Recycling is doing good work. Enjoy!

A good-sized chunk of my DVD collection came from the $3-5 bins. Mostly newer stuff and big seller older stuff. Unfortunately, you don't see Scream Factory and other boutique label movies in the bins.

Nice! Enjoy!

Sounds like a lot of fun

Absolutely, James. Put the control in the hands of the customers.

I love that newer physical media has such really salient extras. Unexpected stuff that contextualises the movies brilliantly.

I buy things speculatively and if they don't hit with me, I can always donate them to charities.

It's about controlling the flow of culture and information. The last people I want doing that are rich Americans.

In hyper-capitalist societies like the US and GB, art and culture are first and foremost products. Creating scarcity and becoming the sole keeper and provider of these product are the fast lanes to maximum profits. That's why they shill NFTs as the future of art and proclaim physical media old fashioned

All good points. I bought three blu-rays today, admittedly in an op shop, for three dollars each. A good coffee costs five. Yep, definitely cheap AF.

OMG we were showing original Star trek episodes (16 mm?) on film every Sunday at the Mercury cinema in the early 1990's!! One of the friendliest dedicated crowds you could ever get. When we did a marathon of all the movies up to that point no one reckoned on just how popular it would be as we offered a free breakfast of donuts and coffee with each ticket...well that ran out in about the first half hour, lol! i'm amazed that whole episodes of OST were put out on Super 8. That is Treasure!! Anyone that bought that could probably sell it on and pay for their Retirment in later years. There are a Lot of hardcore collectors who want just about every piece of physical media and ephemera they can get their hands on.

I travelled 50 kilometres by public transport to see a rare science fiction movie back in the 1970s. The struggle was real.

If I remember correctly that movie was something of a mainstream hit, which is probably why it was shown at your local.

@@terrytalksmovies now that's dedication,

@@terrytalksmovies ooh! what was it?

That's egregious! Leave things the hell alone.

You too! I was always insanely careful with my VHS tapes and machines. I ran head cleaners through them regularly.

@@terrytalksmovies turns out the "video head cleaner" I had was the same as the "leather cleaner" and neither substance was suitable for either product, hehe! read the label before you snort!!

Hi Dave. The Two Ronnies is Middle-Aged Geek Girl's along with a lot of the Britcom stuff. Yep. We're privileged to have the collections we do but there are GOOD budget options from second-hand places like thrift stores and pawnbrokers that make it somewhat more accessible. Take care, mate.

Yep. 20% rockem sockem robots, 80% propaganda.

@@terrytalksmovies I was prompted to translate your post into English, and it came out "rock sock robots". Isn't AI wonderful! 😁

It was a very good reason for me to stop watching the franchise a.s.a.p.

Arthouse films and cinematic outliers blew my mind in my youth. They expanded my knowledge of cinema. Even Fosse's Cabaret had two or three WTF moments for me when I was shocked. I thought about those moments a lot after seeing the film.

it's really hard for film makers (and their gate keepers) to create those moments when you really feel like something special has happened. i hope it hasn't been entirely lost in time. Sometimes you find something that no one you know has ever heard of, and youve gotta grab that copy and hold on to it. but yeah...midnight screenings for something crazy and rare....damn that was good

Yep. Also, you got some steps in walking around the shop. 😀

You make a good point there. Streamers aren't necessarily catering well to LGBTQIA+ people with the movies they're platforming. Yeah, they may do the more vanilla ones, but there are some more, let's say bold movies that will never get added to Netflix, Hulu or Amazon. Owning media obviates that problem. If you want the Catfather hat, Temu sells them dead cheaply. I get a lot of my hats from Temu. Stay well. 😀

Also, they can change the movie to edit out things. It's a dishonest business.

That's why I'm happy I discovered the Sun theatre in Yarraville. It showcases smaller directors and creators as much as the big ones.

@@terrytalksmovies if Sun Theatre has any sense, they'll be giving you and Geek Girl lifetime free entry! are they part of a chain/franchise, or have govt funding to back them? in SA, Palace Nova is the one left holding the banner for everything from blockbusters to occasional cult films and independent stuff. before they took over as the preeminent, it was the Mercury, and before (and during that) it was/has been the Capri, The Trak, and once upon a time The Chelsea which was home of the Adelaide film event. and still before that, tiny cinemas in Hindley and Wakefield street and of course various university campuses. The ever conglomerating and corporatizing (not to mention the FBI counting copyright piracy as only second to terrorism!) of theatres has meant the closure of many, and even grand old buildings being flattened... much like that shown in the cool doco "The Lost City of Melbourne". i think once consumers were given the option of huge home screens and not having to deal with parking etc, the writing was on the wall. but i do think there will aways be an interest in viewing things as a group, and that smaller cinemas should fete particular local reviewers/critics and focus advertising toward particular social groups/demographics in funky affordable ways. I'm glad Palace still does what it does, but that doesn't change the fact it looks like a big, cavernous multiplex, strip-mall environment--12 cinemas of ever decreasing size! Often their programming seems entirely at odds with the way they present and i suspect they'd be happy if they only ever showed the likes of the latest superhero film. It must feel like a struggle even then to get that capacity audience for those tentpole titles in the 1st couple of weeks of its release, to pay off for those risker programs. but i digress! The Sun Theatre sounds and looks like a gem that each state/capital needs the likes of.

