Top 30 Actors Who Appear In My Collection The Most (10 -1)

And so we are at the Top 10 of actors.

10 - Danny DeVito (36)

Danny DeVito is an actor I enjoy but does feel like he sort of sneaked his way into the top 10.

Most Wanted - I'd go with Goin' South, Hoffa and The Rainmaker, from a TV point of view I'll go with both Taxi Season Four and Season Five.

9 - Alec Baldwin (36)


Alec Baldwin, - not to go to much on the SNL theme, but he is certainly one of the best friends of the show with many memorable hosting outings but also cast in 30 Rock.

Most Wanted - Top of the list is 30 Rock Season Four and Season Five. Movie wise I'd go with The Hunt For Red October, She's Having A Baby and Great Balls Of Fire.

8 - Jim Carrey (37)


I've known of Jim Carrey even before his big break into leading man status with Ace Ventura, this was thanks to his stint on In Living Color and the movies Earth Girls Are Easy and The Dead Pool.

Most Wanted - I guess A Christmas Carol because that's all I need of his recent stuff. Go back in time and say Copper Mountain aswell, he also as a small role in the Clint Eastwood movie Pink Cadillac.

7 - John Wayne (38)

It's not always cool to enjoy John Wayne. Okay some of his performances might be a bit iffy and in some cases he's just playing  a very similar character

John Wayne could be a future number one on the list just by the sheer number of films he's done and that are available, and there still quite a few of his works that are genuiene must haves.

Most Wanted - The first few films that come to mind are The Quiet Man, They Were Expendable and The Green Berets.

6 - Dick Miller (39)

The legend that is Dick Miller - a favourite of Roger Corman and Joe Dante, it wasn't a shock to me he would get so high on the list because I just love the guy and clearly a lot of directors do too.

Most Wanted - One of his rare starring roles A Bucket Of Blood. Some other wants are the 1993 movie Shake, Rattle and Rock, others include Motorama, Dead Heat, Twilight Zone - The Movie, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Project X.

5 - Adam Sandler (40)

Another SNL alumni. I think (most) Adam Sandler movies have a Marmite effect on people,  you get people who enjoy his movies then just some (particularly a lot of critics) who just can't stand the man.

Most Wanted - I guess Jack and Jill and 8 Crazy Nights. For some smaller roles I'll go with Shakes The Clown, Mixed Nuts and Dirty Work.

4 - Sylvester Stallone (41)

All 3 faces of Planet Hollywood make it into the list. Sylvester Stallone on the whole tend to range from excellent, good  but fun, bad but  fun and bad just bad, he runs quite a full spectrum that a lot of other actors don't.

Most Wanted - I think Rebel (aka No Place To Hide) is the only role I need of his that is until Expendables 2 comes out.

3 - Seth Green (41)

Seth Green still looks really young but he's been working an incredibly long time, it seems he works hard because he seems to have so many things on the go. Seth Green is actually very realistic to sometime become the number one (though he ten behind on this list).

Most Wanted - staying away from Family Guy and Robot Chicken, I'll stick with movies such as Horror In The Attic, Can't Hardly Wait and Idle Hands.

2 - Phil Hartman (45)

The late, great Phil Hartman makes it until second place. The hugely talented comic actor had his career cut short in tragic circumanstances. I have been a fan for a long time of SNL alumni Hartman.

It's a short list of entertainers I miss as much as Phil Hartman.

Most Wanted - Well The Crazysitter and Houseguest come to mind, but also Stuart Saves His Family, Quick Change, Three Amigos!, Last Resort, Weekend Pass and CB4.

1 - Frank Welker (51)

With 676 titles listed on his IMDB page, it's no surprise Welker would have placed so highly on the list, he gets number one just for sheer number of strong projects he's worked on.

Most Wanted - Some of the big wants are The Informant, Tank Girl, The Trouble With Girls, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Suburban Commando, Spawn and Jumanji.

That's it! join me in 3 or 6 months, to see how much or how little the list has changed.


These are my predictions for people who could make the list next time round -  Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood and Samuel L. Jackson - there is still a lot of these guys outputs I really want.

Top 15 Directors Who Appear In My Collection The Most (5-1)

Here's the final 5 directors, I may do the next one in a couple of months, maybe 3 months - 6 months at the most.

5 - Joe Dante (20)


I don't only consider Joe Dante one of the most under appreciated directors of all time but one of the my absolute favourite directors of all time.


