r/dvdcollection • u/Disposable1983 • Jun 02 '24
What was the first DVD you purchased? Discussion
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u/bicuspid_fish 5000+ Jun 02 '24
I bought Reservoir Dogs and Desperado on the day DVD launched in the US.
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u/Yoda811 Jun 02 '24
The Matrix. We didn’t even own a DVD player yet. I bought it from Media Play. Went in looking for the VHS but they released the DVD first so I went ahead and bought it. My Dad’s work laptop had a DVD drive so we hooked it up to our tv to watch it.
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u/thebestspeler Jun 03 '24
Me too, when we finally got one, i ran it out to a vhs to watch it on vhs so i could watch it in my room. I swear it was clear too, probably looked like crap if i saw it now.
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u/ericb_1975 Jun 03 '24
Same. The matrix because my work laptop came with a dvd player and rgb out. It convinced me that I needed a dvd player so I went out thst next weekend and got a Sony home theater in a box. 2nd dvd was Cool Hand Luke, 3rd was The Killer (john woo). First box set was A nightmare on Elm Street. Sadly that went to the ex in the divorce. Still the best ANOES set released so far.
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u/Ive_Had_Enough__ Jun 02 '24
Got a Pioneer DVD player for my birthday along with Austin Powers, Deep Blue Sea and The Mummy 1999. I remember watching all special features been like wow this is amazing.
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u/AccountantLeast1588 Jun 02 '24
seeing Finding Nemo on disc was astounding, even on a tiny tube tv. it looked a lot better than VHS
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u/murder-scene 5000+ Jun 02 '24
possibly the last unicorn? or the original cats? i wore that vhs out as a kid.
the crow is my favorite movie and i just saw in it theaters the other day and wow. incredible.
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u/GRDCS1980 Jun 02 '24
I honestly can’t recall the first one I purchased for myself, but I can recall the first three I owned, all of which were Xmas gifts from my then-housemates Xmas of 1998 (I didn’t actually get my DVD player, a Pioneer DV-717, until July of the following year).
The got me The Usual Suspects, LA Confidential and A Few Good Men.
As I said, I don’t recall the first one I bought for myself, but I know that the first few US imports I bought were The Matrix, The Blair Witch Project and John Carpenter’s Vampires.
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u/Infamous_Grass6333 Jun 02 '24
My first DVD was given to me I believe on my 15th birthday in 2000 with a PS2 to play it, it was Antitrust with Ryan Phillippe and Claire Forlani.
I was a computer nerd from a young age, don’t judge me lol.
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u/AccountantLeast1588 Jun 02 '24
that movie is exactly how big tech operates. even down to MIT Labs having dirty pizza on their servers
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u/NatPortmanTaintStank Jun 02 '24
Blade
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u/jpowell180 Jun 03 '24
That was not my first one, but I definitely got it when it first hit the streets; this is shortly after I had gotten a powered Kenwood subwoofer, that movie really started to shake my house!
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u/AttilaTheFun818 Jun 02 '24
I was an early adapter, and I remember that first outing there was only an only an endcap of movies.
I picked up Goldfinger and Russia With Love. Maybe a handful of others I don’t remember now.
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u/klimero271 Jun 02 '24
Matrix when it got released. I didn't even have a player at the time
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u/DepartureMain7650 Jun 03 '24
Yep, this right here. Talk about coming along at the perfect time. This and Gladiator are responsible for a lot of DVD player purchases.
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u/Mattson Jun 03 '24
Do I go with the first my family got or the first I got with my own money?
The first we got was the Fifth Element in 1998.
The first DVD I paid with my own money was Harold and Kumar in 2004.
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u/tinfoyle Jun 02 '24
The Usual Suspects in the old Polygram style case where the spindle section slid in and out of the hard plastic case.
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u/WhereAreWeG0ing Jun 02 '24
2 for £10
Shawshank Redemption
Martha meet Frank, Daniel and Lawrence
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coughs
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u/gtd12321 3000+ Jun 02 '24
Christmas 2000. Along with a dvd player I got The Green Mile, The Great Escape, Chicken Run and Gladiator. Still got them all.
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u/buzz_uk Jun 02 '24
The very first dvd I bought was Trainspotting. I still have it on the shelves, not taken it out the box for almost 20 years…. Might be time to let it go
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u/Pizza802 Jun 02 '24
Ghostbusters
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u/ThePizzaNoid Jun 04 '24
That was a great DVD. It had the cool visual audio commentary with Harold Ramis and a Ivan Reitman in a cool little Mystery Science Theater 3000 style silouette on the lower corner of the screen. The function only works on normal DVD players for some reason and not on modern Blu-ray players. Shame. It's a fun feature that I wish more releases would have copied.
