The Film That You Own The Most Multiples Copies Of (All Formats Combined)...

At last count, mine is also the film I consider to be the greatest ever made...

The Exorcist (William Friedkin) 1973

No other film has ever come close to having such an impressionable first viewing upon me, and it is the film most responsible for why I got into film appreciation as a "true art".

To date I count 12 different copies for this "film of all films"...

1997 DVD
1998 25th Anniversary Special Edition Banner
1998 25th Anniversary No "Special Edition Banner" on the case
2000 The Version You Never Seen Edition
2001 Extended Director's Cut DVD
2010 Blu Ray Digibook (Still my favorite version that I own. Classy and near-perfect).
2013 Blu Ray (Embossed Hard Box Case Version) Complete with a mini book from "The Friedkin Connection").
Stand alone Blu case (Extended Director's Cut with famous movie poster cover art)
Same as above but a "Region Free" Edition
2019 Blu Ray Steelbook (Best Buy Exclusive)
Digital Copy (1973 Theatrical Version)
Digital Copy (Extended Director's Cut)

 

just on an average of 2 unless they were remastered...
Movie-VUDU
always use the VUDU copy for backup. I've had situations where the BD screwed up and I was able to finish the movie on VUDU!
not counting DVD to the equation...

 

wow, that's a lot! : )

 

2001 - A Space Odyssey, lets see:

VHS widescreen
1997 MGM letterboxed widescreen (non-anamorphic) dvd
2000 remastered anamorphic widescreen dvd
2007 blu-ray
and the UHD bluray wich was released last year.

 

A great film! I recently purchased that 4K "box case" version. A beautiful set!

 

I usually don't keep my DVDs when I upgrade to BR or BR when I upgrade to 4K UHD unless their are some extras I want to keep.

 

Planet of the Apes.
VHS, two separate laser disc releases, dvd and now blu-ray.

 

Not a lot of over-stock here as far as movies go
(I'll get back to you on The Guess Who, though...how many copies of "These Eyes"/"Laughing"/"Undun"/"NoTime"/"American Woman" - in the same order, no less! - do you really need...?!).

But I do have I believe three copies each of 2001: A Space Odyssey (one of which on Super 8 - full version, complete with "intermission" segment!), and three of Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (DVD box, unauthorized VHS, Super 8).

 

Only one for me.

Phantom of the Paradise in VHS, dvd, and blu-ray

 

I have two copies of Chinatown

 

I own seven different DVD and BD copies each of two Sam Peckinpah films: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and The Killer Elite. Bought mainly for the differing special features, but sometimes for the artwork.

Here is my Alfredo collection, including two different soundtrack CDs:

 

I don't have many different editions of movies with a few exceptions:
Wong Kar-Wai's "In The Mood For Love": I have a UK edition, the Criterion Collection and a numbered Japanese Collector's edition. In addition to that I have a French soundtrack edition and a few books about Wong Kar-Wai and his films.

I have a German DVD of "The Third Man" and the DVD from the Criterion Collection. These are slightly different cuts. The Criterion is the better one.

 

For me it has to be "Goldfinger", or "Dr. No" I have multiple Laser Discs and DVDs a CED a VCD and a Blu-Ray of both. I am not sure which one I have in the most abundant quantity.

 

I think the only film of which I have multiple copies is Reservoir Dogs: a DVD in a mediabook (the reason I still keep it) and the blu ray that came in the Tarantino XX box set. I also had the old german DVD of Pulp Fiction some time after getting the set, but I eventually donated it to the school's library.

 

I thought it would be STAR WARS, but...

THE OMEN
Beta full screen
VHS full screen
Laserdisc 1st Widescreen
Laserdisc Remastered Widescreen
DVD - four movie box
DVD - New Remastered
Blu-Ray - Four movie box

 

Blade Runner and Chinatown for me.Both have great soundtracks.

 

Gotta be the Star Wars Trilogy:

VHS Widescreen Box Set
Laserdisc Definitive Edition Widescreen Box Set
Laserdisc Special Edition Widescreen Box Set
DVD Special Edition Widescreen Box Set
DVD Limited Edition (w Original Theatrical Versions)
Blu-Ray Complete Saga

I may even have the pan-and-scan versions squirreled away somewhere along with a dubbed VHS of the CBS broadcast premier of Star Wars from 1984...

 

Yeah, Goldfinger is high on the list. Noted Hollywood writer Mark Evanier has said, "I suspect the only reason that new video formats keep getting released is because the studios want to force me to buy Goldfinger again."

I think at one point I had a version recorded off ABC, then the Betamax pre-recorded version, a VHS version, the original laserdisc, a deluxe laserdisc, a deluxe widescreen laserdisc, the RCA CED (given to me free), the original DVD, the deluxe DVD, a boxed set DVD of all the Bond films, the original Blu-ray, a later Blu-ray, and then the deluxe Blu-ray boxed set. And I'm biting my fingernails in anti............ pation of the eventual 4K Blu-ray HDR release.

 

A Hard Day’s Night (4)
VHS
DVD
First Blu-ray
Criterion Blu-ray

 

I'm pretty sure "The Shining" (including an audio recording on Craig 3" reels, lol. I snuck it in the theater in 1980).

 

That's amazing. It's one title I've managed to avoid on home video altogether even though I think it's a great film. I just don't enjoy watching it. The shock value and horror made it an important movie to see but I would need therapy if I saw it as many times as you must have on all those versions.

I have owned a few movies (e.g., Godfather) on VHS, DVD and blu-ray, and I would gladly buy it in 4K UHD if made available. But that is about the max for me: 3-4 versions. Also I will not buy a digital copy. If one is included with a blu-ray, great. I'm a luddite in that regard.

 

(Super 8 with Sound, 1973-74 HaHa)
Other than, Videos are similar here but in my case:
1978 Magnetic video
1985 Playhouse video, Vhs, Beta
1988-91 20th Fox 3-4 incarnations
1992 LaserDisc
1998 30th anniversary letterbox VHS
1998 Non anamorphic Dvd, then Anamorphic Dvd
2008 Bluray.

When will we see 4k hdr whole series?
Its all done 4k resolution back to original negatives.
That Fox/ Disney merger really complicating things.
Take care, John M.

 

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Liked the movie then acquired copies from different countries and in different languages. Might have 7-8 DVDs and Blu-ray.

 

I have 2 copies of North By Northwest due to carelessness. There are several movies I've updated thru the years like King Kong, Black Narcissus and The Third Man.

 

Oh, yes, I agree...lol. It is indeed a film that is tops for me due to its craft, thought, and effectiveness, but it isn't the kind of film I would ever watch or recommend as "popcorn background".

However, like all well-shot and deep-layered films, it remains one that rewards the viewer on multiple viewings. I was actually inspired to do a frame by frame analysis of it a long time back after reading that Robert Ebert once did so with the film's lighting director Owen Roizman. It really heightened my appreciation of the film in ways such as Friedkin's progressive manipulation with our uneasiness, to the symbolic shots, the pace, the sound, the almost fleeting sped-up and slowed down frames of film that sporadically occur, the contrast of pure silence with chaotic sounds.

Of course, it's fun doing that with all great films that reward study... Citizen Kane, La Dolce Vita, Tokyo Story, Vertigo, 2001: A Space Odyssey...