My taste in movies is a little weird or possibly excessively normal, in that I don’t really care about modern blockbusters, and I don’t really care about prestige cinema either, but what I do care about is movie-ass movies. Just the most regular kind of underwhelming films imaginable. I blame the fact that I’ve been a fan of MST3K for decades. After a while, you watch enough bad movies and you realize they’re not so bad and you’d honestly enjoy watching some of them on their own. Give me a budget Roger Corman flick over a Marvel movie any day of the week. I want to watch that kind of obscure 90s movie that ran on cable at an awkward time slot because it was cheap to license. I want to watch that those fake kung fu movies that they always seem to be watching on tv shows. I love a cult classic. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Back in the days before streaming, I loved independent video rental places because they tended to be staffed by the same kinds of fans of movies for movies’ sake. Heck, I remember the first time I walked into my dearly departed neighborhood video store and the staff were actively watching an episode of MST3K. I knew immediately I had found my video store.
Scarecrow Video is not my neighborhood video store and never has been, but I can tell they care about movies. Show them some love if you can, won’t you?