Movie Company CEOs Are The New Vampires
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I have a rant about the history of movie gatekeepers, cinema, my love of physical media and the magic of just being able to own a movie.
00:00 A Threat To Storytelling
02:46 A History Lesson On Cinema
06:17 Cinema Owners And Distributors Were Bums
08:29 Liberation Through Technological Innovation
11:18 Pay TV Wars
12:30 Disks Of Fury
13:11 Streams Of Dreams And Nightmares
15:20 Disney Is Evil
17:15 Predictions Through A Dusty Crystall Ball
19:39 I Am Aware Of My Privilege
22:43 Outro
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With the exception of a few DVD's that were gifted to me, my entire physical media collection came from thrift shops and bargain bins.
Recycling is doing good work. Enjoy!
A good-sized chunk of my DVD collection came from the $3-5 bins. Mostly newer stuff and big seller older stuff. Unfortunately, you don't see Scream Factory and other boutique label movies in the bins.
I have a friend who lives on the next block from me. In his condo he has a large living room... basement and private patio. In each of those areas he has A projection screen set up. With 3-D capabilities. The first move we saw was the wall. Unexpectedly I loved it. We are scheduled to see asteroid city and the bird with the crystal plumage. Plus Santa Sangre.
Nice! Enjoy!
Sounds like a lot of fun
I live far out in the country. No cable, no satellite. For over a decade now I’ve been gathering a library of dvds. Currently about 2,00. In the 80’s and 90’s it was videotape.
I LIKE controlling what’s on my television.
Absolutely, James. Put the control in the hands of the customers.
When I was still writing for VIDEO MAGAZINE here in the US, we had this editor who kept publishing editorials about how the end of tangible media was coming, everything was going to be available via streaming, you wouldn't own anything anymore, and he thought that was just dandy!
I was horrified and proposed an article in opposition, and my own editor said "Forget it, the movie distributors who advertise with us love what he's saying. Besides, what he's talking about is at least three-four decades in the future - unless of course you count DIVX, which-" and we would all start laughing!
Very few of us expected that broadband Internet, capable of streaming DVD-quality movies, let alone HD movies, would become a thing in a little over a decade.
I love that newer physical media has such really salient extras. Unexpected stuff that contextualises the movies brilliantly.
My movie collection has exploded courtesy of public auction lots. The upside is that the cost per item is quite small. The downsides are that there are a number of DVDs that I don't want mixed in with the ones that I did want, but mostly that I suddenly need a better way to store them, as I run out of wall space and double stack everything. Like my taste in music, where a lot of things that I liked didn't end up on CD, a lot of the movies that I like would never be on a streaming platform. Owning a DVD or a VHS tape is the only way to see a lot of these, and even then, some of them never made it across.
I buy things speculatively and if they don't hit with me, I can always donate them to charities.
Well said, Terry. The corporate dream is to eliminate physical media at the customer level. They are already well on their way to doing it in the Triple A gaming industry. Having total control over the availability of the product is part of limiting customer options and maximizing profits.
It's about controlling the flow of culture and information. The last people I want doing that are rich Americans.
In hyper-capitalist societies like the US and GB, art and culture are first and foremost products. Creating scarcity and becoming the sole keeper and provider of these product are the fast lanes to maximum profits. That's why they shill NFTs as the future of art and proclaim physical media old fashioned
The Director of the transformers movies also had a deal with the military. Basically those movies were glamorous recruiting movies for the military.
Yep. 20% rockem sockem robots, 80% propaganda.
@@terrytalksmovies I was prompted to translate your post into English, and it came out "rock sock robots". Isn't AI wonderful! 😁
It was a very good reason for me to stop watching the franchise a.s.a.p.
I was very surprised back in the 80s that the Swedish film My Life As A Dog was playing at my local suburban mall theater. Usually had to trek into the city to see foreign or art films. A rare occurrence, maybe released at a low point oif the year. I often create long watch lists on a streaming service only to check back later and half are gone before I got around to them. I always was annoyed by that focus on a film's opening weekend box office. That shouldn't be the only measuring stick. Preach on, brother Terry!
I travelled 50 kilometres by public transport to see a rare science fiction movie back in the 1970s. The struggle was real.
If I remember correctly that movie was something of a mainstream hit, which is probably why it was shown at your local.
@@terrytalksmovies now that's dedication,
@@terrytalksmovies ooh! what was it?
