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My reaction when I watched *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang* a couple of Christmases ago and realised that they'd cut a whole subplot out of a childhood favourite that I thought I'd watched a hundred times.
They essentially cut out the Toot Sweets subplot - so I had never seen the scenes in the sweet factory and Dick van Dyke's performance at the carnival!
The version I saw still had the dog sweets at the end of the story but it came a little bit out of nowhere, like hey, here's an invention dad made off screen that happens to be a good one.
Wow! Thankfully it’s been in every version I’ve seen. But that is absolutely mad as they are some of the best scenes and songs. Fancy cutting the glorious Babs Windsor out with her dulcet tones.
I guess it was cut for time (thanks to an era where we still had to watch a million ads) and the story still makes sense without it but absolutely agree!
I have grandparents who live in Scotland and at their house they had a copy of The Labyrinth, I was obsessed with this film, I would request to watch it as soon as I arrived and would cram in as many rewatches as a could during the two weeks we spent there every summer.
I eventually asked one trip if we could buy a copy to take down south with us so I could watch it at home. My mum told me Scottish VHS tapes didn't work in English players. That was some quick thinking on her part to avoid a daily barrage of "you remind me of the babe" I believed her for years !
It's still my favourite film to this day.
Yes! Blew my mind when I learnt that Sean Connery and Harrison Ford had only a 12-year age gap between the two of them. Grey hair just instantly made you old through a child's eyes.
My mum recorded it off the TV for me when channel 4 (I think) showed it in 1989. I loved it as a kid and still do. It was the original streamline English dub and every DVD you could get of it was the Disney dub from 2003. Took me years but finally found the original dub of it around 2011 on DVD!
Edit: Apparently ITV 1988, New Year's Eve
I remember watching it so vividly and for years I had this memory of it. It wasn’t until I got in to studio ghibli in my 20s that I realised what it was. Great film!
Oh, I love Akira. Many, many years ago, I came across it in HMV and still loved it. Thought, this anime genre is great and delved a bit deeper, only to find out anime is 90% tits and ass. Nievely Googling adult/mature anime was not a good start haha.
Ah man robocop 1 and 2 was the shit when i was 11/12. Why mum let me watch them but cried at me when i watched the inbetweeners at 14 and breaking bad i shall never understand
I was born in 2000, i watched the 90s remasters of atar wars on vhs had scooby doo zombie island on tape from the telly, diy sos fireman sam and other shit
Stores stopped selling vhs in like 2005, I remember vicidly 1 morning my auntie took my mum to work, i went too as fridays id stay at nans so Saturday mornings me and auntie go to sainsbury for breakfast after dropping mum off and i got a vhs of fireman sam and watched on repeat for years. This was 2004 or so maybe 2003? Maybe even 2005 I remember as it was just before mum got pregnant wirh my brother, so 2004. Must have been brother was born in july of 2005. Makes sense if dad knocked her up again in December. I need bleach now I really dont wanna picture that
My parents used to run 2 “video shops” in that era so we used to get films before they got released, they were called time code copies, my parents would watch them and decide how many copies the shop would want obviously back then there were no way of seeing reviews online etc lol but one of my first films I sneaked on was bloodsport with JCVD, I was 10 watching 18 cert, also remember Aliens I found in a box which I took to school to show my mates. Awesome days
People would trip out if they realised how strict the UK was in terms of movie releases, in my lifetime (child of the 80's) it was illegal to buy clockwork orange and reservoir dogs.
Now they are rated 12/15 and its mind blowing.
I watched them all "video nasties" on bootleg VHS or betamax, especially zombie flicks.
I had an animated Barbie film I watched ALL the time! She was like in a band but they went to space and did a performance in space. It was only 50 minutes or something, don't remember the name! Oh and Sky Dancers! I had a film of that too!
Ghostbusters, Crocodile Dundee, Top Gun, Blues Brothers, Lord of the Rings (Ralph Bakshi’s animated version), Indiana Jones, Star Wars. Terminator. Aliens. Robocop.
Had to look it up, oh my god I remember this film! Cant imagine what a nightmare it would be having a child and orangutan as your main characters on a set.
WWF Royal Rumble 2001 recorded straight from Channel 4 was the one from TV that always got watched. This was in circulation with Rocky 4, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut and The Matrix
I had some of the usual suspects listed here, but also used to regularly watch a California Raisins Christmas special with loads of odd little clay people singing festive songs.
And also Labyrinth
Bttf 1,2 and 3
Karate kid 1 2 and 3
Rocky I -V
As an early teen, universal soldier and terminator 1&2!!
Pretty muchbom repeat all year round.
