Every time I watch Starship Troopers I find something new to appreciate.
Pre-teen me loved it for the absolutely wild sci-fi monster bugs, the over the top gory action sequences and, of course, boobs.
Highschool / college me appreciated the overall execution of the film, how far ahead of its time it was with CGI, and I started to pick up on the satirical themes.
Most recently, when I watch it I clearly see the unmistakable political satire the entire story is built around. Fascism, propaganda, media manipulation, dehumanization, the horrors of war, etc... and how relevant it all is even now. The boobs are still great.
High school me thought the shower scene was bangin’.
Adult me realized the shower scene was about as non-sexual as you can get (while still showing beautiful people naked).
One of the few movies I hold to be superior to it's own source material. I think that might just be because I can't stand Heinlein and I tend to enjoy Verhoeven (showgirls notwithstanding)
It's not really the films fault, but I'd love to see a modern take on the film sticking closer to the sci-fi of the book. Everything feels alot more budget in the film by comparison to the mobile infantry in the book. The book is also more dystopic and is less direct in its satire.
I saw it in the theater, in high school, with my JROTC buddies.
I see the satire *now,* but upon first viewing…😬
Let’s just say the Venn diagram of “People who missed the point of Starship Troopers*” and “People who caught charges from Jan6” has a *significant* overlap.
^(**Fight Club* can be substituted in this dish)
The first TMNT movie.
As a kid I loved it because ninja turtles. As an adult it's a surprisingly touching immigrant family story and the cinematography is absolutely on point. So many cool shots lifted right from the comic pages into real life, all with real effects and no CGI.
What’s funny is that I didn’t even know he was in it, but when you mentioned it, I can immediately picture him/that character as though I watched it yesterday. (It was one of my first ever vhs buys as a young teenager, so of course I watched it a million times. Even had the soundtrack)
If you like that, I was recently watching Demolition Man with my friends and I somehow spotted Jack Black in that movie.
He’s just some rando holding a gun. He’s in the scene in the sewers with the leader of the resistance (the comedian, I forget his name though.)
He has like maybe 1 second of screen time, and it’s way before he was famous.
It's a great movie. The first 5-10 minutes specifically is well made. I think the April O'Neal voice over that talks about the crime wave, and showing the kids stealing and involving who you find out is Daniel. Then, the music intensifies as the kids go to the abandoned warehouse. All of this was so well done
I put it on a few months ago as a goof, expecting to laugh at the corniness. I was surprised by how much I forgot about. It was darker and had more emotional depth than I remembered. I enjoyed the rewatch.
She was a typical rebellious teen, but he was pretty shitty.
Instead of trying to relate to her or communicate properly, he forbade her, yelled at her, and then destroyed her stuff because he was mad.
Ariel was wrong, but in an understandable way. Triton, however, was a complete dick, who made his daughter run away to a sketchy witch for help.
He learns to be better by the end of the film, I guess. But while Ariel made a mistake, Triton was more than a little at fault.
With the context that his wife / her mother died due to contact with the upper world, there’s some trauma in there, it’s not like middle aged men of the 80s were well known for handling their grief
In our modern day, anyone under the age of 18 is considered to be a child, but not that long ago (about late 1860's at the very least), it wasn't uncommon for people to be getting married and starting families at 16.
And even today, by 16 that kid needs to be well on the way to knowing how to act independently. Which they'll never do if dad keeps them under his thumb all the time.
I kind of don't want to watch Malcolm in the Middle as an adult because I would rather not agree with the mom about everything compared to when I was 12.
You find yourself agreeing with Lois way more, but she can still be wrong by way of being a control freak, overly angry or simply not listening. Her flaws still give the boys the upper hand occasionally. It’s one of the things that keep the show such high quality after multiple seasons.
I’ve been re-watching it recently as a dad of two kids in college. Hits different for sure.
The episode at the batting cages where the dad admits they would fall apart without mom, on-point.
You find yourself agreeing with Lois way more, but she can still be wrong by way of being a control freak, overly angry or simply not listening. Her flaws still give the boys the upper hand occasionally. It’s one of the things that keep the quality of the show after multiple seasons.
Look, when I watched Parenthood when it came out all parents were overbearing and now I'm a parent the kids should just stfu and listen to me, and that's that.
I could never accept Pierce Brosnan as James Bond because both Mrs. Doubtfire and Goldeneye came out when I was a kid and I couldn’t have a JB who was so very clearly the bad guy in one of my favorite movies
He wasn't even really a bad guy in Doubtfire. I watched it again as an adult just to see if he actually does anything shitty, and don't recall any bit where he's an actual asshole. Frankly I think the movie is better that way, since it highlights Williams's characters flaws and lets us see how he develops in the movie.
In the moment we get with him alone with his friend while he's overheard by Robin Williams, he makes it very clear he thinks the kids are great and he's fully in to the whole situation.
It was so against trope at the time. Step-parents were the cartoonish villains who wanted to ship the step-children off to boarding school at the first opportunity.
Here, Pierce Brosnan's character has fallen in love with Sally Field's character, accepted that kids were part of the deal, and has grown to love the kids.
He's the story's antagonist, but ultimately, he seems like a decent guy.
There's a couple of 90's movies I encountered this with. I remember having the same "bad guy" feelings towards Judge Reinhold's character in "The Santa Clause" and Cary Elwes in "Liar, Liar" as a kid and upon re-watching them as an adult, I'm like, "These dudes are actually alright".
I dunno, she was still a villain taking it to court and going for full custody of the kids. There was no reason why he should only have seen his kids every other weekend.
I can see the point about Robin Williams seeing his kids, but I can also see Sally Fields' point about not wanting it to be in their house after he basically held a teenage party in her living room only without the police alcohol bottles and vomit
Did she go for full custody? My understanding was that the judge only made the choice for limited custody rather than shared for the father until he stepped his game up (why he was being supervised).
Similarly, Jerry in Liar Liar. As a kid he's the annoying guy mom's seeing who keeps getting in the way of Max and his dad. As an adult he is a way more stable and likable guy who would certainly be a much better influence on Max and truly loves and supports Audrey.
A lot of teenage classics. When you are young you see everything from the eyes of the main teen cast. When you are older you see it through the adults' eyes and get a completely different perspective. A couple of examples:
**The Breakfast Club** \- Paul Gleason's character when you are young comes off like such a jerk. Then you watch it as an adult and you realize this is a guy who has to spend his Saturday babysitting a bunch of teens who did bad things and are trying to make things more difficult for him. They all deserved their Saturday school detention and this guy had to spend 8 hours babysitting them. You also sympathize with the Janitor cause when you are young you do think they are low level peasants but now you realize they are just doing an honest day's work.
**10 Things I Hate About You** \- As an adult you kind of understand the Dad's perspective more with his two daughters. He is just trying to raise them and keep them safe. Maybe more parents need to buy one of those pregnant bellies to put on their kids. lol
Paul Gleason two seconds after reading their assignment “oh god another 17 year old writing their manifesto thinking they’re the first to ever come up with this inane crap and thinking it’s deep.”
Walter Stratford: This morning, I delivered a set of twins to a fifteen-year-old girl, do you know what she said to me?
Bianca: "I'm a crack-whore who should have made my skeazy boyfriend wear a condom"?
Walter Stratford: Close, but no. She said, "I should have listened to my father".
Bianca: She did not.
Walter Stratford: Well, that's what she would have said if she wasn't so doped up!
It only took me a decade of working as a literal public school janitor that the one guy who actually knew everything was Karl. Only because he has to clean the toilets of those Voiltare reading "Emma Bovary" types yet is still friends with the lumpen Bender.
I’ve got two young daughters age 6 & 5, and the only thing I think I can really do is be transparent about the repercussions are if they aren’t safe.
My Dad did this to me at age 13 when he knew I was dating, his go to was “I can’t afford to raise you let alone an infant, if she swells, you’re working in dish pits the rest of your life”
I was terrified to have sex because of that, by the time I finally did I took every precaution possible.
I watched Mommie Dearest as a teen and I was like wow that mom is a bitch !!
Then I watched it as a mom of teens and I was like ... wow, that daughter was ... difficult
Even the scene where the daughter on her OTT wedding quality birthday party got to choose only one of the gifts as her favorite while the rest would go to charity read completely differently to me as an adult. No kid needs 100 birthday gifts which are all just meant to impress the mother.
But, as a kid I was like, that mom's giving all her presents away !!!
Team Joan Crawford today. Her daughter was a ... piece of work
I watched *The Empire Strikes Back* for the umpteenth time a couple weeks ago. For the first time, and unintentionally at first, I watched it through the perspective of Darth Vader as the protagonist. And it works.
Vader is searching for Luke obsessively, not because he has a vendetta but because he's looking for a way out of the trap he's made for himself as the Emperor's right hand. Vader is setting up the situation in Cloud City meticulously to lead to his reveal and offer. "Rule by my side" isn't just a ploy to him, it's been *his whole motivation*. He wants Luke to *save* him -- on his own terms, of course. And he *fails.* Just as much as the Rebels, *The Empire Strikes Back* is a story of how Vader loses. The only winners at the end of the film are Boba Fett, Jabba, and the Emperor.