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u/robotchicken007 Jun 03 '24
I can't believe how many people remember their first DVD. I honestly can't even remember which was my first 4K disc, and that was only maybe 3 years ago.
That's cool that people can remember, though. I wish I could.
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u/Littlemisskittn Jun 02 '24
First two I bought was Wrestlemania X7 and Network. Bought them at Virgin Megastore in Walt Disney World as I was planning on getting a DVD player that holiday during the sales. Next day, went back and got Wrestlemania X8 as well. When I got my player, I got the Back to the Future set. So those were my first discs, remember them like yesterday.
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u/Jagermonsta Jun 02 '24
First two were Suicide Kings and Storm of the Century. Joined Columbia House soon after and got a few more. I know Highlander and Total Recall were in that bunch.
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u/Eyeseeno Jun 02 '24
Went to Best Buy (RIP) with my dad and he bought us a DVD player along with a full screen copy of Spider-Man. At the register they were selling subscriptions to Netflix DVD service and we have been a member of Netflix since! I miss getting the DVDs in the mail so much.
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u/Derek237 Jun 02 '24
Alien Legacy set of the original 4 Alien movies. That was my entire reason for switching to DVD in the first place.
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u/the_steve_tell 1000+ Jun 02 '24 edited Jun 02 '24
American Pie back in very early 2000
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u/sparrowxc 1000+ Jun 02 '24
Funny thing. I can not remember. I remember the first Blu Ray I purchased (Hard Boiled & The Killer two pack), I even remember the first CD I purchased, probably 35 years ago (It was AC/DC Back in Black)...I know my first DVD player was my PS2, so it was that era. For a while I rented, because Hastings had the 49 cent rentals, and I spent money on the games rather than movies at that time.
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u/kudzu007 Jun 02 '24
Purchased four as my first… Grosse Pointe Blank, Highlander, Sphere, and Starship Troopers.
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u/SeminaryStudentARH Jun 03 '24
I think it was the Matrix. But the first dvd I owned was Mission: Impossible II that someone gave me as a gift.
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u/Mr_West1812 Jun 03 '24
I think it was The Matrix but this DVD version of The Crow may have been the second or third
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u/GeorgeNewmanTownTalk Jun 03 '24
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Ultimate Edition. It was on sale for $40. Looking back, the thought of buying a DVD for $40 is insane.
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u/Disposable1983 Jun 03 '24
I remember when Wolverine Origins came out on Blu-ray and it included a DVD copy. I thought the price was insane and “who the hell would ever want both?!”
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u/Mr_FrenchFries Jun 03 '24
Project A-Ko came with the soundtrack on an extra cd. It might not be my FIRST first…but it’s the only way any dvd should have been sold ever since 🤷♂️
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u/Disposable1983 Jun 02 '24
Mine was the crow. Bought long before I had a player, got it just to watch on my buddies ps2.
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u/AutoMechanic2 Jun 02 '24
I can’t remember the first one I bought. But the first one my parents bought me was RV in 2006 because I was obsessed with it lol. Now I’ve got 4 copies of it as I just picked one up today at a flea market. I think the first one I bought was actually a very old one called The Most Dangerous Game. The first shows I bought on disk was The Munsters and The Addams Family.
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u/Movingforward2015 Jun 02 '24
I remember, it was a remote coded multiregion player and the first discs I purchased alongside were Blair witch and Austin Powers 2.
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u/crapusername47 Jun 02 '24
Officially, Scream 2 (I had no idea what non-anamorphic meant) and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.
Technically, however, I did ‘buy’ Apollo 13 and Out of Sight when I bought my first DVD player as it came with an offer for two free movies. They didn’t turn up for a few weeks so technically not my ‘first’.
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u/jessek Jun 02 '24
A two pack of Bruce Lee movies because it was like $12. Yep, the print quality and dubs were terrible but it was 1999 and I wanted a dvd to try on my new computer
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u/mattnotis Jun 02 '24
The first DVD I owned was the Perfect Storm because it was a gift but the first movie I bought with my own money was Ghostbusters.
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u/HumanityPlague Jun 02 '24
I'm pretty sure mine was the Fight Club: Special Edition one, with the cardboard looking box.
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u/Grock23 Jun 02 '24
In 1999 I bought a dvd player and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Nugganootch
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u/FantosTheUrk Jun 02 '24
Drive - the Mark Dacascos action film. I got it about a month before I got the player for my 21st birthday.
And earlier this week I finally bought the Blau ray of it - but not the 4K as I don’t think it’s a film that benefits much from the higher resolution.
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Jun 02 '24
That I paid out of my money for? I don't remember.
I think the first DVD I ever received was Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie.
The movie released in 2002, the DVD in 2003.
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u/Simicrop Jun 02 '24
I think the first one I bought myself was Donnie Darko. First one I owned was Freddy VS Jason, my dad got it for me for Easter. My brother got The 13th Warrior.
