Movies You Thought Were Good When You Were Young That Actually Sucked

[Pryderi]

I tried watching "Escape from New York" again a couple of years ago...what the hell was I thinking? It's unwatchable!

[KansDem]

1. M*A*S*H and "Easy Rider"

M*A*S*H-
Watched it when it first came out and thought it was really funny. Watched it a few years ago and thought to myself, "Wow! Those two guys (Sutherland and Gould characters) were real assholes!"

"Easy Rider"--
Thought it made a solid statement, but watched it recently and wondered, what was all the hubbub about?

on edit: Just my opinion...

[sasquatch]

7. "Easy Rider" message is about the selfishness and utopian bullshit fantasy of the baby boomers

[SteppingRazor]

73. Yeah, but didn't The Big Chill do that a lot better? n/t

[DarkTirade]

29. I never saw M*A*S*H until just recently

and I have to say that I was not really impressed. It was like a bad college movie, but with the setting changed to the war instead of a college campus.

[mainegreen]

2. Terminator.

It's actually a very crappy movie.

[DarkTirade]

26. I think the only reason anyone knows it exists is because it paved the way for a much better sequel.

... which was followed by a horrible sequel. And then a somewhat entertaining TV series.

[Orrex]

36. By 'horrible sequel,' I trust you're referring to the forthcoming Christian Bale vehicle?

Because Rise of the Machines was an entirely serviceable film, as I'm sure you'll agree.


:evilgrin:

[DarkTirade]

62. ...

:rofl:

I find it entertaining. I.E., I laugh at it while I watch it. It was totally worth the 3 bucks I paid for the DVD.

[tigereye]

3. what, it isn't considered classic camp now?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. "One, Two, Three"

with James Cagney as a Coca-Cola executive in Berlin.

When I saw it when it first came out, I was very, very young and thought it was hilarious. Saw it on TV when I was in my twenties and thought it was stupid.

[Pryderi]

5. I'm on the fence about

Saturday Night Fever.

[woo me with science]

6. The Sound of Music

Used to love it, but now it is so much treacle.

Pales in comparison to My Fair Lady, which I still love.

[begin_within]

54. I'm still impressed by the production quality of it

The subdued colors, the way the songs are woven into the narrative, the complete lack of garish show-stopping numbers, the authentic period costumes, and the spectacular scenery is given its due while never overshadowing the story. Sure it's corny and a "kids' film" now, but I still think it's an example of how to make a musical film the right way and not just a series of overblown production numbers as with "Chicago."

[woo me with science]

60. You're right, of course.

It just bothered me that I didn't find the story captivating anymore.

[begin_within]

61. I've never found the story captivating

In fact it's pretty predictable even on the first viewing.

[rcrush]

8. Con Air

[blondeatlast]

9. Not really sucked, but I watched "American Graffiti" recently and it wasn't the great flick

I remembered it as by any means.

[Bryan]

10. The "Back to the Future" movies...

...are not as inspired as I found them to be in my boyhood. They're a bit too cutesy and convinced of their own cleverness.

Escape From New York is pretty cool, though. It's not a classic, but Kurt Russell is priceless in it.

[Twillig]

12. I have more Kurt Russell movies in my dvd's than I thought

I was looking just yesterday after watching "Big Trouble in Little China."

Must be due to the early movie watching susceptibility induced as a youngster by "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes."


President of what?

[applegrove]

59. Yup I loved the back to the future movies cause I had a crush on Michael J. Fox.

The last time I saw it I thought .... what?

[cynatnite]

11. Flash Gordon in '80...

I have no idea why I thought it was good.

[Bryan]

13. "Flash Gordon" is almost a camp classic

I say almost a camp classic because Sam J. Jones sucks out loud as Flash, just standing around like a lox while every scene he's in is stolen out from under him. It would have been much better with Kurt Russell in the title role.

Anyway, it has a huge cult following in the UK, and understandably, because it's hilarious.

"No! Not the bore worms!"

[CreekDog]

14. Rocky 5

:wtf:

oh, and Grand Canyon :hide:

[Danger Mouse]

15. Return of the Jedi.

Oh snap. :P

[Twillig]

16. Nice post, Ewok!

Damn I'm drunk.

[carlyhippy]

17. Foxes....St Elmos Fire.......

Carly

[my2sense]

18. Little Shop of Horrors

[Richard Steele]

19. You say THAT (I won't repeat it) about "Escape From New York"? You make me sad for you.

It's one of the greatest 'B Movies' of all time.
I watch it about once a year, and I appreciate it
more with every viewing.

[Frank Cannon]

32. EFNY one of my all-time favorites

Any movie with a cameo appearance by Buck Flower gets an automatic pass from all criticism leveled at it. The guy was just that good.

[Jamastiene]

20. The Gate

It was a bad horror movie back then, only I loved the special effects and the music. Now, it just looks like typical teens not really rebelling but pretending like they are rebelling worse than anyone ever has. I'm just not impressed any more.

[Lil Missy]

21. Urban Cowboy.

[IndianaJones]

22. Shogun Assassin. nt.

[ACTION BASTARD]

49. How dare you!

May the ghost of Toshiro Mifune haunt you for all eternity!

