Films you once thought were great but now find meh

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Mannequin

 

[del strangefish]

Charlie Chaplin's 'The Kid'.
Saw it when it first came out but seems a bit dated now.

 

[Simster]

Breakfast Club.

Great when I was a kid. Now, self indulgent wank looking to excuse piss poor behaviour. And there's no shagging in it.

 

[T soprano]

Shawshank Redemption.

Absolutely no way

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Absolutely no way

Absolutely yes. For me. Given you asked us which films we liked but don't like now.

I'm so over Morgan Freeman it's not funny.

 

[Simster]

Human Traffic. It's still ok, but it has dated beyond belief. Plus everyone it it looks just a little too old to be playing pilled up club monkeys.

Human Traffic was absolutely shithouse at the time, IMO.

 

[Randsta]

When I was a kid I thought the Best of the best was amazing now it's awful!

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

Porkys. Seemed risky and outrageous at the time. Now, utter American shite

 

[Wozza]

Breakfast Club.

Great when I was a kid. Now, self indulgent wank looking to excuse piss poor behaviour. And there's no shagging in it.

This.

 

[T soprano]

Charlie Chaplin's 'The Kid'.
Saw it when it first came out but seems a bit dated now.

I still find laurel & hardy films funny made in the 1920s and still funny today even my kids find them funny
The shorter films though, I thought the longer movies weren't as good

 

[T soprano]

Absolutely yes. For me. Given you asked us which films we liked but don't like now.

I'm so over Morgan Freeman it's not funny.

Fair enough

Just didn't expect that film to come up, still a lot of people's choice for their favourite movie of all time

 

[Simster]

Porkys. Seemed risky and outrageous at the time. Now, utter American shite

Yes, this too is absolutely shite when seen through adult eyes having originally watched it as a 16 year old. There must be a ton of truly shit flicks from the 80s that people of a certain age thought were good at the time, but are actually the complete opposite.

Interestingly, the Back to the Future trilogy has very much gone the other way, I would say. It was quite good at the time, but they are definitely held in higher esteem as time goes on.

 

[El Sid]

On The Buses - used to love the TV and film versions - bit cringey now Butler!

 

[T soprano]

It seems a lot of 80s movies come under the most dated category
I agree with most of the above posts films like
Porkies , lemon Popsicle , the Wanderers , breakfast club, pretty in pink all cool movies in the 80s when you were a teenager of that time but now watched in your 40s don't really tick any boxes nowadays


Having said all that though , I've just thought I still think Ferris Buellers day Off, is the dogs

 

[Simster]

It seems a lot of 80s movies come under the most dated category
I agree with most of the above posts films like
Porkies , lemon Popsicle , the Wanderers , breakfast club, pretty in pink all cool movies in the 80s when you were a teenager of that time but now watched in your 40s don't really tick any boxes nowadays


Having said all that though , I've just thought I still think Ferris Buellers day Off, is the dogs

Ferris Buellers came into my mind as I was writing my last post as an exception to the rule, so yeah I agree with you.

 

[Common as Mook]

It seems a lot of 80s movies come under the most dated category
I agree with most of the above posts films like
Porkies , lemon Popsicle , the Wanderers , breakfast club, pretty in pink all cool movies in the 80s when you were a teenager of that time but now watched in your 40s don't really tick any boxes nowadays


Having said all that though , I've just thought I still think Ferris Buellers day Off, is the dogs

The Wanderers is still brilliant.

 

[T soprano]

Ferris Buellers came into my mind as I was writing my last post as an exception to the rule, so yeah I agree with you.

If we were to dig deep I'm sure they'd be a few others that did stand the test of time
I think The Goonies will always remain a timeless classic for a lot of people as a kids movie
On an adult theme I saw DIE HARD recently and I still loved it

 

[T soprano]

The Wanderers is still brilliant.

"don't f*** with the Wongs "

Yeah ok I'll retract The Wanderers

Sorry

 

[pastafarian]

It seems a lot of 80s movies come under the most dated category
I agree with most of the above posts films like
Porkies , lemon Popsicle , the Wanderers , breakfast club, pretty in pink all cool movies in the 80s when you were a teenager of that time but now watched in your 40s don't really tick any boxes nowadays


Having said all that though , I've just thought I still think Ferris Buellers day Off, is the dogs

Add Kentucky Fried Movie to that list

 

[SK1NT]

Shawshank Redemption.

Still an amazing film...



Goonies for me... Was such an amazing magical film as a young boy... doesn't seem the same now... still like it though.