Movie you loved but realize now sucked

all these movies mentioned were probably loved by those in their teens and early 20's. You grow up and you realize how impressionable you were. So, when us old folks ***** about today's movies, a la Transformers, but that movie was made for teens and early 20's types, who apparently love it.

20 years from now, they will be saying, you know, i loved Transformers when i first saw it, but now i look at it and it just sucks.

That being said..

Logan's Run.
 
All the Planet of the Apes beyond the original. I can remember watching all those when they would have a theme week of movies after school and thinking they were great as a little kid. Now I realize the error of my youth.
 
Blazing Saddles -- man I loved it when I was too young to watch it. Now I can't bear to watch it.
 
Braveheart - it's the same movie Mel Gibson makes, like, every time out. I can no longer watch without being distracted by anachronistic notions of personal and political freedom, nor can I get past how straight and white everyone's teeth are. And Mel's hair.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - John Hughes movies have not aged well. Every time I watch this now, I just grow more and more convinced that the title character was a complete and total dick. I like to think that Ferris ended up a schlubby government teacher at an Omaha high school who got fired because he tried to fix the student body president election.
 
Why all the ID4 hate? That movie is corny and allsome all a the same time. Plus, what movie fires up the patriotic juices more than Pullman's Independence Day speech?

Mine has become the Kentucky Fried Movie... was at one time the best movie ever- now it's not nearly as funny. I still use it though... if a girl I'm dating laughs at some of the bits and can make it thru the whole thing then she's a keeper. Guess that's why I'm still single
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S*P*Y*S

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(1974)

"Sutherland and Gould do to the CIA what they did to the Army in M*A*S*H"
(or so said the movie poster)

a more appropriate tag line would have been
"a lame, pathetic, wretched attempt to recreate the iconoclastic magic of their last pairing"

Oh well, as a 16-year-old in high school I thought it was cool and funny.

I first saw it as part of a double-feature with M*A*S*H at a drive-in theater.

When I was in college, I happened to catch it on TV ... and I thought, why did I think this was funny? Or even entertaining?
 
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. I smell Lucas’ Howard the Duck/Phantom Menace stink all over it now.

Not that I think the movie sucks - it has just been severely diminished.
 
ROCKY I & 2. I always knew that 3 - ??? sucked.

When you see Stalone take dozens, maybe hundreds of blows to the head, where Apollo Creed fully connects, I have to laugh. 3 or 4 shots like that would damn near kill most men. I only had a few fights as a kid. Each time I hit someone in the head/face (about three different times). I was stunned/shocked at the damage. That's not what happens on TV shows I thought!!!!!
 
My interrogators need only roll opening credits to Chariots of Fire and I'm their little poodle. What a steaming pile of cinematic crap that I've gotta own way too often around alleged friends. At least that bilious theme song is seldom heard, mercifully.
 
The original "Rollerball."
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you are out of your mind...now, the new one sucked...
blazing saddles is a classic and so is the big chill.
 
Yay! I get to agree with general 35 on something. The original Rollerball does not belong on this thread.

I went through the experience of loving-then-hating during one sitting of most of the Merchant-Ivory films. They start off interesting and beautiful and almost always leave me shrugging and wondering what the hell that was all about. Howard's End was the last of the acclaimed movies of theirs that I reacted to in that way.

The lone exception is Remains of the Day which I think is a very good movie.

I didn't warm up to Forest Gump, so I'm glad that people are revisiting their opinion of that one. I felt like an alien in a theater full of people falling in love with that movie.
 
Urban Cowboy

It's not that I think that movie sucks, but watching it 15 years later on a Sunday afternoon you realize how much they were making fun of Texans.
 
The name of my softball team is the Sam Elliotts. And I'm going to a Road House themed party tonight.


So you House haters can suck it.
 
Somebody once loved Gymkata? Really?

I'll nominate Arthur. I saw it at the Union theater just after it came out and watched it several more times in the 80's, (probably on Showtime or Betamax).

I caught a few minutes not long ago and...

Just sad really.










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What in the wide wide world of sports would prompt someone to put Blazing Saddles on this thread?!?

It's been about 20 years since I've seen Dog Day Afternoon and I'm worried if Blazing Saddles could make this thread that maybe DDA wasn't as great as I recall.
 
Buckaroo Banzai is getting ripped on this and another thread. Maybe I'm nuts, but I still like the cool vibe of that movie. It didn't take itself seriously in the way that some of the other films on here did.

The original Walking Tall and Billy Jack are movies that blew me away as a kid than make me cringe now.
 
Yeahhhh a lot of these movies I'm pretty sure sucked fromt he beginning. But I'll agree with ID4 and Robin Hood for sure - there is some dialog that hearing it for the first time in the movie you can kind of ignore it because you're in the moment of the movie, but once you know what's going to happen, you start thinking "who talks like that????"

The sad thing about Robin Hood is that as much flack as Kevin Costner gets for it, he is the least of that movie's problems - which granted falls into the "faint praise" category.
 
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