15 Movies that have aged badly

15 Movies That Have Aged Badly by Zeke Tyrus

15 Movies That Have Aged Badly by Zeke Tyrus

How to play: Choose any 15 movies from your lifetime, do not choose movies that were released before you were born. (I was born in 1971.) Simply choose 15. I easily came up with about 30 movies but decided to settle on the 15 I think have most aged so badly. After this tag your most opinionated friends and ask them to choose the films from their lifetimes that have aged badly. In some cases, to consolidate space and time, you can name several films, as if in a sequel or series, or the body of work of a certain actor. The films listed have to be movies that when you first saw them, you thought they were great and the general public thought the same but now, due to changes in opinion towards the actor or what the general public once thought was funny or entertaining, these movies really aren't considered good movies anymore.

1. Pretty Women - I can remember this movie was considered a cute, fairy-tale,  funny date-movie, (I must've treated 3 different girls to this movie each time telling them it was my first,)  & it made a star out of a then-unknown Julia Roberts & was something of a come-back for Richard Gere. Today, I am ashamed I took dates to see this movie. A pro-prostitution movie about an LA prostitute & a dickhead YUPPIE. There's no STDs, drug addictions, abusive pimps. Just a terribly naive, unfunny, clueless, disgusting movie.

2. Grease - Don't get angry at me. The songs in this movie are still great, absolutely but the movie itself sucks & the main reason is today, if you notice, when they make movies about high schoolers, they get actual teenagers to play the parts or young adults who look like teenagers. In this movie, John Travalta & everyone else looks they're about 32 years old.

3. Rain Man - I remember when I walked out of the theater, I thought Dustin Hoffman was a genius. I vividly recall the actor crying when he won every best actor award from The Oscars to The Golden Globes, everybody giving Hoffman a standing ovation. Today, if somebody mentions this movie, it is to make fun of it. Tom Cruise was just playing his typical cocky asshole yuppie character that he played in every movie he did in the 1980s. Today, Dustin Hoffman's performance seems one-dimensional & cartoonish, almost like the class-clowns in school making fun of the learning-disabled kids. Not cool. An overrated movie & an overrated performance.

4. Purple Rain - Again, don't hate me. The music in this movie is still great. Awesome, even. But the movie sucks so bad. Prince, the rock star who still lives at home, the abusive parents, the exceptionally bad acting, the filmmaking sucks, the misogyny, etc. This is a horrible movie. Look at it again.

5. Scent of a Woman - Al Pacino won the Oscar for this movie after 5 nominations & 0 wins. I recall loving this film when I first saw it & telling all my friends to check it out. Al Pacino use to be a great actor but somewhere along the way, he just started yelling a lot. This is a terrible movie. Again, if anybody ever mentions this movie, it is to make fun of it. Not a good movie & not really a good performance either.

6. The Fugitive/Presumed Innocent/ Clear and Present Danger/ Air-Force One/ Majority of Harrison Ford movies when he's not playing Indiana Jones.  I'll give Ford the original Indiana Jones trilogy & I'll even give him Witness but when will other people admit that Harrison Ford is a terrible stiff humorless big block of wood. Seriously, he's a terrible actor & has always been one. He's done some good movies but any other actor would've been just as good if not better.  His acting & his movies are so predictable that he is unintentionally funny. His most dramatic performance are unintentionally hilarious but he lacks the sense of humor, & takes himself way too seriously that he doesn't have the thing that makes other bad actors fun to watch. (William Shatner, Burt Reynolds, Keanu Reeves, etc.) Most of Harrison Ford's movies suck. 

7. Fatal Attraction - Today, the concept of Glenn Close being a sexy femme fatale is comical & upon reviewing it again, she really isn't very sexy. The moral to the story isn't that infidelity is wrong but that fucking an unstable woman is wrong.

8. Basic Instinct - I'm not here to pick-on Michael Douglas who is sadly dying from throat cancer. I think he's a good actor but this movie, which was considered a hot date movie when it came out. It made a star out of Sharon Stone & it seems after the movie came out, ever other chick I met claimed she was bisexual. Today, young women grinding up on each other, feeling each other on the dance floor while glaring at some dude is not shocking, sexy or interesting. Even the notorious beaver-shot scene so shocking then is nothing today with  so many pics of young celebrities going around with no panties in public. This movie is so laughably dated & Sharon's acting (so good in Casino) is stupid, don't understand how this made her a star.