[Radical Activist]

23. Star Trek the Next Generation.

I saw an episode on TV recently. Weak plot. Bad dialog. The way characters responded to situations was unrealistic and immature. I suddenly realized that the sci-fi gadgets and aliens mostly serve to distract from what a bad show it is. It was a first season episode so maybe the later seasons weren't as bad. It made me question how much I liked the entire series when it was on.

[DarkTirade]

27. Yeah, that's a lot of what I see when I look back.

With DS9 they improved on that a lot, much better character development and whatnot, but it was missing a lot of the exploration elements. And Voyager just kinda sucked in general. And with Enterprise... there was so much potential there. And they just never quite reached it.

Really, the only Trek that's really worth watching IMO are the even numbered movies. 2,4 and 6. Okay, maybe 3, just to see Doc Brown as a Klingon. :P

[Orrex]

37. The first season has perhaps two episodes worth watching

Honestly, it was so horrible that I recognized it even at the time but refused to admit it.

[Radical Activist]

38. They were also nearly all remakes of the original series.

Completely lifted the story lines.

[Orrex]

53. I don't know about that

Really, The Naked Now is the only one that strikes me as a real retread, and it was a deliberate and self-acknowledged reworking of the original.

Which other ones do you think qualify as remakes?

[Evoman]

46. That happened to me with X-Files. Watched some episode from the first season and I couldn't believe

I used to like it at all.

Horrible.

And yes, I know I'm going to be flamed by X-files fanboys.

[Radical Activist]

48. I'm surprised I haven't been flamed more

for my post. But I think even fans have to admit that season one pretty much sucked.

[krispos42]

24. "Howard the Duck"

Loved it as a kid. Scared to watch it now for fear it will strip away the memories of youthful happiness that are still in my brain.

[Orrex]

56. Then don't watch it--I promise you that it's worse than you can possibly imagine

It's incredibly bad. Anyone who says otherwise either is delusion or has a vested financial interest in the film.

Horrible.

[fizzgig]

57. nope, it's still as awesome as you remember

i loved that movie as a kid and i love it now for it's brilliant absurdity. plus, leah thompson's pretty cute in that movie.

[JANdad]

25. Clash of the Titans...

Cobra, Flash Gordon to name a few

[Coventina]

52. Hey now! COTT is a QUALITY movie!

:spank:

I must have watched it at the discount cinema 50 times the summer it was in the discount cinemas....

Ahhh, memories....

:-)

[Broken_Hero]

28. Batman The Movie, with Adam West

I loved watching this as a youngster, but a few years ago I slapped the dvd in, and after 20 minutes or so, I just couldn't take the torture anymore, and turned it off....bleh.

[HuskerDU]

30. "Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry"

I remember watching it as a kid and thinking I had gotten away with watching a super bad-ass movie. Watched it again a while back and it was a snoozefest.

[Frank Cannon]

31. The Warriors

I just saw this movie again a couple of years ago and I was slackjawed at how laughably horrible it was, on almost every conceivable level. And I thought it was GREAT when I was a teenager!

On the other hand, I saw Escape From New York a few months ago and it still holds up for me. Kurt Russell and Lee Van Cleef make that movie timeless.

[BlueIris]

33. "Top Gun." Right up there with "Top Secret."

Blech, those are bad movies.

[Left Is Write]

41. Top Gun. THAT'S what I was trying to think of last night.

I knew there was at least one movie that I loved and watched over and over that I now think is hideous - that's the one.

[Bombero1956]

34. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club

With the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. I remember seeing it at least 2 times in the theater and thinking it was great. I saw it recently and realized that it sucked bigtime. The Bee Gees were all wrong for that movie. Of course there was always Xanadu.

[blockhead]

35. Billy Jack

[deutsey]

40. Beat me to it.

I loved this movie and actually saw it in the drive in a number of times. I was too young to see it, imo, (I was in third grade), but my parents must have thought I'd fall asleep during it.

Anyway, I loved this movie...until I saw for the first time in years on DVD. It starts off ok, but once they're at the Freedom School, the movie just falls apart, and embarassingly so.

Another movie I thought was good from that time was The Legend of Boggy Creek. For some reason I thought that was a scary movie until I saw it on TV a few years ago. What a boring piece of crap.

[Sequoia]

76. Same here. Heck, I even cried, now I just smirk.

[darkstar]

84. Another vote for Billy Jack

[deucemagnet]

39. Enter the Dragon

When I was nine years old, I thought it was the most fucking brilliant piece of cinema ever committed to cellulose and an instant classic. The next time I saw it was about fifteen years later, and I couldn't believe I was watching the same movie.

[Phillycat]

64. Yes, but without it, we wouldn't have Wu Tang Clan.

And that would just be sad.

[bookworm65t]

42. The Rose

Bette Midler is not all that great

[rebel with a cause]

43. Beaches.....another one that just gets old with time ;)

True Grit and The Searchers especially, and most of the John Wayne cowboy/war movies.

Anything with Charton Heston in it except The Omega Man and maybe Soylent Green (can't remember it too well.

