Last night I was searching for a specific movie. I went searching for streaming services like Amazon, Mubi and so on, but there was nowhere to be found! Then I searched for a DVD and again I found nothing. Finally, I went through all the pirate sites that I already knew, and typed “Winter in Sokcho 2024”. I went on searching for about 30 minutes. A movie would come up, but the movie didn’t exist at all.

At that point, I realized that I might be the only person who wanted to watch this movie.

Then I asked myself, how many movies are lost like this? Maybe a copy exists somewhere forgotten, yet nowhere to be found. It was played in cinemas for some time though.

Have you ever come at this point? I will go with the book for now, the only thing that exits.

  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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    12 days ago

    This was me and my friend with Who Made the Potatoe Salad for many years. I remember this lady who lived in my grandparents’ house had a bootleg copy of it and I watched it and it was funny while my friend had seen it too. But we lost both of our copies of it. I found the bootleg DVD case and was so excited until I opened it and found it was blank.

    I could find the movie online and see it actually existed and had been released at some time, but couldn’t find it anywhere. Not even sailing the seas got me any results except fake listings.

    Then one day last year, I found a single listing uploaded to a pirate site and it had some leeches. I began the slow download at night and woke up the next morning to it fully downloaded! I couldn’t believe it.

    I watched it the next day and honestly it was funnier than I remembered. It wasn’t the best movie I ever saw, but it was well worth the wait.

    Crazy how a movie can just go missing like that in this digital age. Not even second hand copies on eBay.