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Added 2021-03-23 02:58:06 +0000 UTCWhat's a movie you loved growing up, but hate now that you are an adult?
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Good burger for me, loved it growing up but now Good Burger is such a terribly awkward movie for its very cringy
Joe Rios
2021-03-26 15:49:55 +0000 UTCWow. The Applebee's of cinema. XD I totally agree with you. I don't like it either. Though I would need to see it again to really have an opinion on the main message.
Deepfocuslens
2021-03-24 16:41:04 +0000 UTCI totally agree.
Deepfocuslens
2021-03-24 16:39:02 +0000 UTCRequiem for a Dream similar to most of Arnowsky’s work I was swept up by a lot of devices and viscera that felt “raw” to me in high school but now read as smoke and mirrors. As someone more experienced in watching films it’s dated and on the nose. Honestly Ellen Burstin and the Clint Mansel score do a lot of the heavy lifting of an other wise half baked film.
jared Clarke
2021-03-24 13:51:55 +0000 UTCForrest Gump – I used to think it was a clever exploration of American society through a lovable protagonist but now it’s pretty overhyped. Its main message is pro-conformity and obedience to authority, two concepts that art is supposed to question. Looking back, I also dislike how the song choices are meant to tell you feel; that supposed to be the job of the actors and script. In essence it’s the Applebee’s of American Cinema, comfort food that tries to please everyone without taking any risks.
Emerson B
2021-03-24 00:13:16 +0000 UTCThis one is going to be a bit unique. A a preteen, I had a screen crush on the French Canadian actress Geneviève Bujold. She was in a little known movie from the mid-70's starring Robert Shaw and many other well-regarded actors called "Swashbuckler." I saw it every time I had the opportunity. I wouldn't say that I hate it today, but 12-year-old me thought it was much better than it is.
Edward Eiffler
2021-03-23 18:39:01 +0000 UTCIn regards to what I think you’re referring to as to its reputation, that being one of the films to usher in the blockbuster and help to kill off more artistic filmmaking, I try not to hold that against the movie either (or Jaws for that matter). Like you said, and I agree with, Star Wars is every bit as personal a film to George Lucas as, say, Mean Streets was to Scorsese. It just unfortunately made a huge amount of money and got the studios to chase after that opening weekend from then on.
Bennett Oliver
2021-03-23 18:11:19 +0000 UTCIt’s not the most unique position to take because of, as you said, the vast amount of fan outcry, but Star Wars is really the only thing from my childhood that I’ve had the most dramatic shift in opinion on.
Bennett Oliver
2021-03-23 15:06:53 +0000 UTCStar Wars is often credited as being the first film to take the writings of Joseph Campbell and applying them to film, thereby creating the first pop myth. Filmmakers and writers from then onward have tried to replicate that. A good example of a film that has built off of Campbell—and has done it with more wonder, awe, and yes, complexity than Star Wars—is Princess Mononoke by Miyazaki. Joe Hisaishi is an incredibly underrated composer.
Bennett Oliver
2021-03-23 15:03:21 +0000 UTChm that's one I've been reluctant to revisit for the same reasons you list.
Deepfocuslens
2021-03-23 14:30:17 +0000 UTCThe Rock is a favorite of mine XD
Deepfocuslens
2021-03-23 14:29:39 +0000 UTCBatman and Robin is a classic!
Deepfocuslens
2021-03-23 14:29:15 +0000 UTCJesus I hate The Boondock Saints.........Hate it. XD
Deepfocuslens
2021-03-23 14:28:55 +0000 UTCYah I definitely agree with you to an extent. There's a lot after-the-fact when it comes to the reputation of Star Wars that kinda puts me off. Though I always try to remember, that these were all causes that weren't known at the time.
Deepfocuslens
2021-03-23 14:28:20 +0000 UTCDefinitely feel you on that one. I think between a mix of just really mediocre movies and finding the discourse around the franchise to be so tiresome, I can't even find find the joy to return to the three movies I still should like let alone try anything else they put out.
Tyler Shobe
2021-03-23 12:55:27 +0000 UTCAh yes, you're right. They were one of the writers, I thought these two were more directly responsible for Scary Movie. I checked a preview of Epic Movie you mentioned, another level indeed. Rock bottom. Scary Movie, for me, didn't handle the test of time. The Sixth Sense parody is funny though, but overall I'm too old for this type of humour, I guess.