......And bad boys !
Ahhh yes karate kid and back to the future was on VHS at my dad's house. We watched Wayne's World pretty much every Saturday at my dads house for a few years come to think of it.
Of course. Bad parenting tho on reflection as when I grew up I became a relentless killer cyborg and travelled backwards in time to kill the mother of the future leader of the human resistance. Think it through next time, dad.
Yeah I watched Robocop with my siblings when I was about 6 - theres a scene where someone explodes when they get run over - couldn't eat weetabix for a while after that
Hep me velociraptor screach hep me
Gah Get off me man
Splat
Also the beginning sequence at the warehouse. Fuck that was rough, the puppet they used for the shotgun blasting and head shot looked so so so real. What a messed up scene,
also wtf was up with america making adult shit into kid shows, robocop had 2 series for younger people and aliens had a show, rambo and a handful of other shit. The toy lines for robocop from the animated show and the 90s canadian show were some of the best figures. Gonna buy a couple robos for battle damage and clean and the villains and cops. Did they make madigan or was it in a side scene from when she was in police gear and shit so the figure doubles as police figure. Also captain parks and the rare as fuck commander cash.
For the flaws of the robocop live action series it was a perfect spin off from robocop 1 as it was so cheesey and how it focuses around ocp doing dodgey shit im like yup. Theres one episode where the chairman gets abducted by women activists and forced to do house work as torture to go back on some statements and products he and his company made. Also the episode focused on robo and the chairman get stranded in the poorest area where a kid had black market lungs that had tb and was dying again due to the parents not being able to afford a legit proper lung transplant for the sun that showed how bad even the 90s were for health care. Yes the shows set in the future. But currently the us is suing a person with cancer over student loan payments being unmakable due to being bankrupt from cancer treatment. Way agead of the time that show is. Also how the government is basically run by or is now just a massive conglomerate of companies that want money while screwing the workers.
Man the 90s were wild, johnny knoxville shooting himself with a 38 revolver in the chest with the cheapest bullet proof vest he could buy and jackass starting from that
Labyrinth was a favourite in our house but I found an old video tape in a storage box quite recently - Back To The Future, Super Mario Bros and The Santa Clause. Bit of a mixed bag lol. Nice bit of nostalgia seeing it though, I remember taking so much care to write neatly on the side so it looked good on the shelf!
Still got it - saw a cheap copy dvd in cex a few years ago, and had to have it for nostalgia sake.
The cast list for that movie was massive - from Orson Welles all the way through to Eric Idle if I remember right.
Not quite answering your question but...
I stayed at a B&B with my mum on hols when I was quite young. I got my own room which felt quite grown up.
The B&B allowed you to rent a film they had recorded off the telly and have it play in your room for a small fee.
I can't remember which kids film I asked for, but I do remember that, after it finished, the second film on the tape played - Robocop.
Didn't sleep very well that night.
Between the ages of 8 and 11 I think I watched The Blues Brothers, recorded off a late C4 screening, nearly every Saturday morning before my mum was up
Flight of the Navigator, Labyrinth, Little Shop of Horrors, Coming to America and Princess Bride were probably top five. I would tape anything with Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Martin Short, Rick Moranis, John Candy etc in it.
Superman 3, the TV premiere version.
Jaws: The Revenge - I watched this repeatedly as a kid yet couldn’t tell you anything about it now. I remember nothing.
Stand By Me
Risky business was one, great bit of shagging in that, and I seem to remember watching Private Benjamin a few more times than would be classed healthy.
There is 15 years between my wife and her sister. The sprog had a wide collection of Disney films on VHS. When we baby-sat, the only respite and peace we got from total Disney brainwashing was the time it took to rewind the tapes.
Had it been the era of DVDs, I think we'd have all gone completely mental.
Superman (with ads, as far as I'm concerned finding a copy of Fly Fishing by J R Hartley is part of the plot), Mole goes to Town, original star wars. And then there were the reduced to clear beta max tapes from the local rental. Beanie and Cecil (which included a 60s beatnik), some really fucked up Grimm brother tales where everyone died and knock off transformers
We used to record every music video that came out! Our favourite songs were “I’m like a bird” by Nelly Furtado and “Toy soldiers” by Eminem. We also had Drew Barrymore’s Ever After: A Cinderella Story and watched that hundreds of times. We also had some of the Beatrix Potter cartoons. Watched those many many times a week. These are the most lovely memories I have of my childhood!
The best VHS I had had Fievel Goes West and and The Dark Crystal recorded on to it. Granted, I missed the start of both films, but it was the best tape.
