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    8 days ago

    Not at home, but I had a job that shared a parking lot with a movie theater. “Oh, off work, I don’t want to go home yet… hey, Independence Day is still playing…”

    I must have seen that dozens of times in the theater.

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    DVD? Fuck! I’m too old. It was a Betamax.

    I had two movies that I watched hundreds of times, the first one was Young Frankenstein and the other one was Banana Joe with Bud Spencer.

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    Multiple movies on VHS that we recorded off the TV and the movie was shortened/missing entire scenes to fit the allotted run time for television. There are still some old movies I’ll somehow end up watching again now and I’m like “I don’t remember THIS part!”

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    Midnight Run (1988) but it was a VHS. Possibly the only movie I have watched more than twice, and I have watched a lot of movies. Very random.

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      That is a good fucking movie. It should be more well known than it is. I could definitely watch that repeatedly. I could probably watch an hour and forty five of just Charles Grodin doing absolutely nothing and still laugh my ass off.

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    DVDs didn’t exist during most of my childhood. Xbox was our first DVD player.

    VHS would have been All Dogs Go To Heaven (Charlie was my first crush and I’d still let him wreck me) or Disney’s Robin Hood (he can also wreck me)

    DVD was probably The Matrix (mentally wrecked me, slightly)

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      Charlie was my first crush and I’d still let him wreck me

      Instance checks out? Though that result is better than being scarred for life by ADGTH* like so many other children were.

      • This can be replaced with any other Don Bluth film.
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        Yeah shat the hell were they thinking with all the hell imagery, premeditated murder by vehicle, drive by shootings, and such??

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    8 days ago

    Ballistic: Ecks VS Sever. Decent movie.

    Also Out of Time and Déjà Vu, both with Denzel Washington, both sort of time based thrillers.

  • I had Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on VHS originally, but watched it so much that the tape got worn out to the point it could no longer be watched.

    So my parents got me a copy on DVD for Christmas the year my tape stopped working.

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    The Talking Parcel - I don’t think I’ve found anyone else who’s seen this. Girl finds a singing parcel washed up on the beach, opens it up and a parrot comes out and leads her to a magical world that’s been conquered by cockatrices. She and the parrot need to save the land, and go on a magical quest.

    Had it on video, taped off of the TV. Watched it regularly in childhood. Also episodes 1-3 of Terrahawks.

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    I come from a struggling background. We didn’t have a vhs until I was at least 8y/o. When we got it, we couldn’t afford purchasing the tapes so we rented occasionally. Therefore I never watched anything on repeat like that.