Can we rent a DVD for the weekend? On Friday afternoons, we used to have a little family tradition. My mom would walk with me to the video store, and I was allowed to pick one film on DVD so that we could watch it on the weekend. Sometimes, if I had been extra responsible …
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‘This was in the mid-2000s before smartphones’: Woman demands to use a teen’s DVD player and earbuds during a flight, refusing to take no for an answer
A random adult woman on a long flight tries to share a teenager’s portable DVD player and earbuds, treating a stranger’s entertainment like a public resource. This story is kinda like the No phones in sight meme. Where people on a subway each bury their face into a newspaper. Like, I’m nostalgic just like the …
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Lost in the Sauce: Why pre-Internet nostalgia is completely unshakable, as modern media drowns in oversaturation
If you grew up in the pre-Internet era, you probably had a small collection of physical media like DVD’s, CD’s, VHS tapes, cassettes, or vinyl records. Squirreled away in the family entertainment center, your beloved favorites would never get the chance to gather dust because they were regularly being taken out for a spin. Unlike …
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Matt Damon Eloquently Explains Why They Don’t Make Movies Like They Used to on ‘Hot Ones’
To state the obvious, we live in a period of time where our attitude to popular culture is starkly different to twenty five years ago. TV shows and movies get scripts that hope to create viral Twitter GIFs, everything from the latest top ten hit to an obscure 50s pop song gets mercilessly butchered by …
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People Lament The Demise Of The DVD Commentary Track
You don’t have to be a film nerd to appreciate a peek behind the curtain when it comes to the entertainment that we watch. You never know what fascinating trivia you might find out that will serve you well in a quiz of some sort, or failing that, can be used to impress/bore your friends …
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We Remade Lord of the Rings For Only $20
Via Cracked: «It’s been 20 years since we last watched The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring on VHS, and we probably lost it in the Mines of Moria. So we just went ahead and grabbed a blank VHS, $20, and reshot the thing in glorious 4:3!»
Blockbuster ‘Checks In’ To Twitter, Gets Some Hilarious Nostalgic Replies
Ah, the 90s. A simpler time when Friday nights consisted of a trip to Blockbuster to pick out a DVD and order pizza. Millennial Twitter users got a pleasant little surprise when Blockbuster popped in just to say hello. The replies are pretty amusing and full of nostalgia, and some a little more unsavory than …
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