Film

[ochoill]

An Nvidia shield and a hard drive maybe?

There is likely a simpler solution.

[Pentagrimes]

mildly related digression, but I worked in a video shop in Rathmines years ago (Advance Vision, long closed) which had an "adult" section   - softcore stuff obviously but pretty borderline in some cases, and I will never, ever forget the fact that someone came to the counter one day with a dvd they'd pulled from one of those shelves with the name "Randy Financial Advisor".

There was one poor ould lad - I mean he must have been in his 70s, easily - a little short fella who walked with a cane, and he came in one of my first mornings up to the counter to return a shopping bag full of porn he'd rented from us the week before. When I went to his account one of the lads had changed his name on it to "The Porn King"

No way! I worked for AV in their flagship store in DunLaoghaire for a while towards the end of the 90s. You'd get all sorts, weirdos and oddballs passing through the place at any given time of day. I'm sure Rathmines was similar, if not even more colourful.

The little field where you could leave comments about the customers was abused regularly. Was meant for practical notes like 'Never rewinds the tapes" etc, But it was usually just derogatory comments on peoples appearances etc. 

We also had an elderly lad who'd come in nearly every day, he must have been well into his 80's. Could barely walk, used to shuffle in at a snails pace, barely able to put one foot front of the other. He'd rent from that same selection of ancient European & British softcore. He'd use the voucher on the back of his Quinnsworth receipts to rent two tapes for .99p if he returned them before 18:00. Which he always did, and he'd get more when returning. He'd repeated this cycle day in day out. His customer comments just said something like: "Living Legend! - Check History" His entire rental history was the inventory of the porno section cycled through several times and only one instance where he'd rented a movie. We had it printed out and stuck to the wall in the stock room.

We reckoned all he did was pull the stomach off himself, between shuffling in and out to get videos.

I'm just going to put this out there and I'm sure you've already thought about this but..I think this is the same guy I was talking about ..which means he was going through BOTH branches

[Carnage]

Quick question for the parents: Five Nights At Freddy's, suitable for a 10 year old? He loves the comics/graphic novels, I'm babysitting him tomorrow and was going to stick it on at some stage but should probably check first.

[astfgyl]

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[The Butcher]

An Nvidia shield and a hard drive maybe?

There is likely a simpler solution.

Aye, also look into Plex. I've an old pc with a bunch of hardddrives with Plex Media server on the PC and Plex app installed on the TV. Works a treat

[Necro Red]

Indeed, he's an odd fellow for sure. On a related note, have you seen the documentary on the making of The Island Of Dr. Moreau? A truly mental shoot.

and he did the one on Jodorowsky's dune too

[Carnage]

That was Frank Pavich, wasn't it? Or did Stanley do one too?

Watched The Wild Robot with my nephew there, a nice kid friendly one that didn't stretch the patience.

[Sworntothecans]

Quick question for the parents: Five Nights At Freddy's, suitable for a 10 year old? He loves the comics/graphic novels, I'm babysitting him tomorrow and was going to stick it on at some stage but should probably check first.

Tough one. My 12 year old watched it at a sleepover and she was grand with it (years of watching FX docs with me paid off) but the other kids were all freaking out despite most of them having watched the game on YouTube.

[Carnage]

Ah right. He was raised on Jurassic World and the like so it's hard to know. Might have to watch it first myself before deciding.

We ended up watching The Wild Robot and some Teenage Kraken thing, plus a godawful Pokemon movie from the '90s. He has the flu (on top of asthma) so it was a 'sit in by the fire' day.

[leatherface]

Found Highlander 3 second hand recently, it's OK. Does anyone here rate the 'Highlander' movies?

[Carnage]

First one's great cheese, decent concept. II is one of the worst films of all time, though there's a director's cut that's meant to be much better. III was alright, passed the time. As did Endgame, which was very silly, even by franchise standards. I haven't seen The Source. The less said abiut the TV series, the better.

There's a remake/reboot on the way, apparently. Henry Cavill starring.

[Trev]

Always thought it was a great idea, and the first one has a big nostalgia pull for me, but as a whole it's pretty awful

[astfgyl]

Yeah it's just the first one that's any good but I haven't seen any of them in at least a decade

[Sworntothecans]

Found Highlander 3 second hand recently, it's OK. Does anyone here rate the 'Highlander' movies?

First one brilliant.
Second one a mess
Third one cheesy but kinda fun. Mario Van Peebles goes hammy as fuck in it.

[jobrok1]

Love the first one.
Still can't wrap my head around the second. The rest are all pretty meh!
I did enjoy the series at the time, though.