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Added 2025-02-01 16:00:09 +0000 UTCName a movie that you think has aged poorly overtime, and why.
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Agree. Even Molly Ringwald has made public comments criticizing the characterizations in the movie. It's an artifact of a different time and place.
Mark Cameron
2025-02-05 18:36:58 +0000 UTCAgree. I never liked this movie from the first time I saw it in the theater back in the day. I always thought that I could not relate to the characters since I was younger than they were, and I did not live through the 1960's. But I have watched it a couple of times since, and still do not like it. Perhaps there is a universal theme in there: the idealism of youth does not hold as people get older and have to compromise their youthful ideals to pay the bills. Maybe. But it did not seem that well-realized in the picture for me. Or maybe it as seen as a signpost of sorts as the zeitgeist of the 80's turned away from social consciousness and leaned towards materialism. But that shift was already going on at least a decade before The Big Chill was made (if I read history correctly). Anyway, the praise and stature for this film is a mystery to me. A lot of good young actors at the start of their careers. Yeah. OK. That may be one reason to watch the movie.
Mark Cameron
2025-02-05 18:22:20 +0000 UTCAmerican Beauty (1999). I tried revisiting and rewatching this movie a few months back and could not finish. Big Kevin Spacey cringe factor in any movie I see him in now. And in American Beauty he has fantasies about a teenage girl. That is off-the-radar cringe factor!! Nope. It just does not play well in 2025.
Mark Cameron
2025-02-05 18:10:02 +0000 UTCAmerican Hustle. I really enjoyed The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook, but American Hustle just felt like David O. Russell knew he needed to make another Oscar-worthy movie. It’s a really messy film.
Lathan
2025-02-05 00:15:54 +0000 UTCI don't know if it would entirely fit in context, but the very first X-Men film from 2000. It loses visual and story cinema points for me because superhero films in some distant and relevant times after had alot more to gain with what the makers/developers did after the 2000s. Plus most of the X-Men films were not that good really in my opinion. They did not capture the essence in the heart of the characters and the visual aesthetics that hard-core fans or general audience would recognize from the popular source material art for the adaption. So it's been 24 half years since that film and I think it would be awfully generic to the new viewing eyes.
davis376 .
2025-02-03 19:04:56 +0000 UTCSixteen Candles. I love John Hughes and I still adore this movie for nostalgic reasons, but there’s something to be said about a film that overtly, sexually exploits young women, as well as having an exchange student that is insanely stereotyped for our entertainment. I understand the 80’s were another time, and comedy was received much differently, but revisiting the film today I am always cringing. Again, a part of me still enjoys what I initially loved about the movie, but something icky runs deep when I see it now. The same way I feel about ‘Grease’ sometimes. Politically and morally bankrupt.
Basic Penguin
2025-02-03 17:02:58 +0000 UTCI saw you pose this question on YouTube and it inspired me to subscribe because I have an opinion, but lack the depth of knowledge to substantiate it. For me it’s not one particular film, but rather the entire visual style of most big budget mid-to-late 90s films as a whole. The overuse of sepia tint, the neon colors, the high contrast lighting, the music video-style editing, the feeling that films were being shot with a letterbox TV in mind rather than a theater screen.. Just not an era of film I enjoy revisiting today, and it definitely didn’t bother me at the time.
Mike Ahk
2025-02-03 16:21:52 +0000 UTCWhat Women Want comes to mind for me, because it felt glaringly dated the last time I tried watching it, and really cringe. I did not remember it being that bad. I think it is because my initial love for Helen Hunt and like for Gibson, combined with the stupid-movie era it came out in, combined with my younger age, it all sort of lowered my guard. The premise is also so stupid, it was back when 'magic' was used to justify any idea, in this case - for the sake of playing out a 'mind rape' fantasy. Maybe I am being harsh? I am not sure, I am just sure that in my opinion it has aged glaringly poorly.
Jacob Paul Stephey
2025-02-02 03:04:08 +0000 UTCSpaceballs Very funny as a kid, especially if Star Wars was the center of your universe. As an adult it feels more like a slog with a lot of the jokes falling flat.
Stephen
2025-02-02 00:35:06 +0000 UTCThe Big Chill. It’s boomer navel gazing at its worst. Privileged friends mope about their lost idealism while listening to obvious needle drops. The film was put too high on a pedestal by its generation.
Drew Perkins
2025-02-01 21:54:05 +0000 UTCI just want to shout out Adam Sandler's 50 First Dates. A movie about a guy dating a woman who forgets her entire life every time she goes to sleep. The end sequence has him create a video tape of all the things that happened since she stopped being able to create new memories. One of them was "The Red Sox won the world series... just kidding," in reference to the curse of bambino which kept the team from winning a world series since 1918. 8 months later in that same year, the Red Sox won the World Series.
Arthur Augustyn
2025-02-01 18:52:02 +0000 UTCMASH I don’t deny it’s a classic. It was the film that made Altman…. Altman (and pretty much gave him a pass to make whatever movie he wanted in the 70s) and launched the careers of several actors involved. However… at the time it was considered one of the greatest comedies ever made, but I don’t think many of the gags would land for a contemporary movie audience. Especially the cruel jabs against the Sally Kellerman character.
Dan
2025-02-01 16:59:58 +0000 UTCThat was 1952 which was The Greatest Show on Earth. Around the World was 1956 which was the year of The Ten Commandments, Giant, and The King and I but your point is still valid. They're both terrible Oscar winners.
Wolfman Brandon
2025-02-01 16:42:05 +0000 UTCHahaha.
Basic Penguin
2025-02-01 16:29:32 +0000 UTCThe original Ghostbusters. Still an entertaining movie but the relationship between Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver is just cringe inducing now
Henri J. Mertens
2025-02-01 16:27:24 +0000 UTCAround the world in 80 days which mostly praised by critics at the time and won best picture over fucking high noon and singing in the rain. While the movie has good cinematography, art design and costume wardrobe the movie is one of the most dullest scripts to sit through which a-list talent that try to elevate this slog of movie.
Neil Childs
2025-02-01 16:19:47 +0000 UTCHow Green Was My Valley (1941). It famously beat all time greats like Citizen Kane, Sergeant York, and The Maltese Falcon for Best Picture at the Oscars. Even if it didn't win, I'd still say it's not one of John Ford's better films. It's cluttered with too many characters and plotlines that it becomes disjointed and unfocused. Not enough time is given to flesh out most storylines rendering them hollow. It was probably a consolation for his absolutely brilliant The Grapes of Wrath losing the award to the also poorly aged Rebecca the previous year.
Wolfman Brandon
2025-02-01 16:14:10 +0000 UTCEmilia Pérez, from Cannes til now.
Shane Palamara
2025-02-01 16:11:45 +0000 UTC
