First post...

Welcome to the Video Remainder Project!

With the recent death of most video stores [especially in my sleepy mid-level suburb in a declining, broken-down, forgotten state], there's just no major way to get the most important thing for all fans of movies- the all-important film you just see from the DVD cover. Sure, Netflix allows you to see a small cover, and Redbox may get a cheesy movie once in a while, but where's that feel that the classic videogoer has of "That looks so fucking cheesy, I have to watch it!" or "That cover looks terrible, but the chick on it is relatively hot- eh, I'll give it a shot..."

The end of the video store- whether it be a mom-and-pop joint all the way up to Hollywood Video, Movie Gallery, or Blockbuster, is the end of an era not just in moviegoer's experiences, but in bad movies as a whole. When will there be the luck of seeing a bad movie when you're just getting it in a small, generic white slip or a generic clear slip, only the art on the DVD telling you if you're in for a good movie or not? Where are the stroke of luck that the megaplex will give you a movie like Standing Ovation (or the rare example of a generic ripoff B-movie getting a theatrical release)?

Luckily, where these video stores go out of business, there's also huge discounts before their movies are liquidated. From there, that's where I strike- trying to find the generic fare of yesterday in hopes of finding the cheesy cult classics of tomorrow.