Alright olds, first movie you watched on VHS/BETA

[F250 28805]

18 hours ago, Radical Larry said:

I can't remember, but we usually picked up a couple of movies at HEB while shopping for groceries. They were open more frequently back then. 

Same here. In fact the first VHS I ever saw was a rental from HEB. I believe it was Romancing the Stone.

[Knoxtnhorn 6065]

When I was about 13, I found a bag full of about 30 porno tapes.  When I got home, I was really disappointed by the fact that they were Beta.  I had no idea there was a difference as we always had VHS.

[mr. sunshine 2831]

1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

Ron Jeremy was doinking both his girlfriend and some woman who was married to Peter North, but then Peter North forgave his wife, had a flashback where he doinked some Asian lady, then he ended up doinking his own wife and their new friend, who used to be Ron Jeremy's girlfriend. Ron Jeremy found out about it and stormed out, emotionally distraught.

A spoiler alert would be nice 

[DougO 5253]

I think the family's first Beta recorder is still out in a shed somewhere, probably still works. Had a remote on a longass cable. Maybe it will be worth something in a thousand years.

[CrownKing 55]

Also around 1982 rented Tron nd Last American Virgin. Had to leave a $80 cash deposit to rent. Played them on my VHS player we bought at Pacific Stereo. 

[GhostOfTomJoad 9346]

10 hours ago, CrownKing said:

Also around 1982 rented Tron nd Last American Virgin. Had to leave a $80 cash deposit to rent. Played them on my VHS player we bought at Pacific Stereo. 

Oh shit. I remember a friend being threatened with a $200 fee because his VCR ate the copy of Top Gun he'd rented from Block Buster. They had some ridiculous fine print on the replacement costs for damaged/lost tapes. And everyone remembers the joy of late fees. A high school buddy of mine wrecked his parents' Saab trying to avoid the late fees on a half dozen or so tapes he'd rented in advance of an ice storm. His parents were out of town & he figured he'd be stuck inside the house so he got a bunch of movies to wait out the storm. When the ice stuck around longer than anticipated he tried to drive to the video store to avoid the late fees & ended up curbing the car & bending the driver's side front wheel in like a matchbox car. All to avoid $30 or so in late fees.

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

Chariots of Fire.

It was a pretty big deal for us.  Exciting days of new technology, so I'll always remember the movie.

 

 

[HiggyBaby 2544]

Oldest one I can recall was either Flash Gordon or Damnation Alley while at a friends house.

[bamachine 1231]

15 hours ago, DougO said:

I think the family's first Beta recorder is still out in a shed somewhere, probably still works. Had a remote on a longass cable. Maybe it will be worth something in a thousand years.

Meet

 

19 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

When I was about 13, I found a bag full of about 30 porno tapes.  When I got home, I was really disappointed by the fact that they were Beta.  I had no idea there was a difference as we always had VHS.

 

[Underdog 28759]

21 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

When I was about 13, I found a bag full of about 30 porno tapes.  When I got home, I was really disappointed by the fact that they were Beta.  I had no idea there was a difference as we always had VHS.

Be honest, you pulled out the tape and held it up to the light, didn’t ya?

[burntorangebongos 10750]

I go back so far that I watched Laser disc first. Lion in the Winter, The Man from Snowy River, Fame, the movie.

[pops 7006]

Cloak and dagger is the first one I remember but I obviously have a shitty memory. ET or war games or a rocky would have been before that. 

[Underdog 28759]

I remember rewinding the shit out of Bolero more times than I care to admit.  I believe porn wasn’t that readily available at the time and not too many places carried it.  I could be wrong, often am. 

[Brandywine 1316]

First was Star Trek the Motion Picture,  then Star Wars, A New Hope. I thought it was the greatest invention ever. Paid a fortune to buy one and then a fortune for every VHS I bought. Recorded more TV shows and movies I could watch in a lifetime but I loved it. 

