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When was the last time you watched a favorite oldie after many years and the first thought in your mind was “Wow, that didn’t age well!”? We are often led to believe that so-called classic movies are flawless — that’s why they are called classics, after all! — but reality shows that some of them don’t really stand the test of time.

This in no way means that older movies are bad, just that decisions were made which back then might have made some sort of sense, but in the present age we know better than that. The good thing here is that at least we have evolved as a society to move past those decisions (we have, right?). Can we still enjoy our favorite movies? Of course. Should we repeat the poorly aged things that put them on the radar in the first place? I think the answer is obvious.

I guess the takeaway here is to think twice next time someone decides to make a movie, so that the audience a generation or two later can watch it and think “This aged well!” Meanwhile, scroll down to take a look at some of the movies that didn’t age well, based on the opinion of the viewers. Tell us what you think about them. Are there other poorly aged movies you would like to share with us? Head to the comments and let us know!

#1

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

 "The entire plot of the movie revolves around the villain being 'secretly' trans."

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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I cannot emphasize enough how utterly c**p this movie was. Jim Carreys over acting grins and poses made me want to break the screen.

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American Pie

American Pie

"Using a secret camera to broadcast naked high school students on the internet."

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#3

The Notebook

The Notebook

"The Notebook (2004), back then people thought it was cute and romantic. But, the dude hangs off a Ferris wheel and threatens to jump unless the girl dates him. In all honesty, even then it was really creepy."

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RagDollLali
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really hated this movie the first time I saw it, everything about their actions pissed me off. Threatening suicide is not romantic, It's an involuntary detainment in the psych ward at best. Cheating on your significant other is not romantic, it's hurtful and selfish. Stealing your daughter's mail is not protecting her, it's a federal offense. What's wrong with these people?!

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#4

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

sun-e-deez replied: 
"Don't forget they had one of the dudes (can't remember which) be allowed in a fitting room with the woman he has feelings for and he gets to ogle her because she's under the impression he's gay and therefore trusted not to sexualize the experience. yikes!"

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#5

Revenge Of The Nerds

Revenge Of The Nerds

damnflanders replied: 
"I mean, who hasn't worn a mask to trick a girl into having s*x with you?"

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RagDollLali
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't forget how grateful she was after, awesome lesson to teach 🙄🙄🙄

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#6

Overboard

Overboard

"A man takes advantage of a woman that has amnesia and forces her to raise his kids."

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Nikki Sevven
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did we forget the part where "an entitled wealthy woman destroys the livelihood of a poor craftsman she hired when she not only refuses to pay him for his work, but also dumps his tools into the f*****g ocean?" Apparently.

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#7

The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor

"The fat suits, fat jokes, use of the n-word that ends in a... it was all stuff I probably didn't even notice 20 years ago that now made me feel extreeeeemely uncomfortable."

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Bonesko
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think we need to leave the fatsuits and jokes in the past it's toxic

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#8

Pretty Baby

Pretty Baby

"Pretty Baby with a NAKED 11yr old Brooke Shields."

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poor Brooke, the late 70s and early 80s was really sexually inappropriate toward young people and that is being as polite.

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#9

The Blue Lagoon

The Blue Lagoon

tangcameo replied:
"Wasn’t there a string of movies where Shields was underage and underdressed? I even remember a George Burns movie she was in that did that."

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Leo Domitrix
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a time when you didn't seee Brooke Shields with a shirt on. Anywhere. Movies, ads, whatever. UGH.

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#10

Sixteen Candles

Sixteen Candles

 "I still enjoy it for what it is for the most part, but there are a few things that are pretty problematic, first and foremost being Jake Ryan telling Ted to take advantage of his girlfriend while she's passed out. Long Duk Dong's character is an insanely racist depiction of an Asian person. The whole underwear show is so wrong too."

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never cared for the John Hughes movies but couldn't express why, glad so many have come around to agreeing with me.

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#11

Passengers

Passengers

 brinazee said: 
"The entire sub-genre of romantic comedy can be described as "stalker gets the girl"."
jts5039 replied: 
"Passengers fits this description 100%."

