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Took me 11 weeks to find a copy of 'The Room' on VHS for under $20, and my wife thinks I have a problem
After getting outbid on eBay four separate times, I finally scored one at a garage sale in Bakersfield for $3, and honestly the tracking lines just make Tommy Wiseau's face funnier, so has anyone else hunted down a specific bad movie on a dead format just for the extra pain?
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aaron_mitchell23d ago
My wife has a running list of my "problems" and chasing bad movies on dead formats is somewhere between my retro game collection and the time I drove two hours for a laserdisc of Howard the Duck. Last month I paid real money for a Betamax copy of Plan 9 From Outer Space and the seller threw in a moldy banana for free, which felt like a fair trade at the time. The tracking lines are half the fun, they turn every dramatic scene into a fuzzy mess and somehow that makes Tommy's performance even better. My rule is if I can watch it clean on streaming in two seconds, it is not worth hunting, but if it only exists on a format that died before I was born, now we are talking. My wife finally gave up and started pricing my shelf, so if you need a VHS copy of The Room she knows exactly what to charge.
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