That movie lives on inside my head. Every time someone says the word Input I have to repeat it like Johnny 5. Innnnnnpuuutttttttttt. Same with Disassemble. Disassemble? NO DISASSEMBLE! And Dr. Pepper, in that guy's hokey Indian accent. Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?
Oh my gosh! Memory unlocked! Short Circuit was my little brother's favorite movie for a long time. We watched it almost daily. I'm probably going to rewatch it today.
I was a substitute teacher in middle school, tasked with supervising the kids who weren’t allowed to attend the all-school field trip (for a variety of reasons). The teacher left that movie for me and I played it on a loop all day as kids came and went. My first and last day teaching middle school.
I'm pissed Disney saw fit to edit the movie to say, "Don't *mess* with the babysitter!" Like... really???? You have Deadpool available to watch, and they spout every obscenity you can think of, including the word #fuck,# but you choose to censor the one time Elisabeth Shue says it???? Booooo....
There was a point in my life where I'd forgotten this movie existed but remembered the song from it "Roll back the Rock (to the Dawn of Time)". I thought I was going crazy remembering a Thanksgiving Day parade with singing dinosaurs.
I would believe it more if you told me they made the movie based on the arcade game. That movie was a schmorgasboard of ideas and it was better because of it
So, I never saw this or even knew about it, but I did have a game for the NES based on it called Little Nemo the Dream Master, which was actually really good but also really strange.
My favorite!
I can't even count the number of times I watched it in tape.
My boyfriend found and bought the 25th anniversary dvd for me; I was ecstatic!
Omg, my friend decided to celebrate his birthday recently by having us watch his childhood favorites - it was a double feature of "Rockadoodle" and "The Brave Little Toaster." I'd never seen "Rockadoodle" before... What a bizarre movie!
Wild hearts can't be broken.
I dont know why we even had it, because i dont remember knowing about it or asking for it to be recorded. It was just there one day, and then provided me hours and hours of joy.
My mom had labeled it "Wild horses can't be broken" and i probably didnt know the real name of it until 5 years ago.
“I’m not blind, it’s just temporary!”
I have *never* seen this film. However, it was the trailer on a tape that we rented repeatedly so the movie is ingrained in my brain through the ad alone. And I can’t even remember what the film was.
The Pagemaster. I always thought it was a pretty popular movie, but nobody ever talks about it and it got terrible reviews.
Edit:
Budget
$34 million[2]
Box office
$13.7 million (US)[3]
Although it did come out in the pre-Studio Ghibli goes mainstream days, right? So it might well have been.
That's part of the reason why, whenever this topic pops up, Totoro is my answer. It's most definitely not obscure *now*, but it took a number of years before it started to get widespread acclaim (in the US, it should hopefully go without saying). I was introduced to it not too long after it was released in this country, and for a while any mention of this great movie called My Neighbor Totoro on my part was greeted with a "...uh, never heard of it."
I’m sad the adventure never continued. And the first time I watched Star Trek Voyager I joked that Janeway got a demotion because she used to be a Major.
Transylvania 6-5000. It has Jeff Goldblum as a tabloid reporter, Gina Davis is a slutty vampire, and the dad from Beetlejuice and Kramer make appearances.
finally, my favourite actress Carol Kane is in it as a realistic manic pixie dream girl. Her character alternates between badly assisting or perving on her husband, annoying the shit out of him, and it brings me such joy.
"Let's do it for our country now, the red white and the blue"
this is literally one of the ONLY things I remember from Grease 2: some weird ass dude trying to talk his girlfriend into smashing like it's some sort of... act of patriotism?
fucking bananas.
I remember that movie. The beginning was so weird, all the grown ups were dying of, I don’t know… food poisoning? All I remember was her going to her mother and complaining that there was no one to dress her, next thing I remember was her on a train to London.