Edited March 24, 2019 by Brandywine

[RPM 26330]

I do remember the first VHS movie I saw with Dolby surround sound, Top Gun. Friend of mine's Dad bought a projection TV and badass sound system.

Danger zone!

Edited March 25, 2019 by RPM

[DoobieWah 1453]

On March 22, 2019 at 10:04 PM, tbone_ said:

I think it might have been Excalibur.

Pretty sure it was Excalibur. Aunt and uncle had the top loading, suitcase sized  Betamax described in the OP. 

...and TMC and Cinemax. 

[Frieda’s Boss 181]

Pretty sure first two were Fast Times and Road Warrior

[CoTex 1160]

Porkys.

Long summer day - neighbor kid had a babysitter - she played porky’s for our 6-8 boy neighborhood bike gang so she could go into his parents bedroom (with waterbed) with her boyfriend.

the 80’s.

 

[JimmyJames 12271]

It was either “honeysuckle rose” or “race for your life Charlie Brown.” The latter we actually recorded off the tv. I remember we all had to be quiet during the recording so it would only pick up the sound from the tv. Or so we thought. Lol 

[Eskimohorn 5642]

We watched the shit out of Sherlock Holmes Younger Brother. We also owned Elvis’ Easy Come Easy Go. Never watched that one.

Couple of VCR memories;
1) Older sibs rented Faces of Death and ordered us little kids out
2) We would record Miami Vice and connect a microphone and dub our own voices over it. Good times.

[Underdog 28759]

11 hours ago, CoTex said:

Porkys.

Long summer day - neighbor kid had a babysitter - she played porky’s for our 6-8 boy neighborhood bike gang so she could go into his parents bedroom (with waterbed) with her boyfriend.

the 80’s.

 

Did any one of you have to tell the boyfriend to tie a knot in it?

[CoTex 1160]

5 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Did any one of you have to tell the boyfriend to tie a knot in it?

I can picture her, tall, semi-attractive, but for some reason all I remember about him is that he arrived and went straight to bedroom.

then, Porky’s.  

[DoobieWah 1453]

2 hours ago, CoTex said:

I can picture her, tall, semi-attractive, but for some reason all I remember about him is that he arrived and went straight to bedroom.

then, Porky’s.  

 

Yeah we get that, but what was the movie?

 

😁

[You don't know me 1161]

We didn't spring for cable until the later part of the 80's, but we did have a VCR.  A couple of times a year, a family friend used to give us some VHS tapes with several hours of recorded cable shows and movies.  One tape would always be Bizarrre (John Byner show on Showtime from the early 80's) and 1st and Ten (HBO).  I remember when my dad would bring those tapes home and how cool it was.

[Hpara759 1780]

 

[Druggist 303]

Splash

[InkaUtexas 26025]

Either The Big Red One or Scarface. Next was Electric Boogaloo. 

[mulletpelini 5214]

don't remember the name but Asia Carrera was in it.

[ChickenSandwich 9844]

I am reminded of the massive late fees owed to blockbuster video freshman year. 

[mdleast 8298]

Just remembered how, even into the mid to late 90s, they had videos priced to rent vs priced to own and how some movies just caused a ridiculous amount to purchase.

[C-Man 27239]

Pretty sure it was Airplane

[RPM 26330]

Surely you can't be serious.

[tbone_ 14138]

Stop calling me Shirley.

Be kind. Rewind.

[WhatTheBuck 28794]

On March 23, 2019 at 10:24 AM, EvilCaseMcCoy said:

Parenthood.  I was young and didnt have many options.  I seem to remember Ted Danson's wifes boobies being on display though.  

I think I'd remember it if Mary Steenburgen showed her boobies in Parenthood. I don't recall any boobies being on display in that PG-13 flick. 

I've still got the DVD. I haven't watched it in a long time. Maybe I'm due to watch it again. Great flick. Don't remember no boobies. 

[seven 1367]

Interesting question, I have no idea what the first was. I remember renting a vcr at the rental place until I was in 4th grade or so when we got our own.

