Some of These Gen Z Kids don’t Know Shit about Good Films…

Why I still own VHS tapes

Jaja Requa
5 min readJul 22, 2022
A photo of a portion of our VHS collection

We have 2 HUGE shelves from floor to ceiling of VHS tapes because when DVDs came out people were GIVING tapes away.

It was like the Gods threw 100 dollar bills from the sky and no one saw the money but us

2nd hand stores like Goodwill were selling them for 25 cents each…and I’m talking really really really good films…Classics!

The shining, Jaws, God Father (the whole series), My Cousin Vinny, Scarface, Sound of Music, My Fair Lady (I love musicals), All of Quentin Tarantino’s films before 2012, and every good film you can think of…the real ‘ 007’ of films.

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I've hung out with people in their late teens or 20s that have never heard of films made before the year 2000.

And I’m not talking 1960s films they can’t relate to either…although some of those good VHS 1950s films we own too. I mean, these kids are smoking Pot on a movie night and never heard of ‘Up in smoke’?!

…C’mon man, I’ll show you the way.

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Jaja Requa

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