Best Movie From My Family's Old Collection of Taped-From-TV VHS Cassettes

Kind of want to vote for the Hulkington family home movies, 1988 to 1994. I heard '92 was a high point.

'90 was when my mom fell in with the dziga vertov people. avoid.

family movies are always ace

you're asking me to choose between your graduation ceremony, the thing, and close encounters of the third kind? these kind of choices make a man go mad.

i think the 120 minutes episode was hosted by henry rollins if that sways anybody's vote

voting against family movies killing me but since that is the frontrunner i will try to ignore that and find something else

dear anyone voting for i married an axe murderer i will drive to your house and axe murder you

kinda feeling desk set tbh

nkotb special tbh

God, I have so many home-taped VHSs--a quick estimate would be 160 tapes, with an average of three-plus movies each = 500 films. I used them a lot at school for showing specific clips, till they finally gave us YouTube access a year ago; I still watch one myself occasionally.

I'd need to know if your high-school graduation involved pig's blood and/or Spicoli singing "Wooly Bully" to be sure, but the best is probably Close Encounters or The Manchurian Candidate or Bringing Up Baby or The Lady Eve. I'll vote for The Verdict, though, the one I've seen the most. It's heavy-handed at times, especially Newman's summation, but I watch it at least once a year anyway.

VHS was a fun format, you could tell when a movie was loved just by how awful the video quality was. I recall one terribly worn out copy of Short Circuit I had taped off of TV. I think I still have that stupid thing, too.

The Thing

Feel like I should give a sympathy vote for that no doubt pan and scan version of The Best Years of Our Lives but sticking with The Lady Eve

mostly i want to re-watch these for the commercials

and then kill myself for watching commercials with nostalgia

freaks

Jailhouse Rock cuz Elvis is a badass in it

I would like to watch the 120 min vid too tbh. Also, yeah, the commercials.

if someone has a vcr, i'll throw a viewing party

i'll get some frozen egg rolls and pizza bagels. (y'all bring the beer.)

Feel like I should give a sympathy vote for that no doubt pan and scan version of The Best Years of Our Lives but sticking with The Lady Eve

But...The Best Years of Our Lives was full-frame already!

I like "so I married an axe murderer" ;_;

so does my mom! one time i asked her what her favorite movies were: "citizen kane, jaws, so i married an axe murderer, apocalypse now, and addams family values." 0_o

You right, Grisso/McCain. Next time I check TCM website first

alien?

... alien!

pretty similar to my own set of taped-from-tv vhs cassettes, right down to the 'old 120 minutes episode.' though i think mine featured JULIANA HATFIELD.

i voted for 'great pumpkin.'

your family has pretty good taste in what they chose to tape. my family's equivalent would be 1990s now-forgotten blockbusters, John Wayne movies (some good, some not-so-good lol Dad) plus 1990s kiddie-oriented stuff like xuxa and barney (my youngest sister was 7 at the beginning of the 1990s).

i think i picked to kill a mockingbird.

I like "so I married an axe murderer" ;_;

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I love it. I guess it's sort of patchy but when it's funny it's REALLY funny. "Oh I hated the colonel with his wee beady eyes and that smug look on his face" etc. Also, I used to know the kid who played Heed.

that said, the parents have a decent selection of John Ford movies (mainly b/c of the John Wayne collection, plus Dad also likes Henry Fonda). it is odd to see a tape of the man who shot liberty valance sitting alongside another tape of patriot games, though.

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You are eeevil like the fru-its of the day-vil.

OK I will stop. This is probably one of about 10 or so movies that nobody ever wants to watch with me because I literally know nearly the entire script.

Also I think that Sinbad's Summer Jam: 1996 is probably the true gem of the bunch.

young frankenstein over glengarry glenn ross but yeah good selection ww

is there anyone else who so typifies the 1990s like Sinbad? his oeuvre is practically a 1990s sociology lesson.

http://www.thegoddessblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/pauly_shore.jpg

?

one could write an entire academic treatise on Pauly Shore during the 1990s vs. Carrot Top during the 2000s and what the popularity of each during those time periods said about the country-at-large.

in an american university, yeah sure

would be like: sinbad, pauly shore, kennedy from mtv, damon wayans and david allen grier as men on film, puck from the real world, aqua (the band), and bill clinton.

