# Worst movies you once thought good — OR — What was I, HIGH? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 6, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974 "2000-11-06T18:18:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974/41 "2000-11-07T19:38:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spoke- \* > \*\ ***betenoir** wrote: > > > [@](#): > > > > Blazing Saddles is great. You can’t deny it > > I hereby deny it. The emperor has no clothes. The jokes are juvenile, corny and obvious, with all the subtlety of your uncle’s “pull my finger” routine. > > You won’t think it’s funny when you turn 13, **betenoir** … 😉 \*\* Gotta admit, I DO think Blazing Saddles has held up. Just saw it again recently, and laughed quite a bit. Juvenile, corny, and obvious? Yes, indeed. But WELL DONE and WELL ACTED juvenile, corny and obvious. OTOH, another Brooks film that I thought was the shit when I was thirteen was “History of the World”. I remember it being a non-stop laugh-fest. Saw it again recently, and realized it was just… shit. Barely even smiled. - Dave ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974/42 "2000-11-07T20:22:02Z")
Yeah, **Young Frankenstein** holds up, in spite of Brooks’s lame jokes, on the strong performances of cast members Madeline Kahn, Teri Garr and Marty Feldman. ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974/43 "2000-11-07T21:22:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lamia \* > **When I was really little – about six I think – I saw a kiddie Halloween flick called “The Worst Witch” and thought it was great. I saw it again when I was eight or nine and thought it was pap. I guess I became jaded at a young age.** After reading [X-Entertainment’s take on ‘The Worst Witch’](http://www.x-entertainment.com/worst.html), I want to see that movie, if only for the Tim Curry music video. When I was little, I thought ‘Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn’ kicked major ass, but I saw it a few years ago and it was utter garbage. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974/44 "2000-11-07T21:31:20Z")
First I’d like to toss my 2 cents on the Mel Brooks debate and say that I still think The Producers, Young Frankenstein, and Blazing Saddles are funny. Now here’s the sad part. [sub]I used to freaking LOVE Jerry Lewis movies[/sub] Let the canings begin. ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974/45 "2000-11-07T21:48:41Z")
Bend over, Crunchy Brat. This won’t hurt much. I actually saw _Hardly Working_ in the theater when I was young. Spent my own money, too. What the hell was I thinking? However, the one movie that has aged the worst for me has got to be _Breakfast Club_. I thought it was oh so perceptive, real, and deep when I saw it in the theater. I caught a bit of it a while back on cable and I thought “what dreck.” ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974/46 "2000-11-07T23:15:01Z")
I used to love _Repo Man_ and when I rented it a couple of years ago I thought that it sucked. Anybody who says that _This is Spinal Tap_ is bad is not welcome in my home. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974/47 "2000-11-08T01:03:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Trout Mask Replica \* > \*\* > After reading [X-Entertainment’s take on ‘The Worst Witch’](http://www.x-entertainment.com/worst.html), I want to see that movie, if only for the Tim Curry music video. > \*\* Thanks for the link, that was hilarious! Now I wanna see that movie again too. I’m sure it will suck, but I need to see those cheesy 80’s special effects again. ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974/48 "2000-11-08T01:20:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Saint Zero \* > \*\* > So, nowadays. Frankenstein is still good. Everyone is having fun, you can tell. Blazing Saddles. It’s bloody painful to watch. It’s the beginning of the end for Mel, same jokes, ect ect. > > \*\* Both movies were released in 1974. In fact, I think Blazing Saddles came out first that year. I think the difference in the humor is due to Gene Wilder. He was a writer, along with Mel, in Young Frankenstein but not in Blazing Saddles. They even got an Oscar nomination for the writing! I like both movies but Young Frankenstein is definitely better. I just bought This is Spinal Tap on DVD and it’s great!!! Back to the OP: I love Star Wars but when I finally saw it on the big screen during its re-release I almost fell asleep! The parts with Luke whining were ponderous. ---
**Author:** ![Jekeira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@Jekeira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jekeira)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974/49 "2000-11-08T01:23:25Z")
I absolutely adored that movie as a teenager. I watched it over and over and practically had orgasms over strange little details, like Peter Weller’s checkered shoes, and the watermelon in the laboratory. (Jeff Goldblum asks, “Why is there a watermelon here?” and a guy says, “Tell you later.” Watermelon never refered to again. I thought that was hysterical.) It is NOT a good movie. Plunging into the Mel Brooks debate: I think Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles are very funny (and I’m older than 13, too). But most of his other movies are extremely bad, and Robin Hood: Men In Tights made me feel ritually unclean. ---
**Author:** ![Gnarly\_Narly\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/858c86/32.png) [@Gnarly\_Narly\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gnarly_Narly_Dude)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974/50 "2000-11-08T02:26:17Z")
I still love Casino Royale! That’s one of my keepers, and I run it by a new friend every year or so. They always laugh, and I can quote half the lines. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974/51 "2000-11-08T02:40:33Z")
_Every Which Way But Loose_ starring Clint Eastwood and an orangutan. Ruth Gordon swearing isn’t as funny as it used to be. I refuse to watch _Buckaroo Banzai_ because I _know_ it will be crap, and I have very good memories of it. ---
**Author:** ![Togepi\_no\_Miko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Togepi\_no\_Miko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Togepi_no_Miko)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974/52 "2000-11-08T06:45:03Z")
Blazing saddles still holds up; I am 28. I like men in tights, and I like Dracula : Dead and Loving It. I’m afraid to rewatch secret of NIMH for fear it will turn out to be crud; loved it way back when. ---
**Author:** ![Stimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Stimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974/53 "2000-11-08T07:35:37Z")
I remember the poster for Buckaroo Banzai (was it ‘and the the thirteenth dimension’ or something?) enthralled me as a kid. Got round to watching it only lately - so really this doesn’t count I suppose - and it is truly bad. But not as bad as John Landis’ ‘Susans Plan’ - THE worst movie I’ve seen recently. Again this doesn’t count but I had to warn you. Mmmm let me think… aah ‘Cohen and Tate’ ‘Run’(although secretly like Patrick Dempsey - fine actor) ‘The Godz Must Be Crazy’ - starts funny ‘Rambo II’ ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ … just realised that my list is extensive so will stop slagging there! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-you-once-thought-good-or-what-was-i-high/39974.md?page=2)