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Added 2022-07-07 19:44:16 +0000 UTCWhat's a movie that you once loved, but realized it didn't age well as you got older?
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It was just so dazzling at the time, especially the unbelievable use of 3D! But you're so right, it doesn't really hold up when you see through the flimsy, predictable story.
Atticus Xey
2022-07-13 03:38:44 +0000 UTCPocahontas in space
Jackson Littlewood
2022-07-09 14:25:10 +0000 UTCAvatar. Like most, I was too distracted by the spectacle to notice the derivative plot and shitty acting.
Hart
2022-07-08 19:50:43 +0000 UTCHe was so great in Misery. Kathy Bates understandably gets all the credit for that film but he’s just as important
Jackson Littlewood
2022-07-08 15:48:50 +0000 UTCThe Blind Side. When I was a kid and that movie came out, i just saw it as a harmless heartwarming story about a family doing a good deed to help someone less fortunate. I rewatched it a couple years ago and I pretty much hated it. The film runs away from dealing with the white savior aspects of it and tries to sell you the sentiment to make you forget the systemically racist circumstances that put Michael Oher on the streets in the first place. Just a bunch of “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” garbage. I saw a review of it on Letterboxd that pretty much put it perfectly: “this is the prequel to the white family in Get Out”
Jackson Littlewood
2022-07-08 15:45:53 +0000 UTCA far better WWII movie came out the same exact year. Plus, most ppl I know only talk about the Omaha Beach scene, often cited as the greatest battle scene (even though "Ran" still exists). I disagree. There's no impact since you don't know any of the characters yet. Additionally, it's kinda disconnected from the rest of the movie, which leads me to believe that its only there for the technical scale. Like you mentioned, it's also incredibly cheap and cheesy. I too have grown to dislike this film as time progresses.
Christopher Cassara
2022-07-08 14:50:22 +0000 UTCSaving Private Ryan When I first saw it as a teenager I thought it was one of the greatest war movies ever made. After recently re-watching it, I found the story to be really cheesy and very surface-level. Some of it is just too melodramatic for my taste, like when Giovanni Ribisi's character tells his fellow soldiers a story about how as a kid, he used to pretend to be asleep when his mom came home from work late at night wanting to talk to him and then he immediately dies in the next scene crying for his momma. Additionally, I found both of the twists at the end involving Tom Hanks (who kills him and his fate) to be kind of cheap and not really reinforcing anything meaningful in the story.
Stephen
2022-07-08 01:29:31 +0000 UTCI was only 8 when it came out, but I grew up watching The Day After Tomorrow over and over again, and I thought it was the goddamn cat’s pajamas back then. But if you asked me today, I’d probably go on a rant, spewing out everything I hated about the film. There’s nothing wrong with making political statements about climate change in film, but they literally had Jake Gyllenhaal running away from global warming. It’s all very stupid, and was a warning signal for Roland Emmerich’s artistic descent into madness.
Jared Angcanan
2022-07-07 21:04:00 +0000 UTCTHE OMEGA MAN (1971, with Charlton Heston, it's on HBO Max), which I loved when I was a kid whenever it was on TV. I still remember the deep fears the movie triggered in me at the time, because so much was resting on the main character's shoulders, making the responsibilities of adulthood seem really scary... But when I watch it today, as an adult, the stoicism and old school heroism of Charlton Heston's character are totally unrealistic and almost comical. His character in SOYLENT GREEN (1973) is much more flawed and realistic. PS: RIP James Caan, he was so good in THIEF and MISERY.. just yesterday (a day before his death was announced) I googled him to find out whether he was still alive and acting. So weird.
FlyingWaffle
2022-07-07 20:26:07 +0000 UTCAbout 90% of the films I saw as a kid didn't age well when they came out but I had no critical standards so I fell for them. I can't imagine for the life of me why I liked them. This is someone who watched The Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers dozens of times in grade school. The only thing good I can say about it is that I don't have to think much when someone asks me what the worst movie I've seen is.
Wolfman Brandon
2022-07-07 20:03:01 +0000 UTCI think the same way old videos games used to look amazing but today they look very rudimentary, Tron gets worse and worse by the year for me. The VFX dont even look good by the standards of the industry at the time when you consider the fact Blade Runner was the same year. It's also incredibly boring and not very fun to watch at all. And not only do I find it outright ugly most of the time and an absolute snoozefest, I think when I was younger I didn't realize how much the story is just a rehash of Star Wars tropes and plot points. Ironically it feels like Disney's attempt to cash in on that craze and it just doesn't have the magic. Guess they decided if you can't beat em, buy em.
Tyler Shobe
2022-07-07 19:56:38 +0000 UTCInception. I thought this movie was amazing when I first saw it. Now it feels so cold and frankly too ridiculous to watch. Amazing visuals with a bad storyline that sounds interesting on paper but not on screen.
Danny Harvell
2022-07-07 19:51:01 +0000 UTC
