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Silverado_Express

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Anybody ever watch an old movie that you use to think was the best and now it's hard to even watch all the way through?

The movie "Gremlins" was just on and I couldn't believe how different I remembered it. Don't know whether it's the terrible "special effects" or the corny story line but it just seemed dumb.

Seems to happen with a lot of movies from the 90's with me (I'm 31) and wondering if any of y'all from other generations have the same thing. Not saying all we're bad, I can still enjoy "Turner and hooch".

Anybody have any other examples good or bad?
 
Gremlins is a great example

Bill and Ted's excellent adventure is another one my memory didn't serve me well on. Rewatched it and gremlins recently and neither were as good as I remembered.

TV is another example. You couldn't stop me from watching the dukes of hazard as a kid. Can't even make it thru 10 minutes of one now. A-team was another
 
Same age...and I do the same thing. Usually just have the tv on for background noise, but every now and again I’ll get caught up in a title I loved as a kid, and have to keep watching, assuming it’ll get better to live up to what I remember. Nostalgia is a helluva drug.
 
Same here, I will remember an old movie and get to telling my daughter (10) how good it was and we will watch it together and I'm all "well dang thats not like I remember". The Sandlot did not disappoint though.
 
Did your memory really change or just your perspective, you may be watching old movies but you are comparing them to new higher tech movies of now, even if only subconsciously . The sandlot holds up because it has a minimal amount of special effects, and because it is awesome! Watch The Transporter again, not a super old movie but the FX in it sucked for the time, the gate he drives the car through is foam, everyone has bullets with tracers, real cheesey.
 
Jus Jim said:
Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
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BLASPHEMY! Phoebe Cates

I had fond memories of watching Red Dawn from 1984, always thought that was the best movie ever. FFWD to 2015 or so when I rewatched it...holy crap that was bad.
The original Star Wars from 1977 was pretty cheesy too. I remember watching the VCR version in the late 90s, even before the digital remastered rerelease. Special FX were terrible without the CGI.
 
NC_IslandRunner said:
Did your memory really change or just your perspective
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This is a big contributing factor. It's tough to watch something that's old and appreciate it in its original context. Citizen Kane was groundbreaking for its day, but feels cheesy now because it's been ripped off hundreds of times. Easy Rider was one of the first movies made after the Hays Code ended. It couldn't have been made in Hollywood two years prior, but again, we don't have any way of appreciating it in that context.
 
I was always a fan of captain stabbin films. Nothing like watching a girl get fucked on a boat
 
Blazing Saddles is still great.
 
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sawdoff said:
unless you watch it on tv, they cut it up so bad to be politically correct it just sux
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That is a very good point. I saw it on TV like 10 years ago and thought WTF is this?
 
Rad, but it was such an epic movie for kids at it’s time I was rocking the Tshirt today. I bet it even inspired fat kids to walk away from their Atari for at least 10 minutes back then.
 
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