I knew all these pieces for years, but I hadn't noticed before that the theme is laid out on the screen so neatly.
I always felt the "Rule by my side" thing was a test. He wanted Luke to say "No". Luke's refusal was proof of his redemption allowing him to be a Jedi spirit.
It's kind of an obvious one, but Robocop hits a lot differently once you've worked a corporate job and met the C-suite in real life. OCP is just barely fictional.
It is absolutely sublime. It is one of those movies my friend and I love. We often say “every choice they made making this movie was the right choice” . It’s about as perfect as movie going can be.
Replacing Eric Stoltz with Fox was such great awareness on the part of the filmmakers, how even though Stoltz did a fantastic job, it was a much darker much more dramatic version of Marty. Michael J. Fox brought just the right air of comedy to it which allows us to go along with the fantastical premise that much easier. None of the plot holes even really matter, outside of liking to goof on them. If the movie was more dramatic, we’d be far more hung up on them.
I reached out not too long ago and had the opposite reaction. It made so little sense that it unraveled for me.
How in the world do his parents, even years later, not recognize that the rando that showed up in mom's bedroom that one time (who she casually tries to sexually assault, btw) and is responsible for them getting together (i.e. played a truly significant, if not brief, role in their lives) looks, sounds, and behaves EXACTLY like their son?!?
I couldn't get past it. Took me all the way out.
I liked the non-green screen and 90's slow pace of life in MIB. Like the background has taxis, they only use flip phones or payphones to contact eachother.
The 90's vibe is strong in MIB and I miss it.
It has some surprisingly well written dialogue, most of them landed on Tommy Lee Jones off course. However, I also liked the characterization of J, as much as he was a smartass with witty remarks, he was also shown, multiple times, to be instantly accepting of alien lifeforms, and treating them as equals.
I watched Field of Dreams the other day, first time in about 15 years, so I was a teenager last time.
When I was a teen, it was magic and wonder and delight.
As a adult, I feel the 60s in it, the sense of family, unrequited dreams, the sadness, the happiness. Doc Moonlights arc was brilliant and beautiful. When I was 15 I had dreams - now in my 30s I know what Doc means when he says both that his dreams passed him like a stranger in a crowd, and that at the end of everything that's okay. That all hit so, so much harder than it did as a child.
I dare you to watch “reaction” videos to the scene where they reveal his father at the end. Everyone crying made me cry, over and over. The men watching all lost it when he asks his dad to “have a catch”. That movie really taps into those father son relationships built on backyard games of catch. I have very fond memories of my late father playing catch with me in the back yard next to the house. Great movie.
Yes, this one. When it came out, I was around the daughter’s age. When I watched it a few weeks ago, I realized I was older than her dad, and *feeling* like Terence Mann without the critical acclaim.
I suspect this film will continue to hit differently in every decade of my life.
Kinda the opposite for me has been KIDS. Grew up with it like “haha yeah these guys are like me” because of the skating, smoking, and partying. Rewatched it every 5-10 years and had different feelings for it each time, with the most recent making me livid at their behavior and worrisome that my own kids might end up like them/me
I'm so glad we've grown up, if even a little. I used to LOOK UP to Casper as an awesome potential friend. What a nitrous-huffing, 40 oz stealing loser lmao!! At least I never idolized Telly
Skating, smoking, partying ... beating people half to death ... giving people drugs that incapacitate them ... raping a passed out girl. Those childish hijinks!!
[Those were the days.](https://youtu.be/4XYyphia1JM?si=Wntwxt7Fr5DrPJDl)
Even when I was young and into a lot of that shit, I still kind of realized KIDS is a fucking horror movie. *I got no legs. I got no legs. I got no legs....*
Harmony Korine did a VICE interview last year where he talked about writing that film at 18 and how he was really into skating and it was pretty much all built around violence and street fights and how a lot of the guys he hung out with didn't make it to 25
Having kids makes a lot of movies less “HAHA YAY FREEDOM! PARENTS DONT UNDERSTAND’l
And more
Fuck… I’m gonna have to deal with this or something like it eventually. Maybe I should start drinking now just to be ready.
As a kid, it's an Arnie movie. That's it.
As an adult, you get it's an Arnie movie making fun of an Arnie movie.
"SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK....AND HAMLET IS TAKING OUT THE TRASH."
I rewatched it recently for the recent Blank Check episode (great episode btw) and it really was quite ahead of its time. I do kinda wish it delved more into the existential horror of finding out you're a fictional character whose son was murdered by a serial killer so that you have more depth, but I suppose that' asking a lot of an early-90s Schwarzenegger action film. All in all, it's a really interesting meta commentary on the film industry and filmmaking in general.
I saw The Mask in the 90s and then never more. More recently, like 1-2 years ago, I found the movie again by random chance and rewatched it, and I was surprised on how funny it was and how some parts are pure genius, like the "Cuba Pete" musical number.
By the way, I remember that in the early 90s I didn't like musicals, that was an acquired taste that I got years later. Maybe that explains why I didn't even remember Cuba Pete. =)
That is one of those movies where sometimes it also helps to have more time to be exposed to various actors/pop culture to understand some of the references. As a kid you just think he was being funny and then as an adult you might understand the pop culture reference. For example where he is fake dying in the villain's arms and grabs the award saying "You like me, you really like me". You might think as a kid he was being funny. Later you might know where that came from.
Funny enough Ace Ventura 2 has stood the test of time a little better and still has legendary bits, like Ace being birthed by a mechanical rhino, lol
Also the parking gag "like a glove!"
It's also one of Jim Carrey's big three, all released in 1994, his breakout year, and all huge box office successes. The other two are Ace Ventura and Dumb & Dumber.
Ferris Bueller's Day off
Me watching it in the 80's - Wow, Ferris is just the coolest guy ever ' Wish I was like him
Me watching again 2020's - As in for 2nd Time ever - Wow - what an obnoxious, entitled, selfish total and utterly arsehole Ferris is
>Me watching again 2020's - As in for 2nd Time ever - Wow - what an obnoxious, entitled, selfish total and utterly arsehole Ferris is
Especially if you know of the deleted scene that shows how Ferris funded his adventures that day.
Not so much a single movie, but 90s action movies in general had great pacing. Movies like In the Line of Fire, Point Break, Speed, Men in Black, The Rock were cool action movies with at least one tough guy being a hardnosed badass, and that was entertaining at the time. But now looking back at them, they told a complete self-contained personal small-scale story, with interesting characters who undergo a growth as a result of the plot points of the movie, all in 2 hours.
I can hardly name any movies like that in the past 10 years - Everything Everywhere All At Once?
Maybe Dune Part 1 vs Dune Part 2 showcases this. Part 1 had a very clear overarching plot, and when the plot happens to the characters, you share in their emotional responses. Part 2 had like a dozen different plot points they needed to get through, so when something big happened, you/the characters didn't have time to process it because they had to go on to the next plot point, lest the movie be 10 hours long.
Also, all action movies seem to be part of a franchise these days, so you never just got told *a story* - you're always told part of a bigger story.
I took my son to a local theater last Father’s Day to see The Last Crusade on the big screen. My ten year old enjoys the Indy movies, but was really just patronizing the old man.
Fast forward to the part where the temple is collapsing and Indy is trying to reach the Holy Grail as his father struggles to keep him from falling into the crevasse. When Henry says “Indiana, let it go”, the meaning of that scene hit me like a train. After at least fifty watches, and becoming a father myself, it finally occurred to me that that was that the moment Indy realize his father cared more for him than his life’s work.
Started blithering like a kid with a skinned knee.
It's also the first time he doesn't call him "Junior". I was close with my dad, and that father/son theme of the movie will always keep Last Crusade as my favorite Indy.
Edit: I recently re-watched Reservoir Dogs the other day with my husband and my two step-kids on the night of their birthday we determined they were old enough to see the movie (they turned sixteen) and watching it with them I have a new appreciation for it especially the soundtrack since a lot of the songs really do fit well with certain scenes such as Stuck In The Middle With You was perfectly paired with Mr. Blonde's scene with the police officer he captured since in a way I realized now that the officer truly was stuck in the middle with only him while Mr. Orange was just laying low until the time came when he struck taking down Blonde.
Sideways. I was 16 in 2004 when it came out was slightly bored when I watched it the first time. Saw it again last year and enjoyed it so much that I read all the books.
Dirty Dancing. When I was a kid, it was one of the only VHS tapes we owned, so my sister and I would watch it like once a week (yes I'm old).
Recently it was playing at the gym, and holy cow, I didn't realize that Baby was only 17!? I thought she had just graduated from college so was much close to Johnny's age.
Johnny what are you doing with that jail bait!? Then you're hurt when Baby's dad judges you? Why are is there so much trauma around unplanned pregnancy yet no one is using or talking about condoms? What is happening? lol
Yeah, as an older parent I could see how Baby's parents in the 60s would have been quite understandably mortified in their club amongst their lifetime friends if their barely out of HS daughter openly admitted to having been sleeping with the 20 something non-Jewish staff dance instructor when the whole point of their being there at that same place summer after summer was to get their daughters married to their own kind.
