I know I've seen threads about most expensive discs, newest discs, best looking discs, sounding discs, etc.....but my question for you guys is, what is your personal favorite disc? Mine's Mononoke Hime. It looks fantastic, sounds fantastic, and even though I don't understand a lick of japanese, I still really love to watch it.

I'll play; my fav is "Ghost in the Shell: Premium Box Set"
Ghost in the Shell: Premium Box (1995) [BEAL-921]
I watch the Japanese Blu-ray so these LDs will never spin but the box set is amazingly beautiful; every time I look at it I smile!!!!

The RKO Classic Out Of The Past. It is my favorite Robert Mitchum movie. And my copy is signed by Jane Greer.

My top LD is "Dream Window - Reflections on the Japanese Garden" Beautiful documentary with a brilliant score by Toru Takemitsu.

It's easy for me. THX WOW! is a no-brainer for me. There might be better LDs' out there, but this is the best all-around disc I own. Best picture, best PCM audio, and contains not the best, but very, very fun content that leaves you begging for more.

Just my two cents.

hmmm.. my favorite individual is probably the Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Special Collection (1991) [PILF-1800]... but i like having the full set of the T2 special edition releases, with the Silver, Gold, Blue and Red covers. other favorites include the Criterion Bond movies, (From Russia with Love: Special Edition #131 (1963) [CC1266L], Dr. No: Special Edition #124 (1962) [CC1234L], and Goldfinger: Special Edition #132 (1964) [CC1267L]). The Japanese version of blade is pretty cool too. I also have a copy of Aliens, Dragons, Monsters and Me (1991) [LVD9213] that is supposedly signed by Ray Harryhausen, but i don't know if it is authentic or not. If it is though, pretty awesome. That guy is a legend.

Right !
A stand out favorite is the animated film "Fantastic Planet" , the Roan Group release is most pleasing.
The Japanese release of the French version "La Planete Sauvage" is really sweet as well !
(just put a copy up for sale as I found one in better condition.)
My Golden Child on the shelf is the big box title: "Godzilla:Death Battle Chronicle".
The 2001/2010 Japanese box is also a gem to look at with the lobby cards and beautiful gatefold jackets.
Could go on but there is not enough space....LoL
Thanks for this thread flcl4ever !

I really like my TNG laserdiscs as I watch them regularly. Evil Dead 2 Blood Red(never watched it), Robocop Criterion, Brazil are really beautiful to look at.

The two TNG LDs I have and the Robocop criterion are actually some of the better looking discs in my collection!

Replacement Killers, The (1998) [21626]

Must be my Mira Sorvino fetish.

How can you choose which of your children is your favorite?

I have so many, but the first one that came to mind is Gettysburg: Special Edition. I like the movie a lot, even though the transfer on this version is quite crappy. The extras make the box set pretty special.

Another that comes to mind is the Full Frame LD of Lady and the Tramp which is a transfer of the rare and once thought lost Academy Ratio version of the movie. For some reason, Disney fails to put this version on any of the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the movie (they've had three chances now!) So the only ways to get it are the 1998 Full Frame LD or the VHS release from the same year.

There is an extended cut now available if you dig this film; I love the film also!

IMDB lists the OAR as 2.55:1; is this false?
Looks like most of the LDs are 2.35:1.
I am quite frustrated with Disney; it seems that their films are like a box of chocolates...

Two versions were made. The 2.55:1 CinemaScope version and the 1.37:1 Academy Ratio version (just in case Widescreen cinema never caught on.) The Academy ratio version was never widely circulated and thought lost for years until they released the Full Frame LD (and the VHS re-release) in 1998 using the AR version for the transfer.

This review of the Platinum Edition DVD (which doesn't feature the AR version) gives a good run down on the AR version of the movie:

Lady and the Tramp Platinum DVD 2006

I see. Thank you for the clarification.

the Italian press of "Titanic", was unfortunately also the last laser disc edited in Italy

http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/34195/PLF ... anic-(1997)

Hard to say which is my favorite, but one of the following LDs would fit the bill:

1984
The Compleat Tex Avery
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Thats a easy question, without doubt: ONCE WERE WARRIORS - Criterion Collection. I watched this Disc over and over, both disc and movie have a special meaning to me, I´d rather sell any other Disc before this one.

I swoon!! I've been in love with this film and Mitchum since being blown away at a film noir festival many years ago. (one of my best ever film experiences, this and an hour later Touch of Evil) As a lifelong noir enthusiast of both film and literature, this is to me the definitive film noir in every way. Well done!

Out of those I own, it would come between the Star Wars Special Edition box (my first LD, and the one I always wanted as a kid) and my Bond LDs (for bringing back the way looked and sounded in my childhood).

I think my favorite LD is probably Nausicaa of the Vally of Wind. This disc is the reason I got into LD in the first place back in 92 since its my favorite movie of all time and it was unavailable in the US back then.

This disc is mono, has no chapters, and the framing is...weird, but I recently watched it again since the Bluray came out and I wanted to compare...and I think I prefer the LD, actually. The color is probably less correct (the BR looks closer to cels and the art books I have for the movie) but I prefer it. It's sort of more blue-green in areas that are more blue on the BR. Also, the 3:2 pull down masks one or two missing frame jumps that the BR exposes.

And of course the cover is much better. Also, the World Wildlife Fund logo is missing from the BR (at least the US BR).