Movies I Watched Every day as an Adolescent I Remember Nothing About

Six films I repeatedly watched, but the details escaped me

Alexander Razin
4 min readAug 31, 2022
A still image from Flubber. Credit: Disney.

Freeze frame.

Freeze frame the memorable and delightful moments of your life. These are the moments you repeatedly replay in your head, given these moments established who you are today.

I can’t forget my first video game console, a transparent blue Nintendo 64 (which I still have), the day I became obsessed with music, my first concert, and one which haunts me to this day, the girl I like, gets away. Yet, one moment outshines all those memories. The memory is of a five-year-old me binge-watching movies and TV in my room or the living room, sitting on my tiny monochrome chair.

I can’t say how many films I watched, but I enjoyed them equally. These movies were on repeat, but I can’t remember any scenes. I wonder if nostalgia will change my opinion or if the movies don’t hold up.

Let’s find out, shall we?

Only The Strong

The story about how I own this movie is more appealing than the movie itself.

Only The Strong is a typical let’s save the troubled youth movie. So how are they saving the youth? With the Brazilian style of dance fighting, capoeira…

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Alexander Razin
Alexander Razin

Written by Alexander Razin

Aficionado and connoisseur of obscure and experimental music, movies, and TV. Fictional and nonfictional pieces have their place here, too

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