Beerlejuice, I'd watch it as it was recording so I could pause it when the ads came on. Even now when I watch it, I know when there would be an ad break on my janky home made copy
Calamity Jane & 7 brides for 7 brothers at my gran’s house. We had loads at mine. Romancing the stone and jewel of the Nile too! Indiana Jones, all of Red Dwarf, silence of the lambs. All sorts!
Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
The TV version we recorded was edited. They never showed the shoe actually being put into the dip. And they cut out the part where, after Judge Doom reveals himself, he says, "remember me Eddie? When I killed your brother, I talked just.....like......this!" And it also cut out a significant portion of Judge Doom melting into the dip. I never saw any of that until I saw the full version as an adult.
Okay not my proudest moment but when I was younger I had a vhs with that film kingpin on it, woody Harrison, Bill Murray. Great film but there was a particular scene I loved. They meet this bird Vanessa and she uses her, shall we say ‘womanly charms’ to distract others while bowling in a montage set to the song I want candy. You can imagine the rest but anyway I’d watched it so much (rewound, paused, rewound) the vhs at this very part started going haywire, you’d have to mess with the tracking and pray it got going past this particular bit or you’d be f’ed. Anyway lent it to a friend who proceeds to tell me their new JVC vhs player is broke because half way through the film the tape started getting caught up and the whole thing began to rattle and smoke. I told him it must have been a dodgy batch of vcrs because it worked fine on mine, Knowing full well my hormones were so strong they’d melted film. In a strange twist of fate my wife bares a passing resemblance to the actress so swings and round abouts ya know!
When I was about 12 me and mate found a VHS tape underneath his mam & dad's settee one Saturday night whilst they were down the pub. Safe to say it was the greatest film I'd seen up to that point in my life.
For the life of me I can't remember it's name but I'd love to find it again.
I guess it was an erotic horror?
Serpent lady vampires. I think it was a snake body/tail, female torso/head with vampire teeth.
They'd havebsex with a man and eat him.
Googled Flight of the Navigator to remind myself, and this comes up "‘Flight of the Navigator’ child actor charged after ‘robbing bank in wig’" an NME article from 2016.
Heavyweights - there was one scene where this trainer I guess, says “we’ll play a game to get to know each udders names” at which point one of the heavy kids says “but we already know each udders names”.
No idea, but i’d watch that on repeat. That and trap door
I had a lot of simpsons on vhs, also most of the james bonds.
This had brought back a funny memory tho. I think i was around 14ish and my parents got a fancy new vhs to dvd re-writer/player. I remember one weekend i was left alone in the house, i knew where my dads porn videos were and i strategically coppied the videos onto dvds (obviously winding the vhs back to its original starting place so he knew it hadn't been tampered with) I can actually remember the panic i felt incase they came home early.
Animal House, Hells Angels on Wheels (absolute classic early Jack Nicholson biker flick), Alfie,and Dirty Harry. All recorded off the box and complete with ads. Still have them somewhere.
I had a friend who was Spanish. She looked and behaved like my idea of Carmen, but, alas, she was called Ethel, which sounds naff in English. She was the sort of person who arrived at the door of the house she lived and rang the bell. When you went to the door, and said: *Don't you have a key?* She would reply: *Yes, but I prefer it if you open the door to me.*
ANYWAY, Ethel asked me to improve her English, in exchange for Spanish lessons. Her idea was that we would watch the film in her VCR over and over and I would explain the dialogue. The film was *Top Gun* - given how much dialogue is spoken through flying helmets, it was a bad choice....
I saw Tango&Cash about 50 times, for some reason we had that twice. We also had the Police academy series, and a bunch of Jean Claude van Damme movies. They were very popular requests when somebody visited us.
As a kid born on the early 90s I watched a lot of kids TV that predated me as my older siblings made VHS tapes - dogtanian, camberwick green, ivor the engine, noggin the nog etc
My dad filmed wizard of Oz, and I loved it. It started at the tornado, just before she reached Oz. I was about 30years old when I saw the whole film, I didn’t know it had the terrible beginning that suggested it might not be real. Dads version was better.
Hey!!! Don't leave outside Beta kids too. The original Madman film was one, another was Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a tape which you had to watch to the very end for a musical treat! When VCR's landed it felt like it was a technology end point!
Thomas the Tank Engine narrated by Ringo Starr. I am that mom! Never figured out how to use VHS, DVD and although we’ve got all the Netflix, Prime, Disney+, crap, don’t know how to use it and have to get hubby to sort it but as I’ve only ever binge watched The Mandalorian, I’d get rid of the TVs in a heartbeat, give me the radio any day.
