Movies that Aged Poorly for you

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BrunoMattei dijo:
The Super Mario Bros. movie is a bad movie for sure. But it's so of the era it's from that and it's such a fascinating train wreck of a movie that it's watchable because it's bad. It's almost so bad it's good. Almost.
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What on Earth was going wrong in the lives of Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo that they ended up in this? Not to mention fucking Dennis Hopper, but the wreck his life was is more or less common knowledge now.
 
AnOminous dijo:
What on Earth was going wrong in the lives of Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo that they ended up in this? Not to mention fucking Dennis Hopper, but the wreck his life was is more or less common knowledge now.
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The story behind it is interesting. I'm surprised there's no documentary yet on the making of this film.

Basically the script everyone signed onto was radically changed shortly before production began. A lot of infighting with the directors, producers, and studio heads over the tone of the movie. The director's wanted it to be dark but everyone else reminded them that this is based on the fucking Mario Bros. games. And this lead to daily re-writes.
 
Many years back when I had to babysit my nieces, I was subjected to the endless marathons of 2000-era Barbie and Bratz movies. Back then I honestly thought the animation and songs were decent, but I rewatched a few scenes from Swan Lake and the Princess and the Pauper and I can't even look at the bad models in good faith anymore. I honestly have no clue how they even looked decent to me at one point, but I suppose I wasn't really paying that much attention to the films when they were playing. The soundtracks aren't actually that bad compared to the animation; it even seems a waste to have lovely tunes get used up for something like 'The 12 Dancing Princesses'.

It surprises me how I can't tolerate the fairly modern Barbie movies and yet I still absolutely adore the old 1968 Oliver! film. Even after watching it again many years after I first saw it, I really can't find that many faults with it besides stuff that went down in quality due to the era it was produced in, and the annoying voice they dubbed in for Oliver during the songs. Somebody will probably have a whole essay on how the film is shit and I'm just talking nostalgia out of my ass.
 
I remember thinking that the Jimmy Neutron movie was alright when I was 10 or so, though it wasn't particularly remarkable nor left an impression on me. A couple years ago I came home and my boyfriend was watching it on Netflix with his college roommate, and every three to five minutes they played some shitty early 2000s pop song for no real reason. I never thought it was great but I didn't remember it being so terrible either.

Also, Filmation's Happily Ever After. That movie scared the shit out of me when I was a toddler, I thought it was amazing when I was seven, and then when I went into high-school it became a beloved bad move between myself and another friend. Kind of like what The Room is for everyone else.
 
Not a movie but anyone remember the show Sliders? I thought the premise of exploring multiple Earths that had alternate histories was a cool concept but looking at it now, a lot of the plotlines are laughably implausible and the CGI is of the same quality of a Middle Schooler experimenting with After Effects.
 
The Blair Witch Project. I love both the idea and creepy stories surrounding the mythology. However, I watched the movie a few nights ago with my sick pet rat and couldn't believe how horrible it was.

Don't get me wrong, I loved watching the Blair Witch Project non-stop; trying to see any hidden images within the movie. Unfortunately I agree with the critics it's just three college students lost in the woods fighting with each other; cursing non-stop. Once the fun wares off I can't get back into the grove.
 
Tootsie Bear dijo:
The Blair Witch Project. I love both the idea and creepy stories surrounding the mythology. However, I watched the movie a few nights ago with my sick pet rat and couldn't believe how horrible it was.
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I saw it again last year or so and I liked it. I've only seen it twice and the first time I saw it was when it originally came out. I hated it then because it was over-hyped.

The king of found footage movies still is Cannibal Holocaust.
 
Now, I admit I had not seen them before this year (I was working my way through a certain actor's filmography; he's in the fourth one so I figured 'hey, when opportunity knocks'), but the Underworld series of movies.

These movies are such the epitome of the early-to-mid 2000s goth scene that I honestly don't think people who don't have memories of the time period would ever find them entertaining (unless they're specifically jerkin' it to Kate Beckinsale in that skintight leather). I mean, usually hate the associations of the word 'aesthetic' but these movies are basically the aesthetic of all those brooding teenagers who all had edgy vampire/werewolf hybrid roleplay characters and stories. It's actually a special kind of entertaining with how over the top edgy it is.

It was a simpler time.
 
When it came out, I thought The Avengers was amazing. I guess, like a lot of people, I was carried away with the concept of what Marvel was doing. Now, watching it I can't help but feel...I don't know, I don't really hate it. I'm just kind of cool towards it, especially the actions scenes which just make me feel numb. The Jess Whedon pithy dialogue just makes me roll my eyes. The characters are just kind of there, any affection I might have once felt for them gone.

I just don't care anymore.

Hypodermic Johnny dijo:
Now, I admit I had not seen them before this year (I was working my way through a certain actor's filmography; he's in the fourth one so I figured 'hey, when opportunity knocks'), but the Underworld series of movies.

