Ahh the memories of our Betamax...ya ya ya all you good people and wormslime are probably wondering WTF is Old Man Robb talking aboot now...well Beta was all the rage in the early 80s and arguably was a better format than VHS was..however some what killed the Betamax format was the underlying fact that a regular old Betamax cassette lasted oh about an hour/ two hours or so..you couldnt record a full lengh movie on the thing or get two movies on the same cassette and well VHS you could get up to oh six hours of recording time..perfect for recording movies/ tv shows back in the day...of course both formats would be made obsolete by digital technology...plus on both formats for the most part we watched some pretty horrid pan and scan transfers of movies...
Ok...lost track...yes after my first batch of movie rentals, which included the Cannonball Run, Shogun Assassin and some other goodies, i remember wanting to watch flicks with that Bruce Lee dude..esp after seeing him in all of his glory in Enter The Dragon at the Sackville Drive-in, back when you could sneak a movie on as a second feature some seven/ eight years after its original theatrical run... i remember Fists of Fury (aka The Big Boss) quite well...very well on repeated Betamax rentals...i do have a soft spot i must admit for the inept dubbing and the scene where Bruce drinks and gets trashed..that and when Bruce smacks some thug through the factory wal, leaving a hole that perfectly matches the shape of his body (Think Looney Tunes)...ahhh good times...
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