You ever avoid rewatching childhood favorites out of fear they won't hold up?

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I collect VHS tapes

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there are a bunch of movies I absolutely loved as a kid - stuff that felt magical at the time. but now, as an adult, I find myself avoiding rewatching them, even though I'm super nostalgic about them.

part of me is scared they won't hold up and it'll taint the memory I have. do others do this too? have you ever rewatched an old favorite and regretted it?

these are 2 that have recently come to mind. loved both these films A LOT as a kid but have avoided rewatching them because I don't want to fuck up my childhood memories:

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I liked this when I was like 5 or 6 and had a recollection of it in my late teens and tried rewatching it. I couldn't even finish it.

Also used to watch a lot of Christian movies based around Noah's Ark but I doubt I'd be able to watch them either. It is children's fiction after all. 🤷‍♂️
 
I enjoyed horror movies when i was a kid. I introduced my wife to Puppet Master 1-3, Critters, Ghoulies, and Ernest Scared Stupid and she loved them. There's some kid movies i wouldnt want to rewatch like Prehysteria or Mac And Me. But i'll rewatch TMNT, He-Man, X-Men, Batman Animated Series all the time.
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is robot jox good
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It's bad, but it's also a fun watch.

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It honestly really depends I think on how long it's been since you last saw it.

As I taped as much as I could when I was a kid I mostly grew up with it. There are some where I can see how it wasn't as good as a kid but I still do enjoy it time to time.

Some where strange like Thundercats to which I had the first four episodes taped from a rebroadcast. I've watched those episodes so many times during the years that when the dvds were released and clips started popping up on youtube I found myself puzzled as the late (as in close to when it was finished/cancelled) episodes the acting was a lot more flat compared to the first episodes where they were at the top of the game and sounded really good.

Then you had the opposite stuff like Voltron where it started a bit rocky and flat but got better over time. Like for example the acting in the first episode they formed Voltron:

17:42 mark if it doesn't take you there directly


And here's the last time they did the sequence:

2:49 mark if it doesn't take you there


A massive improvement.

Then you get movies such as The Night They Saved Christmas that I really enjoyed as child but can see the camp now but will at least give it a watch every other year or so if it's on and nothing better is on or to do.
 
I dunno, I watched The Last Starfighter last night with my son and the cutting edge CGI was just as I remembered :
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Still terrible.
 
Eh, most stuff I liked as a kid is still pretty great. I'll defend Boy Meets World and the Super Nintendo to my death.

Even some stuff that's got kinda weak writing like the Super Mario Bros Super Show still has some goofy campy appeal.
 
nope, and most of mine hold up pretty well I'd say.

haven't seen Beethoven in a while tho... loved that movie as a kid. the second one was also fine.
 
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nope, and most of mine hold up pretty well I'd say.

haven't seen Beethoven in a while tho... loved that movie as a kid. the second one was also fine.
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I couldn't stand the oldest girl of the family so I never liked the movies just because of her
 
Not quite childhood (was 17 when it came out), but I'm endlessly tempted to go back to Assassin's Creed II. It's by far my favourite videogame. I often listen to the soundtrack, but I worry if I go back to it either in original form or in the Ezio Collection it won't hold up in the same way.

I mean...I kinda expect it not to anyway, there was plenty of jank at the time I played it, but the world, the charm, the characters, the score and most of all the atmosphere feel so sacred, I worry they won't hit like they did.

Back on the subject of TV/Movies, I just saw this came out on Blu-ray and I've been considering just checking it out for the fun of it, I think it's gonna rough though:

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Mr Ooze!
 
I tried some:

Fresh Prince:

It is super bland, not funny at all. Like people living their life, and I don't know why I should care.

Power Rangers (first seasons):

Doesn't make sense most of the time, now the japanese cuts seem super obvious, and the stake are too high (saving the world) to goof around like this, why the government isn't involved ?

