# What movie has changed the most as you've aged and why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891 "2019-04-22T14:38:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/61 "2019-04-23T03:20:55Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > They did. It’s called Gross Pointe Blank.😃 I guess there’s nothing bought, sold or processed in the hitman business. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/62 "2019-04-23T04:08:51Z")
Neverending story. As a kid it was amazing, but sadly it’s boring as an adult. If they did that intentionally, then that was impressive as hell because I can watch other movies I saw as a kid and still like them as an adult. I’ve never seen it but supposedly rent is a film where your pov on who is the bad guy changes with age. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/63 "2019-04-23T04:46:21Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > How about Woody Allen’s **Manhattan**? > > Gorgeously shot in black and white, exceptional score. For fans at the time it was peak Woody Allen. For me as a college-aged viewer when it came out, the older man/teen girl relationship didn’t stick out so much because I had known a few girls in high school in similar relationships. > > But viewed today? Now that I am well into adulthood? Even setting aside the allegations against Woody - hoo boy. That’s just one strike of many against it. Isaac is a massively unsympathetic character, just narcissistic and mean. As I got older and knew more people like that, his redeeming qualities are harder to spot At the time he just seemed to be a continuation of Alvy Singer from \*\*Annie Hall \*\*and got undeserved credit for Alvy’s likability. On its own, this depiction is kind of monstrous. Beautifully shot and you can’t beat the Gershwin soundtrack, but overall kind of overrated. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/64 "2019-04-23T05:10:38Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Most war movies, with _All Quiet on the Western Front_ being the example that comes to mind immediately. In my teens and twenties, I could watch them as a sort of intellectual exercise, like reading Greek tragedies or Beowulf. Now I just can’t do it. I see all those soldiers being mowed down, and I just feel like bawling. The only war movies that I could still watch now are _Paths of Glory_, _Apocalypse Now_, and maybe the first half of _Full Metal Jacket_. As a wee one I thought the _Magic Christian_ was all laughs and chuckles (bowler-hatted businessmen dunking themselves in toxic muck for money; torch-singing drag queen in bar removing wig) but then seeing it decades later I found it incredibly weak. Like, unfunny weak, and at times having an almost self-congratulatory smugness to it. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/66 "2019-04-23T08:03:53Z")
johnny dangerously …in jr high it was funny as hell … today i realize its nothing but a bunch of jokes that a jr high kid would like … ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/67 "2019-04-23T14:21:36Z")
48 Hours with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. The non-stop profanity is so unnecessary. I’m uncomfortable playing the dvd at home. I don’t want my family hearing that stuff blaring out of the den. I didn’t have that reaction in 1982. I’m guilty of using the occasional swear word. Perhaps several choice words if I’m angry. I’ve never used a constant stream of profanity in casual conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/68 "2019-04-23T15:20:33Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > That’s just one strike of many against it. Isaac is a massively unsympathetic character, just narcissistic and mean. As I got older and knew more people like that, his redeeming qualities are harder to spot At the time he just seemed to be a continuation of Alvy Singer from \*\*Annie Hall \*\*and got undeserved credit for Alvy’s likability. On its own, this depiction is kind of monstrous. Beautifully shot and you can’t beat the Gershwin soundtrack, but overall kind of overrated. That brings up an interesting perspective. Seeing it originally as an 18/19 year old, much of that slips past. Instead the NYC setting and his having an active circle of sophisticated “intellectual” friends gives it a sheen that said “I want to be like that!” Perhaps the jerk-ness of the character also resonated differently with this smart-mouthed teen viewer. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/69 "2019-04-23T15:58:51Z")
My brother tweeted something like the following re Home Alone: Aged 8: Hahahaha Kevin is so funny! Pow! Aged 18: Drippy little smartass, I wish Pesci could wipe that smirk off his face. Aged 38: She made one mistake. Get that poor woman back to her child. I gotta go kiss my kids. ---
