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I've kept many VHS tapes because of nostalgia and the fact that many of the Disney ones aren't the same as they were on VHS. Too many added scenes or things taken out but I wanna at least have SOMETHING that is OG. I still also have Titanic because I need my future children to understand the hardship of getting to the climax of the movie and it cutting out and you having to rewind the first tape before getting to the second half of the movie lmao.

I really enjoyed this from the music (add me to the list of people who didn't know The Impossible Dream was from this musical), to the set, to the quippy one-liners, to Peter O' Toole's physical comedy. Ngl, I teared up a little at the end. Re: the gang rape. You could interpret it as being a necessary scene to show the differences between the brutal reality of Aldonza's life and Don Quixote's perception of Dulcinea, but on the other hand, I don't know if they had to beat us over the head with it so much? But on the other other hand, maybe it's better that they didn't sugarcoat it? Anyhoo...did anyone else catch Sancho's line "hunger is the best gravy in the world"? It's kind of a throwaway line, but it stuck out to me because Spain doesn't do gravy as we know it. Apparently, the line in Spanish is "la mejor salsa del mundo es el hambre." Usually, if you see salsa on menus, it means "sauce." I mean, gravy is a type of sauce, but I feel like it's an odd translation choice, unless they meant this type of gravy...

For organization... I just rip all of my stuff, put it on my NAS, to which I have a dedicated HTPC hooked up to it, which is connected to the TV. All to ignored as I lazily switch to the firestick to stream something. I'm playing around with PLEX on the firestick to access my collection from there, but it doesn't handle all the formats as well as I need, so I have to play around and possibly encode a lot of my collection now. In terms of shelf organization, I did the binder thing a long time ago, but when I built it back up with the blu-rays, I found myself wanting to keep a lot of the cases (I like the artwork on some of them), so it's all more, dedicated bookshelf of a disorganized mess mostly. Organized mostly by genre, director, unalphabetized. I only have about 200-400 discs, but fortunately I don't really have to try to find anything.

This movie features the following: -Chris Klein's acting -An extreme sport with inexplicable rules and stupid looking athletes (with names like "Skullface" and "La Guillotine") -LL Cool J as the cool, black best friend -A plot that makes virtually no sense -Jean Reno with a Russian accent -A 10 minutes chase scene filmed entirely in night vision with goofy sound effects -Rebecca Romijn-Stamos-O'Connell with a Russian accent (and nudity) This movie is laughably bad. And it's wonderful. Mix with beer for a great time. ALSO! It's a whopping 3% on Rotten Tomatoes. Boom.

I have to take a minute—in compiling this list, I have to say they have the complete 220-minute Heaven’s Gate cut here. The original, widely distributed cut (which killed United Artists in 1980) ran 150 minutes. I’ve seen the 220 minute cut, and I would suggest splitting it into two nights, but IT IS FUCKING FASCINATING. Good or bad, it doesn’t really matter—this film is an uncut piece of history that is well worth watching. It cost the studio a bundle (I think $50 million in 1980 dollars) and the spectacle is on screen. But HURRY, because everything in This post is leaving VUDU (and are replaced by more trashy films) on 9/1! Also, I’ll mention a classic GREAT film that everyone needs to see: This Is Spinal Tap. Please watch this before any of the others listed if you haven’t seen it. Please watch it before any of the others listed if you HAVE seen it. Please respect legit greatness. And now for the trash. Here’s the list (I have not seen all of these and am going by title/rating to judge their trashiness, just FYI)! I’ll also write HDTGM next to films that have been the subject of an episode. Robot Holocaust The Rage: Carrie 2 Dream Lover Disturbing Behavior Pumpkinhead! Cherry 2000 The Animal Abduction—HDTGM EPISODE Raw Deal The Assignment Sucker Punch—HDTGM EPISODE Wild Wild West—HDTGM EPISODE Havoc The Honeymooners (2005) Imagine That Fatal Instinct Silver Bullet (which is one my bad movie picks) Graveyard Shift (haven’t seen it since high school, but I remember it sucking then. I’m sure it still does). Leprechaun:Origins (got 0% on RT! Take that for what it’s worth) The Butterfly Effect 2 Young Guns 1 &2 (how the fuck have THESE not been an episode yet?) The Fog (2004) Man on a Ledge The Last Witch Hunter ((with Vin Diesel!) Vampire Academy—HDTGM EPISODE Demolition Man—HDTGM EPISODE Terminator 3 Ghost Rider Failure to Launch

Isn't that what stickers, pins, and/or patches are for?

