What films did you like as a kid but can't stand now?

I remember having a particular fondness for that dirt bike movie 'Rad', but looking back I realize it was pretty lame. For some reason I found Kid 'N Play's "Class Act" to be hilarious, which, obviously, it is not. "The Wizard" was awesome when I saw it in the theaters, but, let's be honest, it sucks. These weren't exactly my top movies as a kid, but a few that come to mind that I liked back then, but have no interest in now.

Where does one start?

Cannonball Ball Run 1 & 2 was the peak of comedy, especially the Orang-u-tang and Dom de-Luise (wait, they're not the same person?), but boy do those films blow...

Double Impact was the finest action film ever made, age 11.

Jake Speed was Midnight Run. (I still have a cheesy fondness for that film, but its no Midnight Run)

Nemesis (the Olivier Gruner film - that should tell you all you need to know) was a thought-provoking action sci-fi about the nature of the soul vs cybernetics. Wait, Moltisanti still thinks that, right?

Omen III was the best in the series.

And Showdown in Little Tokyo was probably the best film ever made, and it only ran to 76 minutes! I mean, Dolph Lundgren AND Brandon Lee, Tia Carrere, titty and violence and some awesome, hilarious dialogue! In actuality, its balls. But hey, it only cost me £4 on DVD to find that out.

Of course, the third part of every trilogy was the best - Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Rocky, Star Wars... History holds a different view.

Any of you guys ever see "Think Big" with the Paul Brothers? Muscle-bound twin truck drivers take this teenage girl across the country and she has this gadget that controls pretty much any electronic device. I remember LOVING it when I was like 10 or 11 and even though I haven't seen it since then I can't imagine it being any good today.

There needs to be a general admission of Transformers: The Movie here. It's ok, it was great when you're six. But please, let it go. The movie's crap.

Some other movies I loved as a child, rewatched, then wished I had kept them as a memory:

Krull
Flight of the Navigator
The Wizard (I remember seeing the Body Glove and squeeing with delight in how cool it was. Oy.)
Super Mario Bros.
Richie Rich (after seeing this again, I actually called my dad and apologized for making him take me to see it in theatres).
The Goonies

I was shocked by how poorly Legend had aged.
I remembered a dense, wonderfully strange fantasy film. In the light of day it was a nicely shot, but thoroughly insufferable mess. Rob Bottin's masterful effects are the only things worth seeing.

Good call g-dude, Flight of the Navigator definitely makes my list as well. Also, for some reason as a kid I liked 'The Black Hole' but found it painfully boring when i rewatched a couple years ago.

Thank you! I've been getting sick of people my age talking about this movie as if it's the freakin' holy grail.

Off the top of my head:

Lost World (1997): When I was 10, it seemed like a highly underrated flick that was better than the first due to its status as a sequel. Just being a sequel qualified it as better in my little world.

Diamonds are Forever: I'm beginning to think that I only liked this because it was James Bond in Vegas. JAMES FREAKIN' BOND in my hometown. To make it even better, it was Connery. Now it's one of my least favorite Bond movies.

Batman Returns and Forever: I think I just liked the way they looked when I was little. For the third one, I really dug Carey and Tommy Lee Jones. Actually I now think they're the only two with somewhat watchable scenes.

Eraser: This movie was the bee's knees when I was 9. Now I think it's level of unintentional comedy is rivaled only by 2Fast 2Furious.

Shit I saw in the cinema -

Star Trek V
Problem Child
Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot
Guess Who's Talking Now?

Unforgiveably bad, each of them. A good day out when I was wee.

i loved it then, and love it even more now.

even as a child i knew that back to the future iii somehow gypped me... i always preferred the first.

i loved independence day, now i can hardly watch it. i really liked broken arrow, similarly now i cant even get through it. and i liked alien resurrection, but have since found it unbearable.

Ahhh, memories...

Hi, I'm Van Zan, and I'm a lurk-a-holic.

