the spouse joked that i should start a movie rental store and folks
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@hex (the fall is available on mubi btw)
@emily_rugburn hell yeah mubi
when i first hunted it down two years ago? nowhere to be streamed. the only way i was able to see it was by buying a copy on dvd.
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imagining an aisle that is basically “stuff you literally cannot find on streaming”
if i can get one kid to accidentally rent The Fall (2006) and fall in love with it that would honestly fill my heart so much
gonna have a section called “weirdos i know on the internet think you should watch this” with recommendations from yall
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gonna have a section called “weirdos i know on the internet think you should watch this” with recommendations from yall
@hex laser disc party reviews would be great
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gonna have a section called “weirdos i know on the internet think you should watch this” with recommendations from yall
@hex if you can’t trust weirdos on the internet, who can you trust?
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@hex if you can’t trust weirdos on the internet, who can you trust?
@kev right?
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gonna have a section called “weirdos i know on the internet think you should watch this” with recommendations from yall
@hex Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
DVDs were made but idk how far it travelled outside of Ottawa.
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@emily_rugburn hell yeah mubi
when i first hunted it down two years ago? nowhere to be streamed. the only way i was able to see it was by buying a copy on dvd.
@hex i believe it was the first movie i watched after buying my mubi membership last year
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@kib i mean i also love the idea of having VHS tapes with random movies on it
why is this particular video a double feature of Toys and McHales Navy?
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gonna have a section called “weirdos i know on the internet think you should watch this” with recommendations from yall
anyways i’m going to try to sleep now (toss and turn figuring out what i need to start this project)
feel free to keep posting support and maybe one day there will be a weird movie rental place in kentucky with aspirations of being a weird movie theater
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@kib i mean i also love the idea of having VHS tapes with random movies on it
why is this particular video a double feature of Toys and McHales Navy?
enjoy@hex I also always mix Toys up with Toy Soldiers, the movie where Wil Wheaton definitely thought it was gonna turn his image around
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gonna have a section called “weirdos i know on the internet think you should watch this” with recommendations from yall
@hex I cannot tell you how excited this makes me
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@courtney y’all keep giving me examples of successes gonna actually make me do something drastic - like write up a business plan or something
@hex If the path is also a theater, movie madness is owned by the nonprofit that also owns the Hollywood theater here, worth taking a look at how their membership structure and fundraising messaging works.
A lot of the Hollywood (and the Clinton, another gem in town)'s repairs and features were crowdfunded, iirc it's how the Hollywood got at least some of the $$ for their 70mm projector
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@hex I cannot tell you how excited this makes me
@MmeLibertine HA! i’ll even do the whole “Todd recommends this movie” thing old Blockbusters did but with yall avatars (with permission)
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@hex If the path is also a theater, movie madness is owned by the nonprofit that also owns the Hollywood theater here, worth taking a look at how their membership structure and fundraising messaging works.
A lot of the Hollywood (and the Clinton, another gem in town)'s repairs and features were crowdfunded, iirc it's how the Hollywood got at least some of the $$ for their 70mm projector
@courtney i was thinking the nonprofit route. i still want to make the Kentucky Laserdisc Preservation Society a *thing* and maybe membership in *that* can help with getting the theater going and give perks to the rental store
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@kib reading this first thing in the morning is sending me lmao
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@hex I also always mix Toys up with Toy Soldiers, the movie where Wil Wheaton definitely thought it was gonna turn his image around
@kib Toys is one of those films that left such an indelible mark in my mind that there’s no way i could ever mix it up with anything
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anyways i’m going to try to sleep now (toss and turn figuring out what i need to start this project)
feel free to keep posting support and maybe one day there will be a weird movie rental place in kentucky with aspirations of being a weird movie theater
woke up still excited for this
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@MmeLibertine HA! i’ll even do the whole “Todd recommends this movie” thing old Blockbusters did but with yall avatars (with permission)
@hex lolol I LOVE this
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woke up still excited for this
so i’m trying to populate lists of films that i should have for the opening. i’ve decided to try to limit myself to 200 genre (horror/sci-fi/fantasy), 200 family friendly (kid/animation/comedy), 200 action/adventure (crime/comics/mystery) and 200 drama (romance/drama)
pulling these from “most popular” on letterboxd because that feels like an east way to gauge outside of my particular taste bias but to also ensure my favs are there (because personal taste *is* important too)
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so i’m trying to populate lists of films that i should have for the opening. i’ve decided to try to limit myself to 200 genre (horror/sci-fi/fantasy), 200 family friendly (kid/animation/comedy), 200 action/adventure (crime/comics/mystery) and 200 drama (romance/drama)
pulling these from “most popular” on letterboxd because that feels like an east way to gauge outside of my particular taste bias but to also ensure my favs are there (because personal taste *is* important too)
all said and done that’ll land on around 800 - which is close to the laserdisc collection, which even with my “bias” i’ve found there’s something for everyone in that, despite having the “handicap” of no films from the 2000s, so it should be a good start
