Movies that haven't aged well?
 

Off the top of my head, "The Gate" and "Wanted." Both I remembered being way cooller than they ended up being on a new watch.

Also, I enjoyed H20 and Halloween: Resurrection way more the first time around. Now they seem pretty pedantic.

Wouldn't mind sitting through "Dark City" again here soon. Used to love that flick - it was brilliant. Wonder how it's aged?

Several 007 films?
Anything featuring Kevin Spacey?

For something new you might check out the director's cut of it. I'm not sure it's better but it feels very different. Also I'd say either one aged fine... there isn't a lot of hokey CGI to date it too much.

Back to the Future part 2 and any movie that has shown an inaccurate future which has since passed.

Its a TV movie, but Knight Rider 2000. No guns, some kind of sound gun for police and freezing criminals before Demolition Man did it... :tlol:

I wonder if there are movies that age so well that they are better today than when they were released.

That accounts for most Ray Harryhausen flicks, Kurt Douglas' Spartacus, Blade Runner and A Christmas Story. :)

Pretty much every "action" movie from the 80's-90's is hilariously campy nowadays, not that that's a bad thing. I love cheesy action movies, moreso than serious action movies, but at the time they were written as "serious" movies.

It's kind of like when you watch Batman '89 now. At the time it was considered a very dark, gritty and serious Batman movie. You watch it now, and it's a fun movie, but it comes across as a fun comic book movie and doesn't feel dark at all.

They Live is better now. When it came out it was an indictment on Reaganomics but watching it now and seeing the parallels of our current government is quite astounding!

Or "Demolition Man," for sure.

The Love Guru.


I'm surprised people have let John Oliver and Steven Colbert slide for appearing in that movie.

Batman '89 has aged incredibly well. I'd say both because the VFX in general were never complex enough to look awful in the first place, and second because it was set in a "mythological" Gotham. Timeless.

A lot of movies with racial content and jokes.

What I notice most about old movies or TV shows from the 80's and 90's is how often they make fun of gay people. Like they act like "you're one of those?" or "he doesn't like girls he's a homo,"

You would never see these type of lines today. But what's interesting is even the main characters of these movies make these jokes and everyone laughs and smirks so it's not like a side character making a comment.

For all of us who grew up back then when we were kids and teens it's why we all remember when gay people were basically the punchline of every joke. There were homos everywhere back then too just not out in the open. The young zoomers of today will never know how things were back then.

Yeah it's kinda weird, not that it exists, but that's normalized. Like, if they could pull back on the woke leftist sjw backlash long enough to have lines like that today, it would have been said by some minor character that would be used as an example that the person is ignorant or an asshole, or it flat out woulda been a villain character. If it was a good guy, another good guy would correct him. Or there would be something that happens in the movie that corrects that assertion.

But yeah it's surprising back in the day even the main character can get away with acting that way without someone else saying 'that's wrong' or whatever, but I guess that's the way it was. But man, it musta sucked to be part of a group, watch a movie and have that thrown in your face. I can't imagine watching some random movie and have Rocky or hell, the Ninja Turtles make some offhand remark that 'those damn beaners belong on their side of the river' or whatever and it be treated like 'yeah, dude's got a point' instead of 'dude, that's wrong'.

I kinda remember hearing there would be a scene addressing or making up for how common Bill and Ted used the f-slur back in the day when well... everybody did it. I'm thinking it's the scene where Bill extends the hug upon one of his future selves, showing her no longer has a problem with a bro-hug.

To their credit though, the Nerds never seemed to have a problem with having a gay guy in their group, nor do I remember them making fun of him or picking on him.

Nah, it's fine:
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A staple of '90s comedies.. immediately springing to mind are "Ace Ventura" and "Baseketball".

Those aren't really what I'm talking about. In many cases it would be very strange to have certain movies from the 70s or 80s without a lot of racial content and jokes. I'm talking about more like... movies that SEEMED slick and had a great story and beats once, but now you can see it looks like crap and there wasn't as much to the story or character stuff as you remember.

I've seen it months ago after like 20+ years. It's weird, in a bad way. I have the feeling a good chunk of Jim Carey filmography is not aging well.

It is sad to think about it but I guess every black and white movie is not aged well for the average modern viewer. I love old and "ancient" (silent) cinema, but I'm pretty sure a lot of kids won't see a black and white movie for their entire life.

Yeah, sadly. Ace Ventura barely got a chuckle out of me a few months ago. Slightly better results with Dumb and Dumber.

I think the Mask is probably one of his better classic ones cause it at least makes sense for the Mask to act like Jim Carrey.

Pretty much most comedies age like milk. Most are also not very rewatchable either because you know the punchlines.

They're rewatchable when you're rewatching them with someone who hasn't ever seen them.

Coming to America is just as funny now as back then, seen the movie about 50 times since I was a kid.

When I was a kid I didn't know actors real names (and there was no internet back then), so I just knew Eddie Murphy as "Prince Akeem."

I used to watch it with my father and I would say, "Daddy, can you put on the movie with the funny black man who is a prince from Africa," "I like the funny black man."

Coming to America? Aged perfectly. You can watch it anytime with anyone new and it's fine.

Beverly Hills Cop? 1 and 2, sure. 3, no, but that was even bad when it came out.

The Golden Child? It'd be fine except for some hokier SFX, mostly towards the end.

I love every one of those movies. Especially The Golden Child.

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I like The 40 Year Old Virgin, but it's kinda funny to watch it nowadays and seeing Andy being judged by owning a bunch of toys. A grown man having a big collection of those isn't that big of a deal socially nowadays.

Also, the gay jokes in it. I feel like a bunch of people will bring out the pitchforks if you make gay jokes on social media nowadays at least.

And I'm not sure if being a virgin at 40 will be viewed as something of a similar rarity to a shiny Pokémon in several years from now on as it was over a decade ago. Pretty sure there's been studies about how people who belong to the so called "Millennial generation" have sex later and less frequently on average than previous generations.

Think this is all a matter of individual perspective, maybe what mood one is innwhen they watch it again. Also, nothing feels the same after you've watched it for the first time, you'll never get that "first time perspective" back.

“Plan 9 from Outer Space”

Even the moviegoers in the 50’s thought it sucked.

Then it didn't really "age poorly", did it? It's not like there was ever a point when it was critically acclaimed or enjoyed genuine popularity.

Then I guess a better example would be “The Naked Gun” because of OJ Simpson

Sixteen Candles hasn't aged well, I like some parts of it

while I love The Breakfast Club, I can see why it would be too slow-paced for some people and it had some dated moments too