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submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by Karl@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I vaguely remember this text from a meme or a comment from somewhere. If this was already posted in lemmy itself, I apologise for reposting.

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[-] electronVolt@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago

VHS - Howard the Duck

I still quote that movie and I am convinced not a single person I have ever met has seen it.

[-] Odo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Either they have seen it but were so traumatized they can never speak of it, or they assumed it was a fever dream ("duck boobs? Nah, I must've dreamt that...").

But yes, I saw it several times as a kid yet couldn't stand 5 minutes of it as an adult. Such a profoundly awful movie with bizarrely good special effects.

[-] karashta@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The principal from Ferris Bueller gets possessed by an alien and there's a talking duck-man.

What a wild ride. I'm going to have to watch it again soon.

[-] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 9 points 8 hours ago
[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, it was "none" for me because DVDs didn't exist in my childhood. Well, at least not in my home.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Tail

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web_(1973_film)

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

Watching Mac and Me on repeat is officially a Guantánamo Bay torture method. /s

[-] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 1 points 4 hours ago

I've watched a few childhood favorites only to have the magic ruined. I'll leave Mac and Me back there lol

[-] Skanky@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Superman 2

My brother and I were bored out of our minds for an entire summer together staying with our mom in a pretty remote location during the summer. She would be at work and we would be at her house with nothing to do. We watched it so much we could recite 100% of the dialogue before they said it. Kinda like Rocky Horror

[-] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

At my grandmother's house, it was Babes in Toyland. No it's not a porn. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0090683/

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 22 points 12 hours ago

DVD? walks my pet dinosaur out of the room

Really though, Labyrinth is the one that comes to mind.

[-] med@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Muppet Treasure Island, and "Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends Ep.16 - A Fire Star is Born!"

On VHS, of course!

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 16 points 11 hours ago

lol DVD. We had VHS growing up.

We had an old Spanish movie called "La Princessa Hippie". It was a comedy with a silly story, along the lines of something like the Prince and the Pauper. We didnt really understand the story or the comedy. But there were a lot of funny one liners.

I think we also had Problem Child 2 that we copied off another tape, and a cheap tape that we picked up at the store with a bunch of cartoons that were public domain.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Tron Multiple Star Trek movies
Robocop

All on VHS, recorded with our excellent Mitsubishi VCR

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

VHS, Care Bears rainy day off, and TV recordings of various other cartoons. I grew up on network television with a heavy focus on The Simpsons.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

We had the second Care Bears movie on the same VHS tape as A Wish For Wings That Work, the Bloom County adaptation briefly featuring Robin Williams as "Sudy Nim."

Dark Heart might've been a bisexual awakening.

[-] d00phy@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Fortunately, my dad was a bit of a geek and movie buff, so we had a lot of VHS and LaserDisc! Got to see the Star Wars trilogy (original theatrical releases, no less, on LD). There were a bunch of others. Police Academy, Tron, Flash Gordon… too much to list.

[-] sznowicki@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid. On VHS, with Polish voiceover.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 12 hours ago

So much stuff we recorded on VHS:

  • The Marx Brothers (all of them)
  • Disney's Robin Hood
  • Animalympics
[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Blues Brothers but mostly because I really liked it. It helped that it was full of great musical performances.

[-] karashta@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago

Blazing Saddles

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 8 points 12 hours ago

The Jungle Book (1967 version) on VHS.

[-] Mvlad88@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

Rambo..... On VHS.

[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago

Chomps (the canine home protection system) - an 'electronic dog' that catches burglars.

Diamonds - a few people rob an Israeli diamond vault by avoiding security features.

You said 'own' - well, these were on loan when the video shop shut down.

[-] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 10 hours ago

By myself, probably Apollo 13 - I used to watch it like once a day over the summer. With my dad, we watched Predator every time my mom had to work late.

[-] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago

Little Nemo (1989), and We're Back (1993). I think my brother and I burned out those VHS tapes from overplaying them.

[-] Devmapall@lemmy.zip 6 points 12 hours ago

My family had a collection of vintage looney tunes and other cartoons. I remember characters turning into giant versions of food on a deserted island. I also remember the beginning of an old Superman cartoon. I had always preferred batman

My buddy had a copy of Predator on betamax that I think was recorded from a cable station.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Wackiki Wabbit. Set on Humuhumunukunukuapua'a'a'a Island.

[-] Devmapall@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

Woah that's the one!

Feels weird how every single physical gag came right back to me. Feels weirder seeing the casual racism

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah sometimes that neuron hasn't fired in a while.

There's an Ahoy video about tracker music, and when it played the first three notes of "Foregone Destruction," that fucker released aaall the good chemicals.

[-] incogtino@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago

We didn't have a video player, but our friends had a Looney Tunes VHS that included rabbit season / duck season, the Bugs Bunny opera, left turn at Albuquerque, and Duck Dodgers

We must have watched it over 100 times

[-] Odo@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

On VHS: Moonraker. A truly terrible Bond film, but I was too young to understand that.

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

The Pirate Movie. VHS.

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