Bad movies you saw as a kid that you didn't think was bad at the time

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mike12345: Jul 14, 2008; "Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."

You Are A Elf posted:

The Dark Crystal.

Loved it as a kid, had a picture book of it and everything including the VHS which was watched many a time. Even had a cat named Fizzgig back then. Saw it for the first time in about 30 years last year and found it to be long, boring, and dreadful.

That movie is so depressing, I'm glad I didn't watch it as a kid.

But for me it was Tron. I loved it, still do, but apparently everyone thinks it's poo poo? Come on guys, look at the Moebius design, how can you hate it? Who cares about story, have you never read Heavy Metal?

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mike12345: Jul 14, 2008; "Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."

canyoneer posted:

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. It is so terrible. Kevin Costner is horrible, and it's a huge indictment of the state of 90's cinema that he was the top leading man for a while.
Alan Rickman is just a fantastic guy though, guy just steals every scene.

Someone on AV Club wrote an article about rewatching it as an adult. Hadn't even remembered the rape scene, eww. How did my incredibly prudish parents let me watch this?!
http://www.avclub.com/article/23-years-after-its-release-robin-hood-prince-thiev-209716

man how can you not like the first FPS arrow camera flight.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2017 16:48

mike12345: Jul 14, 2008; "Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."

WilltheMagicAsian posted:

The Faculty

I thought The Faculty was really cool, still think it should've gotten more attention. I liked that to defeat the aliens, you need to cook/deal drugs first.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2017 09:07

mike12345: Jul 14, 2008; "Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."

Vakal posted:

Suck my rear end:

doesn't really refute his point. verhoeven probably didn't finish reading it, but was aware of its tone and what it tried to accomplish.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2017 16:41

mike12345: Jul 14, 2008; "Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."

mind the walrus posted:

Yes. Verehoven--a director known for three of the best Scifi satires ever made, which all feature fascist or vaguely fascist/corporatist governing bodies--wasn't aware of the immense Scifi subgenre of hard right and occasionally fascist "future military" porn and how to make fun of it.

Truly we cannot tell why he decides to make the decisions he does.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2017 06:23

mike12345: Jul 14, 2008; "Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."

Someone mentioned "Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight", and I tried to watch it last night. M-hm, that's some bad poo poo.

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mike12345: Jul 14, 2008; "Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."

JediTalentAgent posted:

Ice Pirates, maybe. I saw the movie a lot as a kid and the last time I gave even some of it a watch was on TV some years ago and just the late 70s/early 80s supertacky SF vibe either makes it great or drags it down to the point of being cringey. I need to just rewatch it from start to finish to see how I feel about it today.

lol that was my favourite movie

# ¿ Jul 9, 2017 06:07

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