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three to stay:
Sin City
Sense and Sensibility
Tokyo Godfathers

three to go:
I, Robot (I have no excuse except Will Smith's abs)
(The new) Count of Monte Cristo (really, no excuse)
Transformers (I am weak to giant robots. Don't judge me.)

Three to show:
Twin Peaks Season One
Planet Earth
Big Trouble in Little China

Three to Go:

Beastmaster
Daredevil
Hell Comes to Frogtown

Three to stay:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer set
Groundhog Day
Serenity

(If he likes these, he's in with me!)

Three to hide:

Xanadu (shut up)
The Brave Little Toaster
Con Air and/or Demolition Man (I'd need to see his threshold for cheese before I whipped these out.)

Stay:
Resevoir Dogs
The Prestige
Fight Club

Shamed and Hidden:
Poolhall Junkies
Benny and Joon
A Boyfriend For Christmas (my mother's idea of a hint)

To Flaunt:
-City of God
-Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (a great LA movie for an LA pad)
-Fear and Loathing/Shaun of the Dead

To Hide:
-Real Genius
-Jackass Volume 1
-Unleashed

I too am massively ashamed, but I can't help myself.

Three to Show:
Bande à Part
Futurama Seasons
The Squid and the Whale

Three to Go:
King Kong Production Diaries
Where the Heart Is
Gladiator

To Show: The Warriors.
Quadrophenia
Harold and Maude.

(If Harold and Maude can't make you close the deal, you got no game, son)

To Hide:
Can't Hardly Wait (though I love it)
Best of the Three Stooges
Tommy

The Howard Stern movie was called Private Parts. You have not met shame until you've watched the speaker masterbation scene with your father and baby brother.

I am howling at my desk, because this is something I would totally forget to do and then hate myself for the next day.

DVD's to Show: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Evil Dead II, Grosse Pointe Blank.

DVD's to Go: My Big Fat Greek Wedding :dies inside admitting that:, Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (I...don't know), Midgets On Wheels. It was a birthday gag gift, you see. My friends in college and I had this joke...we were playing Would You Rather and...sigh. I'm done.

stay:
Buffy or Firefly or Serenity (i guess Joss only needs be representin' on one front)
"Ghostbusters"
"Dead And Breakfast" (sorry, you have to hang with the bad B horror/camp flicks to hang with me) or "Slither"

go:
"Parent Trap" (yeah, i have both versions on DVD)
"The Princess Diaries" (and i have a weakness for Dame Julie. She has been damed, right?)
"Happy Gilmore"

Stay:

The Big Lebowski (if he doesn't love this movie, he's gone --- and also, not human)

Grosse Pointe Blank (he should get used to my Cusack obsession as soon as possible)

Arrested Development (because it's Arrested Development -- "come on!!")

Hide:

A Knight's Tale (may Heath rest in peace)

The Notebook (though God help me, I love it)

Everything starring Julia Roberts

Show:
The Office box. The Princess Bride. The Godfather.

Go:
Death Race 2000. Hell Night. Wild Zero.

3 to show:
1. Arrested Development(all seasons!)
2. High Fidelity
3. Pride and Prejudice BBC version

3 to go:
1. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
2. Freedom Writers (I am sucker for those teahers making a difference movies)
3. Footloose

I mean "teachers" making a difference.

STAY:
Monty Python 16 Megaton Box Set
Strangers With Candy complete Trapper Keeper set
Brazil

GO:
Old School
Visitor Q
The Lone Gunmen complete series box set

Midgets On Wheels

Oh....oho no...you gotta tell me about this one....

And I'm never forgetting it, either....

Perfect Blue (anime, and sex scenes = potential turn-off if not properly screened)

Yeah, not so much the sex scene as the most brutal stabbing I think I've still ever scene on film.

... It almost made my stay list. *cough*

Also, Alabamapink, which Tori album dropped you off the wagon? It was Scarlet for me (which I've picked up more of an appreciation for lately) but the hints of it started with Choirgirl.

show:
election
y tu mama tambien
kids in the hall (plus brain candy!)

go:
center stage
rent
green street hooligans (i always get made fun of for my elijah wood love)

To stay:

Memento
Boondock Saints
Run, Lola, Run

Be gone!

The Island
Pride and Prejudice (Kiera Knightley edition)
Blades of Glory

Midgets On Wheels

Oh....oho no...you gotta tell me about this one....

And I'm never forgetting it, either....

Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at March 5, 2008 3:02 PM

Yeah, well, I'm never forgetting about Cruel Intentions 2!

It's midget porn. It was a 25th birthday gift. We played a LOT of Would You Rather in college...that's allll you need to know.

The Secret Garden/A Little Princess double disc set

Oh my God I totally also own this
Though it's not shameful enough to bury compared to some others

Show:
Big Trouble In Little China
Once
Swingers

Ditch:
Last House on the Left
Saw I, II, III
I Spit On Your Grave

Because nothing says, "I live in my mother's basement, and you won't ever leave here except in several non-descript trashbags" like torture porn and rape revenge films. Stupid grad-school film thesis paper.

Three to stay:
Waiting for Guffman
Arrested Development
Strangers with Candy (like Skittimus Maximus said, definitely the series, not the movie)

Three to go:
Newsies
13 Going on 30 (major guilty pleasure)
Joan of Arcadia (I have much love for this show & how its premise was executed, but it can't seem to beat its Touched By an Angel-ish reputation)

And TK....HELLS YEAH! on the Hell Comes to FrogTown love. That is right next to THEY LIVE in my Roddy Piper section of my DVDs. So bad they're awesome!

