What films did you like as a kid but can't stand now? - Page 2

EXPLORERS.

My 8-year old rationale convinced me that if only I could purchase a junked tilt-a-whirl I could start construction on my spaceship. Seriously, I had blueprints.

Someone dissed KRULL, however, and that doesn't sit well with me. Krull had rules, a cyclops, a glass spider that still creeps me out on a Shelob-level, and a changeling. Plus, I'm convinced the Glave still resides in a cave near my childhood home.

On another level, when chewers are asked what films they liked as a kid and the respond with movies such as ERASER, ID4 and THE LOST WORLD, I know I'm getting old...

How about the early '80s (or late '70s?) tv-movies for Spider-Man and Captain America? I think there may have been just one for Cap, in the style of a TV pilot. He had a motorcycle and his shield looked like it was made of tupperware, but I thought it was the shit. And I think there were at least 2 for Spidey. He wore pajamas, basically. I'd love to find those today...

Cool thread. Timely, too, since I just recently bought what I remembered being a good movie: LADY IN WHITE. Holy crap, what a piece of dog shit. When I was 10 I remember being freaked the fuck out by this thing. Last weekend I could barely stand 20 minutes, between the intolerable narration ("That's when I knew things would never be the same...") and Alex Rocco hugging his man-friends. Damn.

Some others:

First, my Stallone trilogy:

VICTORY - Pele's bicycle kick is still cool, Conti's music is a bit derivative but still cool, but damn this thing is silly.

ROCKY IV - I may get slammed for this, but this is a dumbass movie. At least it's bad in an entertaining way.

OVER THE TOP - I'm not entertained even in a nostalgic way. This thing just sucks. Sorry, Bull Hurley.

GLEAMING THE CUBE - If a movie was about any kind of fad I was there. Even Max Perlich couldn't save this one.

CROCODILE DUNDEE II - Drug dealers are cool when you're 10. Nevermind the story. Until you're older.

And some favorites that aged just fine:

AIRPLANE! - No explanation needed.

REAL GENIUS - Unfairly lumped in with other dumb 80's teen comedies, this is a really smart movie with one of Val Kilmer's best performances.

BETTER OFF DEAD - See REAL GENIUS. Sillier, but inspired.

TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA - I liked this when I was a kid even though I didn't really understand it. I just liked the shooting and the loud music. But this movie's fucking brilliant.

PREDATOR - If it had aliens in it I was there. But it took a while for me to really appreciate how well-made it is.

I'm sure I'll remember more later but that's enough for now.

Yeah, every kid thought Deep Throat was great until they got older and realized it was just really ugly people making "Oh" faces...

About a year ago Fry's Electronics had a 3 for $15 dvd sale. I picked up some of my childhood/early teen favorites: Masters of the Universe, Demolition Man, and Red Sonja. Balls to all three of them. I thought it was humorous that the punk kid in Sonja was fuckin' Keno in TMNT II.

Don't knock on the Donner. Goonies still holds up. I watch that at least once every two months.

Now now...

Krull is still brilliant, so says my avatar.
Karate Kid has not diminished one bit.
Time Bandits is flawless.
Top Gun is debatable, but nearly every scene is an 80's classic.
Rocky IV I even think rules.

The movies that really suck more than I had previously thought are Willow, Batman, The Police Academy Series, The Short Circuit Series, The Nightmare on Elm Street Series, The Lost Boys, Crocodile Dundee, Turner & Hooch, etc...

I agree that people being 10 when The Lost World was released make me feel really old.

Well I still like The Lost Boys. It's cheesetastic.

Hmm, Duck Tales: the movie doesn't hold up for me as well.

I 2nd for lost boys. This is still a fun movie to watch. I hope they leave this one alone(no remakes or sequels).

Here's what doesn't hold up for me.