Most Wanted - I own all his solo directing outings so I'm going with Twilight Zone - The Movie, which is quite high on my want list.

4 - Clint Eastwood (21)


He barely missed out on the actors countdown (2 short, sorry if that avoids later suspense fictional reader). Eastwood as an impressive resume as a director.


Most Wanted - speaking of directorial outings only The Eiger Sanction and Breezy.

3 - Steven Spielberg (24)


Certainly one of the most successful directors of all time.


Most Wanted - I mentioned Twilight Zone - The Movie below, so I will go with that aswell as Always.

2 - Gerald Thomas (31)


Two words got him into second place - CARRY ON - if it wasn't for Carry On he wouldn't be on the list at all, I own no other of his films (he did direct non Carry on stuff), he directed all the way from Sergeant to the ill-fated Columbus. I should also point out he was Hull born (my home town) so he's proud addition.


Most Wanted - I'm going for Nurse On Wheels, Twice Around The Daffodils and Watch Your Stern.

1 - Alfred Hitchcock (34)


The Master Of Suspense shoots straight into number one, a place he would of never have had only a few short weeks ago.


Most Wanted - The three I should own mostly are North By Northwest, Vertigo and Rear Window.


That's it for now.

Top 30 Actors Who Appear In My Collection The Most (20 - 11))

Okay, here's the middle 10 for the actors.

20 - Dan Aykroyd (31)

Yet another SNL Alumni (and even one of the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players).

Most Wanted - I'd go with Mr. Mike's Mondo Video, Doctor Detroit, Twilight Zone - The Movie, The Great Outdoors and Tommy Boy.

19 - Jane Lynch (32)

The second woman on the list and actually the highest placed woman.

Most Wanted - certainly not anything Glee related, but at the moment besides various TV appearances I'd probably go with The Rocker.

18 - Robert De Niro (32)

There was actually a time when De Niro was far and away the leader in my DVD collection with over 50 titles - but when I got rid of loads years ago many of his lesser titles such as Analyze This, Analyze That, Hide and Seek, The Score and Men Of Honor among others went.

Most Wanted - Probably The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight or 1900.

17 - Harry Shearer (33)

Another SNL alumni (he was a cast member twice - both times he was unhappy there), he is also the second member of Spinal Tap to make it on the list and I believe the fourth from the Christopher Guest stable of actors.

Most Wanted - probably Real Life. also let's say The Simpsons Season 12.

16 - Stephen Root (33)

Stephen Root is one of them character actors I really enjoy.

Most Wanted - I'd go with Big Miracle, J. Edgar and Black Rain.

15 - Bill Murray (33)

Yes another SNL alumni and one of the coolest actors to boot.

Most Wanted - I'd like Quick Change, What About Bob?, Where The Buffalo Roam, Mr. Mike's Mondo Video, Jungle Burger and The Razor's Edge.

14 - Jon Lovitz (33)

Another SNL alumni.

Most Wanted - I'd like Mom and Dad Save The World and Mr. Destiny.

13 - Ben Stiller (35)

One time SNL cast member (as a featured player).

Most Wanted - I'd go with Zero Effect, The Suburbans, Keeping The Faith and Orange County.

12 - Eddie Murphy (36)


Famous for saving SNL from the brink of cancellation.


Most Wanted - One of his early movies, Best Defense, then a couple of his early 90s efforts Boomerang and The Distinguished Gentleman.

11 - Will Ferrell (36)


You guessed, he's another SNL alumni and so ends a very top heavy SNL update (and an actual run of 5 former cast member - spoiler ahead, number 10 was never a cast member).


Most Wanted - I'd like to add Winter Passing.

Join me next time for the last five directors then the final countdown of the 10 actors.

Top 15 Directors Who Appear In My Collection The Most (10 - 6)

Here's the next five directors

10 - Joel Coen (16)

Most Wanted - I can't actually get any more Joel Coen (or Coen Brothers) directed movies, until next years Inside Llewlyn Davis.

9 - Robert Altman (16)

Most Wanted - I think Nashville and Buffalo Bill and The Indians top the list of most wanted.

8 - Joss Whedon (17)


Most Wanted - it's not out until September but Avengers Assemble (as it's called in the UK for whatever reason), everything I wanted out of a superhero movie and more.

7 - Martin Scorsese (19)


One of the greatest directors of all time.


