I haven't got around to doing anything about this yet, mind, because I tend to find when I get into a place with a bunch of DVDs (CEX, say) I often find myself agonising over the amount of choice available, and also wondering if I will ever actually make the time to sit down and watch these movies, were I to buy them. I have several anime box sets that I have never watched, for example.

This is all just a matter of self-control and taking ownership of your free time, however. I used to be good at this! Back at university, I remember I spent quite a lot of my time watching and re-watching favourite movies — I had about five DVDs, so I watched The Matrix, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch a whole lot — and still had plenty of time to go out and socialise, do my university work and still play video games. So what is stopping me now? Absolutely nothing, that's what.

Well, okay. One think is a mild inconvenience to this plan, and that is the fact that some combination of the labyrinthine combination of HDMI cables tucked away behind the TV in the living room means that I do not, in fact, have anything connected to the television that is capable of playing a DVD or Blu-Ray without running afoul of anti-piracy measures such as HDCP or that weird thing where the PS2 would turn DVDs green. I have fixed this in the past with the simple purchase of an external DVD drive for the PC, but the one that I bought appears to have packed up, so if I want to do this again, I will need to purchase another one.

The alternative, of course, is to just watch them on the PS4 in the bedroom, which does quite happily play DVDs and Blu-Rays without issue, but sometimes you want to watch in the living room, not the bedroom, you know? It's very much a first world problem, I know, but it is a bit annoying.

But what to watch? Well, there are a whole bunch that spring to mind. I'm sure at least some of these are probably regarded as "problematic" (ugh) by modern audiences, but I remember watching and enjoying these as a kid, and I would very much be open to the idea of revisiting them. In no particular order:

• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
• Batteries Not Included
• Short Circuit/Short Circuit 2
• Flight of the Navigator
• The Last Starfighter
• Look Who's Talking/Look Who's Talking Too
• Ghostbusters/Ghostbusters II
• The Back to the Future trilogy
• The Cat From Outer Space

I'm sure there are more, but those are the ones off the top of my head. To add to all that, there's a whole bunch of '80s and early '90s movies that my friends at school went apeshit for (often before they were "old enough" to watch them, certificate-wise) that I feel I probably "should" catch up on at some point, for the sake of having some sort of cultural understanding:

• The Terminator/Terminator 2 (I've seen one of these, possibly the first one?)
• Various Rocky movies
• Various Rambo movies
• Anything involving Bruce Lee
• Robocop

I'm drawing a blank on anything beyond that, though. Suggestions are welcome! At some point I might even watch some of them. It'll give me something to write about if nothing else, right?

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