# Movies You Might Have Liked At a Different Time in Your Life **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-might-have-liked-at-a-different-time-in-your-life/447121 "2008-04-27T20:04:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-might-have-liked-at-a-different-time-in-your-life/447121/1 "2008-04-27T20:04:54Z")
That is, movies you might have liked if you’d been older/younger, or perhaps you were really sick or in a bad mood when you saw it. For example, I’m in the middle of “The Crow.” It’s okay…not bad, just kind of meh. But I know that had I actually seen this back in high school or even college, as a melodramatic teen, I’d have loved the angsty music, the idea of a dude wearing make up and all black, avenging the death of loved ones…all of that. Now I plan on getting through it. I just wish I’d seen it earlier on in life. Other examples? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-might-have-liked-at-a-different-time-in-your-life/447121/2 "2008-04-27T20:07:14Z")
I think I’d have loved _The Last Mimzy_ if I had seen it when I was a child. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-might-have-liked-at-a-different-time-in-your-life/447121/3 "2008-04-27T20:16:43Z")
_The Lost Boys_ came out when I was in college. A friend of mine said, “If I had seen it when I was in high school, I would have thought it was the greatest movie ever made.” I agreed. Same for _Dead Poets Society_. ---
**Author:** ![Pollux\_Oil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@Pollux\_Oil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pollux_Oil)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-might-have-liked-at-a-different-time-in-your-life/447121/4 "2008-04-27T20:26:30Z")
The original _Alien_. The first time I watched it I think I was too young and was expecting something a little more attention-grabbing. Instead, I fell asleep during it. Whoops. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-might-have-liked-at-a-different-time-in-your-life/447121/5 "2008-04-27T20:28:46Z")
[QUOTE=mbh] _The Lost Boys_ came out when I was in college. A friend of mine said, “If I had seen it when I was in high school, I would have thought it was the greatest movie ever made.” I agreed. [/QUOTE] Ah! I thought of this one when I was making the thread, but in the exact opposite way. It came out when I was young, but I ended up renting it when I was in high school, and I loved it. I even created a rather embarassing thread on the Dope (back before we had Cafe Society) about how great I thought it was. Yes, I’m aware of the stupidity of youth. The thing is, I can still enjoy Lost Boys now on a different level (nostalgia, etc.) but if someone showed it to me out of the blue last year, I probably would’ve rolled my eyes through the whole thing.