After winning the format war over Betamax (sorry, it’s just a fact), VHS became an incredibly important format in home media for the better part of three decades.
There was really nothing better than walking around a video rental store and just eyeballing the VHS tapes in stock. It’s not totally out of the question to argue that the image format of VHS covers prepared us for the mobile-screen era. If you put the Jurassic Park cover on my phone’s home screen, I really would never need to look away.
And of course, there were always the new releases that would be out for days on end, because there was literally no other option. In fact, movies would often come out for rent before you could actually buy them, so unless you were Blockbuster or were willing to schlep out licensing fees, you either had to show up on the morning of release day or sit by the return slot until someone brought one back and you begged the clerk to let you have it.
But eventually, like all great things, the VHS format faded, until finally the last movie ever released for the format came out. Which movie was it?
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Correct Answer: A History of Violence
The answer is: A History of Violence. Despite having an interesting name, A History of Violence, starring Viggo Mortenson and directed by David Cronenberg, didn’t get a ton of notoriety. It was an interesting entry in the action genre, but not a lot more.Yet, released in 2005, it holds the honor of being the last movie from a big studio released for the VHS format, coming out on tape in 2006. Source
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