DVD / Blu-ray

DVD Statistics 2012

DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2012

2012 End Statistics:

New Purchase Items: 193 (144 in 2011)
New Movies: 185 (thereof Blu-ray: 121)
New TV Seasons: 59 (thereof Blu-ray: 7)
New TV Specials: 3
New Special Interest: 7

Money Spent: 2,302.31€ (1,755.48€ in 2011)
Money Spent on Movies: 1,413.72€
Money Spent on TV Seasons: 839.59€
Money Spent on TV Specials: 22.61€
Money Spent on Special Interest: 26.39€

Avg Spent: 11.93€ (12.19€ in 2011)
Avg Spent on Movies: 7.64€
Avg Spent on TV Seasons: 14.23€
Avg Spent on TV Specials: 7.54€
Avg Spent on Special Interest: 3.77€

Running Time: 62,355m (43d 7h 15m)
Running Time Movies: 21,056m (14d 14h 56m)
Running Time TV Seasons: 40,043m (27d 19h 23m)
Running Time TV Specials: 456m (7h 36m)
Running Time Special Interest: 800m (13h 20m)

Cheapest Item: Clerks (2.07€)

Most Expensive Item: Bond 50 (111.51€)

First Item: (500) Days of Summer (3.33€)

Last Item: Smallville: Season 10 (16.73€)

Purchase by Locality:
United States: 25
Canada: 13
United Kingdom: 75
Germany: 80

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Purchase Diary 2012 – December

DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2012

Melissa & Joey: Season 1: Part 1 (2010)


04 Dec – €0.00 ($12.78) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12243 – 12244

Melissa & Joey: Season 1: Part 2 (2011)


04 Dec – €0.00 ($12.78) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12245 – 12246

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

05 Dec – €12.90 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 1007

The Intouchables (2011)
(Intouchables)


05 Dec – €8.97 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 1008

The Punch Bowl (1944)
(Die Feuerzangenbowle)


08 Dec – €7.99 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1009

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Purchase Diary 2012 – November

DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2012

By the way: I made new pictures of my collection, see My DVDs

This Means War (2012)

08 Nov – €12.97 @ Amazon.de

Indiana Jones 1 – 4 (1981 – 2008)


21 Nov – €39.99 @ Amazon.de

which contains my 1,000th movie:

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Lightning Point: Season 1 (2012)


24 Nov – €24.99 @ Media Markt

The Twilight Saga 1 – 3 (2008 – 2010)

24 Nov – €14.90 @ Media Markt

American Reunion (2012)


27 Nov – €10.61 (£7.44) @ Amazon.co.uk

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Man on a Ledge

DVD / Blu-ray, Short Review

Director: Asger Leth

Sam Worthington … Nick Cassidy
William Sadler … Valet
Anthony Mackie … Mike Ackerman
Jamie Bell … Joey Cassidy
Genesis Rodriguez … Angie
Edward Burns … Jack Dougherty
Titus Welliver … Dante Marcus
Elizabeth Banks … Lydia Mercer
Kyra Sedgwick … Suzie Morales
Ed Harris … David Englander

Synopsis: Nick Cassidy is a former cop, then prison inmate, now wanted fugitive. When the police finds him next they don’t yet know who he is but he’s standing on the window ledge of a hotel window on the 21st floor threatening to jump. Everything he does seems only to further one goal: Buying time and hiding what his companions are really doing. Namely braking into the vault of the man who has framed him in the first place.

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X2

DVD / Blu-ray, Short Review
X2 (2003)

Director: Bryan Singer

Patrick Stewart … Professor Charles Xavier
Hugh Jackman … Logan / Wolverine
Ian McKellen … Eric Lensherr / Magneto
Halle Berry … Ororo Munroe / Storm
Famke Janssen … Jean Grey
James Marsden … Scott Summers / Cyclops
Anna Paquin … Marie / Rogue
Rebecca Romijn … Raven Darkholme / Mystique
Brian Cox … William Stryker
Alan Cumming … Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
Aaron Stanford … John Allerdyce / Pyro
Shawn Ashmore … Bobby Drake / Iceman
Kelly Hu … Yuriko Oyama / Lady Deathstrike

Synopsis: After an assassination attempt on the president himself he authorizes General William Striker to raid Xavier’s School for the Gifted. What he doesn’t know is that Striker has an agenda of his own. The X-Men have to work together with Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants to withstand this attack on their very right to exist.

