https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:31:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1357431 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:15:48 +0000 anne 1357431@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My sister was dead keen on the TV show of the Famous Five in the eighties, to the point of giving up Brownies because the show was on the same afternoon.&nbsp; I don't know what she thinks of it now, and I know her kids have watched them, but I found them now insufferably slow and my kids didn't bother watching them (despite enjoying the books) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1357058 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 01:03:42 +0000 Aziraphale 1357058@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Emily, I've never seen Where the Heart Is, so I can't comment on your taste, but there's nothing wrong with having a few guilty pleasures! I just saw Warm Bodies this summer, and confess to loving it so much that I subsequently&nbsp;bought the book (which is quite different, and actually better, than the film). The film version is&nbsp;a combination of&nbsp;post-apocalyptic horror and&nbsp;sappy romance&nbsp;clearly aimed at teens,&nbsp;in which the male lead is a <i>zombie</i>. Yes, a&nbsp;walking, groaning, decomposing corpse. And the plot was not without many flaws.&nbsp;I don't know what's the matter with me. Your beloved film can't be worse. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1356846 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 20:19:14 +0000 jennifer 1356846@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The only movie I ever went THREE times to the theatre to see was Disney's Beauty and the Beast when I was around 14 . I still love it and other fairy tales at age 35. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1355016 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 03:26:35 +0000 Karie 1355016@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, Twilight! I LOVE the Twilight movies!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354834 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:56:12 +0000 Emily 1354834@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I watched and liked Xanadu as a teenager!t &nbsp;Saturday Night Fever also. &nbsp;It's hard not to be entertained when there is singing and dancing, I think! &nbsp;I haven't watched either since, though...</p> <p>I need to add Speed and Twister to my list of awful-movie-love confessions. And, um, Grease......ahem...2.</p> <p>@kkards, yes, I hate spending 2hrs watching a movie just to be sad after! &nbsp;I think the happy ending of Where the Heart Is&nbsp;is what does it for me, too. &nbsp;I saw West Side Story Live a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it, I haven't seen the movie version yet.</p> <p>@AlaskaGirl, Jaws is on my to-watch list! &nbsp;I feel like it's been a pop-culture oversight for me...</p> <p>@Louise, &nbsp;I own the first Twilight movie, and I quite liked the books, at least up to #4... :D</p> <p>@Rabbit, I can relate, I own Troy specifically because of Brad Pitt's butt. &nbsp;:D</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354813 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:30:52 +0000 Desmo April 1354813@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I absolutely have the soundtrack to Xanadu on my ipod!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354811 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:28:14 +0000 Mochi 1354811@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Speaking of Saturday Night Fever, I still find the dancing great but when I saw it again a few years back I realized how awful the film as a whole was.</p> <p>And though we're not discussing books, I have to mention how I have seriously aged out of Catcher in the Rye, which had meant so much to me during my adolescence.&nbsp;<br />&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354385 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:48:37 +0000 Style Fan 1354385@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My taste in movies has changed over the years.&nbsp; I can not remember what I liked when I was 14 (I am 59 years old).&nbsp; My taste in men has changed as well.&nbsp; I am very thankful for that.&nbsp; I wanted to marry Mick Jagger. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354379 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:08:40 +0000 Louise 1354379@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love Twilight and yes it's rubbish! Even I admit the last one is just terrible I've only watched it once. I do love the first one though x </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354369 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 07:13:56 +0000 catgirl 1354369@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>OMG XANADU.</p> <p>I may or may not have that soundtrack on my iPod. Definitely have "I Honestly Love You" and not ashamed. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354206 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:46:14 +0000 Desmo April 1354206@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I understand that the rest of the world thinks Xanadu is terrible but LOVE it. It is my comfort food of movies.</p> <p>I might even have had ribbon barrettes worn with a peasant skirt as a kid but I'm pleading the fifth. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354196 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:24:28 +0000 catgirl 1354196@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another big fave was "Murder By Death" - terrible now but still fun. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354195 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:23:39 +0000 doubleh 1354195@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I refuse to believe anything I've ever loved is bad. &nbsp;That said, there are certain movies, when forced upon the people in my life who are viewing it at a different stage in life, can't appreciate the nuance. &nbsp;(Beetlejuice, summer school). &nbsp;I will till the day I die defend Ferris Bueller, Rushmore, The Mission. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354190 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:18:28 +0000 catgirl 1354190@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aaaaaah! We used to say that all the time! "Emergency!" </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354189 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:15:43 +0000 JAileen 1354189@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Una, me too! "Everybody to get from street!" </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354162 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:43:14 +0000 Vildy 1354162@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I used to be crazy about Cutter's Way. The last time I saw it I thought, Good Lord, is this the most dispiriting movie, or what. