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Speaking of Rudy’s…. Rudy 4K announced. We Stan a short king!
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VoodooXT posted:There are roughly 400 copies left of Snapshot. Do not sleep on Snapshot, it's REALLY good. Seconded, finally watched this the other day after getting it during the last sale, and it rips. Bunch of Ozploitation producers, writers, director, and actors involved. Toe Cutter/Immortan Joe popped up and he was amazing, didn't even know he was going to be in it.
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VoodooXT posted:There are roughly 400 copies left of Snapshot. Do not sleep on Snapshot, it's REALLY good. Only 283 left, I’m gonna roll the dice on this one. Thanks for the rec!
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For the past couple days I've been thinking I really need to give up on blind buying. So often it's a movie I either don't really like or like but will never watch a second time. I need to stick to only buying movies I know I like or come strongly recommended by people whose opinion I trust. Earlier tonight I watched The Booth, a movie I have never heard a single person on earth mention, that I bought on DVD at Half Price Books on a whim. It turned out to be a fantastic, unique, tightly-scripted in real time movie about a radio call-in show that gets interference from a ghost. It loving kicked rear end. And I never would've watched it if I hadn't blind bought it on a whim. edit: also, I had a weird feeling, has anybody badmouthed Southland Tales in the past couple pages? Gripweed fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Sep 2, 2023 |
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VoodooXT posted:There are roughly 400 copies left of Snapshot. Do not sleep on Snapshot, it's REALLY good. I also bought Snapshot because of this post
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I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians is insanely good and only 11 bucks.
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Gripweed posted:For the past couple days I've been thinking I really need to give up on blind buying. So often it's a movie I either don't really like or like but will never watch a second time. I need to stick to only buying movies I know I like or come strongly recommended by people whose opinion I trust. The Booth sounds interesting. Thanks for picking it up so the 4k can be announced next week and a bunch of us can also blind buy it for a lot more money
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Yeah, The Booth is a pretty excellent film. I was and still am a big fan of those Tartan Asia Extreme releases. Whispering Corridors, The Slit-Mouth Woman, A Tale of Two Sisters, obviously Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance... It was really an amazing time where you could go to Best Buy or Borders and pick up any one of those titles. Foreign language, subtitled, in a major US retailer? Not anymore.
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I don't think I could ever give up blind buying. It really helps that I have a group of friends who hang out and watch movies with me most Sundays, but it's so much more fun when we're all surprised by something. A few weeks ago we watched Goodfellas, and we all loved it because all but one of us had already seen it multiple times, but that feeling can't compare to watching something like Iceman Cometh and being completely blindsided by how much fun it is. At the same time, even when something sucks, it's still fun to joke around about it and bring it up weeks later to gripe. The way I see it is, it's basically gambling, but I can sell my losses for something.
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The ways i sees it, one day the glut of these wild boutique releases will dry up considerably. But i will be able to pull something off the shelf i bought six years ago and forgot to watch and have a good night.
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Yeah, at this point my blind buying of old films I've never heard of track record is going better than my blind Shudder streaming of new Originals releases this year. Even if that weren't the case I still wouldn't give up blind buying, but it's helping expand my taste and increase my positive reviews on Letterboxd way more than the alternative; Physical Media Forever
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I've bought some real corkers blind buying from boutique labels, but then my blind buying is aided by the fact that a lot of these movies are titles I used to read about in cult movie magazines like Shock Cinema. Like I blind bought Penitentiary 1 and 2 with my latest VinSyn order, but I knew about those movies from reading about them years ago in some magazine or book. Don't know if that really counts as "blind buying" then, but the quick blurbs I used to read are pretty much what you get with VinSyn's synopses and reviews. I guess I just have the benefit of decades of hype. This sale I bought: Penitentiary 1 + 2, Shiva Baby, Beats and Amityville Dollhouse. I have zero experience with anything Amityville, but I heard Dollhouse is pretty great so I'm taking a chance. I'm sure it has just as much to do with the original movie as any of the hundreds of "Amityville" knockoffs.
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King Vidiot posted:I've bought some real corkers blind buying from boutique labels, but then my blind buying is aided by the fact that a lot of these movies are titles I used to read about in cult movie magazines like Shock Cinema. Like I blind bought Penitentiary 1 and 2 with my latest VinSyn order, but I knew about those movies from reading about them years ago in some magazine or book. Don't know if that really counts as "blind buying" then, but the quick blurbs I used to read are pretty much what you get with VinSyn's synopses and reviews. I guess I just have the benefit of decades of hype. That’s basically what I’ve done with all the Hong Kong stuff I’ve blind bought. I owned three different books as a teen that talked about Burning Paradise, you think I’m not gonna drop $30 on a restored Blu Ray?
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I've watched so many movies just because I bought this cool book of VHS cover art  A good blind buy can be joyous. Psycho Cop Returns was something special. For every CrossBones you pick up at a thrift store, you get a Skeleton Man. It's a fun gamble, especially if you can get stuff for cheap.This VS sale we ended up finishing with the Rudy Ray Moore collection, Thrust, Detention (with that beautiful slipcover), Def By Temptation, Commando Ninja, and thanks to this thread Snapshot and "I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians". Really excited for those last two especially. Out of those, Rudy Ray Moore's movies and Def By Temptation are the only ones I've seen.
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Looks like the Rudy Ray Moore set is sold out now, so I don’t feel bad ordering it early and paying more because I wasn’t around yesterday to buy it on sale anyway. It actually came today too, didn’t expect it to get here so fast. I’ve only seen Petey Wheatstraw so I’m excited to check out the others.