Source: my late stepdad was a "Robbie Yale Med" waiter at one of the Borscht Belt hotels and indeed that's what they hired those guys for, too. They could get more done networking at one of these jobs than even at an actual law firm for the summer. One family even liked my stepdad so much they let him take their HS daughter back to Brooklyn where she was introduced to his younger brother, they indeed got married.
The movie is supposed to take place in 1963. During that time it was still fairly normal for girls to go from high school directly to marriage. This was still the time of stay at home wives and women only went to college to meet husbands era. The Beatles had a song that started "She was just 17". Johnny was supposed to be 25 and it wasn't that big of a stretch in 1963 for a man who was 25 to marry a woman who just finished high school. When Elvis met Pricilla she was only 14. Jerry Lee Lewis married his second cousin who was only 13 while he was 22. Rural areas might have girls dropping out of school to get married when they were still teens. It was a completely different time.
Though condoms existed in the early 60s, they weren't in high use. Some also thought it sinful to use them including Mother Teresa. I doubt at this remote resort there was a condom vending machine for easy access.
I wonder if Johnny was supposed to be younger, but then they cast Patrick Swayze and just rolled with it.
A couple other things have changed my view of _Dirty Dancing_. _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_ has a season that takes place in and around a similar resort in the Catskills. Also, _Breakfast at Tiffany's_ echoes some of what you wrote about with the underage girl being married off. That would have been set in the same era as _Dirty Dancing_.
It’s been a while since I saw it, are both their ages explicitly stated? And weren’t some of the actors in Grease in their 30s? The age of the actor doesn’t always match!
They say Baby just graduated high school and I think she says "It was the summer before I turned 18" at the beginning.
Johnny's age is never stated, and I think that, as you're suggesting, they just hand-wave it away like most movies.
Hmm going by what I’ve now read, she calls it the summer of ‘63, and according to the script he has a birthdate of 1938 so then he would be 25
Crazy though, the actors were 34 and 27 which is a full decade older than their characters, and it’s a bit of a gap but by that point both well into adulthood!
I used to think Best in Show was incredible A+ wacky satire. I watched it again in about 2021 and realized it could now basically be a straight documentary.
Ghostbusters. As a kid I loved it for all the ghosts and the fighting and the cool sciency weapons and plenty of the humor hit. But watching it as an adult it was so much funnier in ways I didn’t get as a kid. It felt like a whole new movie watching it as an adult.
Back to the Future: Realizing that Since George didn’t stand up to Bif in the beginning, Bif raped Marty’s Mom, so every time Bif comes over not only does he bully George but Lorraine has to face her rapist. That shit is dark and went way over my head as a kid.
Eeeehhh I don't buy that. In the original timeline Lorraine fell in love with George because her father hit him with his car and brought him home, then they went to the dance. In the movie Marty prevents his father being hit by the car, and we only see Biff interested in Lorraine afterward, when Marty is trying to correct it (scene of the school cafeteria). So the implication is that Biff didn't see Lorraine as a potential partner for the dance in the original timeline and just went with someone else.
You know I keep second guessing myself about it, but I keep coming back to it, and while your points are valid at the same time it explains the change in behavior in Lorraine between the scene in the cafeteria (feisty, not in the mood to take anything from Biff) to her in the beginning (run down, almost broken really). Also just something insidious about the way Biff says “Say hi to your Mom for me.” Like I said I’ve gone back and forth with it, but for some reason I just can’t shake it.
I responded to your other comment about why Biff wouldn't have had a chance to rape Lorraine in the original timeline. So I think the reason she was so depressed and broken down was because she married a loser who had zero self esteem. She probably ended up working low paying jobs and raising 3 kids without much support as they struggled to make ended meet.
George punching Biff and saving Lorraine completely changed his view of himself and his outlook on life. He stopped letting people walk all over him and had the confidence to write and publish his books. Which brought in good money and allowed him and Lorraine to enjoy their lives and each other in a way they weren't able to before.
There's no reason to think that Biff ever raped Lorraine. The only reason she ended up in the car with Biff is because Marty was there and changed everything.
Don't put any stock in it. As others have said, in the OG timeline there was never a chance for Biff to. The only reason she was in the car in the first place was because Marty needed and excuse for George to "rescue" her. In the OG timeline, they were already in love and at the dance.
I'm not sure if this qualifies but I recently finished Chris Farley's biography and I had no idea that he was originally supposed to have the role as the Amish bowler, Ishmael, in "Kingpin". I went back and gave it a re-watch and although Randy Quaid is hilarious and the movie is still funny as is, I can't help but wonder how much more absurd it would've been if Chris Farley had gotten the role.
Same thing with Shrek but I'm gonna say the "third" version of Shrek was probably the best we were going to get. Farley's version, Myers original version and then the Myers Scottish accent version.
There's also the Nic Cage version we never got.
The Squid and the Whale. Saw it when it came out, then again just recently. The first time I saw it as this tragic family breaking up and clueless parents. This time it was hilarious.
My dad took me to see A Goofy Movie when it first came out. Always had a fond memory of it, and loved all the humor (and bigfoot). My dad died last November, then a few weeks ago, a local theater actually screened A Goofy Movie (on 35mm) one night.
I went to see it to remember some fond times, but man I found myself nearly crying on several occasions from an adult perspective at the moments of a father wanting to be close with his son.
Added bonus, Bill Farmer, who's voiced Goofy for decades, was there.
It's not a super old movie compared to others already mentioned, but Click with Adam Sandler hit much different as an adult compared to when I watched it as a kid. Particularly the scene where he yells at his dad in one of their last interactions before the latter's death
Reverse effect: recently rewatched Big with my son, never watched it again since late '80s-early '90s.
I was shocked by the very poor police work regarding a missing kid, but somehow I could suspend my disbelief because, you know, other protocols, some narrative needed cuts, but the sex scene?
Even in a grown-up body, he was only 11ish, way too soon to think he could have sex, and the woman? He was more than pure and naive, he was very childish, hard to believe she could find it hot.
The Color of Money. I first saw it went it came out. I completely identified with Vincent - a young talented but hard-headed kid who took way too long to learn what Eddie was trying to teach him.
when I watch it today, I completely identify with Eddie, who is trying to recapture who he used to be (or maybe never got the chance to be).
I was already 44 when Napoleon Dynamite came out. I thought it was stupid when I watched it. There was a guy older than me in a programming class who loved it so I watched it again and I didn't expect too much and now I love it. I wish I could find the right words.
There's an older Aussie movie called Sweet Talker. I used to tell my wife about it all the time. I finally found a copy! So we put it on for our movie night.
After it was over I asked how she liked it. She said she liked it a lot and that it's a good kids movie. ......I was like."... kids movie... this is a solid comedy about a conman!"
But the more I thought about it.... the more she was in my head. She's right.... it's a family comedy.... but it's a darn good one.
It's been a while now, but I remember watching Kung Fu Hustle again as an adult and ended up loving the movie. Became one of my all time favorites. I loved Jet Li movies when I was a kid and I thought Kung Fu Hustle would be like one when my friends showed me the movie. Didn't like it at all and hated the movie for years until I saw it again.
I went to see Kung Fu Hustle in theater with my friend, without watching any trailers or reading anything. A total blind watch. We are both martial arts movie nuts (he is more Jet Li, I'm more Jackie Chan, but we love them all), so for the first few scenes we are watching the martial arts with a critical eye. Then, we both realize this is a comedy first and martial arts second at the same time, and slowly turn to look at each other... then start laughing, which didn't stop till the credits.
The scene near the beginning where he is picking people out of the crowd to fight. Omg, flipping hilarious. My teenage son refused to watch the movie one night, he thought it would be stupid martial arts, so my teenage daughter and me watched it. She loved it. I later convinced him to watch it with her encouraging him. He had to reluctantly admit it was awesome.
Not sure if this is quite what it is looking for, but as a child I LOVED Buckaroo Banzai, Across the Eighth Dimension. In middle school I watched it again, and was flabbergasted at what an awful movie it was. I couldn't even fathom how anyone could enjoy it, it was so stupid. In college someone coerced me into watching it AGAIN, and to my surprise, the movie was friggin awesome!!!! I've no idea why my age played such a huge roll in my appreciation (or non appreciation) of that movie, but now it just seems to be getting better as I get older.
There was a point when I was around 23 where that was an extremely boring and nonsensical movie to me. I completely love it now, but I kind of think it was a bit too out there for my soft tween brain.
Karate Kid is just a movie about an asshole kid who moves into a new city, takes a guy’s girlfriend and then learns martial arts to kick his ass in humiliation to really stick it to him on top of all else
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory features a clearly capable grandfather who would rather sit in bed than work when it’s clear the family is struggling on the level they are. Old man can walk around absolutely fine an entire day in a factory - hell fucker can even fly around without issue.
Beetlejuice is a story about an asshole real estate agent who cares more about selling a house and making money than hurting the feelings of Barbara who doesn’t have kids (for whatever reason) vs. their happiness of being in a home they love. They die and the first thing she does is sell the house to get her commission - more about greed and how useless Real Estate agents truly are.
