Months ago we announced the official death of the VHS. I had months previous sold off all my VHS movies in a garage sale having completely changed over my collection to dvd only. This was a great amount of insight on my part (and my VHS player broke and I wasn’t buying a new one). Most of the movies I already had were available on DVD, so I wasn’t going to continue with a dead format.
It’s been about 7 or 8 years since DVDs hit the mainstream market, and over that time studios have been dutifully scavenging their vaults in order to find stuff to repackage and sell all over again. Slowly the list of unreleased movies and TV shows has dwindled to the point where they are now almost non-existent. It’s hard to believe, but nearly every single major motion picture is now available on a digital format.
Many movies are listed on their “Least Wanted List” that I could live without.
I likely wouldnt mind RAD. The BMX movie that fits that skater/bmx generation of the 80s movies like Gleaming the Cube, and Nicole Kidman’s first movie BMX Bandits. I had both of these on VHS. I would get these purely for their “collectors value” I don’t know if either are on dvd.
It also strangely lists the Star Wars Christmas Special on the list. Now granted I DO own this one on DVD but its not stricktly legal version. It is so bad, Lucas all but denies this ever existed. I don’t feel guilty adding this bootlegged version to my collection since Lucas will never release it. (Until he thinks it will sell billions of copies) I am a completist when it comes to Star Wars, so my Star Wars dvds had to include this.
So can you think of any movies that people might actually WANT that have yet to make it over to dvd? I am sure there are tons of forgotten movies that didn’t deserve to be put on VHS let alone survive the transition.
What do you want in your collection?
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