Thread 213748059

Why wasn't it named Home Movie Theater? Did people really say I went to the box office last night?

>>213748059 (OP)
No they said "I sure do like living in a white neighborhood" and if they saw a faggot on their tv that wasn't a comic relief character they went out and shot a recognizable local news talent, like he was responsible or something.

>>213748059 (OP)
>Did people really say I went to the box office last night?
Yes.

>>213748059 (OP)
The name implied that itwwould only contain box office hits.

it cracks me up each time in that episode of Mr Show where they call it "hebrew box office"

>>213748059 (OP)
The implication is its a box office in your home. In other words you don't have to go out to buy tickets to a movie, they're right there on your own tv

>>213748493
this isn't redddit you fucking faggot fuck off

What first starts up for you when seeing this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC_uTMkmH08

For me, it's Mr. Show

>>213748552
did you know that sound is actually from an episode of Arliss?
Not that I'd recommend watching that shitshow

>>213748514
Awww did the obvious elude your double digit IQ and now you feel like an idiot? How about you go to reddit where you belong nigger

Before HBO it was just BO

HBO wanted to stress that you have to pay for it

As a europoor, I never had HBO, but this is absolute kino:
https://youtu.be/SqjWxSNKEMI?feature=shared

It was so epic, they even did a making of. It blows me away that the bit at the end that you think is CGI is all motion control polished metal with all kinds of old-school enhancements.

https://youtu.be/cexcxxY56NM?feature=shared

>>213748059 (OP)

Im not going to lie, all these years i never knew thats what hbo stood for.

>>213748552

That one documentary about hookers, i cant remember the name.

>>213750020
>the bit at the end that you think is CGI is all motion control polished metal with all kinds of old-school enhancements
I was surprised by that too. The model city used in the beginning was really well detailed for its day too.

>>213750020

This is neat af and a shame how nobody puts this kinda effort into anything anymore.

What I want to know is why and how has HBO has been consistently putting out quality content for over 40 years

>>213751592
That stopped over the last decade or so.

>>213748059 (OP)
We equate "box office" with success. You think of HIT movies when you think of HBO. It's not a theater experience. It was presented in 4:3 for the first 40 years.

>>213748571
Arliss is from a special time. There was a worse time. I recently bought the entire series of 1st & Ten on DVD.

>>213751663
You just became poisoned about "wokeness" and shit. The quality never stopped. You changed.

>>213751805
Sure, Jan.

>>213751592
Name the last HBO show that was good after True Detective Season 1?

>>213751857
The Penguin
We Own This City

>>213751952
pathetic
what an ugly tasteless generation of dipshits

>>213752052
Gen-X?

>>213751857
White Lotus
Barry

>>213752133
HAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

>>213751857
The Leftovers
The Deuce
Silicon Valley
Crashing
Barry
Mare of Easttown

The Comeback is coming back too.

>>213752216
What do you have against Barry? It was good until season four.

>>213752288
Wasn't chuddy enough. Didn't hate enough jews.

>>213752269
None of that shit even compares to
The Sopranos
Deadwood
The Wire
Rome
True Detective Season 1
Chernobyl

>>213748942
Hexagon Box Office

>>213752363
Those were great shows too. Our tastes change as we age and evolve I guess. I like new music less and less just like *most TV and movies. But I can't really point to any reason why it sucks. I'm not some conspiracy nut saying it's planned and decided on. Newer generations of writers and producers are making things they want to make and it just doesn't click with people who are older. CGI and digital and the lack of practical effects, the lack of the $30m budget movie, these are things that ruin modern movies for me just as much as changing trends.
I've been spending much more time reading books. I'm glad I don't like TV and movies as much anymore.

>>213748059 (OP)
Miss the old HBO promo between movies where a camera went down a miniature sized towns streets then zipped up to the HBO logo. Last time I remember them using it was back in the early 00s. Dad told me they used it since the early 80s. Every time I saw it after he died, it kinda made me tear up remembering watching new-on-HBO movie premieres Fridays and Saturdays with my parents back in high school.

>>213750020
We had HBO from '88-'90 and that shit was the coolest ever. Then like Lucas or Wildcats or One Crazy Summer would come on after. And it's summer so it's still light out and I could be playing outside, but the R-rated movie mom and dad are going to let us watch is starting.
I can remember it like it was yesterday. The 19" TV. This cable box. If you held the knob just right between channel 27 and 28 you could get Showtime 90% clear.
They had totally different shows and movies. You'd get a free weekend a few times a year and could sample having premium cable. Maybe that's why we got HBO.