1. Cloak and Dagger(I saw this so many times as a good and I think Dabney Coleman is still good in it, but the movie is stale)

2. Neverending Story(I even had the soundtrack to that shiot)

3. Police Academy (epecially part 4, citizens on patrol...I used to love that song on the final credits)

4. Girls Just Wanna Have fun

5. The Golden Child(I used the think the effects were great)

6. SuperFuzz

7. They call me Bruce

8. Remo Williams

9. Cool as Ice(wtf?)

10. Turtles 2: Secret of the ooze(I used to love the ninja rap)

11. License to Drive

12. Lucas

13. All those Break Dancing movies(electric boogaloo and etc....)

14. 976-Evil

15. Ghoulies, Munchies, Critters(all gremlins rip-offs)

I remember when I was a kid during summer break I watched the Captain America movie. Then for some reason the station had Captain America 2 listed as following, but it was actually just the same movie played again. I watched all the way through again, which was strange because I hated it the first time.

Goonies, The Explorers, Tron, Short Circuit I & II, Weekend at Bernie's, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

It's not that I despise them, I just find that my youthful exuberance for the films, Munchausen and The Explorers in particular, has dissipated (and outside of the cheeky fun effects, Tron is nigh unwatchable).

Trivia tidbit: the guy who played Captain America in the crappy 1991 movie version was J.D. Salinger's son.

i'm so glad someone else mentioned Baron Munchausen! Not everything Terry Gilliam did is gold and sadly I now find that film to be a conveluted mess.

Time Bandits however rules.

I remember loving "The Last Starfigher" as a kid but watched it last week and discoverd its very, very bad.

I had never seen Munchausen as a kid and rented it for the first time last year. I enjoyed it quite a bit, too. I think the somewhat negative reaction some of you are having comes from the often large difference between what you think you thought you were watching as a kid and what you see with adult eyes.

Not that I'm trying to discount anyone's opinion, I just think some of the film's flaws are more frustrating when your notalgic instinct is that there aren't any.

I agree nostalga plays a big part in dissapointment in a film. But i think part of the cause is that over the years our tastes change, if they didnt we would all still think that putting little blocks into their holes was the best toy ever.

Your film palate changes as much as you taste in food.

Has anybody seen the Narnia cartoon? As the new movie opens, memories of this film seem to flush back into my head. And they look kinda awkward. :disgust:

To be fair, Andrew stated that the logo he posted was the Ghostbusters 2 logo,in which case I agree with him. As much as I loved..and continue to love...the original, the sequel sucked.The Original is as good as ever, though.
"A View To A Kill" is my most embarassed to have liked as a teenager. My only defense is that I was a OO7 fan, I was raised and living in the SF Bay Area, and it was great to see James Bond in my backyard, so to speak. Now I think the film ties with Moonraker as being the absolute worst Bond film.
As I kid I liked Legend, now I watch it and wonder what drugs Ridley Scott was on when he made that film.

with the exception of the dancing in Breakin, this movie is about as watchable as watching your clothes being washed in a landromat!

what's really funny is that the nephew of the star of that movie is reading this post!

I kid you not.

I submit to you the Sinbad double-feature of HOUSEGUEST and FIRST KID.

Also for your approval, the following "Bad News Bears" knock-offs: THE BIG GREEN and LITTLE GIANTS. Also, I'm sure if I watched any of the Mighty Ducks movies today, I wouldn't like them. Although I really like D2--it's able to combine the seriousness of the original with the overt silliness and pranks of the third movie in a way that doesn't get annoying. And because my friends and I still do the "quack" thing.

HEAVYWEIGHTS gets a pass because it's Paul Feig, Judd Apatow, and Ben Stiller in the same movie.

Anyone remember when Tom Arnold tried to do his own thing and made BIG BULLY and CARPOOL? Yeah, so do I.

Superman II was a movie I loved as a tot, but it just doesn't do it for me anymore. I was watching a few minutes of it recently on TV, and the scene where the bad guys, Zod and what's their faces, land on Earth is quite funny. After flying through space, floating down to the planet, the female is bit by a snake and proceeds to vaporize it with her heat vision, to which she proclaims, "We have powers beyond reason." The unassisted space travel, without the requirement of oxygen no doubt, is nothing. But that heat vision, whoo wee.

