My dad was a film historian. My entire childhood was filled with movies none of my contemporaries had seen.
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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.
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This unlocked a memory for me.
For me the more "obscure" ones were The Indian and the Cupboard, Small Soldiers, Jingle All The Way, James and the Giant Peach. Not that I referenced it hard or anything.
The VHS sleeve for Indian and the Cupboard just had the cupboard printed on the opposite side, so child me tried putting his toys into the VHS Clamshell to make his toys come to life.
they forgot to add "..and is now embedded to your core being."
And nobody would get your references
You can still get that, just follow obscures enough hobbies and reference memes from it.
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lol/36 for one of mine. Bonus points if you can guess what it is.
Rupert and the Frog Song. Three terrifying stories. It was a Thursday night... I was working late...
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