I must admit that I even had a lunchbox for "The Black Hole." I thought Sharp-Shooters and Maximillian were the coolest things EVER. Still have a fondness for it (and, while we are at it, one or two of the Police Academy movies) but that's based on nostalgia only.

Also, 'though it pains me to say it, Ghostbusters just isn't very funny anymore...

There are many things from the 80's that haven't aged well, and Ghostbusters is not among them.

Shit. Looking at g-dude's avatar, I feel like the new guy in prison when he realizes he is sitting on Deebo's bunk...

Iron Eagle - I thought this was the best movie ever at the time, but I couldn't stand it when I rewatched it recently. Louis Gossett Jr.'s decent performance couldn't save this pile of crap.

Those Don Bluth movies. Used to watch them all the time as a kid. Now they seem like annoying drivel. Unless I'm wrong, somebody speak up.

Wait, I'm not wrong on one of them: Rock-A-Doodle. Blech.


BTW, who dissed Transformers?

The Black Hole-- Holy crap on a plate that move sucks donkey bubs. Loved it as a kid- had the soundtrack, had the lunchbox and the viewmaster viewer. Now it's all strings and one-liners that cause flatulence on impact.

Regarding Bluth:

Bluth has greats and not-so-greats in my book. I haven't seen Rock-A-Doodle since I was 9 or so, but I remember liking it. Titan A.E. will always be a tough decision for me. To this day I can't decide if I dig it or not. I stare at it in Wal-Mart every time I'm there, wondering if I should grab it for $7.50. Then I go rent it. I've spent way more than $7.50 renting that movie by now.

However, I still have nothing but love for All Dogs Go to Heaven. I think it's amazing, and it's cool to see a kids' movie doing what kids movies won't do today. It's dark, and the Hell scenes terrified me when I was young.

Secret of Nimh is still great, too.

Oh, and to actually answer the thread's topic:

3 Ninjas. My brother's and my favorite movie for a bit. I saw it again a year ago...........wow.

I'll diss Transformers. That movie is like watching rust try to think.

Bluth has Secret of NIMH, Land Before Time, and to a lesser degree, All Dogs Go to Heaven to his everlasting image.

Titan A.E., Rock-a-Doodle, and Troll in Central Park are a credit to his everlasting infamy.

Hey, hey. Do not spread rumors that I liked NEMESIS. I hated it when I was 15 and I'm sure it would suck just as bad today. Cool box art though.

As for DOUBLE IMPACT and SHOWDOWN, well you might want to head down to the dock and see if you can still catch the boat on those 2. Back in 1991 those films helped me forget that I still had 4 years to go before I'd have sex. Today those films help me get through the fact that I have a full time job that doesn't entail me firing a rocket launcher.

The movies that I'll list here would be any of the first 6 POLICE ACADEMY films (7 still remians a mystery to me). Loved those when I was 10 or 11, but I think as I started to watch "SNL" and "Seinfeld" I truly started to see how shitty they were. Tackleberry still rocks, that will never change.

Bought the DVD. Subsequently kicked my own ass for doing so.

I have to say that PUMP UP THE VOLUME isn't nearly as incisive or subversive as it was when I was a teenager. Still, Samantha Mathis's topless scene is one for the ages.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II and III. The first is still great, though.

Exactly the reason I bought it! If the film were as good as the cover, we'd all be talking about it in a much fonder light.

I feel I should quantify my feelings towards these films. I still own both of them, and in dark times, will slap either of them on. They cause me pain, but are also the bringers of joy. They do not belong in this thread.

