Movies you loved when you were younger and found them stupid when you watched it again older (action, horror)
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I'm not talking about baby or little kids' movies. I'm talking about movies you've seen when you were an older kid or young teenager, like say the ages from 11-15. You see this movie that you think is really amazing or really cool. Then you watch it again a few years later and you realize just how stupid it is. So far I've rewatched 2 movies that fall into this category.
The first one is Halloween: Resurrection. I first saw this movie when I was 11 years old. I had thought it was the coolest, most amazing movie ever. I loved everything that was going on, Michael Myers chasing everyone in his house and how he was trying to catch the last girl, etc. were all really cool. Then I watched it again a few years later, say when I was around 15 or 16 and I couldn't believe how stupid it was with mostly everything that was going on and the dumb dialogue the characters were saying. I guess I loved it as an 11 year old so much because I had just started to get into watching horror and R-rated movies that I didn't notice just how bad it is. Maybe it was aimed at a younger audience, despite the R-rating?
Another movie that I rewatched yesterday was XXX (Triple X). I first saw this when I was around 13 or 14 and I loved it. One of the first of the few action movies that I've seen. I guess I was so taken away by the action sequences, the hot girls and the cool cars that I didn't pay much attention to villain's dumb plot. It is kind of okay if you wanna have a cheesy good waste of time, I guess.
Has anyone else experienced this with movies? I wonder how many other movies I'll rewatch and find stupid that I loved from childhood...
Yeah I don't know, I used to be so crazy about this movie called Top Secret!(1984) staring Val Kilmer... but, I tried re-watching it a couple yrs ago and sadly it just wasn't the same!
I think it might've been because the person I was watching it with had never seen it before and I had been going on about how funny it was and like "you gotta see this movie!" etc...& they just didn't appreciate it. lol
Stripes. I loved the movie as teenager. Rewatched it recently and it doesn't seem to have aged well and I just didn't get much enjoyment out of it, except for the first few minutes.
The first Nightmare on Elm Street. I tried watching it again months ago with my hubby because he hadn't seen it and we had to turn it off 20 mins in because the effects looked so cheesy.
Sad that he missed it because it was so scary back then.
It really is a shlocky, anti-intellectual movie that plays on the American need for violence and flashy style over substance. I wanted to be Alex when I was 17, pffffftft.
The book, the original book not the US version, was much better...
It really is a shlocky, anti-intellectual movie that plays on the American need for violence and flashy style over substance. I wanted to be Alex when I was 17, pffffftft.
The book, the original book not the US version, was much better...
Agreed.
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