Within the first 30 minutes, they repeat the same interview clip unironically, as if they forgot they already used it. I guess they are such big fans of shitty straight to video horror movies that they figured they'd make a shitty straight to steaming documentary. This isn't a doc about VHS as much as it is a 90 minute advertisement for the director and his friends and an anti-digital download piece. We watch one guy go to Best Buy and Barnes and Noble and be depressed because they didn't have a copy of his movie that no one had ever heard of and had never been in a theater or had a trailer run on TV. Bro, why would they? They don't just order a box of every movie that comes out. He's pissed that they have a bunch of Magic Mike DVD's and tons of Marvel's Avengers, but not one copy of Little Jimmy's Horor Basement (I don't remember the name; it was something generic) that he printed in his mom's basement. It kind of starts off as if they were going to do a history of VHS or VHS collectors, but it quickly becomes "My friends talk about how bad Blockbuster and Netflix are" and interviews from Mr. Troma, Greg Sinestro (The Room), and the Birdemic guys. I get that these guys love VHS (one even tells us how much better it is to watch a movie in shitty quality with bad sound (as shown in their inability to normalize the audio in this doc because some interviews are at a volume 3 and others at a 13) and off tracking than in HD with bright (and correct) colors), but this is more about them and their opinions (VHS is going to come back just like vinyl, even though there are zero positives for VHS over DVD/Blu Ray/steaming) than anything else. I don't give a shit about your movie or your podcast and I guess it turns out I don't give a particularly large fuck about your poorly made documentary either.
Within the first 30 minutes, they repeat the same interview clip unironically, as if they forgot they already used it. I guess they are such big fans of shitty straight to video horror movies that they figured they'd make a shitty straight to steaming documentary. This isn't a doc about VHS as much as it is a 90 minute advertisement for the director and his friends and an anti-digital download piece. We watch one guy go to Best Buy and Barnes and Noble and be depressed because they didn't have a copy of his movie that no one had ever heard of and had never been in a theater or had a trailer run on TV. Bro, why would they? They don't just order a box of every movie that comes out. He's pissed that they have a bunch of Magic Mike DVD's and tons of Marvel's Avengers, but not one copy of Little Jimmy's Horor Basement (I don't remember the name; it was something generic) that he printed in his mom's basement. It kind of starts off as if they were going to do a history of VHS or VHS collectors, but it quickly becomes "My friends talk about how bad Blockbuster and Netflix are" and interviews from Mr. Troma, Greg Sinestro (The Room), and the Birdemic guys. I get that these guys love VHS (one even tells us how much better it is to watch a movie in shitty quality with bad sound (as shown in their inability to normalize the audio in this doc because some interviews are at a volume 3 and others at a 13) and off tracking than in HD with bright (and correct) colors), but this is more about them and their opinions (VHS is going to come back just like vinyl, even though there are zero positives for VHS over DVD/Blu Ray/steaming) than anything else. I don't give a shit about your movie or your podcast and I guess it turns out I don't give a particularly large fuck about your poorly made documentary either.