>>213752527
Found the promo I was talking about. Looks like it was from 1983. Last time I remember seeing it on HBO was like 2008 a couple years after my dad had a stroke and died.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc4cmZaWgIo

>>213752569
And a lot of Police Academy. And this one. And Like Father Like Son.

>>213752597
>>213752527
Yes:
>>213750020

>>213752615
And Quicksilver.

>>213752625
Ah, gotcha. Didn't see it already posted ITT.

>>213750020
When I was a boy me and all the neighbor kids would dance to that theme as our parents were telling us to shut the hell up. Good times. Ultra-powerful nostalgia too.

>>213748059 (OP)
pure soul, and that first movie is a cult classic... dont bother with the other movies though

>>213752363
>redditpranos

>>213753108
That's a pointless "insult". Reddit is better than you and this place.

>>213748552
>HUUUHH!

>>213751440
Pimps Up, Ho's Down?

>>213751440
Pimps up hoes down

>>213753202
Didn't the white guy win? I remember that show. And Taxicab Confessions. And Real Sex. Holy shit, they had some wild stuff on there. That's one show you can't find anymore. They pulled so much from their archives. I'd like to see Lucky Louie again. I didn't really like it at the time. The holy grail is still Dream On. I never got to stay up for it and it's unavailable in any form. I'm going to look into VHS on ebay or something. People would have religiously taped a show with regular boobs. I know the tapes are out there even though it's a licensing nightmare to get the music and TV show releases to ever see it on DVD. Seasons 1&2 only.

>>213748059 (OP)
Box Office is a term used in financial context. And because jews run HBO, well....

Did anyone else get HBO or other premium channels for free by mistake? Occasionally it would happen to us and we'd get a couple of them for free, and it wasn't the free weekends either. It would usually only last a couple of weeks before it got cut off again, but one time we got HBO and Cinemax and the Disney Channel (used to be premium) for the better part of a year if not more. We knew it wouldn't last forever but it was a sad day when we came hom from school and they were scrambled again.

>>213753425
>be me
>8 years old
>1997
>just get first tv in my bedroom with playstation and Resident Evil 2
>tv was set to air with only four local channels
>weeks later
>set tv to cable with remote
>bam 99 channels with two hbo channels
>watch texas chainsaw massacre next gen and halloween 6 with friend at sleepover in room on hbo
>parents never know i have hbo
>watch lots of kino hbo as kid like taxi cab confessions
kino

>>213751663
Succession? Kino.

>>213753425
It's like you're not reading the thread before posting.

>>213753513
>be me

Assumed. Unnecessary.

>>213753823
bot

>>213753321
>>213753202

https://youtu.be/p7143lJmXn4?si=3EEAtg88Cty5SEDq

Im not sure if thats it, the ice t/coco stuff kinda familiar but i remember it being more serious than this.

>>213754400
That was a sequel to Hookers at the Point

>>213753425

You had free weekends and sometimes the channel was just randomly working for weeks.

Citizen x is awesome and a great thriller set in the Soviet union. It parallels amarecan bigotry.

>>213754412

https://youtu.be/tuKFPOVDfe8?si=UpgJVIhp15TPa5Pm

Crazy thing was when HBO started, it was a broadcast channel, at least in metro Detroit. You could pick it up with a standard antenna. Of course it was scrambled, so you need a special receiver box. Once cable spread enough, they stopped the broadcasts. I'm surprised they never got in trouble with the FCC because even though it was scrambled, you could hear everything and sometimes you'd get short bursts of unscrambled video.

>>213750020
Updated version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_UJT5csNuY

Only truly old folks will remember Spotlight, an early competitor to HBO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETIn90Gsfr4

fuck i wish i knew about taxi confessions earlier in my life this is kino.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvHayg_-Gfk

>>213748059 (OP)
This was absolute kino. Basically a forerunner for The Sopranos (as was Oz).
It's such a shame that the proposed 'Gotti 2', with Assante returning, has not materialised in two years already.
Obviously it would cover Gotti's last days, given how old Assante is now. I guess they'd have to rely on flashbacks to different actors too much.

>>213748059 (OP)
HMT sounds like a chemical acronym.