Most Wanted - it's between an earlier one - Boxcar Bertha and his latest - Hugo.

6 - Godfrey Ho (20)


Often been named Hong Kong's Ed Wood (in fact one of his many, many aliases is Ed Woo). Ho is known for his cut and paste technique and is love of putting ninja in the title.


Most Wanted - probably the nicely titled Hard Bastard.

Coming up next the middle section for actors, following the final 5 of the directors.

Top 30 Actors Who Appear In My Collection The Most (30 - 21)

This is like the director one right below, so let's get on with it -

30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger (29)


Okay his performances are often of the oak variety but he's done a couple of quintessential action movies aswell as the odd fun action movie.


Most Wanted - I'm going with Cactus Jack or The Jayne Mansfield Story as it stands.

29 - Rance Howard (29)


Rance Howard is the ultimate surprise entrant on this list, but looking over is IMDB page it says he has 247 acting credits, so maybe it's not so shocking. The father of Ron Howard's first acting credit goes back as far as 1956 and still as credits for this year (and some even due next year).


Most Wanted - it's between Chinatown and The Lonely Guy.

28 - John Cleese (29)


Most Wanted - I'll say The Rise and Rise Of Michael Rimmer, Privates On Parade, Erik The Viking and The Great Muppet Caper.

27 - Janeane Garofalo (30)


She is the first of a fair few Saturday Night Live alumni on the list (though her time there was unhappy and fairly short lived), I used to have more of a crush on closer to 10 - 15 years ago.


Most Wanted - I'd like to see Martin & Orloff. 

26 - Steve Buscemi (30)


Who doesn't love Steve Buscemi? There was a time that he showed up in every other movie, be it big brainless fun or for The Coen Brothers, Buscemi left an lasting impression.


Most Wanted - I'd love to see Boardwalk Empire Season 1.

25 - Ed Begley Jr. (30)


A cool actor, happy for him that he got a place on the list (like he cares).


Most Wanted - from a television point of view I'd really Veronica Mars Season 3. I'd also go for The Crazysitter, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, She Devil, Young Doctors In Love and Goin' South.

24 - Bruce Willis (31)


The second of the Planet Hollywood faces on the list, effortlessly goes between big budget and independent.


Most Wanted - I automatically thought of Twelve Monkeys and though his role is only small (and pre-fame) I'd like The Verdict too.

23 - Rob Schneider (31)


The second SNL alumni on the list, likely gets this high because of his work with Adam Sandler (and appearing in Happy Madison movies) which add a lot to the total. His place is probably only so high because of his work with Sandler and SNL compilations among others.


Most Wanted - I guess Jack and Jill though it probably won't be great. I'll add the Beverly Hillbillies movie too.

22 - Michael McKean (31)


The third SNL alumni on the list so far (though he was already established going in). Another actor I really enjoy when he shows up in small parts.


Most Wanted - I want Clue, Young Doctors In Love, Short Circuit 2, The Big Picture and True Identity.

21 - John Goodman (31)


It surprises me John Goodman is this high on the list, but I guess it helps he's a Coen Brothers regular and he's had quite a prolific career.


Most Wanted -  There's Dirty Work for which he is uncredited. I'd also go for The Wrong Guys, Always and Punchline.


see you soon for the next directors then actors again

Top 15 Directors Who Appear In My Collection The Most (15 - 11)

Okay, I'm doing my Top 15 directors and Top 30 Actors who appear in my collection the most, both are going to be in 3 segments each.

15 - Jeannot Szwarc (12)


Sczwarc is a surprise name for me on the list because I wouldn't have guessed I would own over 10 titles.


Most Wanted - I'll go with Somewhere In Time.

14 - Roger Corman (12)


If you was just going on producer credits Roger Corman who be one of the most common names in my collection full stop. I respect Roger Corman and particularly the start he gave to many future names.


Most Wanted - I feel like I should own Bucket Of Blood by now, so I'll go with that.

13 - Paul Verhoeven (13)

I have a lot of affection for this man, from the ultra violent to the highly sexed, Verhoeven films are usually at the very least highly enjoyable.


Most Wanted - I just need two of his films now, Black Book and Spetters, the latter of which I'm going for as the most wanted.

12 - Laura Innes (13)

Laura Innes gets on this and this high because of directing television episodes, all 13 titles are episodes of television shows, which include ER (which she was a regular on) and many seasons of the West Wing.