I have never owned virtual copies of visual media - and I never will. It's physical media all the way. Virtiual media can be tinkered with or made to vanish. A DVD/Blu-Ray/4K copy, in it's nice case, with artwork and often good bonus ephemera is forever, generally speaking.
Also, they can change the movie to edit out things. It's a dishonest business.
I learned the hard way not to leave the VHS tape on the dashboard of the car on a hot day. Then I discovered, to mt dismay, a similar effect 'disrupted' the efficiency of DVDs. I figure that there are cheap DVDs and 'expensive' DVDs, like any other mass-produced product. Thank heaven that hasn't become the case with Terran humans yet. (If you can afford it, how would one "value" a video collection for home-owners insurance? Tis a puzzlement!) Be safe!
You too! I was always insanely careful with my VHS tapes and machines. I ran head cleaners through them regularly.
@@terrytalksmovies turns out the "video head cleaner" I had was the same as the "leather cleaner" and neither substance was suitable for either product, hehe! read the label before you snort!!
I think another kind of remarkable thing about physical media is how cheap it is, comparatively speaking, these days to what it was decades ago. Some months ago I found an ad for a film library that must've been from 1980 or 81, judging by what it was selling, and among the things on offer in that ad were episodes of Star Trek on Super 8. Each episode cost $160 for three reels (at least they were selling full episodes; the feature films were evidently single-reel cutdowns). Which, in modern money and converted to AUD, works out at some $825 per episode of the show, and only selected episodes from the first series at that... whereas for just $99 I can get the entire original series, all 80 episodes, on DVD. Which is still a fair chunk of cash for a lot of people, I know, but rather less than it was in 1980/81... Price would've been another gatekeeper, as you put it, back in the days before video when even Super 8 would've been prohibitive for a lot of people...
All good points. I bought three blu-rays today, admittedly in an op shop, for three dollars each. A good coffee costs five. Yep, definitely cheap AF.
OMG we were showing original Star trek episodes (16 mm?) on film every Sunday at the Mercury cinema in the early 1990's!! One of the friendliest dedicated crowds you could ever get. When we did a marathon of all the movies up to that point no one reckoned on just how popular it would be as we offered a free breakfast of donuts and coffee with each ticket...well that ran out in about the first half hour, lol! i'm amazed that whole episodes of OST were put out on Super 8. That is Treasure!! Anyone that bought that could probably sell it on and pay for their Retirment in later years. There are a Lot of hardcore collectors who want just about every piece of physical media and ephemera they can get their hands on.
Years ago my girlfriend brought me a dvd of the original Planet of the Apes was ruined by those Gate keepers. The ending quote, that I guess Heston fought to say, was edited to “DAMN YOU” destroying the gut punch that the original line had for me as a kid.
That's egregious! Leave things the hell alone.
Preaching to the Choir here! Keep thinking about "things"!! in the meantime...please try to get a look at Craig Baldwin, Cory McAbee, Larry Blamire, Trent Harris, Christopher R Mimh, Monika Treut, Isaac Julien, Rufus B Seder...all artists on the edge of cinema who made it their way, coming from marginalised spaces and stayed there but still got their work (in all its forms of moving image) out. A world in which nonphysical media dominates will force such as these out of the view of everyone. Pushing for the continuation of physical media is a petition i want to sign!- in the same way as keeping Cash physical! i don't want an entirely electronic world that is dependent on a system already, continuously subject to hacking, viruses and power outages. It is NOT safer, it's just as subject to criminality (and censorial powers) in a different way. by removing a whole subsector of employees, all you do is leave your money to a greater, smaller conglomerate of power that's less likely to be overseen by all the "middle" folk who process it. Why we would cheer on the advent of AI (beholden to billionaire exploiters) when it supplants a great middle class of workers is beyond me. when everyone but a few are without gainful employment and even the already starving artists are replaced, how satisfied will the population be and for how long? my cinema education was almost entirely developed by access the Video libraries, everything from the "Z Grade" to the best of the best (whatever that constitutes) was suddenly, more or less available. between that and working in an "art house" Cinema for 5 years, made me (and the writer) that i am today. In the way that i love tapas, mezze, dim sum, bento, antipasto, i love variety and choice in all things. Monoculture is the enemy.
That's why I'm happy I discovered the Sun theatre in Yarraville. It showcases smaller directors and creators as much as the big ones.