Alien, clearly

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hahaha

puck

It was so controversial when he put his grimy fingers in Pedro's peanut butter!!

I think that was the last RW I actually watched with any regularity but iirc I was pretty into that one in particular.

Did I answer this? It's The Thing, btw.

Oh wait - I did. Also that's the 2nd time someone's brought up Kennedy this week. I hated her.

was EVERYONE on that season insufferable? i always remember there being one voice of reason.

Hmmmmmmm

It was a pretty horrible cast. Corey the sweet but sort of dumb blonde one might have been the least awful.

RACHEL WAS THE WORST.

Oh I guess the asian doctor lady wasn't too bad because she didn't really do much and she had cool hair.

kennedy was the worst yeah. even then you could tell she would take off her lisa loeb glasses one day and become a republican.

still classic, though: her getting clowned by a cranky martin landau

I don't remember that!

but that's why they were The Greatest Generation

the amount of mtv i watched between 1985 and 2000 is staggering considering i also somehow found time to sleep, eat, and use the bathroom.

the black dude (Mohammed was his name i think) was pretty cool ... but he largely did his own thing off-camera and didn't get involved in the BS drama in the house that season.

Kennedy became a role-model for Republican teens/twenty-somethings who just happened to like indie music. so she fulfilled her purpose i guess.

lol

I was not allowed to watch it when I was little so I had a lot of catching up to do in my late teens.

the black dude (Mohammed was his name i think) was pretty cool

Woah I don't remember that dude at all.

at some point i guess my mom had to work and decided to let lita ford and randy of the redwoods be my babysitter

Oh wait- I just looked him up. Yeah, i do. He was OK? Was he into poetry slams? I might be making that up. I feel like that was a big thing then in general though.

lavh lita

lol poetry slams.

haha, you prob. don't remember Mohammad (if that was his name) b/c he was the only one who figured out that there was too much BS drama and checked out to do his own thing (and therefore wasn't on camera as much as Puck or the comic-book dude or the Latino-Republican). i don't remember if his thing was lol "poetry slams" (he did have a DJ gig if i remember correctly).

it would be funny to find an entire stash of 1990s poetry slams on video. that would be only slightly less embarrassing than finding a stash of 1990s German shit porn.

Imagine my glee when in 1995 I bought that coaxial cable from Radio Shack that allowed one to copy from one VCR to another.

Imagine my shock when studios used copy guard even then.

Still, I got a lot of foreign films and classics like Bringing Up Baby and Los olvidados.

http://saulwilliams.com.s1996.gridserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/slam_nation_580.jpg

Kennedy's raison d'etre: it's OK to like both Ayn Rand AND Mary Timony/Juliana Hatfield. you don't have to choose!!

Well I had to go with Freaks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npOGUD3g454

lol YESSSS

i just found out like yesterday who pauly shores mother was which explains so much about his career

unless mitzi also belonged to the illuminati or the stonecutters or something i don't think anyone can explain pauly's success

BTW because this needs to go on record somewhere - this thread inspired me to post about Mr. Shore on FB this morning. That post now has 38 comments.

That scene is amazing. I'm dying right now.

wtf is grindage?!

oh we're talking RW:SF???? Pam was in my wife's dorm in college and they were passing acquaintences.

Still can't believe Judd is one of DC's main writers now, or that Rachel is married to CONGRESSMAN SEAN DUFFY

they shoulda got pauly to be frodo

another fun bit of trivia: mitzi used to make bill hicks drive pauly to school

probably why he was so bitter later on

well that and the cancer

yeah

there was that

i voted man who would be king but it was tight choice between that and bringing up baby

san francisco real world was amazing

grown so old

i voted for the lady eve

I so wanted to live the RW:SF life

esp. Mohammed's

haha after i lost track of the industry for a couple years i came back to find out that the guy from the real world was a big fish at d.c. and i think only a lifelong immersion in the wtf rongness of comics made it seem not so weird

xpost 0_o @ bill hicks thing

mohammed was too nice and normal for that season

wait so was he involved in poetry slams or not?

or a band? I remember him doing something.

