2020 Movies (now including 2021 - 2025)

[Hammers1993]

Another year and another set of movies being released.

As always there are a few surprises throughout the year that come out but the big movies look to be good ones this year:

- The Gentlemen
- Jojo Rabbit
- 1917
- Uncut Gems
- Bombshell
-Bad Boys for Life
- The Lighthouse
- Just Mercy
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood
- Parasite
- Birds of Prey
- Dolittle
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Bloodshot
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Dark Waters
- Onward
- A Quiet Place: Part 2
- Mulan
- Bond: No Time to Die
- The New Mutants
- Black Widow
- Scoob!
- Fast and Furious 9
- Wonder Woman 1984
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Minions: The Rise of Gru
- Tenet
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Jungle Cruise
- Morbius
- Bill & Ted Face the Music
- The King's Man
- Halloween Kills
- Eternals
- Gozilla vs. Kong
- Dune
- Coming 2 America
- West Side Story

[Manuel]

"Sold - That looks rubbish. New LUTHER film on Netflix this month, will view that."

[Northern Sold]

Anyone watched The Fall?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa5MXOMN1lM proper sweaty palms time....

[bruuuno]

"I still use this shop from time to time, fantastic place I’ve used for 20 years. Fuck knows how they’re still in business but I suspect they are all living on their trust funds, fair play to them. https://www.20thcenturyflicks.co.uk/ Working in a video shop is my dream job, I still watch about one film a day on average.. love it"

[Northern Sold]

Ha Ha... yeah looking back was pretty lax... one form of ID ... meant to bring your membership card in with you but that went out the window so it was a case a lot of the time looking up members to allow then to rent... wasn't so bad if it was me my Mum or step dad doing it as we obviously knew a lot of the customers... but some of our staff boo boo'd big time... a few times after the films had not been brought back after a week you'd knock on what you thought was the customers door to be confronted by a 90 year old woman... bit off asking her where the 5 adult films that had been rented out under her address... Babyface?? Pretty Peaches?? Is that a how to cook video??

[bruuuno]

"Sorry to say when I was about 15 they started renting video games, I went into a couple of shops and rented a game under my mates name.. only had to give their name and dob. Half inched the game thusly. Feel quite bad as I hate thieves now. Don’t worry soldo none were on your manor"

[Northern Sold]

ED... your real name Colin?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_25l7nwMmA

[Side of Ham]

If only that was even possibility swiss….

[Eerie Descent]

"Going by your last few posts, I reckon you like it hard, son?"

[Eerie Descent]

"Going by your last few posts, I reckon you like it hard, son?"

[Northern Sold]

Eerie… … trying… …too… …hard… …as… …usual…

[Swiss.]

Side of Ham 5:46 Tue Mar 7 Haha again your obsession with me you sad bastard. Rent free in your head.

[Side of Ham]

Barry Northern

[Eerie Descent]

Northern Kermode

[Side of Ham]

"Sold, try and ignore swiss's cringeworthy post.... ....it's all because zico only responded to him with one line whilst you got a good few more.... .....it's just so fragile swiss's ego......"

[Swiss.]

"Northern Sold 2:45 Tue Mar 7 Man goes into Soldo's parent's shop. ""Hey Soldo Jr give me something arty""' Soldo Jr ""Here try Top Gun"""

[Eerie Descent]

Kaiser Zoso 3:48 Tue Mar 7 HAHAHA!

[zico]

"Swiss, yeah read about that. She didn't seem to go for the handsome ones, I might have had a chance! Sold - I remember John in his shop used to check all the videos late evening as people just sent the box back without the tape, or a wrong tape, that sort of thing that you will know only too well. One night he checked one and it wasn't right so he just put it in the video recorder he had in the shop just to see what it was. He watched films in the shop to pass time when no custom was about. It was a rather erotic soft porn of a lady in the shower. She looked familiar and to his horror he realised it was the customer. He called, left as innocent a message as he could on her answer phone about the missing film. Two days later a Range Rover pulls up. a little boy runs in. quick exchange of tapes as mummy was in the car and John ever saw her again!"

[Swiss.]

Surface Yes Grace Kelly was stunning then. Believe or not she was obsessed with Ray Milland of all people.

[Northern Sold]

Zico… don’t know mate… you’d think they’d be worthless but then again 20 years ago we was saying the same about vinyl. I lost count of the amount of tapes that I had to repair… splice out a few seconds that had been chewed up in someone’s machine… lot of time the customer would just come in and leave the whole VCR with us whilst I had to take the bloody thing apart just to save the tape. Some of the vids were £50.00+ which back then was a fortune… so you can imagine it goes out a couple of times and gets stuck in a machine!! Amazing really we made money with the mark up when we was putting them out daily rentals from £1-00 to £1-50 a night but we made an absolute fortune… went from almost poverty to a 5 bedroom house in Thorpe Bay (backing on to Thorpe Hall golf course) in the space of 2 years… was a great few years until satellite reared it’s ugly head.

[Kaiser Zoso]

Quentin Crisp

[zico]

"Ha ha, yeah Grace Kelly is part of the reason I can watch Rear Window time and time again! Wonder if that would have a woke warning on it if shown again! Sold - I heard that some of the original videos, certainly those that shops had are worth a few bob these days? That true? I assumed videos now were worthless."

[Northern Sold]

"zico... yeah seems like a lifetime ago now... still can't get my head around having a platform that now you pay £11 a month you can have at the click of a remote every single Disney classic film ever made... we used to have to rent from Disney and Warner Brothers... around a tenner a month... and these were for shit films.. no classics but shit like Blackbeards Ghost, That Darn cat and the Black Hole... for I'd say 4 years it was Massive... weekends literally half our stock out... and when we had the bad snow in 86(?) those two weeks I'd swear almost everything was out... bloke even hired How to Pass your Driving test... Oh he'd passed his test he just wanted something to watch !! Oh when we started off we done a nice range of under the counter stuff... that's how I ended up with more MATES than anyone else.... SWT"

[Takashi Miike]

soldo could be the next quentin tarantino

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

"Rear Window is very good. Hollywood heart-throb James Stewart as an action-hero photographer more interested in gazing out the window and chatting shit with his massively gay detective mate than in shagging an in-her-prime Grace Kelly, who is absolutely gagging for it. He'd clearly have been happier watcher her shag someone else. Now THAT was arty."

[zico]

"Northern Sold 2:45 Tue Mar 7 That's what I miss. We had a video library right at the bottom of our schools drive. Over the years I became good friends with the owner, god rest his soul, and I can honestly say in all the years I knew him he never once gave me a bad film. The only thing he wouldn't advise on was comedy as it's so personal. Those days went with the youngsters working at Blockbuster who generally didn't have a clue and now you trawl through Netflix etc with no real idea on what's good or not on the new stuff. My mate Steve used to love a ""comedy"" called The Heavenly Kid. Awful film. John at the shop said to me "" Your mate could come in here and look at 1000 titles and still take out the crappiest film there!"" My top three favourites of all time are probably Hitchcock's Rear Window, Back to the Future and Jaws. Probably seen better films than the second two but hose three I can still watch over and over. Rear Window is to me a masterpiece although others may say Vertigo for instance was better. As you say film is very personal."