Movies that took your innocence

[darkchashy]

The first movie you ever watched that drew you out of your suspension  of disbelief and made you exclaim ' this is a bad movie'
Mine was judge Dredd

[mrbasehart]

Judge Dredd isn't that bad...It's certainly not a good movie, but surprisingly well made.

I thought I knew bad movies when I was younger - things like Santa Claus: The Movie - but MST3k really opened up the field, in terms of how bad a film can be.  Things like Manos, or Monster A-Go-Go astound me in their awfulness, more than the likes of The Happening, 

[darkchashy]

yeah, But I was just thinking about the first movie you watched that got you thinking about the quality of the movie. Dredd did have it's moments with the cool bike and all, but the scene where Stallone just got done mourning the old man and he looks up determined and angry. The moment didn't work for me, it just felt cheep and I looked up to my brother and said "this is a bad movie" He laughed

[Chaos]

Well, the first bad movie I ever saw was on MST3K, I used to watch it with my dad when I was very young, only 7 or 8. So my innocence was taken in the best possible (or at least the most humorous) way.

I think I kind of always looked at movies critically, I never really was able to be immersed by them - I was too busy being taken out of the experience by how bad the special effects usually were and things like that.

[ImOscardotcom]

Um... is it wrong to, having seen the title, think this would be a much dirtier thread than it is?

[saltwrench]

I'm going to say that Leprechaun did me in...yeah...at least in the non-MST sense.  Poor Warwick Davis...

[Doc Steve]

As a kid, I went to a Drive-In Double Feature consisting of Star Wars and Donny Osmond's The Great Brain.  That's my first memory of thinking a movie sucked (The Great Brain, of course). 

[BBQ Platypus]

I think it was when I saw Batman & Robin.  But I'm not sure - that might be wishful thinking.  I have a sneaking suspicion that I thought it was awesome when I was 9.  But I also remember hating it.



Oh, wait.  I hated it the SECOND time I saw it on TV a couple years later.

In that case, I'm not sure what the first movie I really hated was.

[bratpop]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... Tank? I'm gonna go with that. Don't ask me why I saw Tank or Spies Like Us or Solarbabies or Real Genius or Mac & Me when I was a kid. I just did.

[Chaos]

Um... is it wrong to, having seen the title, think this would be a much dirtier thread than it is?

I thought it was going to be about the first movie that scared the living hell out of you, or the first movie that you saw at WAY too young an age and therefore became scarred and jaded too soon.

I was all set to talk about when I accidentally saw part of Gremlins when I was 5, or when I walked in on my dad and mom watching Robocop when I was 6 and saw Murphy getting blasted away by all the bad guys. Man... I love Robocop now, but that movie FUCKED ME UP when I was a kid. I had worse nightmares about that than I did when I first saw Pumpkinhead (I was 7).

The crap I saw and the crap I was allowed to watch way too soon probably explains a lot about me in my formative years.

[bratpop]

Well, I saw RoboCop well under the recommended viewing age at my friend's house, and when one of his dad's friends came over, saw the movie on, saw Murphy getting shot, and said, "Why is he just standing there?" and one of us kids answered, he looked around the corner at us watching it, us having been previously out of his sight, and he said "...oh..." Yeah, we're watching fucking RoboCop! Classic moment.

[Piobman]

I think it was when I saw Batman & Robin.  But I'm not sure - that might be wishful thinking.  I have a sneaking suspicion that I thought it was awesome when I was 9.  But I also remember hating it.



Oh, wait.  I hated it the SECOND time I saw it on TV a couple years later.

In that case, I'm not sure what the first movie I really hated was.

Saw batman & robin in the theater (shudder). I did make it through the movie, but there were a lot of voices in the theater whispering (this is horrible... this is bad!). First and only time I had ever seen that. My friend and I felt so crappy that we went to another movie WITHIN MINUTES after so we could get the bad taste out of our mouth.

The other movie, Scary Movie... after waiting patiently for a half hour to laugh (I really did want to laugh!)... my sister and I gave up and walked out on the movie. Only movie to this day I could not sit through.

[RobtheBarbarian]

Jurassic Park III. The first time a movie being bad actually mattered to me, as I'd been watching MST for years by then.

[bratpop]

Army of Darkness was the first movie I paid for that I thought was flat-out stupid. I know people like it for some reason, but everything in that movie can be found done better in other movies. It didn't really add anything to cinema. It just combined a lot of different crap from other films. I guess some people think that's "cool." It's pretty much the formula Tarantino uses.

[Piobman]

Army of Darkness was the first movie I paid for that I thought was flat-out stupid. I know people like it for some reason, but everything in that movie can be found done better in other movies. It didn't really add anything to cinema. It just combined a lot of different crap from other films. I guess some people think that's "cool." It's pretty much the formula Tarantino uses.

I guess you won't be over at my house watching my R3 Hong Kong Director's cut release...  but it's good to hear tarantino uses the blue-print Army of Darkness has created. (I jest)