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Ah the good old days of moody VHS tapes. Usually brought in to the school yard from someone who went to Greece, Malta, Cyprus etc for their holidays and threw a few hooky tapes in the suitcase. Or who's mum/dad worked on an oil rig and came home with a stack of dodgy VHS tapes!
I remember the dodgy Terminator 2 from Malta. It had a weird 'SK' watermark scrolling up the sides of the screen every few minutes. Oh and some idiot taped over the end of the film with Match of the Day!!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was another one. I spent more time looking at the fire exit by the side of the screen than the actual cinema screen. ID4 was similar except it had people constantly getting up for snacks and blocking the screen.
Wouldn't put myself through that ordeal of hooky films any more, no thanks. I did love workprints though when they showed up occasionally. The best one I've ever seen was the workprint for Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. It was imho superior in every way to whatever that mess was that made it to cinemas and home video. The film was better, the dialogue was better and the soundtrack was infinitely superior in every single way. I wish I could see that workprint again.
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