The Craft. I’m pretty sure Fairuza Balk is responsible for awakening my goth fetish.
Her character in the Waterboy was it for me.
Waterboy? Did he solve puzzles in temples with his partner Firegirl?
Heh heh this guy was feeling light as a feather and stiff as a board!
Have you seen Return to Oz? It’s a hell of a ride. Disney wants everyone to forget this exists.
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My dad was a film historian. My entire childhood was filled with movies none of my contemporaries had seen.
My dad wasn’t a historian, but he loved old movies and made a point to introduce us to the classics. I’ve seen so many black and white films that I hardly get to talk about with anyone.
Watching older media is what got me into Star Trek though. TOS specifically, and then TNG much later.
Me too. I grew up on Fred Astaire, Buster Keaton and Eddie Cantor.
I used to have a party trick back in the pre-IMDB days where I’d bring out Leonard Maltin’s movie guide, have someone flip to a random page, start reading titles, and I’d stop them before they could get to the end by describing the plot of whichever one I’d seen.
My earliest memory is my parents projecting 2001: A Space Odyssey on our living room wall using a 16mm projector with a Cinemascope lens for a bunch of grad students.
He also had a reel-to-reel recorder that came specifically with one type of Sony Trinitron TV that predated VHS. Of course, once VHS came out, he taped everything. We had all the movie channels.
But my brother was the Star Trek person. My dad was pretty so-so about it.
Was lucky enough to get a VHS copy of Lupin the Third and the Castle of Cagliostro when I was like 7 or 8. Man I must have watched that tape over 100 times easily.
they forgot to add “…and is now embedded to your core being.”
Rupert and the Frog Song. Three terrifying stories. It was a Thursday night… I was working late…
And I’m actively trying to go back to that. I ripped all of our old DVDs and Blurays and cancelled most of our streaming services. I told my kids that we can buy pretty much anything they want (so they don’t miss out), provided it’s not an exclusive.
The net result is that my kids really like Clue (1985) and Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008).
my kids really like Clue (1985)
One of the best movies ever so that speaks pretty well to their tastes.
Tim Curry is a gift to humanity that we don’t deserve.
It has a great cast overall but he definitely carries the movie, just like most things he’s in.
Yup, once they’re a little older, I’ll introduce them to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, it’s fantastic.
My daughter liked both of those a lot.
But then she also really loves Forbidden Zone and Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
She’s a weird kid. Like her mom and dad.
You’re raising them right. Lol
Do you have the ripped movies on a Plex server or something that’s easy for them to use?
Yup, Jellyfin. Unfortunately, my youngest kept watching even after I said no, so it’s locked behind a passcode. But when it’s watching time, I unlock it and let them pick. We have some Pokemon seasons, Studio Ghibli animations, and a bunch of other kid-friendly shows and movies for them to choose from.
That’s awesome. This is my next project. I want my kids to have a library of movies/shows that I’ve personally curated, instead of letting them loose on a handful of streaming services.
Do it! It’s a bit tedious to rip everything, but you can always “rip” things by looking up whatever you need on the internet from less… copyright approved sources, which can help to seed the collection.
We happened to have a bunch of movies and shows, so I went ahead and ripped everything, and I ended up buying a Bluray drive and flashing open firmware onto it to rip those properly as well.
Do you by any chance use AppleTV to watch jellyfin media? If so what app do you use? I couldn’t get the only jellyfin app I was able to find to install for some reason.
No, just the app on my smart TV (LG). I’m considering getting a “dumb” TV to replace it, at which point I’ll probably use a Raspberry Pi instead.
I’m planning to combine this project with learning how to set up a Linux machine (thanks Lemmy) as the media server and local backup storage for pictures/videos. Might as well learn how to do some safe sailing at the same time, I suppose.
Check out the servarr stack + jellyseerr for your sailing activities. It is very nice to have one ui to search in then everything is sorted and just appears in jellyfin when it is ready! I set it up on a home server running TrueNAS recently. The only thing i might have done differently is run proxmox as os and set up a TrueNAS as a VM for my storage needs instead.
Saving this, thanks.
I remember watching that and being too young to understand why the one kid wanted to put the stuff in his pants. Was very confused about that part.
I’m still confused, who wants pubes that long and that abundant??
I would tell people about Death Race 2000 and they’d look at me like I was crazy.
But have you seen its sequel?
No. I will not see it. They cannot improve upon perfection.
Did this with spiderwick and bridge to tarabithia but I wouldn’t call these particularly obscue.
Also did this with a movie that I can only describe as space jumanji as well
Zathura: A Space Adventure, great movie 👍🙂
Several dozen? Rookie numbers.
Yeah. My VCR TV would automatically rewind and start playing again. I have no idea how many times some of those tapes were played but it definitely broke 100.
I’ll join in on the obscure movies that defined my childhood and teen years…
Texas Across the River, Warriors of the Wind (horrible cut and dub of Nauiscaa of the Valley of the Wind), Sea Prince and Fire Child (we rented the tape so much that eventually they sold it to us because we were also the last ones to rent it), Anime version of The Little Mermaid, animated Hobbit and Return of the King, Fairies, Mio and the Land of Far Away
… That’s all of the obscure ones I can think of at the moment.
For me it’s lethal weapon 1, my uncle would play it at family gatherings. He has this sick sound system at the time and you can hear the brass casings hit the ground it’s awesome.
I watched shrek many times
