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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 it.
Of course I used to watch the same movie about month or so back when I was growing up in the 90s.
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.
The first thing I do when Return of the King ends is put on Fellowship of the Ring.
That does prevent you from finding new movies you like though.
Movies/shows I can still see many times today:
Same. And Demolition Man holds the distinction of being the only movie I rewatched on the same day.
We'd rent The Princess Bride and Flight of the Navigator a few times a year.
I used to watch the same movie about every month or so back when I was growing up
I don't think this is a technical limitation, I think young children really like repetition because their brains are still learning how to predict things
To the chagrin of parents who endure Cocomelon or Caillou rerun marathons.
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
i suspect its been replaced with stumbling upon tentacle porn or 'whats this goatse' when youre 10.
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.
I lived overseas when I was a kid and my grandma used to tape Saturday morning cartoons and mail them to me
She's a real one.
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.
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?
Bringing in the deep cuts:
Goooooooood morning Vietnammmmmm
There is more obscure media than ever, it just connects less people you're likely to ever meet in person.
Ah yes, bootleg Harry and the Hendersons.
Today’s childhoods will be defined by watching some semi-obscure streamer or meme video on YouTube that only your friends understand.
Mine was some weird fairy tale cartoon where a mom goat fills a wolf with rocks and they drown in a well.
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.
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.
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.
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Or catching the same movie in different places over the course of a month before HBO changed its lineup.
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.
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
The Thief and the Cobbler!
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.
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
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.
Idk about obscure, but OLD Looney Toons classics and The Land Before Time (recorded FTA).
Oh noo, kids have it less shitty today, how horrible for them.
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.
Honestly my plan is to try and get copies of my family's old home videos
Might be interesting to see if any kids I have being able to see when I was their age has any effect on how they see me as their parent
Mom and Dad Save the World and then finding out that Jeffrey Jones is a child molester.
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.
Mine were Shrek, Dickie Roberts, and When a Stranger Calls
This was the movie Troll for me with Sonny Bobo.
Tell that to my daughter watching that soviet cartoon about penguins I had as a video tape over and over again on youtube
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