Honytawk,

Oh noo, kids have it less shitty today, how horrible for them.

bratosch,

Well i think the point is that today people just watch movies that have “aTleAsT 7 or 8 on imDb” or the top ranked show/album on [insert arbitrary streaming service] that week, and are never exposed to anything outside of the mainstream realm = Everyone you meet is just a clone of the person next to her/him.

On paper you are correct; You’d think people have vastly different tastes and interests but in reality they just watch/listen to/do what everyone else is watching/listening do/doing.

AgentGrimstone,

All the 90s Disney animated films.

And Robocop.

6daemonbag,

I lived overseas when I was a kid and my grandma used to tape Saturday morning cartoons and mail them to me

JustMy2c,

Goooooooood morning Vietnammmmmm

doctorcrimson,

There is more obscure media than ever, it just connects less people you’re likely to ever meet in person.

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!

IanSomnia, (edited )

My neighbor had so many weird yet charming movies we didn’t have in our house. There was this one where I think an English man took care of an otter for some reason? It was also at this neighbor’s house that I first saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail for the first time. We had those 1am sillies and were in a permanent giggle fit.

5in1k,

Mine was some weird fairy tale cartoon where a mom goat fills a wolf with rocks and they drown in a well.

pseudo,
@pseudo@jlai.lu avatar

Weird ? It is among the most famous fairytale of all.

UncleGrandPa,

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

Riven,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

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.

skulkingaround,

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.

TacoNissan, (edited )

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.

DanVctr,

Same, we had two in Metro Atlanta that were Covid Casualties

TokenBoomer,

Hope Pizza Steve is doing well.

xX_fnord_Xx,

My dad made bootleg copies of just about every vhs he rented until the mid 90s.

The ones that were for kids he imprinted with red or blue tape, all the others black.

I have no idea what my mom did with that wall of tapes once he was gone, at this point she doesn’t remember either.

The main tape I remember rewatching was the Raggedy Ann movie from the 80s that got super psychedelic and had elements of body horror.

xX_fnord_Xx,

There was also an unsettling retelling of Beowulf via awkward English dub. Watched now, it would probably be charming, but 4 year old me was petrified when the cuddly looking Grendel bit off a man’s head and you could see the stalks of arteries poking out of the neck stump.

I also watched the first episode of MadBalls more times than is probably healthy.

Lucidlethargy,

Ah yes, bootleg Harry and the Hendersons.

neuracnu,
@neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Bringing in the deep cuts:

  • The Peanut Butter Solution
  • DARYL
  • Ewoks; The Battle for Endor
  • Enemy Mine
  • Police Academy and The Blues Brothers (edited for broadcast TV)
ReplicantBatty,

We grew up watching Blues Brothers, we’d watch it like every other week. That movie holds up so well, i still watch it occasionally.

WhiteOakBayou,

Enemy Mine is a sentimental favorite of mine

Sadrockman,
@Sadrockman@sh.itjust.works avatar

“I still don’t understand…what’s a hooker?” “Ok,its him.” Im glad somebody mentioned D.A.R.Y.L. That and Police Academy 2 were my go tos as a kid,since we lived in bfe.

MacNCheezus,
@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today avatar

Today’s childhoods will be defined by watching some semi-obscure streamer or meme video on YouTube that only your friends understand.

toy_boat_toy_boat, (edited )

I have two. I grew up near Toronto in the 80s. Both were CityTV movies. They used to do a thing. I can’t remember what it was called…

1 - SPACEBALLS!!! (“F___! Even in the future nothing works!”)

2 - Predator (there’s a line where Arnold says, “That’s one bad motherfucker.” They only censored the word ‘mother’. i was 8. best thing ever)

Abnorc,

This wasn’t on tape, but this move is Shaolin Soccer for me. We watched it so many times. I watched a couple of times recently too, and it holds up.

BleatingZombie,

Are you me?

balderdash9,

I completely forgot about Shaolin Soccer!

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