I can’t say I’m surprised lol

The comment about salsa/sauce/gravy reminds me of at least one Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode. A financial scheme was described as "A game of Snakes & Ladders" (Chutes & Ladders in my childhood.) Another reference was that a character's Swiss criminal record would include his dirty "nappies" (diapers).

I know that in the case of cassette tapes, there's a few teens out there today who want to throw a band they just saw and liked a couple bucks and get a tiny something back in return, even if they can't really use it.

I've noticed the same with VHS tapes, starting somewhere around 2010-2015. It seems mostly niche though, in terms of Retro-hipsterism (there's a scene of Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver watching VHS tapes in Baumbach's of While We're Young to illustrate the lifestyle difference). Wanting simpler times of some sort, I'd guess. Some collector mentality (just liking to collect vintage media). And there are some movies that are still only available on VHS. (Again, niche) Nostalgia? I think the format is just flat out inferior to modern formats, so I roll my eyes at the first group.

I'm here to bat at your generalizations, Cameron My mom definitely has a bunch of my ballet performances on VHS but definitely same cause I think she finally ditched the VCR. She is the kind of person that will hold onto shit until it legitimately breaks and we had one of those giant box TVs with a VCR included until I got back from college lol.

Aw, I used to like this and the original as a kid. I've not watched them in ages but I don't doubt this one would be good to do. Stuff like this and zombie media has really opened my eyes as to how little people seem to understand their bodies and what actually happens after you die.

Finally catching up on Musical Mondays, and got the chance to watch this on Saturday. I had no idea what to expect and certainly wasn't expecting it to be so silly. That windmill attack scene was easily my favorite. I'd say I enjoyed the movie overall and would watch it again. I agree that it is probably better the second time when I'm not so confused about what is going on. My biggest nitpick of it is that I got real tired real quick of the constant rape-y scenes with Sophia Loren. I loved her character and the acting, but it really got old by the end.

I would love for Video/Music stores to make a comeback. I miss that feeling of discovery from just browsing the aisles. There’s really not an online equivalent to flipping through CD’s and DVD’s.

Cassette tapes are somewhat making a small comeback. I don't really understand it myself, but you can buy current albums and (full price !!!) players. My first college date was organizing a massive DVD collection after my date had a hard time trying to find a specific movie. I told him I'd be happy to help him get it organized. We took everything off the shelves, dusted them, made sure the correct discs were in each case, and then set them in stacks to organize (by letter (leaving out the articles), keeping series together in order of release, and a separate director's section for his favorites in order of release). I think at the time he thought it was true love or something, that I'd happily do that for him, but really I just like organizing things. Always have. I remember going to Zany Brainy for Goosebumps books and finding the section badly out of order, so I started reorganizing it. I still do that. Just last month I was trying to find a specific lipstick tester but all the testers were in the wrong places, so I put them all back where they were supposed to be. Anyway, I go back and forth with myself on physical vs. digital media. On the one hand, it does cut down on clutter and environmental waste, and it's much easier to find niche and out of print materials. On the other, algorithms, being at the whim of third parties on what and when you can see something, issues of ownership, rights issues, horrible redubs, etc. Plus, streaming killed video and music stores, and those were the two best jobs I ever had. (So much organizing!)