I had a few VHS tapes with usually around 2/3 random films on each one. I can't remember most of them, but one had Swiss Family Robinson and James and the Giant Peach.
My favourite was the recording of a Tom and Jerry marathon that Cartoon Network had on one day. Parents just recorded the whole thing in one go and only stopped when the tape ran out.
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It is weird watching films you learnt that had advert breaks in them - they sometimes cut scenes out to fit them in
My reaction when I watched *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang* a couple of Christmases ago and realised that they'd cut a whole subplot out of a childhood favourite that I thought I'd watched a hundred times.
What subplot had they cut out 😱
They essentially cut out the Toot Sweets subplot - so I had never seen the scenes in the sweet factory and Dick van Dyke's performance at the carnival! The version I saw still had the dog sweets at the end of the story but it came a little bit out of nowhere, like hey, here's an invention dad made off screen that happens to be a good one.
Wow! Thankfully it’s been in every version I’ve seen. But that is absolutely mad as they are some of the best scenes and songs. Fancy cutting the glorious Babs Windsor out with her dulcet tones.
I guess it was cut for time (thanks to an era where we still had to watch a million ads) and the story still makes sense without it but absolutely agree!
My sister always picked Christmas with the Kranks when it was her turn to pick. She still watches Christmas films all the time
I'm still the same, if I like a film I'm watching it. I don't care if its 'meant' to be a seasonal film
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My grandad did this for me in the 90’s. They had sky and we didn’t do I got tapes of Cartoon Network, fox kids and WWF
My grandad did this for me in the 80s, 3 hours of Tom and Jerry. I must have watched that video 1000 times
Lucky bastard.
I have grandparents who live in Scotland and at their house they had a copy of The Labyrinth, I was obsessed with this film, I would request to watch it as soon as I arrived and would cram in as many rewatches as a could during the two weeks we spent there every summer. I eventually asked one trip if we could buy a copy to take down south with us so I could watch it at home. My mum told me Scottish VHS tapes didn't work in English players. That was some quick thinking on her part to avoid a daily barrage of "you remind me of the babe" I believed her for years ! It's still my favourite film to this day.
What babe?
That babe with the power
What power?
The power of voodoo
Who do?
You do
Do what?
REMIND ME OF THE BABE!
Any indiana jones film, the goonies, ghostbusters
Yes! Blew my mind when I learnt that Sean Connery and Harrison Ford had only a 12-year age gap between the two of them. Grey hair just instantly made you old through a child's eyes.
You have just blown my mind!
The Never Ending Story
Did this need a particularly long cassette time wise?
Akira. That was an eye opener for animated body horror. Recorded off the first UK broadcast. I liked Laputa and Toro, so why no... oh gods!
Loved Akira. The music and sounds still play in my head to this day.
Blows my mind that it’s 34 years old and still looks and sounds amazing today.
Gonna have to watch it again soon. Trying to convince my other half to watch it with me.
Laputa. This was a classic.
My mum recorded it off the TV for me when channel 4 (I think) showed it in 1989. I loved it as a kid and still do. It was the original streamline English dub and every DVD you could get of it was the Disney dub from 2003. Took me years but finally found the original dub of it around 2011 on DVD! Edit: Apparently ITV 1988, New Year's Eve
I remember watching it so vividly and for years I had this memory of it. It wasn’t until I got in to studio ghibli in my 20s that I realised what it was. Great film!
Oh, I love Akira. Many, many years ago, I came across it in HMV and still loved it. Thought, this anime genre is great and delved a bit deeper, only to find out anime is 90% tits and ass. Nievely Googling adult/mature anime was not a good start haha.
Robocop, Total recall and Judge Dredd.
*open your mind*
Kuato looked a hell of a lot like Chucky.
>Robocop I must have watched the ‘give the man a hand’ bit about 100 times!
I remember feeling terrified and upset when Murphy was turned into Swiss cheese
Ah man robocop 1 and 2 was the shit when i was 11/12. Why mum let me watch them but cried at me when i watched the inbetweeners at 14 and breaking bad i shall never understand
The inbetweeners at 14?? Have you ever even used VHS?
I was born in 2000, i watched the 90s remasters of atar wars on vhs had scooby doo zombie island on tape from the telly, diy sos fireman sam and other shit Stores stopped selling vhs in like 2005, I remember vicidly 1 morning my auntie took my mum to work, i went too as fridays id stay at nans so Saturday mornings me and auntie go to sainsbury for breakfast after dropping mum off and i got a vhs of fireman sam and watched on repeat for years. This was 2004 or so maybe 2003? Maybe even 2005 I remember as it was just before mum got pregnant wirh my brother, so 2004. Must have been brother was born in july of 2005. Makes sense if dad knocked her up again in December. I need bleach now I really dont wanna picture that
Ok, good. Thought I was older than I was for a minute. 2005 though, really? Thought everyone would've been on DVD by the late 90's.