Cobra is another of those movies. Loved it when I was eleven or twelve, thought it was the best action movie going. I was wrong. Now the only thing I find notable about it is that it had both Reni Santoni and Andrew Robinson in it, both veterans of the original Dirty Harry.

I was going to add some Chuck Norris movies, but dammit, Silent Rage is the shit.

I watched Superman II on AMC the other day and I fell asleep. It's just really bad in a way I can't put my finger on, but as a kid it was my favorite...right behind Superman IV-The Quest For Peace! The badly dubbed over voice of "Nuclear Man" and fucking Jon Cryer used to entertain the shit out of me. Sad days...very sad days.

-Krull
-Empire Records (what the hell was I thinking?)

I second that.

Same thing happened to me last weekend. Blah!

I have to defend a few films people mentioned.

The Karate Kid - Still kicks ass, but the sequels suck.
Short Circuit - I was worried about this one, but I bought the DVD and still loved it.
Lucas - Still one of my favorites
Top Gun - I like this more now then I did as a kid becuase it is so over the top 80s - It is more of a comedy than an action film now.
Lost Boys & License to Drive - Still Great

Swamp Thing and greatwhite(or was it called white shark), which I saw as a double feature.

Lord of the Ring and Starcrash. another double feature. Yes the lost memories of childhood.

Don Bluth made my childhood... sort of.

No way! The Don Bluth movies were my favorite animated flicks when I was a kid, balls to Disney. Land Before Time started my love of dinosaurs and is just a great story. Secret of Nimh is brilliant from a design stand-point and is just so damned atmospheric and creepy, not to mention intensely dramatic for a "children's movie." All Dogs Go to Heaven, upon recent viewing, I have to say is the weirdest damned kids' flick I ever saw, but still holds up as a solid, if not thematically adult, entertainment. American Tail... is just depressing as hell. Can't watch it anymore, I'll give you that one. Still beautifully done, but goddamn that movie makes me sad. Damned soviet cat bastards.

Titan A.E., however, has actually grown on me. I thought it was lousy when it first came out, but the flick isn't half bad. I still despise the lousy CGI mixed with hand animation in all forms, but in this movie it's so glaring and poorly integrated. The styles are so different, there's no blend and it's terribly distracting.

Also, I didn't do it, but I agree with whoever dissed Transformers: The Movie. Loudest, dumbest cartoon movie maybe ever.

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The Wizard (I remember seeing the Body Glove and squeeing with delight in how cool it was. Oy.)
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*AHEM*

It's POWER glove.

As in, "I love the power glove! It's so bad!"

Who could forget?

However, YOU forgot The Stupids!

Sorry for reminding you.

I thought I'd resurrect this thread, as I watched THE KARATE KID on the weekend, and oh boy, was it terrible. It's funny, because I hadn't seen it in about seven or eight years, but I knew just about every word, every beat, except one scene, which I thought was the best, where we discover Miyagi's history and the death of his wife and child. It's a tiny bit misguided to have it in the middle of a movie that otherwise seems incredibly juvenile, but it's not a bad scene. But the movie itself, wow. More proof that the 80s were terrible.

This, along with it's first sequel, are among my short list of movies I loved when I was younger but don't want to see again out of fear of how bad they'll suck.

Space Pirates is on that list too. Or was it Ice Pirates? I just remember it being a really weird, goofy movie and loving it. It's got to be terrible, from what I can remember and considering how much my tastes have changed.

I remembered Karate Kid being a film with a shitload of action and deep philosphy. I isn't. The best bit was the ending when the young bad guy says "you're all right, Daniel" after Dan has just crane-kicked him in the face. WTF?

Ice Pirates. I saw it recently, for the first time. You are correct. It's fucking awful.

And it's from the same guy who wrote Krull. Which is also fucking awful.

You know who doesn't like The Goonies? Dirty fucking communists.

