When was the last time you watched a favorite oldie after many years and the first thought in your mind was “Wow, that didn’t age well!”? We are often led to believe that so-called classic movies are flawless — that’s why they are called classics, after all! — but reality shows that some of them don’t really stand the test of time.
This in no way means that older movies are bad, just that decisions were made which back then might have made some sort of sense, but in the present age we know better than that. The good thing here is that at least we have evolved as a society to move past those decisions (we have, right?). Can we still enjoy our favorite movies? Of course. Should we repeat the poorly aged things that put them on the radar in the first place? I think the answer is obvious.
I guess the takeaway here is to think twice next time someone decides to make a movie, so that the audience a generation or two later can watch it and think “This aged well!” Meanwhile, scroll down to take a look at some of the movies that didn’t age well, based on the opinion of the viewers. Tell us what you think about them. Are there other poorly aged movies you would like to share with us? Head to the comments and let us know!
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#21 Bring It On
"The male cheerleader has a finger "slip" and assaults his teammate and it's a quick laugh, slap, and I think a finger sniff."
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14points
#23 Jurassic World
BeneficialName9863 replied:
"The new Jurassic world films already look more out of date than the original."
hamakabi replied:
"The original has barely aged at all, I watch it pretty much every year."
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13points
#24 40 Days And 40 Nights
"No one lives like that in San Francisco or works at a tech firm designing websites to make money like that.
But most importantly, that ending would not fly. Victim blaming when he gets r***d by his ex-girlfriend??? It’s just so wrong."
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12points
#25 Song Of The South
3-DMan replied:
"But everybody still remembers Zippedy Do-Dah!"
"But everybody still remembers Zippedy Do-Dah!"
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12points
#26 Scream 3
"Scream 3 and its plotline of a movie producer who sexually assaulted young actresses. Miramax (i.e. Harvey Weinstein) made that movie."
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11points
#27 Blame It On Rio
lurgi replied:
"Michael Caine would appear in any piece of c**p if the location was sunny and the paycheck was good. I have to respect the guy for that."
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11points
#28 Police Academy
"Police Academy had some dubious jokes."
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11points
#29 The Hangover
"I rewatched The Hangover relatively recently and a character shouts 'PAGING DOCTOR F****T!' in the opening minutes and it is incredibly jarring for a movie that only came out about a decade ago."
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11points
#30 Love Actually
"Seemed cute at the time, but now watching it I realize that there isn’t a single female character who isn’t a s*x kitten or a victim."
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11points
#31 Grease
"I thought to watch it with my kids and was like WTF am I watching?"
Minion5051 replied:
"As a kid, I assumed it was a scream."
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10points
#32 Peter Pan
"There is a whole song and dance about making fun of “Red Men”. Also the “Following the Leader” song includes a line 'Were off to fight the injuns the injuns, the injuns!'"
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10points
#34 Reefer Madness
thepiercedweirdo replied:
"I don't know. That one kinda went dumpster fire phoenix and reemerged a comedy classic."
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9points
#35 There's Something About Mary
"There's Something About Mary. Huge when it came out, almost forgotten today."
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9points
#36 Rambo III
"The heroic Afghan Muslim freedom fighters fighting the Soviets."
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8points
#37 Charlie's Angels
"It's a fetish movie. Just designed to get butts into seats because hot girls dressed in outfits... the milkmaid(s), the dominatrix look (when they were penetrating the tech firm as ????), the stripper outfits (strip club, complete with Cameron in a martini glass with water), the pit crew scene, Cameron's underwear dance... seriously, it was really pre-Internet because it was just for people with fetishes. I was 17 when it came out, and as a horny lesbian I think I watched a ton of the stripper scene(s) with the entire crew."
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7points
#38 Untitled
krljust said:
"Kevin Spacey is a rich closeted homosexual who murders his much younger lover."
Burdiac replied:
"But it has that killer line when John Cusack refuses a drink and says he is not thirsty
'If you're thirsty, a drink will cure it, if you're not, a drink will prevent it. Prevention is better than a cure.'"
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6points