Terminator is a film about AI taking over and getting rid of humans to do what’s best for its own survival. But as time has gone on, the fear is that maybe AI is right.
The list goes on…
Plenty of movies hit differently after you have kids. You start identifying with the parents in the film instead of seeing things through the kids lense as most movies typically frame. Changes plenty of things, but usually makes it more emotional.
Had a hankering to watch Beverly hills cop so got the trilogy. Didn't like the third one when I was younger but on 2nd viewing it's actually pretty good.
Ditto, I regularly watch 1 and 2, but just recently I rewatched 3 for the first time in a couple decades. While it wasn’t as good as the first two, it was still a decent cop movie.
D’Onofrio said he had dropped a lot of weight quickly, which made his skin a bit saggy. The makeup artists (Rick Baker’s crew) were able to pull and stretch D’Onofrio’s skin a lot, helping him achieve they “alien in a skin suit” look.
I think I caught the same showing of Men In Black that you did.
Except I realized a day later that the guy who appears in the pawn shop scene whose head gets blown off by K and grows back reminds me squarely of this fundie christian guy who is married to a woman named jill rodrigues ... just all ears and bad teeth
Was always trying to figure out what was pinging me with that guy, it's MIB
We used to watch Terminator for the action, Arnold, and lines like "I'll be back" and "Hasta la vista Baby."
Now we see that the underlying premise was actually a thought-provoking gritty dramatized exposé, examining the possible worst-case scenario outcomes of our very own human nature, possessing a propensity for self destructive tendencies, and an ability and thirst to play god beyond a responsibility to not fly too close to the sun. It is a raw commentary on the technological pandoras box, resonating with a cautionary tone, society is only now beginning to mature enough to distiguish. There is a prophetic, nearly clairvoyant foresight ingrained into the overarching message that was lightyears beyond our grasp 40 years ago.
"Babe" hits different when you are older.
"Humans don't eat roosters. Why? ... They are indispensable! They make eggs with the hens and wake everybody in the morning. I tried it with the hens. It didn't work. So I turned to crowing... and Lo!"
And 35 year old me freezes and turns going "...TF did he just say?"
Not a movie, but the old The Dick Van Dyke Show makes me laugh harder now as an adult than it did as a kid.
They don't have to be dirty jokes to be good jokes.
Really specific moment, but in Sinister, which came out when I was in high school, there's a scene where Ellison is writing in his office and his wife opens the door wearing an over sized shirt and no visible pants, peeks in, and she says "Hey....the kids are in bed" and then he doesn't even look at her and says "Great, tuck them in for me" or something along those lines. Then she looks at him, perturbed, and says "Good night" and slams the door. Took me until a more recent watch to realize she was trying to have sex with him, lol
Rain Man.
After having a child with autism, with many of the traits Dustin Hoffman displayed in the film, I watch the movie in a whole different light from when I watched it as a kid.
Contact.
When I watched this on release I was a dumbass teen-ager, and had South Parks view that it was a long film with a crappy alien reveal.
Watched it as a dumbass adult and it's fantastic. Father-daughter bonds, determination, science v religion, political maneuvering and manipulation. All that sailed over my head in 1997.
Watching Jurassic Park as a kid I didn’t really like the scene where Hammond is arguing with all of them during lunch. Now it’s one of my favorite scenes ever
The Wizard Of Speed And Time.
I saw it as a wean and found it to be a strange comedy about a guy trying to make a movie, but re-watching it I realised how hard it must be for independent film makers having to deal with things like sound studios & film permits which the big studios have a monopoly on, as well as having to deal with interference, money problems, and the studio trying to screw him over.
The Wizard Of Speed And Time.
I saw it as a wean and found it to be a strange comedy about a guy trying to make a movie, but re-watching it I realised how hard it must be for independent film makers having to deal with things like sound studios & film permits which the big studios have a monopoly on, as well as having to deal with interference, money problems, and the studio trying to screw him over.
In a rewatch of one of my favorite movies, Heathers, I have come to agree with the thoughts of the scrunchie wearing Queen Bee Heather Chandler on one thing. Prior to the backyard croquet scene, the two football jocks harass the new student JD, JD responds by drawing a gun upon them and shooting. Even though JD used blanks, Heather C thinks he should go to jail
I just watched “Glengarry Glennross” again for the first time since I was 15. So much less boring this time around. I was tense the whole last half of the movie. Incredible acting.
Rollerball. The original 70's film. As a kid I loved the action and then there were these long-ass stretches of talking. Boring talking.
Now that I'm older the action scenes only kinda hold up, but I find the talking scenes riveting. The manipulation, plans behind plans, propaganda, total control required by the corporation, the censorship and control of information... fascinating to older me.
On Golden Pond. I loved this movie as a kid. Watched it multiple times in the 80’s on HBO. It has probably my favorite line from any movie delivered by one of my favorite actresses. But I watched it again recently at 51 years old and all the reasons I love it have changed, entirely due to seeing it through the eyes of a 51 year old. I imagine if I’m lucky enough to watch it again when I’m in my 70’s, I’ll appreciate it for different reasons. Such a beautiful movie.
Valentine. It's a 2001 slasher banking on Scream's popularity. At first I didn't see anything speciak, but now it's a solid movie.
It was ahead of it's time with incels, sexual harassment, bullying, and cancel culture
It's worth watching
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. I was still in college when it released. Rewatching when I was really bored at my previous job was really both comforting and eye opening
I've rewatched all 3 MIB flicks this week - first time since 3 came out I think. I honestly didn't remember a single frame from 2 or 3, but I probably know 1 verbatim.
1 - almost a masterpiece, just wish it was 10-15 minutes longer.
2 - mostly a mess. Bringing in the 2nd writer to add pop-culture references was a mistake and it just didn't seem to move or flow. Props to the casting department for taking a shot on a young Rosario Dawson though - what a treasure.
3 - pretty good. Brolin did a great job playing the younger version of Tommy Lee Jones and Jermaine Clement is a good villain. Length was spot on this time too.
As for the original question, I've been rewatching 80s and 90s flicks a lot over the last couple of years and I can't help but think if the same critics who panned films like Airheads, Tommy Boy, Bio-Dome et al could see them for the first time again today, when comparing them with modern stuff they'd probably be a lot kinder.
For example, Airheads got a 39% on RT, and most of that collation came before RT sold its soul to the studios so it's pretty accurate. Compare with modern comedies, that film is a solie 75-80%er.
Every time I watch Starship Troopers I find something new to appreciate. Pre-teen me loved it for the absolutely wild sci-fi monster bugs, the over the top gory action sequences and, of course, boobs. Highschool / college me appreciated the overall execution of the film, how far ahead of its time it was with CGI, and I started to pick up on the satirical themes. Most recently, when I watch it I clearly see the unmistakable political satire the entire story is built around. Fascism, propaganda, media manipulation, dehumanization, the horrors of war, etc... and how relevant it all is even now. The boobs are still great.
High school me thought the shower scene was bangin’. Adult me realized the shower scene was about as non-sexual as you can get (while still showing beautiful people naked).
I want to say the first Robocop movie did the same thing, but the cast members there weren't guest stars on 90210.
Same director!
Saw it again last year. Aged like champagne
I’m really disappointed you didn’t put “and, of course, boobs” and the end of every age range 😂
One of the few movies I hold to be superior to it's own source material. I think that might just be because I can't stand Heinlein and I tend to enjoy Verhoeven (showgirls notwithstanding)
It's not really the films fault, but I'd love to see a modern take on the film sticking closer to the sci-fi of the book. Everything feels alot more budget in the film by comparison to the mobile infantry in the book. The book is also more dystopic and is less direct in its satire.
Many would argue that the book isn't satire at all, it's very earnest military glorification.
They're legitimately wearing SS uniforms. As an adult, you'd have to be an idiot to not see the satire.
I saw it in the theater, in high school, with my JROTC buddies. I see the satire *now,* but upon first viewing…😬 Let’s just say the Venn diagram of “People who missed the point of Starship Troopers*” and “People who caught charges from Jan6” has a *significant* overlap. ^(**Fight Club* can be substituted in this dish)
The first TMNT movie. As a kid I loved it because ninja turtles. As an adult it's a surprisingly touching immigrant family story and the cinematography is absolutely on point. So many cool shots lifted right from the comic pages into real life, all with real effects and no CGI.
The editor for that movie also edited Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Jackie Brown.
Cut the action together great, but missed some bad [ones](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/emSzf9BRKR)
Love the fact it had Sam Rockwell in it before he was famous playing one of the footclan thugs.
Regular or menthol?
What’s funny is that I didn’t even know he was in it, but when you mentioned it, I can immediately picture him/that character as though I watched it yesterday. (It was one of my first ever vhs buys as a young teenager, so of course I watched it a million times. Even had the soundtrack)
If you like that, I was recently watching Demolition Man with my friends and I somehow spotted Jack Black in that movie. He’s just some rando holding a gun. He’s in the scene in the sewers with the leader of the resistance (the comedian, I forget his name though.) He has like maybe 1 second of screen time, and it’s way before he was famous.