Harry Potter:

Worst school ever, like kids almost die every two days, and no one really does something about it, I wouldn't send my children there
 
I collect VHS tapes said:
there are a bunch of movies I absolutely loved as a kid - stuff that felt magical at the time. but now, as an adult, I find myself avoiding rewatching them, even though I'm super nostalgic about them.

part of me is scared they won't hold up and it'll taint the memory I have. do others do this too? have you ever rewatched an old favorite and regretted it?

these are 2 that have recently come to mind. loved both these films A LOT as a kid but have avoided rewatching them because I don't want to fuck up my childhood memories:

Robot-Jox-DVD_876e9851-97f9-4fd5-8450-dbb909d62e0b.fbfaea7341305685588ac59722cae3c9.jpeg


81JeR4nzRRL.jpg
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Robot Jox and the last star fighter are fantastic! I need to rewatch those.
 
Watched the 1st season of Hercules the legendary journeys last week. Fucking dope. The fighting style gets old (just punching everything) but a bunch of people die. I remember xena starting off bad but she's a killer.

And holy shit does Hercules get sexual harassed/assaulted each week by the horniest chicks. WAY more sexual than I remembered.

1St season definitely holds up
 
Nah, I watch old favs all the time and I still enjoy them as much as I did as a kid. Probably because I take them as they are instead of looking at them from super critical, jaded, adult perspective.

Occasionally some things aren't quite as good as I remembered but it's rare.
 
It's a gamble because some things I liked as a kid were actually bad but some things were better than I ever realized at the time. I liked Beetlejuice as a kid and now I liked it as an adult too. The ending was a bit long I thought. FernGully on the other hand... I had to shut that off pretty quickly.
 
It depends for me since I have never been blinded by nostalgia. It doesn't matter if a movie is made before 2010 or just came out, if I don't like the movie I don't like the movie. I watched Rosemary's Baby for the first time two to three years ago and it ended up being my favorite Horror film of all time. The film came out in the 1960s.
 
I saw some fucked up stuff as a kid.
Anyone remember that film with some kid who saw something so unimaginably frightening, that his hair fell out and he made some weird mixture to put on his head to grow it back?
The peanut butter something or other?
Then his hair grew like a motherfucker?
Yeah, like I said, weird.
Mac and Me was shit then and it is now.
 
A lot of stuff I enjoyed as a kid I enjoy today. But it is ok to have your taste change and mature. You can still enjoy a lot for what it was at the time.
 
I've been watching a lot of 80's stuff lately and they almost all hold up. Some have really bad video quality but there is some sort of synergistic joy in the camp, the low budgets, but the HONESTY you see. The transition to CG laden digital film has lost some sort of connection.

Go watch The Highlander. It's cheap as SHIT. THe fights are bad. The camera is trying to hide the dodgy choreography and the limited sets.

BUT, it has an earnest STORY, and HEART, and a bitching soundtrack. The need to be more deliberate with the camera, but also the constraints of limited shooting and the pressure to get it all in the can, its just works better than a lot of stuff made today.
 
Saw Spaceballs on a movie channel a few days ago. Some parts still hold up. Some definitely dont. The ultra spoofy Airplane kind of comedy from the 80s doesn't hold up well IMO.
 
I want to re-watch Knight Rider - dont think its on any streaming (UK?) and dont want to spend £70+ on the blu rays in case the nostalgia misses by a mile.
 
Re-watched some MacGyver. The amount of disbelief that you need to enjoy it nowadays is astronomic.
The first Star Wars has it´s lenghts as well.
But then I rewatched The Fellowship of the Ring last week and it still holds up.

There are gems out there.

Although I will never ever again watch Weird Science or Adventures in Babysitting!
 
There's a really cool bit about this in the recent film I Saw The TV Glow

The main character rewatches a TV show they were obsessed with as a teenager and it's a radically different, much less cool, show than the one they remember and we saw earlier in the film.
 
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