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Just took out my VHS and watching Heat on it. Sheer class, that's all I have to say.

Does it make sense to like the quality of VHS tapes more than DVD??? I'm enjoying the grainy look much more than Blu Ray. Maybe it's just nostalgia.

Does anyone else have their VHS still with them? What movies are in your stockpile?
 
I still have a vhs player hooked up to the main tv in the house because it's a DVD player also.
 
hungrywing said:
What inspired this trip down memory lane?
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I was actually watching the same movie on blu-ray, thinking, "why am I not enjoying this??"

I rummaged through the closet and there it was.

I'll probably grow up to be one of those annoying seniors who always go, "back in my day, we didn't have any cybernetic women. we had real ones, and that's the way we liked 'em!":lol:
 
While you got it out,go to your artiest video shop and rent "Cocksucker blues" not released on dvd. Only release on vhs pirate. Quality Stones vid with sex an drugs an rock n roll
 
maldini said:
I was actually watching the same movie on blu-ray, thinking, "why am I not enjoying this??"

I rummaged through the closet and there it was.

I'll probably grow up to be one of those annoying seniors who always go, "back in my day, we didn't have any cybernetic women. we had real ones, and that's the way we liked 'em!":lol:
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Maybe its a shit film?
 
maldini said:
Does anyone else have their VHS still with them? What movies are in your stockpile?
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Oh, they're very much still with me. It's mostly because I haven't got around to replacing them all, I'm sad to say. Very boring, I know. :boring:

Some of the films I've recently watched on VHS are Fellini's Satyricon, Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly and Antonioni's Zabriskie Point.
I regularly watch lots of old opera VHS too, like the Ponelle/Barenboim Tristan or the Friedrich/Böhm Elektra.

And of course my dear old Louis de Funès films. :)
 
Waltraute said:
Oh, they're very much still with me. It's mostly because I haven't got around to replacing them all, I'm sad to say. Very boring, I know. :boring:

Some of the films I've recently watched on VHS are Fellini's Satyricon, Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly and Antonioni's Zabriskie Point.
I regularly watch lots of old opera VHS too, like the Ponelle/Barenboim Tristan or the Friedrich/Böhm Elektra.

And of course my dear old Louis de Funès films. :)
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Look at you and your highfalutin foreign movie watchin'.

Too good for the rest of us, is that it? I bet you've never even seen a Roy Chubby Brown video.
 
God, I'm tempted to buy Heat on Blu-ray, epic movie, man I fecking love Michael Mann(except well Miami Vice was still decent damnit!).

But onto VHS, haven't watched one in like 5 years I think, maybe even longer, I had like 100+ of them, most of which were Global Video ex-rentals. I don't think there is a player in the house anymore, still a few tapes lying around though. Maybe because I don't want to throw out foreign films which cost a bomb on VHS even though I have most on DVD now.
 
De Selby said:
Look at you and your highfalutin foreign movie watchin'.

Too good for the rest of us, is that it? I bet you've never even seen a Roy Chubby Brown video.
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:lol:

That did sound rather nauseatingly pretentious, didn't it?
Silly, as I'm also the proud VHS owner of many Manchester United Season Reviews, countless old Dr Who episodes taped off the telly, and Madchester Rave On!
 
Heat was a big disappointment for me. When I 1st heard about it and the cast when it was released I literally creamed myself.

But was quite average. Apart from the bank robbery bit which was class.

As for the OP, I have never got all nostalgic about VHS and I don’t miss them at all.

Betamax on the other hand....
 
Our VHS player from 1991 is still going strong! It's as old as me :lol:
 
Heat was quite good, but it was too long and definitely given too much praise. I always wanted to see LA Takedown for comparison, but I still haven't got around to it.
 
I think Andy McNab did the consulting for the shooting scenes which is why they resemble contact drills. When I used to practice them we didn't have enough ammo so had to shout BANG! instead.
 
Many people complain about BD discs because they have the noise, or the noise is added. When I talk about noise, it's what the OP refers to as film grain, although in his case, it's probably not film grain at all, it's degradation of the analogue recording.
 
Grinner said:
I think Andy McNab did the consulting for the shooting scenes which is why they resemble contact drills. When I used to practice them we didn't have enough ammo so had to shout BANG! instead.
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Live ammo? Isn't that dangerous. I would have thought in drills you would be using blanks.
 
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