@@terrytalksmovies if Sun Theatre has any sense, they'll be giving you and Geek Girl lifetime free entry! are they part of a chain/franchise, or have govt funding to back them? in SA, Palace Nova is the one left holding the banner for everything from blockbusters to occasional cult films and independent stuff. before they took over as the preeminent, it was the Mercury, and before (and during that) it was/has been the Capri, The Trak, and once upon a time The Chelsea which was home of the Adelaide film event. and still before that, tiny cinemas in Hindley and Wakefield street and of course various university campuses. The ever conglomerating and corporatizing (not to mention the FBI counting copyright piracy as only second to terrorism!) of theatres has meant the closure of many, and even grand old buildings being flattened... much like that shown in the cool doco "The Lost City of Melbourne". i think once consumers were given the option of huge home screens and not having to deal with parking etc, the writing was on the wall. but i do think there will aways be an interest in viewing things as a group, and that smaller cinemas should fete particular local reviewers/critics and focus advertising toward particular social groups/demographics in funky affordable ways. I'm glad Palace still does what it does, but that doesn't change the fact it looks like a big, cavernous multiplex, strip-mall environment--12 cinemas of ever decreasing size! Often their programming seems entirely at odds with the way they present and i suspect they'd be happy if they only ever showed the likes of the latest superhero film. It must feel like a struggle even then to get that capacity audience for those tentpole titles in the 1st couple of weeks of its release, to pay off for those risker programs. but i digress! The Sun Theatre sounds and looks like a gem that each state/capital needs the likes of.
My collection numbers around 3 thousand films. I appreciate that I' m not subject to the streaming Gods' whims. I remember paying to see Barbarella 20 or 30 times as a barely teen guy. I mused one day how wonderful it would be to own it and see in any time I wanted. (I now own 3 copies...) And I feel a bit threatened as to my collection's viability as sustainable. I'm not overly enamored to give Amazon more money than they already have, but they're just about the only game in town for the more obscure films I tend to gravitate to. Gone are the days of finding a favorite gem at somewhere like the late lamented Tower, or DVD Planet. I completely agree about owning the films physically, and having the moments to revisit childhood favorites like Dinosaurus!, or the Gay films that Walmart is never going to stock...
Thank you for sharing our love of the rarities that have shaped our lives... By the way, I love your hat. Sharing my life with 5 of the four-footers, all rescues, and feeding whatever strays come my way are one of my life's joys (like finally finding Ilsa: She Wolf off the SS, or a good copy of Song of the South) Anyway, I want a Catfather hat too!
Thank you for just sharing what you love, it's great to know that I'm not the only one with similar clues!
You make a good point there. Streamers aren't necessarily catering well to LGBTQIA+ people with the movies they're platforming.
Yeah, they may do the more vanilla ones, but there are some more, let's say bold movies that will never get added to Netflix, Hulu or Amazon. Owning media obviates that problem.
If you want the Catfather hat, Temu sells them dead cheaply. I get a lot of my hats from Temu.
Stay well. 😀
Hi Terry. Great video and topic. I completely agree and am so thankful for my physical media collection of films and TV shows especially at this time in history. When I was younger, I dreamed of having a collection of films that I love since watching and studying film has always been such a big part of my life. It is sad that the theater experience here in the US is slowly becoming extinct. It's no longer profitable for movie studios it seems and often an unpleasant experience with people talking or on their phones. I realize how lucky I am to have a film collection and be able to watch films at home. I'm watching older films and TV shows more and more. Also, love your Two Ronnies collections that I saw on your shelves - watched as a kid and just added to my wishlist. 😀
Hi Dave.
The Two Ronnies is Middle-Aged Geek Girl's along with a lot of the Britcom stuff.
Yep. We're privileged to have the collections we do but there are GOOD budget options from second-hand places like thrift stores and pawnbrokers that make it somewhat more accessible.
Take care, mate.
Really enjoyed your talk today Terry. Thank you. It really WAS fantastic in the early 80's to be able to wander around a video shop and choose whatever you wanted to watch for the first time.
Yep. Also, you got some steps in walking around the shop. 😀
What a very thoughtful, heartfelt and historically informed talk, Terry. Wonderful stuff.
I often find myself thinking of the strange history of how I have accessed movies over time, particularly in the pre-VHS era. I remember queueing with friends at midnight to see a single showing of some European art-film at an arthouse cinema in Fremantle or North Perth - in memory it often seems to have been Fellini's Satyricon/Roma. It certainly gave films value via scarcity.
"Great change, since I bin born..."