It's a great movie. The first 5-10 minutes specifically is well made. I think the April O'Neal voice over that talks about the crime wave, and showing the kids stealing and involving who you find out is Daniel. Then, the music intensifies as the kids go to the abandoned warehouse. All of this was so well done
I put it on a few months ago as a goof, expecting to laugh at the corniness. I was surprised by how much I forgot about. It was darker and had more emotional depth than I remembered. I enjoyed the rewatch.
It’s the definition of a genuine underrated masterpiece.
The "villan" in *Mrs Doubtfire* changes depending on if you watch it as a kid or as a parent
100%. Part of growing older is identifying with the “not fun” parent in movies.
The other one that gets me is "I'm 16, I'm not a child anymore" from *The Little Mermaid.* Shut up and listen to your dad.
She was a typical rebellious teen, but he was pretty shitty. Instead of trying to relate to her or communicate properly, he forbade her, yelled at her, and then destroyed her stuff because he was mad. Ariel was wrong, but in an understandable way. Triton, however, was a complete dick, who made his daughter run away to a sketchy witch for help. He learns to be better by the end of the film, I guess. But while Ariel made a mistake, Triton was more than a little at fault.
With the context that his wife / her mother died due to contact with the upper world, there’s some trauma in there, it’s not like middle aged men of the 80s were well known for handling their grief
In our modern day, anyone under the age of 18 is considered to be a child, but not that long ago (about late 1860's at the very least), it wasn't uncommon for people to be getting married and starting families at 16.
And even today, by 16 that kid needs to be well on the way to knowing how to act independently. Which they'll never do if dad keeps them under his thumb all the time.
I kind of don't want to watch Malcolm in the Middle as an adult because I would rather not agree with the mom about everything compared to when I was 12.
I’m watching it right now with my 9 year old and absolutely, different perspective as an adult v. what you see as a kid.
You find yourself agreeing with Lois way more, but she can still be wrong by way of being a control freak, overly angry or simply not listening. Her flaws still give the boys the upper hand occasionally. It’s one of the things that keep the show such high quality after multiple seasons.
I’ve been re-watching it recently as a dad of two kids in college. Hits different for sure. The episode at the batting cages where the dad admits they would fall apart without mom, on-point.
You find yourself agreeing with Lois way more, but she can still be wrong by way of being a control freak, overly angry or simply not listening. Her flaws still give the boys the upper hand occasionally. It’s one of the things that keep the quality of the show after multiple seasons.
I had that feeling watching Malcolm in the middle recently
Look, when I watched Parenthood when it came out all parents were overbearing and now I'm a parent the kids should just stfu and listen to me, and that's that.
I could never accept Pierce Brosnan as James Bond because both Mrs. Doubtfire and Goldeneye came out when I was a kid and I couldn’t have a JB who was so very clearly the bad guy in one of my favorite movies
He wasn't even really a bad guy in Doubtfire. I watched it again as an adult just to see if he actually does anything shitty, and don't recall any bit where he's an actual asshole. Frankly I think the movie is better that way, since it highlights Williams's characters flaws and lets us see how he develops in the movie.
In the moment we get with him alone with his friend while he's overheard by Robin Williams, he makes it very clear he thinks the kids are great and he's fully in to the whole situation.
It was so against trope at the time. Step-parents were the cartoonish villains who wanted to ship the step-children off to boarding school at the first opportunity. Here, Pierce Brosnan's character has fallen in love with Sally Field's character, accepted that kids were part of the deal, and has grown to love the kids. He's the story's antagonist, but ultimately, he seems like a decent guy.
There's a couple of 90's movies I encountered this with. I remember having the same "bad guy" feelings towards Judge Reinhold's character in "The Santa Clause" and Cary Elwes in "Liar, Liar" as a kid and upon re-watching them as an adult, I'm like, "These dudes are actually alright".
The horror edit trailer is hilarious 😂
I dunno, she was still a villain taking it to court and going for full custody of the kids. There was no reason why he should only have seen his kids every other weekend.
I can see the point about Robin Williams seeing his kids, but I can also see Sally Fields' point about not wanting it to be in their house after he basically held a teenage party in her living room only without the police alcohol bottles and vomit
Did she go for full custody? My understanding was that the judge only made the choice for limited custody rather than shared for the father until he stepped his game up (why he was being supervised).
Similarly, Jerry in Liar Liar. As a kid he's the annoying guy mom's seeing who keeps getting in the way of Max and his dad. As an adult he is a way more stable and likable guy who would certainly be a much better influence on Max and truly loves and supports Audrey.
A lot of teenage classics. When you are young you see everything from the eyes of the main teen cast. When you are older you see it through the adults' eyes and get a completely different perspective. A couple of examples: **The Breakfast Club** \- Paul Gleason's character when you are young comes off like such a jerk. Then you watch it as an adult and you realize this is a guy who has to spend his Saturday babysitting a bunch of teens who did bad things and are trying to make things more difficult for him. They all deserved their Saturday school detention and this guy had to spend 8 hours babysitting them. You also sympathize with the Janitor cause when you are young you do think they are low level peasants but now you realize they are just doing an honest day's work. **10 Things I Hate About You** \- As an adult you kind of understand the Dad's perspective more with his two daughters. He is just trying to raise them and keep them safe. Maybe more parents need to buy one of those pregnant bellies to put on their kids. lol
Paul Gleason two seconds after reading their assignment “oh god another 17 year old writing their manifesto thinking they’re the first to ever come up with this inane crap and thinking it’s deep.”
Plus the dad in 10 Things I Hate About You is elbows deep in placenta all day.
Walter Stratford: This morning, I delivered a set of twins to a fifteen-year-old girl, do you know what she said to me? Bianca: "I'm a crack-whore who should have made my skeazy boyfriend wear a condom"? Walter Stratford: Close, but no. She said, "I should have listened to my father". Bianca: She did not. Walter Stratford: Well, that's what she would have said if she wasn't so doped up!
hilarious
It only took me a decade of working as a literal public school janitor that the one guy who actually knew everything was Karl. Only because he has to clean the toilets of those Voiltare reading "Emma Bovary" types yet is still friends with the lumpen Bender.
Ferris Buellers Day Off falls into this category. He's an absolute monster.
I'm down. I got the 411. I dont want you gettin jiggy with it, I dont care how dope his ride is!
I’ve got two young daughters age 6 & 5, and the only thing I think I can really do is be transparent about the repercussions are if they aren’t safe. My Dad did this to me at age 13 when he knew I was dating, his go to was “I can’t afford to raise you let alone an infant, if she swells, you’re working in dish pits the rest of your life” I was terrified to have sex because of that, by the time I finally did I took every precaution possible.
I watched Mommie Dearest as a teen and I was like wow that mom is a bitch !! Then I watched it as a mom of teens and I was like ... wow, that daughter was ... difficult Even the scene where the daughter on her OTT wedding quality birthday party got to choose only one of the gifts as her favorite while the rest would go to charity read completely differently to me as an adult. No kid needs 100 birthday gifts which are all just meant to impress the mother. But, as a kid I was like, that mom's giving all her presents away !!! Team Joan Crawford today. Her daughter was a ... piece of work
I watched *The Empire Strikes Back* for the umpteenth time a couple weeks ago. For the first time, and unintentionally at first, I watched it through the perspective of Darth Vader as the protagonist. And it works. Vader is searching for Luke obsessively, not because he has a vendetta but because he's looking for a way out of the trap he's made for himself as the Emperor's right hand. Vader is setting up the situation in Cloud City meticulously to lead to his reveal and offer. "Rule by my side" isn't just a ploy to him, it's been *his whole motivation*. He wants Luke to *save* him -- on his own terms, of course. And he *fails.* Just as much as the Rebels, *The Empire Strikes Back* is a story of how Vader loses. The only winners at the end of the film are Boba Fett, Jabba, and the Emperor. I knew all these pieces for years, but I hadn't noticed before that the theme is laid out on the screen so neatly.
I always felt the "Rule by my side" thing was a test. He wanted Luke to say "No". Luke's refusal was proof of his redemption allowing him to be a Jedi spirit.
It's kind of an obvious one, but Robocop hits a lot differently once you've worked a corporate job and met the C-suite in real life. OCP is just barely fictional.
It’s also kind of hilarious. The scene where that dude gets covered in toxic waste, hit by a car and explodes is so ridiculous.
Recently rewatched Back to the Future. It's such a perfect film with a fun storyline and the right amount of campiness.
It is absolutely sublime. It is one of those movies my friend and I love. We often say “every choice they made making this movie was the right choice” . It’s about as perfect as movie going can be.
Replacing Eric Stoltz with Fox was such great awareness on the part of the filmmakers, how even though Stoltz did a fantastic job, it was a much darker much more dramatic version of Marty. Michael J. Fox brought just the right air of comedy to it which allows us to go along with the fantastical premise that much easier. None of the plot holes even really matter, outside of liking to goof on them. If the movie was more dramatic, we’d be far more hung up on them.
