# Movies you once loved, but now you know they sucked **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146 "2005-03-18T15:59:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/21 "2005-03-18T19:52:38Z")
When I was fifteen, I saw **Up the Creek** , which I thought was one of the greatest movies ever. I caught it on TV last year, and… boy, has that movie changed! (Or maybe I have…?) I saw **Tron** during its theater release and was blown away. I saw it later and I couldn’t sit though it. Same with **Heavy Metal**. As to Indiana Jones: **Temple of Doom** centered around the Thuggee cult, which had been wiped out by the British years before the movie was set. Spielberg imagined that some of them had survived and were planning a comeback of sorts. The Thuggee worshipped Kali, goddess of destruction, and were responsible for the deaths of over two million people. I don’t know if the Thuggee ate meat, but the weird, scary meat that they were eating in the movie would only serve to defame the Thuggee, which I’m sure an Indian wouldn’t be bothered by. As a bonus, it served to give the filmgoer the impression that these are damned scary people, who are difficult to sympathize with. This wasn’t a racist depiction at all. It would be offensive only to the Thuggee, if there were any still around, and if anyone would feel sorry for them. The Thuggee live on in the modern word _thug_, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/22 "2005-03-18T20:48:51Z")
Labyrinth. I got the DVD for Christmas and was so excited to watch it. I was like, whoa, this is a LOT more muppets than I remember. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/23 "2005-03-18T20:53:46Z")
**Endless Summer**. I saw it recently for the first time in 30 years, and it hasn’t aged well–amateurish and repetitive. And the Big Waves in Hawaii seemed a lot bigger when I was a kid than they did on re-viewing. Back to the IJ&TTOD hijack: my take on the meal was that it was supposed to represent exotic/decadent fare, but not totally unrecognizable. And not “thugee cuisine”; everyone at the table seemed comfortable with the menu (except Kate Capshaw), and no one was a thug except the host. So…yes; marginally racist. (but then, there’s a scene in _Giant_ where Rock Hudson eats calf’s brains right out of the skull. Is that racist against Texans?) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/24 "2005-03-18T21:08:04Z")
**Mary Poppins** - Okay, admittedly a bit of time and maturity had passed between viewings, about 35 years, but I really expected to be more pleased with it as children’s entertainment when I saw it again but nope, it struck me as complete dreck. I know, heresy, but it did disappoint. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/25 "2005-03-18T21:13:00Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > **Endless Summer**. I saw it recently for the first time in 30 years, and it hasn’t aged well–amateurish and repetitive. And the Big Waves in Hawaii seemed a lot bigger when I was a kid than they did on re-viewing. I saw _Endless Summer_ for the first time just a couple/few years ago. I think it’s great. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/26 "2005-03-18T21:18:29Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. For many many reasons. But the one that gets me is the dinner scene. I have eaten at plenty of Indian restaurants, and have never seen baby snakes, chilled monkey brains, or soup with eyeballs on the menu. To me this comes down to blatent racism. I am Indian. Don’t worry, we make jokes about it all the time. There’s plenty of uptight people who don’t find it amusing, but mostly I took it to mean, “Really rich people everywhere eat anything.” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/27 "2005-03-18T21:19:57Z")
Smokey and the Bandit I and II. I loved these movies as a kid, and I was all set to be a truck driver when I grew up, outsmarting the mean old sheriff and talking to my buddies on the CB radio. Fast forward many years… I rented Smokey and the Bandit for my kids: Suck City! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/28 "2005-03-18T21:20:47Z")
