What was the first film you ever saw in your own home?

[Sean]

I don't mean on TV, I mean VHS or, for our younger contingent, DVD?

Mine was Watership Down. Followed fairly swiftly by Conan the Barbarian.

 

[silver gurl]

I was home with Mono, my Mom got me a VCR. I am thinking Sixteen Candles or The Breakfast Club

 

[RoryN]

I don't mean on TV, I mean VHS or, for our younger contingent, DVD?

Mine was Watership Down. Followed fairly swiftly by Conan the Barbarian.

Pretty sure I saw Watership Down broadcast on CBS or ABC here in the States before we got a VCR.

First movie I saw on our VCR was in '84: Star Wars. Parents dragged me to see Conan the Barbarian in the theater, and it seemed like the longest movie I'd ever watched. But 1982 was an absolutely awesome year for films, so they made it up to me by taking me to see lots of other stuff that summer.

 

[Sean]

Seems every factory in the 80's had one bloke that had access to snide VHS tapes. At the time my old man worked for the biggest brake factory in Europe so we got a lot of early stuff.

 

[DeluxAuto]

My dad hacked our channels 1-99 cable box so I had HBO Skinemax, and Showtime in the eighties. No idea what was the first flick. I do remember my friend's older brother always trying to get Playboy to come in correctly but it was always static.

 

[thør]

I can't remember the first VHS movie, but I do remember the first Blue-Ray on the 52" HDTV; Alive.

 

[juttjaw]

Mine was Rocky, on laser disc actually. My Mom was in communications classes at her University and had access to a laser disc player and discs. She brought it home for the weekend and my brother cobbled it to the Curtis Mathes. Rocky, followed by Rocky III, then Tron. It was awesome.

 

[thør]

Mine was Rocky, on laser disc actually. My Mom was in communications classes at her University and had access to a laser disc player and discs. She brought it home for the weekend and my brother cobbled it to the Curtis Mathes. Rocky, followed by Rocky III, then Tron. It was awesome.

A friend of mine was into the laser disks. Awesome quality, but crap marketing.

 

[Champakian]

When HBO was brand new and novel
American Graffiti was every other movie.

I cannot watch it now...

Grandfather had a projector and we watched all sorts of old movies.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

An actual film reel of The Wizard of Oz played on a projector.

 

[EnglishStud]

Hmmm. 'Quadrophenia' I think

 

[Chernosoth]

I had a 5" B&W on my nightstand. I probably watched some movies on it while adjusting the antenna. I recall trying to watch a concert but there was too much static.

 

[Buttterscotch]

I cannot remember the first film I ever saw in a house. In the home I actually own with my husband it was 23.

 

[pointless]

fuck if i know. i was a kid..

 

[Paul_Chance]

Beast Master. On laser disk. I remember it fondly.

 

[Earthlyone]

As a kid I remember enjoying Cannanball Run 1 and 2 on vhs, also ghostbusters. A neighbour of ours seemed to have a vast library of films on vhs that the neighbourhood used to borrow from.

 

[Chernosoth]

I remember buying my first VCR for $90 then a used TV for $40. I probably watched free library videos for years until I was ready to start paying at video stores.

 

[magicalmoments]

Gawd!
I do remember the first VCR we had. It was a Betamax! Probably 1981/82. About the same time I bought my Sinclair ZX81 with a whopping 16k of RAM!
I did the research to decide whether we got a Betamx or a VHS and Betamax was the superior engineering and quality of image. At the time the video tape hire place in our town had as many Beta tapes as VHS so Betamx seemed the way to go!
The rest is history!
As for the first film we saw, I don't remember. But it would have been something family friendly. Porn tapes weren't freely available for another 10 years or so

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

Invasion of the Bee Girls


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[FataMorgana]

I think on video at home it was Lethal Weapon.

 

[Emerson40]

The first VHS movie to spin through our new pop-top loading VCR was either The Goonies or Back To The Future.

My folks would occasionally have this teenager from up the street babysit us, and when she discovered we had a VCR she would rent horror flicks from the local video store and bring them along. Cujo, The Omen, and slasher classics like Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street were played after dark, with the lights off. Candy treats, delicious frights, and some sleepless nights.

Another kid in our neighborhood would record movies from Supechannel and those VHS tapes would make the rounds. Good times.

Please be kind, rewind.

 

[pointless]

back to the future was likely a lot of peoples first for somewhat shitty reasons: corporate sponsorship by pepsi allowed them to bring the price down to something manageable. still, better than paying a hundred bucks for a fucking vhs tape.

or so i've heard. i was a kid. i didn't know shit about how much vhs tapes cost. i was just happy for the break from watching shitty sitcoms.

 

[FataMorgana]

I think ours was a Ferguson Videostar! And I remember the long play setting... turning 4 hour tapes into 8. Such joy!

Our local video shop fined you if you didn't rewind. He was great though, had a horror cavern upstairs and under the counter banned stuff. He had a flash Porsche. I always joked I probably paid for the doors the amount of films I rented from him.

 

[Pookie]

Lady and the Tramp on VHS

 

[Lazaran]

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You fuckers have some seriously good memories, or you still have the original VHS tape.

The earliest thing I remember about home movies was watching my Grandpa's collection of Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, and Keystone Cops, on a home projector. He used to work at an old theatre and somehow obtained the reels.

Though I don't know the first video I watched at home, I do know it was on Betamax, because it was quite a novelty at the time (about 1976 or thereabouts)

I think.