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Movies that are so much worse than what you remember them to be.

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December 31, 2018, 08:55 PM
PASig
Movies that are so much worse than what you remember them to be.
For me it was my beloved Buck Rogers TV show of the late 70’s - early 80’s. I LOVED this show when I was 9-10 years old.

Bought the DVD box set a few years ago and UGH, it was terrible. Shitty sets, shitty effects, shitty acting. Just all around BAD. Frown


December 31, 2018, 09:49 PM
jljones
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Originally posted by PASig:
For me it was my beloved Buck Rogers TV show of the late 70’s - early 80’s. I LOVED this show when I was 9-10 years old.

Bought the DVD box set a few years ago and UGH, it was terrible. Shitty sets, shitty effects, shitty acting. Just all around BAD. Frown


But was Erin Gray as hot as you remembered???




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December 31, 2018, 10:06 PM
RichN
My biggest disappointment so far has to be "The Rat Patrol." I loved watching this with my dad when I was a kid, so I ordered the DVD set last year. I was only able to get through 4 episodes. I kept thinking, "It has to get better. They just haven't hit their stride yet."

Maybe I should skip to season 2 to see if they get any better,


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December 31, 2018, 11:10 PM
asonie
Wayne’s World. Hilarious when I was in 7th grade. I tried to watch it a few years ago and had to turn it off after about 15 minutes.
January 03, 2019, 12:10 AM
46and2
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At nine years old it was pretty awesome...

Plus he had two obedient ferrets, so there's that.


Wasn't that Beastmaster? Loved that when I was a kid too.

Oh yeah.

I mistook one Fabio clone for the other. Common mistake, I bet.
January 03, 2019, 12:28 AM
PeteF
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Originally posted by jljones:
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Originally posted by PASig:
For me it was my beloved Buck Rogers TV show of the late 70’s - early 80’s. I LOVED this show when I was 9-10 years old.

Bought the DVD box set a few years ago and UGH, it was terrible. Shitty sets, shitty effects, shitty acting. Just all around BAD. Frown


But was Erin Gray as hot as you remembered???


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January 03, 2019, 07:40 AM
Hound Dog
Not a movie, but I grew up on the original Star Trek. I cannot tolerate it anymore. Next Generation has held up really well, though.

I watched Flash Gordon in the theater when I was a pre-teen, and I thought it was THE greatest movie of all time. Then, several years later, I watched it on VHS. It was horrible, and I could not understand how I liked it in the first place. Today, I love that movie again for the cheese factor.

And I LOVE "Masters of the Universe," though I hated it when it came out.



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January 03, 2019, 07:55 AM
urbanwarrior238
Billy Jack and all the spin offs.


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January 03, 2019, 09:30 AM
k5blazer
Easy Rider and Vanishing Point. Really great movies in high school. Meet up at the drive-in and have a good time watching them. They just didn’t age well. Ditto on Billy Jack.
January 03, 2019, 10:34 AM
flesheatingvirus
I still like it!



This includes all of the other Arnold Conan movies. Masters of the Universe is still cool, too!


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January 03, 2019, 07:01 PM
Hound Dog
Try watching the 1982 Tron movie. It did not age well at all. . .

Still good for the cheese factor, and makes me appreciate Tron: Legacy even more.



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January 03, 2019, 07:47 PM
equivet
Highlander. So psyched to show my kids...pretty much had to apologize. Smile
January 05, 2019, 09:40 PM
amals
Easy Rider. It was my era and I was the right age for it. Liked it a lot in high school; kind of embarrassing two or three or more decades later.
January 05, 2019, 10:09 PM
FN in MT
Top Gun immediately came to mind. LOL.
January 05, 2019, 10:31 PM
SevenPlusOne
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Highlander. So psyched to show my kids...pretty much had to apologize. Smile

BLASPHEMER!!!!



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January 06, 2019, 08:34 AM
Oz_Shadow
I have the urge to watch the movie RAD but I have a feeling it's going to be much worse than my 30 year old memory of the movie.
January 06, 2019, 09:24 AM
Skull Leader
I still enjoy watching RAD every once in awhile.

I watched Iron Eagle the other day. It didn't hold up as well.
January 06, 2019, 10:27 AM
Dawes
There are a few movies that hold up reasonably well over the decades. In my opinion, "Alien" (1979) is one of them.
January 06, 2019, 10:54 AM
Zeus007
arnold schwarzenegger - Conan the barbarian was so cool but not so much now.
January 06, 2019, 11:07 AM
cas
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Originally posted by jljones:

But was Erin Gray as hot as you remembered???



More so. Because as a kid, I wasn't quite sure why I found her spandex outfits so fascinating. Now I'm quite sure. Big Grin


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