# Movies You Once Liked That You Now Think Are Awful **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936 "2014-03-05T16:55:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/1 "2014-03-05T16:55:35Z")
I just saw **Weird Science** for the first time in probably 20 years if not longer. It was on cable and me and my wife were like, “Hey let’s watch this,its a good move.” No it isn’t, it is horrible. It isn’t even good in a nostalgia, “Wow what a bad 80s movie.” kind of way, it just stunk to high heaven. What was I thinking? What movies that you used to like do you now think are absolutely awful? I don’t mean they aren’t as good as you remember, but are actually bad, bad movies. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/2 "2014-03-05T17:01:50Z")
Just watched Ghostbusters again after many, many years. It didn’t hold up all that well IMO. I originally saw it as a nine-year-old, so the lines a nine-year-old thought were funny just didn’t seem as funny now. Other Ramis/Murray movies have aged much better. I feel like this movie did well because everyone was swept up by the hit song, the marketing, the stars, etc. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/3 "2014-03-05T17:12:50Z")
Saturn 3, and Xtro. Thought they were awesome when I first saw them, now not so much. Even back then I knew Farrah Fawcett couldn’t act, in my defence. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/4 "2014-03-05T17:15:49Z")
**Natural Born Killers** seemed a whole lot deeper and more interesting when I was 20ish and it was new. Trying to watch it now, it’s mainly just awful. Robert Downey Jr’s parts are still good for a smirk and it has a couple fun lines but the movie as a whole is just a hot mess and the ‘message’ is about as subtle as a 1960’s educational PSA film. ---
**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/5 "2014-03-05T17:18:28Z")
For me it’s **The Magic Christian** with Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, et al. I saw it in my youth and remembered as a funny, crazy movie. I saw it recently on DVD and it was HORRIBLE. I didn’t think any of it was funny. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/6 "2014-03-05T17:34:59Z")
Couple years back my wife confessed that she had never seen _Tron_, so we streamed it. Wowzers, it did not age well. It seemed so futuristically awesome to 12 year old me, but now I see how so many computer terms were just jammed in with no real understanding of how they actually work. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/7 "2014-03-05T17:35:19Z")
I thought **Independence Day** rocked when I first saw it. After thinking about it afterward, I thought it was about as stupid as can be. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/9 "2014-03-05T17:54:41Z")
My friend and I were totally obsessed with **The Crow** when it came out. I got it on VHS and watched a couple more times in college, in 1997. Bought it on Blu-Ray last year and omg what a bad movie!! SO BAD!!! ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/10 "2014-03-05T18:08:04Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > **Natural Born Killers** seemed a whole lot deeper and more interesting when I was 20ish and it was new. Trying to watch it now, it’s mainly just awful. Robert Downey Jr’s parts are still good for a smirk and it has a couple fun lines but the movie as a whole is just a hot mess and the ‘message’ is about as subtle as a 1960’s educational PSA film. Grudgingly agree that it doesn’t seem as good as it used to. I’m a bit of an Oliver Stone fan but this is not his best. Less-grudgingly agree that Robert Downey Jr is amusing in it, but Tommy Lee Jones is my favourite. > [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Just watched Ghostbusters again after many, many years. It didn’t hold up all that well IMO. I originally saw it as a nine-year-old, so the lines a nine-year-old thought were funny just didn’t seem as funny now. Ghostbusters is awesome. Always was and always will be. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/11 "2014-03-05T18:13:01Z")
Sometimes it’s the soundtrack, not the movie. I still enjoy the story of _Ladyhawke_, but the soundtrack? Oh, such over synthesized drek! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/12 "2014-03-05T18:39:48Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > My friend and I were totally obsessed with **The Crow** when it came out. I got it on VHS and watched a couple more times in college, in 1997. > > Bought it on Blu-Ray last year and omg what a bad movie!! SO BAD!!! Oh my, yes. I watched it a bunch of times back in the day and recently tried to re-watch it on Netflix. I don’t think I lasted 45 minutes before giving up. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/13 "2014-03-05T19:08:43Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > Sometimes it’s the soundtrack, not the movie. I still enjoy the story of _Ladyhawke_, but the soundtrack? Oh, such over synthesized drek! I _adore_ Alan Parsons, but I have to agree with you after listening to part of the soundtrack recently after not having heard it for many years. Actually, it’s not that I think it’s horrible: I like it. But it doesn’t go with the movie _at all._ It sounds like it would be a perfect fit for a mid '90s Japanese RPG, though (something like “Lunar: The Silver Star”). ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/14 "2014-03-05T19:37:31Z")
> [@Bozuit](#): > > Ghostbusters is awesome. Always was and always will be. 😃 > [@](#): > > It’s criminal the way it got snubbed by the Oscars that year. Yeah, it still ticks me off. I agree Ghostbusters is still a fun movie, but then I sort of liked Ghostbusters 2, so what do I know? Independence Day also was sort of goofy, but reasonably entertaining. I agree about Weird Science though. I saw it a couple of years ago, and was disappointed. I guess that now I’m no longer in the geeky teen virgin demographic, a lot of its charms are lost on me. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/15 "2014-03-05T19:39:57Z")
When I first saw **The Dead Zone** , I thought it was awesome. Then I read the book. The movie seems awful so many years later. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/16 "2014-03-05T19:40:55Z")
I have no excuse, because I was in my 20’s when I saw it the first time, but I liked _Tommy_ in 1975. I watched it again sometime in the 90’s. What a self indulgent piece of crap. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/17 "2014-03-05T19:45:56Z")
> [@Bozuit](#): > > Grudgingly agree that it doesn’t seem as good as it used to. I’m a bit of an Oliver Stone fan but this is not his best. Less-grudgingly agree that Robert Downey Jr is amusing in it, but Tommy Lee Jones is my favourite. The talk of soundtracks reminds me that I need to give Natural Born Killers its due for introducing me to Leonard Cohen. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/18 "2014-03-05T19:48:52Z")
Some Kind of Wonderful, Reality Bites, Singles and Threesome come immediately to mind. I liked them all when they first came out. Now I’m embarrassed to have ever watched them. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/19 "2014-03-05T19:51:37Z")
Pointbreak, while still a decent movie, is nowhere near as good as i thought it was when i was 15, when it came out ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/20 "2014-03-05T20:48:20Z")
I had fond memories of Strange Brew but then tried re-watching it after many many years…not good. ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936/21 "2014-03-05T20:58:42Z")
I actually liked Superman II as a kid, but now knowing the background of the film (Salkinds V. Donner) and how choppy the combined footage is, I just don’t care much for it. The first is still a classic in my eyes, but Reeve seemed to be the only great thing about the sequels. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-liked-that-you-now-think-are-awful/682936.md?page=2)