Yep. It was a mean, primitive era. 😀

Physical media has a tangibility that I really treasure.

Yep. Crazy prices for very little.

LOL. My first one was the musical version of Kismet, which I now have on blu-ray.

A fellow Sven fan

Yep, I try to be selective about buying product that will benefit truly evil bastards.

Are you sure you don't mean "Bryan Singer"? I wouldn't want Marc to be labeled, unfairly. I didn't see anything scandalous in his Wiki.

There are exceptions. Brollie, the Umbrella Entertainment streaming channel in Australia has a lot of Australian cult films. It's free and there's a ton of great deep cuts there. Umbrella also does physical media so they're the good guys.

Thanks Randell. I'm trying to vary things up so the talking heads are punctuated with useful graphics. I'm glad they work for you. 😀

I'm fortunate. Region-free blu-ray players are cheap in Australia.

Yep. Streaming (at least the big boys) are leaking money at a crazy rate. They're looking for ways to get cash but it never occurs to them to make better product to do it.

Yep. CDs in op shops are notoriously mid. With DVDs and blu-rays there is a disheartening amount of Andre Rieu concerts.

I could never throw away the packaging. That's a big part of the appeal.

CLZ saves me a lot of hassles when I'm op shopping. I can quickly look up whether I already have a movie. Happy to help.

My pleasure.

I have to be careful buying thrift store DVDs. Some of them are pan and scan and I've been bitten by finding a rare flick only to find the aspect ratio is b0rked.

I have a lot of things on vinyl which Shazam and Spotify just can't find. I love that!

@@terrytalksmovies Don't tell anyone but I end up finding them on youtube. They're usually rare film music tracks or things like that.

Thanks, Ian. 😀

Everyone's doing Roger Corman at the moment. It's a crowded market. I try not to do things that are too trendy and momentary. The videos I do that hit best are the ones that aren't time sensitive. There are plenty of Corman retrospectives out there at the moment that are doing his legacy justice. 😀

IKR? People are righteously pissed off by the actions of the gatekeepers and suits.

I did some analysis. "Vampires" in the title hit harder than any other thing I could think of. It's not quite clickbait but it helped with the Search Engine Optimisation.

Not sure and I'm not testing it unless someone has a Star Wars boxset they don't want.

Thanks Matt. Stay well, brother.

Thanks @RetroNerdGirl. Keep on with what you do, too. 😀

The Killing of Angel Street was based on the Victoria Street Kings Cross wars in the 1970s when developers wanted to kill all the old buildings and put up fugly tower blocks.

I wanted to watch it with the similarly themed but tonally different Home Bodies. I guess Batteries Not Included would complete a good triple bill. In terms of tone the film reminds me more of Silkwood or Defence of the Realm. It's been years since I saw Angel Street but it blew me away on first viewing.

Usually, there's a lot of cronyism in the top end of studio ecosystems. There are hopeful things, too. James Gunn running DC is a good move. He started in Troma films, then made his own indie projects. He knows the genre deeply and he's a god-tier storyteller. But Gunn is the exception rather than the rule.

Not one. Or CD's. And I have thousands of those buggers.

@@brianartillery thanks Brian !

I haven't. I've bought second hand and found it scratched afterward, but never a delamination problem. It can happen with fungal infections in hot humid climates but I don't live in a tropical area.

@terrytalksmovies Thanks Terry !

We didn't have video nasties but there was a sticker on VHS tapes that said BANNED IN QUEENSLAND which was always a badge of quality.

Then when the factory films fail it's the Directors or actors that get the blame not the profiteers

I love the smaller studios and indies but the big arseholes are the problem.

Yep, always blame the creatives, not the suits. 🙁

Genres have their seasons, then the tide ebbs and some other genre comes in.

When I first bought VHS tapes, some of them cost $75.

Yep. There are always crumb-pickers.

Thanks @Gort67. The suits can't win!

I used to live in Glebe in Sydney in the 80s. A two block walk up the hill was The Valhalla cinema which did midnight movies on Friday and Saturday. Good times.

I like the MCU but the quirkier ones grab me more these days than the tentpole flicks.

@@terrytalksmovies I apologize for that. Most of my friends hate me because of that too. All in good fun. I do hate that about Iron Man though

Thanks @Bent-Ed!

Yep, getting 10th gen copies of things you couldn't otherwise see made for a real weird time.

Thanks Sean. Yep, the corporates don't care for passionate audiences. They want dutiful cult members, like Disney Adults. Cash cows that can be eternally milked.

So the Japanese went lateral with Gojira, which obliquely addressed nuclear holocaust.

I don't have Acorn here. We have Britbox which is the streaming equivalent of melatonin. Guaranteed to send you asleep.

I'd prefer legit but sometimes it's not available.

Seek medical help. LOL 😀📽😉

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Thanks Huw. I appreciate the good vibes. 😀