goofy's dead wife wrote:i spent a disproportionate amount of time in hollywood videos anime section and this gives me a 'feel' (i don't think blockbuster ever had one? or if they did i didn't know about it because my dad only had a hollywood membership.)
they had a disproportionate amount of fighting game vhs. i forgot the tekken movie had nu-metal/industrial rock inserted post-hoc in the same way the street fighter ii movie did
it's so weird that both silverchair and kmfdm get higher billing than the korn song that plays at the end of the film.
Yeah my Blockbuster had a "Japanese Animation" section with a lot of the same. They actually had multiple copies of that Tekken VHS I guess because it was pretty popular.
I just remembered all the Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug commercials from the late 90s that had Piccolo saying "with music by Deftones, Finger Eleven, Disturbed, and more!"
My Kroger grocery store rented videos and video games for a while and this thread is giving me some asmr
If there’s a believable enough VR simulator of the mid 1990s I’m absolutely never leaving it. It’s incredible that the matrix recognized this while being a part of it
once my friends and I walked into a video store right before closing that had a 5' cutout standee for this movie, and one of my chums for some reason decided to grab it and walk out the door with it while the guy behind the counter looked on nonplused
Yes, sir, I've become a real "Net-Head!" I don't know how I communicated before I got online!
emotional fascism wrote:this was in our local supermarket front and center for some odd reason. my 11 year old horndog self spent a creepy amount of time staring at the back cover while my mom shopped. pretty sure there was an exposed boob in the middle of that picture that caught my attention.
I was pretty worried that Hollywood Hot Tubs would be too pretentious but that pull quote on the back has reassured me.