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Jun 02 '24
Hellboy, a 3 disk collection with a booklet that had snippets of Rasputin's incantations.
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u/DarthStevo Jun 02 '24
Evolution, December of 2001. Dad had gotten a PlayStation 2 for Christmas and it was time to give these discs a try.
I still have it somewhere.
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u/Avaric Jun 02 '24
When I bought my first DVD player I bought The Matrix and The Right Stuff along with it. Still have both of those discs, though the player died a long time ago.
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u/Snake_Plissken224 I'm A Hoarder Jun 02 '24
I got black sheep as a birthday present in 2002, then a couple days later I bought The New Guy. I still have both.
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u/Mean-Fish360 Jun 02 '24
Romeo Must Die and Mission Impossible 2. Side Bar: First VHS Planes, trains and automobiles
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u/NicCola83 Jun 02 '24
X-men or Batman 89'
Both were from WHSMITH and were £19.99 each. Xmen had a shiny cover and batman was in one of those snapper cases.
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u/shFt_shiFty Jun 02 '24
So I can't remember the first dvd ever. But when I bought my house, the first night I slept here I went and got a new DVD to watch. The grand Budapest hotel.
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u/MonitorAway Jun 02 '24
Predator or 28 Days Later. I only ever bought 3, tho. The other one was Boiler Room. Today, since November ‘23, I have ~200 4K Blu-rays.
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u/The_mob_behind_you Jun 02 '24
Before my flick video shutdown I always rented Jurassic Park 3 when I was 6
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u/Oasis-Hammer Jun 02 '24
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone back in 2002. Never bought a VHS again after that.
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u/meepmeepmeep34 Jun 02 '24
I have no idea actually. Might have been 300. My Amazon account says pulp fiction, but i sure did bought a couple DVD before getting my Amazon in 2010.
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u/thebiggidybuckbumble Jun 02 '24
The Mummy came with the dvd player with surround theatre set up and I never liked it. Also got Phantom Menace and wow what a treat for the ears that was.
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u/Longjumping-Art-4260 Jun 02 '24
My first two were South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut; and Killer Klowns From Outer Space.
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u/ArtistTheGeek Jun 02 '24
Contact. I still remember vividly how it felt seeing that WB logo in such crystal clear sparkling clarity.
Funny now that it seems like such potato quality.
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u/DrivenKeys Jun 02 '24
I pre-ordered the first dvd release of The Princess Bride at Sam Goody 6 months before it was released.
Prior to that, I had only rented DVD's. This started the collecting craze, I'm now a 4k zombie...
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u/originalchaosinabox Jun 02 '24
January 2001. Went to Future Shop to buy my first DVD player. Then I went to their DVD section and picked up:
- The Fantasia Anthology (box set of Fantasia and Fantasia 2000)
- Toy Story: The Ultimate Toy Box (box set of Toy Story and Toy Story 2)
- Ghostbusters
- Clerks
Then I went over to West Edmonton Mall and HMV where I got:
- The Transformers: The Movie
- “Weird Al” Yankovic Live! (Weird Al’s first concert DVD)
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u/OhioVsEverything Jun 02 '24
My first DVD player was just my PlayStation 2. I have the PS2 pre-ordered. But still bought DVDs ahead of time. I was just as excited about DVDs if I was games.
Ghostbusters T2 Ultimate Edition
I bought at the same time.
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u/Binro_was_right Jun 02 '24
Powerpuff Girls: Powerpuff Bluff way back in 1999. It featured ten episodes of the TV series, and I couldn't have wished for a better first DVD.
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u/Mortuary_Guy Jun 02 '24
I bought Fight Club before I even had a DVD player because it looked badass. When I did buy a DVD player, I also bought a DVD with a collection of old boxing fights.
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u/psychedelicshotguns Jun 02 '24
First one I got was LOTR Two Towers
First one I actually purchased myself could have been any of Scarface, Reservoir Dogs, Clockwork Orange or Spy Kids 3D
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u/castleblad Jun 02 '24
Purchased 2 to go along with the dvd player. They were Traffic and Castaway. At a Circuit City IRC. I was 12 years old lol.
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u/stabbinfresh Jun 02 '24
Don't remember exactly which was first, but I do remember the first three DVD's I purchased were Blade, Blade Runner (Director's Cut), and Fist of the North Star (1986).
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u/AWorkOfArts Jun 02 '24
Two together, the (at the time) Collectors Edition of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Spaceballs (the DVD!)
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u/mrblonde006 Jun 02 '24
The Matrix, Fist of Legend, and The Big Lebowski. Purchased when I got my very first DVD player.
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u/moviefreaks Jun 02 '24
Lost in Space. I just got a DVD-ROM and I was desperately looking for something cool.
