Saltblue,

I grew up watching Stallone, Van Damme, and Schwarzenegger movies with my dad, since he monopolized the remote.

dexa_scantron,
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The only rated R movie we were allowed to watch was Demolition Man, which we had a tape of, so we watched it enough times for me to have fond feelings for Stallone.

Guntrigger,

I also had this on tape! It was where I learned about the concept biscuits and gravy. Except for I didn’t actually learn what they were for another 10 years.

It made sense to young me that when Simon opened the sewer it would smell like digestive biscuits smothered in Bisto.

dexa_scantron,
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Haha wow, that’s a horrible mental picture.

Saltblue,

Demolition man is a classic

agamemnonymous,
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The daycare I went to after school when I was a kid had a few that got a lot of play, but the most obscure were a 1994 ABC Family animated rendition of The Secret Garden and a 1985 Hanna-Barbera Pound Puppies TV special.

HowShouldIKnow,

Or catching the same movie in different places over the course of a month before HBO changed its lineup.

ExLisper,

In communist Poland you couldn’t simply buy movies on VHS so the only ones we had were Iron Angels I and II: www.imdb.com/title/tt0094146/

No idea where they came from and I’ve seen both way too many times.

Laracroftsbutler,

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.

TheKingBee,
@TheKingBee@lemmy.world avatar

an Idle Hands marathon

I actually kind of like the movie, but why would a channel play it on repeat?

Laracroftsbutler,

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.

Timecircleline,

The Thief and the Cobbler!

LostWon,

Oh my goodness, I remember for some reason people kept giving or lending my parents all these long play VHS tapes full of movies. Random video mix tapes where you didn’t know what you’d get next. Now and then some of them had kid movies (like the Sesame Street movie, Follow That Bird and there was at least one muppet movie), but most of them were PG and occasionally R-rated stuff, and I still watched it (except the R-rated stuff, but thankfully they were mostly pretty tame as I recall). I think my fave childhood movie was always on TV though: The Goonies.

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.

MrShankles, (edited )

Idk how obscure, but “Puff the Magic Dragon” was definitely a weird one for me. Kinda glad it got lost (probably thrown out, who knows). Almost feels like a fever dream, so much so, that I had to double check the movie even existed

tamal3,

In the land called Honoli!

MrShankles, (edited )

Full-disclosure… I found it online and am about to re-watch it. Loved it as a kid, but does it hold-up? 23 minutes will tell

Edit: It… oddly holds up for me lol. Just as weird as I remembered, but kinda sweet (I truly thought when they sang “Honoli” they were saying “Harmony”. It’s been a long time)

Malfeasant,

One of the things I put on when my son refuses to go to sleep- 5 minutes in, he’s out cold.

MrShankles,

Lol, that’s pretty ingenious. It’s soothing and the animation is kinda boring, especially the beginning. Bravo

niktemadur, (edited )

Or something that came up while channel-surfing on TV and decided to leave it on for a minute, put the control aside, and ended up watching the rest.

Back while in high school, one weeknight I stumbled across Jean Luc Godard’s “A Bout De Soufflé” (“Breathless”) on our town’s local channel, at just the right moment when it seemed like the film was skipping. Intrigued, I left it on, soon enough figured out that this was intentional editing. By the end, my mind was blown and my way of looking at film and art had changed forever.

sep,

so true.
my uncle had a tv. and 2 movies on vcr. I saw “Smokey and the bandit” more then a hundred times. and “the sting” 30-40 times…

FedFer, (edited )

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

Blackmist,

Whenever I’m subjected to terrestrial TV, the only thing I end up watching is the second half of movies I’ve seen a dozen times before.

I grew up with only having 4 channels, but holy shit having some actual agency over what you watch was a game changer.

dQw4w9WgXcQ,

I basically knew every line of Space Jam by heart. I even knew when to look for the funny parts of the VHS when rewinding it and watching the movie in reverse.

BowtiesAreCool,

“The Cat from Outer Space” we used to rent it all the time from blockbuster for me and when they switched to DVDs we bought it

Jomega,

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

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