so true.
my uncle had a tv. and 2 movies on vcr. I saw "Smokey and the bandit" more then a hundred times. and "the sting" 30-40 times..

Asterix. Doesn't really matter which of the 30+ comics, or the 5 or 6 movies. No one knows Asterix in The US.

Also: Flight of The Navigator, The Last Unicorn, or The Last Starfighter

Not a movie, exactly, but we had the VHS of the extended version of Michael Jackson's Thriller and the making of the video. It was over an hour long. And amazing.

Oh noo, kids have it less shitty today, how horrible for them.

Or something that came up while channel-surfing on TV and decided to leave it on for a minute, put the control aside, and ended up watching the rest.

Back while in high school, one weeknight I stumbled across Jean Luc Godard's "A Bout De Soufflé" ("Breathless") on our town's local channel, at just the right moment when it seemed like the film was skipping. Intrigued, I left it on, soon enough figured out that this was intentional editing. By the end, my mind was blown and my way of looking at film and art had changed forever.

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.

Cats Don't Dance. 20 years later I'm a furry.

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

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

For me it was The Boy Who Loved Trolls, The Boy Who Could Fly, Flight of the Navigator and the Rainbow Brite episode/movie that contained this song: https://youtu.be/zPRWuegS8l8?si=OYJ3x4vSSyWg2eNO

Hellooooooo The Great Outdoors and Harry and the Hendersons.

Mine were Shrek, Dickie Roberts, and When a Stranger Calls

This was the movie Troll for me with Sonny Bobo.

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.

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

Cocktail with Tom Cruise, and Independence Day. I watched the fuck out of both of those movies in late Elementary/early Middle School.

You can recreate this by spending time working in a remote location, like a fishing vessel, that doesn't have any internet. All you can watch on your off time is what media you take out with you.

I watched "A River Runs Through It" probably 30 times one summer while commercial fishing, because it was one of the few movies we had that we all liked.

Idk about obscure, but OLD Looney Toons classics and The Land Before Time (recorded FTA).

I had a VHS copy of the Empire Strikes Back that my uncle recorded for me when it played on one of our 3 local TV stations. For the holidays I had a recording of a bunch of the old holiday cartoons that would play in a marathon every Christmas, and one of Ghostbusters (for some reason it used to play every Christmas in the evening, so it became a Christmas movie for me).

Aside from that I'd mostly just rent the same VHS tapes from our local hole in the wall video rental place every weekend (Neverending Story and Inhumanoids) from the ages of 4-6. Then I think we got a real video store and my movie watching experience improved a bit. To be fair, the hole in the wall rental shop was probably only about 10 feet long and 6 feet wide inside, and the shelves of movies lined the walls, so there wasn't a lot to choose from.

My condolences to anyone who grew up with the movie Plague Dogs

I really liked the movie titan AE and had it on VHS . When looking it up recently aparen it was really bad . Still might give it a rewatch some time though

Tell that to my daughter watching that soviet cartoon about penguins I had as a video tape over and over again on youtube

Bonus points if you recorded it yourselves on VHS.

100%!!!

I co-host a podcast focused on superhero movies. Over breaks (summer and winter holidays) we'll typically do something different than our usual. This past summer we did a Jeff Bridges sci-fi double feature - Tron (the original) and Starman.

For this holiday season we just recorded an od pairing that I think could be called "what random VHS tapes did you grow up with?" The movies? Roadhouse and The Pirates of Penzance!

Homeward Bound

“The Cat from Outer Space” we used to rent it all the time from blockbuster for me and when they switched to DVDs we bought it

Captain Ron fam checking in!

EDIT: We also were frequent watchers of "Money Pit" and "The 'Burbs"....all movies which are pretty notable for..............being available for multiple watches.

Dude I remember getting so pumped up because of specials on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network. In high school I loved being home to catch my favourite shows.

I tried to watch Jingle all the way with my kids today. They pointed out how stupid that movie is, but I didn't have a lot of choices back then. I don't miss those days of shitty choices.