After Dark: Watching Trailers in IMAX, Memorable VHS Covers, Kirk/Spock/Bones,
Added 2023-07-20 11:59:01 +0000 UTCDavid, Jeff, and Devindra discuss what it's like to watch trailers in IMAX, which VHS covers they remember from childhood, and which one of them would be Kirk, Spock, or Bones in the Star Trek original series.
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Very true about Tremors. That discrepancy always struck me as odd.
Jeff Gibson
2023-09-16 01:40:53 +0000 UTCI worked at Blockbuster in 2000, as it was transitioning from VHS to DVD. The VHS tapes were kept in the generic Blockbuster cases on the shelf, and they’d be stacked 3 or 4 deep behind an empty case with the box art. The same was true with DVDs at that point, though naturally the cases were thinner - they were actually on the shelves though. Reshelving was a constant, tedious part of the job because they wouldn’t quite be alphabetic. The new releases were sorted to have big chunks of multiple shelves for movies with an expected demand, and the smaller and older movies would just get sorted around that. So we had like 4 shelves for Reindeer Games, and then it slowly dwindled down to a single box - but that box would get rented so I’d still have to find it wherever it is now.
Gregg D.
2023-08-03 23:43:13 +0000 UTCRegarding VHS-covers, mine would be 'Tremors'. I thought that boxart looked so freaking cool and it turned out that the movie was great! But I have a gripe with the boxart and that is that the monster pictured on the boxart doesn't resemble the monster in the movie at all. But that is a nitpick. Here in Sweden there was different systems for renting out in different stores. The most vivid system I remember is that there was empty cases with boxart on the shelf. You would bring that to the checkout where they would dig out the VHS from behind the counter and place it in the case you brought which you then brought home. I remember that this was the system because whenever someone of my friends would rent movies the rest of us would come over and the only way to know what we were about to see was looking at the boxart and reading the information on the back. On that note, one day in 1996 (the year I turned 11) my one year older friend had been to the video rental store and rented some horror movies. I loved horror so I went over and the movie we watched in his room was here in Sweden called "Braindead" but you in the US know it as "Dead Alive". And I promise you, we laughed our assess off! I remembering finding some parts of the movie so funny that I could barely breath XD I have it on DVD since several years and I am just waiting for my daughters (especially the youngest one because she share my sense of humor) to be old enough so I can show it to them. But I think they will have to be at least 13 before I do that ^^ So yes, I would love to hear you review "Dead Alive"/"Braindead"! It's also give some insights into the root of Peter Jackson's sensibilities which comes through here and there in LoTR among other things.
Jesper
2023-07-23 18:21:35 +0000 UTC
