I once had the flu so badly I couldn’t get out of bed or yell for help. My parents put on “Flushed Away” (movie about some fuckin rats) on dvd and it looped at least 4 times before anyone came back to turn it off. One of my core traumas
The concept of rewatching a movie is almost foreign to me now given that I have access to a library of tens of thousands of movies. It would have to be very good and something that whoever I’m with hasn’t seen.
Of course I used to watch the same movie about every month or so back when I was growing up in the 90s.
That’s curious because I find I rewatch more movies than ever before, since it’s so easy to find them, and I already know whether I like them or not.
The first thing I do when Return of the King ends is put on Fellowship of the Ring.
I have a daughter I enjoy showing movies I’ve already watched to. So I’ve been doing mostly rewatching, but with someone who has never seen, for example, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off before.
The best was her reaction to Repo Man. We got to the end and she said, “all of that for a flying car?”
This is so sweet. Getting to show cool stuff you like to your kids must be one of the best things about being a parent. If I ever end up becoming one I’ll show my kids all the great Pixar movies and also the Emperor’s New Groove cause that one is a classic.
I used to watch the same movie about every month or so back when I was growing up
I don’t think this is a technical limitation, I think young children really like repetition because their brains are still learning how to predict things
Today’s childhoods will be defined by watching some semi-obscure streamer or meme video on YouTube that only your friends understand.
Rikki Tikki Tavi!
for me, that will be the random movie my brother asked me to download to my jellyfin server years ago.
Back in the day, me and my siblings recorded movies on VHS by sitting next to the TV and starting/stopping the recording for commercial breaks. The best movies were those with only small snippets of commercials, and my most treasured movie was a nearly “clean” copy of Die Hard that I’ve watched probably somewhere between 50-100 times.
i suspect its been replaced with stumbling upon tentacle porn or ‘whats this goatse’ when youre 10.
I have two. I grew up near Toronto in the 80s. Both were CityTV movies. They used to do a thing. I can’t remember what it was called…
1 - SPACEBALLS!!! (“F___! Even in the future nothing works!”)
2 - Predator (there’s a line where Arnold says, “That’s one bad motherfucker.” They only censored the word ‘mother’. i was 8. best thing ever)
This wasn’t on tape, but this move is Shaolin Soccer for me. We watched it so many times. I watched a couple of times recently too, and it holds up.
I completely forgot about Shaolin Soccer!
The obscure movie for me was… Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. I still know every line of dialog from beginning to end any time I happen to see it on.
Ha. My dad’s copy of star wars was just star wars, no episode, no hope. I’m old.
I thought the “Episode IV” was always there? I’m talking the early 80s. I’m not exactly young either…
No, when Star Wars first came out in 1977 and the first home video releases (including the laserdisc transfer that was included with the 2006 DVD release as a bonus feature) it was just Star Wars.
Ahh yeah. Google tells me it wasn’t until a re-release in 1981 that it was rebranded as Episode IV. You learn something new every day!
An American Tale for me and my closest(in age) siblings. Bonus because while my older brother and I were American born, we moved out of the country when I was 2, and my younger sister was born outside the states. We saw the movie first overseas, then often when we came back to the US (7 for me).
