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Movies that seem less good now than when they were released?

Posted on 6/5/26 at 7:45 pm
Posted by UFFan
Planet earth, Milky Way Galaxy
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Posted on 6/5/26 at 7:45 pm
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Since it’s Reddit, they of course talk about once-praised movies that don’t meet today’s woke standards like Crash and the Blind Side.

Oh, Crash and the Blind Side are terrible movies. But anybody with two brain cells realized that those were terrible movies at the time they came out, and they’ve really only fallen in reputation because they’re not woke enough.

I think a better answer is Avatar. The story was ridiculously boring. It could have just been titled “Native Americans in Space.” And at this point, the 3D technology of the movie doesn’t seem that impressive, either.


Another good example is Supersize Me, which has now basically been exposed as a fraud.
This post was edited on 6/5/26 at 8:54 pm
Posted by drexyl
Mingovia
Member since Sep 2005
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Posted on 6/5/26 at 8:46 pm to
Wayne’s World

Quoted it endlessly with my friends back in the day. Tried to watch it again a few years ago and it was horrible
Posted by Lawyered
The Sip
Member since Oct 2016
38446 posts
Posted on 6/5/26 at 8:49 pm to
Everything everywhere all at once

It was the awards season darling for some reason.. maybe because of the diversity but it’s like it doesn’t exist now
Posted by UFFan
Planet earth, Milky Way Galaxy
Member since Aug 2016
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Posted on 6/5/26 at 8:57 pm to
I hated that movie and didn’t understand how anybody liked it. But I’m not sure it really registered that high in the wokometer. It was about Asians, which woke people usually don’t care about.
Posted by BigNastyTiger417
Member since Nov 2021
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Posted on 6/5/26 at 9:05 pm to
Nah. It even close. Avatar holds up.

Napoleon Dynamite
Crash
Joker
* most remakes

Don’t hold up well.
Posted by Bard
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Posted on 6/5/26 at 9:25 pm to
St. Elmo's Fire. The ages of the characters were about 10 years ahead of me when it hit theaters, so my friends and I all thought they were cool but just trying to "find themselves."

Watched it a year or two ago with the wife, being in our 50s now we see them as a bunch of self-centered and self-destructive assholes.
Posted by UFFan
Planet earth, Milky Way Galaxy
Member since Aug 2016
3190 posts
Posted on 6/5/26 at 9:28 pm to
Joker is a great movie.

Napoleon Dynamite is a pretty good movie. But if you rewatch it today, you’ll realize that it was overrated at the time. It’s a good but not great movie that people were treating as the greatest movie of all time.
This post was edited on 6/5/26 at 9:37 pm
Posted by RollTide1987
Baltimore, MD
Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 6/5/26 at 9:39 pm to
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Since it’s Reddit, they of course talk about once-praised movies that don’t meet today’s woke standards like Crash and the Blind Side.



Yeah, these films were lambasted in the years they were released. I know because I was there. I watched Crash the night before the Oscars and was floored by how mediocre it was. Hence my surprise when it won Best Picture about 24 hours later.

The Blind Side was an average film that made me feel good after leaving the movie theater. However, it might have been because I was in a good mood as I saw it right after Alabama beat Auburn in the '09 Iron Bowl. It's likely I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I did if I had viewed it more critically at the time.
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