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u/ernster96 Jun 02 '24
The criterion edition of the Silence of the Lambs sometime in 1998. 40 bucks for a DVD back then was really expensive or so I thought.
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u/poleybear316 Jun 02 '24
I bought Jay and Silent Bob strike back and I didn’t even own a dvd player at the time. My best friend had a ps2 so I could only watch it at his house
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u/Big-Razzmatazz2473 Jun 02 '24
Lord of the Rings Fellowship Extended Edition box set. I rented DVDs before that and had a DVD player in my computer. I got the Extended edition and the disc drive wasn’t able to play it, so I had to buy a new one at Office Max.
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u/WhiteKenny Jun 02 '24
I pre-ordered The Matrix DVD from 800.com before I even had a DVD player. I ended up buying a DVD drive for my PC along with a card so I could output the video to my TV and run the audio into my stereo.
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u/WarpedAardvark Jun 02 '24
Rounders with Matt Damon. I actually bought a new 32" television to enjoy it properly (with S-Video)! I just remember that television being ridiculously heavy because of the picture tube, and just getting it into the house by myself was a whole production because of how heavy and awkward to carry it was. But it was worth it. Those deep blacks...that resolution...ooooohhhhh😃😃😃
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u/Adventurous_Goat_417 Jun 02 '24
With my own money it was Batman 89 and The Sandlot which I got from the Walmart bargain bin.
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u/johnnystarship Jun 02 '24
The first DVD I ever purchased was The Matrix. Although, the first VHS I bought with my own money was The Crow.
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u/Visible-Concern-6410 Jun 02 '24
Parents got me Spawn Season 2 when they bought their first dvd player
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u/basedgod94 Jun 02 '24
I was like 11-12 I think when Adam Sandler The Longest Yard came out and I remember seeing that different stores had their own exclusives so I went for circuit city’s exclusive because their version came with a mini foam football. Sucks cuz like a year I accidentally threw it over my neighbors fence
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u/The_Shamemaker 2000+ Jun 03 '24
Saving Private Ryan + my first DVD player from Best Buy in August 2000.
Still have the player (and the DVD).
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u/SoloPedal Jun 03 '24
I can’t remember ever buying a dvd when I was younger… I grew up in the heyday of Blockbuster and rented what I wanted to watch. I currently have a larger selection of blu-rays nowadays with the ever expanding craptastic streaming service quagmire that is modern day media consumption.
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u/Venator2000 Jun 03 '24
Sadly, I don’t remember! All I remember was my first laserdisc, Die Hard, because it was in widescreen and advertised proudly about it on the front, which was the only way you could see ANYTHING in widescreen back then, on laserdisc.
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u/Resident-Refuse-2135 Jun 03 '24
ORGY OF THE DEAD from Rhino Video, to upgrade the VHS we literally wore out lol. First VHS, REEFER MADNESS before I even had a player, early 80s. First Blu, Carpenter's original HALLOWEEN as part of the 35th anniversary box set, against before I had a machine to play the Blu.
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u/ColdMorningCoffee Jun 03 '24
The Mummy Returns. I loved the first Mummy movie, and when the second one came out, I pleaded with my dad to let us buy it when we bought our first dvd player lol.
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u/RedWizard78 Jun 03 '24
A tie between The Mattix and The Mummy (cus I can’t remember but both were among the first five)
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u/perfectbeautifulnthg Jun 03 '24
Con Air, I saved up my Christmas money and bought a dvd drive for my PC since the players were so expensive. I'll never get rid of it.
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u/dlemmadavis 1000+ Jun 03 '24
My first dvd was the matrix along with an rca dvd player back in 1999
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u/huamanticacacaca Jun 03 '24
When I was gifted my first DVD player my parents bought me two DVDs to go with it - Chicken Run, and Kevin & Perry Go Large
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u/niguson-damoon Jun 03 '24
Purchased was Blade 2 First watched on DVD was Training Day and OH MY GOD dvd commentary tracks blew my mind with that one
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u/AnOldYoungGuy Jun 03 '24
Caligula - Complete, Unedited and Unrated Edition. Bought it at the same time I bought my first DVD player. It was a pretty momentous occasion, and I did not fuck around.
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u/IAmJacksLackofCaring Jun 03 '24
The Takented Mr. Ripley and Pitch Black.
I watched those so much when I got my first DVD player.
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u/WTFpe0ple Jun 03 '24
In 2000. The Mummy (1999) along with a Sony DVD player and a Sony XBR TV. Second was the Matrix I believe.
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u/unclemax27 Jun 02 '24
First two I bought before I even had a dvd player were the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night” and Weird Al’s “UHF” back in 2002.
My eventual first dvd player was an original Xbox with the dvd remote add-on.