Movies That Have Not Aged Well?

[buck135]

American Beauty. Just doesn't work for me anymore.

[Deadend45]

All the Marble flicks and everything by the Jar Jar of directors.

In fact almost all new movies are meant to have a short self life.

[Deadend45]

If you think that all the CG fest 'live action' flicks that are made currently will not be laughed at 20 years from now you are dreaming in Technicolor.

[Splatterhouse 5]

I had recently thought that “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” was simply a product of its time that would really only appeal to people that grew up with it ….until I just watched it with my 12-year-old daughter, and she instantly identified with with it (and loved it). I was pushing a movie from my youth that I wasn’t exactly sure that she’d care about, but I was genuinely surprised that she enjoyed it as much as she did.

It was definitely a moment in time that made me re-evaluate how I think about movies “aging”. I had a very similar experience with my other (younger) daughter with “Back to the Future”….but I’m not sure if that really counts, because I would have disowned her if she didn’t like that one ��

[dbhl3000]

Deep Throat. America has moved on to more egregious perversions.

[yukito]

Originally Posted by buck135

American Beauty. Just doesn't work for me anymore.

I still like the movie as much as when I first saw it.

[Shane Rollins]

-The Birth Of A Nation (arguably contributed to the resurgence of the KKK, and between the movie and the book that inspired it created or furthered many racist theories that some people still cling to today)

-The Good Earth (the Daniels summed that one up pretty good during one of their many wins)

-Gone With The Wind (wasn’t remotely realistic, portrayed white people as either violent killers (the North) or headstrong buffoons (the South) and black people as bumbling, incoherent fools)

-Every single Fu Manchu movie (the other yellowface movies had issues too, but Fu Manchu takes the cake)

-Song Of The South (grew from a mediocre movie at best in 1946 to a highly demanded title that’s still mediocre at best in 2023)

-The Devil And Max Devlin (any BC movie really, but especially the one where he plays the devil)

-Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown (try saying the N word all those times in a movie today and see what happens)

-The Ref, The Usual Suspects, and American Beauty (KS stars with a kid in the first one, messed with a kid during the filming of the second one, and played a guy messing with a kid in the third one)

-Gridlock’d (takes place in New Years of 96/97 and centers around Tupac trying to get clean. Tupac didn’t exactly have a Happy New Year in 96/97.)

-Every single movie with awful CGI that instantly snaps you out of the movie

...just to name a few.

[ZombAid]

The Apartment by Billy Wilder.

[marblearch]

Contagion as it omits just about all of the 'spoiler alerts' that turned out to be true after all.......to add even better from our Sat night movie discussion, Outbreak, for portraying the CDC as the good guys

[CMG]

Re: Post #65. DEEP THROAT is so 'vanilla' now it would get an [NC-17] rating with a disclaimer that it's not really that dirty!

[Watershipdownisgood]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

First few things that come to mind...

• Henry and the Hendersons--the last half is just way too sappy.
• Short Circuit--Johnny 5 is annoying and too much of the film is cartoony and obnoxious. Fine kid's movie, but aggravating for adults.
• The Wizard--never had the pleasure of seeing this as a kid, so I couldn't even connect to the story at all. Nintento stuff is cool and all, but without nostalgia the movie bored me.

I always took it as a study on the hellish nature of the criminal underworld, and each story demonstrates how specific characters manage to escape it through specific means.

I've grown to appreciate Pulp Fiction over time, but on the first watch I found confounding and weird. I don't blame anybody for disliking it.

Oh gosh Harry and the Hendersons such an awful kids movie and the person wearing the Bigfoot is just creepy in fact the Bigfoot character in that movie still terrifies me as an adult. Short Circuit movies are so terrible not some of my favorite 80’s movies also yeah Johnny 5 is very very annoying I did not find either of these films funny let alone good. Agree with you on both of these films

[Watershipdownisgood]

Honestly for me it’s gotta be Troll in Central Park this is a terrible animated kids movie and the plant troll character is very creepy nowadays after looking at clips from this film nowadays. This film has definitely not aged well animation wise too like it feels so rushed and not much effort was put in to make a good animated movie.