Most Wanted - I will go with the complete series of Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, it had it's weaknesses but it had it moments and it's the best of the bunch remaining.

11 - Richard Donner (14)


Most Wanted - I'll go with The Omen.

Next up is the first ten actors, then after that back to directors.

DVD Update (03/06/2012 - 16/06/2012)

Welcome to another DVD update, a bit of a bumper update thanks to the fact, that I managed to get a couple of DVDs that I already own and sold straight for profit (and replaced them with other DVDs) this fortnight.

Muppets Magic - a pound shop buy, without checking the box, I think all of these are from episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show, so a bunch of these (if not all) will predate Sesame Street.

Father Goose

Pollyanna

The Town That Cancelled Christmas - I'm on a kick of building up a library of Christmas DVDs, I put a little bit of this on, this could potentially be the worst Christmas film in my collection, but I will probably won't watch it properly until December to say otherwise.

Spies Like Us

Rivals

Pretty Smart

Where The Heart Is

How The West Was Won

Your Highness - it had some funny moments and the distraction of both Zooey Deschanel and Natalie Portman.

Rentadick

A Night At The Roxbury

I Am Omega

Shattered Trust

Roxanne

Young Bruce Lee (2010) - the sole Blu Ray of the update, which my brother got for me.

Spy Hard

Red Dawn

The Kingdom

Friday Night Lights

To Live For

Persuasion

Reposssessed - the jokes are not as subtle as Airplane or Naked Gun, but you find yourself laughing at some of them.

Churchill - The Hollywood Years

Alfie (1966)

Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen - Lindsay Lohan when she cute seems like such a distant memory now doesn't it, while her peak for me will always be (and always looks like it's gonna be aswell) Mean Girls, Confessions Of is a likeable enough teen comedy.

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

South Park Season 7

The Young Bruce Lee - This is completely unrelated to the Young Bruce Lee I got on Blu Ray a bit further up. This movie fits in that glorious genre called Bruceploitation, which I adore so much.

Dealers

Papillon

Mean Creek

Shutter Island

The Big Bounce (2004)

Be Cool
Alexander The Great

Cougar Town Season 1

The Mission

Miami Vice

Desperate Housewives Season 1

Friends Season 6 - so getting some Friends, aswell as Cougar Town this update, it's a bit of Courteney Cox on TV - Then and Now. I can get into watching Friends better again now Channel 4 and it's sister channel E4 are not hammering it to death.

Friends Season 8

The Last American Virgin

Mouth To Mouth - I didn't feel emotionally involved in the movie until the last 20 so minutes until it gripped me, so what I'm saying is I wish the rest of the movie grabbed me like that. Ellen Page is as always extremely watchable.

Bringing Out The Dead

Chopping Mall - the first part of the movie features cool cameos from Mary Woronov and Paul Bartel (reprising their Eating Raoul characters) and Dick Miller (reprising his Walter Paisley character), the rest of the film is a cool killer robots go on a rampage in a mall aswell a particurly cool scene of a head exploding.

Sleeping Dogs - or the infamous film where a woman recounts her story of giving a blowjob to her family dog which implodes her relationship with the guy in her life.

Crime and Punishment In Suburbia

Bad Girls From Valley High - it gets a bad overall rating from IMDB, but it's really not a terrible film, the three female leads Julie Benz, Nicole Bilderback and Monica Keena make it watchable, Christopher Lloyd though as an odd slapstick side story which gives the film an odd tone.

still got some outstanding buys from eBay on the way, so I'll add them (likely) in the next update

DVD Goals - The Middle Of 2012 Report

So at the beginning of January I did a DVD goals, here is the six month check up ---

