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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I miss the days of exctiting cover artwork. If it weren’t for the covers, who would ever have seen Chud, or Life Force, or It’s Alive, or Island of It’s Alive?

Along these lines you had some gimmick vhs boxes, One for a mlvie called 'frankenhooker' (Dumb comedy some people liked) there was a raised bump on the boxvcover that if pressed played a voice chip that said "Wanna date?", a line from the movie.

I remember a vhs box that had some sort of zombie on it, the title was forgettable, that had green leds for eyes and when a bump on the box was pressed they flashed green a few times.

There were others, these are just what i remember.

Someone did a box of the original battlestar galactica dvds that was shaped like a centurion's head.

I guess with most media going digital download gimmick boxes are a thing of the past. Kinda sad, they were an interesting little gimmick. It's too bad they didn't make a gimmick vhs box for blazing saddled. Press bart's badge and a soundchip plays part of the campfire scene.

But what of my guilt?

The guilt of not Seeing It Through?

We were all draw in by Awesome Sleeves.....and we all share the sheer disappointment.

Can we go back to such dedication?

Never give up...Never surrender

I think in the olden physical media days I stuck with all kinds of drek as getting something else meant going back to the shop bit of an ask if you are in situ with snacks and booze, in the clicky era whilst choice is massive it takes a lot of willpower to stick with anything under 6/10

Yeah, Mad Doc, times have changed. As Turnip Jedi says, there are just too many options. Tubi alone has a plethora of cheesy old B-movies. Sometimes they work out, but if you’re 20 minutes in and not feeling it, it’s just too easy to go back to browse and pick something else.

Back I. The VHS days I found a lot of fun movies just because nothing else was on. Nowadays, everything else is on. There’s a lot less incentive to see if a bad movie gets better.

(This is where I’d link to Richard Jeni’s bit about watching Jaws 4. Spoiler: it never gets better.)

Is 4 the one where the shark somehow follows a plane ?

Yes. Because the shark knows the one family it wants revenge against boarded that plane.

 Matt Swain wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I miss the days of exctiting cover artwork. If it weren’t for the covers, who would ever have seen Chud, or Life Force, or It’s Alive, or Island of It’s Alive?

Someone did a box of the original battlestar galactica dvds that was shaped like a centurion's head.

They did two versions of that locally. One had an LED chaser in the "eye" strip - the battery went flat after about a month. The second version had some prismatic lenticular red plastic in the eye-strip instead.

A former house-mate of mine bought the limited release of Pink Floyd's "Pulse" album. There was a simple solution for it, turn the case around, so the spine was at the "back", but he was OCD as all get-out, and that would have played merry-hell with his alphabetised and colour-sorted cd collection.

Sorcerer, 1977.

Slow start(if you watch the american version, the european version was shortened), but the film is quite special. First time i saw it a year ago it left me in a very special mood.

Released at the same time as the first star wars and with a $21 mill budget, it could not compete against SW and became a financial disaster.

 FrozenDwarf wrote:
Sorcerer, 1977.

Slow start(if you watch the american version, the european version was shortened), but the film is quite special. First time i saw it a year ago it left me in a very special mood.

Released at the same time as the first star wars and with a $21 mill budget, it could not compete against SW and became a financial disaster.

A friend recommended the movie to me and I thought it was great. Definitely a film that deserves more attention.

"Amazon women on the moon", a parody of 80's late nite cable tv.