# First movie you rented **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2002, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385 "2002-12-08T23:59:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/21 "2002-12-09T04:26:54Z")
When I was about 4 (give or take), my dad got us Star Wars on a projector. I’m not sure whether we actually rented it or he got it through a friend but that is the first movie I remember seeing in my house that wasn’t on tv. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/22 "2002-12-09T05:18:38Z")
I had used my mom’s video club membership (we had to pay to be a member back then) several times. But then I found a place that took a security of a credit card and only a $10.00 fee. (Mom paid about a hundred…) My girlfriend, my roommates gf, and I rented _PeeWee Herman’s Big Adventure_ and we watched it when my roomie got home from work. Man, I miss that movie. Or was it the hot tub sex later? btw, I have since learned that swimming pool, hut tub, whatever sex just isn’t as great as all those pornos make it out to be. Give me a bed, couch, front lawn, or soft carpet any time. Guess what other kind of movie we saw that night? ---
**Author:** ![deborak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@deborak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deborak)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/23 "2002-12-09T05:20:11Z")
**The Outsiders** and **Twilight Zone: The Movie**. It was 1983, my 11th birthday/slumber party, and my parents rented a player. My girlfriends and I mooned over Ponyboy through a couple of showings that night! ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/24 "2002-12-09T05:38:44Z")
The first movie we ever rented was \*\* The Sound of Music \*\*. It was on vhs too. My sisters and I would pretend to sing like the vontrap family and do the coo coo song and dance. Then we moved onto Marry Poppins and Apple dumpling gang. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/25 "2002-12-09T08:18:38Z")
You know. … I don’t think I’ve ever rented a movie. At least not in the past 10 years when it was an option for me. I did order “The Sixth Sense” on V.O.D. (Video on Demand) ---
**Author:** ![Phelan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Phelan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phelan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/26 "2002-12-09T08:38:35Z")
I think the first movie we ever rented was F/X. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lodoen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@Jeff\_Lodoen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lodoen)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/27 "2002-12-09T10:54:38Z")
1981, Star Wars and Airplane on a rented Quasar with dials. Hmm, never considered it but our TV happened to be a Quasar too (with an ultrasonic remote, a triangle \ could set it off) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/28 "2002-12-09T11:27:04Z")
REDNECK ZOMBIES, but only because a friend of mine was in it. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/29 "2002-12-09T13:29:46Z")
Gone with the Wind ---
**Author:** ![gruven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a9a28c/32.png) [@gruven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gruven)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/30 "2002-12-09T13:59:53Z")
Revenge of the Nerds ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/31 "2002-12-09T14:56:25Z")
**To Sir, With love** First movie ever rented, also the first movie ever purchased. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/32 "2002-12-09T15:00:49Z")
my most treasured gift was the video A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (I think we actually bought RE-ANIMATOR later, maybe that Christmas)- we rented a VCR. and Dad rented two other videos- ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES and ILSA- SHE-WOLF OF THE SS. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/33 "2002-12-09T16:35:18Z")
I hate to admit this but at least it wasn’t my idea, but the first movie my family got was Annie. I was probably 7-8 then. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/34 "2002-12-09T18:09:33Z")
There used to be a video theatre of sorts where I used to live (OKC). The place had several rooms with couches and and big screen tvs. You could pick a movie and watch it with friends. I watched two films there and I’m not sure which was first. Used Cars and The History of the World Part 1. ---
**Author:** ![knarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@knarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knarf)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/35 "2002-12-09T20:09:47Z")
Before we owned a VCR, I decided to rent one and several movies, so me and some of my friends could sit around all Saturday watching movies. The titles included **The Road Warrior, Firefox, Monty Python’s Meaning of Life** and two others I can’t remember. This would have been in the fall of 1984. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/36 "2002-12-09T20:28:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FriarTed \* > …and Dad rented two other videos- ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES and \*\*ILSA- SHE-WOLF OF THE SS. \*\* I officially nominate FriarTed Sr. as the coolest dad ever. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/37 "2002-12-09T20:32:54Z")
My brother and I watched **Blade Runner** at a friend’s house. Not only was it the first movie on tape I had seen, it was also the first rated R movie any of us had seen. While I thought (and still think) that it was/is a great movie, we must have watched the nudity parts 100 times. Shortly after that, we went to dinner at some friends of my parents. They owned a copy of **Star Wars**. I remember being totally jealous and thinking that if I owned a copy of Star Wars, I would watch it everyday. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385/38 "2002-12-09T22:15:01Z")
On the same day in the late 80s I rented two movies: “The Shining” and “Ruthless People”. I also rented the VCR. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-movie-you-rented/141385.md?page=1)