**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/70 "2019-04-23T17:56:17Z")
Chasing Amy (1997) fits the bill for me. At the time, I thought it was the most amazing film. It was in your face, Ben Affleck was great, Joey Lauren Adams was hot, it was fantastic. About 5 years ago I wanted to share this with my girl friend. About 20 minutes in I just turned it off and said “I’m really sorry.” It didn’t age well at all, or perhaps as many others have said, perhaps I aged well. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/71 "2019-04-23T18:46:14Z")
The Little Mermaid, she is 16 and wants to run away with a guy she barely knows. King Triton and Sebastian are 100% right and she is crazy reckless. Field of Dreams, it changes when you have kids and then when a parent dies, and then keeps getting more poignant. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/72 "2019-04-23T18:55:45Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > That’s just one strike of many against it. Isaac is a massively unsympathetic character, just narcissistic and mean. As I got older and knew more people like that, his redeeming qualities are harder to spot At the time he just seemed to be a continuation of Alvy Singer from \*\*Annie Hall \*\*and got undeserved credit for Alvy’s likability. On its own, this depiction is kind of monstrous. Beautifully shot and you can’t beat the Gershwin soundtrack, but overall kind of overrated. Indeed, whereas the mentioned **Annie Hall** stands up incredibly well and perhaps even gets better with more life experience & age. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/73 "2019-04-23T19:10:08Z")
1941 still sucks ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/74 "2019-04-24T01:43:34Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > As a person of much higher than average melanin, I must say that this scene was funny 15 years ago and is still funny now. Please note that I cannot account for the subsequent White Man’s Burden Complex or Very Black’s Super Hypersensitivity Mode. I wasn’t aware I needed some sort of named complex to think it was unfunny and unnecessarily offensive, but you do you. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/75 "2019-04-24T01:51:42Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > I wasn’t aware I needed some sort of named complex to think it was unfunny and unnecessarily offensive, but you do you. ¿Qué? :dubious: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/76 "2019-04-24T02:06:38Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > ¿Qué? :dubious: 😕 I don’t have to have “White Man’s Burden Complex,” whatever that is, to find it offensive. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/77 "2019-04-24T02:32:11Z")
When I was a kid, I was terrified by “Fiend Without a Face”. Saw it a few years back and couldn’t stop laughing a how bad it was. The original “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”, on the other hand, has held up remarkably well. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/78 "2019-04-24T02:47:54Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > 1941 still sucks Actually, although _1941_ is still a prime example of a self-indulgent mess with its main cast smirking their way through, I actually laugh more at it than I did when it first came out. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/79 "2019-04-24T04:27:08Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Actually, although _1941_ is still a prime example of a self-indulgent mess with its main cast smirking their way through, I actually laugh more at it than I did when it first came out. Same here. Robert Stack’s straight-man/only sane man performance is priceless. He gets more mileage out of an arch look or dry observation than the rest of the cast combined. ---
**Author:** ![Ficer67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Ficer67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ficer67)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/80 "2019-04-24T04:36:29Z")
Another movie that terrified me when it came out was, “The Exorcist.” I first saw this movie when it came out on television, probably heavily edited, and a considerable time after it was released in the theaters. As a kid, the idea that anyone could be possessed, frightened me greatly. I lost sleep, over this movie. And, it made me wonder about God, religion and everything. I have grown older and wiser, and that has changed my view of the movie considerably. Recently, I watched the movie and it was kind of like the background noises that we tune out while we are doing something else. This movie and other horror movies used to scare me, but now I am more afraid of new banking restrictions at my bank, and some of my bills that are coming due. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891/81 "2019-04-24T04:55:45Z")
Lethal Weapon movies - yeah, one of the lead actors is now only a disgraced antisemite, but also the entire premise wants you to root for an aggressive police officer with diagnosed mental problems that hurts people indiscriminately in vigilante justice. That isn’t amusing anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-has-changed-the-most-as-youve-aged-and-why/832891.md?page=5)