If you grew up mormon, you knew the buttercreamer gang.
Was not mormon, but i remember the buttercream gang
I’m sorry what
The Buttercreamer’s Gang, clearly a very obscure movie. Two of them, Actually.
Dance the magic dance
You remind me of the babe.
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’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.
Puff the Magic Dragon
It’s like a fever dream, but we definitely had it on VHS
My parents made me a VHS tape with like 9 movies on it and I would watch it constantly. I was a sickly child, so I was stuck in bed a lot. That tape was great.
He hath the legendary E800 VHS tape!
Or, like, an E180 and a VCR with impressive LP modes, maybe?
Yo I have no idea. I was born in '97. I just knew how to put tapes in and play them
The Swan Princess. It haunts me.
I believe it’s also partially responsible for my young and lifelong rebellion against someone complimenting my appearance. Fine. You find me nice to look at. That’s a hill a beans. What else.
Short Circuit and Flight of the Navigator. Had them both on one tape and I’d sit down and watch it all in one sitting.
Add Batteries Not Included to the list and that’s me.
Just in case you needed reminding how good Flight of the Navigator was:
My brother and I loved this movie so much and must’ve watched it 100 times.
Ill go ye one better. When i was a kid there was a movie theater in ft worth tx called Isis. They had 1 dollar matinees that us kids were allowed to sit in. Got watch s lot of blacksploitation flicks and really odd “c” grade scifi.
“Blacksploitation”? In… Texas. Do I want to know? i don’t really want that in my search history…
It’s a term for the type of comedy movies in the 70s where they would cast all black actors in these low budget films with cheesy dialogue and visuals. Most jokes heavily relied on stereotypes (e.g. lots of characters speaking “jive”) and were aimed at black audiences.
Think “Blacula” instead of “Dracula”
Most people consider them racist now for perpetuating stereotypes, although some point out that they were beloved by black audiences at the time and offered work to a lot of black actors who weren’t finding it otherwise.
It’s a weird piece of US cinema history…
Krull
I dunno man, flaming horses are dope
I had weirdly encyclopedic knowledge of old Finnish comedies because my late father was into that stuff.
Also: Not an obscure film, but to me, the definitive version of Terminator 2 was the one I recorded off TV. I have it on Blu-Ray, but it’s just not the same.
Is there any modern equivalent? Do we even have any shared culture anymore or are we all in our own rabbit holes?
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
It’s weird because this was the exception back then, but it might be everything now.
TikTok / IG viral posts.
They’re not as long lived, but the induct them into conversation.
Skibidi toilet spinoffs are their heritage.
I have a distinct memory of a 3rd grade project where we made posters about ourselves. My favorite TV show was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
The reaction was something like “that’s not really a TV show but we’ll allow it.” I certainly watched it on our TV, probably with a VHS recording of it being on broadcast TV.
If anything, we have more access to obscure content. We have obscure movies we’ve found streaming and watch repeatedly. We love Trolljegeren and Interstate 60.
We also still have some weirdo discs too like the live action Mario movie.
The 90s Mario movie is fun, and I’ll die on that hill.
I didn’t have that one, but I did somehow have an episode of the Super Mario Bros Super Show on VHS. Just one episode though. No fuckin’ idea where it could possibly have come from. But my only other two tapes were Lady and the Tramp, and The Aristocats so 5-7 year old me watched a lot of the Bros. After a while there was a whole several minutes near the middle that was just static and gibberish because the tape was damaged, from a combination of overuse and being handled by a five year old.
Well, it’s not hurting anyone, so your opinion is fine.
The 90s Mario was weird and fun and the 20s Mario was generic and lame.
My least favorite part about the 20s Mario was that the music was so… generic. Music has always been a huge part of that franchise, but when Mario fights Donkey Kong we get Thunderstruck by AC/DC?
I mean… Streaming Frozen nearly continuously was 100% a thing just a few years ago.
There is a major difference between desire and necessity.
