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Goonies, but it was recorded from TV and you had to switch tapes at about the pirate ship.

Police Academy 1-7 but mostly 4.

I had the same thing with video games. My dad got a free promotional copy of Morrowind from Fry's. I didn't have a computer/ laptop, but every summer, my dad would let me use his on our road trips. That game made me want to learn so much about anthropology, biology, history, mythology, etc... I played for hundreds of hours and never even came close to finishing.

Me and the other Brave Little Toaster kids ended up a bit weird.

The Craft. I'm pretty sure Fairuza Balk is responsible for awakening my goth fetish.

The Sandlot for me

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.

And it was recorded off the tv so you had to fast forward through commercials about clap-on clap-off lights

I would tell people about Death Race 2000 and they'd look at me like I was crazy.

Uncle Buck Great movie.

And I'm actively trying to go back to that. I ripped all of our old DVDs and Blurays and cancelled most of our streaming services. I told my kids that we can buy pretty much anything they want (so they don't miss out), provided it's not an exclusive.

The net result is that my kids really like Clue (1985) and Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008).

I had an aunt with the Disney channel and HBO that recorded almost everything. It was like a home video store at her house, probably hundreds of tapes that she let friends and family borrow. She have me a spare copy of the Disney animated Robin Hood with all the animals and I must have watched it a hundred times.

Surf ninjas. It was the best kind of b movie fever dream.

Hook. I can still quote most of it from memory.

Several dozen? Rookie numbers.

Three Ninjas. We all wanted to be Colt when we played ninjas later

Milo and Otis, Toys, and The Goonies. Watched those 3 movies a thousand times.

I liked the VHS tape that had the naked women recorded onto it.

I really liked Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. My parents got it for me on VHS at some point and I watched it so much it literally wore out the tape. Then my parents got it for me on DVD.

Can't even watch it on streaming because they only ever have the subtitled version, and the dub is vastly superior for the dialogue. The subs cut so much flavor and poetry out of the dialogue that it becomes super boring and just the basic gist of what's going on.

Before that, the "obscure" VHS my parents had that I watched a lot was Monty Python's Holy Grail. We spent years trying to understand what the "witch" says when she is found guilty and only knew for certain what it was years later when they released a special edition DVD and we watched it with the subtitles on. "It's a fair cop."

I mean... Streaming Frozen nearly continuously was 100% a thing just a few years ago.

For me it was Cocktail. I was a latch key kid, and sometimes you just got bored and hunted around your parents shit.

Turns out 11 year old me was REALLY interested in watching a shirtless Tom Cruise throw around bottles of alcohol in a tropical paradise.

I'll buy that for a dollar.

The Peanut Butter Solution

An American Tale. Watched it a ton in St Vincent, then I moved to America as a child so there was a close feeling to it. (Just to be clear, I was born in Brooklyn, NY, but my family moved out of the states to St Vincent within 2 years. So my earliest memories are not from the US, despite being born here).

Sharkboy and Lavagirl

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!

I haven't watched Ice Age in twenty years but if you put it on the TV I bet I could quote every line from it. My mom loved that movie when we saw it in theater so we got it on DVD, then we must have watched it a hundred times after that. It was her favorite movie by far.

We also watched a good bit of Madagascar when that one came out but Ice Age was the enduring classic.

Did this with spiderwick and bridge to tarabithia but I wouldn't call these particularly obscue.

Also did this with a movie that I can only describe as space jumanji as well

And for those of us who predate VHS it was books! I was hooked on the Lord of the Rings!

Krull

And nobody would get your references

You can still get that, just follow obscures enough hobbies and reference memes from it.

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Ok but the Indian in the cupboard came with a key for the plastic VHS case, and a couple of toys from the movie. So my love was justified.

Worst child actor ever though

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.

Labyrinth and The Black Hole.

You kids with your fancy, newfangled VHS machines. When I was a kid we had two channels of black and white TV and programming started at three in the afternoon.

I watched Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore so many times at a bit too young.

Also, The Jungle Book starring Sabu. A black and white live action film apparently from 1942.