Julie, with regards to the midget porn, don't feel bad. a girlfriend of mine turned 18 her first semester and we gave her an animated "hansel & gretel" porn. the only difference was the witches house was a vagina and she had a garden of penises out back and she would hop from one to another saying "bouncy bouncy bouncy."

another friend of mine dropped acid for the fist time so we showed her "apocolypse climax II." the first line of the movie is "i looooove the smell of poohtang in da mornin'."

trust me, i know ALL about the "would you rather" games....

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

HA HA HA! PissBoy, I watched that on Sunday while folding laundry. " Sorry, but a toll is a toll. And a roll is a roll. And if we don't get no tolls, then we don't eat no rolls. ...I made that up."

If she judges me for having Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Chopping Mall, BiG, or RoboCop 2 in my collection along with the hundreds of excellent choices then FUCK HER! She's a swunty bitch who doesn't deserve my time.

And WORD, if a guy would care that much that I may or may not fall asleep to my copy of Sleepless in Seattle occasionally...then he's too big a tool to be with me. The only movie I would in all seriousness hide would be Midgets on Wheels, because, well...eww.

I'm not sure I own enough DVDs to actually play...

Three to show:
Lord of the Rings (what? fuck you.)
Royal Tenenbaums
and I'm stuck for a third--Big Fish? Out of Africa? Passion Fish? Truly, Madly, Deeply? Love Actually?

To hide:
ConAir (I technically have this on VHS)
Practical Magic (I liked it in the theatre, but it definitely did not hold up upon re-viewing...)
Possibly the entire set of Angel--I might not want to potentially scare him/her off at the outset.

And AlexacCastrate why in the world would you hide Real Genius?! That movie is not only hilarious, it actually holds up after 20+ years!

Three to show:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Rushmore
L.A. Confidential

Three to go:

Armafuckingeddon - I'm a DVD club slacker and didn't return my form, but I still own this turd for some reason
Love, Actually - I don't want someone to get the wrong impression
Private Parts - I watch it when I'm alone

STAY:
Friday: Before Chris Tucker went into self-imposed exile from overexposure, he was pretty damn funny.

Amelie: For the romantic sap in me.

A Clockwork Orange: So we can sadistically cheer on Alex DeLarge.

GO:
Spice World: I don't need to elaborate on this one.

Bad Boys: I love this movie, but it's a bad choice on a date, considering how great Will Smith looks in it. Ogling another guy while you're on a date is a bad idea.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Actually, this is a tape, and I have no idea why it's still in my possession. Please...don't ask.

MinorBlue, if hiding Orlando Bloom flicks count, well, that's half of my DVDs right there.

the only difference was the witches house was a vagina and she had a garden of penises out back and she would hop from one to another saying "bouncy bouncy bouncy."

I need a saline drip, I just cried out all of my liquids laughing at that. Oh. My. God. I need that movie.

Ooh, I would also proudly display The Goonies, because it's the best movie ever made.

Holy cow! I had a junior-high boyfriend who was IN LOVE with Big Trouble in Little China. TK?? Is that you?

So Three To Show:

Love Actually (If you can't enjoy Richard Curtis films, we might as well call it off now)

The Princess Bride

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Three to Go:

Austin Powers (oh, the shame - it was a gift, I swear)

The Burbs (I can't even explain)

Go Fish (dirty lesbians are more of a seventh-date reveal)

Did i mention it was a double feature? the other one was little red riding wood.

and yes, that's the real title. to say the wolf ate her would be an understatement...

Ami,

ok, let's be serious. gilmore girls. i've never watched a single episode (but i love lauren graham's "fuck me santa" bit in bad santa).

is it really worth the effort or is this something i should leave to the felicity/dawson's creek crowd?

Oh, wow, emilybee, how could I forget Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants? That one moves up to the top of my "Three to go" list.

...I'm even looking forward to the sequel. *hangs head*

DVDs to Show:

Gone With The Wind (shows I've got staying power)
Transformers (I can hang with the dudes)
Pride and Prejudice-Kiera Knightly version (I enjoy chick flicks but not the 80s ones)

DVDs to Hide:
The Care Bears Nutcracker
The Land Before Time
The My Little Pony Movie...I watch these when I get nostalgic, what?

Sticking around:
Arrested Development
The Office (BBC edition)
High Fidelity

Hide:
Princess Diaries
The Swan Princess
Skins (ridiculous British The O.C. style show)

Three to Stay:

A Fish Called Wanda- I appreciate humour! And Kevin Kline! And I like Monty Python!

Rushmore- I am quirky! I like Bill Murray! This is clearly the best Wes Anderson movie!

Heathers- I don't hate the 80s! I have an dark sense of humour! If you start killing people, I might forge a suicide note so that you don't get arrested!

Three to Hide:

Mulan (Special Edition)- I'm a psycho who has a creepy crush on animated men!

Neven Been Kissed- I wanted to sleep with my English teacher in highschool!

Goldeneye- I have seen every James Bond movie, and I might think Pierce Brosnan is the best Bond!

To Show: 1. The Philadelphia Story-Great writing, plus Jimmy Stewart, Katherine Hepburn, and Cary Grant, and one of the best drunk scenes in cinema. 2. Invader Zim-Cheery nihilistic animation.
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark-If you don't like this movie, you're not even getting to first base with me. To Go: 1. From Dusk to Dawn-It was a gift! 2. Abs of Steel-What?! This old thing!?! As if I need help in that area! 3. The Adventures of TinTin in Chinese-Must hide the depths of my pretentiousness for as long as possible.

