• Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    5 months ago

    I’m 19. Those movies are:

    • “Konferenz der Tier” (“Conference of the animals”, some kinda obscure children’s movie)
    • Bambi
    • Lassie
    • The wonderful adventures of nils

    And later:

    • Lucky number slevin
    • Everything from Quentin Tarantino

    All of those are in our possession in the form of optical media, as well as a 0% legal digital copy.

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Big Trouble in Little China.

    We considered it to be on the same level as Ghostbusters. The ending showed a monster as a stowaway on the old Porkchop Express. We all couldn’t wait for the inevitable sequel where Jack Burton got into some Big Trouble somewhere else. Only found out as an adult much later that it was a really unsuccessful movie and there was no way they’d make a sequel.

    It’s all in the reflexes!

    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yessir, the check is in the mail.”

      I can here the music. Hard to say how many times I watched this as a kid. It still holds up!

  • Pulptastic@midwest.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    If anything, we have more access to obscure content. We have obscure movies we’ve found streaming and watch repeatedly. We love Trolljegeren and Interstate 60.

    We also still have some weirdo discs too like the live action Mario movie.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          My least favorite part about the 20s Mario was that the music was so… generic. Music has always been a huge part of that franchise, but when Mario fights Donkey Kong we get Thunderstruck by AC/DC?

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        I didn’t have that one, but I did somehow have an episode of the Super Mario Bros Super Show on VHS. Just one episode though. No fuckin’ idea where it could possibly have come from. But my only other two tapes were Lady and the Tramp, and The Aristocats so 5-7 year old me watched a lot of the Bros. After a while there was a whole several minutes near the middle that was just static and gibberish because the tape was damaged, from a combination of overuse and being handled by a five year old.

  • Zink@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    I have a distinct memory of a 3rd grade project where we made posters about ourselves. My favorite TV show was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

    The reaction was something like “that’s not really a TV show but we’ll allow it.” I certainly watched it on our TV, probably with a VHS recording of it being on broadcast TV.

  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    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)

    • Furbag@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      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.

    • moncharleskey@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      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…

  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Demolition Man for some fucking reason, also Running Man. I dont even know, also my grandmother gets the two mixed up and mishmashed in her head. We still make weird taco bell references.