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Fantastic Mr Fox
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He wakes up woman from hibernation sleep so she is forced to live the rest of her life on this spaceship with him and nobody else awake. This instead of arriving to the destination and wake up and live a happy live with the rest of the passengers as she wanted. I absolutely hated this guy. I wish she was a heroine like Sigourney Weaver and have put him in the airlock and blasted him into space.

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#12

Manhattan

Manhattan

"Forty-four-year-old Woody Allen has affair with 17-year-old Mariel Hemingway. How art imitates life."

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Fabian Bernard
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apart of the assault stories about Woody Allen, I never got why we had to love his boring movies

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#14

Animal House

Animal House

"Pretty much every raunchy/irreverent high school/college-themed comedy from before about 1998. Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds, Porky's, etc."

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Being a kid in the 80s, these were the movies we all talked about. One day so and so would walk in and be like "my old man fell asleep and I was able to watch it via satellite spaceship yard dish" and filled us in on the details. Then of course we'd all get our own opportunities eventually.

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#15

Breakfast At Tiffany's

Breakfast At Tiffany's

"Casting Mickey Rooney as a stereotyped Japanese man? 
Actually, I think “racist caricature” is a better way to describe his character."
 
AlsoOneLastThing replied: 
"Breakfast at Tiffany's is a really bizarre adaptation. The whole Mickey Rooney thing is by a country mile the most egregious example of the strange decisions that the studio made but there's also so much other stuff that is equally baffling. The story is almost exactly the same as the novella but the tone is completely different, the chronology of events is swapped around so it feels more like a series of vignettes rather than a coherent narrative, and some seemingly minor characterizations are changed which completely transforms the overall feel of the story. Breakfast at Tiffany's the book is a tragic story about the platonic friendship and bond shared between a 19-year-old girl who is constantly exploited by men in her life and the one man who views her as a human being.
Breakfast at Tiffany's the movie is a romantic comedy about a 30-year-old call girl who acts like she's 19 and a male prostitute who do random things together and then fall in love for no reason. I'm begging Hollywood to do an accurate adaptation of this book someday."

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadly that is never going to happen as it's not 'edgy' enough ...... go figure.

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#16

Arthur

Arthur

"It’s about a “lovable drunk” and the first scene is him having a humorous crash while driving hammered. Oh, we all chuckled." 

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't care what anyone says - Arthur was and is hysterically funny. RIP Dudley!

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#18

American Beauty

American Beauty

"If Kevin Spacey perving on his high school daughter's close friend was creepy back then, it's only become worse now."

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#19

Head Of State

Head Of State

"The comedy about how crazy having a black President would be. Released in 2003."

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Julie Snelling
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they make a film about having a female president maybe that will come true as well.

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#20

Never Been Kissed

Never Been Kissed

"Drew Barrymore posing as a teenager and having a relationship w the teacher who gets MAD when he finds out shes not a teenager and is his age, then we're just supposed to smooth it over at the end."

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#21

Bring It On

Bring It On

"The male cheerleader has a finger "slip" and assaults his teammate and it's a quick laugh, slap, and I think a finger sniff."

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#22

Soul Man

Soul Man

"You could never make Soul Man today."

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#23

Jurassic World

Jurassic World

BeneficialName9863 replied:
"The new Jurassic world films already look more out of date than the original."
hamakabi replied: 
"The original has barely aged at all, I watch it pretty much every year."

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think Jurassic World changed people's perception of dinosaurs. From monsters to the fascinating animals they were. The first movies made a serious attempt to get the science right (with some liberties, because it's a movie after all). How they extract DNA from mosquitos caught in amber, mosquitoes sucking blood from dinosaurs. How even though all are females, "life will find a way" and some change to males, like reptiles indeed sometimes can. Quite a few peopIe started thinking "would it actually be possible to recreate a dinosaur?". I think it was great. Later it degenerated into generic monster movies, entertaining still but somewhat disappointing. But that's how it often is, the sequels is like breaking coffee using the same old beans and after a while it just hot, brown water.

