What is that random movie that you watched multiple times throughout your childhood only because your family happened to own it's DVD (or VHS) ?
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.
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.
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.
I'm old enough that for me it was VHS. These are a few:
Yeah, it was "none" for me because DVDs didn't exist in my childhood. Well, at least not in my home.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Tail
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web_(1973_film)
So much stuff we recorded on VHS:
Tron
Multiple Star Trek movies
Robocop
All on VHS, recorded with our excellent Mitsubishi VCR
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.
Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid. On VHS, with Polish voiceover.
Rambo..... On VHS.
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.
Muppet Treasure Island, and "Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends Ep.16 - A Fire Star is Born!"
On VHS, of course!
On VHS...
A lot of old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, The Lion King, Rocky Horror Picture Show
Things like that.
By myself, probably Apollo 13 - I used to watch it like once a day over the summer. With my dad, we watched Predator every time my mom had to work late.
Little Nemo (1989), and We're Back (1993). I think my brother and I burned out those VHS tapes from overplaying them.
At my grandmother's house, it was Babes in Toyland. No it's not a porn. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0090683/
All are VHS
The fox and the hound. But... VHS.
VHS, Care Bears rainy day off, and TV recordings of various other cartoons. I grew up on network television with a heavy focus on The Simpsons.
We had the second Care Bears movie on the same VHS tape as A Wish For Wings That Work, the Bloom County adaptation briefly featuring Robin Williams as "Sudy Nim."
Dark Heart might've been a bisexual awakening.
The Pirate Movie. VHS.
Blues Brothers but mostly because I really liked it. It helped that it was full of great musical performances.
Chomps (the canine home protection system) - an 'electronic dog' that catches burglars.
Diamonds - a few people rob an Israeli diamond vault by avoiding security features.
You said 'own' - well, these were on loan when the video shop shut down.
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.
Fortunately, my dad was a bit of a geek and movie buff, so we had a lot of VHS and LaserDisc! Got to see the Star Wars trilogy (original theatrical releases, no less, on LD). There were a bunch of others. Police Academy, Tron, Flash Gordon… too much to list.
Superman 2
My brother and I were bored out of our minds for an entire summer together staying with our mom in a pretty remote location during the summer. She would be at work and we would be at her house with nothing to do. We watched it so much we could recite 100% of the dialogue before they said it. Kinda like Rocky Horror
On VHS: Moonraker. A truly terrible Bond film, but I was too young to understand that.
LoTR animated.
Blazing Saddles
Hackers.
The only reason we bought it was because my dad's cousin was an extra in one of the classroom scenes. As a result I watched more times than I could count, and love cyberpunk stuff.
On golden pond was one I remember watching often.
Rear Window - by Alfred Hitchcock
Blaze w/ Paul Newman.
I've never seen watermelons the same way since.
Or redheads.
DVD? walks my pet dinosaur out of the room
Really though, Labyrinth is the one that comes to mind.