Movie you loved but realize now sucked

Roadhouse. Roadhouse. Roadhouse. HAH. I taunt you a second time.
 
Can I nominate "anything starring Tom Cruise"?

Since Top Gun has been mentioned several times, I'd ike to nominate Mission Impossible if only for the beach fight scene late in the movie. It was 10 minutes of outright pugilism that would have killed any human, yet they suffered barely a dribble of blood.
 
The original Matrix was a good movie. Neither it nor Chariots of Fire nor Ghostbusters nor Blazing Saddles belongs on this thread.
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I agree with the original Star Wars though. I see how it was so astonishingly good in it's time but now ... Empire is soooo much better and even Return of the Jedi, despite the over-cutesyness, was a much better story. With A New Hope, if you wanted to make a parody of it where all the bad guys did was exercise every single action/war movie cliche in existence in order to give the good guys a chance, you'd only have to alter about 30 seconds worth of film.
 
Soylent Green. When I first saw it at the age of about nine it scared the hell out of me. I saw it about 20 years later on TV and thought "this has to be the corniest thing I have ever seen."
 
Easy Rider

It was one of the seminal movies of my generation and it's embarrassing. There's a scene where Peter Fonda actually says to Nicholson, "very groovy George"!
 
How could I forget Battle of the Bulge? I bought the video after Band of Brothers and talked the family into watching "one of Dad's favorites." I almost had to turn it off when they showed tanks rolling through Belgium, I believe. It was the region of Belgium that looks strangely like the American Southwest.
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Or how 'bout A Bridge Too Far? I bought this video the same day I bought The Bulge. I couldn't get by the scene where an old senile woman staggers out into the rubble-strewn street and is promptly mowed down by MG42s. She thows her hands up into the air and spins 2 or 3 times like a ballerina as she falls to the ground. Oh, the drama! The horror of it all!
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ABTF is still awesome. I have biked the albert canal to Arnhem and it was a fantastic rendition by the movie.

The cast was amazing.

I have the DVD and watch it at least once per year.
 
Alright, this is a bit off topic (music and not movies), but I used to love Led Zeppelin. They were THE thing in Corpus Christi (and probably every where else) from '69 to '75ish.

Now if ANY one of their songs comes on the radio for just an instant I have to turn it off immediately. If I go to a mall these days and seem some teenager wearing a Houses of the Holy t-shirt or something, being all retro or whatever, I just wonder if they don't realize how really awful that music truly was.
 
The Toxic Avenger
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes

And boo to all the Blazing Saddles haters! Can I get a HARUMPH?!?!?
 
Just thought of another one... Bless The Beasts And The Children. I don't even have to see it again to know it must be awful.

To the person who mentioned Planet Of The Apes, I have to admit that I went to an all-night POTA marathon at my hometown's only indoor theater (single screen) back in the early 70's.
 
Someone just said Excalibur? No ******* way. Great movie.

Flash Gordon has always been so bad that it's good. Watched it the other day...I still love it. It's just sooo campy bad.

E.T. = unwatchable now as a grown up

Neverending Story....Bad

Swamp Thing....Horrible

Conan the Destroyer....Bad movie making at it's best
 
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