The grandaddy of movie metamorphoses though is Hard Target. When I was 12, me and my then 19 year old brother rented and enjoyed the ass off it. I bought it later that year and watched it over and over and over for years, convinced it was an awesome action film, right up til I was about 15, when some bastard stole my VHS of it. It was the film that introduced me to John Woo and based on that prowess, I bought Hard-Boiled blind, a decision which changed my life. A couple of years ago, Hard Target was on TV and I was stoned - I can't remember ever laughing so hard. For so many reasons, - from the fact that Billy Ray Cyrus does Van Damme's horse-riding for him, while Lance Henriksen happily sets himself on fire for real, down to the dialogue ("You are a fucking buffalo!") - Hard Target remains one of the singularly most entertaining movies ever made. That doesn't make it good though. Maybe that's the difference. We're not talking quality, we're talking preference and all three of these films I still love.

Broken Arrow has always been dry ass flakes though. Even when I was 15.

Transformers: The Movie. Sorry, he's right - when I was 7 I cried cos Optimus died. Aged 24, I cried cos I had convinced myself it was a good film, if only for the presence of Orson Welles. It isn't.

As for Ghostbusters - dude, that film is one of my all-time favourites AND is a quality film. Beware the Ghostbusters' fans ire. Maybe you had to be there...

Please note that my above post is the Ghostbusters *2* logo.

I'll second Iron Eagle. Saw it with my dad in the theater and we bothleft the theater saying "It was just as good as Top Gun."

Leave Pump Up the Volume out of this. It's not as subversive as when you were thirteen but it's still good. Not great but good. Plus, as noted earlier, nice tits.

To me The Police Academy flicks are probably the best example for this thread. It was comedy gold when I was 8.

Big Trouble in Little China was one of my favorite movies as a kid. When I watched it two years ago I was bored out of my mind.

I must have seen Willow 50 times in my youth. Not so much recently.

I was real surprised how The Last Starfighter held up.

Finally, I hated Tron when I was a kid. What a difference DVD makes! I was amazed at how cool that movie is now.

Holy shit, how'd you find my first grade notebook?!

Chain Reaction--saw it the thater when I was like 14 with a few buddies and dug it...hey it was set partially set in WI. Now it may be the worst film in all the the main principles careers or at least the dullest.

Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight--great gore and a fun Bill Sadler role can't save this once loved film.

Light of Day--the only defense is that I was a big Micheal J. Fox fan when I was a kid.

That's the truth:



I felt like that cover spoke to me many moons ago. It's as if it said, "Hey you, kid, did you like THE TERMINATOR? Tell your Mom to rent me for you and I will make you just as happy." Kevin Thomas lied to us all. NEMESIS was not sleek, nor was it provacative, it was suicide-inducingely awful.

After rewatching THE ROOKIE (Eastwood/Sheen) recently I can't say I hate it but it is the most generic film ever made, which is saying a lot considering it's a buddy cop film. But Eastwood is raped in the film so it at least holds some historical significance for that.

I thought D.A.R.Y.L. was all kinds of cool when it came out. Now it's just a bitter piece of nostalgia. I still, however, have to give credit to the fact that a robotic kid can steal a Blackbird.

The Wizard also gets a mention. Now it's a little too dated.

Some of my picks:

* Highlander 2 -- When I saw this in the theater I laughed my freakin' ass off. I thought it was the funniest bad movie of all time, beyond Ed Wood. I recently watched it again on DVD and didn't laugh, was just bored. Maybe this is because the DVD was the "Renegade" director's cut version; perhaps the theatrical cut is required to reach the proper levels of idiocy to make this funny.

* Most of the Monty Python movies, records, TV shows, and subsequent independent works by the various members of the troupe. I thought I would never say that, but their stuff really hasn't aged well for me. Maybe part of it was overexposure, maybe part of it is growing to hate the guys in college who would endlessly repeat lines from Holy Grail.

* Roger Moore James Bond movies.

* The Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica theatrical movies made from the pilots of the '70s TV shows.

* Westworld. Maybe it gets better, but I turned it off after five minutes or so.

* 3-D movies. I thought that was the absolute shit when they had that crappy 3-D revival back in the '80s (Jaws 3-D, Friday the 13th 3-D, Comin' At Ya, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, etc.).

Blasphemy!

