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to think that there are certain films you should NEVER rewatch?

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PyongyangKipperbang · 09/07/2021 21:32

For it was The Breakfast Club.

I was the perfect age for it when it came out, mid teens. OMG they GOT me! Their parents were arses too, they understood what it was like. Loved it my whole life.

Watched it again at 40 with teens and just thought "What a bunch of whining little shits" It is now my least favourite film of all time! It should have stayed in my memory as once you are the parent of the "misunderstood" teen you realise what an utter prat you were when you were 15!

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NomNomNominativeDeterminism · 09/07/2021 23:44

@Quaggars - LTB!

boatyardblues · 09/07/2021 23:47

@NomNomNominativeDeterminism

Please could someone confirm that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is still a good film, or I will be sad.
I watched it with my teens fairly recently. It has held up well. My teens enjoyed it and there are some genuinely very funny bits. The scene where Ferris’ friend gives the car keys to the (not)valet and the ensuing chase was laugh out loud funny.
HeyDemonsItsYaGirl · 09/07/2021 23:48

I love childhood film nostalgia, though it might be because my childhood favourites are more adult anyway (Drop Dead Fred and The Bodyguard were two I watched over and over).

I have learned to stop reading childhood books for nostalgia. Now that I'm aware of good and bad writing, most of them have made me cringe. Especially Darren Shan! Using exlamantion marks like oxygen! Every line!

Sparklingbrook · 09/07/2021 23:49

One of my favourite bits in FBDO is when the teacher goes to Ferris's house. Plus the Twist and Shout carnival scene.

TheOrigRights · 09/07/2021 23:51

Shirley Valentine.
Watched it when it came out, so I would have been 18.

I thought she was a sad case to be pitied.

Roll on 30 years and I can totally relate to her!

The Sound of Music.
You watch it as a child and wistfully imagine being one of the girls - play acting with your friends at school.
Roll on 40 years and realise if you were cast in any of the roles it would have to be an ageing nun!

Grease.
Not just a great musical with wacky characters and cool clothes.
Watching it as an adult I understood why my parents didn't let me watch it when it came out. I think it would have gone way over my head in fact!

Jelly4444 · 09/07/2021 23:53

The Lost Boys. Loved this movie when I was 15 and wanted to call my future daughter Star. I watched it again recently and it really didn't live up to my memories of it 🤣

boatyardblues · 09/07/2021 23:55

@Jelly4444

The Lost Boys. Loved this movie when I was 15 and wanted to call my future daughter Star. I watched it again recently and it really didn't live up to my memories of it 🤣
Good soundtrack though.
me4real · 09/07/2021 23:55

This is random, maybe I was watching it at a vulnerable moment, but when I was about 21, 'Staying Alive' was on one new year's. I found it fantastic and thought John Travolta looked gorgeous in it.

I watched it 10 or more years later and saw it for what it's really like lol.

My mate said maybe I was horny when I watched it.

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PyongyangKipperbang · 09/07/2021 23:55

BIll and Ted are EPIC!! definitely stand the test of time.

Same as the first Waynes World. Not so much the sequel but that was shit when it first came out so......

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me4real · 09/07/2021 23:58

Watching it as an adult I understood why my parents didn't let me watch it when it came out. I think it would have gone way over my head in fact!

@TheOrigRights I remember thinking that even as a child. It isn't something I would've watched at home as my parents didn't like anything American. Some girls were going round the playground when we were about 9 going 'get your filthy paws off my silky drawers.' WTAF?

Quaggars · 10/07/2021 00:00

Shirley Valentine never watched as a kid, watched for first time a few years ago.
Can totally relate, I actually do talk to myself when everyone's out at work/school.
I haven't gone as far as saying hello walls yet but I do actually find myself talking to them Grin

Quaggars · 10/07/2021 00:03

@PyongyangKipperbang

BIll and Ted are EPIC!! definitely stand the test of time.

Same as the first Waynes World. Not so much the sequel but that was shit when it first came out so......

The second Wayne's World still has brilliant scenes! Think it's the second one where they all inadvertently dress up as the Village People as they're all spying on Cassandra, and they have to "abort mission, abort mission!" when they're spotted and end up doing the YMCA on stage lol
SirVixofVixHall · 10/07/2021 00:07

Anything by Peter Greenaway. Although more a “never watch” than a “never re-watch” .

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PyongyangKipperbang · 10/07/2021 00:08

The second Wayne's World still has brilliant scenes
Think it's the second one where they all inadvertently dress up as the Village People as they're all spying on Cassandra, and they have to "abort mission, abort mission!" when they're spotted and end up doing the YMCA on stage lol

I'd forgotten that one! Fair point :o

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 10/07/2021 00:11

We need a brat pack thread for me the best films ever as an 80's girl

DH and I watched "Can't Buy Me Love" when we were at college

Patrick "Dr McDreamy From Greys Anatomy" Dempsey plays a nerdy geel who pays the Most Popular Girl In School to pretend to be his girlfriend to raise ihs status .
She's just spilled red wine on her Mums leather/suede suit so really needs the money .

Funny at the time but probably a bit shit now

Frownette · 10/07/2021 00:13

I still like the Breakfast Club. How can you not love Molly Ringwald dancing?!

osbertthesyrianhamster · 10/07/2021 00:13

@SirVixofVixHall

Anything by Peter Greenaway. Although more a “never watch” than a “never re-watch” .
Yep!
osbertthesyrianhamster · 10/07/2021 00:15

Ferris Bueller was always a shit film. Walked out of the cinema.

Sparklingbrook · 10/07/2021 00:17

@osbertthesyrianhamster

Ferris Bueller was always a shit film. Walked out of the cinema.
Nah, it’s a great film. Which part offended you enough that you needed to leave? Confused
whynotwhatknot · 10/07/2021 00:17

Ive never liked ferris dont know why i thought he was trying to be cool but wasnt-matthew broderick basically cant act he was just annoying

Bibbidiboo · 10/07/2021 00:18

For a coming of age show Gilmore girls had some pretty messed up views of the female characters losing their virginity…

  • Paris loses it with a serious boyfriend then immediately gets rejected from Harvard. She then has a embarrassing public meltdown at school/ on tv about the whole thing.
  • Rory loses it to her now married x boyfriend. Thereby becoming a mistress and breaking up a marriage at the tender age of 18
  • Lane wanted to wait till she got married which she did. And then hated every moment and swore to never do it again… unfortunately she happened to fall pregnant with TWINS and missed out on the music tour which was a life long dream.

Why were they all punished?

Also Lorelai had a weird obsession with Dean…

Sparklingbrook · 10/07/2021 00:18

FBDO 7.8/10 on IMDB. So I think that speaks volumes.

NumberTheory · 10/07/2021 00:18

Watch movies with my teens every Friday night, trying to indoctrinate expose them to classics we loved as well as sharing newer films together. There are lots that we have to have a bit of a talk about. The amount of dubious/non-consensual sexual activity that is just included in a lot of teen movies from the 80s/90s as background is quite shocking. The movies still have some great bits to them but the Breakfast Club was one I was surprised to find didn't age well for me.

We watched Rocky last year and it was sooooo boring (and was yet another movie pushing the "no-means-yes" narrative).

whynotwhatknot · 10/07/2021 00:19

i liked cant buy me love actress died a few years ago

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 10/07/2021 00:39

I know there's a load of hatred for The Human Centipede but if you have managed to stick it out till the end ........the last scene is the most desperately sad portrayal of "WTF do I do now? I am absolutely stuck here and death cannot come quick enough" for one of the characters .

I've watched it I think 3 times .
Considered THC2 but didn't
Not even thinking about THC 3