Movies You Loved (But Do Not Like Anymore)

[YellerDog]

This is a thread about movies you've grown out of, or anything you've recently re-discovered only to say "I am kind of disgusted that I liked that in the first place".

After watching it again the other day, I have come to the conclusion that Reservoir Dogs is perhaps not as good of a movie as I remember it being. The dialog comes off as super-forced, the acting is perhaps not as awesome as I remembered, and fatally, nothing fucking happens in that movie. There are super-long stretches of overly 'clever' talking that just kind of piss me off now, but I know I loved every minute of the movie back when I originally saw it. But now? Fuck this movie. It's goddamn terrible.

It's making me come to the realization that probably quite a few of my high school/college favorites are actually not particularly good movies. I'm a bit concerned to watch some of 'em again (Fight Club). Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is already a victim of this phenomenon, not to mention the countless other Tarantino ripoffs from the last fifteen years.

So, what old favorites do you now really, really hate?

[gamevet]

Robocop: That's right! I've seen the movie so many times on cable, that I can't stand more than 15 minutes of it at a time. The acting sucks, the storyline goes nowhere, and the action isn't all that great.

[Fe 26]

I can't say that this has happened to me. But I have found myself liking old movies in different ways as I get older. There is a whole layer of dark/adult humor in movies like Ghostbusters I didn't get when I was 5

[Dolemite]

Wow, a fairly original thread topic for once.

I'll have to give this one some thought. There's actually been a few movies that I've run into this problem with lately.

[onelocust]

This is still a pretty recent film, but I just rewatched Serenity and found myself hating more than a couple things about it.

Over the last couple weeks I had found some time to rewatch a few of my favorite Firefly episodes (Basically all of Disc 3 and Jaynestown). It's been a couple years since I watched Serenity, but I had remembered liking it very much, being a fan of the series. Guh, not so anymore.

Many of the plot devices (or holes, rather) and the character development of Mal are so forced and not in tune with the series. And if you weren't familiar with the series, the film would likely be unwatchable. Sure, theres some good stuff going on, and I'm always happy to just see more Firefly any way I can, but it will be a long while before I watch this again.

[Zerohero]

Well from childhood I loved this movie:


But once I saw it again a few years back I realised how horrible of a film it is. But I still own it for the heck of it.





There are probably more movies that I need to add, but I"ll have to add them later.

[Samba De Amiga]

Teen Witch. I used to watch this movie all the time as a kid. I just watched it again and it's pretty lame. Typical 80s, but lame nonetheless.

[Zerohero]

The Guyver:


Man how could I forget this one. One one of those "classics" from back in the day I watched as a kid. Me and some buddies from school sat down, and watched part 1 and 2, and did nothing but laugh the whole time. Oh well, the suit is cool, and there is always the anime.

[JBNagis]

Road House.
I really cant stand to watch it anymore. But back in the day it was the movie to watch. The throat ripping scene i thought was amazing at the time. Now? bleh.
and yeah.......
Last Dragon

[Rem]

Event Horizon, I LOVED this movie back when it came out. And while I don't think It's bad. I don't think It's as cool as I remember it, a whole lot more predictable now.

Deep blue sea-I should preface this by saying i love giant shark movies. And all things considered this is one of the better ones, but there are a lot of things in it that are real WTF moments.

Pitch black-A remember this one just being a whole lot better than it actually is.