I tried watching this film again a few years ago and I hated it just a garbage kids film with a creepy main character obsessed with a boy’s kid sister who’s like three years old ewwwwwww yuck. I even hated this film when I was a kid watching it on VHS it was so boring and terrible not scary just bad. It was very bland, and boring worst Don Bluth film ever it’s just so bad. It was also overly saccharine and sweet too colorful and the songs are just the worst animated movie songs ever.

Even if this does get a Blu Ray in the future which will probably never happen it is owned by Fox after all people will still hate this film me included. And honestly will absolutely tear it apart.

There’s probably other movies that haven’t aged well that I’ve seen before but this takes the cake as not only being terrible but having not aged well at all.

Still there are memes of this film but that’s probably the only thing that has aged well the memes the film itself absolutely not

[dkelly26666]

Originally Posted by snipemonkey

I don't disagree about the movie. Burt Reynolds was at peak-charisma and could pretty much carry anything back then. What I was referring to mostly was the CB-and-Redneck Craze that literally took over America in the 70s. Lasted right up until around 1980-81 when Urban Cowboy seemed to finally burn out the last of the enthusiasm (thank God). It was really WEIRD seeing people in big cities who'd probably never come within 100 miles of an actual cow or horse running around in Stetson hats, skin-tight starched blue jeans and sh*t-kicker boots. Very strange indeed.

Except later every white suburban kid was walking around in baggy sagging pants and hoodies, talking hard ghetto slang and obsessed with rap.

Not any less cringey, really. And it's gone on for far longer than the mainstream country thing did.

[Watershipdownisgood]

Also to go a bit Disney the original Peter Pan animated movie it is hard to watch nowadays especially that infamous red man scene which is very racist and offensive. Also Peter Pan is a creep and while he does much much worse things in the original book and trust me the original Peter Pan story by JM Barrie is quite dark. At least it wasn’t this offensive towards Native Americans like wow this film has aged quite badly.

I watched it again on VHS a few years ago and it honestly made me quite uncomfortable and a bit creeped out and pretty offended. And I used to really like this film as a kid but now it’s honestly quite offensive and a bit creepy. Like that smile that Peter does is very much pedophile like basically I’m going to kidnap the children and force them to come to Neverland and the parents can’t stop me. Which is basically what he does in the original story. And trust me what he does in the original story is pretty messed up he’s like a creepy psychopath in the original story.

[Phillip c. Niethe]

The Fear, the one with the wooden man named Morty, needs a remake and the wooden creature needs to be more freaky.

[Justin2000]

I feel Jaws is really slow paced

[WonkaBedknobs83]

Originally Posted by traths

I would say Juno mostly because of the Elliott/Ellen Page thing.

Does that also apply to Can't Stop the Music? The Blu-ray of that movie is unaltered to reflect a name used in 1980 that is no longer used today by its user.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by Justin2000

I feel Jaws is really slow paced

Thanks for sharing…..

[WonkaBedknobs83]

Very little from this century even qualifies for the test of time to begin with, even with less rigorous testing standards than before.

[snipemonkey]

Originally Posted by dkelly26666

Except later every white suburban kid was walking around in baggy sagging pants and hoodies, talking hard ghetto slang and obsessed with rap.

Not any less cringey, really. And it's gone on for far longer than the mainstream country thing did.

True. But I guess the difference (for me) is that I don't mind "kids" running around trying things on for size because... that's what kids do while they're figuring out their identities and whatnot. It's a lot weirder and infinitely more embarrassing to see (nominally) grown-a** adults playing dress-up.

Also, you can drive around most big cities and actually see non-white culture. It's right there if you care to look. Cowboys in Chicago or Manhattan? Not so much.

Which leads me to think of one of the most iconic but also most completely anachronistic and bizarre movie scenes in the 80s -- the Torchy's scene from 48 Hrs. I know Walter Hill pretty much writes and directs all of his movies as modern day westerns, but plopping a hayseed cowboy strip club down in the middle of 1980s Los Angeles is... odd. Like all I can imagine is Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy driving around for literally hours trying to find a redneck bar in L.A.