To Show:
Serenity and/or Slither
Big Trouble in Little China (amen TK)
Usual Suspects

To Go:
Center Stage
Bad Boys 2
Steel Magnolias (Im a southern girl, it's like, required)

OMG I looooved Troop Beverly Hills. I didn't know it was on dvd though.

I forgot that I'd hide all my Harry Potter dvds and The Lord of the Rings super special 4 disk dvd sets. No guy wants to sleep with a girl with an unhealthy obsession with Viggo Mortenson.

To Show: Firefly, Almost Famous, Iron Giant

To Go: The Real Cancun (a gift that I don't think I've even unwrapped), The Best of Survivor Season One, The Wiz (impulse bargain bin buy based on incorrectly fond childhood memories)

DVDs to go: The Last Unicorn...

tt_marie...I proudly display my copy. Don't be ashamed of your love of animated fantasy

To Show:

Princess Bride
Miller's Crossing
Papillon

To Go:

The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Showgirls
Teenage Strangler

3 to show:
1. freaks and geeks
2. arrested development (only season one, unfortunately it's the only one i own)
3. dr. strangelove

3 to hide:
1. freaky friday, the one with lohan
2. any of the random disney movies i happen to own
3. seven brides for seven brothers (although i am quite fond of that movie..well, most musicals for that matter. don't look at me like that)

Show:
Sixteen Candles
The PRincess Bride

To show:
Shaun of the Dead, Scrubs collection, LA Confidential

To go: Music and Lyrics (I'm powerless against Hugh Grant as an aging pop star), Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (I'm also powerless against Diego Luna busting out dance moves), and this God-awful movie called "Totally Blonde" that I bought for $3 and haven't watched since I bought it. (Michael Buble's in it, saw it on cable one night, thought it was lame, but, uh, had $3 to spare. Whaddya want?)

Show:
Sixteen Candles
The Princess Bride
The Sound of Music

Go:
Footloose
Flashdance
The Karate Kid

I came up in the 80's. My tastes are broader than this list would imply, it's just that the only movies I actually own are, well, this kind of stuff.

Show:
1. Sandlot
2. Casablanca
3. Flight of the Conchords

Go:
1. Dirty Dancing (yeah it was a gift, but who doesn't love some "She's like the Wind"?)
2. Just Like Heaven (Mark Ruffalo...)
3. Notre Dame de Paris (French musical, kind of weird)

Mella: Not only will I be showing my copy of Princess Bride, I have the book prominently displayed as well.

tt_marie: I didn't own that as a freshman in college. I wish I did. I love that movie... probably too much. But I don't try to hide it.

Ooooh this is fun! I want to play!

Three For Show:

1. Cinema Paradiso
2. The Office, UK both seasons (including the Christmas special)
3. Adaptation

Three To Go:

1. Somewhere In Time
2. Never Been Kissed
3. You've Got Mail

Three Just For Laughs (I thought that'd be a nice touch):

1. Airplane!
2. The Cutting Edge
3. Hot Shots
(I deeply admire all three of these films).

Umm...yeah....I have all the muppet movies on dvd (including the newer ones, but not the wizard of oz one...I have my standards), and I have the first two seasons and looking to get the rest. Strangely enough, I hated Fraggle Rock. I don't know why...Muppets were always so much cooler.

I guess I should stop now before I admit to having the Gummi Bears too ("bouncing here and there and everywhere!")...

I forgot my Firefly. Have to show the Firefly.

I'd be completely screwed if any potential nookie was to see my room at all, much less my dvd collection (I like whores and Unicorns.

Stay:
Fight Club (possibly with a flashing light above it saying "LOOK I OWN FIGHT CLUB")
The Evil Dead Trilogy
Anything I Own with Audrey Hepburn in it (the gig will soon be up anways)

Go:
Josie and the Pussycats
The Little Mermaid (which makes me cry, and that I can quote from heart)
Spice World (...it was actually very funny)

you aren't alone. though i'm more of a great muppet caper man myself, but i have no shame in my muppet love.

Me too, Great Muppet Caper is my favorite!

"You are all WEIRDOS!"

I went to the Philadelphia Flower Show the other day and they had an Oscar the Grouch made of ivy and flowers. My friends had to restrain me to keep me from stealing it.

Show:

The West Wing
His Girl Friday
Firefly

Go:

Empire Records.
Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease.
Homemade copies of MacGyver on VHS. (I loved him when I was 5, okay? Lay off, or I shall destroy you with a gum wrapper, a racing bike, and a rusty nail. DON'T THINK THAT I CAN'T.)

I live with my girlfriend and I still have a closet of shame (all VHS, mind you) that makes me cringe whenever she opens it doors.

NEXT TO THE TV:
1) Twin Peaks Gold Box Edition
2) Bottle Rocket
3) Brokeback Mountain (her father gave her a look when he visited for the first time)

CLOSET OF SHAME'D:
1) Armageddon
2) The Rock
3) Con-Air

ALL VHS! I WAS THIRTEEN!!! And yet, I not too long ago had a Bruckheimer triple feature with the guys. I don't remember if I slept on the couch that night.

Stay:
Sports Night - complete series
Meerkat Manor - season 2
The Film Crew: Wild Women of Wongo
-These are actually on my coffee table right now. At least they'll know what they're getting into...

Go:
Grey's Anatomy - season 1 (it wasn't that bad then??)
Bridget Jones's Diary
Napoleon Dynamite

Show:

Gone with the Wind (my favorite movie of all time, and if he objects, he's out)
LOST box set (S1&2)
A Bronx Tale

Go:

The Neverending Story
Hope Floats
Doctor Who S1&2 (I'd need more time to see if he's compatible with my hardcore British geek love)

em, maybe that's what it was. I felt like Jim was cheating on me by making this other show that had no Kermit! I mean, wtf? What are the Muppets without Kermit? Hmph...

