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punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#1: Mar 7th 2023 at 9:26:52 PM

I feel like most of us probably had at least one movie we watched repeatedly as kids. (Of course, despite the title, this doesn't necessarily have to be a movie - TV shows, video games, books, etc can also count - but I just feel like movies are the most common example of this I see.)

As for me, my main ones were Toy Story / Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I'll admit that they remain some of my favorite films to this day, but how did WFRR not terrify 5 year old me?

Another interesting one from my family is that I have a cousin who apparently repeatedly watched Titanic (1997) when she was younger. When the "draw me like one of your French girls" scene came on, she'd cover her eyes and yell "Mom! Mom, come fast-forward the movie!"

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#2: Mar 7th 2023 at 9:29:23 PM

I watched The Simpsons Movie several times because it was the only semi-child-friendly movie saved on our digibox and I didn't know how to use DVD.

Edited by Hqami on Mar 7th 2023 at 7:30:08 PM

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#3: Mar 7th 2023 at 9:37:32 PM

Lady and the Tramp 2. We didn't really watch the original but we put the second one on all the time.

Also used to watch a lot of Scooby movies. The obvious ones, like Witch's Ghost, Alien Invasion, Cyberspace and Zombie Island, and then also Ghoul School, Monster of Mexico, and the live action ones.

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#5: Mar 7th 2023 at 10:52:15 PM

I solidly recall that I could say the whole script of Despicable Me from memory at age 10. Tried to do so in a car trip but stopped only because my cousin, who I was saying it for, fell asleep.

Edited by BlackFaithStar on Mar 8th 2023 at 2:52:33 AM

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#7: Mar 8th 2023 at 4:00:28 AM

The first Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

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#8: Mar 8th 2023 at 10:40:25 AM

Gremlins 2: The New Batch. It's one of my favourite movies from childhood and it set the bar so high for horror-comedies featuring monster-puppets, that most similar movies will inevitably be a disappointment. One of my dreams has long been to make a similar movie, either with hand-puppets or in stop-motion.

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#9: Mar 8th 2023 at 11:00:12 AM

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#10: Mar 8th 2023 at 1:10:32 PM

The Aristocats

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#11: Mar 8th 2023 at 9:01:40 PM

Just remembered that I had a TV show episode I also repeatedly watched. There was a Phineas and Ferb episode called "This is Your Backstory", and I remember absolutely laughing my ass off at the Stupid Statement Dance Mix of Doofenshmirtz roller-skating into the toilet to the point in which I'd watch that episode just for that part. I remember being barred from watching that episode for some period of time because I just couldn't stop watching it.

Similarly, there's a scene in The Incredibles in which Dash spits out water, and Frozone makes it freeze in mid-air. For whatever reason, that scene was hilarious to younger me and I'd make my parents repeatedly rewind that moment every time we saw that movie.

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#12: Mar 8th 2023 at 10:46:32 PM

I repeately watched that episode of The Simpsons with the Tik Tok couch gag. You can probably tell I'm young

I also watched the "Team Alpha Super Awesome Cool Dynamite Wolf Squadron" scene in Shrek the Third like 20 times in a row once.

I also played the Plants vs. Zombies minigames Slot Machine, Column Like You See Em, and Dr. Zomboss' Revenge a ton of times and barely any of the others, but iirc only managed to win the last one once as a kid (it was my dad's account and he had already unlocked all the games for me)

Edited by Hqami on Mar 8th 2023 at 9:04:27 PM

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#13: Apr 2nd 2023 at 11:24:00 PM

When I was 2 years old, I started watching my copy of the 1996 VHS release of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. At first, I only watched it up until Pooh said, "Help, Christopher!" while escaping from the swarm of bees. Eventually (a few months later at the most), I watched more of the movie.

At age 3, I started watching Toy Story 2. When my cousins' VHS copy, which I watched first, seemed to be getting worn out, I went to my local Real Canadian Superstore and got my own copy. I remember that the store also had the first Toy Story movie at the time, but I wouldn't start watching that until I visited a relative's house that I've alluded to on another forum thread.

