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[Dave]

Some movies just don't hold up well over time. It could be dated special effects, archaic acting styles, or a tired 80s soundtrack with matching dayglo wardrobe and decor. You liked it when the movie first came out, but the wizened eyes of time exposed all its faults when you watched it on cable 20 years later.

I'm going to start with an odd choice: X-men 3:The Last Stand. It's not gritty enough to have stood out against other gritty, Super Self-Important comics movies in its era, and the special effects are just not special enough in a rapidly advancing cgi-led period. Worse, the stunt wire effects don't seem to have been mastered. The entire film is slightly off in that "is this a cable movie?" kinda way. After Underworld, is it possible to see an entire cast dressed in black leather without clanging the parody bell? In the near future, people will laugh at our generation for allowing Hugh Jackman to play Wolverine.

[Chad]

I wish whoever the crap was making those Madea movies would knock it off.

[Deb]

I think the people who think that recycling movies from the 80's is a good idea should be killed.

I already paid once to see a movie in the 80's, so I don't think I should have to get dressed up, leave my house and pay to go see it again.

And they wonder why there are so many online pirates.

Stupid wanks.

Edited by Deb, 17 August 2011 - 08:33 AM.
My grammar was all present and past tense and reading it back to myself annoyed me. So there.

[Sam Chn]

Surely this is true, while sometimes the thing is that they are released very late. I have heard of some movies that got released after 2 or 3 years from their completion. This is why when we watch movies online, we feel like the effects are not good in such movies.

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Edited by Chad, 17 December 2011 - 08:40 AM.
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[Bruno Moretti]

The producers should always take care of such things, or they would suffer.

[Microphoneyo]

For a movie to hold up over time, shouldn't it be considered good when it first comes out? X-Men 3 was a piece of garbage for a lot of reasons, the shitty effects were just the shitty icing on the shitty cake.

[Chad]

Microphoneyo, on 07 March 2012 - 03:23 AM, said:

For a movie to hold up over time, shouldn't it be considered good when it first comes out? X-Men 3 was a piece of garbage for a lot of reasons, the shitty effects were just the shitty icing on the shitty cake.

X3 was a real disappointment. They introduced all these characters and never did anything with them. Just some lackluster battle scene at the end. Why wasn't there an epic battle between Juggernaut and Colossus? They made sure to include the "I'm the Juggernaut Bitch!" meme with, but forgot to use him (and pretty much everyone else) in a way that made the movie good.