[feels a strangely powerful compulsion to watch Muppets Take Manhattan tonight]

i don't know why some of you are hiding 13 going on 30. mark ruffalo doing the thriller dance is worth the price alone.

the great muppet caper love! "fake vomit" sends my sister and i into hysterics every time. while we're on the subject of muppets, emmet otter's jugband christmas is a must watch. if you don't love the riverbottom nightmare band, you get no love from me.

and i want that amoldovar box set.

Shadows Muppet Wizard of Oz is worth it just for the dialogue between Pepe and Gonzo Tinman about his many nose attachments, and their functions, and the awkward fundling of his TinMan nipples.

Three to Show:
1. Venture Bros running on my television, specifically episode Victor.Echo.November.
2. Deadwood season 1-3. If you don't know who Al Swearengen is then I'm not going to be your Trixie.
3. Legally Blonde, and I'm not afraid to admit it bitches.

Three to Hide:
1. Constatine- God, I hate myself for just writing that.
2. Mission Impossible III, I love watching action movies when I decide to study.
3. The 1/3 of my DVD collection that consist of musicals ranging from the amazingly horrible Seven Brides For Seven Brothers to the gem of Funny Girl-whose CD I own and listen to at least once a day, particularly the song People. "People, who need people...."
I love you Barbra!

ps. Kudos to April 3.

Hey Scott,

Three words: Steve Fucking Vai.

Show:
The Prisoner
Farscape Season 1
The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr.

I'm secure in the hipness of each of these shows. Clever writing, masculine and self-assured main characters - Each would make for fine date night viewing.

Bury and Forget:
Star Trek: Voyager: Next Generation, Deep Space 9, and the Original Series can stay, but no more than two seasons each. Voyager, however, is just indefensible.
Jack of all Trades: Sorry, Bruce, but this show just wasn't that good. Probably the worst thing Bruce Campbell appeared in until Spider-Man 3.
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail. Scientific studies have shown that quoting this film produces such a high level of nerdiness that it can actually cause the breakdown of estrogen molecules. I'll smuggle away Meaning of Life too, but Flying Circus can stay.

And Julie-- double word on the Goonies. best.movie.ever. in fact, my top through really could be Goonies, Labyrinth, and The Princess Bride.

Posted by: lizzieborden at March 5, 2008 3:59 PM

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Lizzie...I love you.

And Julie-- double word on the Goonies. best.movie.ever. in fact, my top through really could be Goonies, Labyrinth, and The Princess Bride.

Lizzie, if there is a god, we shall one day be friends :)

hehe...lizzieborden, you got yourself a fanbase going. If I saw those movies prominently displayed on a girl's coffee table, I would bend down and propose right then and there.

If I saw those movies prominently displayed on a girl's coffee table, I would bend down and propose right then and there.

Seriously, if I found out that a guy I was dating hated those movies...well, I wouldn't dump him, but I would certainly question our compatibility.

I just added Cyndi Lauper's "Goonies are Good Enough" to my iPod...please boys, form an orderly line, there's enough of me to go around.

Sorry, Julie. Please don't crush me with your thighs.

I wouldn't dare, Brian, I would just shoot you and write "Ho ho ho now I have a machine gun" on your shirt :p

3 to stay:
1) Anything with Simon Pegg
2) DOCTOR WHO stays out, baby....(he might as well face it now!)
3) Deadwood/SFU/Sopranos/Rome

3 to go:
1) 10 Commandments
2) Legal Eagles (hey, Redford used to be hot)
3) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (there is no excuse......it's just.....awful)

Hey Scott,

Three words: Steve Fucking Vai.

Posted by: Brian at March 5, 2008 3:58 PM

brian, oh thank god! i was roommates with a (straight!) guy who loved the brit-brit version for some reason.

i haven't seen the vai version for awhile now. i used to have the vinyl soundtrack but i think my dad stole it when he moved to the lakehouse.

3. There is a film in my collection that I can't even remember the name of at the moment. I just know it starred Sarah Michelle Gellar and had something to do with magic, intoxicating food and it is all kinds of awful. I only own it because my mother accidentally bought herself 2(!) copies, so she gave me the extra.

Posted by: s. pisaster at March 5, 2008 4:22 PM

that would be called "Simply Irresistable" also with sean patrick flannery. you're right. it's goddamn awful, painful in fact.

Oh, thank God no one reads down this far because my to hide list is a bit (okay - very) embarrassing.

To stay:

All of my Jane Austen
40 Year Old Virgin

To go:

All my Disney animated films (what can I say, I am seriously in touch with my inner child - she must have what she wants or she gets quite bitchy). The man who ultimately finds this endearing gets to keys to my heart and my pants.

Christ I fucking love you people.

1. Pissboy: You have a Roddy Piper section? I have a newfound respect for you.

2. lizzieborden, MG, etc: Anyone who knows me knows that I adore BTiLC above all other movies. Seriously. The greatest gift I've ever been given was the Egg Shen action figure.

For those who love the muppets and want their shirts, keep your eyes peeled. I found a Beaker shirt at Target and picked up a black and white Animal shirt several years ago at a Hot Topic. Check E-bay, they have a ton of muppets stuff on E-bay.