Arthouse films and cinematic outliers blew my mind in my youth. They expanded my knowledge of cinema. Even Fosse's Cabaret had two or three WTF moments for me when I was shocked. I thought about those moments a lot after seeing the film.
it's really hard for film makers (and their gate keepers) to create those moments when you really feel like something special has happened. i hope it hasn't been entirely lost in time. Sometimes you find something that no one you know has ever heard of, and youve gotta grab that copy and hold on to it. but yeah...midnight screenings for something crazy and rare....damn that was good
Although I was pretty young at the time, I remember well that time before home video, when you might learn of a certain movie released in the past, but there was virtually no way of ever seeing it. Incredibly frustrating, hard for people now to imagine.
Yep. It was a mean, primitive era. 😀
Amen to all this.
I worked at a few places that sold movies where I had really nice discounts, so I have a pretty substantial collection. I've had to massively reduce the amount that I buy these days, but I still believe in physical media.
Physical media has a tangibility that I really treasure.
Thank You for bringing this to my attension ! I remember in the back of the magazine "Famous Monsters of Filmland" you could buy clips of movies (5-10 minutes) for $50.00 (in 1975). How things have changed.
Yep. Crazy prices for very little.
my parents got a VCR as a wedding present. So I was never without the option. However it was like you can watch whatever you want... as long as you only want to watch Annie or The Adventures of Robin Hood (with Errol Flynn) because those were the 2 tapes we had
LOL. My first one was the musical version of Kismet, which I now have on blu-ray.
I appreciate all the arguments for physical media.
My only real gripe is region coding on DVDs. What a nightmare that is/was!
Especially if you lived in an international city like Hong Kong, and buy DVDs on trips to the US and UK. "Ooof, Marone!
I'm fortunate. Region-free blu-ray players are cheap in Australia.
I have the Blacula set, AND last night, Scream Blackula, Scream was shown on the Svenghoolie show. Physical media is something I truly enjoy-especially when I want to watch something without benefiting a creator I despise like the director of Jeepers Creeper, Marc Singer or Mark Millar. Just get the second hand, or a dollar store copy.
A fellow Sven fan
Yep, I try to be selective about buying product that will benefit truly evil bastards.
Are you sure you don't mean "Bryan Singer"? I wouldn't want Marc to be labeled, unfairly. I didn't see anything scandalous in his Wiki.
great video Terry, just my own conspiracy theory is that the proliferation of streaming services is because (at least before the actor's strike) the studios didn't have to pay the talent as much as traditionally made media (TV and Movie Theater released)
There are exceptions. Brollie, the Umbrella Entertainment streaming channel in Australia has a lot of Australian cult films. It's free and there's a ton of great deep cuts there. Umbrella also does physical media so they're the good guys.
Hi Terry,
I really like the extra production values you put into this video (i.e the graphics that you pop up on the screen to illustrate your talks). They make your videos easier for me to enjoy as I'm a visual learner.
Thanks Randell. I'm trying to vary things up so the talking heads are punctuated with useful graphics. I'm glad they work for you. 😀
This was a bit on the meandering / waffly side, but I enjoyed it all the same. As a techy nerd I spent maybe 15+ years pirating movies by various means, but I stopped when the streaming services became actually useful / enjoyable. Here we are 10 years later and I just cancelled our Netflix because I realised we hadn't used it in 6 months.
I fully support your position on physical media, but if it comes to (a) finding / hooking up a physical drive to play my (many) hundreds of DVDs / Blurays / HD-DVDs or (b) dusting off some of those external hard drives full of plunder, I'll probably tend more towards (b). Particularly in the case of DVD and how dogshit the quality is compared to what we expect now - it's a bit like when you find photos of treasured moments from 20 years ago and realise that they were all taken on potato cams.
I have to be careful buying thrift store DVDs. Some of them are pan and scan and I've been bitten by finding a rare flick only to find the aspect ratio is b0rked.
Wonderful summary of the joys and pitfalls of being a cinema buff/nerd/fan/whatever.
BTW Thanks for the tip about using CLZ Movies to record my collection. It's much easier than my list and almost as customisable, so I've got more than 1600 DVDs/Blu-rays/4K catalogued.
CLZ saves me a lot of hassles when I'm op shopping. I can quickly look up whether I already have a movie. Happy to help.
What a delightful take on this matter. Thanks.
My pleasure.
My collection, because of limited space, is the DVDs in sleeves in suitcases. I also decided not to keep the additional discs with extras on them.
A side note is that there doesn't seem to be the same disposal of CDs in op shops, apart from classical music and middle of the road. I rarely see anything worth saving.
Yep. CDs in op shops are notoriously mid. With DVDs and blu-rays there is a disheartening amount of Andre Rieu concerts.
