While I’ve been building my movie collection, I’ve discovered some movies are hard to find. A couple are among the hardest to find.
I’ve seen some of these. The original Star Wars trilogy in theaters when they were released. “Let It Be” was screened at the Civic Center in Savannah back in the mid to late ’70s. I’d like to add those to my collection.
As for “Song of the South,” I actually own that. I bought an import of the DVD. Having a multi-region DVD player helps.
The rest of those? Yeah, I don’t care. I might one day. But I doubt it.
Anyway, what’s on your mind? Got something you’d like to share with the crowd? It’s Monday Night Open Thread, and you are running the show.
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“Let It Be”? “Hard to find”? Are you freaking kidding me? I got so tired of seeing it on VCR I stopped watching it.
I worked at a video store somewhere around 1986(?) (1987?) (1989?) Who knows?
Of COURSE I bootlegged the store’s copy of the store’s tape of “Let It Be.” I must have it here in the basement somewhere. I know I watched it about 1,000 times. Paused. Rewinded. It’s probably a mess filled with noise, now. It was so easy to pop into the VCR, until VCRs were no longer used.
I went from watching it on VCR straight to watching it on YouTube, with no interval in between. YouTube posters caught all the key moments, so I haven’t given the rest of the movie a second thought until now.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I have the original VCR version of “Star Wars” on a Sony or Memorex tape, too, because free. I wouldn’t have taped any later episodes because I didn’t like them. But I wouldn’t be surprised if my VCR tapes are severely degraded by basement time. So I’m not sitting on a gold mine.
‘Cocksu*ker Blues’ (about the Stones)…never even heard of it ..lololol
Sounds more like a movie about Elton John.
More like The Who, according to John Entwhistle’s bio.
At first I thought it was going to be about Obama.
Heavy Metal was always hard to find because getting the rights renewed for all of the songs was apparently very difficult. “Reach Out” by Cheap Trick was always my favorite from that movie. The short about “Captain Stern” where that song was played was also my favorite story from it.
Follow Me Boys, the Boy Scout movie with Fred McMurtry was also hard to find for a while but it’s available now. I’m surprised because it’s from the “Before Time” of the “B”SA.
Verna Bloom, who played Dean Wormer’s wife, Marion (“Marion” is actually a man’s name, but it’s what the credits said) in Animal House, was born August 7, 1939, in Lynn, Massachusetts. Throw a toga party in her honor.
Here’s what I never understood about “Song of the South” — if they don’t sell it in America because it’s racist, why do that sell it in other countries? Wouldn’t it still be racist there?
It’s all about the color green.