A lot of movies that I watched when I was young and naive.

[bookworm65t]

81. I like Bette Midler but somehow

her movies have always sucked.

As for john Wayne, I do like The Cowboys. Doesn't seem to have aged at all.

[Tikki]

44. Most children of divorce in the 50's and 60's secretly ...

or not secretly watched Parent Trap...

Kinda a lame movie but, I was drawn to it like a moth to the flame.


Tikki

[Shell Beau]

45. Howard the Duck! Nuff said!

[Haole Girl]

47. The End

When I first saw it, though very young, my friends and I couldn't stop laughing. Now it just seems really bad.

[gmoney]

88. Has a few good lines in it...

[lob1]

91. The script for "The End" was very, very funny. A friend of mine wrote it.

Unfortunately, as often happens with movies, they watered it down until little of the original was left.

[ACTION BASTARD]

50. The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke'em High, Eraserhead, Killer Tomatoes, Godzilla vs. Megalon

I tried to come to terms with this by going with that whole, it's so cheesy/bizarre that it's transcends traditional cinema...

Uh yeah, crap is just crap. However, Jet Jaguar is forever!


EDIT* Fuck the OP about Escape From NY.

[ghostsofgiants]

55. Dude, Eraserhead is brilliant.

[ACTION BASTARD]

92. If you wacked off your ass on Mexican highballs I'm certain it would be too.

[Coventina]

51. Xanadu

:scared:

Hey, to a 13 year old girl it had everything! Magic, roller-skating, catchy tunes, romance.....
Too bad it's a terrible movie....

on edit: spelling

[Mad_Dem_X]

74. OMG, yes!

I loved that damn movie as a teenager! I still watch it on DVD on occasion, but only to laugh at how horrible it is.

[fizzgig]

58. adventures in babysitting

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092513/

i used to rent it all the time when i was a kid, but i made the mistake of watching on tv not long ago. my gods it's awful!

teen witch is another one

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098453/

i had to change the channel after about 10 minutes

[DarkTirade]

65. ... that makes me want to watch the Nostalgia Chick's review of it again.

http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thedudette/nostalgia-chick/1757-teen-witch

:P

[Phillycat]

63. Time Bandits.

I loved that movie as a kid; I now find it unwatchable.

[blueknight]

66. purple rain

i seen it again recently, horrible just horrible...

[deutsey]

87. I knew the movie sucked (i.e., acting, story) when I saw it several times in the '80s

I just loved the music...and still do. Some of the best pop music, ever, imo.

[LSdemocrat]

67. Independence Day . . . gets incredibly worse each time I see it

[Phillycat]

68. And yet I love it.

Of course, I wasn't a kid when it came out.

/old

[NewJeffCT]

69. Conan the Barbarian, Escape from NY, the original King Kong

and I'm sure a few others will come to mind later today.

both movies are pretty cheesy looking back now, though I still like the theme to Conan.

OK, the original King Kong doesn't suck, but they don't really give you much of a reason for going to Skull Island and some of it is kind of cheesy.

[PassingFair]

70. The original "Parent Trap".

I always told my kids that the original was
WAY better, so one day I rented them and
we watched them together.

The new one was WAY, WAY better!

Mom was WRONG.

:cry:

[edhopper]

71. Godzilla, Mothra,

Rhodan, etc..
Just guys in big rubber suits wrecking little toy cities. Cool when I was a kid. Pretty sucky now.

[Sequoia]

78. Ah, come on...I love Godzilla, he's kinda cute.

Sometimes the bus sounds like him when it stops.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

72. Creature from the Black Lagoon

Scary then.

Not so much now.

:hi:

[Mad_Dem_X]

75. Pretty Woman

I thought it was cute when I was younger, now I can't stand it. Julia Roberts can't act, and the movie glorifies prostitution. Blech.

[Iggo]

77. Billy Jack.

Oh, man...

[retread]

79. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World. Well it doesn't really suck. When I was a teenage boy I saw this thing

at least 10 times and laughed and guffawed till my sides hurt every time I saw it. These days I chuckle mildly and infrequently at that. Plus, I can't even sit through the whole thing. The movie hasn't changed. I wonder what has??

[Richardo]

90. I still find it hilarious.

:shrug:

I'm not laughing as hard now because I know all the jokes, but I still like to see the performances, the comic timing, and still enjoy it as much as I did the first time.

Same thing for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Forum, which is also one of the funniest filmes ever made.

[Zomby Woof]

80. Scanners

Although the cheese factor still allows a few laughs.

[jakefrep]

82. Ace Ventura Pet Detective

It gets more lame each time I watch it.

[bikebloke]

83. The Dirty Dozen

As kids we thought it was so cool. But I'd never seen it all the way through. Only from classroom hearsay did I find out about Jim Brown's
fate. So recently I finally watched it all the way through in colour, without commercials and pan+scan. It was alright, but not great like The Great Escape.

[Pale Blue Dot]

85. Star Wars

Really, it's just not a very good movie.

[Iggo]

89. You're absolutely right.

That movie does not hold up.

[The_Casual_Observer]

86. 7 Faces of Dr Lao

and "Them"