Star Trek III, IV and V. III, and to a lesser degree IV, are still okay, but I loved these when I was younger(well, maybe not V). Oddly enough I like Star Trek: the Motion Picture now, I despised it when I was a kid.
Red Dawn and the Rambo sequels. Rambo III is fucking terrible, what was I thinking?
The Golden Child is shitty, even when you compare it to Eddie Murphy's recent output(excluding Bowfinger).
TRON is awful, but I still enjoy the special effects.
*Batteries Not Included
Willow
Disney's Robin Hood
Weekend at Bernie's
Whoever said the Roger Moore Bond films was spot-on.
There are plenty more, I'll probably chime back in when they come to me.

Weird, I own a few of these on DVD. Red Dawn and Rambo III were among the ones I returned to the store because they "wouldn't play in my DVD player"(wink wink nudge nudge).

I hate to admit it, but I still like the first 3 Police Academy movies. Just the first 3 though. I have no idea why either, but I still laugh, even though I'm VERY picky when it comes to comedies nowadays. I still watch Transformers: the Movie every year or 2 on my worn-out VHS. Hey, I like it. You want bad? watch the Transformers series, or GI Joe(movie or show). That's bad.

Short Circuit
The Karate Kid
Super Fuzz

But sorry, Condorman's still fun.

If anyone is wondering about TEEN WOLF, you can relax because it's still great.

Maybe I deserve to be called on the carpet for my "Ghostbusters" criticism (I've probably seen it 20-30 times since first release so maybe I just got worn out?) but I can't stand idly by while someone disses what is still one of the greatest movies ever made. Powers Boothe as Col. Tanner. 'Nuff said.
"WOLVERINES!!!!"

When I was a kid I thought Deep Throat was great, but now it sucks.

When I was a kid, they showed this movie on HBO called The Last Remake of Beau Geste. It was basically a ripoff of Mel Brookes' style, with Michael Yorke and Marty Feldman as identical twins, but I actually saw it before I'd seen any Mel Brookes movies. I was quite convinced that it was The Funniest Movie In The World. When I watched it again, somewhere around the age of 18, I was didn't laugh once through the whole thing.

Heavy Metal and Escape From New York are two films that I thought were amazingly badass when I was, like, 13. Now, they both seem pretty lame. Oh, and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, which I once liked better than Star Wars (I keep telling the same stories, don't I?). I still like it OK, but it's definitely the least of the three Harryhausen Sinbad movies.

any thoughts on monster squad?

Amazing when you're 10. Now, only notable for having a cool werewolf transformation.

The Police Academy films are fucking awful!
As a kid i thought they we´re hilarious, i even saw a couple of them in the cinema.
*barfs*

I recently watched Top Gun again, and was quite unimpressed. As a youth, that movie was the teets.

With this viewing, I realized how hackneyed it actually was.

Movies that didn't age well for me:

1. Time Bandits
2. Karate Kid Part III
3. American Ninja
4. Nowhere to Run
5. Return to Oz
6. Superman III and IV
7. Grease II

Time Bandits remains an excellent film.

Dont Hold Up

Top Gun
Willow
Star Trek 4
Return Of The Jedi
Octupussy
Batman


Hold Up
Short Circuit - Johhny 5 was one of my ultimate Lego creations
Crocodile Dundee - dont know why, but it still works
Big
Tron
A View To a Kill (will prob get alot of shit for this)
Batman Returns
The Never Ending Story

I'd put Top Gun in the Hard Target category - it doesn't work IN THE WAY YOU REMEMBER IT but damn if it isn't entertaining, if only for being the gayest macho film ever made.

I think in the 80's it was a good, solid action film.

20 years on, it seems as if it was made as a subversive work of satire, albeit with some still fairly outstanding aerial sequences.

Masters Of The Universe
Troll
Ghoulies
Cyborg
Kickboxer
The First Power
Dick Tracey
Lethal Weapon 3
Silver Bullet
Young Guns
Flowers in the Attic
Firstborn