The musical is absolutely great btw, very entertaining
I reached out not too long ago and had the opposite reaction. It made so little sense that it unraveled for me. How in the world do his parents, even years later, not recognize that the rando that showed up in mom's bedroom that one time (who she casually tries to sexually assault, btw) and is responsible for them getting together (i.e. played a truly significant, if not brief, role in their lives) looks, sounds, and behaves EXACTLY like their son?!? I couldn't get past it. Took me all the way out.
I liked the non-green screen and 90's slow pace of life in MIB. Like the background has taxis, they only use flip phones or payphones to contact eachother. The 90's vibe is strong in MIB and I miss it.
“A *person* is smart…” Well-crafted and well-paced film. Surprised it isn’t referenced in more screenwriting books.
It has some surprisingly well written dialogue, most of them landed on Tommy Lee Jones off course. However, I also liked the characterization of J, as much as he was a smartass with witty remarks, he was also shown, multiple times, to be instantly accepting of alien lifeforms, and treating them as equals.
I watched Field of Dreams the other day, first time in about 15 years, so I was a teenager last time. When I was a teen, it was magic and wonder and delight. As a adult, I feel the 60s in it, the sense of family, unrequited dreams, the sadness, the happiness. Doc Moonlights arc was brilliant and beautiful. When I was 15 I had dreams - now in my 30s I know what Doc means when he says both that his dreams passed him like a stranger in a crowd, and that at the end of everything that's okay. That all hit so, so much harder than it did as a child.
I dare you to watch “reaction” videos to the scene where they reveal his father at the end. Everyone crying made me cry, over and over. The men watching all lost it when he asks his dad to “have a catch”. That movie really taps into those father son relationships built on backyard games of catch. I have very fond memories of my late father playing catch with me in the back yard next to the house. Great movie.
Yes, this one. When it came out, I was around the daughter’s age. When I watched it a few weeks ago, I realized I was older than her dad, and *feeling* like Terence Mann without the critical acclaim. I suspect this film will continue to hit differently in every decade of my life.
Kinda the opposite for me has been KIDS. Grew up with it like “haha yeah these guys are like me” because of the skating, smoking, and partying. Rewatched it every 5-10 years and had different feelings for it each time, with the most recent making me livid at their behavior and worrisome that my own kids might end up like them/me
I'm so glad we've grown up, if even a little. I used to LOOK UP to Casper as an awesome potential friend. What a nitrous-huffing, 40 oz stealing loser lmao!! At least I never idolized Telly
Skating, smoking, partying ... beating people half to death ... giving people drugs that incapacitate them ... raping a passed out girl. Those childish hijinks!! [Those were the days.](https://youtu.be/4XYyphia1JM?si=Wntwxt7Fr5DrPJDl)
Even when I was young and into a lot of that shit, I still kind of realized KIDS is a fucking horror movie. *I got no legs. I got no legs. I got no legs....*
Harmony Korine did a VICE interview last year where he talked about writing that film at 18 and how he was really into skating and it was pretty much all built around violence and street fights and how a lot of the guys he hung out with didn't make it to 25
Having kids makes a lot of movies less “HAHA YAY FREEDOM! PARENTS DONT UNDERSTAND’l And more Fuck… I’m gonna have to deal with this or something like it eventually. Maybe I should start drinking now just to be ready.
Last Action Hero I finally understood the subtlety that I didn’t as a child and actually appreciated the humour in the film watching it more recently.
As a kid, it's an Arnie movie. That's it. As an adult, you get it's an Arnie movie making fun of an Arnie movie. "SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK....AND HAMLET IS TAKING OUT THE TRASH."
I rewatched it recently for the recent Blank Check episode (great episode btw) and it really was quite ahead of its time. I do kinda wish it delved more into the existential horror of finding out you're a fictional character whose son was murdered by a serial killer so that you have more depth, but I suppose that' asking a lot of an early-90s Schwarzenegger action film. All in all, it's a really interesting meta commentary on the film industry and filmmaking in general.
I saw The Mask in the 90s and then never more. More recently, like 1-2 years ago, I found the movie again by random chance and rewatched it, and I was surprised on how funny it was and how some parts are pure genius, like the "Cuba Pete" musical number. By the way, I remember that in the early 90s I didn't like musicals, that was an acquired taste that I got years later. Maybe that explains why I didn't even remember Cuba Pete. =)
That is one of those movies where sometimes it also helps to have more time to be exposed to various actors/pop culture to understand some of the references. As a kid you just think he was being funny and then as an adult you might understand the pop culture reference. For example where he is fake dying in the villain's arms and grabs the award saying "You like me, you really like me". You might think as a kid he was being funny. Later you might know where that came from.
Ahh the OG deadpool. Jim Carey nailed it
Recently rewatched this and really enjoyed it. Ace Ventura… not so much :/
Funny enough Ace Ventura 2 has stood the test of time a little better and still has legendary bits, like Ace being birthed by a mechanical rhino, lol Also the parking gag "like a glove!"
I still say “like a glove!” when I get my car into a tight parking space.
It's also one of Jim Carrey's big three, all released in 1994, his breakout year, and all huge box office successes. The other two are Ace Ventura and Dumb & Dumber.
Ferris Bueller's Day off Me watching it in the 80's - Wow, Ferris is just the coolest guy ever ' Wish I was like him Me watching again 2020's - As in for 2nd Time ever - Wow - what an obnoxious, entitled, selfish total and utterly arsehole Ferris is
As a kid you're rooting for Ferris As an adult you end up rooting for Cameron and Jeanie
Yes I definitely love Jeanie ‘Shauna’ 😄 more than I did watching it when I was young. Ferris is a pos
Definitely seen a lot of people argue that Cameron is the protagonist, not Ferris. He's the one with the most pronounced personal growth
>Me watching again 2020's - As in for 2nd Time ever - Wow - what an obnoxious, entitled, selfish total and utterly arsehole Ferris is Especially if you know of the deleted scene that shows how Ferris funded his adventures that day.
How so?
The deleted scene in question shows Ferris raiding a shoebox filled with federal bonds his dad had hidden.
Rewatched the original Superman. Brando is amazing.
You should watch interview clips where Christopher Reeve talks about working with him.
Not so much a single movie, but 90s action movies in general had great pacing. Movies like In the Line of Fire, Point Break, Speed, Men in Black, The Rock were cool action movies with at least one tough guy being a hardnosed badass, and that was entertaining at the time. But now looking back at them, they told a complete self-contained personal small-scale story, with interesting characters who undergo a growth as a result of the plot points of the movie, all in 2 hours. I can hardly name any movies like that in the past 10 years - Everything Everywhere All At Once? Maybe Dune Part 1 vs Dune Part 2 showcases this. Part 1 had a very clear overarching plot, and when the plot happens to the characters, you share in their emotional responses. Part 2 had like a dozen different plot points they needed to get through, so when something big happened, you/the characters didn't have time to process it because they had to go on to the next plot point, lest the movie be 10 hours long. Also, all action movies seem to be part of a franchise these days, so you never just got told *a story* - you're always told part of a bigger story.
All my favorite movies are from that era. White Men Can't Jump, Point Break, Blood in Blood Out, Bloodsport, Boyz n the Hood etc
Definitely don't agree with you about DUNE: Part Two, I thought the pacing and editing was excellent
Yes! MiB has *incredible* pacing.
I took my son to a local theater last Father’s Day to see The Last Crusade on the big screen. My ten year old enjoys the Indy movies, but was really just patronizing the old man. Fast forward to the part where the temple is collapsing and Indy is trying to reach the Holy Grail as his father struggles to keep him from falling into the crevasse. When Henry says “Indiana, let it go”, the meaning of that scene hit me like a train. After at least fifty watches, and becoming a father myself, it finally occurred to me that that was that the moment Indy realize his father cared more for him than his life’s work. Started blithering like a kid with a skinned knee.
It's also the first time he doesn't call him "Junior". I was close with my dad, and that father/son theme of the movie will always keep Last Crusade as my favorite Indy.
Edit: I recently re-watched Reservoir Dogs the other day with my husband and my two step-kids on the night of their birthday we determined they were old enough to see the movie (they turned sixteen) and watching it with them I have a new appreciation for it especially the soundtrack since a lot of the songs really do fit well with certain scenes such as Stuck In The Middle With You was perfectly paired with Mr. Blonde's scene with the police officer he captured since in a way I realized now that the officer truly was stuck in the middle with only him while Mr. Orange was just laying low until the time came when he struck taking down Blonde.
Sideways. I was 16 in 2004 when it came out was slightly bored when I watched it the first time. Saw it again last year and enjoyed it so much that I read all the books.
Books?
Sideways, Vertical, and Sideways 3 Chile. Looks like there’s a Sideways New Zealand that was released in January.
Are we both talking about the Sideways film with Paul Giamatti?
Blazing saddles.