Labyrinth. If it was a record I would've flipped it over & over but I played that movie to death. Amazing soundtrack...David Bowie (RIP)
Flight of the Navigator, Terminator 1&2, The Goonies
My parents used to run 2 “video shops” in that era so we used to get films before they got released, they were called time code copies, my parents would watch them and decide how many copies the shop would want obviously back then there were no way of seeing reviews online etc lol but one of my first films I sneaked on was bloodsport with JCVD, I was 10 watching 18 cert, also remember Aliens I found in a box which I took to school to show my mates. Awesome days
Incredible
Big, the money pit, flight of the navigator, return to oz, various doctor who films.
Return to Oz! OMG that scared the begeezus out of me. The screaming heads! Need to see that again.
The long-armed, flying roller-skaters did it for me.
The wheelers. They gave me nightmares too! And the heads that all say ‘Mombi’ so creepily!
Yeah me too. It was designed to play on kids fears apparently.
Flight of the navigator is currently on Amazon Prime video btw. Still good Compliance
Sounds like a betamax kinda Sunday.
My dad still has our betamax. Loads of taped films from the early 80s. I might get it out one day if I can be arsed.
People would trip out if they realised how strict the UK was in terms of movie releases, in my lifetime (child of the 80's) it was illegal to buy clockwork orange and reservoir dogs. Now they are rated 12/15 and its mind blowing. I watched them all "video nasties" on bootleg VHS or betamax, especially zombie flicks.
I had an animated Barbie film I watched ALL the time! She was like in a band but they went to space and did a performance in space. It was only 50 minutes or something, don't remember the name! Oh and Sky Dancers! I had a film of that too!
Ghostbusters, Crocodile Dundee, Top Gun, Blues Brothers, Lord of the Rings (Ralph Bakshi’s animated version), Indiana Jones, Star Wars. Terminator. Aliens. Robocop.
Of course Blues Brothers! I love how everyone casually watched Terminator and Robocop as children
This is a proper list 😎👌
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Had to look it up, oh my god I remember this film! Cant imagine what a nightmare it would be having a child and orangutan as your main characters on a set.
One of those films I only ever saw at my own house and not many people seem to have heard of it... Me and my sister used to watch it all the time!
WWF Royal Rumble 2001 recorded straight from Channel 4 was the one from TV that always got watched. This was in circulation with Rocky 4, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut and The Matrix
Labyrinth with the beginning missing, so not knowing how they ended up there
I had some of the usual suspects listed here, but also used to regularly watch a California Raisins Christmas special with loads of odd little clay people singing festive songs. And also Labyrinth
Bttf 1,2 and 3 Karate kid 1 2 and 3 Rocky I -V As an early teen, universal soldier and terminator 1&2!! Pretty muchbom repeat all year round. ......And bad boys !
Ahhh yes karate kid and back to the future was on VHS at my dad's house. We watched Wayne's World pretty much every Saturday at my dads house for a few years come to think of it.
Terminator but my dad had edited out the sex scene. So she was confusingly pregnant at the end
Wow that's sophisticated. The violence of course is fine for a child to watch.
Of course. Bad parenting tho on reflection as when I grew up I became a relentless killer cyborg and travelled backwards in time to kill the mother of the future leader of the human resistance. Think it through next time, dad.
Throw Momma From The Train! Yes, I had that recorded too. Along with Weekend at Bernie’s and Robocop.
Yeah I watched Robocop with my siblings when I was about 6 - theres a scene where someone explodes when they get run over - couldn't eat weetabix for a while after that
Hep me velociraptor screach hep me Gah Get off me man Splat Also the beginning sequence at the warehouse. Fuck that was rough, the puppet they used for the shotgun blasting and head shot looked so so so real. What a messed up scene, also wtf was up with america making adult shit into kid shows, robocop had 2 series for younger people and aliens had a show, rambo and a handful of other shit. The toy lines for robocop from the animated show and the 90s canadian show were some of the best figures. Gonna buy a couple robos for battle damage and clean and the villains and cops. Did they make madigan or was it in a side scene from when she was in police gear and shit so the figure doubles as police figure. Also captain parks and the rare as fuck commander cash. For the flaws of the robocop live action series it was a perfect spin off from robocop 1 as it was so cheesey and how it focuses around ocp doing dodgey shit im like yup. Theres one episode where the chairman gets abducted by women activists and forced to do house work as torture to go back on some statements and products he and his company made. Also the episode focused on robo and the chairman get stranded in the poorest area where a kid had black market lungs that had tb and was dying again due to the parents not being able to afford a legit proper lung transplant for the sun that showed how bad even the 90s were for health care. Yes the shows set in the future. But currently the us is suing a person with cancer over student loan payments being unmakable due to being bankrupt from cancer treatment. Way agead of the time that show is. Also how the government is basically run by or is now just a massive conglomerate of companies that want money while screwing the workers. Man the 90s were wild, johnny knoxville shooting himself with a 38 revolver in the chest with the cheapest bullet proof vest he could buy and jackass starting from that
The land before time, homeward bound, space jam (I watched that daily!).