These movies are such the epitome of the early-to-mid 2000s goth scene that I honestly don't think people who don't have memories of the time period would ever find them entertaining (unless they're specifically jerkin' it to Kate Beckinsale in that skintight leather). I mean, usually hate the associations of the word 'aesthetic' but these movies are basically the aesthetic of all those brooding teenagers who all had edgy vampire/werewolf hybrid roleplay characters and stories. It's actually a special kind of entertaining with how over the top edgy it is.

It was a simpler time.
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The Underworld films are very much a product of those awkward post nineties, early oughts years. Even then, they always felt to me like comic book movies based on comic books that never existed.

Cool monsters, tho.
 
Hypodermic Johnny dijo:
Now, I admit I had not seen them before this year (I was working my way through a certain actor's filmography; he's in the fourth one so I figured 'hey, when opportunity knocks'), but the Underworld series of movies.

These movies are such the epitome of the early-to-mid 2000s goth scene that I honestly don't think people who don't have memories of the time period would ever find them entertaining (unless they're specifically jerkin' it to Kate Beckinsale in that skintight leather). I mean, usually hate the associations of the word 'aesthetic' but these movies are basically the aesthetic of all those brooding teenagers who all had edgy vampire/werewolf hybrid roleplay characters and stories. It's actually a special kind of entertaining with how over the top edgy it is.

It was a simpler time.
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I've never seen a single one. They all looked really stupid and tried to emulate Blade and the Matrix.

Now Blade, that aged relatively well despite some shit CGI here and there.

CleverJokeHere dijo:
When it came out, I thought The Avengers was amazing. I guess, like a lot of people, I was carried away with the concept of what Marvel was doing. Now, watching it I can't help but feel...I don't know, I don't really hate it. I'm just kind of cool towards it, especially the actions scenes which just make me feel numb. The Jess Whedon pithy dialogue just makes me roll my eyes. The characters are just kind of there, any affection I might have once felt for them gone.

I just don't care anymore.
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It's all very "meh." It's fun to see all those characters together and there were some great moments like the Hulk smashing Loki and any scene with Tony Stark. But the movie and the sequel were just "meh." It never felt like there were serious stakes. And the faceless alien army at the end didn't help.

That's why I liked Batman V Superman. It has great cinematography and music and -give it some credit- it had some fucking balls.

And the jokey moments in these Marvel movies is really getting old. The Beyonce line in Dr. Strange was pure cringe.
 
The Nothingness dijo:
Really?! I know "comedic" dialogue in MCU movies can be atrocious but freakin' Beyonce?! (:_(
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The scene plays out like this:

Cumberbatch/Strange needs a book from the monastery library in order to level up. The book is being guarded by a monk who oversees the library. Cumberbatch/Strange asks the monk if he can read the book and is told no because he's not ready for it and blah blah blah. Cumberbatch/Strange then just blurts out:

"Try me Beyonce!"

Which befuddles the monk because he doesn't know who Beyonce is and the scene just sits there. Cut to next scene where Cumberbatch/Strange uses magic to distract the monk and get the book while the monk listens to a Beyonce song.
 
I cringe very hard now that I ever derived ANY enjoyment from Kevin Smith movies. Clearly a guy still clinging onto high school and then still living with parents past 18 kind of mentality.
 
American Beauty.

A pre-9/11, pre-Great Recession movie about how soul-crushing and unfulfilling it was to be an upper middle class white person in the United States during an extended period of peace and economic prosperity.

It seems laughably tone deaf now.
 
Morose_Obesity dijo:
I cringe very hard now that I ever derived ANY enjoyment from Kevin Smith movies. Clearly a guy still clinging onto high school and then still living with parents past 18 kind of mentality.
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IIRC, there was an episode of Half in the Bag where Jay was talking about Chasing Amy and how it evolved from a cutting-edge look at sexuality to being really quaint and dated by today's standards. That's kind of how I feel about most Kevin Smith movies.

Though I'll always love Clerks: The Animated Series, and I'll defend that till the day I die.
 
Morose_Obesity dijo:
I cringe very hard now that I ever derived ANY enjoyment from Kevin Smith movies. Clearly a guy still clinging onto high school and then still living with parents past 18 kind of mentality.
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Sexy Times Hitler dijo:
IIRC, there was an episode of Half in the Bag where Jay was talking about Chasing Amy and how it evolved from a cutting-edge look at sexuality to being really quaint and dated by today's standards. That's kind of how I feel about most Kevin Smith movies.

Though I'll always love Clerks: The Animated Series, and I'll defend that till the day I die.
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Kevin Smith's movies were very much meant for the people they were about: lazy Gen X-ers who couldn't get themselves to do anything other than yammer on about Star Wars while wasting away in a crappy register job. Problem is that was over twenty years ago and those guys all either found an escape or died by this point. Working in a convenience store when you're twenty is pathetic in a funny way. Working in a convenience store when your forty is pathetic in a sad, lolcow-y way. Clerks was a product of its time and I still get a lot of enjoyment out of it. I like it as a study in what I probably would've been like if I was born fifteen years earlier.
 
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