Movies you used to get out on video.

Professey Chin

Ace Ventura was my biggy. And there was a sports section with all the Wrestlemanias. Great times :pac:

irishgeo

We used to have a fella who came around in a van with boxes of videos to rent. You got to keep them for the week.

We also didn't have uk channels so a friend of the family who did used to record stuff and drop it down to us.

Mad stuff like blind date , all the Saturday night TV stuff. It would be all over the place.

Aglomerado

irishgeo wrote: »

We used to have a fella who came around in a van with boxes of videos to rent. You got to keep them for the week.

We also didn't have uk channels so a friend of the family who did used to record stuff and drop it down to us.

Mad stuff like blind date , all the Saturday night TV stuff. It would be all over the place.

We had the van guy as well. He was really handy! He wasn't great on new releases but he always had something.

I suppose kids climbing into the back of a white van nowadays would cause alarm!! :pac:

Titzon Toast

So many memories brought back by this thread, when I was a kid we had a "Ferguson Videostar" if my memory serves me correctly.
Sometimes we would borrow our neighbours one off him and use it to record new releases from one to another!
If the heads were dirty and the screen was full of snow, you could hit fast forward while the video was playing and it would usually clear it up.
Good times.

briany

We used to rent out like 7 or 8 films for a single weekend because we only had two channels on the box, due to a crappy aerial. Critters is the one that seems to stick out from those early days of video rental. In those days, we had literally no way of knowing what was good except from what was on the box itself so video rental night could be a very hit and miss affair.

John C

We had a video recorder in 1986. We watched:
- 'Flesh and Blood', Director Paul Verhoeven.
- Highlander
- A Passage to India
- The world is full of married men
- 'The Mission' with Robert de Niro and Jeremy Irons
and many more.

I recall my sister saying: " Why don't you rent The Thornbirds'? She never rented herself.

We used the VCR to record television programs for family members, who were 'out of the house'.
Whenever my mother missed an episode of 'The Late Late Show' we recorded it for her. Others looked for recordings of soap operas like Glenroe.

In the first six months after purchasing this VCR we used it heavily. Thereafter we used it less and less.

That was long long ago. John C

darkdubh

Taajsgpm wrote: »

Highlander was the best ever . "Who wants to live forever " by Queen
"

The sequel Highlander II The Quickening was bloody awful though.A guy who I shared a flat with in the mid 90s got that out.He was convinced that Michael Ironside was Jack Nicholson,coulden't convince him otherwise.

fryup

briany wrote: »

We used to rent out like 7 or 8 films for a single weekend because we only had two channels on the box, due to a crappy aerial. .

but sure half the country only had two channels back in the day

darkdubh

fryup wrote: »

but sure half the country only had two channels back in the day

We only had one,we coulden't get RTE 2.

Ruu

We had to twist the aerial and we had the BBCs.

Straylight

I used to rent all sorts of horror films until I got bored with them. There's one I remember called House, which seemed to start off as a regular horror flick, but it was like halfway through they ran out of money and it turned into the most unintentionally funny film ever. Loved all the Arnie films like The Running Man and Predator, rented lots of comedies like Stripes and The Money Pit, and of course the catchily titled The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

fryup

darkdubh wrote: »

We only had one,we coulden't get RTE 2.

utter poverty :eek:

RobbingBandit

Buckaroo Banzai was awesome, Jeff Goldbloom at his best, I had a van guy too got to see a cool film called Guyver a live action Manga movie years before I even knew what manga was, he always had bootleg films just out in the cinema great copies too.

Professey Chin

Guyver is brilliant! Mark Hamill
The original manga of it was fantastic

Into The Blue

branners69 wrote: »

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

Opposite the jolly on Collins Avenue, think there's a car wash the now.. Lad used to rent us 18s horrors, porn, you name it... Think we were about 11 or 12!

RoadhouseBlues

First video I saw was ET.
The second video I was Terminator:-)

livEwirE

irishgeo wrote: »

We used to have a fella who came around in a van with boxes of videos to rent. You got to keep them for the week.

My dad was a 'video man' around Dublin during the early 90's. I went around with him a few times. He used to go all over the Tallaght, Clondalkin area renting out tapes. He still has a huge amount of old VHS movies in his attic

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^

any durty ones???? nudge nudge wink wink

nlgbbbblth

any pre-cert video nasties?

darkdubh

Remember the Today Tonight programme on video nasties circa 86?Showed a lot of gory clips from Driller Killer,Zombie Flesh Eaters and Maniac,think The Evil Dead too.

nlgbbbblth

darkdubh wrote: »

Remember the Today Tonight programme on video nasties circa 86?Showed a lot of gory clips from Driller Killer,Zombie Flesh Eaters and Maniac,think The Evil Dead too.

I do. My parents were shocked to learn that I had already seen a good few of them at that point.

There was a similar documentary on BBC around the end of 1984. That got me hooked.

