
Quantum Leap Series 2
Quantum Leap Series 3
Quantum Leap Series 4
Quantum Leap Series 5
The A Team (Volume 1, 2, 3 and 4 - note these are random eps on volumes - not series)
The Flying Doctors (series pilot)
The Late Show Champagne Edition
The Young Ones series 1
MASH Series 1 (3 disc set)
MASH Series 2 (3 disc set)
MASH Series 3 (3 disc set)
ER Season 1
ER Season 2
ER Season 3
ER Season 4
ER Season 5
Lost, series 1 (7 disc set)
Good Guys Bad Guys - season 1
The Thorn Birds (mini series)
Come In Spinner (mini series)
Shackleton (3 disc series)
Just on the off chance that you are sitting there wondering what type of gift to buy me - I would love more seasons of ER, or MASH !!!!!!!
My newest flavour is Channel 10s Jericho in 2006.
Great mixture of a cast. Great slow burning storyline.
Its the old WHAT IF factor. A little country town - with no idea if they are all that is left after multiple nuclear explosions around the US and possibly the world.
O - Z
Oceans 11
Oceans 12
One Fine Day
Out of Sight
Phar Lap (2 disc special edition)
Playing Beatie Bow
Point Break
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Puberty Blues
Red Dawn
Roadhouse
Rocky Horror Picture Show (25th Anniverary 2 disc)
Ruckus
Sabrina
Sibling Rivallry
Sliding Doors
Solaris
Somewhere in Time
Spaceballs
Speed
Splash
Ssssssss
Stand By Me
Starman
Star Wars Trilogy (eps 3, 4 & 5 4 disc boxed set)
Stealing Home
Stealth
Steel Magnolias
Stripes (extended version)
Summer Holiday (incl Wonderful Life & The Young Ones)
Summerfield
Superman 1 and 2
That Thing You Do
The American President
The Big Easy
The Blue Lagoon / Return To Blue Lagoon
The Clearing
The Core
The Cup
The Day After Tomorrow (2 disc special edition)
The Decendants
The Dish
The Endurance
The Final Countdown
The Fugitive
The Good German
The Good Girl
The Horse Whisperer
The Ides of March
The Italian Job (original Michael Caine version)
The Holiday
The Jazz Singer
The Lake House
The Legend of Zorro
The Lighthorsemen
The Main Event
The Man From Snowy River 1 and 2
The Man From Snowy River Arena Spectacular
The Man Who Sued God
The Mask of Zorro
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
The Peacemaker
The Philadelphia Experiment
The Philadephia Story
The Pirate Movie
The Princess Bride (deluxe 2 disc edition)
The Seven Year Itch
The Sum of All Fears
The Time Guardian
Timeline
Titanic (4 disc deluxe collectors edition)
Tootsie (25th anniversary 2 disc)
True Lies
To Kill A Mockingbird
Twister
Vantage Point
Victor Victoria
War Games
Whats Up Doc
Where The Heart Is
While You Were Sleeping
Wild in the Country
Windrider
Working Girl
Wraith
Young Guns
You've Got Mail
Zodiac
In 2007 my newest addiction is Heroes.
I dont yet have a favourite character or even a favourite one to hate ! We are only 4 eps in as I write this and the characters are still developing - at a far slower pace than the storyline - which moves like lightning. I love looking for the symbols and clues and love how everyone is connected in some way and as the eps move on the connections are being revealed.
I have been known to have "Columbia" moments at partys if Time Warp is
playing. I have seen the play so many times - with everyone from Daniel Abineri to Russell Crowe to Jason Donovan playing Frank.