1. Get at .east one film with the following - Laurel and Hardy, Shirley Temple and Harold Lloyd - as these are probably the biggest names that yet to appear in my collection. - partially done only Harold Lloyd as been added to my collection so far.
2. Finish off these series that only need one to complete - Alias (S4),Dollhouse (S2), Veronica Mars - especially this (S3), Seinfeld (S9), - partially done again with Alias.
3. Add 7 more Disney / Pixar films to my collection at least. For Disney I'm just talking about the animated features. - 4 out of 7, so more then halfway there.
4. Get the 2 Region 1 Kristen Bell movies I need - Gracie's Choice and The King and Queen Of Moonlight Bay. - The King and Queen Of Moonlight Bay is got so half done.
5. Get every Uwe Boll film I need including They Live (which he produced) - I seemed to have stopped dead with Uwe Boll so this is a fail so far.
6. Get at least 2 of the Mill Creek Entertainment 50 Movie Packs hopefully from the Drive-In or one of the sci-fi or horror lines. - 100% success when I added two set.
7. 10 different wrestling DVDs added to my collection. - I am no longer collection wrestling DVDs, so this is no more.
8. Add at least one seasons of these to my collection - Deadwood, True Blood, Hill Street Blues, Oz, Babylon 5, South Park (I only own the movie), and Fringe - Deadwood, True Blood, Oz and South Park are now in my collection, the others haven't even been close.
9. 27 Blu-Rays by the years out (think this is more then a realistic goal) - 18 so far so I'm on my way there.
10. Get all the Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger films I need to complete that part of my collection. - No movement, so fail.
11. At the very least - 6 Chuck Norris movies, 5 Godfrey Ho movies, 3 Cynthia Rothrock, 3 Mark Dacascos and 4 Bruceploitation movies. - a couple of Rothrock movies, 1 Dacascos, 1 Bruceploitation, is the total's so far.

Top 5 Women Of May 2012

Here are the remaining top 10 as always

10 - Cobie Smulders / 9 - Kerry Bishe / 8 - Lizzy Caplan / 7 - Anna Paquin / 6 - Mila Kunis

5 - Sarah Silverman

4 - Scarlett Johansson

3 - Zooey Deschanel

2 - Natalie Portman

1 - Kristen Bell

DVD and Blu Ray Update (20/05/2012 - 02/06/2012)

Welcome to another DVD and Blu Ray update, that is a couple of days later thanks to my busyness and a bit of forgetfulness, anyway let's get straight into it.

The Stone Angel

The Adventures Of Pluto Nash - until Norbit came along, Pluto Nash was Eddie Murphy's worst movie, with a bloated budget and a lack of comedy in a comedy movie.

One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

Oliver! - Oliver Reed is genuinely chilling in this musical.

Bottom 3 - Hooligan's Island / Bottom 2001 - it's sad to say but I think Bottom will never be as funny again to me as it was in an earlier party of my life.

The Midnight Meat Train

A Bronx Tale

Mad Max 2

In The Loop

Ella Enchanted

Jerry Maguire

X-Men - First Class

Graham Norton - For Your Pleasure

The Good Shepherd

Dexter Season 1

Face/Off

Cowboys and Bandits (50 Movies) - 50 old oaters and not a single one featuring John Wayne.

Hollywood Comedy Legends (50 Movies) - I like these Mill Creek Entertainment 50 movie sets (they also do 12, 20 etc), you can find a lot of cool movies in these sets, the first movie I watched in this collection was SOMETHING SPECIAL, starring Pamela Segall (the voice of Bobby on King Of The Hill) and featured a young Seth Green, cool 80s fantasy comedy where she wishes she could get it easy like a boy so she wakes up with a penis(!), I've touched on watching bits of some others (no other full movies yet) but a cool and cheap collection.

Fantasia 2000

D.W. Griffith Monumental Epics - with The Birth Of A Nation it's impossible to go without mentioning how it portryals the KKK in a postive light

Adam's Rib

Down To You

Transylvania 6-5000

James and The Giant Peach

The New Guy - seriously it didn't occur to me until I put the DVD in (of a film I've seen before) that the lovely, adorable Zooey Deschanel is now on The New Girl and she did a film called The New Guy about 10 years back. It's a teen film that doesn't stand out amazingly well but it's watchable.

Battlestar Galactica - The Plan

The BFG

The Black Cauldron

The Undefeated

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Masters Of The Universe - I liked this film growing up and even on my childhood memory I never knew it was a truly good film.

The Watcher In The Woods

Terms Of Endearment

The Dark Half

The First Great Train Robbery

Little Man Tate

The Princess Diaries

The Good Girl - along with Office Space, Jennifer Aniston's best movie.

Red

The Simple Life

A Serious Man

Bugsy

The Big Tease
Big Trouble

National Lampoon's Gold Diggers - Will Friedle as got what it takes to be an entertaining actor but this film is just LAME.

Cahill United States Marshal

Hard Candy

The Plumber

Tattle Tale

Join me in a few weeks for the next update...