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.
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.
It might, but it definitely hasn’t. I work in some fresh blood on the weekends, when I feel up to taking a chance. Actually, I’ve got a date to go see Dream Scenario (Nic Cage 🥰) just this week.
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?”
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.
It really is, although you have to tailor it to their tastes, which means not showing them some movies you want to. She has absolutely no interest in seeing Star Wars or Indiana Jones movies, for example. But she loves cult movies, so I’m enjoying showing her those.
Life as a repo man is always intense.
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
the fuckin leads are weak? you’re weak.
What are you going to do about it, asshole?
I actually listen to Futurama to help me sleep. I’ve added some other shows I know just as well. They are in that genre of extraordinary media that I can watch/listen to/etc. over and over again.
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.
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.
This is true. My little brother watched “The Lion King” every day after school for a few months.
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 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.
When you stare long enough into the Barney, the Barney stares back at you. And then you become one with the Barney.
Considering that the Barney song was used as an “enhanced interrogation technique” at Guantanamo, I’m surprised you didn’t go totally insane.
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
i suspect its been replaced with stumbling upon tentacle porn or ‘whats this goatse’ when youre 10.
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
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.)
I have a question. Liking animalistic characters that have fur makes you a furry but what if you’re only attracted to lizards? Is it its own thing or does it nest somewhere under the furry fetish in general?
Colloquially it’s called a scalie, but it’s all considered furry. There’s bird furries, amphibian furries, bug furries, even robot furries.
Thank you for taking the time to answer my question about it. Thank you.
I used to work with a guy who called himself a robosexual…
The general term for that is “Scaly” but generally we just call em furries too
That’s very interesting. I wasn’t sure if I was overthinking it or not. I appreciate the honest answer.
tentacle porn
Memory unlocked.
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.
I only had Aladdin Cassete tape with the soundtrack! not even the movie! I can still sing every single song lol
One jump, ahead of the breadline
One swing, ahead of the sword
I steal only what I can’t afford …
And that’s Everything!
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.
Oh come on, Down and Dirty Duck, by The Turtles, was a masterpiece that literally didn’t show any possible nudity, since it was animated. That was a totally appropriate animated film for families. The main character was specifically interested in creating his own offspring as soon as possible!
/Do I need this?
Also: Who Framed Roger Rabbit was totally a documentary about the oil companies forcing the US into a car-centric society.
More specifically General Motors buying and dismantling city rail lines in order to sell more buses.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
Haha I was just talking to someone the other day about how much I loved Howard the Duck growing up. She was like “uhh… that wasn’t really a kid’s movie, was it?” Maybe not. Maybe it and similar movies are the reason us millennials are the way we are.
We’ll never again have such insane inapropriate movies! the 90s were a special moment in time lol
Me too! Love me some Howard!
For some reason, I had the book version at a young age and I’m not sure if it was a weirder experience than actually watching the movie.
Here were mine:
- Spaceballs
- They Live
- Escape from New York
- Hellraiser
- Heavy Metal
- Conan the Barbarian
- Dune
- Lifeforce
(forgot a few)
That’s a sweet assortment of movies.
Upside of being a GenX latchkey kid, even if I was born in the tail end of that generation. My parents didn’t really give a shit what movies I rented as long as they weren’t pornos. Not that they looked too close. I got away with renting Caligula by passing it off as a sequel to Masterpiece Theater’s I, Claudius.
That’s all good shit tho
We had to watch garbage like “the Hippie Princess” Spanish version. Crispin. All these public domain golden era cartoon compilations on VHS. And whatever other bootleg VHS tapes we got.
Totally normal childhood movies 😬
Spaceballs is a legit classic, but I probably shouldn’t have been watching it when I was 7. My mom let us watch a ton of Mel Brooks movies for some reason, Blazing Saddles was another family favorite.
God I love Heavy Metal, shaped my childhood. Spaceballs is a close second.
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.
It did and it was magical!
I remember thinking about how amazing the animators were that made the HBO logo spinning into frame toward the end. Turns out, they actually build a big chrome logo and shot it with practical photography as detailed in this Behind the Scenes program..
The method of creating the lights inside the O knocked me out. I miss the ingenuity behind practical effects.
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Turns out, they actually build a big chrome logo and shot it with practical photography
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I remember HBO used to have a new movie on at something like 6:00PM every Friday. But I didn’t know what the movie would be ahead of time. So I would start the VCR recording as soon as I saw that screen at 6:00, then would wait patiently to see what the movie was that I was recording, hoping it was gonna be something good
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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.
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
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
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
Its a damn shame they only made that one. single. episode. that you watched today, right? Right?
Well I doubt the accents will change, or the plots will become more elaborate or realistic, or the drawing style will change. Right?
Peppa Pig is the worst thing that ever happened, and not just on TV. We had a short run of it with my younger son and it was an awful time. Now we get SpongeBob and/or Pokémon and it makes me so happy.
Im sure it’s awful but it can’t be worse than Caillou…
Agree with your take on Caillou. I also always thought Dora was yelling. My daughter never seemed to mind either though. 😕
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.
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.”
Brave little toaster. And fievel goes west.
Brave little toaster has gotta be the reason so many of us millennials are so freaking weird.
Fuck, I hated those movies though. I mean I watched them, but as a kid, I hard a hard time understanding what was going on. Same with The Rescuers, all dogs go to heaven and all those other 80s animated movies. Could have been because I was still learning English.
We watched Rescuers Down Under all the time, never had any idea it was actually a sequel, I didn’t see the first one until I was in highschool.
That was definitely why, although I watched cartoons in German without knowing the language and still enjoyed them. It was many, many years later that I learned Biene Maia was called Maya the Bee in English.
Fievel was the goat. Well, mouse at least.
Tbe trauma of watching Fivel and ET as 3/4yo triggered a lifetime of anxiety. What’s up with all the horrible traumatizing movies in the 80?! Bambi?! WTF, why show that to kids?
Bambi?! WTF, why show that to kids?
To teach them about death as part of a story with a happy ending. I think that The Lion King does it better though as they’ve already been briefed on the circle of life.
Oh life is already so hard and sad, let the kids have a couple of good anxiety free years! ET was so traumatizing as a kid that I refuse to ever watch it again lol
Be thankful you didn’t watch Watership Down
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.
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.
