Films you no longer like....

[irocfan]

For me a obvious choice is Bram Stoker's Dracula. When it first came out I loved it. When the DVD came out I enjoyed it all over again. I tried watching it again a year or so ago and... WTF was I thinking? Turgid crap, well crap may be a little strong but you get the gist, left me cold and uninterested.

So as it says on the tin - what films are there that you used to like (maybe even love?) that you no longer do?

[hotchy]

The guyver!

Yes that absolutely action packed peice of cinematic masterpiece with the great Luke skywalker. Watched it 100s of times when a kid. Blew my mind. The way he came back from the mists of death to defeat the massive dragon overlord.


Wow. What an utter pile of dross when I rebought it as an adult. Litterly felt like half the movie was missing. He bends guns with his fists, yet that means the robber is equally as strong.. aw man. How I utterly loved that movie beyond anything in existence doesnt make sense now.

Edited by hotchy on Wednesday 5th February 13:06

[anonymous-user]

Behind Enemy Lines.
Some fantastic cinematography and effects. Parts of the aerial/carrier deck stuff is up there with Top Gun and the sequence of the aircraft breaking up in flight is brilliant.
Gene Hackman also never fails to deliver.
It never got big publicity on release as it coincided with the US venturing in to Afghanistan, post 9/11 and was largely withdrawn from general release.
It now looks a little dated and a bit....naff.

[R1gtr]

Commando. Loved all the old Arnie films and had this up there with Predator years ago when I was a kid but whilst I think Predator is still awesome and a great film, Commando is utter dross.

[Scabutz]

R1gtr said:

Commando. Loved all the old Arnie films and had this up there with Predator years ago when I was a kid but whilst I think Predator is still awesome and a great film, Commando is utter dross.

Yep. Predator is amazing still. Commando has become a pastiche of itself.

[anonymous-user]

Starship Troopers, mist have watched it at least 20 tines when I was younger but now its bloody awful

[schmalex]

Cape Fear. I was forced to buy a DVD player to watch it recently. It was absolute pants

[crofty1984]

Human Traffic. Loved it at uni and new and my mates could probably quote the whole thing to each other. But now it just makes me feel old and miss those days.

Very much a case of it's moment in time for me.

[glazbagun]

Scabutz said:

R1gtr said:

Commando. Loved all the old Arnie films and had this up there with Predator years ago when I was a kid but whilst I think Predator is still awesome and a great film, Commando is utter dross.

Yep. Predator is amazing still. Commando has become a pastiche of itself.

Good call.

I think I've seen Shawshank Redemption to death. I actively avoid it now.

Rocky IV was my favourite as a kid. Now I still love the fights and montages, but the rest is junk. I mean Paulie's robot. WTF?

The first one still stands up all these years on.

[Veeayt]

Jay & Silent Bob franchise. After seeing the last film I tried to watch Dogma and disliked it. They were my boyhood heroes.

[anonymous-user]

Scabutz said:

Yep. Predator is amazing still. Commando has become a pastiche of itself.

Get to da chopper

[marcosgt]

Dare I say "Leon"?

I still think the relationship between Leon and the girl is excellently portrayed (and nowhere near as creepy as people suggest, imo), but Gary Oldman's performance is cringe-inducing when I watch it now...

For a long while, I would state this as one of my favourite films, but I'd not be so quick now...

M

[Halb]

R1gtr said:

Commando. Loved all the old Arnie films and had this up there with Predator years ago when I was a kid but whilst I think Predator is still awesome and a great film, Commando is utter dross.

Tough title really, I still enjoy films that I know aren't really very good, I can watch them setting myself in that time period they were first released or with an understanding of their limitations, Commando is one of them, Highlander is another, a lot of James Bond films fall into this category. Predator, as you say, remains a masterpiece of cinema. Some films last, some don't.
But a film that I no longer actually like...

[A Winner Is You]

Scabutz said:

R1gtr said:

Commando. Loved all the old Arnie films and had this up there with Predator years ago when I was a kid but whilst I think Predator is still awesome and a great film, Commando is utter dross.

Yep. Predator is amazing still. Commando has become a pastiche of itself.

I bought Commando on blu ray a few weeks ago and for me it was still very enjoyable, not least because it's very much in on the joke.

[Little Pete]

Kelly’s Hero’s. Attempted to watch it a couple of weeks ago and turned it off after an hour or so. Just lots and lots of shouting. I was very disappointed.

[Halb]

I thought of one! The Force Awakens. Enjoyed it a lot when it came out. I can see through it now. Even at the time I knew it was basically a redo, but I made allowances, now in retrospect it doesn't deserve allowances and it is fairly rotten all round.

[FrenchCarFan]

glazbagun said:

Good call.

I think I've seen Shawshank Redemption to death. I actively avoid it now.

Rocky IV was my favourite as a kid. Now I still love the fights and montages, but the rest is junk. I mean Paulie's robot. WTF?

The first one still stands up all these years on.

fking LOL at Rocky IV hehe. The robot is so batst its just part of the nonsense, I will watch it everytime its on and always expect Unicron from Transformers to step in for Ivan.

Also Commando is a great film mainly because its so daft.

[ben5575]

Another one for Highlander. So many quotable lines growing up, but now I just can't past the Sean Connery bit that seemingly lasts about 3 hours.

I still lust after his apartment and in particular the sunken sofa.