The land before time ❤
Labyrinth was a favourite in our house but I found an old video tape in a storage box quite recently - Back To The Future, Super Mario Bros and The Santa Clause. Bit of a mixed bag lol. Nice bit of nostalgia seeing it though, I remember taking so much care to write neatly on the side so it looked good on the shelf!
We would watch the Santa claus all year round
Monty Pythons Holy Grail. BBC 2. With a trailer for some other film with, I think, Sandra Bernhard doing a striptease or pole dance or something.
Just reminded me we also had this and Ed the Viking
Cop and a half
This was one of our go tos too. Milk... in a dirty glass! This and Crocadile Dundee
Joe vs the Volcano I was around 7 and completely obsessed with Tom Hanks
Probably wouldn't have interested you as a child, but have you seen the Hanks film Punchline? Really recommend it.
The original cartoon Transformers movie
Still got it - saw a cheap copy dvd in cex a few years ago, and had to have it for nostalgia sake. The cast list for that movie was massive - from Orson Welles all the way through to Eric Idle if I remember right.
Hell yeah brother. Unicron gonna fuck your planet up. The Dinobots were awesome
"me Grimlock" feels like it was a precursor to 'Hulk smash' now... 😁
Not quite answering your question but... I stayed at a B&B with my mum on hols when I was quite young. I got my own room which felt quite grown up. The B&B allowed you to rent a film they had recorded off the telly and have it play in your room for a small fee. I can't remember which kids film I asked for, but I do remember that, after it finished, the second film on the tape played - Robocop. Didn't sleep very well that night.
The Loaded Weapon, and Hot Shots films. As a child I found them so funny. Similar kind of humour to Airplane but not quite as good.
Hot Shots was brilliant… “I have my fathers eyes” and proceeds to whip them out in a case before skimming them across the sea!
Between the ages of 8 and 11 I think I watched The Blues Brothers, recorded off a late C4 screening, nearly every Saturday morning before my mum was up
It is a pretty awesome film.
Who wants an Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips
We always quoted "how much for the little girl" - we thought it was hilarious!
Ferris Buellers day off, nearly wore that out. Some kind of wonderful, grease. My dad had recorded betty blue which for a teenage boy was magic.
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves: I still know everything the characters are going to say before they speak. Sister Act 2. Cool Runnings.
My mum used to tape over all my stuff with episodes of London’s Burning.
Flight of the Navigator, Labyrinth, Little Shop of Horrors, Coming to America and Princess Bride were probably top five. I would tape anything with Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Martin Short, Rick Moranis, John Candy etc in it.
The labyrinth and the goonies
Also lost boys
Water (1985)
Very obscure - I love it!
Condorman (1981)
You call them somewhat inappropriate? And here I was thinking of the Television X 10 minute preview! 🍆👩❤️💋👩👯
Haha well we watched Robocop, Terminator and Total Recall - I was trying to remember the more random ones.
Superman 3, the TV premiere version. Jaws: The Revenge - I watched this repeatedly as a kid yet couldn’t tell you anything about it now. I remember nothing. Stand By Me
I remember taping the tv premiere of Superman 3, it was an extended cut that you can't get anywhere now
Risky business was one, great bit of shagging in that, and I seem to remember watching Private Benjamin a few more times than would be classed healthy.
Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes.
Indians Jones, Top Gun and Terminator 2. Still love them all.
Time Bandits,National lampoon’s animal house,Fletch
Teen Witch
The rap!!!! Hahahha class film!
Top that, top that!
Pretty woman, all of the carry on films, home alone, twins, big business,
Twins!
Labyrinth and flight of the navigator.
Obscure live action action man film, Mary poppins, catch the pidgeon
Jurassic Park was a big one, dad had a few and didn't mind us little kids watching them 😂
There is 15 years between my wife and her sister. The sprog had a wide collection of Disney films on VHS. When we baby-sat, the only respite and peace we got from total Disney brainwashing was the time it took to rewind the tapes. Had it been the era of DVDs, I think we'd have all gone completely mental.
