What 3 DVDs did you start your collection with and watch non stop on your PS2?

I don't think I've ever watched a DVD on a PS2. I started with a DVD-ROM drive and a REALmagic Hollywood Plus card in a PC. My first DVDs were Tron, Gate to the Mind's Eye, and Beyond the Mind's Eye.

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MartialBob@reddit

Gladiator, American Pie, and Apocalypse Now

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Iamchanging@reddit

Fight Club, Gladiator, and Braveheart

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Both-Artichoke5117@reddit

I got a DVD player for Christmas in 2006 several years before I got a PS2. The first DVD I owned was The Wedding Singer.

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X-Men was definitely my first. The DVD menu was 👌. The Matrix & Blade Runner were next. I know I bought X-Men in person at an HMV. Shortly after I signed up for a Columbia House DVD promo so I got 7-10 in one shot.

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HopelesslyHuman@reddit

I couldn't tell you for certain what the third was, but the first two were The Princess Bride and Dune.

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Kreatorkind@reddit

The fuck is a ps2?!?? My Sega Genesis only uses cartridges. But my Neo-Geo can play CDs.

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SerialKillerVibes@reddit

The matrix like everyone else, but the main reason I wanted a DVD player is because Tron was out of print on vhs but you could get it on DVD. I got my ps2 and my Tron dvd on release day.

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SingleinGVA@reddit

Road Trip, Van Wilder and Sahara

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bananabastard@reddit

I remember getting Road Trip, Freddy Got Fingered, and Blow around the time I got my PS2.

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Fattydrago@reddit

He’s a cat with the power to see through wooden doors…

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Mud_Landry@reddit

The Matrix, The Mummy and Saving Private Ryan. What can I say, my family were suckers for action and we all loved Brendan Frasier, me and my dad used to rent Encino Man on VHS like 3-4 times a year.

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Bulky_Yak_8626@reddit

Pulp Fiction, the Fellowship of the Ring, and Attack of the Clones.

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imHere4kpop@reddit

Fight Club, Se7en, Drive Me Crazy

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MaddoxGoodwin@reddit

Oceans 11, and Blade 2, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. Oceans 11 absolutely on repeat the entire time, tho haha

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Asleep_Onion@reddit

Traffic, Gone in 60 Seconds, Hackers.

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Vehlin@reddit

Why buy a PS2 when I had a decent PC?

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SuggestionPop@reddit

I had both ;)

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SuggestionPop@reddit

The City of Lost Children, Blade Runner, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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StNic54@reddit

The Matrix, Empire of the Sun, and Spies Like Us

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Wpgjetsfan19@reddit

Gladiator, Scary movie and Spaceballs

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badteach248@reddit

The matrix, crouching tiger hidden dragon, snatch

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Samsuiluna@reddit

These might actually be mine as well. Very nearly the first at least.

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AccordingTax6525@reddit

Chris Rock: bigger and blacker The original kings of comedy Training day

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Ok-Orchid-5646@reddit

Summerslam, Charlie's Angels, Spider-Man

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jlg895@reddit

8mm, Road Trip, Can't Hardly Wait I tried to name unmentioned ones.

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Big_Surround3395@reddit

Amadeus, Trainspotting (because I kept renting it) and I think The Professional.

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beeurd@reddit

I don't really remember, I was quite late with DVDs because I stupidly thought they would be a fad that would die out pretty quickly. Figured it would just be another VCD and wouldn't take off. 😑

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velocipedal@reddit

Fifth Element, Judge Dredd, Hackers

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BillTheConqueror@reddit

The Matrix, Terminator 2, and Jaws were some of the early ones I remember. I actually hadn’t seen T2 until I got the DVD and it didn’t disappoint.

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80cartoonyall@reddit

Princess Mononoke, Lord of the Rings, and Spaceballs.

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Doubleduecedude@reddit

Tombstone. Caddy Shack. Mars Attacks.

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rootsquasher@reddit

*The Big Lebowski*

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

X-men, Terminator 2, and Transformers the movie. I bought all three before I got the PS2 though because we had a DVD player.

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cire4@reddit

PS2? Get back to me when you want to talk about which CD's you listened to on your SegaCD.

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hotntastychitlin@reddit

For my wife and I’s wedding registry, we added Blade and Starship Troopers. It was kinda crazy how I got my PS2, I had added my preorder in like 1998, I didn’t even remember I had done so when it arrived October 2000. All I know is I was lighter by about $300 when I needed all the money for my wedding and honeymoon.

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flux_capacitor3@reddit

The Matrix. Gladiator. Seven.

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MuzzledScreaming@reddit

Matrix, Se7en, and Holy Grail. But I was a bit late to the party so my first DVD player was an XBOX with the dongle.

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Tiny-Professor-9820@reddit

Garden state, Friends season 1, Bring it on 🥺❤️

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ImitationCheesequake@reddit

The Simpsons Season 1 that I had preordered and it only came out a few weeks before I got my PS2 that I also preordered, Excalibur and Goodfellas.

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xmadjesterx@reddit

Half Baked, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Exorcist. Half Baked was played so much that the disc got replaced. My buddies and I used to put it on during our sessions and recite the lines. The Exorcist was a close second. I still remember falling asleep while it was on while auto-play was also active. I was awoken at 3 AM to "MAAAARRRIIIIIN!" I did not go back to sleep that night, and always remembered to turn it off before bed after that night

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BoredCharlottesville@reddit

Snatch, Fight Club, Dogma

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Embarrassed_Spell_28@reddit

Snatch, The Fast and The Furious and Gone In 60 Seconds. Got mine on my 18th birthday Thanksgiving 2001. I still prefer Snatch in widescreen dvd quality. Looks grittier.

