I ran into an old movie I had on VHS as a kid titled “MegaForce” (1982) (RT link). I hadn’t seen the movie in decades and was worried looking at a rotten tomato score of 6% that if I watched it, I would be completely disappointed in the movie as an adult. Surprisingly, I didn’t realize as a kid that it was actually more of a spoof comedy action movie like a knock-off “Hot Shots” or “Naked Gun” and just completely enjoyed watching it again because it felt like a whole new experience (definitely better than the new G.I. Joe’s lol).
So what’s your movie from your past that you’ll always enjoy no matter how cheesy or horrible it may seem?
Little Monsters
Still fun. Still relevant.
Flight of the navigator.
An entire film to make one E.T. joke.
Pretty much everything I liked as a kid I am lukewarm to now. However, there are a number of kid’s books that I didn’t “get” as a kid that I adore now
They Live and The Stuff. Watched them again recently and really enjoyed them.
So… you weren’t blinded by nostalgia and they were still good? 🤔
They Live is a great film.
Totally- I just think the person I replied to didn’t quite understand the question asked 😆
I saw the stuff for the first time recently and it’s underrated. No nostalgia required
David Lynch’s Dune. It was weird, inaccurate to the book in remarkable ways (wtf is a “weirding module”) but I sincerely love it anyway.
EDIT: Sting as Feyd-Rautha screaming “I WILL KILL HIM” is amazing and the music absolutely slaps too.
As a millennial that first saw the SciFi miniseries be glad that your nostalgia isn’t constantly trying to justify loving that… and I really do love that version of dune even with all the obvious flaws it has.
This morning I read a comment somewhere on Lemmy that linked to Jodorowskys Dune.
My father took me to see Star Wars when it was still only on in London, so I was 9 or 10.
The significance of that will become clear by watching this documentary. I can’t believe I’ve only found out today.
Good Burger
Rewatching Good Burger a week after I watched “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” was a mistake. I could have remained nostalgia blind about the guy who plays the Good Burger General Manager, but no, I had to go and learn all the horrible dark shit he did.
I don’t think I need to know about that
Space Jam. It’s not a bad film, it’s a good “bad film”. It’s like everyone involved from the writers to the voice actors to the lighting and camera crews knew this was going to be a pile of crap so they said screw it and just had the most fun making said crap pile. That shows through, and it totally saves the film! It is no longer just a lazily made cash grab, it’s a “look what you get to do sometimes if you allow yourself to have fun” statement. As a film it should be bad but all that heart in it makes it good!
Condorman
Flight of the Navigator
Fuzzbucket
The FMV parts of Jedi Knight 2
Just the finest 90s shlock
2010
Anaconda is a masterpiece. Fight me.
Drop Dead Fred.
The Iron Giant for me, but that’s actually a really good movie
The Iron Giant. It isn’t horrible, but its a lot better in my memory than when I watched it in my adulthood.
Early Jean-Claude Van Damme Cyborg, Ultimate Soldier, Kickboxer, Lionheart, but mostly Bloodsport.