After I got the special edition DVD of Horton Hears a Who! (2008) for Christmas 2008, I watched it a few evenings in a row.

Edit: Adding the word “thread”.

Edited by MisterToodleoo on Apr 3rd 2023 at 2:01:35 AM

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#14: Apr 2nd 2023 at 11:26:28 PM

I used to watch Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa ad nauseam when I was 9 years old. And while it's still my favorite Madagascar movie, me not having seen it in over a decade means that my memories of repeatedly watching it are rather hazy.

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#15: Apr 3rd 2023 at 12:10:43 PM

The Ten Commandments (1956), mainly because it was rerun every year on ABC (around Easter IIRC), and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan because it was awesome, I was a huge Trek fan as a kid, and I enjoyed it more than the other films before The Undiscovered Country. There's also probably a few John Wayne films that I saw more than once because my parents were big fans of his Westerns, but I can't recall specific ones off the top of my head.

Edited by Willbyr on Apr 3rd 2023 at 2:11:39 PM

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#16: Apr 3rd 2023 at 3:36:18 PM

Disney Animated Movies, what else can I say.

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#17: Apr 3rd 2023 at 3:41:06 PM

I remember watching Babe: Pig in the City and Beethoven plenty when I was young.

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#18: Apr 3rd 2023 at 3:51:44 PM

My parents recorded a bunch of movies off HBO sometime in 1980 or 1981, so we had copies of a bunch of stuff on VHS (Grease, Mary Poppins, The Wizard of Oz, Logan's Run, The Muppet Movie, The Black Hole, and a whole bunch of Disney shorts). We also had Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory on Betamax, but since our Beta machine was broken most of the time, it was a special treat.

Later on, we had Super TV, and with it came A New Hope, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Mouse and His Child, and a few movies we probably shouldn't have been watching as kids (particularly Neighbors (1981)). As for things we got off normal television back then, we had Close Encounters of the Third Kind (what I think was the premiere of the ABC extended version), Caddyshack (from CBS), and a bunch more Disney stuff (also CBS). I think we managed to record Watership Down at some point (1983?) but I forget which tape it was on.

Much later on, my mom bought a VHS copy of White Christmas, and one of my little brothers was obsessed with it. We had a few more movies recorded off the TV past 1987 or so, but we recorded so much stuff that I couldn't possibly list it all.

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#19: Apr 3rd 2023 at 4:32:14 PM

Edited by AdventurousYak9234 on Apr 3rd 2023 at 4:33:29 AM

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#20: Apr 3rd 2023 at 8:57:25 PM

At one point, I pretty much watched Finding Nemo every day

My mom says I repeatedly watched Robots as a kid too, but I don't remember that.

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#21: Apr 3rd 2023 at 9:06:50 PM

I think I started watching Babe at age 3. At that time, I watched the first part of the movie many times, but I’m not sure how much, or how long it was before I watched the whole thing. What I do remember is that the first time I saw any part of the end credits was when I woke up on the couch, where my mom and I were sleeping, just in time to hear one of the mice doing the counting at the start of their credits song.

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#22: Apr 4th 2023 at 8:41:32 PM

The most embarrassing one is probably Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. I also used to watch Star Wars: The Last Jedi practically every day, but that movie’s not that bad. Although I at one point said it was my favorite movie of all time (NOT JUST INCLUDING STAR WARS!) which is a terrible opinion.

Edited by TheRealBerdly on Apr 4th 2023 at 11:43:57 AM

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#23: Apr 4th 2023 at 8:44:10 PM

I don't know why I liked the last one so much as a kid. The only guess I have is because I liked Wacky Races.

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#24: Jul 20th 2023 at 3:59:09 AM

Lilo And Stitch, The Lorax (2012), and Despicable Me, among many others.

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#25: Jul 20th 2023 at 4:30:15 AM

Inside Out, Frozen (don't ask), The first two SpongeBob movies, maybe a lot more I'm missing…

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