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

[oneblueye]

hey...

Truly cringe worthy movies are way old. Birth of a nation amd shit like that.
As much as people like to say it, its just not true that you couldn't make blazing saddles or animal house these days. They are classics for a reason. Something like Porkys tho, no you probably couldn't get that made. At least not with much of a budget. Good thing too cuz looking back, Porkys is really bad. Why did we think it was ever funny? Its just not.

???, because we were all stoned!?

 

[MsMischka]

Spaceballs. Middle School Me laughed riotously at the crude, obvious humor. Adult Me is not as enamored with fart jokes.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I am Curious Yellow.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Spaceballs. Middle School Me laughed riotously at the crude, obvious humor. Adult Me is not as enamored with fart jokes.

"Comb the desert!"

"We ain't found shit!"

 

[oggbashan]

Two:

Operation Petticoat,

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053143/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Petticoat

and The Witching of Ben Wagner.

 

[jomar]

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

Pretty much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF1LXL6OOsM

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

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?

That what was so great about the original Broadway show -- it shook the conventional Sandra Dee storyline on its ass. The stage show (before the shitty disco music was added) was subversive, raunchy and that's what it was about. The movie (which I enjoyed -- but realized it wasn't really "Grease") turned into a romantic comedy and sweetened the whole thing so the subversive stuff plays now as misogynistic and silly. It's all about tone. On stage it survives (at least the original version, the current version kowtows to the movie). The movie hurts.

 

[Wrong Element]

I don't know if "cringe" is the right term, but I took The Ten Commandments pretty seriously as a Catholic school-attending kid, and now I watch for the unintended comedy.

Animal House and the Blues Brothers.

I've probably seen Animal House more than any other movie, and I'm actually surprised it's still regularly shown on television.

 

[butters]

That what was so great about the original Broadway show -- it shook the conventional Sandra Dee storyline on its ass. The stage show (before the shitty disco music was added) was subversive, raunchy and that's what it was about. The movie (which I enjoyed -- but realized it wasn't really "Grease") turned into a romantic comedy and sweetened the whole thing so the subversive stuff plays now as misogynistic and silly. It's all about tone. On stage it survives (at least the original version, the current version kowtows to the movie). The movie hurts.

i'd love to see that

I don't know if "cringe" is the right term, but I took The Ten Commandments pretty seriously as a Catholic school-attending kid, and now I watch for the unintended comedy.

get 'em young....

i know people even now who think that most the religious movies are history, that jesus was a fair-skinned, fair-haired type speaking impeccable american.

 

[PaxNurgle]

Treasure of the Four Crowns.

Even as a kid seeing this in the theater (with 3-D glasses!) I knew that, all things considered, this movie just wasn't very good. But that doesn't mean that I still didn't enjoy the hell out of watching it, as bad as it was. I mean, it was Three D!! Action! Heads spinning around spitting fire! Spears and projectiles aimed right at your face! It had it all, man.

But yeah, "Treasure of the Four Crowns" was one of those "So bad...it's good" kind of lo-budj action films that desperately wanted to be the next "Raiders of the Lost Ark" but lacked the budget, story line, acting talent, and, well, pretty much everything else.

Probably, nobody even remembers this movie. Which, I guess, is kind of the point.

 

[MNGuy]

Revenge of the Nerds.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

I don't know if "cringe" is the right term, but I took The Ten Commandments pretty seriously as a Catholic school-attending kid, and now I watch for the unintended comedy.





I've probably seen Animal House more than any other movie, and I'm actually surprised it's still regularly shown on television.

I appreciate Animal House more today than ever, especially now that I have it in 4K.

 

[DanDraper]

Pretty much most 80's movies, but I still enjoy them.



....

 

[FL30]

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

Ok, that's funny!!

I liked the flying in Top Gun, but the romance was a total waste of good film that could have been used for more flying scenes.

Also, the ending was stupid. If one is in a REAL dogfight, you don't get minutes to make a decision whether to fight or flee as Maverick did. That ending ruined the film for me.

 

[Pavel543]

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?

"Womanizer"-this movie still has me twitching to this day. I remember watching this movie as a kid, secretly from my parents.

 

[dinny]

More fascination that revulsion. The Ipcress File, 1966 Michael Caine as a British agent in charge of a mind control experiment using drugs and psychological torture. He gets co-oped by Soviet agents and is submitted to his own torture. I was just a kid when I saw it in the theaters and would have never believed crap like that happened if I hadn't seen it a few years later after I was in the military. I still gives me the creeps.

 

[Scooterist]

Has to be Highlander for me. I think it was always pretty corny but I tried to watch it a few weeks ago and had to turn it off.

 

[Jada59]

Maybe I'm weird. I don't like a lot of movies. Never did. But the ones I used to like, I still do.

 

[Stopokochac]

Re:

Earnest Saves Christmas

It was my favorite Christmas film as a kid, then I tried watching it once when I got older, and I turned it off after like 2 minutes, because the actor who played Earnest was irritating as hell.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Has to be Highlander for me. I think it was always pretty corny but I tried to watch it a few weeks ago and had to turn it off.

Same. I just tried it last week and it's fucking terrible. Christopher Lambert is Arnold without the muscle or personality.

 

[Phantom300]

Revenge of the Nerds.

Good Lord, This

Pre-pubescent me loved the tits and bush. (duh) I Watched it on a whim about 6 years ago and Eugh, that one did not age well at all.

 

[ishtat]

Anything with Julie Andrews in is bad. I always really want to put a bucket over her head and whack it. But The Sound of Music was the dogs vomit of bad. I have never watched more than 10 minutes without running away - Julie bloody Andrews and a bunch of talentless caterwauling brats.

It's a tossup between Sound of Music and Princess Diana's funeral for the most nauseating cringey performance of all time.

 

[ryan8558]

Anything with Julie Andrews in is bad. I always really want to put a bucket over her head and whack it. But The Sound of Music was the dogs vomit of bad. I have never watched more than 10 minutes without running away - Julie bloody Andrews and a bunch of talentless caterwauling brats.

It's a tossup between Sound of Music and Princess Diana's funeral for the most nauseating cringey performance of all time.

even S.O.B?

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

even S.O.B?

Nobody remembers anything about S.O.B. except Julie Andrews tits for about 3 seconds.

 

[rae121452]

Anything with Julie Andrews in is bad. I always really want to put a bucket over her head and whack it. But The Sound of Music was the dogs vomit of bad. I have never watched more than 10 minutes without running away - Julie bloody Andrews and a bunch of talentless caterwauling brats.

It's a tossup between Sound of Music and Princess Diana's funeral for the most nauseating cringey performance of all time.

victor/victoria wasn't that bad. and i liked her in 'star' even tho no one else did.