Movies you loved...but grew to dislike.

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I'm just going to be broad and say any movie that the Nostalgia Critic has reviewed.

Uh... something else... I don't know, I haven't changed my mind about many recent movies. I've largely unchanged opinions, or the movie is better than I last recalled.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

For some reason I knew this thread would get more comments than the other one.

As for me, well, most, if not all, of Adam Sandler's films I saw as a kid. In fact, I remember watching a lot of dumb comedies when I was a kid.

Also, while I don't dislike it, I loved Kung Pow: Enter the Fist when I first saw it, but each time I try watching it again it gets less and less funny and more annoying. It's fun for quotes and a few select scenes, but as a full movie it drags.

Other than that, I liked Evangelion 3.0... for about 20 minutes.

 

[Jeroenr]

Every non-Pixar Disney movie, with the exception of Pinocchio.

When it comes to terrifying children, Pinocchio has no equal. That's why I appreciate it now, now that I am adult enough to only weep urine than lose full control.

A lot of Disney movies had those scenes. Ugh, I remember one (I think it was disney) with some sort of undead army that literally had me in tears. Oh and a lot of Dumbo was *dark* as hell.

Funny enough most of them are still very decent for me except my childhood favorite: A Goofy Movie. Loved it as a kid, makes me depressed as hell as an adult.

That would be "The Magic cauldron".
Scared the hell out of me as a kid, but now i wonder why.
If i look at it now, i find it has decent animations and good voice acting, But the story is so generic its painful.

But most of the old Disney films hold up just fine, i personally like the Pixar stuff less.

 

[Vault101]

[b/]Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom:[/b] apparently Spielberg was going through a divorce at the time....yeeeah, not to mention the racism

[b/]V for Vendetta:[/b] I don't *hate* this movie but it was THE MOST AWSOME THING EVER...to 15 year old me, older me read the comic and while I can appreciate the good parts of the movie Comic is better in certain ways (though MUCH darker)

[b/]AVATAR:[/b] I didn't actually [I/]like[/I] it at the time but my distate for it has grown over the years mainly due to how dumb/preachy the plot is

[b/]the last kind of Scotland[/b] again I can't say I hate or even dislike this movie but in retrospect the main character is [I/]such an ass[/I]

 

[FuzzyRaccoon]

The first of the Star Wars prequels, the Phantom Menace, was one I used to like a lot mainly because I was only about 5 or 6 when it came out. If I ever watch it now I just find it to be a pretty dull film that I can't really sit through.

A pretty recent film but the Dark Knight Rises was a film I really liked when I watched it at the time but quickly started to dislike it more and more every time I thought about it.

God I flippin hated Dark Knight Rises. It sucked too because my friends LOVED it. Even afterwards I was a little shellshocked but not entirely hateful of it. It wasn't until I started to really go over it in my mind that I had to stop myself from ranting angrily every time someone brought it up.

For me it's gotta be Anastasia. Is great but it was forced on me so often I can't even look at it now.

Uhhhh, maybe Man of Steel also. I kinda liked it at first because Henry Cavil has the right look and Farore was really cool, and the guy that plays Elliot Stabler from Law and Order SVU was in it... and then I really thought about the film as an actual film and it made me supremely unhappy. DC has always been my favorite and they're really missing for me.

 

[Skatologist]

Every non-Pixar Disney movie, with the exception of Pinocchio.

When it comes to terrifying children, Pinocchio has no equal. That's why I appreciate it now, now that I am adult enough to only weep urine than lose full control.

I just like how like, 5 of the or 6 antagonists of the film don't get killed or brought up again. Pleasure Island was still running after Pinocchio left! I still wonder what they did with the talking donkeys. *shutters*

Answers to OP: Hmm... weirdly not too many, I have been enjoying darker things and more adult and teen subjects more than I have as a child, so I still have a pretty big appreciation for a lot of Disney. Let me think...

I have grown to think all 3 of the Toy Story films are very much overrated, despite liking them when younger. So many questions of the universe still unanswered, questions you don't ask when you're a kid. Granted, I know it had tremendous feats in animation, especially for the times of the films, but proper world establishment is very important to me now. Most characters also come off as comedy relief or jerks, especially in treatment of one another. I can't really "root" for any of the main protagonists, although I'll say they never really kill the films for me. Nothing really hurts my feelings toward the films other than all those questions I still have regarding the world and how it seems like it was never established other than "toys can act and think on their own and apparently like to get played with." Everything else is mostly above average, but not perfect, at least not as perfect as I thought it was years ago.

Captcha: Rugged and Capable- Wow, you picked the 2 words that don't describe me at all!

 

[Starbird]

The first of the Star Wars prequels, the Phantom Menace, was one I used to like a lot mainly because I was only about 5 or 6 when it came out. If I ever watch it now I just find it to be a pretty dull film that I can't really sit through.

