VHS Collection Part 2

 VHS Collection Part 2 aka another trip down memorabilia lane.

Further to my earlier post on some of my VHS tapes, here are some more video titles in that particular format.

This time the highlights include two Charles Bronson's Death Wish movies, 3 and 4.

I think they are now cult classics in the genre... if genre is the word. 

Death Wish 3 with its urban battleground set somewhere in New York seems to be more fantastique than DW 4 although the latter is not far behind and both are a far cry from the original Death Wish.

An original VHS tape cassette and not some cheap knock-off.

Death Wish 4... 

Also an original VHS tape cassette.

As regards Death Wish movies, I have the original Death Wish on a DVD, these two Death Wish 3 and 4 and am therefore missing only Death Wish 2 and Death Wish 5, of which I would like especially to watch and have the No. 5 Death Wish.

On a DVD, I also have Bruce Willis' Death Wish remake but it's not entirely satisfactory although there are moments too.

Here is pussy galore Octopussy which is good for an occasional viewing and having fun mainly at the expense of the protagonist and British film-making in general, a kind of brainless pretend acting and poor quality but bombastic filming.

Roger Moore is not too bad either and I believe still sports his trademark wart on the face (another one who comes to mind is Robert De Niro but he is a whole lot of different fish in the world of acting). Although some may claim what Roger Moore has is a mole but... careful now... whose mole could it have been?

I think it's only in his last JB movie, which would be A View To a Kill, that Roger Moore loses the wart much to the chagrin of his fans everywhere.

 

I must re-watch it soon as I seem to have forgotten what it's all about in detail though I do get the general picture which has stayed the same in every Bond movie.

And then there is this one which is fine but rather less memorable than the one before. 

At least Roger Moore had his famous facial impediment (aka wart) to look out for, this one has nothing going for him in the way of visual interest.

Goodfellas... now this is a great movie of course. 

I now have it purchased on the crappy youtube even - that's how much I like it and must have watched it dozens of times over the years.

Angel Heart is great and very atmospheric however I would prefer it to have been a more straightforward PI story with less of that supra-natural stuff with selling souls to the highest bidder although the woodoo seemed okay.

Killpoint is a guilty pleasure and a great bad move - a Leo Fong vehicle with a subdued Richard Roundtree, a menacing Stack Pierce and especially an erratic and temperamental Cameron Mitchell spending first half of the movie talking to his little dog, talking mainly to himself in the latter.

And Singin' in the Rain, a nice technicolor song and dance masterpiece and one of the greatest movies whichever way you look at it.

Sorry I initially forgot to flip it, here it is corrected:

 

I should say that all these tapes are viewable even after 25-30 years and in fact I am re-watching some of the right now.

 The machine I use to watch them on is this my 1995 Sharp VHS recorder, player and TV tuner.

The great thing about it, apart from the fact that it still works after 25+ years of operation, is that it is a multi-system unit, with PAL, SECAM, NTSCI - you name, so plays anything you can slip in its slit.