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     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
A man who had quite a few forays into several genres, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, but I sure as hell will miss his contribution to brightening up my childhood:http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20101111/ten-uk-delaurentiis-3334b85.html | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.131.0.116 |
Gosh! I thought he died years ago! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.93.28 |
Yes, Frank - I agree. Didn't he produce Barbarella, the film that introduced the whole male first year at my comp to wanking one Friday night in 1975? Let's raise, um, something to the great man. (I have to admit to one thing - I actually really liked his Kong remake, even if that does make me a somewhat lonely figure) | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.131.0.116 |
Yes he did - and Flash Gordon (1980) which gave us Ornella Muti, Peter Wyngarde, Brian Blessed, Max von Sydow and Topol all in one movie. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.93.28 |
The first video film I ever bought, that - 1981, £29. And it was in a sale! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Tony - oh, yes, VHS copies in those days, scandalous prices, but we were so prepared to pay them for the miracle of video! Happy times. I remember going with my cub troupe/troop to see Flash Gordon as an Xmas treat at the cinema. It is still a great, but vague like memory of jumping up and down in our seats, especially when Flash comes riding in on that flying bike thingy of his. Tony - I saw Miss Fonda undressing in zero gravity many years later, and to be honest, I hated the film. Horses for courses, or teens for wet dreams (: | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.112.98 |
My first VHS was Blade Runner in 1988ish. Money was so scarce I even recorded something onto the 10 mins of empty tape at the end. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.10 |
I remember when a friend's mum accidentally picked up a copy of Flesh Gordon by mistake to put on at her son's 13th birthday party. All the adults went into the kitchen to chat and drink while all us kids were sat watching the film in the living room... That was a memorable party. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Hahahha...I remember that doing the rounds. Never saw it though. Proto - I used do stuff like that. DVD's love em, but kinda takes out the fun of making your own stuff. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.139.216.19 |
God, vhs had the fragility and longevity of a cup of water, didn't it? Poor thing, now insulating chilly charity shop walls across the world.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.139.216.19 |
We used to rent videos from a bloke who delivered them to you in his car. I remember one winter of The Thing, The Exorcist, The Omen and Alien, and I Spit on Your Grave (an uncomfy family watch, that one). I loved the look of these tapes, how amazing the whole idea of being able to watch stuff when you liked was. I used to record like every film on the telly and watch it two or three times a week. Surprisingly good quality at the time. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.243.135 |
We had a chap (actually he earned the moniker "bloke") who drove around in a small van. You had to climb into the back of this van, away from any possible witnesses, to check out his pirate video collection. Not sure why but I rented the little remembered Martin Short/Danny Glover comedy PURE LUCK. Mercifully, I never got to see the whole film. The tape was so dirty that the screen became alive with static, like rolls of surf breaking on a digital beach. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.139.216.19 |
Oddly, the man with the car had original films mostly. We just thought pirate copies were like things recorded off the telly. Sad I used to just record movies, not telly progs... Still had some of these old movies till quite recently, actually, all with old ads and everything. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.139.216.19 |
I've seen Pure Luck! Recently, on On Demand tv. God, it's bad. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.243.135 |
Another fellow used to buy the TV Guide(s), type out the weekly schedule, photocopy it, and flog it door to door. I liked that one. Someone on Radio 4's Heresy was asked what the difference was between illegally downloading a film from the internet and stealing a DVD from a shop. He said that when he downloads it, it's still there. Pithy, profound, iffy. But maybe we've reached the end of paying for most things, most entertainers were amateurs through most of history, weren't they? |