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Excruciating old movies that did not age well
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That film was terrible when it came out. To not age well, you have to start out at least decent.
Sixteen Candles, in which the main character has a foreign exchange student living with her named Long Duck Dong and she ends up with a total jerk at the end instead of her secret admirer best friend is criminal.
Of course, I think ol Johnny boy went back and retconned Ducky to be gay since any other explanation is inexplicable.
Little Monsters.
Loved it as a kid. Recently tried watching it with our son and it was one of the most annoying movies I've ever seen.
Loved it as a kid. Recently tried watching it with our son and it was one of the most annoying movies I've ever seen.
I'm not sure it's so much not aging well as having always been bad, but DeMille's The Ten Commandments.
Breakfast at Tiffany's.
The movie did not age...well.
Whole heartedly disagree.
The movie did not age...well.
Whole heartedly disagree.
I think it was never good, but I see your point. Breakfast at Tiffanys is something I remember really liking but I now find almost unwatchable
david lynch's dune, though maybe it never was very good. has some charm though.
i have never read the books, but i think maclachlan's son is like a giant worm person in them. i would have liked to seen that.
i have never read the books, but i think maclachlan's son is like a giant worm person in them. i would have liked to seen that.
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My girlfriend watched it for the first time a few years ago, and was wondering why there was only one woman in the whole movie.
I watched both The Never Ending Story and The Princess Bride for the first time a few years ago and neither movie has held up very well.
I think you're combining two different films into one (Sixteen Candles and Pretty In Pink). Ducky is in the latter.
If it aged so well why did George Lucas have to go back and fix it? Checkmate.
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The Land Before Time.
One of my favorite movies as a child. I had several of the toys hand puppets from Pizza Hut, wore out a VHS copy, etc. Decided to rewatch it as an adult when I was sick one day and wanted something comforting. Huge mistake. The movie just doesn't work. Its short runtime doesn't allow for much substance so the plot is paper thin, the characters that I loved as a kid I found annoying as an adult, and the animation isn't nearly as good or detailed as other films from that era. It's every bit as bad as the three dozen sequels that came after.
I've also rewatched An American Tale and The Secret of NIMH in recent years and both of those Don Bluth movies hold up much better and are still enjoyable as an adult.
One of my favorite movies as a child. I had several of the toys hand puppets from Pizza Hut, wore out a VHS copy, etc. Decided to rewatch it as an adult when I was sick one day and wanted something comforting. Huge mistake. The movie just doesn't work. Its short runtime doesn't allow for much substance so the plot is paper thin, the characters that I loved as a kid I found annoying as an adult, and the animation isn't nearly as good or detailed as other films from that era. It's every bit as bad as the three dozen sequels that came after.
I've also rewatched An American Tale and The Secret of NIMH in recent years and both of those Don Bluth movies hold up much better and are still enjoyable as an adult.
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Yikes. I watched The Breakfast Club this year and watched Mollie Ringwald's character get sexually assaulted and abused for the whole movie, only to fall for the abuser in the last few minutes for no reason.
Maybe it's one of those "you had to be there" things? I thought it was a bore.
This is the reverse of the topic, but I'm going to bring it up anyway. I watched The Quick and The Dead a couple days ago, and I swear I hated it the five other times I watched it. But this time I watched it I came away saying "You know what this was good. Not great, but very good".
Is Birth of a Nation cheating?
Dances With Wolves and Flashdance are also two films that are just absolutely horrendous when you watch them today.
Dances With Wolves and Flashdance are also two films that are just absolutely horrendous when you watch them today.
Whaaaa? I watched it for the first time last year and really enjoyed it for what it was.
Andre the Giant rules.
I don't think The Ten Commandments aged well. The story meanders around, and visually it is rather unimpressive when compared to something like Ben-Hur, which came out only a few years after. Sure it was impressive at the time, but it very much shows its age.
Besides, Prince of Egypt does the same story better.
Besides, Prince of Egypt does the same story better.
If I remember correctly, the Land Before Time actually had a bunch of scenes cut out of it before it was released which is why it's so short. Might explain why it's less substantive than those other movies.
I loved it as a kid but I don't see it holding up as well as An American Tale.
I'm gonna be honest I think I agree with you. A New Hope is my least favorite of the original trilogy
Horror movies are the fucking worst at this. No genre ages worse than them. Frankly, anything prior to, say, Martyrs in 2008 is just ridiculous by today's standards. Even classics like Romero movies or Rosemary's Baby are hard to watch. Although generally speaking, horror movies that relied on atmosphere and tone over being scary, aged better on average.
Regardless of the content and how people feel about this movie today, it's ambition at the time it released was astounding. The thread isn't purely a question of how a movie has aged for us personally, just how it's aged over time.
yea, yes.
good for you?
whoa yea.
star wars special effects are utter crap at this point. I fully get why Lucas wanted to redo them digitally.
in particular the ton ton Han rides in empire, its laughably bad. many of the other practical effects that were amazing for the time, that people rightfully loved at the time, have not aged well at all. I'll maintain much of the love star wars gets is from people who were aged 10-20ish the time the movies came out and so their love is almost all nostalgic and also why many of these same people shit all over any new star wars movie.
Trying to think of some, but this thread piqued my curiosity.
Oh yeah, Rosemary's Baby is a good one too.
EDIT: And The Goonies. My ex's favorite movie as a kid, so I got her the Blu-ray for her birthday once. It wasn't good.
EDIT: And The Goonies. My ex's favorite movie as a kid, so I got her the Blu-ray for her birthday once. It wasn't good.