PATREON PREVIEW: The LaserDisc Chronicles - Son of Godzilla
The Important Cinema Club
Justin Decloux and Will Sloan
4.7 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Finally. |
| 0:00.6 | This is so exciting. |
| 0:01.7 | I have not seen a laser disc since I'm going to pick a date at random here. 1995. I remember probably the first and last time until I consciously went looking them for myself was at someone's house. And I was like, what is this? Like in their basement. Yes. I have an uncle who, let's just say, had a lot more money than me, who had a laser disc player. |
| 0:21.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.3 | And he's the only person I've ever known personally who had a laser disc player. |
| 0:27.0 | And I remember being at his house when I was like five or six, they put on Top Gun and they put on some Looney Tunes cartoons. |
| 0:35.5 | And you're like, put on the band 11 yeah that's right yeah put on |
| 0:40.4 | Cole black yep and you were probably like what is this why is the screen you're not using |
| 0:45.8 | all of it I don't think I um I don't think I thought much of it no okay but I thought oh that's neat |
| 0:51.0 | but the thing about laser discs is they look impressive. Even now when you pull them out. |
| 0:54.7 | I mean, they're big, they're heavy, and they're cool. |
| 0:56.8 | I have a lot of laser discs. Yes, and you don't have a play. No way to play them. Yes. So I finally did my due diligence. I found a laser disc player and we watch a laser disc movie today. Okay, but I want you to explain the process of setting up the laser disc player. |
| 1:11.4 | Oh, how complicated it was? |
| 1:12.7 | Actually, first of all, what is a laser disk? |
| 1:14.2 | It looks like a CD. movie today. Okay, but I want you to explain the process of setting up the laser disc player. |
| 1:11.4 | Oh, how complicated it was? |
| 1:12.1 | Actually, first of all, what is a laser disc? It looks like a CD, except it's vinyl sized. Yeah, |
| 1:16.9 | a record. And it's a double-sized. Yeah, it's a flipper, like a record, for example. Because |
| 1:22.3 | only, only an hour of information can be held on each side. Yep, that's right. And laser |
| 1:27.0 | discs were real important because this is when film went from your collecting |
| 1:32.4 | 60 millimeter print and Super 8s. |
| 1:34.0 | That was the first way that you would do it, to your collecting VHS. |
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