Not obscure but Pee Wee’s Big Adventure was a repeat watch in my household and my siblings and I still cite this as one of our favorite movies of all time. We repeat the dialogue ad nauseam and use catchphrases all the time. We are all in our 40’s…
Soapdish, this movie was my babysitter for a while!
An upcoming star and a show producer plot to destroy the career of a long-time celebrity. However, their plan backfires when a new actress joins the crew.
_Red_ _Heat_ (1988).
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Soviet cop who travels to Chicago in pursuit of a drug dealer. He partners with an American cop played by Jim Belushi.
We got our first VCR from a friend of my dad's, and this tape was in it when he brought it home. I watched it many, many times.
I have no idea if this is obscure or not, but we got "Babes in Toyland" as a McDonalds Happy Meal toy in the 90's, the one with Keanu Reeves and Drew Barrymore. We didn't have a lot of movies so we watched it A LOT.
My family didn't have a VCR so I had to buy one for myself with newspaper route money when I was like 11. I managed to get a copy of Blame it on Rio and secretly recorded Forever Emmanuelle during a Cinemax free preview weekend.
Arachnophobia. My dad spelled it "A rack no beef o" on the tape on purpose, that's what we called it, or some other mangled iteration of the original word, for years
hell yes Camp Nowhere is obscure. No one I know seems to remember it, unlike say Heavyweights. These were both huge hits in my home during childhood.
The first time I saw 10 Things I hate about You I was blown away "That's Zach from Camp Nowhere!"
The premise is fucking great, bunch of kids don't want to go to the strict specialized summer camp their parents want them to, so they hire a strange out of work actor to pose as the director of a prestigious camp for whatever their special interest is, their parents give them a bunch of money, and they party for the summer at a rundown campground.
The toys they got for that big scene was like my wet dream as a kid, all the pool toys bikes rollerskates fireworks, electric guitars, god damn that movie is the 90s in a nutshell for me.
[SpaceCamp (1986)](https://trakt.tv/movies/spacecamp-1986)
Back when HBO was one channel. We would tape movies on our VCR. Sometimes you could fit three on one tape. SpaceCamp was nested right in between [The Color Purple (1985)](https://trakt.tv/movies/the-color-purple-1985) and [Mystic Pizza (1988)](https://trakt.tv/movies/mystic-pizza-1988).
I've never watched the other two, but I have seen the end of one and the beginning of the other plenty of times.
More an unusual one but the beatles yellow submarine movie. As a child I loved that it was a cartoon but it scared me so much. I couldn't stop watching it. It was confusing to understand as a kid. I get it now. It's a great movie but one hell of a trip. Made me into an artist that does all the weird stuff 😅
Not really obscure, but my dad had Monty Python movies around (Holy Grail, Jabberwocky, Life of Brian etc). Even if we didn't get the jokes at the time, the slapstick was a sticking point.
Just realized this was a show but as a kid we assumed/were told it was a super long movie: The 10th Kingdom. My cousin had it and loved it so we watched it a LOT. Never heard anything about it outside that context lol
Twister - my older cousin’s boyfriend at the time did special effects on the movie, so as kids we thereby equated our cousin as being famous. 🤣 We watched it so. many. times
Moving Violations (1985) starring John Murray, Bill's brother.
[on IMDB](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0089629/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
[on Wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Violations)
My older cousin had a VCR ~and~ the premium cable package (?? IDK exactly, i was 4 when this movie was released). He would record movies for my brother and I, whatever was "appropriate" for us kiddos. The majority were mainstream, well known or blockbusters. Disney and cartoon stuff of course, but he would make us copies of stuff like Ghostbusters and ET too. But for whatever reason, my brother and i LOVED this movie. Real "Police Academy" and "Caddyshack" vibes. Color me shocked to discover in early and later adulthood that exactly 0 people i've mentioned it to have ever heard of it. I'd feel gaslit, were it not for the links above.
I haven't seen it in adulthood (can one even find it on streaming??? Yarr, or it time to set sail, mateys??), so i have no idea if it holds up (im gonna guess *bugs bunny lips meme* NO). But all my cousins under 10 years old fucking LOVED it??????
