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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

The concept of rewatching a movie is almost foreign to me now given that I have access to a library of tens of thousands of movies. It would have to be very good and something that whoever I'm with hasn't seen.

Of course I used to watch the same movie about every month or so back when I was growing up in the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's curious because I find I rewatch more movies than ever before, since it's so easy to find them, and I already know whether I like them or not.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The first thing I do when Return of the King ends is put on Fellowship of the Ring.

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[–] FlyingSquid 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a daughter I enjoy showing movies I've already watched to. So I've been doing mostly rewatching, but with someone who has never seen, for example, Ferris Bueller's Day Off before.

The best was her reaction to Repo Man. We got to the end and she said, "all of that for a flying car?"

[–] deus 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is so sweet. Getting to show cool stuff you like to your kids must be one of the best things about being a parent. If I ever end up becoming one I'll show my kids all the great Pixar movies and also the Emperor's New Groove cause that one is a classic.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Movies/shows I can still see many times today:

  • Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind - it's just so nicely structured, you always notice something new
  • Glengarry Glen Ross - I finished watching it for the first time and I thought go myself "fuck, I could watch it again" and I did, watch the whole movie again straight away. I can still just go back and watch it. The acting is so amazing it never gets boring
  • Veep - best show ever, I've seen every episode probably over 10 times and I still watch it all the time, like when I'm cooking or something. It's just soooo fucking perfect
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[–] frickineh 10 points 1 year ago

I have trash taste, so I actually just continue to rewatch the same dumb shit I liked in the 90s so I don't have to make a decision. I actually paid real money to buy Not Another Teen Movie a few years back because I rewatch it about once a year. I think we have too many options and they're all on different services so it's like fuck it, Men In Black for the 85th time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Same. And Demolition Man holds the distinction of being the only movie I rewatched on the same day.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I once had the flu so badly I couldn't get out of bed or yell for help. My parents put on "Flushed Away" (movie about some fuckin rats) on dvd and it looped at least 4 times before anyone came back to turn it off. One of my core traumas

[–] Aleric 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had the same issue with Barney. I got the chicken pox at 16. The older you are, the sicker chicken pox tends to make you. I was super sick, to where I was hallucinating at one point.

A couple of days in, I probably should have been at the hospital, so of course my mom was leaving me at home by myself to go to work. She turned the TV on and just left without checking the channel. It was PBS and some sort of Barney programming block was on. Hours of Barney. Hours. The TV's remote was long broken and I was too sick to walk, so I just watched that singing, dancing purple fuck.

On the bright side, I can do a great Barney impression. I sometimes do it randomly when I tell my wife I love her.

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp 9 points 1 year ago

When you stare long enough into the Barney, the Barney stares back at you. And then you become one with the Barney.

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[–] thorbot 13 points 1 year ago

I lucked out because I was left with a movie like this but VHS tapes have to be rewound once they are over and we didn’t have any of those fancy fucking auto rewinders, that was rich folk stuff

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i suspect its been replaced with stumbling upon tentacle porn or 'whats this goatse' when youre 10.

[–] Sheeple 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Stumbled upon Spyro porn when I was 11.

Now I'm 25 and a massive furry degenerate.

Good riddance. Children should not be on the internet unsupervised

[–] FlyingSquid 32 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I used to be a big fan of Eevee and the eeveeloutions so I looked them up on DeviantArt and saw fetish art of a Flareon getting its toes tickled by a torture device. I didn’t know what fetishes were at the time and assumed it was a silly joke about how painful it is to get tickled. (I was very ticklish as a child.)

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[–] AFaithfulNihilist 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

When we moved to the middle of nowhere and couldn't even get channels over the air, my sister and I wore through every tape in the house.

The worst was being 9 years old desperately trying to find the second half of Lonesome Dove because you only got most of the episodes on some random VHS.

We must have worn the sound off of The Princess Bride, splash, Aladdin and the little mermaid. For a 9 year old boy living in the hinterlands after growing up in a city, Ariel singing "I want to be where the people are" hit me right in the feels.

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[–] MissJinx 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

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.

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[–] partial_accumen 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I would also add that if you had a neighbor or relative that had HBO, you'd be able to record on VHS a set of movies playing at that time. For many of us this may have been only a few months/years of movies. That set of movies would grow on you because thats all you had to watch on demand. Genre, theme, high budget, low budget, it didn't matter. Someone close to you popped in a 6 hour tape one day and pressed "record" before they went to work. You got the one movie you were hoping for and whatever came afterward.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Back in the day, me and my siblings recorded movies on VHS by sitting next to the TV and starting/stopping the recording for commercial breaks. The best movies were those with only small snippets of commercials, and my most treasured movie was a nearly "clean" copy of Die Hard that I've watched probably somewhere between 50-100 times.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] FlyingSquid 17 points 1 year ago

My father was a film historian. We had so many obscure movies on tape. I've seen tons and tons of movies, although not in the last 10-15 years in terms of recent ones.

I used to have a party trick where I would have someone open a random page of Leonard Maltin's movie guide and start listing titles and I could almost always summarize the plot of at least one.

[–] TORFdot0 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No kids these days still have that. It's just some random film available on streaming. I've watched so much Trolls. Please send help, my kids won't stop watching

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You need to get them hooked on something else. But be careful what you wish for because this will only give temporary relief until you start hating the new addiction and wish back the previous one. My girl went from binge rewatching a penguin cartoon to the little mole to a horribly animated newer cartoon about cats and dogs. And I fear we have reached the point at which we cannot hide or deny the existence of peppa pig any longer and I already regret dissing the kittens & puppies stuff because jfc I watched peppa pig for the first time today and I won't be able to bear this one for the love of God

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[–] Subtracty 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My family watched the movie Clue about a million times. Can quote every line by heart. To this day, we only have to look in one another's eyes whenever a quotable opportunity comes up. "Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?" "You don't need any help from me."

[–] LemmyFeed 14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Brave little toaster. And fievel goes west.

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[–] anarchy79 12 points 1 year ago

I will never forgive my friend's sister taping over several Transformers episodes to record a Madonna marathon from MTV...

That was in the 80s and I'm still sour.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

We had a "kids tape" that had countless things recorded over each other. The second half was just a collage of the tail end of various cartoons and shows. When it got to the Abba-soundtracked documentary about a carnival it meant you were at the end of the tape.

[–] elscallr 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

How about building a core memory around a weird French movie you only saw because it was in the wrong case when you rented it from Blockbuster?

[–] AgentGrimstone 10 points 1 year ago

All the 90s Disney animated films.

And Robocop.

[–] CountMonte 10 points 1 year ago

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 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] UncleGrandPa 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Goooooooood morning Vietnammmmmm

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, bootleg Harry and the Hendersons.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] xX_fnord_Xx 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] toy_boat_toy_boat 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

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

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