Movies you used no longer enjoy.

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Are there any movies that you used to enjoy watching but now you just don't like them? It can be anything from a movie that was your absolute favorite when you were a kid to something you watched within the year but didn't hold up on subsequent viewings.

I liked Kingsman 2 when it first came out and was able to enjoy it several times on bluray, but when I watched it just a few weeks ago it just the joy wasn't there. Everything from the characters to the action scenes felt almost hollow or poorly planned out. Like they were just there to tick a box on a checklist.

And more recently I tried watching BASEketball for the first time in years and I can't remember if I even finished watching it.
 
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There aren't that many I can think of. Either the movie's held up, or I start hearing lots of bad stuff about a movie I loved, and never really went back to check. Like, kid!me loved stuff like Batman & Robin and the Super Mario Bros movie, but, well, y'know...

I guess I can nominate:

-Resident Evil: Apocalypse (I really liked this originally, but prior to the RE3 remake, I rewatched the first two Anderson movies. I felt the first one held up, but the second, not so much)

-The Phantom Menace (in the leadup to The Force Awakens, I did a rewatch of the six prior Star Wars films. My opinions shifted with each film generally, for better or worse, but my take on Phantom Menace plummeted; loved it as a kid, but as an adult, I could see that it was very flawed)

-Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (loved it as a kid, as an adult, it's absolutely terrible)
 
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They're all shit. I don't know how it works, but everything becomes shit. No matter how great it was.
 
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Bad Boys 2 - The movie gets worse every year. Anytime I do watch it, I'm hitting the skip button half of the time due to the unfunny comedy or filler scenes that have no bearing on anything. The villain was boring and nowhere near as threatening as Fuchon in 1, or the Cartel lady in 3.

All of the live action Transformers prior to Bumblebee. I never liked 2, and 3 and 4 were just okay. That said, the problem with all of the live TF movies is that they drag on way too long. Which is Bay's major problem in general.

The Saw films in general. The series is too depressing and the gore became torture porn starting at III. I stopped caring for the series after seeing V. There is no point in getting attached to any of the characters, a whole bunch of ass pulls, and just too fucking depressing! I can't even watch the first film any more either. Most horror films don't do much for me nowadays.

Wild Wild West. Will Smith was right; it's a piece of shit.

Any of the Pokemon movies (I stopped after Return of MewTwo) or the Digimon movie.

Ferngully - I don't hate it, but there are some pacing problems. I mainly watch it or Tim Curry and Robin Williams (RIP you wonderful comedian). I mostly stick to watching clips on YT despite having a DVD copy, and my original VHS copy. That said, the artwork is still beautiful, and I would happily take this film over Avatar (2009) any day of the week.

Cabin Fever - I was a teenager. That is all. Stopped caring when I turned 20.
 
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Hawki said:
There aren't that many I can think of. Either the movie's held up, or I start hearing lots of bad stuff about a movie I loved, and never really went back to check. Like, kid!me loved stuff like Batman & Robin and the Super Mario Bros movie, but, well, y'know...
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I refuse to believe that you heard bad things about the Super Mario Bros. movie. We do not speak of that movie.
 
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Starship Troopers I can no longer truly enjoy after I’d read the book.
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I read book when I was 12 in middle school. They actually had a old hardcover (from the 1950s) copy of the book. Nice read, but I never needed to see the film again after reading. The film I was never that inthralled, because I found it so confusing at the time.
 
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Was a big fan of the Ace Ventura movies as a kid.

They did not age well.
 
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twistedmic said:
Asita has it right. We do not speak of the Super Mario Bros. movie because it does not exist. The same way we do not speak of Mortal Kombat: Annihilation or any Die Hard after the third one.
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4 wasn't even that bad (as long as you are watching the uncut version). We do not talk about 5 though. It's good thing that doesn't exsist. MK: Annihilation is so bad, it's good. Still a piece of shit, but an entertaining piece of shit.

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I liked Kingsman 2 when it first came out and was able to enjoy it several times on bluray, but when I watched it just a few weeks ago it just the joy wasn't there. Everything from the characters to the action scenes felt almost hollow or poorly planned out. Like they were just there to tick a box on a checklist.
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I never saw the point of a sequel, so I skipped it for this very reason. There is no way you can top the crazy stuff in the first film, and the awesomeness that is Samuel L. Jackson.
 
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Any movie with Kevin Spacey, I guess. And it's a shame because he's been in a lot of good movies. L.A. Confidential was a staple for me, I'd rewatch it atleast once every year, but now it's just kinda tarnished as well.
 
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Movies that have a really heavy handed religious/christian angle to their "message". Since realizing I'm an atheist, and seeing all the shit that gets allowed under religious privilege, I have trouble stomaching them these days.

Also when they use such horrible reasoning to "prove" god. That and the non-christian is always portrayed as an asshole who is "Angry At God!" because of some trauma, even though almost no atheists actually become atheist due to the Angry at God trope. And then they are "fixed" by realizing that God was there all the time, and all that shit.

Like Signs, I have trouble watching Signs now, because of the religious shit in it. Stuff like that.

And a lot of films from the 80s really.
 
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