I remember when Logan’s Run came out, me and my midteen friends thought it was the coolest movie ever until Star Wars debuted. I saw it again a few years ago and felt hugely embarrassed for liking it. It’s every bit the glitzy 70’s disco era variety show crapfest.
I agree The Big Lebowski still holds up and remains my favorite movie.
There was also a semi-official sequel starring the shoulda-been-a-much-bigger-star Marguerite Moreau as a grown-up Charlie that was passable cable fare. I watched the original followed by that one a few years back. It hadn’t aged as badly as I’d remembered; the fire effects were actually pretty great even after all those years.
I have a soft spot for the original because I’ve been to one of the locations where it was filmed: the Orton Plantation just south of Wilmington, NC. It was one of those places where Mom says Oh, how beautiful, I could stay here all day, I’d love to live in a place like this. Dad is just happy Mom’s happy and us kids were hating every minute of it. When my sibs and I watched it on TV, we cheered when Charlie blew the fuck out of the joint.
I’ve been watching Murder She Wrote over the past year, and IMHO it still holds up. The mysteries don’t seem any easier to solve than those of present day mystery shows. It’s also fun to see the occasional “before they were famous” guest stars like George Clooney and Courtney Cox.
The original Ghostbusters is very watchable.
The animated series 6teen, although set in a Mall, remains quite good.
I loved Mystery Men in the theater. When it came out on DVD, a few years later I rewatched it. I couldn’t understand what it was I liked so much. That was weird, such a change of taste.
I love old TV. We are watching Streets of San Francisco. I think it is as good as any modern cop show, with the bonus of the travelog of 70s SF. It’s fun to get Google street view out an match up locations.
It’s still funny in individual scenes as vignettes, but all together, the joke is old almost immediately.
Part of the problem is we’ve seen a lot more of the “superheroes but they’re just regular people” kinds of things since then, so the joke isn’t a new as it was then.
Rewatched The Warriors (1979) last month.
A review said the opening is the best part of the movie and I agree. It’s actually extremely interesting UNTIL they take that weird long detour with the Lizzie’s which feels like it takes up 20 minutes of ultimately pointless screentime and doesn’t really recover from that. It’s no coincidence either pretty much all the most interesting characters in the movie are either dead or arrested by that point too.
A while back, I watched some old episodes of Mork and Mindy, which was a favorite when I was a kid. It’s still fun to watch Robin Williams doing his schtick, but the scenes that don’t involve him Morking out are bland sitcom tripe.
Battlestar Galactica (2004 version) always holds up well when I rewatch. Perhaps it is simply because I love the show. Bear McCreary’s music is such a gift to my ears every time I watch.
My annual Thanksgiving time re-watch, “Planes, Trains & Automobiles”, never fails to work for me.
It is now 37 years old.
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The Princess Bride is just as awesome today as it was when it aired.
Bourne Identity is another I will re-watch whenever it’s on, as is National Treasure. None are groundbreaking cinema, but all are still enjoyable.
I had a lot of things going on in my life at the time that film was released and had never seen it, though I knew it had been immensely popular in its day. So, I watched it a few months ago with fresh eyes and few preconceptions. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Newman and Redford were marvelous, and the costume and set design were outstanding. It was everything I had ever heard about it.
People have mentioned “The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3.” That holds up quite well too. They were both made during an especially rich period in filmmaking, the late 60s-early 70s. Unfortunately, many films made during that time come off as trying to be too hip and look very dated as a result. In some cases, films like that can elicit a chuckle or a warm smile of remembrance for those of us who lived during that time. Others are often cringe-inducing. We watched “The Long Goodbye” recently, with Elliot Gould doing a 70s-style Philip Marlowe, and it just wasn’t good.
Agreed, though I’d make an exception for Chinatown.
The movie “Sneakers” holds up, even though the tech is out dated, the theme of digital encryption is still relevant. Plus you get Gandhi as a bad guy.
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I’ve just received Blu-Ray discs of Mister Roberts (1955), Operation Petticoat (1959), Father Goose (1959), and The Caine Mutiny (1954). These are four films I never tire of, and also ‘go together’ because of my family and childhood film-watching.
It does hold up, IMHO.
Conversely, the original series does not hold up at all. Ages ago when I was assistant manager of a video store, we had the whole series and I could watch it at work while I did other stuff. I couldn’t even finish the pilot.
Yeah, it was a low-rent Star Wars knock-off. There were a few good episodes, but they worked better as fantasy than as science fiction.
Galactica 1980, the last season, was even lower-budget, and even worse. But, “The Return of Starbuck”, the last episode of the last season, was actually the best episode in the entire franchise. (Although you have to be a fan of the franchise to care what happened to Starbuck.)
Yep, my buddy (a devoted trekkie) and I have almost finished binge watch it. Space hippies is bad now- but it was bad then. Spocks brain was also bad. But so many were great.
I have several films I can rewatch- The Wind and the Lion, 55 days at Peking, most Disney animated films, etc
And mine
It hasnt. The final scene/confrontation is still good, and the music contest, but so much of the rest is- well dubious today.
Yeah. It has moments, but much is cringeworthy.
WKRP in Cincinnati still holds up. Barney Miller does also.
Yep- a show designed for a laugh track is flat without one.
If not even batter.