Mohammed was in a band that could be most charitably described as "based on Arrested Development"

I just remembered, Sarah the skater chick in RW:Miami left an editorial position at Wildstorm to be on the show

I think the biggest takeaway here is "why the hell do I remember these things"

he was in 2 unlimited iirc

dammit dan

btw i am totally doing a rank the musical hotties of the real world poll

REIGNDANCE

hahaha omg

LOL

I feel like that dude was actually pretty hot?

I could be wrong.

Yeah wait I take that back.

london neal was hot but that season was so boring

i never watched the real world(s) but i remember somebody punching some lady in the face with a teddy bear while on a dock or something

this could obv be a fever dream or something

guys this poll is taking forever but i'm doing it

that was seattle. stephen! he was nuts.

before this comes off as a i dont even watch television thing plz note that i watched like 2 full seasons of that real world vs road rules gauntlet show voluntarily so hey i am on mirey moral high ground obv xposts

the first round of the Real World bands should be Reality vs Perch

J and I ran into Irene, the girl who got slapped by Psycho Stephen, on a bus in Brighton circa late 1998. She was fucking GORGEOUS, like incredibly so; television did not do her justice IMO.

i always thought she was cute

I thought she was cute too she had lyme's disease and was sort of nuts though. OK so maybe I watched some season's after SF.

London Neal was without a doubt the hottest guy on RW that I can remember. It was sad when someone bit off his tongue.

seasons no "'".

I think the only thing more shocking to me than RW:London's Jacinda having a credible acting career after being on the show was watching the improbably successful acting career of Jamie from RW:San Diego, culminating in her turn as Ed Helms' fiancee in "The Hangover 2"

okay the poll is done. i need a drink.

omg way back machine time, remember when that dude from Road Rules used to post here and eventually got chased off for pestering the shit out of prominent female posters

wait what???

hahahaha YES

wait there was a Road Rules: Cambridge?

the best part? his name was J0N H0LM3S

omg way back machine time, remember when that dude from Road Rules used to post here and eventually got chased off for pestering the shit out of prominent female posters

gabbneb was on road rules?!?

/joke

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lmfao

Rank the Musical Hotties of MTV's "The Real World" (First Four Seasons Only)

fyi

you're a prince!

wait so was he involved in poetry slams or not?

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dunno if this is a DEFINITIVE answer, but this is from the wikipedia page for the show:

Mohammed is the lead singer and songwriter for Midnight Voices, a band well known throughout the San Francisco Bay area, though he supports himself doing makeovers at The Body Shop and working at his father's dance club, The Upper Room, where he occasionally reads poetry.[17]

he supports himself doing makeovers at The Body Shop

o_O

he supports himself doing makeovers at The Body Shop

why did they never actually touch on or talk about this

he supports himself doing makeovers at The Body Shop

i don't remember whether or not they did ... it's been so long ago since i've seen any episode of RW at all.

mohammed was barely ever onscreen, i assume because he was so drama-free. handsome, though.

too busy doing makeovers at The Body Shop iirc

voted for the charlie brown special, as the christmas and halloween installments are the best ever, provided you don't have to see them more than 1nce a year

also: young frank, the lady eve, ghostbusters, the man who would be king, cape fear, the thing & alien

never into and remember nothing about real world/road rules, though i watched many, many hours of the former

The Lady Eve

THE THING

^ have seen the thing soso many times, far more often than anything else on this list, in most cases by a factor of 10 (alien and the charlie brown specials come in a good, close second). seen it between 20 and 30 times over the last three decades, plus the hours spent freeze-framing my way through bottin's greatest hits, so i'm definitely fronting in voting for anything else...

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an old 120 Minutes episode i taped in 1993

^ voted for this b/c taped eps of 120m were a hot commodity among my posse in 90-93 or so

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lol who voted for sinbad's summer jam

DJP

that only accounts for one vote.

well he still has his HI DERE login so

gamin' the poll for sinbad

jesus dan, why don't you just divorce your wife, move to new york, and marry sinbad already

quiet dude i saw a thread yesterday and his wife posted to it a bunch of times

i liked "a different world" too but it was a long time ago man

I voted for Freaks twice, so--

what a very special thread ... i just want to hug it.