I could never throw away the packaging. That's a big part of the appeal.
Nearly every time I try to buy a song or movie it’s not available or with apple included into some subscription etc. They don’t want to sell you even content that we want to buy.
I have a lot of things on vinyl which Shazam and Spotify just can't find. I love that!
@@terrytalksmovies Don't tell anyone but I end up finding them on youtube. They're usually rare film music tracks or things like that.
I think vampires is not a big enough descriptor. Black holes is a much better one.Bigger mega studios nave sucked up most of the smaller more interesting studios along with all the intellectual properties they possessed.
I did some analysis. "Vampires" in the title hit harder than any other thing I could think of. It's not quite clickbait but it helped with the Search Engine Optimisation.
holy mackerel Terry! looking back on this episode (of all of a day ago) and the response has been massive!! you've really hit a nerve here.
IKR? People are righteously pissed off by the actions of the gatekeepers and suits.
added note! the three streaming services i'm on have all upped their prices in the last month, two of them in just the last week. Prime Amazon is now going to show ads... but don't say where (during a show?) or what kind of ads these will be...but hey for an extra 3 bucks per month you can get it "ad free"! Disney went up 3 bucks a month but also said you can stay at the "old subscription" without saying what you'd get extra by going to the new price or what you'd miss out on if you kept at the old price. also worth pointing out that the price change would be automatic, and you don't have to do anything (like write an angry reply!) but if you wanted to remain at the old fee you would have to go through the usual channels. The "standard plan" for Netflix now goes up to 18.99 per month (a 4 dollar increase?). I'm not sure how much the "Non standard" plan is or what extra you get for that.
Yep. Streaming (at least the big boys) are leaking money at a crazy rate. They're looking for ways to get cash but it never occurs to them to make better product to do it.
Hey, Terry, would you please consider doing a " deep dive " into the movies 🎬 made by the late Roger Corman ? He just passed away just recently, but he was known for years as the undisputed " King 🤴 of the B -Movies ! " He helped launch the acting careers of such actors as Jack Nicholson and others. He made films such as " The Fall of The House of Usher ; The Raven; Tales of Terror; Invasion of The Bee 🐝 Girls; and Little Shop of Horrors! " And dozens more, whose titles I don't remember.
Everyone's doing Roger Corman at the moment. It's a crowded market. I try not to do things that are too trendy and momentary. The videos I do that hit best are the ones that aren't time sensitive. There are plenty of Corman retrospectives out there at the moment that are doing his legacy justice. 😀
Hmmmmm -- is there a dystopian future movie about a time when all physical media is outlawed -- with terrible criminal penalties for having any? Similar to Fahrenheit 451 (hmmm -- what temp do DVDs melt at???)....
Not sure and I'm not testing it unless someone has a Star Wars boxset they don't want.
Then came the video nasties list. Which actually increased the popularity of the movies.
We didn't have video nasties but there was a sticker on VHS tapes that said BANNED IN QUEENSLAND which was always a badge of quality.
I could swear there was a black phone movie studio that did westerns and all sorts of genres early on before any one started to take interst in making movies. Like many new things ...every one didn’t see it as comfortable. Till someone actually made a profit.
Genres have their seasons, then the tide ebbs and some other genre comes in.
Terry: I didn't have to go much into your video to get your rant/position on the "suits" in the movie business. But unfortunately, for most, if not all, media endeavors (films, TV, Social Media, newspapers...etc.) are ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.
Case in point...those dreadful MCU sausage factory films being produced.
Thank goodness Disney is slowing down that revenue stream a bit, from poor box-office returns of late.
Even the "art house" and "indie films" (as sad as it is) is about $'s. Those types of films need financing too.
Do I like it? Nope, but it is what it is.
Then when the factory films fail it's the Directors or actors that get the blame not the profiteers
I love the smaller studios and indies but the big arseholes are the problem.
Yep, always blame the creatives, not the suits. 🙁
so right Terry to rent a video was 75 dollars and use a vcr was 50 bucks and a 500.00 dollars at the camera store in the mall
When I first bought VHS tapes, some of them cost $75.
Trenchant analysis, Terry!
Thanks, Ian. 😀
Who else is sick of Liberty Mutual ads on the CZcamss😊
Not me. They pay me for my work. Everyone gets individualised ads. 😀
With the history of very bad decision-making from a lot of studio execs over the years (and most of the successes due to letting the creatives have more free reign) I often wonder what the qualifiers actually ARE for the job (other than nepotism or who they are connected with/know).
