J4CKO

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Now, in the spirit of my other thread, not the best films you ever saw, but the first you saw on video, either VHS or Betamax !



The Wanderers

Dawn of the Dead

Chickie Tetrazinnie (dont ask)

corradoboy

The Thing, First Blood and The Burning.

Had a JVC toploader with a wired remote Was jealous of my mates Akai front loader, especially when it ejected the tape and nearly knocked you over

richiewong

The Burning, saw that as a kid on the Ferguson Videostar, had a Betamax before that but couldn't work it.

Anyway that film gave me nightmares for months think I was about 5/6 at the time

Bought the film a few years back on DVD and how tame is it

Moley

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Convoy

richiewong

...I remember all the video's were snides as you could not buy them at the time.

Remember seeing an ex rental copy of Excalibur for sale for about £60 in the mid eighties

corradoboy

Must have watched that about 50 times when I was 8

My Dad started running one of the very first video libraries in his garages and I remember him bringing one film home for us to watch that all his customers were raving about. Watched and thought it was great and told all my mates at school about it the next day. None of them could find it in their local libraries A few weeks later one of the coppers who had their petrol account took it off display and recommended my Dad keep that one and a few others behind the counter ET hit the cinemas that Xmas, some 8 months after we'd had a pristine copy, complete with case and cover My first foray into pirate video

theboy

What a great film

Moley

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10-4 buddy

BULLITT

Star Wars

Wierdly enough, I also can remember the first film I saw at the cinema! It was Winnie the Pooh, I was four.

J4CKO

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Arizona, noon, on the seventh of June
When they highballed over the pass
Bulldog Mack with a can on back
And a Jaguar haulin' ***
He's ten on the floor, stroke an' bore
Seatcover's startin' ta gain
Now beaver, you a-truckin' with the Rubber Duck
An' I'm about ta pull the plug on your drain

[Chorus]
'Cause we got a little ol' convoy
Rockin' through the night
Yeah, we got a little ol' convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A
Convoy!

[CB]
"Ah, breaker, Pig Pen, this here's the Duck, again, and ah you wanna back off on them go-go girls? 10, roger, 'bout five mile or so. Yeah, them hogs is gettin' in-tense up here."

New Mexico I-four-oh
Like Texas lizard on grass
We were goin for broke
On a cloud of smoke with a thousand scream trucks
Sayin praise the Lord, shut the back door
And follow that Rubber Duck, ten-four

[Chorus]
'Cause we got a great big convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a great big convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!
[This next verse appears only in the movie itself; it's not in the song on the soundtrack album]

Texas dawn and the charge was on to the pits of Alvarez town
We had nine of our best comin' outta the west
And the ultimate hammer was down
Yeah, speed-trap city and we showed no pity
'Cause the whole damn place was a pile
We could tell by the smell it was trucker's hell
And the devil was Dirty Lyle

[CB]
Ah, now here's the plan, Pig Pen. When we get to the pass, we're gonna put on our fish costumes, pass out the Vaseline® an' an extra ration a' rum for the men. That should do it.

The following versus's are also in the movie soundtrack, except the first set is a remake of "New Mexico I-40"(the last three lines are used for scenes during credit roll for "Texas Dawn") which is heard only during the roll of credits at end of movie.

New Mexico, on I-four-oh
Like a Texas lizard on glass
One thousand pedals was mashin' the metal
Them bears was a-walkin' the grass
We trucked all day and we trucked all night
Pig Penny improvin' our style
We could tell by the smell
We was headin' for Hell
And the Devil was Dirty Lyle

(Heard in movie and soundtrack)

Now Lyle was a creep,
He was tacky and cheap,
But he had him a badge an' a gun.
He hated the Duck and he hated his truck,
And he loved to bust truckers for fun.
So he followed the line,
And he bided his time,
And he watched for his chance to strike.
Then he picked on a trucker,
Yeah, a wiry ol' sucker,
Yeah, the trucker they call Spider Mike.
But the great Rubber Duck,
Sorta run outta luck
When he crossed that final bridge.
There's choppers and rigs full'a guns an' pigs,
They's wall-to-wall on the ridge.
He showed no fear as he grabbed his gear,
An' he stuck it in grandaddy low.
Them guns went boom,
An' his *** went zoom
An' the Mack took a terminal blow

[CB]
Ah, how 'bout ya, Big Nasty, c'mon there. Say, listen, Big Nasty, we sure are glad you was along on this here run ta kick ***, dontcha know? Ah, 10-4, I know you can't say "kick ***" on the CB. Back.