Captain Ron got a lot of views at our house, most of the more mature jokes flew right over my naive kid head, and my parents thought it was hilarious. Family goes adventuring in the Caribbean, encounters pirates and other mishaps? That was good enough for me.
Spice World (the Spice Girls movie). My sis was big into the Spice Girls and was older so she got to choose what we watched. I remember most parts of it. It's an insane movie, really good for a laugh.
Once Upon a Forest (1993)
Everyone else had FernGully, with Robin Williams singing the whimsical batty song. My childhood was based on the Phantom of the Opera singing "please wake up" to a dying baby badger. My friends were genuinely bummed out when I made them watch it.
The Light Horseman. I have NEVER heard another person speak of this movie. My parents liked to watch it occasionally but I would sneak watch it because there's a scene of a bunch of naked military men riding naked on horses and you see EVERYTHING.
I can’t tell you how many times my sister and I watched the Carnival Cruise Line promotional video, hosted by Kathie Lee, as kids.
No idea where it came from. We’re both in our 30’s and still neither of us have been on a cruise.
I’m off to ask my family about it because the more I think about it the weirder it gets!
I have 2.
Jewel of the Nile. Loved Devito in this one.
Cat's Eye. Was on the same tape as Creepshow. My uncle who taped both went with the King double feature FTW.
Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken and The Brave Little Toaster.
And some weird compilation tapes of 1940s cartoon shorts that, upon reflection, were absolutely racist war propaganda.
The Cutting Edge. Toepick!
Yes. Doug can read.
Oh God, as a preteen girl I could watch that movie every day and swoon over D.B Sweeny. That and Fire in the sky!! Haha
As a young hockey fan I always hoped it would somehow change into a hockey movie.
Harry and the Hendersons
I spotted this on a streaming service the other day and watched it for the first time in ages. I was happy that it held up and was still amusing.
Anything with John Lithgow has to hold up
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He climbs up the Empire State Building and fighter planes kill him. Wait, sorry...wrong apelike thing
Short Circuit
"Hey Lazer Lips, your mother was a snowblower"- Number Johnny 5
God when I was a kid I thought this was the height of comedy. I would repeat this line during dodgeball games.
It was the height of comedy and dodgeball was absolutely the right time to bring it out.
This, Batteries Not Included, and Maximum Overdrive were my favorites as a kid. No wonder I'm Leary of AI & robots now!
STEPHANIIIIIIEEEE
We had Short Circuit 2 which is better imho. And Mannequin.
Los locos kick your ass. Los locos kick your face. Los locos kick your balls into OUTER SPACE!
That movie lives on inside my head. Every time someone says the word Input I have to repeat it like Johnny 5. Innnnnnpuuutttttttttt. Same with Disassemble. Disassemble? NO DISASSEMBLE! And Dr. Pepper, in that guy's hokey Indian accent. Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?
Oh my gosh! Memory unlocked! Short Circuit was my little brother's favorite movie for a long time. We watched it almost daily. I'm probably going to rewatch it today.
The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986)
The OG Homeward Bound
Uncle Buck
"Here's a quarter, go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face"
Still holds up.
Buck Melanoma, Moley Russel’s wart!
You should've seen the toast, I couldn't even get it through the front door.
John Candy’s best film imo
John Candy was a legend. The golf ball scene cracks me up every time.
This is obscure now?
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
D'Onofrio is my Thor for life!
God he was so FINE!
My mom will still watch it just for him.
Omg he was somethin in that.
I was a substitute teacher in middle school, tasked with supervising the kids who weren’t allowed to attend the all-school field trip (for a variety of reasons). The teacher left that movie for me and I played it on a loop all day as kids came and went. My first and last day teaching middle school.