9. JFK - I am a liberal, left-winger & die-hard Democrat, even when the Democrats disappoint me. But I hate bullshit conspiracy theories when right-wingers are doing it, hate it when lefties are doing it, too. I walked out of the theater thinking my head was going to explode & that Kevin Costner was one of America's finest actors. This is another movie that was taken very seriously when it came out but is made fun of today. The actual case this film was based on was laughed out of court. This movie is fiction. But now, partly because of this movie's success, any nutjob thinks he or she has the right to promote any bullshit conspiracy theory they feel like promoting without backing it up. This movie was a work of fiction. It was bullshit. People quote this movie verbatim whenever discussions come up about Kennedy. Oliver Stone, a notorious Hollywood prick in an industry filled with them, is a filmmaker NOT a historian. I feel his success with this movie helped give birth to the crazy conspiracy theories that we hear today from Glenn Beck & Jesse Ventura. Fuck all 3 of you guys. And Kevin Costner's name is now synonymous with boredom. Starts using "as boring as Kevin Costner" or "as boring as a Kevin Costner movie" next time you are bored & see the laughter you get. I loved this movie when it came out but hate it now.

10. 16 Candles - Attention fellow Generation Xers: John Hughes wasn't as good as a filmmaker as you remember him being. He wasn't. This is a terrible movie tho the music is still great & maybe the depicitions of high school cliques still resonates as truth but there's an offensive Asian stereo-type & (go back & watch this movie,) there are multiple implications of girls getting raped after they pass out drunk or high on pills, & there's even the implication that after a popular chick passes out in the car, after getting fucked by the popular kid, she's taken advantage of by a nerdy kid, wakes up in his arms, (a kid she barely knows) & falls in love with him. -Yeah, right. This is a terrible movie, fellow Gen Xers. Take a look at it again. Terrible. And Molly Ringwald gets molested by her grandma. When is that funny? And yes, when I was teenager, my friends & I loved it.

11. Star Wars & the rest of those stupid movies - You could say I am here to slay all the sacred cows of the Generation Xers. These are stupid movies that are clearly designed for kids. I loved these movies but then I turned 13.

12. Top Gun/Days of Thunder/Cocktail/Just about any Tom Cruise film ever made - I can remember thinking this was such a cool movie, & I even took a picture from this movie & got my haircut like Tom Cruise when it came out. Today, as we continue to lose more American men & women in Wars, this pro-war film made & poorly-acted during peacetime, is deplorable. The Uber-cocky Tom Cruise character today seems really disgusting compared to the know-it-all asshole we see in interviews. If I ever meet Satan, I'll ask him what he did with Tom Cruise's soul.

13. Silence of the Lambs - This made Anthony Hopkins, then an English-character actor, into a star. Anthony Hopkins is a great actor. Go watch Remains of the Day and cry. But this move, which won Hopkins an Oscar no longer seems very original. Just a typical thriller & Hopkins performance seems so theatrical, so fake & contrived. Jody Foster isn't believable as a Southern rookie FBI agent, either. In retrospect, the film is really overrated & so is Anthony Hopkins' performance.

14. Forrest Gump - I like Tom Hanks as an actor but over the years, there seems to be a backlash to this movie. Some people feel it is a celebration of anti-intellectualism, the same kind of mentality that embraces Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, George W. Bush, Joe the Plumber, etc. Tom Hanks' performance, tho more emotional than Dustin Hoffman'sRainman still rings in on a false note. Are you making fun of slow people? Is he retarded? How would a retard or slow person retain all the info to start up his own shrimp business? Too many holes in that movie.

15. Cape Fear - Robert Deniro is considered one of America's greatest actors but shame on him for this movie. His performance was so ridiculously over-the-top that it is laughable. It is a comical, stupid, unbelievable performance that doesn't menace, doesn't scare, doesn't do anything. I loved this movie when it came out but my own life experiences weren't there yet to give it a critical eye. Today, the film seems like a stupid movie with Robert Deniro acting like a fool. It's not a realistic performance. Sean Penn played a white trash murderer & rapist in Dead Man Walking & it was painfully realistic. You hate him, you fear him, you feel sorry for him, etc. Deniro played a similar character like a red-neck parody from Saturday Night Live.  It was obviously a New Yorker's idea of what a Southern red-neck must act like. Even his Southern accent wasn't credible. Robert Deniro can't play a Southerner convincingly.  His performance is not convincing at all, therefore it isn't really scary. I've seen red-necks working at auto-mechanic shops in Georgia who were a lot more menacing & scary than Deniro's ridiculous performance in this movie. Shame on you, Deniro.

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Bonus; Dancing With Wolves - Kevin Costner beat Martin Scorsesse at The Oscars for Best Director & this movie beat Goodfellas for Best Picture. ....Wow.