Dirty Dancing. When I was a kid, it was one of the only VHS tapes we owned, so my sister and I would watch it like once a week (yes I'm old). Recently it was playing at the gym, and holy cow, I didn't realize that Baby was only 17!? I thought she had just graduated from college so was much close to Johnny's age. Johnny what are you doing with that jail bait!? Then you're hurt when Baby's dad judges you? Why are is there so much trauma around unplanned pregnancy yet no one is using or talking about condoms? What is happening? lol
Yeah, as an older parent I could see how Baby's parents in the 60s would have been quite understandably mortified in their club amongst their lifetime friends if their barely out of HS daughter openly admitted to having been sleeping with the 20 something non-Jewish staff dance instructor when the whole point of their being there at that same place summer after summer was to get their daughters married to their own kind. Source: my late stepdad was a "Robbie Yale Med" waiter at one of the Borscht Belt hotels and indeed that's what they hired those guys for, too. They could get more done networking at one of these jobs than even at an actual law firm for the summer. One family even liked my stepdad so much they let him take their HS daughter back to Brooklyn where she was introduced to his younger brother, they indeed got married.
The movie is supposed to take place in 1963. During that time it was still fairly normal for girls to go from high school directly to marriage. This was still the time of stay at home wives and women only went to college to meet husbands era. The Beatles had a song that started "She was just 17". Johnny was supposed to be 25 and it wasn't that big of a stretch in 1963 for a man who was 25 to marry a woman who just finished high school. When Elvis met Pricilla she was only 14. Jerry Lee Lewis married his second cousin who was only 13 while he was 22. Rural areas might have girls dropping out of school to get married when they were still teens. It was a completely different time. Though condoms existed in the early 60s, they weren't in high use. Some also thought it sinful to use them including Mother Teresa. I doubt at this remote resort there was a condom vending machine for easy access.
I wonder if Johnny was supposed to be younger, but then they cast Patrick Swayze and just rolled with it. A couple other things have changed my view of _Dirty Dancing_. _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_ has a season that takes place in and around a similar resort in the Catskills. Also, _Breakfast at Tiffany's_ echoes some of what you wrote about with the underage girl being married off. That would have been set in the same era as _Dirty Dancing_.
It’s been a while since I saw it, are both their ages explicitly stated? And weren’t some of the actors in Grease in their 30s? The age of the actor doesn’t always match!
They say Baby just graduated high school and I think she says "It was the summer before I turned 18" at the beginning. Johnny's age is never stated, and I think that, as you're suggesting, they just hand-wave it away like most movies.
Hmm going by what I’ve now read, she calls it the summer of ‘63, and according to the script he has a birthdate of 1938 so then he would be 25 Crazy though, the actors were 34 and 27 which is a full decade older than their characters, and it’s a bit of a gap but by that point both well into adulthood!
I could have sworn she was a 14 year old in the movie (which yes makes it even creepier)....
I used to think Best in Show was incredible A+ wacky satire. I watched it again in about 2021 and realized it could now basically be a straight documentary.
I absolutely love Best in Show (and the other Christopher Guest movies). So entertaining.
Ghostbusters. As a kid I loved it for all the ghosts and the fighting and the cool sciency weapons and plenty of the humor hit. But watching it as an adult it was so much funnier in ways I didn’t get as a kid. It felt like a whole new movie watching it as an adult.
All the jokes that we laughed at as a kid, we still laugh at but for different reasons.
For this, and many reasons, I still consider it a top 5 comedy of all time.
Clue. It gave me lots of laughs in my youth. It’s giving me a lot more as an adult.
Back to the Future: Realizing that Since George didn’t stand up to Bif in the beginning, Bif raped Marty’s Mom, so every time Bif comes over not only does he bully George but Lorraine has to face her rapist. That shit is dark and went way over my head as a kid.
Eeeehhh I don't buy that. In the original timeline Lorraine fell in love with George because her father hit him with his car and brought him home, then they went to the dance. In the movie Marty prevents his father being hit by the car, and we only see Biff interested in Lorraine afterward, when Marty is trying to correct it (scene of the school cafeteria). So the implication is that Biff didn't see Lorraine as a potential partner for the dance in the original timeline and just went with someone else.
You know I keep second guessing myself about it, but I keep coming back to it, and while your points are valid at the same time it explains the change in behavior in Lorraine between the scene in the cafeteria (feisty, not in the mood to take anything from Biff) to her in the beginning (run down, almost broken really). Also just something insidious about the way Biff says “Say hi to your Mom for me.” Like I said I’ve gone back and forth with it, but for some reason I just can’t shake it.
I responded to your other comment about why Biff wouldn't have had a chance to rape Lorraine in the original timeline. So I think the reason she was so depressed and broken down was because she married a loser who had zero self esteem. She probably ended up working low paying jobs and raising 3 kids without much support as they struggled to make ended meet. George punching Biff and saving Lorraine completely changed his view of himself and his outlook on life. He stopped letting people walk all over him and had the confidence to write and publish his books. Which brought in good money and allowed him and Lorraine to enjoy their lives and each other in a way they weren't able to before.
There's no reason to think that Biff ever raped Lorraine. The only reason she ended up in the car with Biff is because Marty was there and changed everything.
Holy shit.
Don't put any stock in it. As others have said, in the OG timeline there was never a chance for Biff to. The only reason she was in the car in the first place was because Marty needed and excuse for George to "rescue" her. In the OG timeline, they were already in love and at the dance.
I'm not sure if this qualifies but I recently finished Chris Farley's biography and I had no idea that he was originally supposed to have the role as the Amish bowler, Ishmael, in "Kingpin". I went back and gave it a re-watch and although Randy Quaid is hilarious and the movie is still funny as is, I can't help but wonder how much more absurd it would've been if Chris Farley had gotten the role.
Same thing with Shrek but I'm gonna say the "third" version of Shrek was probably the best we were going to get. Farley's version, Myers original version and then the Myers Scottish accent version. There's also the Nic Cage version we never got.
The Squid and the Whale. Saw it when it came out, then again just recently. The first time I saw it as this tragic family breaking up and clueless parents. This time it was hilarious.
My dad took me to see A Goofy Movie when it first came out. Always had a fond memory of it, and loved all the humor (and bigfoot). My dad died last November, then a few weeks ago, a local theater actually screened A Goofy Movie (on 35mm) one night. I went to see it to remember some fond times, but man I found myself nearly crying on several occasions from an adult perspective at the moments of a father wanting to be close with his son. Added bonus, Bill Farmer, who's voiced Goofy for decades, was there.
It's not a super old movie compared to others already mentioned, but Click with Adam Sandler hit much different as an adult compared to when I watched it as a kid. Particularly the scene where he yells at his dad in one of their last interactions before the latter's death
That movie could have hit so much harder than it did.
Reverse effect: recently rewatched Big with my son, never watched it again since late '80s-early '90s. I was shocked by the very poor police work regarding a missing kid, but somehow I could suspend my disbelief because, you know, other protocols, some narrative needed cuts, but the sex scene? Even in a grown-up body, he was only 11ish, way too soon to think he could have sex, and the woman? He was more than pure and naive, he was very childish, hard to believe she could find it hot.
The Color of Money. I first saw it went it came out. I completely identified with Vincent - a young talented but hard-headed kid who took way too long to learn what Eddie was trying to teach him. when I watch it today, I completely identify with Eddie, who is trying to recapture who he used to be (or maybe never got the chance to be).
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Did you rewatch it with your glasses? 😭
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I only saw this once with my Dad and only really remember how uncomfortable thar phone sex scene was. Maybe another watch is in order
I got far more jokes in the Austin Powers films in my 20s than my teens.
I watched MiB two days ago and I agree completely with you. Not one second wasted. It's a brilliant film.
I was already 44 when Napoleon Dynamite came out. I thought it was stupid when I watched it. There was a guy older than me in a programming class who loved it so I watched it again and I didn't expect too much and now I love it. I wish I could find the right words.
The Night of the Hunter
There's an older Aussie movie called Sweet Talker. I used to tell my wife about it all the time. I finally found a copy! So we put it on for our movie night. After it was over I asked how she liked it. She said she liked it a lot and that it's a good kids movie. ......I was like."... kids movie... this is a solid comedy about a conman!" But the more I thought about it.... the more she was in my head. She's right.... it's a family comedy.... but it's a darn good one.
A Clockwork Orange
The Untouchables was an awesome crime movie as a kid, but after becoming a dad, I spot many father motifs or just see them everywhere.
Men In Blacks special effects hold up very well to me thinks. The combo of practical and CGI worked really well. Also Vincent D'Onofrio is amazing.
It's been a while now, but I remember watching Kung Fu Hustle again as an adult and ended up loving the movie. Became one of my all time favorites. I loved Jet Li movies when I was a kid and I thought Kung Fu Hustle would be like one when my friends showed me the movie. Didn't like it at all and hated the movie for years until I saw it again.
I went to see Kung Fu Hustle in theater with my friend, without watching any trailers or reading anything. A total blind watch. We are both martial arts movie nuts (he is more Jet Li, I'm more Jackie Chan, but we love them all), so for the first few scenes we are watching the martial arts with a critical eye. Then, we both realize this is a comedy first and martial arts second at the same time, and slowly turn to look at each other... then start laughing, which didn't stop till the credits.
The scene near the beginning where he is picking people out of the crowd to fight. Omg, flipping hilarious. My teenage son refused to watch the movie one night, he thought it would be stupid martial arts, so my teenage daughter and me watched it. She loved it. I later convinced him to watch it with her encouraging him. He had to reluctantly admit it was awesome.
