Thermal_shocked,

Judgement Night and Speed. I guess I got lucky, all my aunt had in the middle of fucking nowhere. Now two of my favorites

PowerGloveSoBad,

That soundtrack was unreal. One of my first CD purchases as a little dude – got it in the Columbia House 0.99 “deal” lol.

CountMonte,
@CountMonte@lemmy.world avatar

I remember calling into the radio station and requesting a song. And then sitting around with friends waiting to hit record on our boombox!

tamal3,

The Glowfriends FTW

Dioz,

The weirdest one that comes to my mind, was a vhs tape of some stop motion lego stories that me and my brother watched a million times.

Surprised I just found the whole thing on YouTube

youtu.be/zJvu8X5OpT4?si=t89ja_1qtWt8ah14

AngryCommieKender,

My brother and I kept watching The Go-bots meet(?) the Rock Lords. This was back in the late 80s to early 90s.

UltraMagnus0001, (edited )

I tried to watch Jingle all the way with my kids today. They pointed out how stupid that movie is, but I didn’t have a lot of choices back then. I don’t miss those days of shitty choices.

ma11en,

My daughter is 19 and that’s one of her favourite Christmas movies.

Guntrigger,

I want to watch it every Christmas but my wife objects.

InquisitiveFactotum, (edited )

I suggested it last year for my family. No one (wife nor kids) wants to watch it this year.

MissJinx, (edited )
@MissJinx@lemmy.world avatar

Ours was “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”. I don’t know why nor where but one day my step dad showed up with this movie for us. It was the only “kids” movie we ever own and we watched it a 1.000 times. looking back it wasn’t as inocent as I thought at the time, but it was the 90s. Another movies we loved?! Howard the Duck ( the movie where Marty Mcfly mom fucked a duck) So yeah the 90s were kind of weird and had a lot of inapropriate movies for kids.

AngryCommieKender, (edited )

Oh come on, Down and Dirty Duck, by The Turtles, was a masterpiece that literally didn’t show any possible nudity, since it was animated. That was a totally appropriate animated film for families. The main character was specifically interested in creating his own offspring as soon as possible!

/Do I need this?

Also: Who Framed Roger Rabbit was totally a documentary about the oil companies forcing the US into a car-centric society.

Malfeasant,

More specifically General Motors buying and dismantling city rail lines in order to sell more buses.

…wikipedia.org/…/General_Motors_streetcar_conspir…

jballs,
@jballs@sh.itjust.works avatar

Haha I was just talking to someone the other day about how much I loved Howard the Duck growing up. She was like “uhh… that wasn’t really a kid’s movie, was it?” Maybe not. Maybe it and similar movies are the reason us millennials are the way we are.

MissJinx,
@MissJinx@lemmy.world avatar

We’ll never again have such insane inapropriate movies! the 90s were a special moment in time lol

hondaguy97386,

Me too! Love me some Howard!

Guntrigger,

For some reason, I had the book version at a young age and I’m not sure if it was a weirder experience than actually watching the movie.

banneryear1868,

Psalty iykyk

PatFussy,

My movie was princess and the goblin. I watched it on a 10x10 in monitor that had the VHS in while I worked at my family’s business where I did labor at 10 years of age 30+ hours a week. Good times

AngryCommieKender, (edited )

Asterix. Doesn’t really matter which of the 30+ comics, or the 5 or 6 movies. No one knows Asterix in The US.

Also: Flight of The Navigator, The Last Unicorn, or The Last Starfighter

ReplicantBatty,

Me and my brothers loved the Asterix and Obelix books, we used to get them every time we went to the library. We probably read through most of them several times.

We also really loved the Tintin books, it was crazy to me when they made a movie from them, prior to that i had never known anybody else who had heard of Tintin.

If i ever got the opportunity I’d love to start collecting them, would be a real nostalgia kick.

RagingRobot,

I grew up in the US and used to play the Asterix Sega game when I was a kid. I loved the art style and the characters.

digger,
@digger@lemmy.ca avatar

We watched Mission Cleopatra in French class! I was able to find it online. All my friends thought I was a weirdo.

TheDoozer,

I don’t know Asterix, but I loved the shit out of Flight of the Navigator. I still drop a “compliance!” every once in a while when somebody asks me to do something.

Also, The Last Starfighter was fantastic and… The Last Unicorn was definitely a movie that was. That Unicorn was kind of an asshole, though. Watching it cringe in horror at feeling mortality was like, yeah asshole. Welcome to the slums of the mortal world, ya prissy bitch.

InquisitiveFactotum,

I’ve seen a lot of nods to Flight of the Navigator in here, but this is the first mention of The Last Starfighter. I saw that probably a dozen times because my best friend was obsessed for a while and we’d watch it every time I want over. I have very fond memories of that.

Jomega,

Cats Don’t Dance. 20 years later I’m a furry.

AceFuzzLord,

I can’t recall my family having obscure movies. Don’t remember what it’s actually about, but I at least remember we had one Home On The Range VHS. Don’t recall ever watching it once, but this post made it come to the forefront of my memory

rambling_lunatic, (edited )

For me it was a CD, not a tape, but I watched the hell out of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, dubbed in a monotone voice by a grand total of like three people.

TheDoozer,

Not a movie, exactly, but we had the VHS of the extended version of Michael Jackson’s Thriller and the making of the video. It was over an hour long. And amazing.

BromSwolligans, (edited )

I’m gonna have kids just so I can make sure to raise them on the correct media diet. They’re getting all the classic video game consoles, in order of generation, so when they get to something like Elden Ring they have the context all the way back to Space Invaders to appreciate it. And we’re going to be a home of physical media, god damn it. We’re not streaming things. We’re putting CD’s and vinyls and blu rays in their respective players. No iPads. Only books, comics, coloring books and notebooks.

How the fuck did parents start giving their kids iPads, anyway? Nintendo Switches? My first Gameboy cost $90 and I bought it with my own birthday money. A children’s book from a young reader series cost $6 new in the 90s and is probably not much worse now. Less, if you buy it used, which is much easier now. And people are just like, “here, my 12 year old child, have an Xbox Series whatever, and an iPad, and a Galaxy phone. They’re all pre-connected to your YouTube account. Don’t let your other parent know that I told you that for Christmas we’re getting you a gaming PC, Logitech C920, condenser microphone, wireless headset, gaming chair, scissor arm, and LED lighting array so you can chase the completely impossible dream of being a professional streamer. Can I kiss your feet while I’m at it? Will that make this a good half-birthday for you?” Unfuckingthinkable. Knock it off.

chatokun,

An American Tale for me and my closest(in age) siblings. Bonus because while my older brother and I were American born, we moved out of the country when I was 2, and my younger sister was born outside the states. We saw the movie first overseas, then often when we came back to the US (7 for me).

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