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Movies of your youth that have aged poorly
Hugely disappointing. Sean Astin keeps calling One Eyed Willy's treasure "the rich stuff"....WTF? The action (such as it is) took absolutely forever to get going (close to 45 minutes I think). The sequences on the pirate ship are just comically bad. There are some great homages to the 80s though...the shorts-over-sweatpants look, Mustang GT 5.0 convertibles, excellent hair.
I'm viewing it through an adult lens, sure....but some movies of my childhood still kick ass. This one just hasn't stood up well to time.
Anyone else? I'm receptive to being branded a heretic, by the way.
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SECRET OF NIMH...I still like it, but I remember it being really dark and sinister when I was a kid and when I saw it in the theater, the parents let out an audible, collective gasp when that rat said "damn". Now it's really pretty tame, pretty standard cartoon for the period.
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Wait, were they supposed to be good back then, too?
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When compared to the PC shit that passes for kids films these days it's better than ever!
Lets count the awesomeness:
- Mild sweraring throughout - wouldn't get away with it today!
- Gluing David's dick on upside down - fucking classic.
- Mouth posing as a drug dealer talking about cocain and shit - you'd never see that today!
- Chunk gets picked on through the whole film yet there is no lame scene where the other kids appologise to him.
- Criminals point their guns (and swords) at kids.
- Dead bodies with bullet holes.
- A torture scene involving a kid - that would cop an R rating these days!
Man goonies is a fucking classic - a 'family' film that doesn't pander to the audience. A film like that simply would not be released now. Apart from that it had great characters, took it's time and is possibly one of the best 'group of friends on an adventure' coming of age stories ever filmed, only one I can think of that may compare is Stand By Me.
How the fuck can you say it doesn't stand up. I think it's even BETTER when viewed through an adult lens since you pick up the subtext and themes you missed when you were a kid who was just interested in the adventure (Who framed roger rabbit is similar in this regard.)
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How did THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN age for you Ken
All I know is, the kid is not my son.
Michael Jackson jokes--TIMELY!
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SECRET OF NIMH...I still like it, but I remember it being really dark and sinister when I was a kid and when I saw it in the theater, the parents let out an audible, collective gasp when that rat said "damn". Now it's really pretty tame, pretty standard cartoon for the period.
The movie was pretty good (had among other people, Dom Deluise in it), but the book was much better. The book has aged much better too.
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You've sold me on Goonies, I am finally willing to give it a try. But I hated Roger Rabbit so badly. And I'm a big fan of Warners Brothers cartoons. But Roger Rabbit was lame and super-annoying. P-p-p-pluh-leeze!
You are dead to me.
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