Films that have aged well and aged horribly

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Originally Posted by s2mikey

5) Rosemarys baby - Might have been shocking back then but its just cheesey garbage now. I didnt care for it and find it even sillier now.

I saw Rosemary's Baby for the first time earlier this year and I loved it... I didn't like it quite as much as Chinatown or Repulsion, the only other Polanski films that I've seen, but I thought all three were great. Considering that it came out nearly 25 years before I was born, I'd say I'd have to strongly disagree with it being dated. For comparison, I watched The Exorcist a couple of months before Rosemary's Baby, and THAT is a movie that doesn't seem to have aged very well. I enjoyed watching it, and I'll probably go back and watch the director's cut at some point, but I don't think that it would be considered the classic that it is without taking into account its historical context (how shocking it was at the time compared to other films, how many people it terrified, etc).

Speaking of Chinatown, that movie aged incredibly well.