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Movies you used to get out on video.

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  • 27-10-2014 10:23am
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    Ralf and Florian
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    In the golden age of VHS videos(early 80s to maybe late 90s) what films used you rent out?Remember video stores and all the racks of videos and the different sections how they'd have stuff like Betty Blue in the "adult" section.All the Police Accademy films would get an outing.The Terminator,all the Eddie Murphy comedies.The ones your siblings would rent that you couldent stand.My two Sisters rented Sister Act out so many times that I never want to see the bloody thing again.Those movies which had cool video artwork but turned out to be rubbish made for TV movies or pilots.And of course having to rewind the tape cos the last flecked hadent bothered.


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    unjedilike
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    Ferris Bueller's day off


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    The Princess Bride
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    In our local video store, the lady always recommended Shattered-(Tom Berenger)- as in every time we went in, she'd be," there's this great filum, I don't know if ye've seen it, it's called Shattered." Every time.
    It's funny because it's a film I've never seen on television.

    Hated the rewinding,so annoying.


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    Ralf and Florian
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    When we first got a VCR I remember the fast forward was a big source of amusement,watching the characters running really fast.Also the slow motion option which you'd use if there was any nudity or what just happened there moments.It was supposed to knacker the machine if you used it too much or so I heard.


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    Ruu
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    The Land Before Time, a lot of fantasy type things. Many of the above ones and when video shop was closed, we had to go to the pub/grocery/hardware shop and get what they had. This one I remember hating!!

    https://archive.org/details/SpaceAngel-SpaceHijackers

    We had to rent a VCR (used to give it to us in a duffel bag!!) as well before we got a top loader one. :p


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    branie2
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    When I was younger, mostly bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Sylvester & Tweety cartoons and the Houndcats and the Barkleys


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    chakotha
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    Highlander
    The Lost Boys


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    branners69
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    Stand by Me! I remember hounding the guy in Xtravision every week until it came out!

    Anyone remember pre-Xtravision? I remember renting from a shop on Eden Quay in Dublin, I think the laughter lounge is there now!


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    darkdubh
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    There was this young fella working in a video shop I used to go to who knew nothing about films.I asked did they have Taxi Driver and he'd never heard of it,thought I was talking about the TV series Taxi.


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    darkdubh
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    Remember those faulty videos where the screen would break up and go all snowy then settle back normally?If you were lucky it would only do it a couple of times but sometimes,mostly on older cassettes it would do it something like every 10 seconds or so throgh the entire film,you'd just have to give up watching it .


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    Sleveile
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    Saturday night was either a Chuck Norris or a Jackie Chan video.

    Delta Force
    The Octagon
    Police Story


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    Dr Turk Turkelton
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    A top tip was to rent it on a Saturday morning and since they were closed Sunday you kept it till Monday.
    This was in pre-XtraVision days.


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    darkdubh
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    chakotha wrote: »
    Highlander
    The Lost Boys

    On a couple of occasions we were able to watch a film in the video room and that was one of them,another was Return Of The Living Dead.Then on one occasion when we were supposed to be studying someone brought in a hardcore porno and we watched it.I remember the title and all "Strange Love".How we got away with it I don't know.were bricking ourselves that a teacher would walk in.

    Edit:Sorry I forgot to point out this was in school.


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    Taajsgpm
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    chakotha wrote: »
    Highlander
    The Lost Boys

    Highlander was the best ever . "Who wants to live forever " by Queen
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    ozmo
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    darkdubh wrote: »
    Remember those faulty videos where the screen would break up and go all snowy then settle back normally?If you were lucky it would only do it a couple of times but sometimes,mostly on older cassettes it would do it something like every 10 seconds or so throgh the entire film,you'd just have to give up watching it .

    Ugg- remember always twiddling that tracker wheel to get the best picture for every tape.

    First video i watched on tape was one of the Peter Sellars pink panter movies -
    Watched it forward.. Then wrecked our heads watching it all in reverse as we rewound it :)

    “Roll it back”



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    Corholio
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    Mac and Me.

    We were spoiled then.


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    I remember Jaws being rented on a few occasions. Titanic when it first came out on home video was very hard to get hold of, we had to ring down to Xtravision and get on a waiting list to rent.


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    demanufactured
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    Home alone
    Jurassic Park
    No Holds Barred


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    fryup
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    Porky's

    (even by today's standards its still very raunchy)


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    chillywilly
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    I used to rent out IT (Pennywise the clown) for all my sleep overs as a kid. It used to scare the ****e out of us :D


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    r3nu4l
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    Sleveile wrote: »
    Saturday night was either a Chuck Norris or a Jackie Chan video.

    Delta Force
    The Octagon
    Police Story

    Hell yeah! I was the same, every martial arts flick I could find.

    I seem to remember loving 'Best of the best' :cool:

    Also, Rambo, Cobra, The Running Man, all got an outing from me :)


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    Aglomerado
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    China O'Brien (martial arts) films.

    Return of the Living Dead (I had the rental tape worn out :D)


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    branners69
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    Confessions of a...


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    Rory28
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    Jean Claude Van Damme films, especially Double Impact. There was a frisk scene in that that young me kept rewinding, over and over again.
    Also there was one film I would get when I was even younger but cant remember the name of. It had a cupboard that when you put toys in and closed they came alive. I wanted it so bad I cried.


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    Mick55
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    Young Einstein.


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    branners69
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    Rory28 wrote: »
    Also there was one film I would get when I was even younger but cant remember the name of. It had a cupboard that when you put toys in and closed they came alive. I wanted it so bad I cried.

    Indian in the Cupboard?


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    nlgbbbblth
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    The Princess Bride wrote: »
    In our local video store, the lady always recommended Shattered-(Tom Berenger)- as in every time we went in, she'd be," there's this great filum, I don't know if ye've seen it, it's called Shattered." Every time.
    It's funny because it's a film I've never seen on television.

    Hated the rewinding,so annoying.

    That was recommended to me sometime in 1992. Delare Video, New Ross. It's crap.


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    nlgbbbblth
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    Rented the three Godfathers in the summer of 1992. Started watching them at 11.00pm, one after the other with a load of cans. Finished around 8.00am the following morning and went straight to work. Didn't feel great.

    Goodfellas was very hard to rent when it came out. The four video libraries in the town had one copy each and a long waiting list.


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    Rory28
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    branners69 wrote: »
    Indian in the Cupboard?

    That's it. Will watch it again now. Hope it held up well against time.


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    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    I remember some of the lurid artwork on a lot of the early video releases.This prison drama with a young Sean Penn where hes stabbing a guy on the cover was one of the first videos I remember seeing on the shelves.I diden't rent it out though cos it sounded too extreme.Still haven't seen it,its probably really tame.They used to play up the blood and guts factor with the artwork a lot of the time.


    Edit:Here it is.Bad Boys from 1983.


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    An Riabhach
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    Some of the ones I remember my older brothers renting out include:

    Lethal Weapon
    Blazin Saddles
    Salem's Lot
    The Omen
    Nightmare On Elm Street
    Anything With Cuck Norris,Bruce Lee,Van Damme and the like

    and then my big sis would get stuff like:

    Some Kinda Wonderful
    Dirty Dancing
    Ghost
    Fame

    and little me,when I was allowed,would get:

    Zig and Zag Nothing To Do With Toast
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles


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