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They did that because Lucasfilm itself did that. If you look at the Blu-Ray set—which I don’t own but have gotten out of the library (and I will defend Last Crusade but not the other two)—Raiders has been changed to “Indiana Jones and...” on the box. i guess they were worried that people born in the 21st century would be too dumb to realize Raiders was the first movie on their own. Pretty friggin’ condescending, if you think about it.

A few years ago while re-watching the six then-existing Star Wars movies in the run up to TFA, I got to thinking about the streaming vs. physical media debate. Particularly about how my Original Trilogy Special Edition VHS tapes were now worthless, and maybe I should be worried about my DVD collection as well. Asked in a geeky group that I'm in on Facebook what they thought about the physical media vs. streaming debate, and every single response anyone else made was pro-disc/anti-streaming. A lot of that was because the places that you buy streaming movies on technically still control them in a sense, and your movies could be lost if they ever shut down or just decide a few years from now that you need to buy them again to keep watching them. Only way that could ever happen with discs is a very strict firmware update for disc players that includes DRM, and good luck getting one of those onto my bargain basement Blu-ray player with no Internet connectivity. I haven't owned a gaming console since 2010, so that's not a concern for me. Also, the death of UltraViolet had me thinking that people weren't purchasing movies on steaming anymore, just watching whatever was on streaming services. That said, half the articles on UV's closing give me that impression, and half of them are PR doublespeak that make my head hurt.

Just finished finally getting around to unpacking and organizing my DVD/Blu-ray collection after a move and finally also integrating in a bunch of movies from my sister's boyfriend that he no longer wanted, so I'm feeling especially qualified for this one. My movies are alphabetical, and the one exception is when it's a series. Sometimes I ran into the same problems as everyone else with how to categorize a series. Led to a Mel Brooks 3-pack of History of the World Pt. 1, Young Frankenstein, and Spaceballs going under "M." I think I've also decided that movies that start with "A" should have the "A" ignored, just like it's customary to do with "The." Also, the collection is really heavily biased towards titles that are further up in the alphabet. The halfway point is only up to about G or H. Must be because producers were worried about theaters that list movies alphabetically or something. Had a roommate in college that kept all of his individual discs to two giant CD binder cases, but also sorted them alphabetically. Also had an entire separate smaller one for movies that he had gotten semi-recently and hadn't yet had the chance to move everything down a slot for yet. Genre may have worked better for him. There was also this awkward moment where he flunked out and was gradually moving out and had already taken one binder home. This meant that the other roommate and I could borrow any movie of his we wanted, so long as the title began with a letter that came earlier in the alphabet than G. Had an ex who had something like 1,200 movies and sorted them in several shelves of varying sizes around her living room, I wanna say by genre.

Very bizarre movie all around. From the same era that brought us equally inexplicable animated films like The Pagemaster and Rover Dangerfield.

There are so many games I haven’t finished on Xbox 360 and XBox one that it’ll be years before I upgrade (I just got the Xbox One last year and there are more games on GamePass alone than I could ever play.

More like Elf on your mom.

Yea I feel like the Switch and Xbox might make the jump to streaming only. Ps5 thankfully will have a physical media drive and be backwards compatible with the Ps4

See I've recently started going in the opposite direction and am slowly building my physical media collection back up. Including that I only buy physical copies of my video games as well. All the shenanigans with the FCC and net neutrality got me in the frame of mind that if I can somewhat lessen my reliance on streaming if there are sudden jumps in billing, it'll help out in the long run.

I agree.It might not have been to every taste, but I thought Roma was great. I get the argument against Netflix as well. Like Helen Mirren said, “I love Netflix, but fuck Netflix.” It would be nice if they gave more of their films a theatrical run. I like a lot of big blockbusters and see them in the theater, but I don’t want ONLY big blockbusters, which seems to be where we’re heading towards (I know Paul said H&S was probably the best film of the summer (tongue-in-cheekily?), and I definitely enjoyed it as a three-star action flick. But my favorite films of the summer have been The Farewell with Awkwafina (which I thought would be depressing but was actually fairly funny, in a quirky, deadpan way) and once Upon a Time In Hollywood. Oh, also Long Shot! I was bummed to see that it “underperformed.” I liked it, my parents liked it, more people should see it. And of course, thumbs up for the sections of JW3 with Jason in it. But only those sections. Fuck the rest of the film). holy shit that was long. Apologies.:)

I also appreciate a lot of Netflix’s original programming. While not everything works, it creates a lot of opportunities for filmmakers to do something a little different. There are a number of Netflix movies that are really good but probably wouldn’t find an audience under “normal” circumstances.

But, on the other hand (re:Netflix), I LOVE Big Mouth. It’s my favorite show about teens since Freaks and Geeks. I watched that whole thing in a week, maybe two, tops.

Plus Netflix makes it impossible to watch the credits of ANYTHING before jamming the next thing down your throat. I find that really irritating.

That’s very true.

Point taken. The appeal of disks for me are the extras/commentary, which you can’t get through streaming.

Oh, I definitely used to group them by genre too However, that’s mostly because I kept my discs in binders and it was easier to be like “This binder is for Comedy” rather than “This binder is for movies J through M.” While I miss video stores, I can’t say I miss physical media. Even having tossed all the cases years ago, they just take up too much space - especially when I can just go into iTunes or Amazon and just pull up my list. I just don’t have the same emotional attachment to a disc that I do to, say, a book or a record. I’d rather make more room for those things rather than my Tango and Cash DVD

I agree with this method of alphabetization. I do own physical media because I prefer it and I mourn the loss of video stores (of course I use streaming, but it’s nice to have access to movies that aren’t available and are my favorites. Also, Seattle has Scarecrow Video, which is insanely huge and has all kinds of obscure stuff. Recommended for any pop-culture junkie! You can support them from anywhere by ordering stuff online. That’s my plug!). I don’t like watching stuff on a computer. My organization method goes by director first (Wes Anderson, John Carpenter, etc.), then organizes individual films alphabetically. I like the idea of alphabetizing by character or creature to keep a film series together, but I’m a little more loose (or lazy). My Bond and Planet of the Apes movies are all grouped in chronological order, but I more or less ignore alphabetical order. If I were REALLY anal, I could organize by genre (action, comedy, drama, etc.), THEN by alphabetical order, but I’ll cross that nit-picky bridge when I have too much time on my hands (and cared more).

I don’t know what’s “really” him and how much he’s playing a character, so I take it all as tongue-in-cheek. His Prom Night 2 episode included a surprisingly effective plea for tolerance.

This is the second or possibly first best Tom episode in history, which seems improbably. And yet!

Like Paul, I’ve pretty much purged almost all of my physical media, but I disagree with him putting Raiders of the Lost Ark in the “R’s.” While it might seem counter intuitive, because it’s a part of the Indiana Jones series, it should really be filed under “I.” Also, perhaps controversially, all Bond movies should be filed chronologically and under “B,” and Predator movies should be filed under “A” with the Alien series. Ultimately, it’s more important that a movie series remains intact than for your collection to be strictly alphabetized.

Maybe it's because it was the first team up of theirs that I saw, but it's definitely Grumpy Old Men for me.

*a single tear rolls down Matthew Perry's cheek*

Some of ya’ll (Team Sanity) have never been fully and repeatedly completely self-destructive, and it shows. 5 Stars.