• RattlerSix@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    “Owned on tape” was for rich people. “Taped from NBC or ABC, or, if the weather was just right, CBS and you tried to pause the recording during the commercials and that’s why 8 minutes are missing from the middle of the movie” is more like it.

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      2 days ago

      How about “lacked a VHS player altogether” lmao. My movie ingestion growing up was basically 100% up to the whims of random people, strange way to do it.

      Really dig the scrappy approach y’all used tho, that’s the good stuff. Being broke taught me a lotta the most important stuff TBH.

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      2 days ago

      Bootleg that was taped in a movie theatre and then rented from the guy down the street that had a room in his house set up with shelves and a shit ton of movies. And/or the collection that was left from the last people that lived in your house. Along with their furniture. My movie was LA Story. The good old days in Saudi Arabia.