Movies you used to get out on video.

Ralf and Florian

In the golden age of VHS videos(early 80s to maybe late 90s) what films used you rent out?Remember video stores and all the racks of videos and the different sections how they'd have stuff like Betty Blue in the "adult" section.All the Police Accademy films would get an outing.The Terminator,all the Eddie Murphy comedies.The ones your siblings would rent that you couldent stand.My two Sisters rented Sister Act out so many times that I never want to see the bloody thing again.Those movies which had cool video artwork but turned out to be rubbish made for TV movies or pilots.And of course having to rewind the tape cos the last flecked hadent bothered.

unjedilike

Ferris Bueller's day off

The Princess Bride

In our local video store, the lady always recommended Shattered-(Tom Berenger)- as in every time we went in, she'd be," there's this great filum, I don't know if ye've seen it, it's called Shattered." Every time.
It's funny because it's a film I've never seen on television.

Hated the rewinding,so annoying.

Ralf and Florian

When we first got a VCR I remember the fast forward was a big source of amusement,watching the characters running really fast.Also the slow motion option which you'd use if there was any nudity or what just happened there moments.It was supposed to knacker the machine if you used it too much or so I heard.

Ruu

The Land Before Time, a lot of fantasy type things. Many of the above ones and when video shop was closed, we had to go to the pub/grocery/hardware shop and get what they had. This one I remember hating!!

https://archive.org/details/SpaceAngel-SpaceHijackers

We had to rent a VCR (used to give it to us in a duffel bag!!) as well before we got a top loader one.

branie2

When I was younger, mostly bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Sylvester & Tweety cartoons and the Houndcats and the Barkleys

chakotha

Highlander
The Lost Boys

branners69

Stand by Me! I remember hounding the guy in Xtravision every week until it came out!

Anyone remember pre-Xtravision? I remember renting from a shop on Eden Quay in Dublin, I think the laughter lounge is there now!

darkdubh

There was this young fella working in a video shop I used to go to who knew nothing about films.I asked did they have Taxi Driver and he'd never heard of it,thought I was talking about the TV series Taxi.

darkdubh

Remember those faulty videos where the screen would break up and go all snowy then settle back normally?If you were lucky it would only do it a couple of times but sometimes,mostly on older cassettes it would do it something like every 10 seconds or so throgh the entire film,you'd just have to give up watching it .

Sleveile

Saturday night was either a Chuck Norris or a Jackie Chan video.

Delta Force
The Octagon
Police Story

Dr Turk Turkelton

A top tip was to rent it on a Saturday morning and since they were closed Sunday you kept it till Monday.
This was in pre-XtraVision days.

darkdubh

chakotha wrote: »

Highlander
The Lost Boys

On a couple of occasions we were able to watch a film in the video room and that was one of them,another was Return Of The Living Dead.Then on one occasion when we were supposed to be studying someone brought in a hardcore porno and we watched it.I remember the title and all "Strange Love".How we got away with it I don't know.were bricking ourselves that a teacher would walk in.

Edit:Sorry I forgot to point out this was in school.

Taajsgpm

chakotha wrote: »

Highlander
The Lost Boys

Highlander was the best ever . "Who wants to live forever " by Queen
"

ozmo

darkdubh wrote: »

Remember those faulty videos where the screen would break up and go all snowy then settle back normally?If you were lucky it would only do it a couple of times but sometimes,mostly on older cassettes it would do it something like every 10 seconds or so throgh the entire film,you'd just have to give up watching it .

Ugg- remember always twiddling that tracker wheel to get the best picture for every tape.

First video i watched on tape was one of the Peter Sellars pink panter movies -
Watched it forward.. Then wrecked our heads watching it all in reverse as we rewound it

Corholio

Mac and Me.

We were spoiled then.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I remember Jaws being rented on a few occasions. Titanic when it first came out on home video was very hard to get hold of, we had to ring down to Xtravision and get on a waiting list to rent.

demanufactured

Home alone
Jurassic Park
No Holds Barred

fryup

Porky's

(even by today's standards its still very raunchy)

chillywilly

I used to rent out IT (Pennywise the clown) for all my sleep overs as a kid. It used to scare the ****e out of us

r3nu4l

Sleveile wrote: »

Saturday night was either a Chuck Norris or a Jackie Chan video.

Delta Force
The Octagon
Police Story

Hell yeah! I was the same, every martial arts flick I could find.

I seem to remember loving 'Best of the best' :cool:

Also, Rambo, Cobra, The Running Man, all got an outing from me

Aglomerado

China O'Brien (martial arts) films.

Return of the Living Dead (I had the rental tape worn out )

branners69

Confessions of a...

Rory28

Jean Claude Van Damme films, especially Double Impact. There was a frisk scene in that that young me kept rewinding, over and over again.
Also there was one film I would get when I was even younger but cant remember the name of. It had a cupboard that when you put toys in and closed they came alive. I wanted it so bad I cried.

Mick55

Young Einstein.

branners69

Rory28 wrote: »

Also there was one film I would get when I was even younger but cant remember the name of. It had a cupboard that when you put toys in and closed they came alive. I wanted it so bad I cried.

Indian in the Cupboard?

nlgbbbblth

The Princess Bride wrote: »

In our local video store, the lady always recommended Shattered-(Tom Berenger)- as in every time we went in, she'd be," there's this great filum, I don't know if ye've seen it, it's called Shattered." Every time.
It's funny because it's a film I've never seen on television.

Hated the rewinding,so annoying.

That was recommended to me sometime in 1992. Delare Video, New Ross. It's crap.

nlgbbbblth

Rented the three Godfathers in the summer of 1992. Started watching them at 11.00pm, one after the other with a load of cans. Finished around 8.00am the following morning and went straight to work. Didn't feel great.

