what film did you enjoy when you were younger but cringe at now?

[butters]

for me, it's Grease

loved the dancing, the soundtrack, though j.t was pretty hot (as a dancer) and o.n.j looked fab in that black ensemble

as i got older, the pleasure's spoilt by the message that film sent young girls and boys: if you want to get the guy you 'love' you need to change almost every aspect of your true nature to appeal to them... for boys, it was more a gotta act as one of the lads and ignore your natural sweetness if you want to be seen as a girl-magnet and be accepted by the other guys

pretend. act. engage in deceit.

shit messaging! entire bullshit. and yet without engaging our brains we lapped it up.

so what movies have you rethinking now?

 

[LukSkyFokker]

I look at movies that could never be made again. Blazing Saddles and History of the World Part I. Almost every Clint Eastwood flick from 60s and 70s. 007.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Animal House and the Blues Brothers.

 

[hobbit.]

Spartacus, I found that the posh people portrayed as half decent types was very interesting, as I got older i found that in reality anyone posher than oneself had probably been educated at Harrow rather than Eton and therefore would possibly have better business connections and should be put to the sword pretty damn quickly.
Kubrick was inclined to echo this behaviour in his later 2001.

Ruined my fucking childhood that cunt!

 

[TrueLoveOtherwordlyPleasure]

The Boondock Saints - I can't remember exactly how old I was when I saw it, only that I were in my teens. I obviously didn't know nothing about nothing then, because The Boondock Saints is an ugly, corny mess lacking all semblance of directorial effort.

 

[rockcasbah]

Didn’t Hairy and Butthairs meet on the set of Deliverance?

 

[LukSkyFokker]

The Boondock Saints - I can't remember exactly how old I was when I saw it, only that I were in my teens. I obviously didn't know nothing about nothing then, because The Boondock Saints is an ugly, corny mess lacking all semblance of directorial effort.

You shut your whore mouth. That's one of the greatest pieces of cinema ever put to tape.

 

[rae121452]

'west side story'. my sister had the broadway soundtrack, so i knew all of the songs beforehand. saw if first run as a child, i wanted to be a shark or a jet so i could dance around all of the time.
i watched it not too long ago...as an adult, i pretty much hated the whole thing.

also, practically every movie bette davis was ever in. i liked her when i was a teenager, now i can't seem to sit through anything.

and, amazingly, as much as i love looking at her, i have a hard time watching marilyn monroe on the screen.

 

[RoryN]

For a lot of the younger generation, the answer is Forrest Gump.

(They are partially correct; that film was always shit.)

 

[rae121452]

For a lot of the younger generation, the answer is Forrest Gump.

(They are partially correct; that film was always shit.)

but it has a really great soundtrack album.

 

[EnglishStud]

Cringe? Hmmmm. I loved and still love 'Alfie' (1966) but the dated attitudes DO indeed now make me cringe yeah

 

[Lazaran]

.
The list would be long.

I try to seek out new content whenever possible to avoid the cringes brought on by dated movies and my changing sensibilities.

 

[rockcasbah]

Cringe? Hmmmm. I loved and still love 'Alfie' (1966) but the dated attitudes DO indeed now make me cringe yeah

As one of our main cultural barometers, movies prove that ever since women browbeat society into giving them a seat at the table in the early 1980’s…the world has gone straight to hell.

Pandemics, economic crises, senseless wars, climate change, olympic unitards…

 

[rae121452]

let me add 'last tango in paris' to my list. when i saw it first run, i was fascinated by it, thought it was a cinema landmark. i watched on dvd not long ago and all i kept thinking was, 'why don't they just shut up? is this thing ever going to end?"

added note: i took my best friend to see it when it was first run. afterwards he was giving me the stinkeye and i tried to explain, "i don't know, there's just something that hits home so hard for me." he said, "girlfriend, it's because you're living that story." he was right, i was, maybe that's why it seems so tedious now.

 

[islandman]

The Last Starfighter.

Circa 1984 me LOVED it.....had the book (hardcover version), posters on the wall, yadda yadda.

Now I only admit it to strangers on the internet.

 

[RoryN]

but it has a really great soundtrack album.

It had some of the most iconic hits of the decades it covered.

In other words: it was a lay-up. Wasn't impressed.

 

[jaF0]

Porky's

 

[jaF0]

The Last Starfighter.

Circa 1984 me LOVED it.....had the book (hardcover version), posters on the wall, yadda yadda.

Now I only admit it to strangers on the internet.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3b/d9/f6/3bd9f636361aa7a9bc8d7cae9bc6d52d.jpg

 

[jaF0]

^^^ Which leads us to Night of the Comet


https://i.pinimg.com/originals/61/04/d2/6104d23c11b1481a647fbc68b525a81b.jpg

 

[RoryN]

The Last Starfighter.

Circa 1984 me LOVED it.....had the book (hardcover version), posters on the wall, yadda yadda.

Now I only admit it to strangers on the internet.

I hear ya - but the saving grace was that The Last Starfigher never took itself too seriously.

 

[Harrypalm]

Easy Rider and the original Vanishing Point. The speed, freedom and drugs were appealing at the time. Now I'm too old to give a shit.

 

[juttjaw]

The Last Starfighter.

Circa 1984 me LOVED it.....had the book (hardcover version), posters on the wall, yadda yadda.

Now I only admit it to strangers on the internet.

Jesus christ, a friend of my brothers "taped" it off HBO. I think ive seen that movie a billion times! In fact, it threw fuel in the fire for my love of all things space, technology and advancements of science. I was a little young for star wars, and that was available to watch 24/7. I havent watched it in years and years, and im going to keep it that way.

Mine is Top Gun. Sorry all you lovers, but that movie is cheesy as fuck!

 

[Chernosoth]

Star Wars, Star Trek, Space Odyssey, and probably some other stuff too horrible to remember.

 

[Not Normal]

Jesus christ, a friend of my brothers "taped" it off HBO. I think ive seen that movie a billion times! In fact, it threw fuel in the fire for my love of all things space, technology and advancements of science. I was a little young for star wars, and that was available to watch 24/7. I havent watched it in years and years, and im going to keep it that way.

Mine is Top Gun. Sorry all you lovers, but that movie is cheesy as fuck!

I hated Top Gun from the get go.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Top Gun is the gayest movie ever made. There are gay porn films that are less gay than Top Gun.