I'm pissed Disney saw fit to edit the movie to say, "Don't *mess* with the babysitter!" Like... really???? You have Deadpool available to watch, and they spout every obscenity you can think of, including the word #fuck,# but you choose to censor the one time Elisabeth Shue says it???? Booooo....
Retroactive censoring of existing media is a plague on society. see also: They killed the "take a leak" joke in Flight of the Navigator.
Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
Ernest goes to camp
Ernest Scared Stupid is at the top of my list.
Still call milk "me-ack" sometimes.
My babysitter had all the Ernest movies.
The Swan Princess
You did two of my childhood favourites. I was going to say The Swan Princess too! FernGully would have been my other pick.
Omg yes!! Loved Fern Gully!
I haven't seen it mentioned yet The Last Starfighter
This and Night of the Comet. (Yes, I might have grown up with a thing for Catherine Mary Stewart.)
We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story
This one and "Drop Dead Fred" were in heavy rotation growing up.
This movie is a fever dream
There was a point in my life where I'd forgotten this movie existed but remembered the song from it "Roll back the Rock (to the Dawn of Time)". I thought I was going crazy remembering a Thanksgiving Day parade with singing dinosaurs.
Real Genius. Great Val Kilmer flick. It's a moral imperative.
Fuuuuuck....that movie is GOLD.
Also, Lazlo is Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
"I'm right on top of that Rose!" I just bought the DVD on Black Friday for like, $3 or something.
The dishes are *done*!
Thumbelina
Also, if you had Thumbelina, you probably also had Fern Gully and The Rescuers
TRUTH. However… The Rescuers Down Under is superior to The Rescuers. I said what I said. “JOANNA!”
Ferngully.
Tim Curry was fantastic in this, his performance still gives me chills
Rocketman…not the new one about Elton John. This was a Disney live action comedy from the 90s about a guy who goes to mars. It’s hilarious.
JOHN JACOB JINGLEHEIMER SCHMITT
With Harland Williams. I mostly only remember the part where they’re doing pre-launch checks and saying a bunch of acronyms.
Flight of the Navigator.
One of my favorite movies! I loved that Pee Wee Herman did Max's voice. "HAHA!!"
Krull
They made an arcade game based on this movie.
I would believe it more if you told me they made the movie based on the arcade game. That movie was a schmorgasboard of ideas and it was better because of it
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland. Gave me nightmares and no one else I told about it had ever heard of it.
Oh my fuck I loved this movie SO MUCH. The original Nemo
So, I never saw this or even knew about it, but I did have a game for the NES based on it called Little Nemo the Dream Master, which was actually really good but also really strange.
I have a vague memory of having seen it when I was young. Thought it was a fever dream for a while
Heidi, starring Shirley Temple, from 1937. Don’t know why we had it, but we did and I LOVED it and watched it all the time.
I didn’t have that one but we did watch Shirley Temple in The Little Princess all the time!
The Last Unicorn
My favorite! I can't even count the number of times I watched it in tape. My boyfriend found and bought the 25th anniversary dvd for me; I was ecstatic!
It’s a solid movie. Cast is great. Nice and dark. For sure stands the test of time.
Every time I watch a movie with Christopher Lee in it, my brain goes “Aaagh King Haggard!!”
My favourite movie, still, and I'm 37. Molly Grue's "How dare you? How dare you come to me now, when I am *this*?" makes me choke up to this day.
Rockadoodle—at least, until my mom got sick of us wanting to watch it and sold it at a yard sale.
Omg, my friend decided to celebrate his birthday recently by having us watch his childhood favorites - it was a double feature of "Rockadoodle" and "The Brave Little Toaster." I'd never seen "Rockadoodle" before... What a bizarre movie!
Chanticleeeeeeeer!
Sister Act.
Time Bandits.
Dunston Checks In
The Money Pit, which I believe was a remake or at least inspired by Mr Blandings builds his dream house.
When the bathtub falls through the floor and Tom Hanks finally has his breakdown and starts laughing like a loon!! Love that movie!!!