Sorry for the double-post, but I didn’t answer the OP. While I loved re-watching _Short Circuit 2_ (not too long ago, as a matter of fact) \*Short Circuit \* was pretty awful. \*Mary Poppins \* was arrogant and snooty, although I do love Dick Van Dyke. And _Never Ending Story_ - man those kids were whiny. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/29 "2005-03-18T21:25:11Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > **Endless Summer**. I saw it recently for the first time in 30 years, and it hasn’t aged well–amateurish and repetitive. And the Big Waves in Hawaii seemed a lot bigger when I was a kid than they did on re-viewing. Really?! I have to agree with **Johnny L.A.** This was one of my favorites as a kid (I had it taped off of one of the PBS pledge drives). It was on AMC or something a couple of months ago and it is still really cool (other than some of the crap they did in Africa which we would consider blatantly racist today). Great surfing, great scenery, great soundtrack, even the jokes are decent. Plus, it has all of that fantastic footage of Cape St. Francis. ---
**Author:** ![Curate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Curate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curate)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/30 "2005-03-18T21:26:18Z")
_Logan’s Run_ . I thought it was one of the greatest movies I’d ever seen when I saw it in the theater for the first time. I saw it again a year or so ago and the writing was cringeworthy – “Do those cracks in your face hurt?” Gaah! Curate ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/31 "2005-03-18T21:31:32Z")
> [@Curate](#): > > _Logan’s Run_ . I thought it was one of the greatest movies I’d ever seen when I saw it in the theater for the first time. What? _Logan’s Run_ sucked? But… But… You can see Jenny Agutter naked in it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/32 "2005-03-18T21:39:25Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > What? _Logan’s Run_ sucked? But… But… You can see Jenny Agutter naked in it! 😃 For all of 3 seconds. But not bad for a PG flick. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/33 "2005-03-18T21:43:51Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > For all of 3 seconds. But not bad for a PG flick. Depends on how you watch it. 😉 Jenny Agutter set the standard for on-screen nudity. Ah, nothing like seeing a pretty actress doing the full _Walkabout_… ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/34 "2005-03-18T21:44:12Z")
Aah, just watch _Equus_ instead. ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/35 "2005-03-18T21:51:17Z")
My favorite 80’s sex comedy **Class** featuring Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Jaqueline Bissete, a John Cusack cameo, and a young Virginia Madsen’s bare breast. What’s not to love? Well… let’s just say I’m glad I saw it first at age fourteen. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/36 "2005-03-18T21:53:32Z")
Hmm, interesting interpretations on Indiana Jones. In all the times I’ve watched it, I never came away thinking it was a cult dinner or a sign that something was wrong. I suppose it makes a little more sense that way. All that occurred to me was that Spielberg wanted yet another grossout scene (this movie was a collection of them), so he decided that this is how rich exotic foreigners eat. In fact there really aren’t many clues to suggest anything more than that. To keep the thread going, next up is The Goonies. The big bad monster that turns out to be just a big lovable bunny rabbit was stupid. The kids were obnoxious and loud. And the one kid that turned out to be the only critical thinker in the bunch was also a moron, a glutton, and a coward – and it turns out that his critical thinking was wrong because, well, “It just HAS to be true!” ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/37 "2005-03-18T22:40:26Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > Labyrinth. > > I got the DVD for Christmas and was so excited to watch it. I was like, whoa, this is a LOT more muppets than I remember. Yeah but I bet you noticed old Dave’s painted-on pants a lot more this time. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/38 "2005-03-18T23:20:29Z")
**Rocky Horror Picture Show** I thought it was fun when I was a teenager, but when I saw it again a few months ago, I thought it just wasn’t all that good. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/39 "2005-03-18T23:39:03Z")
The Brain from Planet Arous scared me witless as a child. When I saw it years later, it sucked like Dyson, which, as we know, “doesn’t lose suction”. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/40 "2005-03-18T23:42:42Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > **Mary Poppins** - Okay, admittedly a bit of time and maturity had passed between viewings, about 35 years, but I really expected to be more pleased with it as children’s entertainment when I saw it again but nope, it struck me as complete dreck. > > I know, heresy, but it did disappoint. Bar the doors, Martha, the Banks’s are coming to get you! Of course, they’ll be coming by umbrella! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146.md?page=3)