Well, that big black Mack stopped dead in her tracks
When the trailer blew high in the air
There was pieces of truck and some pieces of Duck
And junk and debris everywhere
Then the rig took a drink an' commenced to sink
And there was no Duck no more
But that evil smile from Dirty ol' Lyle
Shone south from the north Texas shore

[Chorus]

'Cause we got a mighty convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a mighty convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!

Convoy! Ah, 10-4,
Convoy! Pig Pen, what's your twenty? Omaha? Well,
Convoy! they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer shure. Well, listen, good buddy,
Convoy! keep the bugs off'n your glass and the bears off'n your ***. We'll
Convoy! catch you on the flip-flop. This here's the Rubber Duck on the side. Southbound an' down.
Convoy! We gone. 'Bye,'bye.

wayne9t9

Have we got a video? (nasty)

sarasquares

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one has got to be on the way

J4CKO

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All I actually remember is the **** hangin out of the widow !

Went to see it at the cinema in Burnage,Manchester with my Cousin Nick and My Uncle Greg in his 1950's jowett Jupiter, it was raining (Manchester), probably on of the rarests cars in the country.

JPL

Ma and Pa let me watch An American Werewolf in London when I was about 12... It fcuked me up for life. Looking back, I know it's a comedy, but at that age I was a bit impressionable. There was an alley way between me and my mates house, 'bout 50 metres, and I had to run it, eyes closed, every night........ for about 4 years

Then when I was 13 a mate showed me the Exorcist!! FFS!!!!!! The darkness rules my life!!

I now understand why my boy has to jump AWAY from the bed when he get's out of it at night for a pee.... same as me... can't have those nasty monsters grabbing at me legs!

I think I was about 27 when actually realised it was ok and I could sleep with my legs hanging out of the bed. (Without some mad ****** going to cut me up into bits!!!) - Sounds sad.... but.. meh! I blame my parents ... the *******!!!

shep ppp

Alien the 1st one FFS scared or what and also watching an old black and white werewolf movie as well brrrr still shudder thinking about it

turbomatt

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i think Rocky and the deer hunter were the frst vids i watched.

f1_fan

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"Yes we've got a bloody video"

Driller Killer and Death Race 2000

That dates me doesn't it?

ronjeramy

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ET was the first video i watched, we still have the door stopper jvc top loader, no remote on wire though. the first grown up film i can rember watch was first blood

Dill_typeR

I remember watching Terminator when it cam out, I was only 6. Above the local sweet shop, dunno if it was beta max or VHS, they had both in there, split in 2 sections.

Awesome film, easily one of the all time greats.

KiwiGTI

Electric Blue

ronjeramy

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which one

G00ner

Scanners!

CrisPDuk

Are you my twin brother That sounds so much like my formative years it's not true Did you believe that once you were under the covers you were safe too



Like Corradoboy we had a JVC with the wire remote

First film I saw was Alien followed a week or so later by American Werewolf in London I was only 11, it's nearly 25 years later and I still can't watch Alien without hiding behind a cushion
You know what they say, 'Get 'em early, get 'em for life'

windyboy

Any Which Way But Loose or Any Which Way You Can, the Clint Eastwood one's were he was the bare knuckle fighter, watched one one week and watched the other the next week, watched them on our Ferguson Videostar toploader and invited some family round to watch it as it was the new thing.

Windyboy.

DCI Gene Hunt

Me too

"Calling all trucks this heres the Duck, we're about to go hunting bear...10-4"

davegtt

The first one I actually remember was never ending story. Probably watched something before that though.

DCI Gene Hunt

How'd it end

davegtt

I'll let you know when it finishes

Rince

Star Wars - when it first came out on Video... That's going back a few years now

Was another 4 years before we got our first video after that - a Sharp one that had a remote control on a long wire

Ahh happy days!

brybusa

My first betaxmax experience was Debbie does Dallas and then Deepthroat...id guess around 1981 or 1982...

I think my hand stopped aching around 1985...