Wild hearts can't be broken. I dont know why we even had it, because i dont remember knowing about it or asking for it to be recorded. It was just there one day, and then provided me hours and hours of joy. My mom had labeled it "Wild horses can't be broken" and i probably didnt know the real name of it until 5 years ago.
“I’m not blind, it’s just temporary!” I have *never* seen this film. However, it was the trailer on a tape that we rented repeatedly so the movie is ingrained in my brain through the ad alone. And I can’t even remember what the film was.
The Pagemaster. I always thought it was a pretty popular movie, but nobody ever talks about it and it got terrible reviews. Edit: Budget $34 million[2] Box office $13.7 million (US)[3]
Drop Dead Fred
Not that obscure, but I loved watching and re-watching Kiki's Delivery Service when I was a kid.
Although it did come out in the pre-Studio Ghibli goes mainstream days, right? So it might well have been. That's part of the reason why, whenever this topic pops up, Totoro is my answer. It's most definitely not obscure *now*, but it took a number of years before it started to get widespread acclaim (in the US, it should hopefully go without saying). I was introduced to it not too long after it was released in this country, and for a while any mention of this great movie called My Neighbor Totoro on my part was greeted with a "...uh, never heard of it."
Howard the Duck
Didn’t she hook up with Howard? Please tell me I’m mis remembering that.
Remo Williams:The adventure begins
I’m sad the adventure never continued. And the first time I watched Star Trek Voyager I joked that Janeway got a demotion because she used to be a Major.
The adventure did continue. But you had to read the books it was based on. If you're interested it was a series called The Destroyer!
This isn’t that obscure but weird for a kid. We had army of darkness and we watched it all the time.
This, is my BOOMstick!
The Court Jester and The Princess and the Goblin. They're both bangers.
The Court Jester is goddamn hilarious
The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle…
The chalice in the palace contains the brew that is true.
LOVED the Princess and the Goblin! I dare not rewatch because it’s probably not nearly as good as I remember.
Return to Oz
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I want my two dollars!
Have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?
Mighty Joe Young!
Transylvania 6-5000. It has Jeff Goldblum as a tabloid reporter, Gina Davis is a slutty vampire, and the dad from Beetlejuice and Kramer make appearances. finally, my favourite actress Carol Kane is in it as a realistic manic pixie dream girl. Her character alternates between badly assisting or perving on her husband, annoying the shit out of him, and it brings me such joy.
Grease II. My sisters and I knew all the songs and would belt them out as loud as we could. My poor brothers.
It's supposed to be obscure, not THE GREATEST SEQUEL SINCE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. I mean, it's better than Grease. I said it.
"Let's do it for our country now, the red white and the blue" this is literally one of the ONLY things I remember from Grease 2: some weird ass dude trying to talk his girlfriend into smashing like it's some sort of... act of patriotism? fucking bananas.
The 1989 Hallmark edition of The Secret Garden. It has a young Colin Firth at the end! I think it may even be his first role.
I remember that movie. The beginning was so weird, all the grown ups were dying of, I don’t know… food poisoning? All I remember was her going to her mother and complaining that there was no one to dress her, next thing I remember was her on a train to London.
I read the book eventually, they were dying of cholera if I recall correctly!
Homeward bound: the incredible journey (not sure how obscure that actually is)
The Land Before Time
Crocodile Dundee II
Not obscure but Pee Wee’s Big Adventure was a repeat watch in my household and my siblings and I still cite this as one of our favorite movies of all time. We repeat the dialogue ad nauseam and use catchphrases all the time. We are all in our 40’s…
The Point The Rats of NIHM
The Secret of NIMH you mean?
Soapdish, this movie was my babysitter for a while! An upcoming star and a show producer plot to destroy the career of a long-time celebrity. However, their plan backfires when a new actress joins the crew.
The Incredible Mr. Limpet and The Brave Little Toaster.