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Having not heard of 75% of this stuff I just watch a trailer on youtube (or skim it on tubi) when a title pops in this thread Like that golden eye doc..was streaming free on kanopy (thanks library card)..if I bought that from VS i'd be annoyed, it's half interesting and half "we ran out of poo poo to say"..but I'm glad I checked it out, thanks thread
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CelticPredator posted:My VHS copy of Psycho Goreman is on its way lmao Please post pics when you get it because I need reassurance that this is a thing that actually exists
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:This VS sale we ended up finishing with the Rudy Ray Moore collection, Did you get the box for RRM? They sell them separately for $12. Your order hasn't shipped yet so you can just add it to your existing order, which is definitely the most evil thing these fuckers do to divorce you from as much of your money as possible
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pwn posted:Did you get the box for RRM? They sell them separately for $12. Your order hasn't shipped yet so you can just add it to your existing order, which is definitely the most evil thing these fuckers do to divorce you from as much of your money as possible Wait, if I bought the $60 I have to buy the box on its own? That's wild.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Wait, if I bought the $60 I have to buy the box on its own? That's wild. 200 left, so they got 4800 people to buy cardboard..impressive e: not counting people that bought it as a whole set like you though, so who knows how many just boxes zer0spunk fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Sep 2, 2023 |
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Wait, if I bought the $60 I have to buy the box on its own? That's wild. No, the set you bought comes with the box. All the movies are also sold as stand alone discs so they were selling just the box for people that bought them one by one and wanted to put together the full set themselves I guess. Odd way to do it, but I think they may have had a couple of the titles available on their own before they put out the full set, so they did it this way so people wouldn’t have to double dip?
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zer0spunk posted:200 left, so they got 4800 people to buy cardboard..impressive When I bought the set earlier this week there were ~390 copies left. if nearly 5000 people bought just the box thinking it was the set with 4 movies, then, lol
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King Vidiot posted:I've bought some real corkers blind buying from boutique labels, but then my blind buying is aided by the fact that a lot of these movies are titles I used to read about in cult movie magazines like Shock Cinema. Like I blind bought Penitentiary 1 and 2 with my latest VinSyn order, but I knew about those movies from reading about them years ago in some magazine or book. Don't know if that really counts as "blind buying" then, but the quick blurbs I used to read are pretty much what you get with VinSyn's synopses and reviews. I guess I just have the benefit of decades of hype. I found Shiva Baby extremely upsetting. It’s scored like a horror movie because it is one.
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Man, I was really tempted there for a second to buy New York Ninja on VHS, but I stopped myself when I realized that VHS sucks as an actual format. It's great as an idea and an aesthetic, but it's awful to actually sit and watch. I'd basically be getting it as something to sit on my shelf and collect dust, and I already have the restored blu ray big box release.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Wait, if I bought the $60 I have to buy the box on its own? That's wild. Oh my bad, i read "we finished up with the Rudy Ray Moore Collection" as "we finished the Rudy Ray Moore Collection", i.e. you had already bought some of them individually and now you bought the rest. This is why I should not post first thing after waking up! King Vidiot posted:Man, I was really tempted there for a second to buy New York Ninja on VHS, but I stopped myself when I realized that VHS sucks as an actual format. It's great as an idea and an aesthetic, but it's awful to actually sit and watch. I'd basically be getting it as something to sit on my shelf and collect dust, and I already have the restored blu ray big box release. You're goddamned right. I cannot abide attempts to make VHS "a thing", it's such a shite format. I say this as someone with hundreds of the cursed things that I'm slowly digitizing. pwn fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Sep 3, 2023 |
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I have lots of VHS but I’m also over it, I like watching VHS rips of horror and action films (lots on YouTube fwiw) but as a format they’re just so cumbersome and unreliable. Edit: not to mention that they’re ugly, it’s cool to watch Redneck Zombies on VHS but trying to get through Suspiria would probably kill me PinkoBastard fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Sep 3, 2023 |
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I have a VCR and a small shelf of VHS tapes, but it's mainly just for show. I have some pretty cool poo poo on VHS, like The Hidden and Beastmaster, but there are way better ways out there to watch that stuff.
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VHS just isn't as good on a flatscreen. I need a real grainy CRT to get into it. Otherwise it's just bad quality.
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It's definitely fun to create as an art project, both content and packaging, and it can be really charming to stream weird VHS-only stuff or watch on a CRT, and we have a few fun picks like The Guyver and Stay Tuned on display on the shelf, but yeah it's not a great way to watch stuff nowadays. Some aftermarket tapes are cool but it's all about the effort put into making the transfer a full experience to enjoy.
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From a rip I did last week. The show ran overtime and, instead of just popping in a second tape, I futily attempted to squeeze everything on one, and... https://twitter.com/gecafe/status/1698141739171664239?s=46&t=t8CFjI5-v0IxaoLh38KSzw
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My Steelbook for Spiderverse came just now. Looks great! It’s shiny!
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Boywhiz88 posted:My Steelbook for Spiderverse came just now. Looks great! It’s shiny! yeah I was worried after how hackers shipped out, but its back to the normal slightly bigger box and single air cushion on top of the thing. No issues with ATSV..hopefully that was a one off or something from shout.
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Boywhiz88 posted:My Steelbook for Spiderverse came just now. Looks great! It’s shiny! Same, it's so lovely. It's interesting they used the classic spider punk design for it instead of the movie one. Oh, my three days of the condor 4k came too as well as a 4k for the castle of cagliostro (low price on amazon). Good weekend.
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