Not really movies, but the '90s X-Men and Spider-Man cartoons really, really blow. Proof here and here.

I was 13 when The Lost World came out and indeed loved it simply for the fact it was a sequel to my then-favourite movie. How could it be bad?

I will second/whatever'd the Police Academy movies.

Silent Running.

I don't know how I managed to endure that Joan Baez music the first time. I didn't the second.

Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest.

It's not particularly terrible, but the musical numbers. Oh, good Christ, the musical numbers.

Watching them in their entirety is like driving a spike into your head. Sure, you get something new there, but at what cost?

I've gotta go with Neverending Story and Black Hole. I watched both again recently and was bored silly by both of them...and Perkins comes off as reallllllyyyyy creepy Black Hole and not in a Disney villain kind of way. More in a old man from Family Guy kind of way.

Aged better than Goonies IMO... there's less screaming (surprisingly).

And I love both of those movies dearly (nostalgia goggles).

Amen to that.

I remembered this as being really cool as a kid, bought the dvd when it was released (last year?) and cried at how cheap it looked. Damn my memory. Krull is much better than Ice Pirates.

I'm also amazed that I'm not the only one that remembers Condorman...

Saying Krull is bad is a false statement.

Does Commando count? 'cos I loved that as a kid, same with Speed. And they are both wretched, wretched movies nowadays.

MI:2
Patch Adams
Ferngully

Oh fuck now I feel old.

I haven't seen Ferngully for 8 years, I fail to see how an eco friendly musical starring Tim Curry could be that bad.

Speaking of Tim Curry.

The Shadow is a movie I used to love back in the day and can't bear to watch now in case it sucks.

Lackluster animation, bad songs, bad writing.

The writing's not terrible, just overall bland. It's got a few good moments(Darwin's Grab Bag being my favorite), but it's mostly just...inoffensive.

I saw bits of LITTLE MONSTERS again this weekend and I fully expected to hate it, but it was actually quite dark for a kids' movie. Still not great, but I was pleasantly surprised at how much I didn't dislike it. Nice use of Talking Heads' "Road to Nowhere" over the end credits. It was even written by the PIRATES and ZORRO writing team of Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, which I didn't know.

Not to start this argument again, but bland = bad, to me.

I don't really see why that would get you into an argument, and I primarily agree. I do tend to prefer something as being really godawful, rather than bland and uninspiring.

Thank God we've still got Captain Power and The Soldiers Of The Future.

Now that was a terrible fucking film series. Animation was pretty boss, though.

Revenge Of The Ninja was the coolest movie when I was a kid. Haven't seen it recently, but I can't imagine that its aged well.

karate kid is fucking awesome.....was bakc then and still is now.....however karate kid 3 is by far the best of the series....

"you think you can rely on that crane crap?"

"a few years back toxic waste was the preferred dumping material ...now everybodies a detective"

thomas ian griffin is fucking awesome in that film

"how many times did you save my ass back in 'nam?"
"I don't know.....I lost count"

great fucking movie......

Has anyone rewatched "Rad"? I need to queue that up on netflix. Two movies that I unexpectantly had trouble rewatching were Hiding Out with Jon Cryer and his dyed hair, and Loverboy, Dempsey delivering sexual pizzas just isn't what it used to be, but I still watched parts of it. I think Can't Buy Me Love would hold up pretty well though. I tried to watch Over the Top about a year ago and it was very difficult, I was really forcing myself to watch long enough to see Stallone turn his hat backwards, very painful. I saw somebody mentioned Class Act, and I used to like House Party as a kid but now it is absolutely unwatchable. Three o'clock High however was rewatchable, Richard Tyson deserves an oscar for his portrayal of Buddy Revel.

I'm also a fan of KK3, and to the dismay of many I have refered to Thomas Ian Griffith as a rich man's Steven Seagal. "I want you to make his knuckles bleed." "A man can't see he can't fight." "Huh-sigh!"

Good luck. Sadly no DVD release yet.