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Post by I'm Almost Human on Feb 18, 2015 12:16:56 GMT -5
Because I enjoyed reading the music thread.
I used to go to Best Buy frequently - they always had a great selection of horror titles, especially on Blu Ray. I also purchased a good chunk of my Blue Underground titles there. Many great pickups over the years - Ichi the Killer bloodpack, Re-Animator anchor bay special edition set, the old numbered Halloween box set, etc. Sadly my location pretty much only carries new mainstream Blu Ray now.
I shop at Suspect Video in Toronto quite a bit. Great (huge) selection of very obscure horror titles.
Hey Man not long ago turned me on to Bay St. video, probably the biggest movie store I have ever seen. Amazing place.
When I am in the Niagara area I stop by That's Entertainment, a totally retro video (also rental) store that time forgot. Opened in '89 and has not been touched. Still the same advertisement and promos all over the store. Walls are covered with movie murals.. everything is original. Massive place, had the chance to pop in last weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2015 12:46:08 GMT -5
I go to HMV - they do sweet 3 for £20 deals.
Otherwise, I scour ebay for cheap Blu's.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2015 12:58:45 GMT -5
In my old laserdisc days we had some cool places out here. Laser Blazer. LOL @ the name. The super imaginatively titles "The Laserdisc Store", all those $100 Criterion LDs and Japanese imports of concerts and such. Best Buy was pretty good when DVDs first came about. Decent video stores died long before music stores though and they always had high prices. I've been buying my movies online for ages. Do you remember the name of the shop just outside Century City that used to rent fuckloads of laserdiscs? I remember going there 3 times a week and renting laserdiscs!!!! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2015 13:18:44 GMT -5
Wow. Lots of vitriol there.
LMAO!
It was actually called Laser Blazer in West LA. I loved that store and spent hours there talking with the staff to actually rent discs that were worth viewing and were never previously available widely on VHS.
I discovered all of Kurosawa's films on Criterion via that place and my thought on film was never the same after that (he became my favorite director beside PTA and David Lean thanks to that store).
Those three still remain in my top 3.
I only discovered Paul Thomas Anderson by accident....a friend of mine was an extra in Boogie Nights. Coincidentally, me and my acting friend were wandering along Hollywood Blvd (I was living on Poinsettia Place at the time) and we were offered tickets to view a test screening of Boogie Nights. We watched it and my mate hated it. I connected with it immediately. I went back and saw "Sydney (aka Hard Eight)" and adored it. I have loved every film he has made since then. Inherent Vice is a true return to form, in my opinion. This guy can direct ANYTHING and make it amazing. OK, PTA rant over!!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2015 13:36:27 GMT -5
Well, our romance deepens and we are one step closer to coitus. Name the date and I will ensure to have my baby semen ready to explode upon your backside.
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Post by Hey Man on Feb 18, 2015 14:34:35 GMT -5
In my old laserdisc days we had some cool places out here. Laser Blazer. LOL @ the name. The super imaginatively titles "The Laserdisc Store", all those $100 Criterion LDs and Japanese imports of concerts and such. Best Buy was pretty good when DVDs first came about. Decent video stores died long before music stores though and they always had high prices. I've been buying my movies online for ages. Did you have Blockbuster Video or Hollywood Video in your area? |
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Post by lugnut on Feb 18, 2015 15:45:02 GMT -5
I was mostly a horrible pirate, even back in those days. I had one of those fancy dual-deck Go Video VCRs with the anti-Macrovision-protection circuitry, so I'd just hit up the video store and get the 5-for-$5 deals and dub away. Had so many EP-speed tapes with three or four movies a piece on them, and what I didn't get that way, I'd tape off HBO or Cinemax, etc.
When I did start buying legit tapes more often (I'd still buy the stuff I "really wanted" to have a "real" version with box art and whatnot), it was from the likes of Wal-Mart, Suncoast, etc. Also lots of ex-rental tapes. In the DVD era, Best Buy really was the spot. Huge selection, much cheaper than Suncoast (though I did buy my very first DVDs at Suncoast because pretty much nobody else was carrying them yet.)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2015 23:25:15 GMT -5
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