oh really? I could have done THAT...

..I mean, I was going to...never did, but I would've......

Yeah well someone else -- who was actually able (and committed to doing so) -- actually did it.

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One thing noted in the book is that the movie posters and newspaper ads (and subsequent VHS cover artwork) was often more terrifying than the movies themselves could even possibly be and they even sometimes wrote out those claims.
I don't think I ever had htis particular idea in mind.  But it would've been nice if I had enough savvy and knowledge to contribute to a book that contained VHS cover-art.  I was not in any state back in 1988 or even 1991 to have seen the ads that Mr. Gingold the author describes in this book but a lot of the imagery was replicated for the initial home video releases of these movies, so I understand what he's referring to largely.  I was reading a excerpt from this book online and the author noted that there were major theaters, at least in NYC, that played PIECES (1983).  Many people refer to that movie like it's an underground sleazebar movie that you'd have to byapss a street full of drug dealers to see.  I seriously had no idea that PIECES had piqued so much interest from moviegoers.  I always saw it on the video store(s), just figured it was there in lieu of a better movie that didn't exist (Really, how many square feet do you really need to host a collection of movies that people are glad they paid to see after they finally see them?  You can go as far back as the 1940s and you still only have about 2,000 noteworthy titles and most of those noteworthy titles are just a little too noteworthy for the avg person's liking and that's assuming that each noteworthy film has had sufficient marketing so that people know the damn thing exists and can decide for themselves, which is often not what happens, even when a film isn't really all that bad, and then many times people will refuse to see a given movie just because it's old.  My cousin does not like THE BREAKFAST CLUB because the characters' hairstyles are "ridiculous".  Seriously?  And someone was commenting that getting kids of today to see Brian de Palma's CARRIE was like pulling teeth because youth today just assume it's one of those "weird films from the '70's" -- and you gotta admit, the '70's was a rather odd decade for movies.  I wasn't alive then but I can see it's true just by the blu-ray.com pre-order lists.  I was looking at the customer reviews for a movie titled BAD RONALD (1974) that I originally stumbled upon in the pages of the 1999 edition of VIDEOHOUND and, gosh, it's like Adam & Eve, grabbing ahold and biting the forbidden fruit having no idea the ramifications.  Society had its flaws at that time as every society does and always has, but not only has MLK's dream not become a reality...we've lost sight of the Reason MLK was so successful to begin with and we've become so entrenched in our respective atitutdes about sex and sexuality that we refuse to incline our ear toward that Reason, trying to use the failure of humans as excuse to blame God for everything we've done wrong.
I think what's real sad ultimately is that violence has become such a desireable trait in many circles of this nation ("this" nation being the U.S.A., for any one not Americanized at the time of this reading :-
And even people who understand the violence of violence, still don't seem to recognize that violence is not simply an act or a type of act.  It's what goes on in your mind.  It's something that flows through one's veins with the blood, like the strength of a tidal wave.  It's a hard thing to let go of.  At least for me it is.  It's a little easier to ask God to cleanse me of it, but it's not nearly as easy to mean it with all of my heart.  I think that's the state that most people are in.  Thanks to "science", we as modern men & women feel OK knowing that God or any other God-like deity is simply a set of fairy tales that people wrote down.  How do we know this?  Because we don't know there IS a God.  100 years ago television was still in its infancy stages of conception.  Nobody knew TV would exist.  God being unknown to some people does not mean he does not exist.  It simply means He hasn't been discovered.
"The world does not recognize me because the world isn't looking for me" - Jesus, The Christ