Oskitello
2021-03-23 12:18:54 +0000 UTCI have to say the original Star Wars trilogy. I grew up watching them endlessly on VHS tapes as a kid, but now I’m just indifferent to all things Star Wars. I guess it’s a number of factors. The original theatrical versions are gone, and I refuse to watch the “special” editions with their needlessly added CGI or Lucas so, so awkwardly trying to show that Greedo shot first. There’s the fact that it’s being endlessly mined for product. I don’t know what’s worse, the sterile prequels with dialogue that sounds like it was written by an AI program, or the corporately processed new trilogy, which comes off like they made it up as they went along ( Palpatine returns!...somehow). But what it really comes down to is that I outgrew them. With their fairy-tale conceptions of good and evil, I went on to love things with more complexity. I’ll always love memories of watching the original trilogy, but I’ve moved on. I can’t even watch The Mandalorian, which is supposed to be good.
Bennett Oliver
2021-03-23 11:44:12 +0000 UTCThe Scary Movie movies are their own thing surprisingly. The first two were made by a The Wayans brothers and the later too by David Zucker, the director of Naked Gun and Airplane. They're not great but I still enjoy them honestly as a guilty pleasure. They're far better than another other Movie movie.
Tyler Shobe
2021-03-23 09:47:51 +0000 UTCThe Boondock Saints seemed like the coolest movie ever at one time. I've come to realize over the years that it was mostly due to the use of The Blood of Cu Chulainn.
Ronet Jankovski
2021-03-23 07:53:30 +0000 UTCYeah, although I saw only Scary Movie stuff (including other parts of the series) I can see where it's going. Stupid, embarrassing and unintentionally unfunny.
Oskitello
2021-03-23 05:09:16 +0000 UTCBatman and Robin (1997). I don't necessarily hate it but it is funny to watch it as an adult and remember how much I loved it as a kid who was obsessed with Batman. It's campiness almost makes it a "so-bad-its-good" movie like The Room.
Stephen
2021-03-23 04:58:29 +0000 UTCThe Rock (1996), I thought it was such a cool action movie. But later on I realized how ridiculous the story is, the characters feel very flat, the dialogues are unnatural. Besides that, the CGI is much worse than in eg Jurassic Park, even though it came out a bit later. And yes, Nicolas Gage is very annoying. Also the Hans Zimmer score felt once epic (my brother even bought the OST on CD) feels now as simple as a techno song from the early nineties. Another one is Amelie (2001) - I was very moved when I first saw it but on a recent rewatch the movie lost its magic and I didn't root for the protagonist as I once did. Also the music is a bit overused and always tells you how you should feel now in this specific scene...
Fabian Arter
2021-03-23 04:41:04 +0000 UTCI absolutely LOVED Scream!! Loved it when I was younger. I love slashers but I can't watch that film anymore. It was an interesting film at the time, but, watching it now, the kills are bland, it's boring, the humor isn't funny. It's one of my least favorite horror slashers. The whole concept got stale real quick!
Tony Moro
2021-03-23 04:39:07 +0000 UTC"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial." Okay, maybe it's too strong to say I "hate" it now, but I was 14 in 1982 when it came out, and I thought it was magical and amazing at the time. It hasn't aged well at all for me. The last time I saw this, it was so over-the-top schmaltzy, and so ham-fisted in how it manipulates the viewer's emotions, that I just couldn't watch it anymore.
Derek H.
2021-03-23 04:09:14 +0000 UTCYou know what's worse? It has its defenders that are adults if you can call them adults.
Wolfman Brandon
2021-03-23 03:26:33 +0000 UTCMy significant other talks about how any time her school needed to show a movie during class, that was the go to for some reason. I'd rather they just bring back the paddle. No need to permanently scar the children.
Tyler Shobe
2021-03-23 03:22:20 +0000 UTCAnd a special shout out to Baby Geniuses which I watched countless times as a kid but think is so utterly dumb as an adult.
Tyler Shobe
2021-03-23 03:20:13 +0000 UTCAs a tween and young teen, I used to think Epic Movie and all of the Friedberg and Seltzer "parody" movies were so funny. I think I must have been dropped a lot as a child to ever find those even remotely funny. Glad I eventually came to my sense but man, what was thirteen year old me thinking?
Tyler Shobe
2021-03-23 03:19:01 +0000 UTCI'm ashamed to admit but Cat in the Hat. I have no idea what I saw in it but I would watch it dozens of times. What can I say except I had no taste growing up. Looking at it today, it might be the worst movie I've ever seen. School libraries have recently banned Dr. Seuss books for offensive stereotypes and yet this actively hostile piece of trash is allowed to be sold and displayed in the media section of any store? Welcome to 2021.
Wolfman Brandon
2021-03-23 03:15:02 +0000 UTC
