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don't worry, this is how we learn

• justsomehnguy 4y ago
  That's true. But regarding nostalgia and colours I can tell you a personal anecdote: I first saw Blade (1998, yes, that one with Snipes) on a pirated VHS copy on a not new Funai recorder on a 14" SHARP TV. It was a dark, grainy film, blue on black, with occasional red and white splashes. Visually it was close to Sin City. Years later I stuck on it on a public TV. It was so bright it's almost made sense for Snipes protagonist to wear sunglasses everywhere - it was bright as day even at night scenes. I can't watch "a proper" Blade, but not because it's quite a shitty movie (it's fine for it's niche) but because I first saw a dark, noir-like action film. And we watched Babe (1995) on that set too, but I needed to constantly correct the tracking because the video was out of sync all the time. Years later I found about Macrovision and years after that I put two and two together.