I lived in an in-between, I have a lot of dvds (even 2 blu-rays I think) but they’re not shitty at all, 90% were Disney films when original content was still a thing but we have rewatched them so many times, nowadays my little sister, born in the era of streaming can’t handle not choosing what to watch on tv or not having a new film out every 2 months
I co-host a podcast focused on superhero movies. Over breaks (summer and winter holidays) we’ll typically do something different than our usual. This past summer we did a Jeff Bridges sci-fi double feature - Tron (the original) and Starman.
For this holiday season we just recorded an od pairing that I think could be called “what random VHS tapes did you grow up with?” The movies? Roadhouse and The Pirates of Penzance!
It was a direct to VHS release called “Berenstein Bears visit Sinbad in Shazam!”. This was pretty close to Irontown. My mom said I had such an imagination with it and it was all static.
For me it was The Boy Who Loved Trolls, The Boy Who Could Fly, Flight of the Navigator and the Rainbow Brite episode/movie that contained this song: youtu.be/zPRWuegS8l8?si=OYJ3x4vSSyWg2eNO
Mine was Idle Hands, which my grandma taped for me when she noticed me watching an Idle Hands marathon. My love for this movie at such a young age really helps to explain my sense of humor as an adult.
Sometimes they just did that, I dunno why. Sometimes movies would play in a specific order then restart, and sometimes they’d play the same one back to back, usually if it was a newly released to TV movie.
My childhood predates the average person’s private ownership of movies . As a child no one I knew owned anything other than home movies… The very idea of actually OWNING a copy of a movie would have been the height of opulence … And back then, there was no way to play a 35mm movie without a 35 mm projector even if you could get your hands on a print
Is it true that movies were super cheap to watch back then? I’ve heard that that’s partially the reason people would go watch the same movie multiple times, that and AC/socially.
Movies would also stay in theaters longer, sometimes multiple years. You would also see a lot more second runs. I’m not even that old but I used to get $1 tickets to the second run theater when I was a kid in the early 2000s. I don’t think I’ve even seen a second run theater in the last decade.
The one in my hometown just went out of business 2 years ago due to the pandemic. It was $5 for adults, $3 for children under 14 and students of the local highschool if you present your student ID. They were an important part of the town, and practically everyone 2-3 towns over was talking about it when they closed.
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