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protoman86@reddit

I used to show off Gladiator to family members when they came over. Had some nice Monster Cable S video cables and the picture was such a huge jump over VHS

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ChromeDestiny@reddit

My first player was a Zenith display model I got marked down at Sears. I was a bit pissed when I discovered it wasn't one that could play hand burned discs and my dream was to find a combination laserdisc/ DVD player but I never tracked one down. At least I got a markdown. The following Boxing day I got my first few DVD's, Sheryl Crow Live from the Globe Sessions Tour, The Doors' Collector's Edition DVD which was their three late 80's and early 90's footage/ video collection titles on one disc with a bunch of extras and the movie version of The Who's Quadrophenia Rhino had put out. At the time it was a picture upgrade over the version show on TV but Criterion later did a better restoration.

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JaxxisR@reddit

Spider-Man, Rush Hour 2, and Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within

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GeetarEnthusiast85@reddit

Training Day was one. I can't remember what other ones there were.

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caddy45@reddit

The Big Lebowski, Blow, Saving Silverman

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Strange-Mouse-8710@reddit

I have never owned a PS2, so i have never watched a DVD on a PS2 I have only played DVDs on a DVD player or Blu-Ray player later. I started my DVD collection in 2006 and i don't remember the first three DVDs i bought was, i do know the Back To The Future trilogy boxset i have is one of the first i bought, but i am not sure if it was among the first three i bought.

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AnotherRaveWeirdo@reddit

The 3 DVDs I ACTUALLY started my collection with: Billy Madison, Half Baked and Armageddon 😂

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linecookdaddy@reddit

Fight club, matrix, and fuckin Austin Powers

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Melechesh@reddit

The Matrix, Austin Powers, and The Wedding Singer.

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Partis25@reddit

Matrix Reload, Lord of Rings Return of King, Apocalypse Now Redux

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Voltage604@reddit

Friday, Blackhawk down, and Frequency

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TurboJorts@reddit

I bought my ps2, a street fighter game and a Jackie Chan DVD at the same time. I was terribly disappointed by the Jackkie Chan flick as it was one of his romance comedies and not a quality action flick like I had seen before. It sure wasn't "Rumble in the Bronx"

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muhredditone@reddit

I got my PS2 as a gift from my wife on the North American launch Christmas. I remember telling her repeatedly that I wanted a PS2 and *Ridge Racer V* for Christmas. I always hunted for gifts I thought would be really meaningful to her, and she hadn't tried doing that for me, at all. So, I was like, fuck it. I'm giving you the answer. PS2 and *Ridge Racer*, that's it. lol. They were flying off the shelves in the US and getting scalped. So she ended up buying one on eBay for $550 w/*RR* I started with two DVDs: *Terminator 2* and *My Cousin Vinny*. I watched the hell out of those, man. I'm not exaggerating; I watched them like 500-1000 times each. We were living in Japan and had only a small handful of English channels on satellite *SKY PerfecTV* (after *SKY Perfect* absorbed *DirecTV*), and obviously, there was no good streaming back then. When she had control of the TV, it was *Cartoon Network*. When I had control, it was *T2*, *My Cousin Vinny*, CNN, Japanese gaming infomercials, or I was playing *Ridge Racer*. Such a fun time to be alive, and 1999-2003 was a great time to be in Japan, as technology was hitting hard and the world's obsession with Japanese culture was skyrocketing.

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mrtn17@reddit

I still have my DVD collection, but probably the three LOTR movies or Matrix trilogy. Tough one, both aged well

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hobbes_shot_second@reddit

Highlander, Friday, and Batman.

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J0k3r77@reddit

I had a cool Akira rerelease that had a tin case that came out around 2000. Unfortunately i lent it to a coworker 10 years later and now its gone. Not too upset about it now. I really like digital media. Vinyl records is the only thing i want to collect nowadays.

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gooch_norris_@reddit

The matrix, Austin powers, x-men

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ltmikestone@reddit

Beam Stokers Dracula. American Psycho. Hurly Burly.

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Significant_Dog412@reddit

I got a DVD player before getting a PS2. Not sure if this was just a UK thing, but in the early days of DVD players they used to pack in a few discs for free. The Lawnmower Man was one of these, but the others tended to be the sort of movies big stars made either five years before they got famous, or when their star had faded. They were also in a weird "different movie on each side of a disc" format that you rarely saw anywhere else aside from cheap collections of multiple B movies. So the DVD box would have names like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, and Michael Caine displayed prominently, but the actual movies included with the player mostly tended to be guff not even their biggest fans would care about. Black Eagle with Van Damme and Sho Kosugi was probably the best of the pack ins.

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SpaceAdventures3D@reddit

The first DVDs I purchased were the Indiana Jones trilogy set. Up till then, if I wanted to buy a movie, I was still buying VHS, because at the time they were cheaper. Even after getting Indiana Jones, if I wanted to buy a movie, it was on VHS. I later bought the US DVD release of End of Evangelion and that first DVD release of the Star Wars trilogy set.

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waywardviking208@reddit

![gif](giphy|3o6Zt0hNCfak3QCqsw) The movie that made me question reality (Reddit is part of the real world, the matrix is my everyday life)

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HandsomeGemini@reddit

The X-Men movie and Terminator 2 were my first two DVDs, don't remember the third. The PS2 was my first DVD player

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mittenkrusty@reddit

Too old to remember, but I do remember buying a lot of those budget public domain type movies that were basically a movie with a basic menu and no special features and often looked like VHS rips, they were from real companies not bootlegs though the Poundshop (aka dollar store) places all sold dvds for £1 of budget kung fu movies from the 70's, that just unlocked a memory. I do remember watching Josie And The Pussycats a lot through and UK Movies If Only and Divorcing Jack often and I know Divorcing Jack was an early release as it was double sided rather than dual layer that came out later.

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