A pretty recent film but the Dark Knight Rises was a film I really liked when I watched it at the time but quickly started to dislike it more and more every time I thought about it.

God I flippin hated Dark Knight Rises. It sucked too because my friends LOVED it. Even afterwards I was a little shellshocked but not entirely hateful of it. It wasn't until I started to really go over it in my mind that I had to stop myself from ranting angrily every time someone brought it up.

For me it's gotta be Anastasia. Is great but it was forced on me so often I can't even look at it now.

Uhhhh, maybe Man of Steel also. I kinda liked it at first because Henry Cavil has the right look and Farore was really cool, and the guy that plays Elliot Stabler from Law and Order SVU was in it... and then I really thought about the film as an actual film and it made me supremely unhappy. DC has always been my favorite and they're really missing for me.

Mm. I was so let down by DK:R (and I *liked* the Knightfall arc!). Rewatched it twice to see if it was just a momentary thing. Nope - still not a fan.

 

[C. Cain]

I cooled on the entire Nolan-verse Dark Knight trilogy. They are still perfectly decent movies (with some being better than others), but I'm tired of the perpetually dark, brooding Batman.

I can respect and understand the kind of tone they were going for, mind you. It's just that I?m currently more interested in a decent amount of levity, or failing that irreverence.

 

[Suhi89]

STID. Loved it while I was watching it but slowly as the absurdity of the plot started sinking in after I'd left the Cinema, I began to hate it.

Not a movie, but Sherlock. I recently went back to watch the first season on Netflix remembering it being my favourite show. I couldn't make it through more than halfway into the second episode.

 

[Starbird]

I cooled on the entire Nolan-verse Dark Knight trilogy. They are still perfectly decent movies (with some being better than others), but I'm tired of the perpetually dark, brooding Batman.

I can respect and understand the kind of tone they were going for, mind you. It's just that I?m currently more interested in a decent amount of levity, or failing that irreverence.

I have no problems with dark Batman at all. I still love Frank Miller's stuff on the character, even the less than well received stuff.

What I have a problem with is a Batman movie that doesn't star Batman.

 

[C. Cain]

I have no problems with dark Batman at all.

I don't mind the dark interpretations of Batman in general. It's just that I've had enough of it... for the moment.

I still love Frank Miller's stuff on the character, even the less than well received stuff.

Frank Miller, on the other hand? That's where we differ. I loathe that guy. He gets way too much credit for 'reinventing' Batman in TDKR and I think he can consider himself extremely lucky that Alan Moore's Watchmen was released in the same year.
His newer works are all around awful, goddamn Batman indeed.

The only thing I liked was Sin City. That worked. Pity he never stopped writing it.

What I have a problem with is a Batman movie that doesn't star Batman.

Yeah, that's a bit of a problem lately. Iron Man 3, Godzilla, and even the terrible Transformer movies suffer the same fate.

 

[Starbird]

Frank Miller, on the other hand? That's where we differ. I loathe that guy. He gets way too much credit for 'reinventing' Batman in TDKR and I think he can consider himself extremely lucky that Alan Moore's Watchmen was released in the same year.
His newer works are all around terrible, goddamn Batman indeed.

I have never liked Frank Miller but I do enjoy some of the stuff he writes. Eh, just a personal taste thing .

Yeah, that's a bit of a problem lately. Iron Man 3, Godzilla, and even the terrible Transformer movies suffer the same fate.

Iron Man 3 was a weird movie and I didn't like it as much as everyone else seems to. It felt like a moderately good generic political action movie that the director tried to cram Iron Man into.

Still haven't seen Godzilla. No idea why, just didn't really interest me.

DK:R was especially obnoxious for me though.
- New Bane was...bizarre. The old Bane was problematic, but actually developed into a pretty decent character over time in the comics. New one was just a very generic bad guy with an unusual voice.

- The entire thing feeling like a middle finger to the 99%ers.

- Putting in nods to the fans...in ways that seemed deliberately designed to annoy fans and to require a reboot for the next guy to take the reins.

- Having significant parts of the plot revolve around the characters doing stuff that we already know is completely pointless.

You know, if they had made a movie directly out of The Cult, Knightfall or No Man's Land I would have been on board. Not the stupid mashup we got. Blah.

 

[Jesterscup]

[b/]V for Vendetta:[/b] I don't *hate* this movie but it was THE MOST AWSOME THING EVER...to 15 year old me, older me read the comic and while I can appreciate the good parts of the movie Comic is better in certain ways (though MUCH darker)

I was going to choose this, I'm a BIG alan Moore fan, so when this came out I enjoyed it, with a little dislike of the ending.