I also wouldn't hide any movies from a date, but I should probably hide some from my MIL who likes to borrow movies that she hasn't seen including:

1. Caligula
2. The Red Shoe Diaries
3. Tales from the Kama Sutra

When I told her I liked foriegn films she thought I said porn and just kinda dazed off into the distance. Oh well.

Three movies I would push:
1. The Boondock Saints
2. GunShy (Oliver Platt is so funny in this, and it has Liam Neeson)
3. The Usual Suspects

Oh Brian, I seriously miss Dr. Katz...

SoD - The problem with leaving The Last Unicorn in plain view is as follows:
1) Anyone who sees this sitting on my coffee table is going to ask what the hell it is - i.e., why does a 26 year old girl have a cartoon about unicorns sitting around her apartment
2) When I try to defend it, they'll laugh, and then they'll want to see it becuase it looks weird and funny and because I'll have spent a half an hour passionately describing its importance in film and in my life
3) THEN I'll be forced to watch it in front of them and I'll inevitably BAWL MY EYES OUT when Amalthea decides to stay in unicorn form and if that isn't fucking embarassing (and a deal breaker), I don't know what is.

We've had a similar comment diversion before, and once again I am mystified by what embarrasses some of you.

Muppet Movie? Really? How could you be ashamed of the greatest road trip movie ever?

There are many others here that I could question similarly. Many of you ladies would have nothing to worry about if I were visiting your apartment, but maybe I'm the weirdo.

I'd hide nothing. I own it. I enjoy it (or there is some story as to why I have it). Deal with it.

Yeah, I'm dying alone too.

tt_marie,

Awww...but just think, it'd be a great excuse for the guy to cuddle you and try to comfort you. That might be worth it?

Darth, I too, am surprised by some people's choices...but then again, I'm also a fantasy and anime geek with like-minded friends and an English degree.

yeah, I think I'm dying alone too.

Ye gods, I don't own enough DVDs to play! I'd hide the copy of Cruel Intentions that my little brother lent me over a year ago (which I never did watch).

The Greg the Bunny series would definitely stay. Jack (VHS) stays too. Uhhh....Oh yeah, Catch-22 stays! I think I'll keep dad's Airplane VHS prominently displayed. Don't think I have any more to hide. Some may argue my VHSs of Jack and Hook should be hidden (burned?), but I feel no shame.

To those who plan on hiding Robin Hood: Men In Tights, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, and Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail (really??), feel free to give them to me if you decide to just toss them, eh? I loved those movies! Really should own them, actually...

PissBoy...hells yes.

Lickoriche, was that Kama Sutra the version with Sarita Choudhury & Naveen Andrews? 'Cause I kinda like that one.

Hee! Brie I sat through that entire film because I thought Indira Varma was the prettiest woman I have ever seen. :)

Show:
Firefly and Serenity (Special tin boxed editions from Australia)
The Prisoner (Complete Series boxed set)
Cowboy Bebop (The Remastered Series in 5.1 Dolby)

Go:
Monkeybone
Hick Trek: The Moovie
Dirty Duck

I'm a hardcore nerd, and proud of it!

Three To Show:

1) Notes On A Scandal
2) K-PAX (I quite like it, and every girl I've ever watched it with has loved it).
3) Ocean's Eleven (a very enjoyable flick in it's own right, plus you can't help but score 'comfortable with my sexuality' points when you leave a George Clooney/Brad Pitt movie in full view).

Three To Go:

1) My Steven Seagal 8-movie boxset (no explanation required).
2) Alone In The Dark (I bought it from a bargain bin for £3 knowing damn well how bad it was, just for the purposes of drunkenly mocking it).
3) Visitor Q (just in case they think I'm an utter and total freak - they don't get to find that out until date five).

Three to show:
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. In the Mood for Love
3. Dragonslayer (If she can't handle this, it wasn't meant to be.)

Three to Go:
1. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (No need to geek out entirely)
2. Starman (No guilt for loving this movie, but the fact it's not in widescreen irritates me so much I don't like admitting I have it.)
3. Sex and Lucia (I just like foreign movies! My ownership of this has nothing to do with Paz Vega's sanity-threatening hotness and frequent nudity! I swear!)

HOPIT!
"I'd be completely screwed if any potential nookie was to see my room at all, much less my dvd collection (I like whores and Unicorns.)"

that totally made my day. Oh god. That is fucking priceless

Alabamapink;

Completely agree with you on Beekeeper (I'm thinking somehow we had this conversation on a thread already, but I'm always repeating myself), but the strange thing is my friend got the limited edition LP and there's a song on the DVD called 'Garlands' and it's old Tori. All the power, all the awesome, all the beauty, and all I could do was just wonder why it wasn't on the actual album.

She's still doing the old Tori awesome, but it's hidden on bonus tracks and live concert stuff. Very wierd.

Julie: I actually have Rainbow Brite & the Star Stealer on a ViewMaster reel! It was my favourite out of the two reels I had.

My fiance doesn't understand my affinity for Red Dwarf, Mystery Science Theater 3000 or any pre-color cinema (He could barely stay awake through Jimmy Stewart's Destry Rides Again or The Thin Man--I didn't have the heart to make him sit through Philadelphia Story.) but since I am perfect in every other way he overlooks my idiosyncracies.

To Show:
1)All the Family Guy DVDs (I'm pretty sure my longest relationships have lasted so long because the boys love to borrow the Griffin Fam)
2)Secretary (so hot)
3)Toss up between Detroit Rock City and Rock'n'Roll High School

To Go:
1) Clueless
2) The Quiet (someone convinced me to buy this, and as hot as elisha cuthbert is, that's fucked up)
3) Meet Me in St. Louis (I love it, but others don't quite understand)

ps why on earth would you ever want to hide brave little toaster?!?!

hopping on late to this here bandwagon, i'll try for ones that don't reconfirm that pajiba-ites apparently share a dvd collection...

