I’m much more of a re-reader of books than a re-watcher of movies. The only standouts in this category are things I watched as a fourth grader (or general equiv) and then saw decades later as an adult. In that vein I’ll nominate The Absent-Minded Professor (the original “flubber” movie), The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, and The Shaggy Dog. My tolerance for silly sitcoms crafted around a single farfetched premise has apparently declined with age.
I didn’t say you did. But if you wish to take offence, you do you.
They bragged about Robinson Crusoe on Mars being pretty scientifically accurate when it came out.
Overall, I think it holds up. Its image of Mars is completely off – no canals, the atmosphere is a helluva lot thinner than people thought it was then, and the odds of finding liquid water there – always through slim – are even slimmer now. And those oxygen-bearing rocks were outrageous even then (although I’d be willing to give them a pass for having oxygen relatively easily extracted from minerals. If you don’t allow that, then you don’t have a story, because your hero asphyxiates in a day.)
But it handled the situation in a much more mature way than most other writers and directors would have. And its the only movie I’ve ever seen that handled the “self destruct” issue in a plausible and non-dramatic fashion.
So I still rate it highly
Journey to the Seventh Planet always was a kinda dumb movie, though.
look for the ‘despecialized’ versions on your favorite trrent site. very much worth it to watch them as originally screened. the re-releases of 97 are unwatchable with the hokey cgi beasts and the infamous re-cut of the han/greedo scene.
han shot first!
I have and I will! RAWRR!!
Not a movie, but similarly I’ve been watching old Law and Order, and am very disturbed by some of Jack McCoy’s actions.
I still like the music but Rent as a story is just terrible now that I’m older. The maturity levels of the characters, the timelines and the stories don’t make sense.
The bad guy is AIDS, right? 
I think I always saw Ferris Bueller as an asshole. But he’s a fun asshole when he’s on your side. I have had friends like him (though less extreme). Yeah, they use you and they are jerks, but they sure are fun to be around for a while.
I agree that most comedies do not age very well. I think part of it is that comedy is often transgressive, and it’s very easy for something that was mildly transgressive a few decades ago to become either totally beyond the pale NOT FUNNY or pretty darn tame.
Vindication at last. I never cared for The Blues Brothers. I consider it more corny than funny.
I saw The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai when it came out and I came out numb. I gave it another chance several years later since it is so well liked by some friends. I still did not like it. I gave it one more chance when I saw that it was streaming on Netflix. That time I guess I had the right mind set for it and I liked it. I still have a feeling that a good half hour of it ended up on the editing room floor, so I hope to see a director’s cut of the film.
Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds both have scenes that were funny when we first saw them, but gross us out now.
In AH, the scene where Tom Hulce’s character goes out with the cashier from the grocery store. They’re drunk, and about to have some fun, when she confesses she’s only 13. This startles him but things progress anyway.
And in RotN, when the main character wears a mask, and encounters the cheerleader in some kind of maze. She, thinking it’s her boyfriend, has sex with him. Afterward, he pulls off the mask and confesses that nerds are good at sex because it’s all they think about. They wind up together.
Errr, no… rape (even if she consented, she consented to sex with someone completely different, so it IS rape) ain’t funny.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: Well, I can’t say my opinion has changed, as we saw it shortly after it was in theaters, but we found it to be one of the least funny movies ever. Here’s this entitled, narcissistic kid who wants to have his fun no matter whose life he wrecks - and we’re supposed to be sympathetic? I could imagine others thinking it funny at the time and realizing later how awful it really was.
Another way is for the jokes to be so funny they get constantly repeated and circulated to point they become overly-familiar and trite.
True.
Although it seems to me that the very best comedies manage to dodge this despite the repetition. The Marx Brothers are still funny. Monty Python is still funny. Airplane! is still funny. Despite the jokes in those movies being so often repeated.
Me, too. It really holds up.
I only watch it for the dachshund. Well, and the score. Also the only reason I watch Love and Death. The score, not the dachshund. I don’t believe there were any dachshunds in Love and Death.
I’ve always loved it. A friend of mine took his daughter and her friends to see it when they were around 12, and they didn’t get it, so it influenced him. Years later he saw it again and really liked it.
So serendipitous! I just got this movie on DVD from my local lib’ary branch [it IS Steven Spielberg’s 2nd movie, y’know] but for 2reasons only - 1]the opening scene of a nude female bather & her ocean “encounter”; ie Spielberg masterfully spoofing himself & his previous film, a li’l thing called “Jaws”; 2}the scene near the end, the town square a mass of chaos & Belushi’s character Wild Bill Kelso knocks a soldier off his roadhog motorcycle 2get outta town. He kickstarts it up but the soldier tries to hold him back; Belushi points in the other direction & says, “Oh, look…a baby wolf!” & when the soldier looks away, he smirks in that Belushi way, hunches down & motors away.
Because,the rest o’this flick is indeed a vague mess! But if u see it somewhere, GET IT! simply 4the above scenes!
It’s still a good movie but I don’t think The Crying Game has aged particularly well.
Pretty much the opposite for me. I’ve seen The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai described as a geek culture homage before geek culture even existed. When I first saw it, it was so full of crazy-cool ideas, and went off in so many unpredictable directions, and referenced so many tropes that I recognized emotionally but not intellectually, that I couldn’t help but love it. I recently re-watched it and…meh? It just seems like a confused, underdeveloped mess, and Peter Weller just sucks the energy out of any scene he’s in.
The end credits heroes’ dance procession is still awesome, though. Beats 90% of the credit cookies in recent movies.
Seconded. Even the first time around, I referred to McCoy as the Grand Inquisitor of New York.