Man these guys think highly of themselves. This isn't a history of VHS or any real exploration of VHS collecting; it's 80 minutes of goofs telling stories about finding tapes or going "hunting" mixed in with them trying to convince us that we are amidst a VHS revival and that the format is coming back. I agree with the argument that there are tons of movies that never made is past VHS and are unavailable in any other format, but it's total bullshit to say that VHS is a superior format. One guy's going on and on about how great VHS are because of all the pops and blurs and stuttering. I'd let someone argue that Vinyl has better audio quality (and they are undoubtedly more fun to display than tiny CD's), but VHS are shit quality and I don't think that's up for questioning. I don't even know how many of these dorks even watch the tapes they buy, they just are consumed by the desire to own more tapes. Really, I don't think this doc works as anything beyond a series of mini biographies on the individual collectors. I didn't learn anything. There are a few cool people they interviewed, but most of them have giant egos and see their collection of VHS tapes as some amazing feat that we should congratulate them on. The one fucking douche bag even claims that "chicks love VHS". Buddy, 90% of the VHS movies that were never released on any later formats weren't for a reason. I liked the Troma guy (I don't like Troma movies, but the guy seems cool) shitting on VHS, but I didn't get anything else out of this. I get the stylistic choice to make the entire doc look like I'm watching a VHS, but making your doc look shitty on purpose isn't something I'd ever get behind, especially when your subjects keep telling me how great VHS looks and I can see that's clearly not the case.

Man these guys think highly of themselves. This isn't a history of VHS or any real exploration of VHS collecting; it's 80 minutes of goofs telling stories about finding tapes or going "hunting" mixed in with them trying to convince us that we are amidst a VHS revival and that the format is coming back. I agree with the argument that there are tons of movies that never made is past VHS and are unavailable in any other format, but it's total bullshit to say that VHS is a superior format. One guy's going on and on about how great VHS are because of all the pops and blurs and stuttering. I'd let someone argue that Vinyl has better audio quality (and they are undoubtedly more fun to display than tiny CD's), but VHS are shit quality and I don't think that's up for questioning. I don't even know how many of these dorks even watch the tapes they buy, they just are consumed by the desire to own more tapes. Really, I don't think this doc works as anything beyond a series of mini biographies on the individual collectors. I didn't learn anything. There are a few cool people they interviewed, but most of them have giant egos and see their collection of VHS tapes as some amazing feat that we should congratulate them on. The one fucking douche bag even claims that "chicks love VHS". Buddy, 90% of the VHS movies that were never released on any later formats weren't for a reason. I liked the Troma guy (I don't like Troma movies, but the guy seems cool) shitting on VHS, but I didn't get anything else out of this. I get the stylistic choice to make the entire doc look like I'm watching a VHS, but making your doc look shitty on purpose isn't something I'd ever get behind, especially when your subjects keep telling me how great VHS looks and I can see that's clearly not the case.