heywood on 17/7/2019 at 01:12
My best friend's Dad got a cable descrambler in the 1980s. On occasion, his parents would go to bed early and we'd take the opportunity to watch softcore on Cinemax. We never dared to tape it though. My porn diet growing up was 90% magazines that we had pilfered from our parents and traded or sold around. I can't imagine what I would have been like if we had internet porn like today.
icemann on 17/7/2019 at 14:44
Quote Posted by SD
Am I the only one who is going to admit to having, somewhere, a VHS of - ahem - "sexy scenes", recorded from late night television?
Been there, done that (no pun intended).
My former best friend found his parents stash of 70s - early 80s porn. We made a few copies. All I'll say is that they certainly don't make them nowadays like they did them back then. Actual recorded music (as in with singing, lyrics written for that movie specifically etc), an actual plot, acting (completely B-grade). More like actual movies. Quality varied from movie to movie.
Then the internet came along, and you know the rest.
Oh and we have a channel here in Australia called SBS (I forget what it stands for), who specialize in overseas films. Growing up, that channel was well known for having films with at least full nudity, and occasionally films with actual sex in them, but which weren't porn. Just normal overseas films that happened to have actual sex in them. You'd only see the sex for a few seconds, but to our child brains this was amazing.
Thirdly, 80s - mid 90s movies in general tended to have quite graphic sex scenes in them. It's very different now, but movies back then would show a fair bit, and have the scene go on for a few minutes. You do not get that in movies now. Think back to the original "Terminator" for example.
Gray on 17/7/2019 at 19:53
Quote Posted by icemann
Alien 3
I still think that's a great movie. So many good things in it. But there are several edits, maybe you didn't see the good one yet. There's at least one edit that David Fincher said he wasn't happy with. I count that with the great three Alien movies
Now, I still like Alien 4, but for entirely different reasons, I used to watch Jeunet/Caro movies, and that is basically their surreal take on a weak Alien script, that was later rewritten into Firefly. But that's a whole other topic, so feel free to ignore this line.
SubJeff on 17/7/2019 at 22:14
The "Assembly" Cut of Alien 3 is very different to the theatrical version, and much better. They are both way too long though. It's just not a tight enough film.
Mr.Duck on 19/7/2019 at 00:14
Aliens is where the film universe ended for me, afterwards it was the Dark Horse comics and/or novels.
Same with Terminator 2.
Tocky on 19/7/2019 at 03:57
Me too Ducks. As for porn, we had four channels and one came in fuzzy but if you had someone on the outside turning the antenna you could yell when it got viewable. All of it network and under FCC rules. The VCR had not been invented. However, one night very late there was a western on that me and my buds were watching. There was a Mexican chick dancing like mad in peasant blouse, twirling to some heavy flamenco guitar, and Kevin said "damn, she is going to bounce out of that blouse" and then she did. We were gobsmacked. It also had a torture scene where a man was hung upside down over a fire that was awful but I'm guessing the guy in charge of programming only caught hell for the nude scene. Aside from Playboy and nude playing cards that was all the porn we got. Like everything in those days if we wanted it we had to make our own.
Pretty good taste, henke. LOL at Freespace. I tried that but never got much of anywhere because I saw Thief in the mall before I got far. The rest is history.
icemann on 19/7/2019 at 04:35
Quote Posted by MrDuck
Aliens is where the film universe ended for me, afterwards it was the Dark Horse comics and/or novels.
Same with Terminator 2.
Here here.
Sarah Connor chronicles wasn't bad. For the first season anyway.
CoffeeMaker on 17/8/2019 at 22:23
I used to record over VHS tapes too, figuring I'd rather eat something besides rice and beans now and then, and anyway I'd already watched that Charlie Rose interview or whatever at least twice... but once in awhile I'd record something like part of the Grammy Awards over a Rose interview of some Prime Minister, and then regretted it when the interviewee croaked and that had been his last interview, etc.
But... I thought about that awhile ago when deleting all my CR podcasts off my laptop drive after the #metoo revelations about him. I cannot stand listening to old Charlie Rose shows at least for now. So I don't feel so bad any more about having written over those tapes, even if the Grammy award or special news events segments themselves are now in a shopping bag ready to take to the landfill.
Gray on 17/8/2019 at 23:07
I finally joined the 1980s in the year 2000, when I bought my first VHS. I did exactly the same thing. Record everything. Then decide what to tape over. Turned out it was a massive waste of time, and I just ditched all those unwatched tapes when I moved. 350 bloody tapes. Named, labelled, numbered, indexed. Not that I'd ever make that same mistake again, now when we have unlimited hard drives to record everything ever. I'm down to 4% free space.
Seems I'm always at least half a decade behind the rest of the world, I only got my first functioning smart phone last year. Maybe next year I'll figure out what the hell this Twitter thingy is.
Pyrian on 17/8/2019 at 23:44
The nice thing about being behind the curve is that you get to skip a lot of the flashes in the pans.