Movies You Outgrew

[Svengoolie 3]

Star wars, sad to say.

[Allhallowsday]

Most of the fluff I enjoyed as a kid is unimpressive, or I love as a bad movie, or I rediscover.  I had outgrown THE WIZARD OF OZ... then, I learned to love it again!  All the parts I disliked as a kid I now LOVE.  It's definitely a favorite.  Again. 

[bob]

I loved this as a kid for some reason 

[Gabriel Knight]

I loved this as a kid for some reason  

I rewatched that one recently and I have to say, it's hilarious, but only thanks to Lloyd Bridges. Without him the movie would be a complete disaster.

PINK FLOYD: THE WALL. Loved it as a moody teenager; now it just seems whiny. (Although maybe that's more outgrowing the album the movie's based on, because I still think the visuals can be great).

Completely agree! I still love the movie but I don't really like Waters' music to be honest. He was always a depressing and annoying man, and it shows in his song, which half of them are about the war. Nowadays I prefer listening to the more uplifting nature of David Gilmour, who is just a perfect musician.

[ER]

I'm afraid to watch The Wall for that reason. Once upon a time it was a little bit magical. Would it be today?

There used to be a college class locally that analyzed The Wall, as an album and a film and  a metaphor, and I'd sometimes go to that campus at night (this was circa 1991, maybe) when my mom took some arts classes there, and I would go sit in the big lecture hall where that was going on, and nobody ever chased me out.

Maybe they figured I was some childhood genius? No, likely not, nah.

Another film I have probably outgrown is My Own Private Idaho. That movie ruled my life and my friends' lives for about two months in late 1993 and I tried to see it again recently and....zero connection. I didn't even care if Bob was the hatchet man or not.

[Alex]

Star Trek: The (Slow) Motion Picture. Seemed really good when it first came out, then as I got older I saw it as being a cheap knock off of 2001.

[Dr. Whom]

Battlestar Galactica (1978). Absolutely loved this as a kid. Rewatched it a couple of years ago and it is just... lame in every way. It does have lasers going pew pew, though.

[Allhallowsday]

SON OF GODZILLA (1967) 

I watched it last night for the first time in decades - I haven't seen it since I was a kid.  I think when I was under 10 years of age, I liked it.  However, it's not great.  It's sillier than ever. 

[Alex]

Wizards. Was great fun as a kid, but on watching it as an adult it leaves much to be desired.

[Olivia Bauer]

The Cat in the Hat and Son of the Mask.

Yes, my taste was REALLY that awful.

[chainsaw midget]

The Cat in the Hat and Son of the Mask.

Yes, my taste was REALLY that awful.

Wow.  Even for a place that prides itself on the love of bad movies, you had picked some stinkers. 

[WingedSerpent]

Any of those old dinosaur movies where the dinosaurs are played by real animals, particularly the ones where they had them fight,  (There's the well known one with a caiman and a tegu lizard)  when I was younger , all  I could think about was how they were calling these animals by dinosaur names when they were clearly not dinosaurs.  I could still enjoy the movie in a camp way,


Now a days all I can think about in these scenes is the animal cruelty.  Some of those animals probably suffered fatal wounds for those parts.  Kind of makes it a little tough to watch as an adult whose trying to be more eco/animal friendly.

[RCMerchant]

PINK FLOYD: THE WALL. Loved it as a moody teenager; now it just seems whiny. (Although maybe that's more outgrowing the album the movie's based on, because I still think the visuals can be great).

I couldn't agree more.
Floyd was great in the 60's, but went downhill from there.

[zelmo73]

The Black Hole (1979). I loved this movie as a 5-year-old kid mainly because of the robots. Maximilian was my absolute favorite! I used to run around the house doing his rotating chopper blades with my hands when I was a kid; my dad still teases me about it today.



Plus it has one of the best casting lists ever put into a Disney film: Robert Forster! Maximilian Schell! Anthony Perkins! Ernest Borgnine!

So why does it suck? Because it is boring as watching paint dry. I subscribed to Disney+ last November and spotted it last month so I thought that I'd give it a watch after not seeing it for literally 35 years. That was a definite reality check! All of those years of my dad saying that the movie sucked and grudgingly renting the movie from the video store just to shut me up, and he was right the whole time. Amazing how you don't see that kind of stuff as a kid.

What fascinates me is that one of my all-time favorite bad movies, Dune (1984), suffers from the exact same symptoms as The Black Hole (1979): Great casting list, fantastic special effects, awesome music and sound effects, terrible screenwriting. Yet Dune (1984) I can watch repeatedly and it is still entertaining after all of these years, but I could barely sit through The Black Hole (1979) last month and it literally wore me out from being so boring that I went to bed right afterward.