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U.S. Marshals

DVD / Blu-ray, Short Review

Director: Stuart Baird

Tommy Lee Jones … Chief Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard
Wesley Snipes … Mark J. Sheridan / Warren / Roberts
Robert Downey Jr. … Special Agent John Royce
Joe Pantoliano … Deputy Marshal Cosmo Renfro
Daniel Roebuck … Deputy Marshal Bobby Biggs
Tom Wood … Deputy Marshal Noah Newman
LaTanya Richardson … Deputy Marshal Savannah Cooper

Synopsis: This is a sort-of sequel to The Fugitive featuring Sam Gerard and his team of the United States Marshal Service. During a prisoner flight one of the inmates tries to kill another prisoner and causes the plane to crash. The almost victim can escape during the evacuation and is now on the run. It’s up the U.S. Marshals to get him again.
But there’s a mystery surrounding this escapee because the United States Secret Service is interested in his capture and somehow even members of the Chinese embassy to the United Nations are involved. Very few things are what they seem.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

DVD / Blu-ray, Short Review

Director: Steve Barron

Josh Pais … Raphael (voice) / Man in Cab
Michelan Sisti … Michaelangelo / Pizza Man
Leif Tilden … Donatello / Foot Messenger
David Forman … Leonardo / Gang Leader
Robbie Rist … Michaelangelo (voice)
Corey Feldman … Donatello (voice)
Brian Tochi … Leonardo (voice)
Judith Hoag … April O’Neil
Elias Koteas … Casey Jones
Michael Turney … Danny Pennington
Kevin Clash … Splinter (voice)
James Saito … The Shredder / Oroko Saki
Toshishiro Obata … Tatsu
David McCharen … The Shredder / Oroko Saki (voice)

Synopsis: A crime wave is spilling into New York city and the police is simply ignoring the possibility that it might be organized instead of single acts. Only TV reporter April O’Neill is making this connection publicly and thus antagonizing the chief of police.
But she has help. A few years ago four baby turtles and a rat came across a radioactive substance in the sewer system – and it changed them. Their bodies and minds evolved. The rat took care of the turtles and taught them the art of Ninjitsu. Now they, April and another ally try to stop the Foot gang to take over the city.

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Outlander

DVD / Blu-ray, Short Review
Outlander (2008)

Director: Howard McCain

Jim Caviezel … Kainan
Sophia Myles … Freya
Jack Huston … Wulfric
John Hurt … Rothgar
Ron Perlman … Gunnar

Synopsis: Earth is actually an abandoned colony by the human race and of not much importance.
In the year 709 by our reckoning a spaceship crashes in the cold of Scandinavia. Aboard is a surviving soldier … and something else. Soon he’s captured by the local Norse warriors who think of him as a member of a rivalling tribe.
But then a beast of myth starts attacking their village except that this “dragon” is real and only the Outlander can help them defeat it.

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21 Jump Street

DVD / Blu-ray, Short Review

Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller

Jonah Hill … Schmidt
Channing Tatum … Jenko
Brie Larson … Molly Tracey
Dave Franco … Eric Molson
Rob Riggle … Mr. Walters
DeRay Davis … Domingo
Ice Cube … Captain Dickson

Synopsis: The old 21 Jump Street program was discontinued at some point but someone up there in the hierarchy thought it a good idea to get these old ideas out of the attic.
Schmidt and Jenko went to the same high school but only became friends seven years later when they both joined the police force. And since their first bust goes totally bust and they look the part they get sent to the new 21 Jump Street program.
Back again in high school they learn that a lot has changed since their days and now they have to find the supplier of a new and dangerous drug.

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The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

DVD / Blu-ray, Short Review

Director: Peter Winther

Noah Wyle … Flynn Carsen
Sonya Walger … Nicole Noone
Bob Newhart … Judson
Kyle MacLachlan … Edward Wilde
Kelly Hu … Lana

Synopsis: Flynn Carsen is what we call in Germany a “Dauerstudent”, a student who never leaves the comfort of the university – until he’s thrown out. He then gets a mysterious invitation to apply for a job at the library. But not any library, the Library.

The place where they keep the Ark of Covenant, Excalibur, Pandora’s Box – and one third of the Spear of Destiny. Unfortunately that piece is stolen shortly after he started working there and now he has to make sure that the other two thirds that are hidden around the world don’t fall into the hands of the bad guys.

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