The DVD Game

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Hey movie buffs!

So it's no great secret that we are living in a digital age. If you want to watch a movie, you don't even have to leave your house; just download it (maybe even pay for it) and watch. However, I still buy DVDs, not only because on occasion I found one I liked enough to throw a few bucks the studio's way, but also to play a little game I came up with for myself. You know that feeling you get when you watch a movie and you go "HOLY SHIT! [Actor] is in this movie?!" Well, I made a game around that feeling. I suppose I could do this with digital movies, but personally I find it easier to have something I can lay hands on. At any rate, the rules of the DVD game go as follows:

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THE DVD GAME

EASY MODO
Line up your movies in a "chain", with each "link" being an actor or actress that the two linked movies have in common.

NORMAL MODO
You can't use the same actor or actress twice in a row.

HARD MODO
Ever.

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So far, my longest unbroken chain is 11 movies. On hard mode, which is tricky given all the Johnny Depp movies I have. This is one of the reasons I'm kinda glad that Tim Burton movies tend to have the same central group of actors in them, and also why I tend to look for movies that have a bunch of repeating actors, such as Fight Club (Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter).

So! Take stock, line 'em up, and tell me what your longest chain is!

 

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I am also a DVD buyer and theatre goer, but I have way too many DVD's in perfect order to mess them up making a chain...sounds like a great idea though, maybe when I do my *every 6 month re-sorting* of my collection i'll try it

I tend to favour actors though, so I have a lot of movies with my favorite actors in them.

Like for example I own every single Winona Ryder movie, along with my top 5 favorite male actors and top 5 female actresses.

1. Brad Pitt
2. Adam Brody
3. Cam Gigandet
4. Joseph Gordon-levitt
5. Jack O'connel

1. Winona Ryder
2. Audrey Hepburn
3. Jena Malone
4. Carey Mulligan
5. Chloë Moretz

I own pretty much every movie with those 10 actors in them! *Except "Five Star Day" argggg

I tend to sort my movies into categories of general subject (and for sake of "Hot Fuzz" and "Shaun of the Dead" and the final bit of the Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy I count "Simon Pegg" as a category) and then sub-categories of how likely I am to watch the movie in the near future.

I also sort my Magic cards much the same way.

edit: Shit! I forgot to put this in! Here's a chain from your first actor to your first actress!

Start with Brad Pitt (Se7en)
Brad Pitt to Edward Norton (Fight Club)
Edward Norton to Danny DeVito (Death to Smoochy)
Danny DeVito to Michael Keaton (Batman Returns)
Michael Keaton to Winona Ryder (Beatlejuice)

And hell, if you go backwards, you can get a chain from Se7en to Bruce Almighty (Morgan Freeman) to Batman Forever (Jim Carrey) that loops back to Batman Returns! (The butler! It's always the butler!)