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Movies that you always saw in the video shop but never rented
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mightybashful wrote: »How do I make that picture show??
See post #25 above
Cheating a bit as we didn't really rent films but had Sky movies in the 80s/90s.. I did see this in Xtra Vision at the time and when I finally was allowed watch it, I remember being pretty scared by the first 20-odd minutes of this...
Ah youth! 0 -
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^^ If I remember right, after 3 they got pretty crap anyway
The first one is frickin' GREAT though..
I mean seriously, it's actually a damn good movie, but all people will remember is the increasingly awful sequels that made the film a laughing stock parody of what happens when you keep spinning out sequels on little more then brand recognition alone... *cough*Ghostbusters2016*cough*0 -
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I think I was only 14 when this hit the top shelf in XtraVision. I never got the chance to rent it, but have seen it several times since. 0 -
Insect Overlord wrote: »https://goo.gl/images/kqXZmZ
I think I was only 14 when this hit the top shelf in XtraVision. I never got the chance to rent it, but have seen it several times since.
And I'd just like to say, what a brilliant movie. A film 'Fifty Shades of Grey' couldn't even aspire to 'lick the boots of', and is in fact the film that POS movie which started out as Twilight fan-fiction (no, really) ripped off, even the main character Spader plays is called Edward E. Gray.
But what a dark, quirky, well written and oddly uplifting film 'Secretary' is. I encourage folks to watch it.0 -
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I always wanted to rent this when I was a teenager but there was just something about the artwork that made me think it might be too frightening for me. Decades later I saw it and of course it turned out to be rubbish and not particularly frightening.
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Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »
Prevert! :pac:
Ah Brooke Shields, queen of jail-bait movies. The 70's were very odd...and not always in a 'Black Samurai' kind of way.....
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What a great poster!
It was Released the same year, 1989, as James Cameron's 'The Abyss' (how weird is it that 3 underwater sci-fi movies with aliens would come out within a year?)
In the case of Leviathan it has the same scenario and characters as The Abyss, it's practically the same movie.... if you made a series of bad choices in the direction it takes. An underwater drilling crew of misfits find a sunken Russian ship and hijinks ensue including a hurricane that prevents their rescue.
But despite it's great cast it's a poor movie compared to Cameron's, largely because Cameron chose to go with classic 'Close Encounters' wonder and Leviathan stuck to cheesy 80's horror tropes and so it tries and fails to be underwater 'Alien'.
Anyway if on youtube you were to search Leviathan blu-ray you might get to check it out for nostalgia sake.
Oh, that third movie I mentioned.. well the less said about Deepstar Six the better....
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I think it would be racy for any time, featuring as it does, a gay orgy and hardcore porn, all of which but for few short, blink and miss it, cuts survive in the film after it was seized by the FBI.
Oh you should watch it. But but get the DVD with the commentary. The story behind the film is just bizarre.
The number or famous effects artists that cut their teeth on that film like Rick Baker and Dennis Muren is insane and the reason it looks so good.. for a porno that's a loving tribute to the old RKO serials (who would ever do such a thing today?)
It's also famous for controversy, the behind the scenes tale is one of madness, fraud, drugs, paranoia, incompetence, attempted murder and the fact that the FBI seized all it's pornographic content in a raid to build a case that resulted in the legalization of 'oral copulation' in the States. The commentary is just amazing and gives the background to a truly weird making of a movie that would make a great movie in itself.
Hilarious.
So it's an actual porno then? Bloody hell.
On an almost related topic, I remember trying to pluck up the courage many times as a horny 16 year to rent this one out.
Something about Jaime Pressly's come-to-me look on the video cover I couldn't resist, and one day I chanced my arm and got it! It was a tiny triumph in a pre porntube world..0 -
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Magazines at the time made this sound pretty good, but I never got to watch it. Even in a dystopian future, how dangerous can guys on roller skates be? Nobody I knew was remotely dangerous on them in the eighties.
For a min, i thought it was Lost Boys on Rollerblades, as yer man looks similar to Kiefer :P
If ever i had to visit a videostore, i had to 'thumb' a lift to the next village
But used to see these on the top shelf when entering the store & had to see them again on the way out, scaaary covers then :eek:
But always said one day....
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I did rent that one in my teens. To this day I wish I hadn't.
Our local video shop was not xtravision, some family owned movie store. I suspect they stocked some illegal movies, defo not mainstream stuff.
I rented a movie as a young teenager called Scum set in a boys detention centre. Horrific stuff.0 -
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There was a small supermarket in my town when I was growing up. The upstairs had videos to rent. We were late enough getting a player but I was obsessed. All I wanted was to find a way in to this magical world of film.
Anyways when in the shop with my mam I would want to go upstairs but was too scared! I didn't want to be up there alone with all the scary films but at the same time wanted to go look. The ones I remember are Hellraiser, a James Bond one, and another scary I can't remember the name of. It was about a crazy man who hung up women and set them on fire.
When we eventually did get a video player my uncle rented that very film and played it in my house one night. I saw some of it after much pestering of said uncle and jaysus I wasn't right for nights after it.
To this day I absolutely love films. After watching one I have to go straight to IMDB and wikipedia to read about it and see if I missed anything. I want to know who the case was and if I recognised them from anything else 0 -
So it's an actual porno then? Bloody hell.
On an almost related topic, I remember trying to pluck up the courage many times as a horny 16 year to rent this one out.
Something about Jaime Pressly's come-to-me look on the video cover I couldn't resist, and one day I chanced my arm and got it! It was a tiny triumph in a pre porntube world..
It was originally a porn parody, but the FBI seized all the hardcore footage so there's little of the 'porno aspect' left except a bit of nudity and a cast of characters with names like Dr. Flexi Jerkoff and Emperor Wang
. Which is a good thing because if it was porn then it probably would not have achieved it's cult classic status.
That said, you don't have to squint too hard to see what it was originally intended to be. I first saw it's soft core T&A sequel, Flesh Gordon Vs The Cosmic Cheerleaders and bought this thinking it was the same daft, fun film and was surprised by the amount of both male and female frontal nudity in it compared to the very campy sequel
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