Verna has a rather extensive DVD collection. So, to try and keep track of each title, genre, rating and any remarks, I developed a web-based database interface. One of my technical skills deals with doing that sort of thing, so it was fairly easy for me to do.
One feature allows us to assign a rating to the DVDs we see. When I enter a DVD into the database initially, it is rated as ‘UNRATED’ and gets updated afterwards. We have the following ten rating categories (least to most): Sucks, Bad, Weird, So-So, Good, Very Good, Excellent, Outstanding and Sensational.
Less than stellar DVDs get RETIRED and are donated to charities like Goodwill or The Salvation Army. You can check out the listing on the public DVD page, Verna’s DVD Collection.
Not everyone will agree with our ratings, but we think very highly of the following Outstanding and above titles:
Our listing of ONLY titles rated Outstanding follows:
- 300 – Blood, Thunder And Awe
- ANNAPOLIS – Midshipmen And Boxing
- APOCALYPTO – Mel Gibson’s Mayan Movie
- CARS – Owen Wilson, Paul Newman
- CONGO – A Michael Crichton Story
- DA VINCI CODE, THE – Tom Hanks
- DRAGONFLY – Kevin Costner
- FIFTH ELEMENT, THE – Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich
- FIND ME GUILTY- Vin Diesel
- FLIGHT 93 – 9/11 Docudrama
- GREEN MILE, THE – Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan
- HIDALGO – Horse Race Across an Ocean of Fire
- HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, A – Viggo Mortensen
- HOTEL RWANDA – Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo
- LADDER 49 – John Travolta, Joaquin Phoenix
- LAKE HOUSE, THE – Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock
- LOTR 1 – FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING – Hobbits & Middle Earth
- LOTR 2 – TWO TOWERS – More Hobbits & Stuff
- LOTR 3 – RETURN OF THE KING – Last Of The Hobbits
- MEERCAT MANOR – Animal Planet, Season One
- MONSTER – Charlize Theron
- MONSTERS, INC. – John Goodman, Billy Crystal
- NARNIA, THE CHRONICLES OF – Kids Go Through a Portal
- NATIONAL TREASURE – Nicolas Cage
- NATIONAL TREASURE 2 – BOOK OF SECRETS – Nicolas Cage
- OPEN RANGE – Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner
- PHENOMENON – John Travolta
- PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, THE – Will Smith
- RAY – Jamie Foxx
- SAHARA – Matthew McConnaughey, Penelope Cruz
- SECONDHAND LIONS – Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osmond
- SNOW BUDDIES – Golden Retriever Pups In Alaska
- TIME TO KILL, A – Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConnaughey
- WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN, THE – Anthony Hopkins
Our listing of ONLY titles rated Sensational follows:
- EIGHT BELOW – Paul Walker
- MARCH OF THE PENGUINS – Narrator Morgan Freeman
- PASSION OF THE CHRIST, THE – Jim Caviezel
