Movies and Shows you liked back in the day but now realize are crap -

[Dafuqisdis?]

So, I rewatched Labyrinth after probably not having seen it in at least a couple of decades and...well...

It's incredibly fucking cringey. I'm surprised that I was even able to sit through it when I was a kid. I guess it helped that Jennifer Connelly gave me a funny feeling in my tummy but now I watch it and she's a 12 year old girl running around with stupid looking puppets.

I mean this scene pretty much sums up the overall awfulness:

I don't know how David Bowie was able to show his face in public after that.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Most stuff from the 80s isn't nearly as good as we remember.
Just got my wife to watch "Little Monsters" for the first time ever with me a month or so ago and it just comes off creepy and weird.

And I never saw what was funny about Maurice pissing in the bully kid's apple juice.
That's just fucking nasty.

 

[Lemmingwise]

My theory is that stuff actually was better. But our sensitivity to stimuli just rots as we age

 

[The Fool]

>Hating Labyrinth

Literally kill yourself.

 

[Dafuqisdis?]

>Hating Labyrinth

Literally kill yourself.

Sorry it sucks.

Every extant hard copy should have been piled into Bowie's grave when he died.

Most stuff from the 80s isn't nearly as good as we remember.
Just got my wife to watch "Little Monsters" for the first time ever with me a month or so ago and it just comes off creepy and weird.

And I never saw what was funny about Maurice pissing in the bully kid's apple juice.
That's just fucking nasty.

Honestly the 80s were a golden age for movies but some of it, especially some of the kids stuff just doesn't hold up.

 

[The Fool]

Sorry it sucks.

Every extant hard copy should have been piled into Bowie's grave when he died.

 

[Exorbital Columnations]

Seinfeld.


Just kidding, it always sucked.

 

[The Fool]

Seinfeld.


Just kidding, it always sucked.

Thats it this thread is closed.

 

[Dom Cruise]

There was a straight to video kid's movie called Magic Island I liked as a kid starring Zachary Ty Bryan https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113736/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_105

I tried to rewatch it on Youtube once and well, it didn't exactly hold up.

 

[Bec]

I haven't watched labyrinth but it has a catchy bowie song it it so it cant be that bad.

 

[The Shadow]

A lot of stuff doesn't hold up. But Gremlins is still kino.

 

[Joey Caruso]

Some people like to think that The Fairly Oddparents started off good and got bad later on, but after going back and watching some of the early episodes again I'm thoroughly convinced that the whole show was just plain not very good. You can see most of the jokes coming from a mile away and every plot basically boils down to "Timmy is a fucking idiot and can't figure out how to wish his way out of this predicament in 5 seconds even though you just did".

 

[Lilly Philly Burnelli]

I used to like Family Guy and thought it was funny. I used to think it gradually got worse but going back and watching it, its soooo awful. Poor excuse for animation of that high budget, bad character design, bad jokes (not offensive just poorly written jokes). And Jesus Christ, the "that reminds me of the time..." joke, boy that doesn't get old at all. "That reminds me of the time I went to the mall with Paul McCartney with his one-legged wife." Anyone know why they do this? I'll admit Family Guy got worse, dont get me wrong, but it has always been mid-tier. Now its just unbearable. Case in point: the Trump Guy episode, I didn't crack a smile once.

I have no idea why American Dad isn't more popular. It's at least funny, and more expressive in animation.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

I used to like Family Guy and thought it was funny. I used to think it gradually got worse but going back and watching it, its soooo awful. Poor excuse for animation of that high budget, bad character design, bad jokes (not offensive just poorly written jokes). And Jesus Christ, the "that reminds me of the time..." joke, boy that doesn't get old at all. "That reminds me of the time I went to the mall with Paul McCartney with his one-legged wife." Anyone know why they do this? I'll admit Family Guy got worse, dont get me wrong, but it has always been mid-tier. Now its just unbearable. Case in point: the Trump Guy episode, I didn't crack a smile once.

I have no idea why American Dad isn't more popular. It's at least funny, and more expressive in animation.

I agree. I've never seen the appeal of Family Guy. Especially when compared to the early Simpsons, which was a veritable masterwork of comedy setups and payoffs. Family Guy's humor was a blunt club in comparison. Lazy reference humor and stuff a stoned 8th grader could come up with while smoking weed in a bathroom stall. The only reason it got popular was because it was willing to be more edgy than the Simpsons and because it hit the right demographic as it was ascending in pop culture - college age male nerds. It was a cartoon tailor made for guys who thought "Clerks" was too pretentious for their liking.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It's a tough question since a lot of media you see younger, especially the first time you gets exposed to it, is seen as far better than when you get back to it after you are older and have a better taste in shows (unless you come back with nostalgia goggles).
That being said, 99% of the content I watched in Channel Awesome was garbage, with very few actually good episodes.

 

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

Terminator 2, funnily enough. Loved it as a teenager, now trying to rewatch it is a chore and a lot of what got me excited about it back then now just leaves me cold. Conversely, Terminator 1 aged way better and I actually appreciate it more now than I did back then. It's a perfectly executed, self-contained story and the atmosphere is fantastic. I am now more and more convinced that T2, for all that I loved it in my youth, didn't really need to be made in the first place and is in fact directly responsible for the crop of awfulness that came afterwards. By demolishing the self-contained, gritty nature of the first film for a heartwarming tale about a kid and his robot, it kind of ruined T1 by extension too.

 

[Grumpy]

Basically everything made by Disney after The Aristocats. And unpopular opinion maybe, but yes I mean even Aladdin really wasn't great either.

 

[starborn427614]

>Hating Labyrinth

Literally kill yourself.

Labyrinth's biggest weakness is the plot really. Everything else is great, but put it up against The Dark Crystal or anything Muppet related (god forbid you put it up against the GOAT Christmas Carol) and you start to see the cracks emerge. I'd still gladly sit down to watch it though.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

Pretty much every Saturday morning cartoon from the 80's. Also pretty much every cartoon, period.

 

[MidnightSto]

Bakugan.It looked so cool as a kid but going back to it its so fucking shit