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Growing up the only Star Wars movie we had was part 2, so I watched that over and over. Dunno why I didn’t want to watch part 1, 3, and the rest.
Children of the DVD era also know this life
The early online pirating era still remembers it as well. When the torrent is already taking more than a week to complete the old dvd and tape collection had to be revisited.
The Robots DVD radicalized me
That’s pre-streaming as well. I recently volunteered on a film festival and was surprised how many people still watch DVDs when I worked at the merchandize.
I’m in-between both. As a little kid I watched Bambi and Winnie the Pooh etc on tape and then later we hired all kinds of dvd’s in the library and that’s how I discovered Star Wars. Good times.
You kids with your fancy “tapes!” In my day we had to watch whatever the hell was on the three or four channels we could pick up with the rabbit ears, and we were damn glad to have it!
Once a year they’d show a Bond movie or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, or maybe even that Willie Wonka movie. Such an event!
VCRs didn’t exist until I was a young adult. Doggone spoiled kids!
I vividly remember being a teenager and channel 5 coming out. It was a huge deal
We had to get a VCR in order to get our fifth channel - it was on UHF which our National Panacolor TV could not receive.
Hosted by the spice girls?
Yes! I remember the posters.
I was so confused when i found out not everyone had channel 5. And we had the vhs tuned to 5 on the tv so channel 5 was on 6…
It would’ve been, but I didn’t get it until the mid/late 2000’s. First I lived in Herts which only got it if you had Sky, then just before it came out there, I moved to Brighton, where it wasn’t allowed because it interfered with radio signals along the north coast in France. Still not sure if I’ve ever watched anything on Channel 5.
You didn’t miss much. It was a bit shit
Is it not batshit insane that we were throwing movies around via radiation before video tapes at home?
Turns out it is, so much so that we decided to bury light across the country to make movies get here faster.
It’s crazy what we do, and to think most people have no clue of all the crazy physics that has to happen for some of their most basic activities everyday.
Back in high school, a buddy of mine mused about something that still itches my brain.
When they built the first computer. How the fuck did they figure out how to “make it turn on”? Like… the first boot cycle.
Really makes you appreciate some of the insanely complex stuff that we take for granted.
I’m not really sure what you mean. The first computers didn’t have an OS or anything. They just took the input and applied the assigned operation.
This gets more advanced when you want a BIOS loaded first, but it’s not particularly complex. It does the same as above, but the first instructions jump to the BIOS, which itself is just another set of instructions that initialize things.
We must be about the same age. The VCR was a game changer. As I recall, the answering machine came just before it, and it’s kind of amazing how fundamentally that changed things, too. People from more recent generations just don’t get what a different paradigm it was when you couldn’t necessarily contact your friends. You’d call their house, but if there wasn’t an answer that didn’t necessarily mean much. They might be outside, or maybe not home. Maybe they were on their bike heading to your house.
“You think boredom is your ally, but you merely adopted the boredom, i was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t even see the invention of VCR till I was a man, by then it was nothing to me but unknown technology!”
It’s funny because it’s true. Little children should not be in front of screens. Period.
Nonsense, Boomers were the first generation to grow up in front of the TV, and look how they turned out!
Oh, I see your point.
If you sit too close to the tv you could go blind!
Also, we all watched the exact same shows at the same times, because that was what was on the 2 or 3 channels at the time.
Meanwhile, the next generation who knows what show from what time the other kids stream from who knows what service.
They still have that today, though. It’s just on streaming alongside the big films.
I don’t doubt a portion of the Disney remakes would have ended up being direct-to-VCD sequels you’d only find in a video rental store.
“Owned on tape” was for rich people. “Taped from NBC or ABC, or, if the weather was just right, CBS and you tried to pause the recording during the commercials and that’s why 8 minutes are missing from the middle of the movie” is more like it.
How about “lacked a VHS player altogether” lmao. My movie ingestion growing up was basically 100% up to the whims of random people, strange way to do it.
Really dig the scrappy approach y’all used tho, that’s the good stuff. Being broke taught me a lotta the most important stuff TBH.
Bootleg that was taped in a movie theatre and then rented from the guy down the street that had a room in his house set up with shelves and a shit ton of movies. And/or the collection that was left from the last people that lived in your house. Along with their furniture. My movie was LA Story. The good old days in Saudi Arabia.
The Little Rascals and Looney Tunes VHS box sets and a home recording of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. I fucking hate The Little Rascals and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory these days because of this, but I love the hell out of some Looney Tunes.
Ah yes, Harry and the Hendersons.
Also The Great Outdoors
i assume thats some kind of parody/joke website?
Yeah, it’s The Onion’s internet culture / clickbait site.
Gotcha. Never heard of it before, so I wasnt sure.
The Miracle on Morgan’s Creek. I never liked it much, but my family did. Also The Princess Bride, but that’s not obscure so it can’t count here.
That’s parental failing for not torrenting
Wasn’t really an option when you were trying to see the titties in Titanic
Indian in the cupboard.
Though even as a child I remember thinking how annoying the main kid was and how bad he was at acting
Oh man, I remember the books! Exciting. I should never read them again so to preserve the good memories lmfao
Was this an obscure movie? I thought a huge slice of US Gen X and Millennials loved that book.
There’s really no obscure movies for 90s kids. The most obscure film will have a big following. I didn’t know everyone also watched an American tail and little giants as much as I did
The 90’s kids movies that are obscure are the kind of bad ones.
some of us watched bad movies for fun
The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Like, the shitty one with Grounder and whatever the chicken robot’s name was… Had like the whole collection of those when what I wanted was the more anime like series where Sally Acorn came from. 😔
Not obscure but shout out to milo and otis. I must have watched that movie hundreds of times then a hundred more when my sister started watching things.
I loved that movie until I learned how they treated the animals.
Dont tell. I want to remain ignorant.
I saw Milo and Otis as an adult many years ago. At one point the narrator says, I shit you not, “The chickens left the henhouse in a clucking flurry!”
Oh my god, brilliant shit.
