You Nostalgia you lose and win (watching movies from when you were a kid)

[EricBC]

I didn't know where else to put this, but I figure this would make for some good disscussion.

I recently watched Russkies with 'Leaf' Jaoquin Phoenix, Peter 'Ralphie' Billingsley, and Whip Hubley (Hollywood from Top Gun) I had not seen that since I 8 or 9, but I always remembered that movie and couldn't think of the title and searched for a long time to find it, a few years back I finally figured out what the title was, and couldn't find it. It's on Netflix now so I watched it last night.

Man that movie was pretty lame, but growing up with all the GRRRRR RUSSIANS! stuff going on and just the whole thing for some reason my young self ate it up. It's like that expression you can't go home again, some movies just don't hold up. Goonies will always have that sense of magic for me. I want to watch The Rescue sometime. Russkies was just spotty all around, dialog was really weak and a lot of things seemed so forced.

The same thing happened with, and I know I'm going to catch a shitstorm on this, The Dark Crystal. I was obsessed with that movie as a kid, loved it, would watch it over and over. That whole movie is creepy as hell to me now, some of it is skirting the uncanny valley in a way that just distrubs me. Some of it was still pretty neat to me and I'm not putting down how amazing the work was on it. Some people said that Henson did stuff with puppetry that couldn't be done digitally, and that was true for a long time, fanboys will still say that. Don't get me wrong, I'm a muppets kid through and through, I still have my first vinyl, the muppets christmas album.

I am trying to think of something from the past I watched recently and I know there is one, but for the life of me I can't think of it, test planning at work on new designs so my brain is mush. The Breakfast Club and Hoosiers, but I have seen those a lot. I'm trying to think of movies where a span of 18 or more years has elapsed since viewing, i.e. 12ish and younger. I guess E.T. would be like that also, it was my first movie in the theatre granted my memory doesn't span to less then 2 years old, but I think the last time I watched it was when I was 6 or 7 and then during christmas a few years ago watched it with family. I enjoyed it and we all had a laugh about how I was terrified of this giant stuffed E.T. my cousin tormented me with when I was 3/4 years old. There are some things that don't hold up of course.

The expression "You Nostalgia, You Lose" is one that my friends and I love to use to describe when events like this happen.

I just now thought of the movie, but it's not a win...
Short Circuit, I can't say it better then this (http://www.pajiba.com/seriously_rand...-over-time.php)
"I loved this movie when I was a kid. I mean: Loved. But, man o’ ****ing man, it’s a terrible film. A robot that looks like one of those Radio Shack numbers you can get for $19.95 today develops a mind of its own after it’s struck by lightning, plays with butterflies, and calls itself “Johnny 5” after being inspired by an El Debarge song. Short Circuit is a cheesy, horrible combination of Iron Giant, E.T. and Wall-E reduced to the lowest functioning denominator. That should probably be apparent by the presence of Steve Gutenberg, the biggest box-office star of the ’80s who was so bad that, even now, 25 years later, he doesn’t get the reverential treatment that many of the other ’80s stars do. He’s always been a bad sitcom Dad; that just happened to work for him in the ’80s. "