There's a great book on the whole controversy - See No Evil.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/See-No-Evil-Banned-Controversy/dp/1900486105/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1417342789&sr=8-8&keywords=david+kerekes

and the two volumes of Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide are also essential viewing
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Video-Nasties-Definitive-Guide-DVD/dp/B004BDZ0FC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417342848&sr=8-1&keywords=VIDEO+NASTIES

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Video-Nasties-Definitive-Guide-Limited/dp/B00KE2BWE2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1417342848&sr=8-2&keywords=VIDEO+NASTIES

YellowFeather

chillywilly wrote: »

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

IT used to come in two tapes 'cause it was so long. Same with the original The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Curly Sue was a frequent rental for me. And Critters. I also seem to remember paying with an English fiver one time 'cause the rates were the same? Could that be right or was yer man just ripping me off? Around the mid 90s.

We also had a tape for cleaning the VCR which had a little hole that you put drops of special liquid into and then 'played' it for a half hour. I loved doing that.

"Muuum. I'm going to fix the video player." :pac:

rainbowdrop

The youth of today don't know how lucky they. Thanks to the internet they can watch any movie they want when they want......

I remember me and my brothers being allowed to go rent movies most weekends. Favourites were Ghostbusters, Flight of The Navigator, BMX Bandits, The Boy Who Could Fly, Moonwalker and Karate Kid.
Our parents were selective over what videos we were allowed to watch, but my aunt was not, so when we had sleepovers at our cousins house, my aunt would rent stuff like Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Carrie, Christine and Candyman.

I remember settling down on the couch in front of the tv with big bags of opal fruits (now known as starburst, for our younger readers) and boxes of maltesers. No microwave popcorn back then.

Happy days!!

RoadhouseBlues

rainbowdrop wrote: »

The youth of today don't know how lucky they. Thanks to the internet they can watch any movie they want when they want......

I remember me and my brothers being allowed to go rent movies most weekends. Favourites were Ghostbusters, Flight of The Navigator, BMX Bandits, The Boy Who Could Fly, Moonwalker and Karate Kid.
Our parents were selective over what videos we were allowed to watch, but my aunt was not, so when we had sleepovers at our cousins house, my aunt would rent stuff like Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Carrie, Christine and Candyman.

I remember settling down on the couch in front of the tv with big bags of opal fruits (now known as starburst, for our younger readers) and boxes of maltesers. No microwave popcorn back then.

Happy days!!

I remember a Saturday at my friends house. We were about 10. There were 2 movies. Aliens. Which we thought was amazing:) and a martial arts movie that we weren't meant to be watching cos it was a bit adult:). I think it was China O'Brien but I could be wrong. I actually never saw it since. But for us. Aliens was the business. My god. I will never forget that Saturday:-). Psssst there was a topless scene in the other movie:D

Professey Chin

WHITE FANG!!!

Sorry. Moment of rememberance

Luckycharms_74

Remember renting all the martial arts movies. I think it was the Big Boss and after watching it me and my friends tried to re-enact the moves. I think we broke a vase or something and my father came in and got the tape and stood on it and bust it in two

branie2

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

Remember renting all the martial arts movies. I think it was the Big Boss and after watching it me and my friends tried to re-enact the moves. I think we broke a vase or something and my father came in and got the tape and stood on it and bust it in two

I hope the film wasn't a rental!

The Mulk

rainbowdrop wrote: »

The youth of today don't know how lucky they. Thanks to the internet they can watch any movie they want when they want......

I remember me and my brothers being allowed to go rent movies most weekends. Favourites were Ghostbusters, Flight of The Navigator, BMX Bandits, The Boy Who Could Fly, Moonwalker and Karate Kid.
Our parents were selective over what videos we were allowed to watch, but my aunt was not, so when we had sleepovers at our cousins house, my aunt would rent stuff like Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Carrie, Christine and Candyman.

I remember settling down on the couch in front of the tv with big bags of opal fruits (now known as starburst, for our younger readers) and boxes of maltesers. No microwave popcorn back then.

Happy days!!

I remember all those films, especially seeing the trailers of them, and getting really excited until they came out.

The boy who could fly, that's a blast from the past:pac:

There was one film I loved "The Go-kids" set in Australia about a local legend called the 'donkegin', seen it recently on the TV and it was called "Frog Dreaming" (WTF), I had to google it to make sure I wasn't loosing my mind. Seems they had different names for it in different regions

The Monster Squad was another favourite

Deep Thought

Major League
The Wraith...

rubadub

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

The Terminator,

Think that was the first one I got with a "fake note", they would give out 18s films if you had a note in the place I went. Then some lads parents would have a note on the account allowing it as standard, so people would be using their accounts, sometime unknown to the person who had the account. The security was pretty lax "whats your address" and they would just know the address of the guy.

Kids today would not believe the delay in films coming out and the time it took for them to appear on video. There seemed to be a huge delay in even coming to the cinema from the US, not sure how long and maybe it just seemed a very long time as a kid.