Over time ( and repeated watchings) I found that it grated. The happy ending belays the point, they mess up Evey's journey no end, and they use homosexuality over and over again ( once mentioning religion - oh hang on that was done by a famous gay man? ), like some easy to use sledgehammer to hammer home the point.

The comic isn't nice, it doesn't have a nice end in a lot of ways, but it has a meaning, one that is lost in the film.

oh on that note: Watchmen, I'm not knocking it, it's fun and tries well ( despite a few flaws it is a good film) but C'mon I wanted a faked telepathic alien dying in times square and the resulting telepathic backlash killing all of New York... was that too much to ask?

 

[Casual Shinji]

[b/]Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom:[/b] apparently Spielberg was going through a divorce at the time....yeeeah, not to mention the racism

It also made Indy a bit of an asshole. Yeah, don't leave Short Round in the village, just go ahead and drag the 10-year old kid along with you on a lethal quest, and then get pissy at him when he triggers booby traps.

Also, the Matrix. After all the clones were released, and its special effects became more prominent in other films, you realized that those things were the only thing propping the movie up. The movie, as a whole, was pretty damn bad.

I would have to disagree with that. It's still a fantastic action movie, with tremendous visuals and cinematography. It had some clever things to say, but in the end it was nothing more than a very, very well constructed action movie. It worked as its own little story about a group of rebels against the backdrop of the machine apocalypse. The problem was that any attempt to try and expand the story beyond that made the whole thing collapse, because the lore is pretty flimsy and is based largely on metaphors.

It's kind of similar to the Oddworld games. The first game worked as its own little thing, sort of like a fairy tale. But because everything within that world is very metaphorical it stops making sense when you think about it, and each new game made this painfully obvious.

 

[Quazimofo]

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Upon re-watching it, I honestly don't understand why I thought it was a good movie in the first place. It may very well have been the silly video game-like aspects of the movie (pretty much just random graphics for puns/throwaway jokes and then the fact that all of the evil exes explode into coins if you haven't seen it), but looking back the whole thing is just... not very good. At all. There's some good jokes in there, but they're too scattered to call the movie funny. And thinking about the acting is making me feel about as asleep as they must have been when they filmed it, because there was no energy in most of the main cast. The villains seemed to have absorbed it all, but they each die almost immediately upon being introduced.

 

[McElroy]

Not loved, but I liked Attack of the Clones when I first saw it. Now I don't even like other people who like it.

When I saw The Island on the big screen, the twelve-year-old me thought it was the most awesome thing. Half of it was probably because the only thing I knew about the whole film beforehand was a simple trailer that'd told me I want to go to the island.

There's a special case to be made with the 1998 Godzilla as I haven't rewatched the flick in about a decade now (and never will, since everyone is of the opinion it sucks).

 

[happyninja42]

Every non-Pixar Disney movie, with the exception of Pinocchio.

When it comes to terrifying children, Pinocchio has no equal. That's why I appreciate it now, now that I am adult enough to only weep urine than lose full control.

A lot of Disney movies had those scenes. Ugh, I remember one (I think it was disney) with some sort of undead army that literally had me in tears. Oh and a lot of Dumbo was *dark* as hell.

Funny enough most of them are still very decent for me except my childhood favorite: A Goofy Movie. Loved it as a kid, makes me depressed as hell as an adult.

That would be "The Magic cauldron".
Scared the hell out of me as a kid, but now i wonder why.
If i look at it now, i find it has decent animations and good voice acting, But the story is so generic its painful.

But most of the old Disney films hold up just fine, i personally like the Pixar stuff less.

Actually it's originally called The Black Cauldron, though imdb shows it having an alternate title of "Taran and the Magic Cauldron". The book it's based on is called The Black Cauldron though. Good children's book series, and a pretty good movie IMO.

 

[C. Cain]

Iron Man 3 was a weird movie and I didn't like it as much as everyone else seems to. It felt like a moderately good generic political action movie that the director tried to cram Iron Man into.

Yeah, Iron Man was really just crammed in. Other than that it was a Tony Stark story with anxiety attacks instead of alcoholism. I'm still conflicted 'bout the twist, though.

Still haven't seen Godzilla. No idea why, just didn't really interest me.

If you're not interested in Godzilla then this is the perfect Godzilla movie for you. It's 122 minutes long and has a whopping 12 minutes of Godzilla.

DK:R was especially obnoxious for me though.
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I agree completely. Aside from all that it also didn't really work as a movie what with it being a structural train wreck.

 

[Zombie Badger]

Skyfall. After the initial high went down I realised it's a really ugly movie. Whereas Casino Royale took Bond apart and saw a flawed, wounded human being and placed him within a world that reacts to him, Skyfall sees him as the most absolutely wonderful special snowflake ever, bends reality to prove how awesome he is and spends two hours masturbating to him. It's at its worst and creepiest when he interacts with the female characters (that fucking shower scene).