3 to stay on prominent display:

pieces of april

suicide kings

the american president (i'm a sucker for the "i am the president" speech - gotta love me, warts and all...)


3 to be hidden in the basement:

50 first dates

notting hill

my best friend's wedding (also technically on vhs)

apparently trying to hide that my disdain for chick lit doesn't carry over to chick flicks...

Stay, and proudly so
1. Veronica Mars Season 1
2. Battlestar Galactica Season 1
3. Little Miss Sunshine (saw it before any of my friends)

Go, in shame
1. Willow (what the hell was I thinking?)
2. Babel (...I don't know why I bough it)
3. Transformers (the first season of the classic TV series...I love it but I wouldn't show it to my date

@Brian & Scott:
I own the vinyl & dvd for Crossroads - I love anything about the blues, even cliched Hollywood cheese/crap. YES, that includes Black Snake Moan (Dustin can bite me).

It's hard to believe someone dissed Bride & Prejuidice up top & nobody even commented. What's not to like in Americanized Bollywood? It's worth owning just for the beauty of Aishwarya Rai, & their version of Austen's story is as good as any.

For my normal (Pajibafied taste of course I own everything by the Coens & Whedon, plan to get Freaks & Geeks.

I highly recommend Wonderfalls & Joan of Arcadia.
Blast me now for the sacrilidge, for I, too, refuse to be shamed.

Show:

-Firefly
-Meet the Muggles
-Strictly Ballroom/Moulin Rouge (I have an unhealthy love of Baz Luhrman)

Hide:
-Catwoman (haven't seen it, got it as a gift)
-Black Beauty (no, not the porn version)
-Princess Diaries (I don't own it, but if I did, I'd want to hide it)

FUCK ME!

as often as I've been accused of sacrilege I really ought to learn to spell it.

What else did I bugger up?

Stay:
(1) Dark Crystal
(2) Seven Samurai
(3) Apocalypse Now

Go:
(1) Patton
(2) Pixar collection
(3) Legally Blonde

...from Dill the Devil

"My Steven Seagal 8-movie boxset (no explanation required)"

Oh! If there's a prize? Dill wins. Steven Seagall. 8-movie. Boxset.

*genuflects*

That's some crunchy badness right there.

LOL... I don't think smoking green and posting is going well for me today!

You know...there is NOTHING wrong with Willow, The Muppet Movie, or The Neverending Story.

*pauses, thinking*

And actually...there's NOTHING wrong with the LASTMOTHERFUCKINGUNICORN. It's a good movie!!Nothing wrong with it!!! NOTHING!!

*takes deep breath*

So I will NOT be removing it from my coffee table, and I will watch it every week if I feel like it!!!!

And to anyone who has a problem with Amalthea, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Atreyu, or Madmartigan: I WILL DEFEND THE HONOR OF MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MOVIES AT ANY COST. Come and get it, you cold-hearted bastards! I got fingernails, high heels, a big purse, and...and some um, ah, pens that I can use as darts!...and my FISTS, you fuckers!

Also, I've been at work for 11 hours. Which is depressing.

Four to show:
Royal Tennenbaums
A Hard Day's Night
Grosse Point Blank
I heart Huckabees

Three to go:
The Lake House
The Phantom of the Opera (the new one)
Josie and the Pussycats

haha case in point, all my tags got messed up.

*sigh*

it would be so much better if I could at least have a beer while doing billing...

I give up.

Stella - hey, it happens.

And I love that all this work doesn't stop us from wasting time on Pajiba. Nice.

Three to show:
Serenity
Stranger Than Fiction
The Philadelphia Story/Roman Holiday (Depending on how girly I'm feeling.)

Three to hide:

While You Were Sleeping (Romantic comedy weakness. I have others that are even more embarrassing, but none I love as much as this.)
Drop Dead Fred. (I really can't explain this one.)
Blade 3 (You can blame Ryan Reynolds for being lickable.)

Oh my god, Mara, the Spongebob Movie is SO funny. My brother and I almost wet ourselves when we first saw it...I...have problems.

And nice shout out to the Brak Show, we used to watch that in college.

DVDs to show: Fargo, Fight Club, Freaks and Geeks

DVDs to go: Troy, Sweet Home Alabama, Titanic

Show:
Rosemary's Baby, Dogville, King of Zombies - Justification: must make sure her priorities are straight. If she can't hack it with psychological horror, devastating drama, and very offensive horror films, the relationship probably won't work out to well in the end.

Go:
From Justin to Kelly, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Justification: As much as I love J2K, you can't bust that shiz out till you really trust someone; Exorcist II: The Heretic, though one of my favorites, is one of the most reviled films of all time and could be a bad topic of discussion for I will get high and mighty and defend it to the death; and Hedwig sends the wrong kind of message, as awesome as it is.

:laughs my ass off:

I would be honored, Shadows.

Man, if I knew that quoting Willow would garner a marriage proposal I would do it more often. :)

"You're MOTHER was a lizard!"

Show:
Once Were Warriors
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
American Psycho

Go:
Family Guy Seasons 1 & 2
The Crow
Insane Clown Pussy (Yes you read that right, clown porn. My friends give the worst/best gifts)

Insane Clown Pussy (Yes you read that right, clown porn. My friends give the worst/best gifts)

Man, I'm discovering all these weird facts about the intimate habits of the Pajibaverse.

jen310, I totally feel you on the Disney inner child. I visited my parents house at Christmas and stole all of my beloved Disney classic VHS tapes back to prominently display them beside both my original Star Wars boxset AND the special edition boxset.