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#24

40 Days And 40 Nights

40 Days And 40 Nights

"No one lives like that in San Francisco or works at a tech firm designing websites to make money like that.
But most importantly, that ending would not fly. Victim blaming when he gets r***d by his ex-girlfriend??? It’s just so wrong."

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#25

Song Of The South

Song Of The South

3-DMan replied:
"But everybody still remembers Zippedy Do-Dah!"

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think we can separate the amazing music from the racist themes of a movie based off the Uncle Reamus tales which was about a older black house slave who tells stories to the masters young children, while white washing slavery. However like the movie's songs, the actual book of Uncle Reasmus has redeeming qualities in the stories and the morals of the stories. All you need to do is separate those from the rest of the rest of the book.

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#26

Scream 3

Scream 3

"Scream 3 and its plotline of a movie producer who sexually assaulted young actresses. Miramax (i.e. Harvey Weinstein) made that movie."

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#27

Blame It On Rio

Blame It On Rio

lurgi replied:
"Michael Caine would appear in any piece of c**p if the location was sunny and the paycheck was good. I have to respect the guy for that."

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Man Who Would Be King. The Spy Who Came in From The Cold. Alfie

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#28

Police Academy

Police Academy

"Police Academy had some dubious jokes."

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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I recently rewatched the first one not too long ago and honestly there are so many cringe-worthy moments that I can't believe we all accepted as perfectly normal back in the day. I I remember watching it as a kid and thinking it was hilarious, I could hardly make it through this time. There was a whole lot of blatant racism, fat shaming, gay bashing, and sexism being packed into that one movie.

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#29

The Hangover

The Hangover

"I rewatched The Hangover relatively recently and a character shouts 'PAGING DOCTOR F****T!' in the opening minutes and it is incredibly jarring for a movie that only came out about a decade ago."

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#30

Love Actually

Love Actually

"Seemed cute at the time, but now watching it I realize that there isn’t a single female character who isn’t a s*x kitten or a victim."

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Grease

Grease

"I thought to watch it with my kids and was like WTF am I watching?"
 
Minion5051 replied: 
"As a kid, I assumed it was a scream."

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That lyric 🎶Did she put up a fight 🎶 What thef**k is wrong with you Micky?! 😨

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#32

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

"There is a whole song and dance about making fun of “Red Men”. Also the “Following the Leader” song includes a line 'Were off to fight the injuns the injuns, the injuns!'"

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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This film was a product of its times. It was made in 1953. That doesn't make it right, but it doesn't detract from the film being a classic either. Taken from someone who saw a lot of stereotypical indian portrayals in older cartoons still shown in the 90s as a child.

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#33

2012

2012

"The movie about the world ending in 2012."

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That movie was actually pretty fun if you don't take it seriously, the level of melodrama they maintain throughout is funny enough on its own

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Reefer Madness

Reefer Madness

thepiercedweirdo replied: 
"I don't know. That one kinda went dumpster fire phoenix and reemerged a comedy classic."

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#35

There's Something About Mary

There's Something About Mary

"There's Something About Mary. Huge when it came out, almost forgotten today."

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#36

Rambo III

Rambo III

"The heroic Afghan Muslim freedom fighters fighting the Soviets."

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

people forget there were dozens of groups fighting the Soviets, the one the US funded and supported are the ones who became the Northern Alliance later that fought the Taliban, and now is holding out with the remnant of the old government. Only one group the US funded joined the Taliban in the early 90s when the Taliban had basically won the post soviet civil war. A former CIA officer who worked with the Afghan groups wrote about her expience when they had to pass through Al-Qaeda territory, that she was told by her allies to pretend she was the wife of the one the men, to fully cover her face so they wouldnt see she was western and not to talk until they passed through, which saved her life because to Al Qaeda people, a silent covered woman with her head down raised no red flags. She also explains the politics with the different groups and which ones the US supported and which ones Pakistan supported and which ones the Egyptians supported, etc. Fascinating.