Goodfellas was very hard to rent when it came out. The four video libraries in the town had one copy each and a long waiting list.

Rory28

branners69 wrote: »

Indian in the Cupboard?

That's it. Will watch it again now. Hope it held up well against time.

Ralf and Florian

I remember some of the lurid artwork on a lot of the early video releases.This prison drama with a young Sean Penn where hes stabbing a guy on the cover was one of the first videos I remember seeing on the shelves.I diden't rent it out though cos it sounded too extreme.Still haven't seen it,its probably really tame.They used to play up the blood and guts factor with the artwork a lot of the time.


Edit:Here it is.Bad Boys from 1983.

An Riabhach

Some of the ones I remember my older brothers renting out include:

Lethal Weapon
Blazin Saddles
Salem's Lot
The Omen
Nightmare On Elm Street
Anything With Cuck Norris,Bruce Lee,Van Damme and the like

and then my big sis would get stuff like:

Some Kinda Wonderful
Dirty Dancing
Ghost
Fame

and little me,when I was allowed,would get:

Zig and Zag Nothing To Do With Toast
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Professey Chin

Ace Ventura was my biggy. And there was a sports section with all the Wrestlemanias. Great times :pac:

irishgeo

We used to have a fella who came around in a van with boxes of videos to rent. You got to keep them for the week.

We also didn't have uk channels so a friend of the family who did used to record stuff and drop it down to us.

Mad stuff like blind date , all the Saturday night TV stuff. It would be all over the place.

Aglomerado

irishgeo wrote: »

We used to have a fella who came around in a van with boxes of videos to rent. You got to keep them for the week.

We also didn't have uk channels so a friend of the family who did used to record stuff and drop it down to us.

Mad stuff like blind date , all the Saturday night TV stuff. It would be all over the place.

We had the van guy as well. He was really handy! He wasn't great on new releases but he always had something.

I suppose kids climbing into the back of a white van nowadays would cause alarm!! :pac:

Titzon Toast

So many memories brought back by this thread, when I was a kid we had a "Ferguson Videostar" if my memory serves me correctly.
Sometimes we would borrow our neighbours one off him and use it to record new releases from one to another!
If the heads were dirty and the screen was full of snow, you could hit fast forward while the video was playing and it would usually clear it up.
Good times.

briany

We used to rent out like 7 or 8 films for a single weekend because we only had two channels on the box, due to a crappy aerial. Critters is the one that seems to stick out from those early days of video rental. In those days, we had literally no way of knowing what was good except from what was on the box itself so video rental night could be a very hit and miss affair.

John C

We had a video recorder in 1986. We watched:
- 'Flesh and Blood', Director Paul Verhoeven.
- Highlander
- A Passage to India
- The world is full of married men
- 'The Mission' with Robert de Niro and Jeremy Irons
and many more.

I recall my sister saying: " Why don't you rent The Thornbirds'? She never rented herself.

We used the VCR to record television programs for family members, who were 'out of the house'.
Whenever my mother missed an episode of 'The Late Late Show' we recorded it for her. Others looked for recordings of soap operas like Glenroe.

In the first six months after purchasing this VCR we used it heavily. Thereafter we used it less and less.

That was long long ago. John C

darkdubh

Taajsgpm wrote: »

Highlander was the best ever . "Who wants to live forever " by Queen
"

The sequel Highlander II The Quickening was bloody awful though.A guy who I shared a flat with in the mid 90s got that out.He was convinced that Michael Ironside was Jack Nicholson,coulden't convince him otherwise.

fryup

briany wrote: »

We used to rent out like 7 or 8 films for a single weekend because we only had two channels on the box, due to a crappy aerial. .

but sure half the country only had two channels back in the day

darkdubh

fryup wrote: »

but sure half the country only had two channels back in the day

We only had one,we coulden't get RTE 2.

Ruu

We had to twist the aerial and we had the BBCs.

Straylight

I used to rent all sorts of horror films until I got bored with them. There's one I remember called House, which seemed to start off as a regular horror flick, but it was like halfway through they ran out of money and it turned into the most unintentionally funny film ever. Loved all the Arnie films like The Running Man and Predator, rented lots of comedies like Stripes and The Money Pit, and of course the catchily titled The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

fryup

darkdubh wrote: »

We only had one,we coulden't get RTE 2.

utter poverty :eek:

RobbingBandit

Buckaroo Banzai was awesome, Jeff Goldbloom at his best, I had a van guy too got to see a cool film called Guyver a live action Manga movie years before I even knew what manga was, he always had bootleg films just out in the cinema great copies too.

Professey Chin

Guyver is brilliant! Mark Hamill
The original manga of it was fantastic

Into The Blue

branners69 wrote: »

Anyone remember pre-Xtravision? I remember renting from a shop on Eden Quay in Dublin, I think the laughter lounge is there now!

Opposite the jolly on Collins Avenue, think there's a car wash the now.. Lad used to rent us 18s horrors, porn, you name it... Think we were about 11 or 12!

RoadhouseBlues

First video I saw was ET.
The second video I was Terminator:-)

livEwirE

irishgeo wrote: »

We used to have a fella who came around in a van with boxes of videos to rent. You got to keep them for the week.

My dad was a 'video man' around Dublin during the early 90's. I went around with him a few times. He used to go all over the Tallaght, Clondalkin area renting out tapes. He still has a huge amount of old VHS movies in his attic

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^

any durty ones???? nudge nudge wink wink

nlgbbbblth

any pre-cert video nasties?

darkdubh

Remember the Today Tonight programme on video nasties circa 86?Showed a lot of gory clips from Driller Killer,Zombie Flesh Eaters and Maniac,think The Evil Dead too.