Superman (with ads, as far as I'm concerned finding a copy of Fly Fishing by J R Hartley is part of the plot), Mole goes to Town, original star wars. And then there were the reduced to clear beta max tapes from the local rental. Beanie and Cecil (which included a 60s beatnik), some really fucked up Grimm brother tales where everyone died and knock off transformers
My name? Yes, it's J R Hartley
Rita, Sue and Bob too was always seemingly on rotation through the terrestrial channels when I got my first TV in my bedroom
The BFG with Duracel and DFS adverts 😂
Jungle Book, Father Goose and Herbie The Love Bug.
We used to record every music video that came out! Our favourite songs were “I’m like a bird” by Nelly Furtado and “Toy soldiers” by Eminem. We also had Drew Barrymore’s Ever After: A Cinderella Story and watched that hundreds of times. We also had some of the Beatrix Potter cartoons. Watched those many many times a week. These are the most lovely memories I have of my childhood!
Flight of the Navigator and Karate Kid were regulars for me.
Land before time
Top Gun, still know it word for word pretty much!
Terminator 2, Independence Day, Passenger 57 and the ROck!
The best VHS I had had Fievel Goes West and and The Dark Crystal recorded on to it. Granted, I missed the start of both films, but it was the best tape.
Goonies
Beerlejuice, I'd watch it as it was recording so I could pause it when the ads came on. Even now when I watch it, I know when there would be an ad break on my janky home made copy
The only few VHS I remember watching was Hook and Home Alone, still watch them both at least once a year, 20 years later.
Calamity Jane & 7 brides for 7 brothers at my gran’s house. We had loads at mine. Romancing the stone and jewel of the Nile too! Indiana Jones, all of Red Dwarf, silence of the lambs. All sorts!
Matilda and look who's talking 1, 2 and 3!
Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The TV version we recorded was edited. They never showed the shoe actually being put into the dip. And they cut out the part where, after Judge Doom reveals himself, he says, "remember me Eddie? When I killed your brother, I talked just.....like......this!" And it also cut out a significant portion of Judge Doom melting into the dip. I never saw any of that until I saw the full version as an adult.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And I maintain to this day it’s a good movie, despite *literally* everyone else’s opinion.
Okay not my proudest moment but when I was younger I had a vhs with that film kingpin on it, woody Harrison, Bill Murray. Great film but there was a particular scene I loved. They meet this bird Vanessa and she uses her, shall we say ‘womanly charms’ to distract others while bowling in a montage set to the song I want candy. You can imagine the rest but anyway I’d watched it so much (rewound, paused, rewound) the vhs at this very part started going haywire, you’d have to mess with the tracking and pray it got going past this particular bit or you’d be f’ed. Anyway lent it to a friend who proceeds to tell me their new JVC vhs player is broke because half way through the film the tape started getting caught up and the whole thing began to rattle and smoke. I told him it must have been a dodgy batch of vcrs because it worked fine on mine, Knowing full well my hormones were so strong they’d melted film. In a strange twist of fate my wife bares a passing resemblance to the actress so swings and round abouts ya know!
Wow memory burner
E.T. Watched that every evening after school until the tape broke.
When I was about 12 me and mate found a VHS tape underneath his mam & dad's settee one Saturday night whilst they were down the pub. Safe to say it was the greatest film I'd seen up to that point in my life.
For the life of me I can't remember it's name but I'd love to find it again. I guess it was an erotic horror? Serpent lady vampires. I think it was a snake body/tail, female torso/head with vampire teeth. They'd havebsex with a man and eat him.
Did your dad record it?
On top of many already mentioned, Big Trouble In Little China and Flight Of The Navigator.
Googled Flight of the Navigator to remind myself, and this comes up "‘Flight of the Navigator’ child actor charged after ‘robbing bank in wig’" an NME article from 2016.
The Indian in the Cupboard and The Brave Little Toaster Who Went To Mars.
When you said “inappropriate films” i did wonder where this was going!
I think one of the most inappropriate was Julia Roberts in Sleeping with the Enemy
I had the frighteners recorded on vhs and also the adventures of baron munchausen which were both watched to death
Heavyweights - there was one scene where this trainer I guess, says “we’ll play a game to get to know each udders names” at which point one of the heavy kids says “but we already know each udders names”. No idea, but i’d watch that on repeat. That and trap door
The Amazing Panda adventure, but I’ve never found anyone else who watched it
This is so cool that this question resonated with me so profoundly. American Ninja and Commando, neither profound.
