Hello escapists,
this topic is about movies or videogames that you remembered fondly untill you rewatched or replayed them again after some time.
For me Batman Begins comes to mind. When I first saw it, I thought it was pretty great, especially considering that the last Batman movie before this was the dreadfull Batman & Robin. But when I rewatched it after the trilogy was complete I was pretty meh about it. The acting is solid, but the action sucks und the villain is boring, and boring is the whole movie. In hindsight from all the Nolan Batman movies I only still like The Dark Knight.
Another exapmle would be the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies. When Spider-Man was released I loved it, because I had never seen such a good comic book adaptation before. Spider-Man 2 was even better. SM3 sucked ass, but that didn't hamper my enjoyment of the first two.
However, I rewatched both SM1 and 2 last year and must say, man.... they have not aged well or I simply remenbered them worng. The action is still solid, although the CG-effects sometimes look awful. The acting is highly inconsistend between excellent (Green Goblin, Dr. Octopus) and terrible (MJ), the humor is absolutly unfunny and Toby is a dissapointing Spider-Man. Furthermore, there is almost no development in his character. Peter Parker is the same in SM1 and SM 3. I left out SM3, because my opinion on that one has not changed, I thought it sucked from the begining and have not changed my mind since then.
When it comes down to it, I even liked the new ASM better than the last three, though I have not watched ASM2 (and heard pretty bad things about it).
this topic is about movies or videogames that you remembered fondly untill you rewatched or replayed them again after some time.
For me Batman Begins comes to mind. When I first saw it, I thought it was pretty great, especially considering that the last Batman movie before this was the dreadfull Batman & Robin. But when I rewatched it after the trilogy was complete I was pretty meh about it. The acting is solid, but the action sucks und the villain is boring, and boring is the whole movie. In hindsight from all the Nolan Batman movies I only still like The Dark Knight.
Another exapmle would be the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies. When Spider-Man was released I loved it, because I had never seen such a good comic book adaptation before. Spider-Man 2 was even better. SM3 sucked ass, but that didn't hamper my enjoyment of the first two.
However, I rewatched both SM1 and 2 last year and must say, man.... they have not aged well or I simply remenbered them worng. The action is still solid, although the CG-effects sometimes look awful. The acting is highly inconsistend between excellent (Green Goblin, Dr. Octopus) and terrible (MJ), the humor is absolutly unfunny and Toby is a dissapointing Spider-Man. Furthermore, there is almost no development in his character. Peter Parker is the same in SM1 and SM 3. I left out SM3, because my opinion on that one has not changed, I thought it sucked from the begining and have not changed my mind since then.
When it comes down to it, I even liked the new ASM better than the last three, though I have not watched ASM2 (and heard pretty bad things about it).