Usually, there's a lot of cronyism in the top end of studio ecosystems. There are hopeful things, too. James Gunn running DC is a good move. He started in Troma films, then made his own indie projects. He knows the genre deeply and he's a god-tier storyteller.
But Gunn is the exception rather than the rule.
Ever have a DVD delaminate or becomes corrupted? I haven't but that seems to be put out there. Maybe to scare people out of purchasing physical media.
Not one. Or CD's. And I have thousands of those buggers.
@@brianartillery thanks Brian !
I haven't. I've bought second hand and found it scratched afterward, but never a delamination problem. It can happen with fungal infections in hot humid climates but I don't live in a tropical area.
@terrytalksmovies Thanks Terry !
I had an urge to revisit The Killing of Angel Street recently and I can't find an affordable physical copy anywhere. I have a region free player but the postage from Australia is 3 times the price of the film and thanks to good old Brexit there is a possible custom charge at any port of call. It's a corker of a film. It's weird I can't find it nearer to home.
The Killing of Angel Street was based on the Victoria Street Kings Cross wars in the 1970s when developers wanted to kill all the old buildings and put up fugly tower blocks.
I wanted to watch it with the similarly themed but tonally different Home Bodies. I guess Batteries Not Included would complete a good triple bill. In terms of tone the film reminds me more of Silkwood or Defence of the Realm. It's been years since I saw Angel Street but it blew me away on first viewing.
Yes yes yes and YES for calling out the scourge of American military influence on what we have been shown (and importantly not shown) over the last eighty or ninety years. The M C(rap) U is particularly guilty of late, I hated the idea of an arms manufacturer being sold to my children as a friendly neighborhood savior low these last fifteen years
I like the MCU but the quirkier ones grab me more these days than the tentpole flicks.
@@terrytalksmovies I apologize for that. Most of my friends hate me because of that too. All in good fun. I do hate that about Iron Man though
Fantastic insights,Terry. 👍
Thanks Matt. Stay well, brother.
excellent vid Terry, totally agree with all you said here. Stop on mate!
Thanks @Gort67. The suits can't win!
There are a few companys that you by videos stream only on there plat form. They are constantly people sharing their content on video platforms. The even urge the platforms to constantly change their format to fervent people from downloading there content. There are disclaimers plastered all over their Contant.
Making them unpleasant to deal with.
Yep. There are always crumb-pickers.
This was incredible!
Thanks @RetroNerdGirl. Keep on with what you do, too. 😀
vhs changed my life the freedom to watch what i wanted. still finding stuff now. try getting british films in blighty. got more chance of it american copy. sony and the disney are buying us up.. they are coming for us. peas and love
Sean.
Thanks Sean. Yep, the corporates don't care for passionate audiences. They want dutiful cult members, like Disney Adults. Cash cows that can be eternally milked.
im a pirate . just to get things to people who love it.
I'd prefer legit but sometimes it's not available.
Before anime he came ubiquitous. I loved going getting my favorite stuff from Asian video and book stores in the Respective ethnic town neighborhoods. And waiting for sci fi .... comic and Godzilla fests or fares to get my rare boot leg stuff. And even the 12 generation book like video you could barely see any thing from. Was all mine... and know one else had it. I’ve since lost interest.
Yep, getting 10th gen copies of things you couldn't otherwise see made for a real weird time.
How were you able to see midnight movies? Was that as limited as the artsy movies. Or did they become generalized as popcorn. Movies that for whatever reasons caught on as cult. Before cable and home video was a thing.
I used to live in Glebe in Sydney in the 80s. A two block walk up the hill was The Valhalla cinema which did midnight movies on Friday and Saturday. Good times.
Think about the over reach the US had over Japan. And kept them from any media involving nuclear bombs for The period of their occupation. The creative cork that popped after they left.
So the Japanese went lateral with Gojira, which obliquely addressed nuclear holocaust.
demons in my mind.
Seek medical help. LOL 😀📽😉
Great video Terry
Thanks @Bent-Ed!
How do you feel about acorn? Granted the only show I watch is mrs. fishers modern murder mysteries. I admittedly only watch it because I find the to main characters Attractive.
I don't have Acorn here. We have Britbox which is the streaming equivalent of melatonin. Guaranteed to send you asleep.
sending yopu my best Terry i love your vibes aand passion my firnd
Thanks Huw. I appreciate the good vibes. 😀
Could you please identify the Facebook group that you refer to?
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