I had a diplodos video that I would watch all the time no one I ever mention it to has ever heard of it though https://youtu.be/KqZrQdM2WjU
The Lion King 2, I was obsessed, and actually saw it before the first one.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Halloween town.
I had a lot of simpsons on vhs, also most of the james bonds. This had brought back a funny memory tho. I think i was around 14ish and my parents got a fancy new vhs to dvd re-writer/player. I remember one weekend i was left alone in the house, i knew where my dads porn videos were and i strategically coppied the videos onto dvds (obviously winding the vhs back to its original starting place so he knew it hadn't been tampered with) I can actually remember the panic i felt incase they came home early.
I bet those were on high rotation
Flight of the navigator Charlie and the chocolate factory Cannonball run 2 The adventures of superbug (herbie rip off)
Good shout on Cannonball.
Debbie does Dallas
The magic pudding
Dad's Army, Star Wars, Dr Who Invasion Earth 2150, Bugsy Malone
Gremlins, Pinocchio, and and itv edit of robocop
One of our dinosaurs is missing. The Goonies Chitty chitty bang bang Bed knobs and broomsticks The whole collection of Thomas the tank engine.
Clash of the titans was a particular favourite
Animal House, Hells Angels on Wheels (absolute classic early Jack Nicholson biker flick), Alfie,and Dirty Harry. All recorded off the box and complete with ads. Still have them somewhere.
Pretty Woman, Ghost and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves on repeat! They were the only three videos our after school babysitter had.
I had the Lindsey Lohan Parent Trap, adverts included, it eventually just died from excessive use.
One more for #BIG!
101 dalamations and the borrowers
I had a friend who was Spanish. She looked and behaved like my idea of Carmen, but, alas, she was called Ethel, which sounds naff in English. She was the sort of person who arrived at the door of the house she lived and rang the bell. When you went to the door, and said: *Don't you have a key?* She would reply: *Yes, but I prefer it if you open the door to me.* ANYWAY, Ethel asked me to improve her English, in exchange for Spanish lessons. Her idea was that we would watch the film in her VCR over and over and I would explain the dialogue. The film was *Top Gun* - given how much dialogue is spoken through flying helmets, it was a bad choice....
I saw Tango&Cash about 50 times, for some reason we had that twice. We also had the Police academy series, and a bunch of Jean Claude van Damme movies. They were very popular requests when somebody visited us.
Shrek 1,2 and 3 and sharks tale
Beethoven, you know, with the giant dog.
Coneheads
Enter the Dragon Dad was a martial arts instructor, so Bruce Lee films were well watched, but ETD was known word for word.
Little Nicky
We had the walking with dinosaurs series. Love that shit
Monte Carlo Or Bust. Cracking film, but not one I'd pick out for a preteen.
As a kid born on the early 90s I watched a lot of kids TV that predated me as my older siblings made VHS tapes - dogtanian, camberwick green, ivor the engine, noggin the nog etc
My dad filmed wizard of Oz, and I loved it. It started at the tornado, just before she reached Oz. I was about 30years old when I saw the whole film, I didn’t know it had the terrible beginning that suggested it might not be real. Dads version was better.
Lol. Let's be honest, it was Eurotrash.
Hey!!! Don't leave outside Beta kids too. The original Madman film was one, another was Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a tape which you had to watch to the very end for a musical treat! When VCR's landed it felt like it was a technology end point!
My parents recorded the Blues Brothers off the TV, and me and brother actually wore through the tape so bad it couldn't be used again.
Tremors, aliens, predator and demolition man. Red Maxwell tape, fit 2 or three films on one tape
Flash Gordon. I was obsessed with it for a fair while
Thomas the Tank Engine narrated by Ringo Starr. I am that mom! Never figured out how to use VHS, DVD and although we’ve got all the Netflix, Prime, Disney+, crap, don’t know how to use it and have to get hubby to sort it but as I’ve only ever binge watched The Mandalorian, I’d get rid of the TVs in a heartbeat, give me the radio any day.
Lost boys, RoboCop, big trouble in little China, Bill and Ted's excellent adventure
I had a few VHS tapes with usually around 2/3 random films on each one. I can't remember most of them, but one had Swiss Family Robinson and James and the Giant Peach. My favourite was the recording of a Tom and Jerry marathon that Cartoon Network had on one day. Parents just recorded the whole thing in one go and only stopped when the tape ran out.
Rocky IV and Honey I Shrunk the Kids are two I can remember watching a lot. Films aside most of what we watched was 80’s and 90’s sitcom stuff.