I guess there’s nothing bought, sold or processed in the hitman business.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Indeed, whereas the mentioned Annie Hall stands up incredibly well and perhaps even gets better with more life experience & age.
1941 still sucks
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: 
I don’t have to have “White Man’s Burden Complex,” whatever that is, to find it offensive.
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.
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.
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.
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.