I had many such movies. The most obscureamong them probably being “The child who wanted to be a Bear”, a Franco-Danishanimationn film which doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page in English. (It was already DVD and not tape tho)
Top Secret! dubbed in Galician.
Short Circuit and Flight of the Navigator. Had them both on one tape and I’d sit down and watch it all in one sitting.
Add Batteries Not Included to the list and that’s me.
Just in case you needed reminding how good Flight of the Navigator was:
My brother and I loved this movie so much and must’ve watched it 100 times.
Jawbreaker and the brave little toaster
Everyone I’ve ever known close to my age who was shown that movie at least one time as a kid said that it gave them nightmares, and I have to agree with them. It’s a pretty fucked up movie to show to kids.
Brave Little Toaster was a staple. Wonder if it has anything to do with my constant desire to repair anything I can instead of throwing it away…
For movies, it was Condor Man for me. TV it was Silver Hawks.
The thief and the cobbler!
My friend Garrett Gilchrist has spent years restoring it, doing cut after cut, trying to get it as good as he can. He’s not being paid, it’s a labor of love.
I believe his most recent was Mark 5 from last year:
Have no fear, have no fear! ZigZig the Grand Visir is here!
That whole movie is an utter fever dream spectacular.
Puff the Magic Dragon
It’s like a fever dream, but we definitely had it on VHS
The old Asterix movies for me. The racism makes them hard to watch now that I’m grown up.
I’ve not watched them since I was a kid, where/in what way were they racist?
They have some pretty outdated stereotypes/caricatures. Definitely a product of it’s time and some parts haven’t aged well.
What nomous said. Mostly the depiction of Blacks, Arabs, Asians etc.
we had See Spot Run (23% on rotten tomatoes) but it got taped over by another movie “accidentally” when I was 7 and I haven’t seen it since…
having read the plot on Wikipedia, it features a lot more references to testicles than I remember
I’ve never heard of this movie but based on your comment I’m guessing it’s about checking yourself for testicular cancer?
it’s about a drug sniffer dog who bites off the balls of a mafia boss, runs away from witness protection, and gets adopted by a mailman.
It’s definitely a stupid antics movie: at one point, a woman gets farted on by a zebra whilst holding a lit match
My parents made me a VHS tape with like 9 movies on it and I would watch it constantly. I was a sickly child, so I was stuck in bed a lot. That tape was great.
He hath the legendary E800 VHS tape!
Or, like, an E180 and a VCR with impressive LP modes, maybe?
Yo I have no idea. I was born in '97. I just knew how to put tapes in and play them
Surf ninjas. It was the best kind of b movie fever dream.
And it was recorded off the tv so you had to fast forward through commercials about clap-on clap-off lights
My dad would pause the recording when commercials started and resumed recording when the commercials ended. It was funny when he was 15 sec late on both accounts lol.
And the beginning of films were cut off. Big Trouble in Little China starts at the poker table for me-- I never realized Jack Burton (😍) had a monologue at the start.
The Swan Princess. It haunts me.
I believe it’s also partially responsible for my young and lifelong rebellion against someone complimenting my appearance. Fine. You find me nice to look at. That’s a hill a beans. What else.
I’ll buy that for a dollar.
Mmmm such great memorable lines!
- Murphy, it’s you.
- Can you fly, Bobby?
- You’re dead…we killed you!
- You’re move, creep.
- Dead or alive, you are coming with me.
- Na na na na na na na… NA NA NA NA NA NA NA (BOOM!)
For me it was some train movie made with model trains with a conductor that went “oh no” and a movie about talking real life construction equipment when I was young.
Then when I was a bit older, we watched Galavants and Willy the Sparrow.
I wonder if anyone else on the fediverse has even heard of these 😅
Yep we had those train movies too! Kinda feels like a fever dream now.
They were called “I Love Toy Trains”
Gallavants legit feels like a propaganda film about NOT following your dreams and that the nail that sticks out gets the hammer.
My grandma tried to gaslight me into thinking it was my favorite movie as a kid, but I always hated it.
