(1997) dir. Gore Verbinski
viewed: 12/19/08
I see so few films on VHS anymore, and it’s really a factor of letter-boxing vs. non-letter-boxing (call me a snob, rightly or wrongly). But in trying to come up with some films that might cater to my kids’ particular interests, I recalled this film about a mouse outwitting humans as [...]
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Mouse Hunt
Slither
(1973) dir. Howard Zieff
viewed: 01/19/07
A strange, off-beat comedy loaned and recommended to me by a friend, Slither (1973) leans more to the odd and subtle than the broad side of comedy. James Caan, in a subdued role as a small time crook just out of prison, is more light and amusing, hardly the tough that [...]
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
(1985) dir. Tim Burton
viewed: 03/04/06 Found with some looking in an old box of videos was a copy of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure that I had found many years ago for $5 or something — an old video store copy sent for the glue factory. I have had a fondness for the film, as well as [...]
A Bug’s Life
(1998) dir. John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton
viewed: 06/27/05
I know I said that I hate this format, but at the moment, the VCR in the living room works while the DVD player is on the fritz.
I am enjoying the experience of getting to watch films with my soon-to-be 4 year old son. I get to introduce him [...]
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969) dir. George Roy Hill
viewed: 06/14/05
Watching a film on an old VHS tape might be the second worse way to watch a movie. Regular TV broadcasts of movies, edited for language, violence, nudity, and time elements hack movies to bits and roll them in advertising, which is even worse than VHS.
The worst thing about VHS [...]
The Lord of the Rings
(1978) dir. Ralph Bakshi
viewed: 12/23/02
It’s hard to believe that I hadn’t watched a single film on VHS all year until I borrowed this video from my nephew. The moment that the movie started, I remembered why I have switched over to DVD so permanently. This video was an old one, so it suffered from quality [...]