... I feel I've revealed too much.

clown porn

You know, it's not like I don't have a vague recognition of stuff like this being out in the world somewhere. But, oh, the horror that has just risen up from the screen to smite me.

*sobs* CLOWNS BAD! GO AWAY!

Stew, Sekhmet's right - The Crow could get you laid with the right person. Said person's toenails are probably painted black even as we speak.

Sekhmet: Because I'm an idiot and completely forgot about American Vampire ($2 bad "horror" movie, Carmen Electra, no boobs, I need new friends). Memory ain't what it used to be. Upon further perusal, you could also throw in Walking Tall 3: The Final Chapter.

Also, Sekhemt was a badass Samurai Trooper, though my favorite was Dais. For no reason really. If you're referring to Egyptian mythology don't mind my ramblings.

Clown porn is absolutely hilarious in its horror.

Show:

Reservior Dogs - I use this one to impress. I've never seen it and probably wouldn't like it but he likely has and did.

The Usual Suspects - I use this one to initiate conversation. "When did YOU figure it out?"

The Princess Bride - Blatantly honest about my character yet not uncool. Any guy would respect the sword fight scenes, at least.

Turf:

LOTR 1, 2, 3 - They were freeee, ok?

Cheaper by the Dozen - Bought for me.

The Dukes of Hazzard - Simiilar story.

Hey now, this show was on Fox, an absolute bastion of Americanism (Before Cartoon Network of course). We're in the clear.

Sage was the best good guy, yes.

Three to Show

1. Iron Monkey
2. King Kong (1933)
3. Serenity

Three to Go
1. The Complete Andy Sidaris Collection
2. Search and Destroy
3.Cat Man in Lethal Track

Pissboy: much love for "They Live!" Longest fight scene in the history of movies I believe. Plus, the south park where they recreated the fight was AWESOME!
That movie and Maximum Overdrive are the best cheesy, awful, unintentionally funny movies ever!
Do I even want to know what that says about me?

Show:

Little Miss Sunshine
any/all Arrested Development
The Royal Tenenbaums

Hide:
Bring it On: All or Nothing at All
Annie
the final episode of Friends

Sekhmet, I knew I recognized your name from somewhere! Trying not to go off topic, but it's so fucking refreshing to see someone else who liked Samurai Troopers. Although I knew it as the Ronin Warriors. ;)

show:
goodfellas
thank you for smoking (i love that movie, and i can't explain why)
the big lebowski

go:
bring it on
sugar and spice
spiceworld (i was in 6th grade when i bought it...oh fuck it, i bought it when i was drunk on a midnight wally world run)

Three to show:
The eiger sanction
Romeo is Bleeding
Dean Bang

Three to go:
giana Micheals
Katja
Lexx Steel

Three to show:
The Eiger Sanction
Romeo is Bleeding
Dean Bang

Three to go:
Giana Michaels
Katja Kassin
Lexx Steel

Three to stay:

Lost in Translation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Clue (because anyone who doesn't like it is dead to me, anyway)

To go:

Kung Pow (my friends in college were obsessed with it and it's sort of funny in a really, really, really low-brow sort of way, okay?)

Silent Hill (it's my husband's, which kind of makes the whole question moot, anyway, but whatever)

. . . can't think of a third one, because I would probably just pass anything else off as a guilty pleasure, and I figure that my taste is still better than most people's . . .

I have to agree with Sarina - I'm far more likely to showcase my X-files, animu, Bale collection (including Equilibrium, because you can never tell me that movie was not awesome), my serial killer antihero junk, and old dude + probably not legal girl stuff than hide it away like it shames me.
I don't date, but if for some strange reason I decided to start, I'd hide none of my interests. If the fact that I like Humbert Humbert and Patrick Bateman (and wish they were members of my family) freaks anyone out, it's because they're too weak to handle my immense power level.

I'm not even going to read the other comments until after I post. Often times, I find myself being influenced by other comments.

To Show:
1. Stripes - It's my favorite, what can I say
2. Beautiful Girls - I love it and I can watch it over and over again
3. Weeds Season 1 & 2 - I can't get anyone else I know to watch this show. I love it and I have no one to talk to about it. Maybe the new beau will pick it up and ask about it

To Go
1. The Cliffhanger/Vertical Limit double feature - Hey, I like really bad movies. Now That I've typed this, I think I'm going to have to go put it on

2. Grey's Anatomy Boxed Set Season 1,2 & 3 - I'll only hide it because apparently it's cool to hate this show

3. Bare Escentuals Getting Started Make-up DVD - I can't throw away Books, CDs or DVDs so sadly I have this DVD in alphabetical order with the rest of them. I got it when I bought some make-up. At least it hasn't been unwrapped

TO SHOW:
Bottle Rocket
Three Colours Trilogy
Withnail & I

TO GO:
Save The Last Dance
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Woman On Top

I would display proudly:
-Peewee's Playhouse: season 1
-Casablanca
-Amadeus
-V for Vendetta
hide:
Bleau, Blanc, Rouge set(I know, the pretense -- shame)
Pride and Prejudice - yes with Kiera -- gad!
LOTR (the Viggo thing -- can't help it)

"...except for the stuff I garnered over the years that I preferrably watch alone when I'm very lonely and wouldn't want my mom to know I have."

As long as it's not midget or clown porn.

uh oh...