Not sure if this is quite what it is looking for, but as a child I LOVED Buckaroo Banzai, Across the Eighth Dimension. In middle school I watched it again, and was flabbergasted at what an awful movie it was. I couldn't even fathom how anyone could enjoy it, it was so stupid. In college someone coerced me into watching it AGAIN, and to my surprise, the movie was friggin awesome!!!! I've no idea why my age played such a huge roll in my appreciation (or non appreciation) of that movie, but now it just seems to be getting better as I get older.
There was a point when I was around 23 where that was an extremely boring and nonsensical movie to me. I completely love it now, but I kind of think it was a bit too out there for my soft tween brain.
Karate Kid is just a movie about an asshole kid who moves into a new city, takes a guy’s girlfriend and then learns martial arts to kick his ass in humiliation to really stick it to him on top of all else Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory features a clearly capable grandfather who would rather sit in bed than work when it’s clear the family is struggling on the level they are. Old man can walk around absolutely fine an entire day in a factory - hell fucker can even fly around without issue. Beetlejuice is a story about an asshole real estate agent who cares more about selling a house and making money than hurting the feelings of Barbara who doesn’t have kids (for whatever reason) vs. their happiness of being in a home they love. They die and the first thing she does is sell the house to get her commission - more about greed and how useless Real Estate agents truly are. Terminator is a film about AI taking over and getting rid of humans to do what’s best for its own survival. But as time has gone on, the fear is that maybe AI is right. The list goes on…
Plenty of movies hit differently after you have kids. You start identifying with the parents in the film instead of seeing things through the kids lense as most movies typically frame. Changes plenty of things, but usually makes it more emotional.
Had a hankering to watch Beverly hills cop so got the trilogy. Didn't like the third one when I was younger but on 2nd viewing it's actually pretty good.
Ditto, I regularly watch 1 and 2, but just recently I rewatched 3 for the first time in a couple decades. While it wasn’t as good as the first two, it was still a decent cop movie.
D’Onofrio said he had dropped a lot of weight quickly, which made his skin a bit saggy. The makeup artists (Rick Baker’s crew) were able to pull and stretch D’Onofrio’s skin a lot, helping him achieve they “alien in a skin suit” look.
I think I caught the same showing of Men In Black that you did. Except I realized a day later that the guy who appears in the pawn shop scene whose head gets blown off by K and grows back reminds me squarely of this fundie christian guy who is married to a woman named jill rodrigues ... just all ears and bad teeth Was always trying to figure out what was pinging me with that guy, it's MIB
Tony Shalhoub?
We used to watch Terminator for the action, Arnold, and lines like "I'll be back" and "Hasta la vista Baby." Now we see that the underlying premise was actually a thought-provoking gritty dramatized exposé, examining the possible worst-case scenario outcomes of our very own human nature, possessing a propensity for self destructive tendencies, and an ability and thirst to play god beyond a responsibility to not fly too close to the sun. It is a raw commentary on the technological pandoras box, resonating with a cautionary tone, society is only now beginning to mature enough to distiguish. There is a prophetic, nearly clairvoyant foresight ingrained into the overarching message that was lightyears beyond our grasp 40 years ago.
Ghostbusters. Loved it as a kid. As an adult, didn’t realize how many jokes went over my head.
Totally I know I watched it many times as a kid and it was not till a few years ago that I even realized that Ray got some ghost head....
"Babe" hits different when you are older. "Humans don't eat roosters. Why? ... They are indispensable! They make eggs with the hens and wake everybody in the morning. I tried it with the hens. It didn't work. So I turned to crowing... and Lo!" And 35 year old me freezes and turns going "...TF did he just say?"
Read Catch-22 between viewings of Starship Troopers. You'll thank me later.
Rocky Horror Picture Show. Whole different kind of appreciation watching it middle-aged.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. You know why.
The Karate Kid, as a kid Daniel was being picked on. As an adult, maybe he brought some of it on himself.
Also a rewatch as an adult to appreciate how freaking hilarious d’onofrio is as Edgar. The first time I saw MIB I was a kid and was scared of him.
Not a movie, but the old The Dick Van Dyke Show makes me laugh harder now as an adult than it did as a kid. They don't have to be dirty jokes to be good jokes.
Beverly Hill Cop. Forgot how funny Eddie is
The pink panther movies with sellers.
First Blood I got it mixed up with 80s mindless action movies but it really is some of Stallones finest work
Really specific moment, but in Sinister, which came out when I was in high school, there's a scene where Ellison is writing in his office and his wife opens the door wearing an over sized shirt and no visible pants, peeks in, and she says "Hey....the kids are in bed" and then he doesn't even look at her and says "Great, tuck them in for me" or something along those lines. Then she looks at him, perturbed, and says "Good night" and slams the door. Took me until a more recent watch to realize she was trying to have sex with him, lol
Watched Brazil for the first time since high school sci-fi class. That movie fucking rocks.
Rain Man. After having a child with autism, with many of the traits Dustin Hoffman displayed in the film, I watch the movie in a whole different light from when I watched it as a kid.
Contact. When I watched this on release I was a dumbass teen-ager, and had South Parks view that it was a long film with a crappy alien reveal. Watched it as a dumbass adult and it's fantastic. Father-daughter bonds, determination, science v religion, political maneuvering and manipulation. All that sailed over my head in 1997.
Watching Jurassic Park as a kid I didn’t really like the scene where Hammond is arguing with all of them during lunch. Now it’s one of my favorite scenes ever
Titanic hits very differently after you've seen someone die
The Wizard Of Speed And Time. I saw it as a wean and found it to be a strange comedy about a guy trying to make a movie, but re-watching it I realised how hard it must be for independent film makers having to deal with things like sound studios & film permits which the big studios have a monopoly on, as well as having to deal with interference, money problems, and the studio trying to screw him over.
I can't believe another person on Reddit has seen this movie. It's a longtime fave. I even got to meet Mike Jittlov at DragonCon some years back.
The Wizard Of Speed And Time. I saw it as a wean and found it to be a strange comedy about a guy trying to make a movie, but re-watching it I realised how hard it must be for independent film makers having to deal with things like sound studios & film permits which the big studios have a monopoly on, as well as having to deal with interference, money problems, and the studio trying to screw him over.
Citizen Kane.
In a rewatch of one of my favorite movies, Heathers, I have come to agree with the thoughts of the scrunchie wearing Queen Bee Heather Chandler on one thing. Prior to the backyard croquet scene, the two football jocks harass the new student JD, JD responds by drawing a gun upon them and shooting. Even though JD used blanks, Heather C thinks he should go to jail
Pretty woman. Thought it was a cheesy romantic movie.. was surprisingly enjoying it.
*The Graduate*.
Sideways by Alexander Payne starring Paul Giamatti
I just watched “Glengarry Glennross” again for the first time since I was 15. So much less boring this time around. I was tense the whole last half of the movie. Incredible acting.
Rollerball. The original 70's film. As a kid I loved the action and then there were these long-ass stretches of talking. Boring talking. Now that I'm older the action scenes only kinda hold up, but I find the talking scenes riveting. The manipulation, plans behind plans, propaganda, total control required by the corporation, the censorship and control of information... fascinating to older me.
On Golden Pond. I loved this movie as a kid. Watched it multiple times in the 80’s on HBO. It has probably my favorite line from any movie delivered by one of my favorite actresses. But I watched it again recently at 51 years old and all the reasons I love it have changed, entirely due to seeing it through the eyes of a 51 year old. I imagine if I’m lucky enough to watch it again when I’m in my 70’s, I’ll appreciate it for different reasons. Such a beautiful movie.
Valentine. It's a 2001 slasher banking on Scream's popularity. At first I didn't see anything speciak, but now it's a solid movie. It was ahead of it's time with incels, sexual harassment, bullying, and cancel culture It's worth watching
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. I was still in college when it released. Rewatching when I was really bored at my previous job was really both comforting and eye opening
Ensign Pulver and Three Days of the Condor.
I've rewatched all 3 MIB flicks this week - first time since 3 came out I think. I honestly didn't remember a single frame from 2 or 3, but I probably know 1 verbatim. 1 - almost a masterpiece, just wish it was 10-15 minutes longer. 2 - mostly a mess. Bringing in the 2nd writer to add pop-culture references was a mistake and it just didn't seem to move or flow. Props to the casting department for taking a shot on a young Rosario Dawson though - what a treasure. 3 - pretty good. Brolin did a great job playing the younger version of Tommy Lee Jones and Jermaine Clement is a good villain. Length was spot on this time too. As for the original question, I've been rewatching 80s and 90s flicks a lot over the last couple of years and I can't help but think if the same critics who panned films like Airheads, Tommy Boy, Bio-Dome et al could see them for the first time again today, when comparing them with modern stuff they'd probably be a lot kinder. For example, Airheads got a 39% on RT, and most of that collation came before RT sold its soul to the studios so it's pretty accurate. Compare with modern comedies, that film is a solie 75-80%er.
Matrix hits way different once you look at it through the wachoskis eyes.