Movies you loved...but grew to dislike.

[Starbird]

So we have a thread for the opposite, and I think it's an interesting question.

A few for me:
- The Rock (awesome little action flick, but for some reason I just can't get into it again).
- Ghostbusters 2 (loved it as a kid, dislike it intensely now)
- Terminator 1 (2 is still fantastic, but every time I rewatch 1 I find something else I dislike or that makes no sense at all).
- Matrix Reloaded. (I still have no idea why I ever enjoyed this).

 

[MeatMachine]

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.

 

[Starbird]

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.

 

[Spanglish Guy]

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.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Terminator 1 (2 is still fantastic, but every time I rewatch 1 I find something else I dislike or that makes no sense at all).

I'm the opposite oddly enough. I used to like T2 way more than the original, but in the past few years I've grown to really appreaciate the brisk nature of the first movie. It also has the most clever and bittersweet little timeloop going on.

Same with Alien and Aliens. I grew up liking the sequel more, but as the years went by I found myself falling in love with the original and kind of dislikng the sequel, especially the Special Edition with Ripley's stupid dead kid.

 

[Calbeck]

Star Wars, with every succeeding re-edit since 1977.

 

[SonOfAnarchy91]

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. I used to love this film as a kid but I watched it again recently and only realised how low the series had gotten at that point.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Avatar
I thought it was amazing at first and now it just looks like a tech demo to me.
A very pretty, still enjoyable tech demo, to be fair, but not as great as it was when I first saw it.

 

[Neverhoodian]

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. I thought it was awesome the first time around, but with each successive re-watch I liked it less and less. Now it's downright uncomfortable to watch, what with the awkward dialogue and uncharacteristically dark tone.

To be honest, I think much of my initial enthusiasm can be chalked up to the experience leading up to it. I went with a close friend of mine on opening night. We waited in line for six hours dressed in Star Wars costumes and socializing with fellow fans. Everyone was so upbeat that the movie could have been nothing but Jar Jar Binks and we still probably would have been psyched.

 

[V da Mighty Taco]

I've grown to dislike a lot of things that I used to be really into, since my standards for things like storytelling, good characters, and animation have absolutely skyrocketed about four years ago thanks to two main factors: Me beginning to watch a lot of internet reviews, and a certain group of pastel-colored equines (particularly the pink one) taking over my life.

A good example of a movie that I don't like any more is Little Nicky. I thought is was hilarious back then and still quote parts of it to this day, but after seeing it again semi-recently I can't stand the thing. Horrid CGI, a lazy plot with more holes in it than a box of Cheerios, bland-as-molasses characters with no depth to them at all, and the majority of the jokes just are not funny to me anymore. I'm starting to see why so many people don't like even the more popular Adam Sandler movies.

 

[DefunctTheory]

The original Star Wars trilogy.

I wouldn't say I hate them, but every time I watch them, I just see more and more problems with them. At the same time, though, I appreciate the individual things Lucas did well. I just think the overall product is not nearly as good as what some people, including me, used to think.

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.

 

[TrulyBritish]

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.

I think you may be talking about the Black Cauldron(1985) film by Disney, which remains one of my favourite films that I've not watched for years.
OT: Plenty of them for me, the Star Wars prequels, the Fantastic Four films but I guess of recent films it would have to be The Amazing Spider-man 2, which I came out of thinking "That was pretty good, far better than the first one" but later one went "Hold on, that entire thing was pointless or contrived".

 

[Queen Michael]

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.

I disliked it as a kid specifically because of how depressing it was.

On-topic, I used to think Star Wars: Episode I was a super-awesome movie. Now I'd rank it 8/10, tops.

 

[Me55enger]

Once.

Indie-Irish semi-musical film about a skint busker and how by trying to get a demo tape together he falls in love with a married polish immigrant.

Great film. I ruined it by giving a copy to my then girlfriend.

 

[Daniel Janhagen]

The Lord of the Rings movies, all of them. I used to think they were amazing, but now I just think they're bad in so many ways:
They just drag on forever. I like slow movies, but it has to be slow movies with some sort of tension or mood other than "look at all this CG and well-made costumes!". I don't know how exactly they managed to convince me they were more than that to begin with.

 

[Someone Depressing]

There was this crappy, Pixar knock-off in German with English subtitles that I always used to watch when I was a kid. [footnote] Can't remember the name. It was in German. Lots of zs in the title, though.[/footnote]

Then I found it when I was, like, 15. I took one look at the cover and made such a frowny face. I watched it once, grew so horrifyingly frustrated at the blatant copyright infringement, and then snapped the disk in half and put it in the freezer.

Found it last week when I was trying to get some chicken.

 

[Cyberstrike_v1legacy]

I guess it would be the first Star Trek reboot film and Man of Steel at first I thought they were OK but now I loathe them.

 

[verdant monkai]

Star Wars The Phantom Menace.
-Quigonn Jin is a worthless Jedi
-Obi wan and Quigonn are the only likeable/interesting characters, other than the battle droids.
-The Anakin is the chosen one goes nowhere till the end, and is dull.
-The Gunn Gunns (Jar jar binks things) are pathetic.
-Hardly any Lightsaber fights
+Darth Maul is awesome
-Darth Maul dies and has no dialogue.
+Pod racing is quite cool.

Star Wars Attack of the clones
-Fuck all happens until Obiwan visits Kamino and fights Jango Fett
+Jango Fett is cool
-Jango Fett dies
-Anakin and Padme's romance is awful
-Nothing happens until the Clones turn up to save the shitty Jedi (who were having difficulty with droids).
-Christopher Lee's Count Dooku is a better villain/actor than whoever the hell plays Palpatine.

Let me just say I'm a big fan of The revenge of the Sith and the older three films, I just find the Jedi espionage boring in these films, whereas the clone/droid and rebel/empire WARS are great. I think my main problem with the first two is that they aren't STAR WARS, they are Star fuck abouts. Loved these films when they came out (I was young and foolish) now I find them boring to the point where they are unwatchable.

 

[Worgen]

I'm gonna say the first new transformers movie. I liked it the first time I saw it, but I also saw it in a packed theater at the midnight showing. Watching it again on dvd just yielded a bad boring movie.

 

[Magnethead]

The 2009 Star Trek reboot. I thought it was okay on first viewing, but the more you think about the stupidity of the plot, the more it becomes an insult to the Star Trek legacy.

The less said about Into Darkness the better.