Movies you remember being awesome long ago...

[nytebyte]

Aliens!!

It was good back then and still good today.

Liked Bill Paxton's character "Hudson".

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Aliens!!

It was good back then and still good today.

Liked Bill Paxton's character "Hudson".

Except, the point of the thread is more about movies that you remember being awesome, but now that you watch them as an adult, well, they just really aren't that good.

 

[Flyn]

Scanners.

As a kid: Ooh! Their heads blow up from mind power!

As an adult: This movie sucks.

More:

Smokey and the Bandit 3, I think? The one with the elephant.

Every other Star Trek movie.

The last starfighter.

 

[guspech750]

 

[SMRTSS1]

Holy fuck, I was just going to start a thread on this......weird.

I actually recorded Marked For Death with Steven Seagal. Yes ACTUALLY RECORDED THAT HORRENDOUS MOVIE and holy shit is it fucking awful. I went to the theater to see this shit when I was in high school? WTF was I thinking?!?! "A former DEA agent retires to Chicago and comes across Screwface a Chicago drug lord". Chicago? Really? I have yet to see a single palm tree in downtown Chicago but there were plenty in the car chase scenes. The "special"effects were atrocious like the guy that gets his arm broken or cut off (whatever) and you can see it plain as day under his shirt when his back was turned toward the camera, the acting is ridiculous and the whole experience makes me think that I not only wasted my time watching the movie but the energy to hit a few buttons on the remote was a wasted endeavor as well. I'm just glad I studied aikido before I saw the movie, I'd hate to have to admit that I studied any form of martial arts because of a Steven Seagal movie.

 

[VenomousDSG]

It wasn't THAT bad of a movie. Actually was probably one of Seagal's best. Next to Above the Law and Out for Justice.

If you want to see a bad Seagal movie, watch that new one that just came out with him.

 

[Fish]

Robot jox!!!!!! Tango & Cash!! Cobra!! And let's not forget Cool As Ice

Tango & Cash is still awesome. Watched it a couple weeks ago. Cobra, yeah. It didnt age well.

red dawn

The OG Red Dawn is awesome!

 

[Great White Drake]

Maximum Overdrive. It's about anything electrical/mechanical coming to life and wanting to kill humanity. A bunch of trucks come to life and hold Emilio Estavez (Emilioooooooo) hostage at a truck stop. Couldn't finish it when I tried watching it a few weeks ago lol.

Another one is "The Pest" with John liguizamo. It was hilarious at 12, now I want to throat punch him for being annoying.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

After thinking through this there are so God damn many that maybe I should just start with one that doesn't suck watching nowadays.
I still love the movie Batteries Not Included

 

[TCG Member 5219]

Lets not forget Short Circuit.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Johnny 5

 

[SMRTSS1]

Maximum Overdrive. It's about anything electrical/mechanical coming to life and wanting to kill humanity. A bunch of trucks come to life and hold Emilio Estavez (Emilioooooooo) hostage at a truck stop. Couldn't finish it when I tried watching it a few weeks ago lol.

Another one is "The Pest" with John liguizamo. It was hilarious at 12, now I want to throat punch him for being annoying.

Maximum Overdrive is yet another failed Stephen King book turned into a bad movie. It's based on a short story he wrote called Trucks which wasn't that bad but the movie sucks.

 

[RICH17]

I remember this movie being the shit when I was a kid. Now, not so much

 

[Euro]

Lets not forget Short Circuit.

That one is still great


For laughs anyway

 

[BlaqSnake]

Smokey and the Bandit 3, I think? The one with the elephant.

That was Smokey and the Bandit 2

#3 was even worse, lol

 

[sickmint79]

rewatching your fave childhood stuff is a good way to ruin the memory lol.

my brother fired up macgyver a few months ago and he was just like yeah, don't even try it

 

[radioguy6]

I LOVED this movie as a kid. The opening scene with the elevator bomb was cool. I still enjoy the ridiculous plot but they could have done so much better, so many continuity errors throughout . I thought the bus jumping the freeway scene was so badass... now its like... not even remotely real looking. Sure it was the early 90s, CGI wasn't quite ready yet, but come on.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

I LOVED this movie as a kid. The opening scene with the elevator bomb was cool. I still enjoy the ridiculous plot but they could have done so much better, so many continuity errors throughout . I thought the bus jumping the freeway scene was so badass... now its like... not even remotely real looking. Sure it was the early 90s, CGI wasn't quite ready yet, but come on.

Its been a long time since i"ve seen speed. But I think I'm due to buy it on Bluray.

Harry Temple: All right, pop quiz. Airport, gunman with one hostage. He's using her for cover; he's almost to a plane. You're a hundred feet away... Jack?
Jack: Shoot the hostage.

 

[DEEZUZ]

Tremors

 

[Mook]

Tremors

Is awesome.

 

[importcrew]

Police Acadamy. Some of it is stupid funny now but not like it was when I was younger.

 

[TonzKnock-G]

Damn this thread brings back some childhood memories.

Howard the Duck

 

[cap42]

Big trouble in little China...it was cheesy then. Ah fuck it still a good flick

 

[blakbearddelite]

I still like that movie to this day.

 

[FESTER665]

That movie is both still great, and terrible at the same time. Every time he turns he has to roll over and bank. With the exact same footage.

You just lost another oil refinery!