Nitpick. Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little. It would have been quite…interesting with Gene Hackman.
“They’re BABIES!!!” Oh man, we are around the same age, I loved that movie so much, and actually have it on my amazon wish list. Hmm, it’s pay day, I think I will treat myself.
I can’t think of anything I cringe at, but I have seen The Buttercream Gang about 5 billion times. My stepmom bought it at church, thinking it would teach us good morals. She heard us hooting and hollering and was very proud of herself, never realized we were laughing AT it. Best bad Mormom movie ever. Man, I think I might buy that as well.
I think The Wizard has held up, I watched it not too long ago and still find the acting good, and I still get excited when he finds the warp zone, despite beating that game around 15 years ago.
Oops. I am absolutely terrible at names. Thank you.
The Wizard of Oz
I know I’m supposed to worship all things Judy Garland, but this movie, which I have fond memories of watching as a child, is really hard to watch as an adult. A few years ago it was on TV and I wanted to watch it with my husband. He never really watched it before.
His reaction was, “Really? You like this movie?”
I had to admit that it was basically unwatchable and we moved on to do something else.
Even now, I can’t think of reasons why it sucks so much, all I remember is how much I liked it as a kid.
And now you have me visualizing that scene with Gene Hackman and Samuel L. Jackson in the roles…
I blame two nights in a row of lousy sleep.
Another TV show to add to the mix: “The Tomorrow People.” And “Isis.”
But for movies, the biggest disappointment to me as an adult was (hangs head in shame) “Megaforce.” Loved it as a teen (reasonably hot guys in form-fitting suits had something to do with it). Watched it as an adult when I found out that a then-co-worker’s husband had a bit part in it – it hurt.
I was picturing Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman, reprising their roles from Unforgiven.
Jim: Look at my hand.
[raises hand and holds it level]
Bart: Steady as a rock.
Jim: [raises his other hand, which is violently trembling] Yeah, but I pick my toes with this one.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. When it came out I was in high school. Hey, it had Ernie Kovacs, Jonathan Winters, Terry-Thomas! Fast forward 30 years, when I first saw it again, and wow, is it unfunny and overlong. (Still good airplane stunts, though.)
I saw that on TV the other day, and was going to watch it for the first time. Then I realized how much of my night it was going take up. It’s long movie! I Wondered if I had made the right choice or not, and I guess I did.
That’s better. Now repeat after me: “The Last Movie was a masterpiece.” Say it!!
Actually, I’m just kidding about The Last Movie. That film blew dogs.
This is another movie I love, and I own the DVD, but I can understand how some people wouldn’t like it. I do, because it stars quite simply the best slapstick actors of that generation and a few from the preceding generation in one work. The overall plot is weak, and the story isn’t connected very well, but if you look at it as a series of snapshots of comedy, it can be a great experience. Still, if you’re not into slapstick or comedians of the 50’s and 60’s, then there’s not much to get out of it.
As far as I’m concerned, Terry Thomas, Dick Shawn, and that guy from Gilligan’s Island made that movie.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World still holds up, but not well; it could use an edit of an hour. The other thing I never bought even as a kid were the ugly men and their beautiful wives. Can’t remember the actresses, but Sid Ceaser and Uncle Miltie get particularly good looking women. That never worked when I was 10!
Now, for Blazing Saddles, it still makes me laugh. My favorite scene? The LaPetomaine Tollway.
“what’ll we do?”
“someone’s going to have to go back into town and get a shit-load of dimes.” 
The Black Hole
Seconded. I Tivo’d that on AMC a couple of nights ago, and it couldn’t be any dumber if it had Jar-Jar Binx instead of the big red robot.
Oh, God, I just remembered. As children, my sister and I watched Mac and Me over and over. I thought it was way better than E.T., which frightened me with the scenes of E.T. dying and being kidnapped by scientists.
Now as an adult, I realize that it is a cynical, unabashed rip-off and blatant commercial for Coca Cola, Skittles, and MacDonald’s.
My mother must have had the patience of a saint to sit through so many viewings and not point out to us how stupid it was.
[Nitpick]Kovacs was not in IM4W. He was originally cast but died before shooting started and was replaced by Sid Caesar.[/Nitpick]
My opinion of **It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World **has fluctuated over time. When I was 8, I thought it was the greatest movie in the world. However, my appraisal of it dropped considerably as I grew older. However, I now think better of it mainly on the basis of some truly funny scenes (e.g., Winters destroying the gas station, which my favorite mainly for Arnold Stang’s “We’re gonna have to kill him!” line). Still, the biggest problem I have with the movie is fact it was directed by the wrong man: Stanley “Mr. Message Movie” Kramer. Kramer was plainly not a director of comedies and it shows in off-pacing of some of the scenes. Also, IM4W is a very cynically toned movie and Kramer was probably one of the least cynical men in Hollywood. **It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World **was a movie that needed to be directed by someone who was adept at broad comedy and cynical humor like Billy Wilder.
In that vein, I thought “Flight of the Navigator” was a masterpiece when I was 9-years-old. Spaceships, time travel, robots, a young Sarah Jessica Parker. It had everything. I probably watched it a dozen times when I was in third grade. Everytime it was on TV I saw it. When my parents first got a VCR this was one of the first movies we got.
Today it just seems like a low-rent version of ET.
Wow,** E.T.** scared me too, specifically the part where he was sick, and all pail and stuff. :eek:
That’s easy : Top Gun. I just don’t want to be on the highway to the danger zone anymore, I guess.
The astronaut home invasion scene in ET is still one of the most startling and unsettling scenes of all time. It scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.
When I was a kid, I would watch The Karate Kid Part III over and over again every morning before school, while my dad was making breakfast. Whenever it was over I’d just rewind it and watch it again. It doesn’t make me cringe though; I still watch it now. I have seen that movie probably more than sixty times, if I had to guess, and it never gets old. Terry Silver is one of the best villains of all time.
I’d totally forgotten about MegaFarce.
I remember seeing ads for it before its release, and thinking it would be the Best. Movie. Ever…
I saw it at 18 y.o. and I couldn’t have been more disappointed.
Everything about it screams craptastic-1980’s-stunt-spectacular-TV. (The A-Team; Knight Rider, etc)