To think that ageing influences your view of films?

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When I watched top gun as a teen I thought tom cruise was the height of cool. Watching it as a much older person I think he's an arsehole who should just follow the rules.

Same with the breakfast club. Just do your detention and stop whining.

Is it just me who's a cranky old bat or does anyone else suffer from this?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Innocence_(1993_film)

The Age of Innocence.

When I first read the book/watched the film, I felt very sorry for Newland Archer - trapped in a loveless marriage with a scheming wife and narrow conservative social values. A man wanting to break out, but couldn't.

Now I just think weak, indecisive man, who wants his cake and eat it.

Excellent film and book if you haven't watched/read it.

And why does not marrying George mean his wife would have ended up wearing glasses? Did she have to wank herself blind without him?

An actual genuine LOL at that one!

Lethal Weapon - you're going to be spending the rest of your working life in litigation and disciplinary hearings because of that stunt with the jumper.

Braveheart - bears no resemblance to any person who ever lived, any place that ever existed or any thing that ever happened.

Return of the Jedi - dress it up and talk around it all you like, you totally lied to him about who Darth Vader was.

Attack of the Clones - stalking, spying and a pig headed refusal to take no for an answer will eventually bag you a hot princess.

Big with Tom Hanks is creepy. I don't think they would make it now but I liked it when I saw it as a child.

Stuart Little.

Pretty woman, definitely.

It's cringey and gross.

I don't find Love Actually uplifting, either - it's actually quite depressing!

Neverending Story* - where are that kid's parents? It's night and stormy and he didn't come home from school!

*See also every movie made in he 80s.

Ferris Bueller, yes. What a complete and utter tosser. The skipping school is one thing, but his treatment of Cameron who is supposed to be his best friend is awful.

I now find the end of Braveheart hilarious, rather than stirring and sad.

The ethnic stereotyping of Indians as either (a) a demented, gabbling Wise Man (b) pathetic victim villagers whose sacred stone is saved by a random white guy with a sword (c) weirdos who eat Funny Foreign Food like chilled monkey brain and eyeball soup and (4) devious Thuggee cult members in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom bothers me more than it did.

The necessity for Sandy to turn from Nice Girl into Pseudo-Slut in Gynaecologically Tight clothes in Grease always bothered me -- Danny doesn't change. He just puts on a naff cardigan (and takes it off again almost immediately.)

Agree wth PP for most Disney films - just be on time and where you said you would be!