First DVD was fight club. I bought it before I even had a DVD player, watched it on my friends pc with a DVD drive. I wanted to see all the special features. 

[WhatTheBuck 28794]

I can't recall the first DVD I bought either. I bought my first DVD player in '98 and the selection was limited. Back then there was one shelf in the VHS section at Best Buy that had been converted to display DVDs. Over the years the DVD selection steadily grew and the VHS selection steadily shrank until it disappeared. If they were available at the time, Raising Arizona and Three Amigos would be top contenders. 

I remember one of the first new movies that I bought on DVD to watch for the first time without having seen it in the theater was The Game starring Michael Douglas. That was awesome. I still love that film. 

[Al_4_ISU 12475]

I was born in '85, and my grandparents had a VCR at home as long as I could remember (so I can't remember the first thing I watched), but my folks were cheap and we didn't get one until I was in Kindergarten, so like fall of '90, I think.  I remember the day we got the VCR set up at home.  The first tapes we bought were a random assortment of Looney Tunes and a collection of TMNT cartoons, which was my jam at the time.

Spending the weekend at my grandparents, who lived in town was a treat.  Grandma would take my brother and I up to the video store and let us rent like 10 different movies, so A) we'd get out of chores and B) we could spend all day watching whatever we wanted.  She didn't pay any attention to what we selected, so I remember watching stuff like Animal House, Vacation, and Porky's when I was 9 or 10.

Edited March 26, 2019 by Al_4_ISU

[Sandman 3408]

We got our first VCR in 1981, I turned 8 that year. Dad borrowed a couple of tapes from a guy at work. The Elephant Man was the first one we watched. I was fucking scarred for life, had nightmares afterwards. I still can't look at that shit to this day. Mommie Dearest was the second but I was too young to really understand it. 

But fr, fuck the elephant man. 

[MissingInAction 25139]

Debbie does dallas

[staley 5]

Tank with James Garner. What a piece of shit.

 

 

[Planet Houston 4930]

Can’t remember exactly, but it was one of Beverly Hills Cop, The Gods Must be Crazy, The Pink Panther or Planes Trains and Automobiles. Those are the movies I really remember watching on VHS (and Beta, in a couple of instances) at a young age. As you can see, my parents were totally delinquent but either they or my friends’ parents had kickass taste in movies. 

[MrBig 5424]

On 3/22/2019 at 10:17 PM, Radical Larry said:

I can't remember, but we usually picked up a couple of movies at HEB while shopping for groceries. They were open more frequently back then. 

Those H-E-B Video Centrals they had really take me back. Then they were bought by Hollywood Video and are all now gone.

[Underdog 28759]

9 hours ago, staley said:

Tank with James Garner. What a piece of shit.

 

 

Shut your whore fucking mouth...

[Buzzrock 14936]

I have no idea but I do recall a friend having all the Bond movies on tape (might have been Beta) so we stayed up all night once watching the Connery classics. And I remember watching War of the Worlds on laserdisc at a birthday party.

[tbone_ 14138]

First hidden pron I found: Dirty Mind of Young Sally

[JimmyHoffa 1188]

I don't know if it was actually the first one I saw or just the first I remember.

[Moby Ric 2058]

I think it was Jaws because we had a pool and I recall not wanting to go in it ever again after watching it.

[ChickenSandwich 9844]

Probably Voltron

[Nole-4-Life 804]

Missing In Action with Chuck Norris. There was a bridge explosion we kept rewinding and playing over and over. It was Betamax too.

 

Edited March 28, 2019 by Nole-4-Life

[Nole-4-Life 804]

On 3/26/2019 at 9:35 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

I think I'd remember it if Mary Steenburgen showed her boobies in Parenthood. I don't recall any boobies being on display in that PG-13 flick. 

I've still got the DVD. I haven't watched it in a long time. Maybe I'm due to watch it again. Great flick. Don't remember no boobies. 

Agreed.