Once a favourite but now just average
@thedailyclick (3017)
August 15, 2009 6:12am CST
I often see discussions on here where someone thinks such and such a movie is brilliant, usually a new release and I can’t help but smile. We all get those feelings when we watch a new movie which appeals to us, but often several years later when you revisit that same movie it doesn't have the same effect and you start to wonder why you liked it so much in the first place.
So what movie did you once feel was great but when you watched it again you thought it was less than great?
For me that would be “40 Days and 40 Nights”, I remember finding it hilarious when I watched it on the big screen. But when I recently watched it again on DVD I was really disappointed and thought it was quite lame.
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@sagnik42 (3589)
• India
15 Aug 09
I had similar feelings after watching "Titanic". I was completely blown away the first time I saw it. It was awesome. But then I saw it again after a few years and just felt like a good movie.Nothing extraordinary or anything. One of the reasons that I thought was responsible for this was that Titanic was one of those movies that I saw at a young age.I was hardly 10 years old at that time.When I saw it again I was 15-16 years old and had seen many more movies to understand the high quality of cinema. There are so many movies out there far better than Titanic that it feels quite ordinary now.
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@thedailyclick (3017)
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15 Aug 09
Hi sagnik.
I feel very much the same about Titanic and when it first came out I saw it multiple times at the cinema, sad I know. But these days whilst I still think it’s a very good movie it is nowhere as good as I remember. I put my liking to that one down to that I got caught up in all the hype of the movie when it was released. But as you point out the more movies you watch the more you understand about what makes a good/ memorable movie.
@mysdianait (66005)
• Italy
16 Aug 09
All those fims like 'Towering Inferno, 'Jaws', Earthquake' and so on when seen the first time were so compelling but the next just left me empty. I can't recall even one of those type of films that gives me the same sensations as first time round - except 'The Birds' 
That one always scares me stiff after all these years!
That one always scares me stiff after all these years!1 person likes this
@mysdianait (66005)
• Italy
17 Aug 09
Not sure which that one is.
So many have different titles over here I must look it up 
@thedailyclick (3017)
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18 Aug 09
Well I still love "The Towering Inferno" although "Jaws" & "Earthquake" have definitely lost their shine although I do still enjoy them on the rare occassion I stuble across them on TV.
As for "The Entity" one of the most psychologically frightening films I have ever seen. Still freaks me out especially when you learn that it was based on a true story.
@Bionicman (3958)
• Czech Republic
15 Aug 09
Most of the Van Damme movies I loved as a kid but when I see them now, I can't help but laugh.
@thedailyclick (3017)
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18 Aug 09
I only watched the first and second one and then I suddenly started to grow up, lol.
@thedailyclick (3017)
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15 Aug 09
I use to love the Van Damme movies and use to regularly watch A.W.O.L, Kickboxer and No Retreat No Surrender. But these days they really are laughable. I wonder if you liked one of my other favourites from that time "Best of the Best".
@Archie0 (5654)
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15 Aug 09
Well i like watching same movies again and again if they have some meaning into them.Sometimes i watch the same movie twice or thrice in a day, but later yes even i do loose intrest in it, but i never loose intrest in some movies just after 1st time of view.
@picjim (3002)
• India
15 Aug 09
I felt a similar emotion when i saw a picture called close encounters of the third kind.I saw it 30 years ago and i thought it was a great picture.But when i saw it again on T.V.recently i thought the main character (Richard Dreyfuss's) wife was a bit hysterical in some scenes though technically the cinema was of high quality.
@thedailyclick (3017)
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15 Aug 09
I’ve never been a huge fan of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. I’ve probably only watched it a handful of times and each time it has seemed pretty average. But then I never saw it when it first came out.
But it is a good example of how times have changed and the acting which seemed alright so many years ago now looks very fake.
Many thanks for your response.
@suparnodatta (362)
• India
15 Aug 09
I can say this about quite a few number of movies actually.The one thats coming in my mind right now is Twilight.The first time i saw the movie i was very impressed and i loved it simply.I was so moved i bought the book and read it.But when i saw the movie after reading the book it seemed very ordinary.In the book Edward was described as 'godlike' and i must say Robert pattinson is not so handsome.Many short but important parts from the original book was omitted in the movie.
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@thedailyclick (3017)
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15 Aug 09
I've not seen Twilight yet mainly because it is not my sort of thing. But it is one of those movies which I see everyone saying is great and I can't but help thinking that it will be one of those that many years later people will wonder why they liked it so much.
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
18 Aug 09
The closest I get to this is my feelings about 9 and 1/2 weeks. When it came out ,I thought it was so hot.now ,after seeing so many really hot movies,I find it okay movie with a few hot scenes.
@ElicBxn (64172)
• United States
16 Aug 09
The Final Countdown is one of my absolute favorite movies - I love it because its first, time travel, my favorite science fiction subject, and, in my NEVER to be humble opinion, its time travel done right! No, what effects are there aren't the best in the world, but they are good, and really its the story that counts...
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
16 Aug 09
Most of the time a remake of a great movie is NEVER as good as the original one. THey just try to jazz it up and bring the theme into current day...and that just messes it up
"Yours, Mine and Ours" staring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda... a great funny enjoyable movie...the remake with was is it Dennis Quaid... just stupid.
"Cheaper by the Dozen"...the original written by the actual children of that family -(it was a true story) was enjoyable, pointed and a great family movie...the book was even better! But then Steve martin puts his stupidity on it and just trashes the whole movie and theme of it. It wasn't a comedy... but they changed it and made it that way with a bunch of empty headed stupid so called comedy genere and it was just plain stupid. Stuff like that just don't happen in a real family and to use it in that kind of movie just showed plain stupidity as the theme of the show
What they need to do is just bring back the classics... the originals and play them again, Sam. Don't try to make the past the present.. it don't work.
@VANILLAREY (1470)
• India
16 Aug 09
Its the same with everything. When you see or try out something new you would like it. But after continuously experiencing the same thing one would get bored of it. Another example is of chocolates or other food items. When you eat a new brand of chocolate you love it. Then after eating it for a month or so you get bored of it and want to try something else. Its the same for music, food, places, clothes, beauty, games etc.