American Beauty
Pulp Fiction
Shaun of the Dead

Hollywood Homicide
Bulletproof Monk
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemena

I think clown midget porn will just open a hole in the fabric of space if it were ever created. The sheer horrorificness of the idea would be enough to send everybody in a five mile radius into Cthulhuian madness. Mankind itself will be sucked into the nethers of space, doomed to spend all eternity lamenting their tenuous hold on sanity, as the folds of time close around them and draw them into a chilling future of pain and suffering.

Or, you know...really be awful. Either or.

Well then I'll stop fantasizing 'bout it, for the sake of the planet.

There goes another career choice of the list, I'll have you know we're only three strikes left from jazz clarinetist.

I really wish everyone would stop hating on Love, Actually. I LOVED IT.

I cringe everytime I read apologies for - gasp! - seeing it and liking it even a little....
There are FAR worse movies, people.

Midget clown porn does exist. But as far as I know, it is midget with clown, not midget as clown. Though I know of far worse porn.

Bonus points, anyone???

Stay:
Amorres Perros
Home Movies season 3
Once Upon a Time in the West

Go:
Pootie Tang
Kung Pao: Enter the Fist
Boondock Saint

The first two are still good for a laugh at the right scenes, but I really need to just throw Boondock Saints away. It deserves it. I really fucking hate that movie and people who love it.

Lickoriche, was that Kama Sutra the version with Sarita Choudhury & Naveen Andrews? 'Cause I kinda like that one.

Nope, that one is called "a tale of love", the one I have is "the perfumed garden". It is about a guy who can't get it up for his lady but is obsessed with a statue in India. It is revealed that he is the reincarnation of the statue's lover who is doomed to impotence except with her. The statue becomes a woman when she feels her lovers presence or something like that.

It was a horrible movie that I would love to get rid of, but my husband has an unnatural attachment to dvds and will not let me get rid of even duplicates. I have a feeling that in like 10 years I will kinda remember the plot and mistakingly think I liked it and pick it up again on amazon or something only to be dissapointed yet again.

Stay:
Invader Zim, because if he can't watch morbid cartoons, I don't wanna know.
Spaced / Black Books, because slackers and misanthropes should be everyone's kettle of fish.
Homicide, because it was the best damn show on television.

Go:
Mad About You, because you might as well hang a sign around your neck saying, "Love me! Love my neurotic bitchiness! And my weird dog!"
Kenan and Kel, because they crack me up, but I don't know anyone over five who feels the same way.
Mama's Family, because the kitsch factor is lethal.

Oh, and Paddydog? Stop messin' abaht!

because he was afraid I would suck out his soul, glue some yarn on it and use it as a sock puppet.

What else would you do with it? I thought that's what puppets were?

I picked up my copies of Pinky and the Brain, Gummi Bears, and Animaniacs from Amazon.

I am not ashamed of too much, as I naturally believe I have great taste. I would just be adding to the Always Sunny/Arrested Development love.

I ways thinking I would hide the porn (just 2) until the time....or never. And the Paula Deen cooking and knitting instructional dvds.

I have never been more freaked the fuck out as I am now, discovering there is CLOWN PORN! Sweet Baby Jebus, there has never been a girl with a worse case of Coulrophobia than me. And being a resident in a children's hospital means my life has been full of them.

"cant sleep, clowns will eat me"

Must add:

Honorable mention to display
-Wes Anderson anything. I own TRT and Rushmore. I love them like children.
-Novocaine

Honorable mention to put away

-Drive me Crazy (I don't care. I'll give Clarissa/Sabrina a chance no matter what she's in)
-2GethR. MTV movie. Squeee.

To Stay:
1. Terminator 2
2. The Prestige
3. Clerks

To Go:
1. Love Actually
2. 3 Ninjas (1-3.. don't judge me.)
3. Mean Girls

Display:
1. American Psycho (I am so cool and like, understand themes!)
2. Love & Death (I have a good sense of humor!)
3. Die Hard (I like violence and Alan Rickman!)

Hide:
1. Don't Tell Mom, The Babysitter's Dead (I have no taste!)
2. Weekend at Berine's 2 (Actually, bad taste!)
3. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (I REALLY like Alan Rickman!)

Soo late but whatever:

3 to show:
Fight Club, steelbox edition
Superbad, deluxe edition
Big Lebowski

3 to hide:
The Birdcage
Only You
Wish Upon a Star-my biggest guilty pleasure movie.

AlexacCastrate
"that totally made my day. Oh god. That is fucking priceless"

To be fair, they're the classy unicorns and whores.

I own plenty of shameful DVDs - including, of all things, Barber Shop AND Beauty Shop ... damn you Movie Gallery, buy 2 get 2 free - but I doubt I'd try to hide any of them. I'm more of a "here's who I am - deal with it" kind of person. But I would judge the person based on their reaction to two of my faves - Eternal Sunshine and Almost Famous - and their ability to get over the fact that my other fave is Annie.

Fuck, why am I always late to these?

3 to show:
Das Boot
Buffy Season 7
GoodFellas

3 to Go:
Walk Away the Pounds
Titanic (on VHS)
Castaway (on VHS)

In my defense, I did not purchase turds 2 & 3...they were "gifts" in exchange for signing up for new long distance/cable/etc, and even the local "we buy your tired shit" emporium now disdains them. Something in me cannot bear the waste and clings, in case I might need extra coasters, or get held hostage in my living room and have to MacGyver myself an emergency radio out of old videotape. I do hide them, though, when decent and/or fuckable people show up.

As for Walk Away the Pounds...whatever. I'm a spazz on my feet and too poor for a treadmill. When it rains, walking in place is all I can do without falling over or spilling my drink.