# 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:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/81 "2005-03-21T14:30:59Z")
> [@pool](#): > > I think that Asian kid is also in Goonies. Maybe Spielberg has a thing for them. 😛 Most Spielberg movies have at least one constantly-screaming child (Temple of Doom, Lost World, Empire of the Sun). Sometimes they have two (Jurassic Park), or three (E.T.), and sometimes an entire cast of screaming children (The Goonies). I see that Spielberg has inserted a screaming child (Dakota Fanning) into the plot of his next movie (War of the Worlds). Oh goody. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/82 "2005-03-21T14:35:18Z")
**All Dogs Go to Heaven**. I was in love with this movie when I was little, but I watched it a year or two ago and thought it was mediocre compared to other Don Bluth films like “The Land Before Time” and “An American Tail”. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/83 "2005-03-21T14:44:36Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > **S.F.W.** > > When it came out, I thought it was this totally awesome, genuinely subversive Generation X statement. I recently saw it again, and at most it’s a satire of that lame Gen-X mentality, though it doesn’t seem to have the self-awareness that such a satire would require. Hey, you picked mine. I really thought it was a witty, sarcastic movie, but it is nowhere as intelligent as I thought it was. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/84 "2005-03-21T14:45:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Also a couple of classic horror movies: Dracula (the Bela Lugosi version) and The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney, Jr.) both scared the bejeesus out of me when I was a wee spoke-let. But watching them as an adult I see clunky dialogue, primitive effects, and Dracula’s dungeon infested with…opossums? That can’t be right! It’s even worse than you remember. They’re _armadillos!!!_ Director Tod Browning had a thing for them – thought they were ooky and scary, when they were simply ridiculous. Browning’s direction in **Dracula** was pretty uninspired, and I’m really disappointed in the screenplay, but I still love it because Lugosi, in his prime, was a _great_ Dracula. If you want to see what _could_ have been done with the 1931 Dracula, look at the Spanish-language version, shot on the same sets, but with a different cast and crew. I’ve forgotten the names of the director and cinematographer, but they get big points for moving the camera around a lot more, putting in much more dramatic lighting, using close-ups more often… and for not putting armadillos in the film. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146/85 "2005-03-21T17:49:29Z")
[QUOTE=DrFideliusI did watch the original \*\*The Fly \*\* recently, with Dave Hedison. That film gave me nightmares for months when I ws eight. Now, not so much. (It doesn’t help that _Help Meeee_ has become such a cliche.)[/QUOTE] I won’t watch this one again because as a kid it upset me so much that he teleported his cat into “nowhere”. I’d have beamed a neighbor out before using one of my own pets. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-once-loved-but-now-you-know-they-sucked/295146.md?page=4)