Regarding pricing, obviously buying nothing is cheaper than buying something, but in my case, it’s not like I swapped out my collection overnight. Right now, I’ve set aside two binders of DVD’s I’ve upgraded to HD to donate to the library, and I have about three more waiting to be (slowly) replaced. Also, I wait for sales - which they have every single week. And most of the movies they put on sale are older movies anyway (so pretty much the stuff I’m trying to replace). For example, I bought The Matrix Trilogy in 4K the other day (w/ extras) for 4.99 each. As far as convenience, it’s not so much needing to watch movies on vacation (although, I do have kids and being able to download a few of their favorite movies is great for long trips), but it’s nice to have at your fingertips. It’s perfect for if you want to, say, watch an Unspooled or HDTGM movie on a lunch break. Also, in my household, my wife prefers video games over watching movies. With digital media, we can still hang out together in the same room, but still engage in our preferred past time. I’ll watch a movie on my phone, tablet, or laptop while she slays some orcs. We discuss what we’re doing while we’re doing it, and neither of us is exiled to another room or forced to do something they don’t really want to do. It’s pretty win/win for us. I mean, I’m not trying to proselytize or anything - lol. Whatever works, works. This just happens to work for us.

I do t think there were other actors. I’m assuming what they did was exactly what they did in the oubliette. They would just pick people out of the crowd to aid the performance. It would be impossible for the Inquisition to arrest everyone, but they could probably get Cervantes on a “corruption of the youth” or some such charge.

Two other reasons why I haven't switched to non-physical media that I thought of: Cost and simplicity. Cost is simple: A lot of these movies I bought from a $5 DVD bin years ago (still especially proud of getting Jurassic Park that way in about 2013 before the price spiked with Jurassic World). Other than re-purchasing my movies outright on digital at maybe $10 each, the only option I know of is Vudu has this pretty cool thing where you can scan your DVDs at home and then buy the digital versions for $2-$5 each, with just a couple of smallish catches, like Disney won't allow their movies to be included. But at about 100 DVDs, that's still more than I'm willing to spend. Plus Vudu is probably the most likely non-obscure streaming service to go the way of Walmart's iTunes knockoff (which, BTW I can't even find the name of on Google). Other annoyance would be simplicity. Some movies are cheaper on one service, others on another. Plenty of discs nowadays come with a free digital copy to a single streaming service, and you don't get to pick which one. So you're either going to pay a little bit more to get all of your movies on one service, or you're going to have to hop back and forth between them, sometimes hunting for a movie that you can't remember what service it's on. Granted, the majority of your movies will probably be with your favorite service, but not all. IIRC, the purpose of UltraViolet was to create a unified portal to have them all in one place, but we know how that went. Disney's MoviesAnywhere may or may not eventually take up that role if the other studios go along with it. Also, I guess this is just me, but I can count on zero fingers all the times that I was out somewhere and really wished I could watch a specific movie that I owned at home. I can certainly imagine being on vacation or something and wanting to see a specific movie that I own, but it has yet to happen. Maybe if I had kids and an iPad. There's also the small side issue of movies from Apple will only work on Apple devices, and the others (Google, Amazon, and Walmart's Vudu) are owned by pretty evil corporations. And Apple's really no saint anyhow. But really, none of the studios are that squeaky clean to begin with.

Isn’t that just life though? We watch and read “escapist” literature all the time. It doesn’t make our problems go away, but it offers us respite - even for a little while. And hope is the most powerful thing in the universe...

Don't forget about the coffee pot. That sounds life changing. Also it was good timing of this episode so we know Casey and June are still friends even after that DROP DEAD FRED record.

Surprise bitches I'm back. Since Hobbs & Shaw drops tomorrow I had to come back to reveal my thoughts, because oh boy do I have them lol. I'm very excited to bring back This Week In Feminism too, because even though I was gone for a few months does not mean I have changed a thing lol. Buckle up, y'all lol. I also had to come back once I heard them announce 2:22 because, while I have not seen that movie so I'm sure it is terrible, Michiel Huisman is my fucking man, y'all. Ever since I saw him on Orphan Black I have been in love with him, and he is a much better actor than I'm sure they will talk about so no matter what I have to defend this stupid movie. Go watch Hill House cause that is a much better representation of his skills lmao. But he's so hot y'all. He's just so hot.

8/15 The Maltese Falcon 8/22 Philadelphia Story 8/29 Network 9/5 Lawrence of Arabia 9/12 On The Waterfront don't know when the live episode I'm going to tomorrow will slide in there tho

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