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.
The fox and the hound. But… VHS.
All are VHS
- The Great Muppet Caper - recorded off ABC movie night
- Maximum Overdrive - recorded off TBS
- On Our Own - My mom was part of a movie club that sent this one
- 2 Episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon
On VHS…
A lot of old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, The Lion King, Rocky Horror Picture Show
Things like that.
my first tape was The Goonies so i know that entire movie word for word. We also got ET but that’s not actually a fun movie to watch at all i never watched it much.
DVD? walks my pet dinosaur out of the room
Really though, Labyrinth is the one that comes to mind.
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.
I’ve used neither of them, i just wanted to find some underrated 70s/80s movies to watch. I thought DVDs were very old. Turns out they aren’t.
I’m old enough that for me it was VHS. These are a few:
Watching Mac and Me on repeat is officially a Guantánamo Bay torture method. /s
Unless you’re Paul Rudd.
It hits different when you’re the torturer.
I’ve watched a few childhood favorites only to have the magic ruined. I’ll leave Mac and Me back there lol
Yeah, it was “none” for me because DVDs didn’t exist in my childhood. Well, at least not in my home.
VHS - Howard the Duck
I still quote that movie and I am convinced not a single person I have ever met has seen it.
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.
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.
Tron
Multiple Star Trek movies
RobocopAll on VHS, recorded with our excellent Mitsubishi VCR
So much stuff we recorded on VHS:
- The Marx Brothers (all of them)
- Disney’s Robin Hood
- Animalympics
Muppet Treasure Island, and “Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends Ep.16 - A Fire Star is Born!”
On VHS, of course!
The Jungle Book (1967 version) on VHS.
Edit: I love how OP asked for DVDs and almost everyone responds with VHS. Maybe that’s a better system to group people into generations, VHS, DVD, streaming.
Rambo… On VHS.
Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid. On VHS, with Polish voiceover.
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.
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
Wackiki Wabbit. Set on Humuhumunukunukuapua’a’a’a Island.
Woah that’s the one!
Feels weird how every single physical gag came right back to me. Feels weirder seeing the casual racism
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.