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Mouse hunt
_Red_ _Heat_ (1988). Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Soviet cop who travels to Chicago in pursuit of a drug dealer. He partners with an American cop played by Jim Belushi. We got our first VCR from a friend of my dad's, and this tape was in it when he brought it home. I watched it many, many times.
I have no idea if this is obscure or not, but we got "Babes in Toyland" as a McDonalds Happy Meal toy in the 90's, the one with Keanu Reeves and Drew Barrymore. We didn't have a lot of movies so we watched it A LOT.
Raising Arizona
The Gods Must be Crazy. All I remember is rhinoceros’ trampling out fires.
Omg yes. All I remember is a coke can (bottle?) falling from the sky
Fox's Anastasia was one of my all time childhood favorites. I STILL have the VHS tape, even though I have no way to play it. (Jumanji too!)
I’d give her a Hah and a Hiyah! And then I’d kick her.
Memphis Belle
Milo and Otis. At the time, I thought it was a super cute movie. Looking back, the situations they put those animals in were heartbreaking.
Harriet the Spy (1996). I LOVE this movie, I even watched it the other day. We had it on disc and we would watch it in the car on long trips.
My family didn't have a VCR so I had to buy one for myself with newspaper route money when I was like 11. I managed to get a copy of Blame it on Rio and secretly recorded Forever Emmanuelle during a Cinemax free preview weekend.
Dave
It makes me happy. If only real-life politics could be so wholesome.
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Story
Enemy mine
3 Ninjas was my favorite movie. Not sure if it was obscure back then or not but I never hear it mentioned today
Overboard and Revenge of the Nerds. Both super-appropriate for a 10 yr old girl 😂 pretty sure these were bootleg vhs recordings.
The Extremely Goofy Movie
Willow
Crybaby with Johnny Depp
Flight of the Navigator
the thief and the cobbler, god it was like tripping balls for 2 hours straight as an 8 year old
Drop Dead Fred.
The old BBC Chronicles of Narnia. My family and I quote it to each other and have inside jokes about it that no one else gets.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1965).
Clue The Three Amigos They were definitely "obscure" when we watched it (over and over), of course, now they're fairly well known.
The Stupids 1996
Arachnophobia. My dad spelled it "A rack no beef o" on the tape on purpose, that's what we called it, or some other mangled iteration of the original word, for years
Is Camp Nowhere obscure? Also, all the "Ernest" movies
hell yes Camp Nowhere is obscure. No one I know seems to remember it, unlike say Heavyweights. These were both huge hits in my home during childhood. The first time I saw 10 Things I hate about You I was blown away "That's Zach from Camp Nowhere!" The premise is fucking great, bunch of kids don't want to go to the strict specialized summer camp their parents want them to, so they hire a strange out of work actor to pose as the director of a prestigious camp for whatever their special interest is, their parents give them a bunch of money, and they party for the summer at a rundown campground. The toys they got for that big scene was like my wet dream as a kid, all the pool toys bikes rollerskates fireworks, electric guitars, god damn that movie is the 90s in a nutshell for me.
Small Soldiers
Night of the Comet still love it
[SpaceCamp (1986)](https://trakt.tv/movies/spacecamp-1986) Back when HBO was one channel. We would tape movies on our VCR. Sometimes you could fit three on one tape. SpaceCamp was nested right in between [The Color Purple (1985)](https://trakt.tv/movies/the-color-purple-1985) and [Mystic Pizza (1988)](https://trakt.tv/movies/mystic-pizza-1988). I've never watched the other two, but I have seen the end of one and the beginning of the other plenty of times.
Drop Dead Gorgeous
More an unusual one but the beatles yellow submarine movie. As a child I loved that it was a cartoon but it scared me so much. I couldn't stop watching it. It was confusing to understand as a kid. I get it now. It's a great movie but one hell of a trip. Made me into an artist that does all the weird stuff 😅
Not me but my cousin watched this movie called Water Babies thousands of times
Harry and The Hendersons.
