Movies that haven't aged well.

What are some movies where either the special affects are either so bad that they make your eyes bleed, or that are just really overrated. My two are Titanic, which I find is pretty much the crappiest movie ever, and E.T., which is pretty much just a horrible movie with no real plot, and no character development.

Dark Knight.

Dark Knight.

sonicare

Avatar :P

The matrix.

Anyone who says Jurassic Park gets punched in the throat. That movie still looks phenomenal.

Dark Knight.

Anyone who says Jurassic Park gets punched in the throat. That movie still looks phenomenal.

Emraldo

Now that you bring it up, your right. I haven't really thought about it, but for a nearly 20 year old movie it aged incredibly well.

I disagree with the Titanic, from a technical standpoint it's still a superb film, even by today' standards.

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Anyone who says Jurassic Park gets punched in the throat. That movie still looks phenomenal.

DJ419

Now that you bring it up, your right. I haven't really thought about it, but for a nearly 20 year old movie it aged incredibly well.

Nearly any action flick from the 1960s to early 1970s. They almost always enter the realm of unintentional hilarity when viewed today. Poorly chosen stock sound effects (many from the 40s and 50s) almost constantly permeate them, music is generally cringe-inducing, the action scenes themselves are often awkwardly shot and performed etc. etc. There are, naturally, exceptions to this (Dirty Harry, for starters), but the vast majority are exactly what I described.

Tron. I was so bored I'm surprised I actually watched the whole thing.CreepingDeath_

I can only watch a few minutes of that movie at a time, then I have to go do something else because it's so boring.

Near Dark. raven_squad

Near Dark had the same problem as The Terminator. They were both embarassingly "80s". Terminator gets a slight pass, though, since at least it was specifically supposed to be set in a certain year. But Near Dark was just sort of set in the present. Only if you go back and watch the movie 20 years later, it looks ridiculous.

Dark Knight.

sonicare

I cannot for some reason, watch this movie again. I saw it first at the movies, and haven't seen it since.

Near Dark had the same problem as The Terminator. They were both embarassingly "80s". Terminator gets a slight pass, though, since at least it was specifically supposed to be set in a certain year. But Near Dark was just sort of set in the present. Only if you go back and watch the movie 20 years later, it looks ridiculous.

MrGeezer

I'm Gonna Get You Sucka

I thought this movie was hilarious; now it's just ... bad.

Though that scene was a breakthough for a very young Chris Rock.

Movies that haven't aged well

Jurassic Park 3

Warlock

Warlock 2

Puppet Master I, II and III

Dollman

Demonic Toys

Battle Beyond the Stars- an old Roger Corman 1980s sci fi flick. Just hasn't aged well over the years

Original Black Christmas - too bizarre and weird for me

Anyone who says Jurassic Park gets punched in the throat. That movie still looks phenomenal.

Emraldo

Probably going to piss a lot of people off, but......Star Wars: The original triology.

Anyone who says Jurassic Park gets punched in the throat. That movie still looks phenomenal.

Emraldo

Probably going to piss a lot of people off, but......Star Wars: The original triology.

jerk-o-tron2000

Super Mario Bros. Although it was pretty crappy when it came out but today it looks ten times worse. Short Circuit is something I haven't seen in years but I'm scared to look at it because I may crack up looking at the effects. Usually when it comes to older movies it's better if they wasn't to special effects heavy. I could watch Bruce Lee films all day because they were pure marital arts masterpieces.

Back to the Future 2, while not a bad movie at all (actually one of my favorites), deserves a mention only because of the fact that it was set in 2015. Here it is 2011 and we can see there's no way we're going to have flying cars or Hover Boards in the next four years (even if we had the technology there's no way we would allow flying cars in a post 9/11 world anyway until we can do at least a remote kill switch when people try to use it to break the law that we can't just override). But that's the reality of movies based on the future. Makes you wonder how accurate movies being released now that are based hundreds of years in the future will be looked at when the time period portrayed in the movie becomes the present.

The Terminator 1 movie while its stilll great storywise, the special effects and other stuff in the movie just hasn't aged well.

Tron has not aged well. Just... ughh. I couldn't bring myself to see the whole thing.

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Probably going to piss a lot of people off, but......Star Wars: The original triology.

Acemaster27

Hitchcock's The Birds.

When you clearly see how fake the birds are by how they maneuver, the horror is replaced with some straight up comedy.

The first three star trek movies have not been treated to well by father time

Dirty Harry (sorry Clint)

Hitchcock's The Birds.

When you clearly see how fake the birds are by how they maneuver, the horror is replaced with some straight up comedy.

mo0ksi

They were just telling a story about what happened in this creepy town.

Leprechaun 3

Every movie in the early days of C.G.I.Guppy507

The original Star Wars trilogy are master pieces, how ever the new star wars are plain horrible in every sense of the word.sunsetcrakcer

Every movie in the early days of C.G.I.Guppy507

Probably going to piss a lot of people off, but......Star Wars: The original triology.

jerk-o-tron2000

I can barely force myself to sit through any silent movie, and I struggle with many from the thirties too. E.g: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Msuper_mario_128

I actually just watched this film a couple months ago. I used to think silent films were really difficult to watch but I ended up liking them and now I really enjoy them. I love this film although the acting isn't great.

Psycho.

It just doesn't deliver what it originally set out to do. Watching it felt, well, pointless because it just had nothing left to offer, in my opinion. There's just no way I could get excited, captivated or scared over it, just like most other old-school thrillers and horrors. They've aged to the point of redundancy.

Psycho.

It just doesn't deliver what it originally set out to do. Watching it felt, well, pointless because it just had nothing left to offer, in my opinion. There's just no way I could get excited, captivated or scared over it, just like most other old-school thrillers and horrors. They've aged to the point of redundancy.

BiancaDK