the internet makes this possible 1000x
The Monster Squad was the best. Found it in the $5 bin later, and its still rad!
Country Bears was weird and literally no one talks about it
I occasionally have random pop-up memories of that movie and for a few seconds every time I think “what fever dream was that?!” before remembering
Tron
It’s a shame they never made any sequels.
Ever.
Shut up. No. They didn’t.
uhm, I enjoyed Tron 2…
Whoops Dad accidentally recorded over our bootleg copy of land before time with porn :)
Just growing up thinking everybody else has also seen The Ugly Dachshund. A movie where I’m convinced everybody who was in it is now dead.
For me, it was What About Bob?
The Sandlot for me
FOR EV VER
“you’re killin me, Smalls!”
When I was a kid, my parents wouldn’t let me stay up late enough to watch Adult Swim, but they would let me set the VCR to record it on a few blank tapes. And that’s how I first watched anime that wasn’t on Toonami.
Funny that in the UK, Adult Swim never aired animé to my knowledge, and there was very little handover; it just went straight from Ed, Edd and Eddy to Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Finding out other people had the same film unlocked several friendships for me
I had many such movies. The most obscureamong them probably being “The child who wanted to be a Bear”, a Franco-Danishanimationn film which doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page in English. (It was already DVD and not tape tho)
Oh ho, and yet I, a parent, can still put my thumb on the streaming scale. My daughter right now is watching old Nick Jr. Cartoons, playing Mario 64 (as well as a 2yo anyway), and the untitled goose game.
She also watched old seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm with me since I had it running, though I probably don’t want her to adopt Larry David vibes…
Goose game is a hit with mine as well. I haven’t introduced 3d games yet, but Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country seem to be favorites right now.
I thought about 2D vs 3D, and it just seemed 3D made more sense for her. Granted she mostly just runs Mario to butterflies and then let’s him nap. She’s not really goal oriented yet.
As for goose… She sees it, then she runs around the house honking and flapping her wings. This is how you raise a hell raiser lol
Uncle Buck Great movie.
When I was a kid I wanted to grow up to be uncle Buck. Unfortunately my brother took that position (down to driving a shit car that randomly backfires) and I’m just a normal dude 😕
Yeah, being the slightly dangerous uncle is a pretty sweet gig, NGL.
Is there any modern equivalent? Do we even have any shared culture anymore or are we all in our own rabbit holes?
It’s weird because this was the exception back then, but it might be everything now.
Well the post as I understand it argues the polar opposite. We had rabbit holes completely impenetrable social bubbles. And know everything is mixed and globalised. Probably for the better all in all
TikTok / IG viral posts.
They’re not as long lived, but the induct them into conversation.
Skibidi toilet spinoffs are their heritage.