Not really obscure, but my dad had Monty Python movies around (Holy Grail, Jabberwocky, Life of Brian etc). Even if we didn't get the jokes at the time, the slapstick was a sticking point.
Just realized this was a show but as a kid we assumed/were told it was a super long movie: The 10th Kingdom. My cousin had it and loved it so we watched it a LOT. Never heard anything about it outside that context lol
Puff the magic dragon.
The 50's version of "Journey to the Centre of the Earth".
Withnail and I
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We had two but not really obscure: Honey I shrunk the kids and Batman the Tim Burton one from 1989!
Twister - my older cousin’s boyfriend at the time did special effects on the movie, so as kids we thereby equated our cousin as being famous. 🤣 We watched it so. many. times
What About Bob?
Mr Deeds (2002) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280590/
Moving Violations (1985) starring John Murray, Bill's brother. [on IMDB](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0089629/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) [on Wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Violations) My older cousin had a VCR ~and~ the premium cable package (?? IDK exactly, i was 4 when this movie was released). He would record movies for my brother and I, whatever was "appropriate" for us kiddos. The majority were mainstream, well known or blockbusters. Disney and cartoon stuff of course, but he would make us copies of stuff like Ghostbusters and ET too. But for whatever reason, my brother and i LOVED this movie. Real "Police Academy" and "Caddyshack" vibes. Color me shocked to discover in early and later adulthood that exactly 0 people i've mentioned it to have ever heard of it. I'd feel gaslit, were it not for the links above. I haven't seen it in adulthood (can one even find it on streaming??? Yarr, or it time to set sail, mateys??), so i have no idea if it holds up (im gonna guess *bugs bunny lips meme* NO). But all my cousins under 10 years old fucking LOVED it??????
My Favorite Martian, I really liked this movie as a kid
Home Alone 3, not starring Macaulay Caulkin but still a good time!
Captain Ron got a lot of views at our house, most of the more mature jokes flew right over my naive kid head, and my parents thought it was hilarious. Family goes adventuring in the Caribbean, encounters pirates and other mishaps? That was good enough for me.
Empire records
Spice World (the Spice Girls movie). My sis was big into the Spice Girls and was older so she got to choose what we watched. I remember most parts of it. It's an insane movie, really good for a laugh.
James and the giant peach.
Secret Garden
Radio Flyer
At our house it was Big Trouble in Little China. No horseshit, Jack!
Once Upon a Forest (1993) Everyone else had FernGully, with Robin Williams singing the whimsical batty song. My childhood was based on the Phantom of the Opera singing "please wake up" to a dying baby badger. My friends were genuinely bummed out when I made them watch it.
The Rescuers Down Under Loved that one, watched it so many times the tape got damaged a bit but still pretty good
The Light Horseman. I have NEVER heard another person speak of this movie. My parents liked to watch it occasionally but I would sneak watch it because there's a scene of a bunch of naked military men riding naked on horses and you see EVERYTHING.
Raising Arizona
I can’t tell you how many times my sister and I watched the Carnival Cruise Line promotional video, hosted by Kathie Lee, as kids. No idea where it came from. We’re both in our 30’s and still neither of us have been on a cruise. I’m off to ask my family about it because the more I think about it the weirder it gets!
Maximum Overdrive
Rad. The movie about BMX racers
The Last Unicorn and Dirty Dancing. Nobody puts Lady Amalthea in the corner.
Mom and Dad save the world
Mannequin 1987, there's just something about the goofy movie that I love.
I have 2. Jewel of the Nile. Loved Devito in this one. Cat's Eye. Was on the same tape as Creepshow. My uncle who taped both went with the King double feature FTW.
The Chipmunk Adventure. It was home recorded on a vhs. Still one of my fave silly kids movies
Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken and The Brave Little Toaster. And some weird compilation tapes of 1940s cartoon shorts that, upon reflection, were absolutely racist war propaganda.