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354144 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:01:23 +0000 catgirl 1354144@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>JAileen, me too. Also "The Russians Are Coming"! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354134 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:48:11 +0000 JAileen 1354134@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Beth Ann, the guy is Anthony Perkins, but the woman is Liesl (Charmian Carr) from Sound of Music!</p> <p>Some of the movies I loved as a child I still think are good. I loved It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1354117 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:21:23 +0000 Beth Ann 1354117@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ah, well, as a inveterate musical theater fan and opera lover, I'm an expert at suspending disbelief.&nbsp; There was actually a musical by Sondheim with a similar theme -- an author holes up to live in a department store, thinking he'll have quiet to write, and discovers a whole community living there.&nbsp; </p> <p>The show is called Evening Primrose.&nbsp; It was written for live television (I think it was a part of Playhouse 90).&nbsp;&nbsp; Here's a clip:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0OUDs9KRE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0OUDs9KRE</a></p> <p>Yep.&nbsp; The guy looks like he's straight out of Pscyho.&nbsp; But I still like it.&nbsp; </p> <p>80's movies are worse!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1353931 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:33:55 +0000 Jules 1353931@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yeah, I used to love HItchcock when I was a kid. There are still some great ones but also a lot of terrible weirdness.. I actually have less patience now than when I was a kid. If a movie is over 90 minutes it'd better be great! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1353923 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:25:57 +0000 ironkurtin 1353923@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think we all need guilty pleasures.&nbsp; Also, recently I've been watching movies with my kid that I watched at her age-ish, and some of them do not age well.&nbsp; On the other hand, some of them are even better than I thought they were. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1353864 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:28:30 +0000 rabbit 1353864@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I admit to watching all Channing Tatum's movies. &nbsp; Spoiler alert: some of&nbsp;them are really bad, but it didn't really effect my enjoyment. &nbsp;:D</p> <p>Also I've watched every Step Up movie.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1353860 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:25:02 +0000 catgirl 1353860@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>HAHAHA! I've had the opposite experience. An irresponsible relative left me and a younger cousin at Jaws (in the theatre - 1976?) when we were 9 and 8 respectively. TRAUMA. </p> <p>Only recently did I realize what a great, classic movie it is. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1353831 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:54:36 +0000 kkards 1353831@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>love that movie -- and yup, i realize how unlikely the plot is, but i'm a sucker for a happy ending! <br />one of my all time fav movies is West Side Story, and then Natalie Wood died, and i found out she (and her love, Tony) was dubbed! it took something away from&nbsp; the movie, but then last summer i saw it the the Boston Symphiny playing live, and it made me love it even more! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1353824 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:50:11 +0000 Isabel 1353824@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>LOL ! &nbsp;Emily, I don't know if it happens to everyone, but it happens to me across many, many things &nbsp;: &nbsp;clothes, movies, music....etc. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;: &nbsp;)&nbsp;</p> <p>You had some sophisticated taste as a 14 year old. &nbsp;At that age, I thought that John Travolta's dancing in Saturday Night Fever was as good as the Bolshoi Ballet's. &nbsp;But don't quote me. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1353819 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:46:13 +0000 bj1111 1353819@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I specialize in loving bad movies. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1353784 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:43:17 +0000 Emily 1353784@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura, I had no idea it was a book! &nbsp;I'll have to give it a read. &nbsp;No joke, I still love the movie. &nbsp;I am sure you are right - it's probably like how the music of your youth sticks with you. &nbsp;</p> <p>I think I am something of a bad-00s-movies connoisseur; I also love and own Center Stage, and just located DVDs of SyFy's Dune/Children of Dune Miniseries (which I maintain is awesome! also, James McAvoy!!&nbsp;). &nbsp;I bet your made-for-tv movies are out there somewhere....&nbsp;</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1353773 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:29:24 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 1353773@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aww, I love that movie. The book is good too, if a bit more blunt about the challenges of poverty in rural America. </p> <p>I know what you mean, though. It seems that a lot of my affection for movies, particularly ones I loved when I was a kid, were more about the mood they evoked or one character or scene, compared to a coherent realistic plot or what have you. I've got some straight to cable movies from the 80s in my memory I'd love to find again and see how truly bad they are. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ever-realize-a-fave-movie-is-actually-terrible#post-1353751 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:06:07 +0000 Emily 1353751@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I was flipping through Netflix yesterday looking for something to watch, and was excited to notice that "Where the Heart Is" (w/Natalie Portman, James Frain, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Joan Crawford) had been added. &nbsp;Sweet! &nbsp;That was, like, my favourite movie in the early 00s!</p> <p>Obviously&nbsp;14 year old me had terrible taste, because as it&nbsp;turns out, Where the Heart Is&nbsp;is an awful movie. &nbsp;The structure of the movie is weird and the plot is completely ridiculous. &nbsp;I mean, really, no Wal Mart is ever empty enough for nobody to notice a pregnant teenager living in it. &nbsp;Don't get me started. &nbsp;</p> <p>(I still kind of like it, though. &nbsp;I did a spit take when I realized James Frain played Forney, I love that guy in everything.)</p> <p>This happens to everybody, right? &nbsp;</p>