What movies did you rent as a child?

All of them.

Real Genius
Cloak & Dagger
Time Bandits
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
Disney's Halloween Treat
Disney Golden Collection w/ Lambert the Sheepish Lion
Enter the Ninja
Revenge of the Ninja
Ninja III: The Domination

Goodfellas was a movie I remember people renting over and over. Maybe I'm misremembering this but it seems like that movie passed quickly through the theatre without much notice or fanfare then exploded in popularity when it was released on video.

Resevoir Dogs was another one. Nobody knew who QT was and Resevoir Dogs was a low budget indie movie that probably didn't get much of a wide theatrical release. At some point word circulated that Resevoir Dogs was this cool underground masterpiece that you had to see. But the local Blockbuster only had one copy and it was always checked out. So anytime you went there you had to go check if it was on the shelf and when you finally got your hands on it, it was like you found a diamond.

When in doubt, you could always go with John Hughes, Oliver Stone, a horror movie or the latest Action and Adventure movie from the New Release section.

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Between 9 and 12 I was super into horror, especially 60s and 70s horror. I got a kick out of the fact that my friends weren't "allowed" to see those types of movies.

I remember wanting to rent Heavy Metal and Dead Alive as a kid at Blockbuster.

Nothing...In my childhood getting a color antenna was the bomb

if i rented a movie twice, mom got out the camcorder and a blank tape, and thats all i have to say about that.

The same one that every middle school/high school/college kid paused at the same exact moment OVER and OVER again --





Blockbuster actually reported that they had to replace this movie more than any other because it had been ruined through pausing and putting through slow motion at the same exact spot.