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#37

Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels

"It's a fetish movie. Just designed to get butts into seats because hot girls dressed in outfits... the milkmaid(s), the dominatrix look (when they were penetrating the tech firm as ????), the stripper outfits (strip club, complete with Cameron in a martini glass with water), the pit crew scene, Cameron's underwear dance... seriously, it was really pre-Internet because it was just for people with fetishes. I was 17 when it came out, and as a horny lesbian I think I watched a ton of the stripper scene(s) with the entire crew."

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Helena
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was a spoof on the 70s tv show that did it first. That's why it was so over the top, you were never supposed to take it seriously.

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Untitled

Untitled

krljust said:
"Kevin Spacey is a rich closeted homosexual who murders his much younger lover."
 
Burdiac replied: 
"But it has that killer line when John Cusack refuses a drink and says he is not thirsty
 
'If you're thirsty, a drink will cure it, if you're not, a drink will prevent it. Prevention is better than a cure.'"

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great book and pretty good movie adaptation I thought. Spacey was great and Cusack was brilliant.

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#42

The Last Exorcism

The Last Exorcism

"The Last Exorcism. Made obsolete by The Last Exorcism 2."

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#43

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

wickedblight replied:
"Are you crazy? Dude looked 7 when he was 80!"

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#44

Rush Hour

Rush Hour

"As someone in their mid-30s, the nostalgia I feel for early 2000s trash like this, fast and furious, rush hour, the hot chick, road trip, etc is so strong I know the early 2000s weren't as golden as they seem compared to the 2020s so far, but damn if it isn’t fun to revisit and cringe."

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As bad as it is, I still crack up at Jackie Chan saying "...I'm going to bitchslap you back to Africa."

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#46

Modern Times

Modern Times

Gritty2020 said:
"90% of American silent films. They aged so poorly that they literally don’t exist anymore."

Amish_Warl0rd replied:
"Can’t argue with that one. Also, people mainly watch silent films for history these days, but they were originally played in theaters with a live orchestra. So technically we’re also watching them wrong."

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#47

Hitch

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Still love this movie. I'm not a romcom person but there's about 10 I really enjoy and this one is on the list.

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#48

Back To The Future II

Back To The Future II

"It's been 7.5 years past their date and we still don't have most of the things they predicted."
 
tenehemia replied: 
"Okay but bear with me -
2015 that Marty and Doc visit is 2015 that follows on the timeline from the altered 1985 that the second film begins in.
 
But that 2015 doesn't exist, because of what happens at the end of Back to the Future 3 where Jennifer shows the blank fax to Doc and asks what it means, and he says "It means your future is whatever you make of it, so make it a good one."
 
For some reason, Marty and Jennifer's knowledge of the future and their different choices made because of that information caused the world to not develop the way it would have otherwise.
 
Maybe Marty decided to invest a bunch of money in something he saw as being popular in 2015 when he was there like IBM or something, and that investment led to others investing in IBM rather than investing in some startup company that had an idea for flying car technology. As a result, the flying car was never invented and 2015 turned out the way we know it. Basically, it's Marty & Jennifer's fault that we don't have flying cars.

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#49

Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing

"A minor dating a guy clearly in his 30s at best."

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#50

The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club

allwillbewellbuthow replied: 
"I’m with you, but I feel like The Breakfast Club is one of his less problematic teen movies."

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#51

Beauty And The Beast

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What? No, this film has not aged poorly. If it's that whole "Stockholm syndrome" nonsense, it's entirely bunk here. Belle wasn't kidnapped. She chose to stay with the beast to save her father. This film is still a classic and one of my favorites.

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#52

A Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

A Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

"The 1990s (I think) Muppets movie where someone shows Kermit what the world would be like if Kermit was never born. I think it fast forwards to NYC 2002 and in the movie, the Twin Towers were still standing, so canonically Kermit being born somehow caused 9/11."

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Nikki Sevven
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So you think movie makers should be able to see the future? I don't get this complaint at all.

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#53

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At this point, I'm afraid I'm going to scroll down and find Mr. Rogers Neighborhood on the list.

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