Beastmaster. Thought it was awesome when I was 12. Saw part of it again the other night on YouTube and, man, was it ever awful. The head bad guy from the Jun Horde still has awesome looking headgear though.
I haven’t watched Red Dawn in years. I am afraid to.
The Godzilla movie?
I knew back then that it was a way big missed opportunity, having all the era monsters there, plus some of the more obscure ones (Manda!) they just didn’t have enough all out brawling.
Godzilla movies in general are a bit dated. Not the “foam rubber suit” part, but the plots that the humans are doing kinda wear thin
Pretty much all of John Hughes’ resume. At one time I thought films like Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club ( that came out when I was still in High School ) were awesome, but I haven’t been able to watch them on cable for many years without wincing repeatedly.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is the still the most tolerable of the lot, but even that has declining charm. And John Candy’s charisma might just be enough to drag Uncle Buck halfway to the finish line - maybe. But by and large they have just aged very poorly ( or I have 
).
Do people like to do this to The Second Stone in particular?
My picks are Allen’s Take the Money and Run and the original Star Wars trilogy.
Take the Money and Run was hilarious when I first saw it-- I might’ve still been a teen at the time. When I watched it recently I was under the influence of that nostalgia and the impression that Allen’s “earlier, funnier movies” were gold. Not really, in this case. The direction was bad, the acting was bad, and the script was amateurish.
I remember enjoying The Empire Strikes Back as late as about 1988. Then there was a long period when I didn’t happen to watch any of them. When I tried watching again the effects weren’t as good as I remembered and the story was much worse. Also, my tendencies toward science fiction snobbery worsened.
The Neverending Story. Loved it as a kid, used to watch it repeatedly. I picked up the DVD out of a sale bin somewhere a few years ago. When I tried to watch it I couldn’t believe how bad it was or that I wasn’t creeped out by it as a kid.
I still love the song though.
I didn’t like either of these movies when I was a kid, and still don’t, but they’re along the same lines of one I’ve soured on: Legend. I first saw Legend when I was nine or ten, and I thought it was great. I tried to watch it again a few years ago, and wow, I couldn’t even get half way through it. Same thing with The Last Unicorn.
All those late-80s through early-90s action movies. Every time a new one came out, it was agreed that THIS one had the best action scenes EVER and we’d be quoting its catchphrases over and over. One day it was Tango & Cash, the next day Total Recall, the next day Hard to Kill, etc, etc.
What a big pile of nothing they all look like now - I’d rather watch Oprah than sit through any of those again.
Well what do you expect from Ken Russell?
I like Legend, well the shorter US version anyway. But mainly because it has a great soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
I can’t think of any now, I think they are *all *awful.
My choices:
The Black Bird - A “comedy” take on The Maltese Falcon. Whne I was a kid this remed to be hilarious. Looked at it recently and I thought it was silly and more than a little racist.
American Pop - Another Ralph Bakshi “classic” that seemed a LOT better when I was a LOT younger.
In agreement on John Hughes’ oeuvre: An endless string of films which didn’t age well. Sixteen Candles is so racist ( Long Duk Dong anyone?) that it is cringeworthy now. And Duckie should punched Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink and found a girl who appreciated him.
Carrie - What a group of psychotic a-holes at that high school. Not that scary and really slow. Thought it was great when I was younger. Tried to watch it last week and simply couldn’t get through it.
Yeah, I love Alan Parsons Project music, but not for LadyHawke. It just doesn’t work. I wonder if anyone would ever try to re-record the soundtrack to the movie to make it more appropriate for the time period.
I never thought **Legend **was all that good, although I loves me some Tim Curry. However, The Last Unicorn is still one of my favorites. Peter Beagle has been doing a screening tour with the movie for about a year now, and I’m really hoping it comes close enough to home that I can go see it.
Oh, I kinda like Legend! When The Girl chews out the horned devil, and the devil (in spite of his costume and makeup) looks absolutely wounded! crushed! by her rejection :p. Just one more ludicrous scene in a whole movie of ludicrous.
Now, if they would only make a live version of The Last Unicorn, I could die happy. Everyone (well, a lot of fans) raves about that stupid cartoon version made eons ago, I just don’t think it’s good enough.
Caligula
I liked it when I saw it once on Showtime in the early 80s.
Weekend at Bernie’s. I was nine years old when it came out and it was the funniest thing I’ve ever scene. I rented it a few years ago and I didn’t laugh at all. Not even once.
Twister. My wife loves it, one of my kids thinks it was the best movie ever…I’ve seen it 50 times, on the 51st time I think This is CRAP!
Labyrinth. I was obsessed with it as a kid. A friend bought me a copy on DVD a few years ago, and it bored the fuck out of me. Except David Bowie’s crotch bulge, which terrified me. It looked like he’d stuffed a cantaloupe down his spandex pants.
Willow was another childhood fave, and that held up slightly better (though it turns out the Brownies weren’t funny at all.)
But, was he REALLY abducted? The alien scoutship was from Roswell, wasn’t it? I wonder if there was any alien contact between then and the time of the movie, because the aliens would have found the ship and reclaimed it (or at least knew we had discovered it).
I think Quaid’s character really was nuts, and had never been abducted.
Plus the genocidal biosphere-destroying aliens probably wouldn’t have bothered putting him back after they were finished probing him. They’d just kill him or toss him out of an airlock or something - after all, they were going to exterminate the rest of us later on anyway.
Uncle Buck holds up well, though, IMO.