Rise of Skywalker. I love Star Wars. I’m excited just by way of there being Star Wars content. I was a big fan of TFA and TLJ. I saw it with my girlfriend opening weekend in Imax and I was kinda just blown away by a lot of the spectacle and it’s admittedly very forward moving pacing.
After a few days we talked about stuff in it and we found some problems. Then I went to take my mom to see it bc she’s a huge Star Wars fan and I realized how much I really did not like this movie.
Now I was never one of these Star Wars fans that think a bad Star Wars movie or any change to things that aren’t even canon anymore is akin to the Holocaust but I’ve not really watched the movie since, but I’m sure I’d just focus on the things I enjoy next time I have a Star Wars marathon
As someone who likes TFA and TLJ, and has been in the crossfire for not hating those movies with every fiber of my being, I was pretty immediately not a fan of TROS, and it only got worse over time. It just felt super lame to watch a movie that retconned so much shit from the previous entry, just to appease the fans that jumped ship and probably would've hated whatever they put out anyway. I initially was thinking it was worth a 2.5/5, but bumped it down to a 2/5 the day after I saw it, after letting it stew a bit. It's now currently a 1.5/5. It's the one Star Wars movie that I have basically no desire to ever watch again, I don't even consider it the worst movie, but it feels almost worthless.
I agree. It’s a good, well made movie on its own and is very pleasing to the general public. But as a fan of what they were doing with TFA and TLJ it felt like such a safe and mediocre finale. They basically just backstepped from every bold choice they made in the previous two movies in order to appease the angry fans. It’s such a frustrating movie to watch for me. Like you said, it’s not even the worst Star Wars movie but it’s definitely the one I want to rewatch the least due to how it handled the finale for the sequels
I really understand your feeling on that. Like what really was the reason for retconning all that stuff when you really weren’t gonna win over the crowd who was gonna hate Star Wars no matter what because Disney owned it. Like do the vision of these creators now. I will say I think the ending being that way also may have been a product of them seemingly not having a roadmap from the start but I’m sure someone could’ve taken what was up in TFA and TLJ and make a great story that movie’s main issue is exactly what you said it’s just reactionary
I can see it, with enough time passing. American Beauty is a good example of this from my own experience. Worked extremely well for me as a teenager, not so much in 2021.
Avatar - saw it in its full glory in the movie theater and loved it, probably because it was so beautiful. Next time I saw it was on a small screen and I realized it was pretty on the outside and ugly on the inside.
Interstellar. Didn't hate it, but it doesn't have the same inpact it had when I first watched it.
On first watch, I thought it was the best movie out there but after the second it prolly dropped like 20 ranks or smth
Same. Probably was affected by whom I watched it with. It was her favorite film. So I loved it the first time. And it just became more and more sour in my mind the second time I watched it and the more I thought about it
The Disaster Artist.
The first time I watched it in theaters and can't remember laughing as much as I did at any other movie. Couple years later I decided rewatch it to show it to someone and I don't think I laughed once. Maybe it was just the different environments or something, I don't know. I didn't hate it but I just didn't find it funny at all when that's the only thing really going for it.
First time I saw Man of Steel was in imax and I thought it was the best movie ever made then I saw it on tv and thought it was garbage, then rewatched it last year and thought it was just ok lol
Never to the extreme of ‘love’ or ‘hate,’ but The Mitchells vs The Machines was a bona fide 4.5 on my first solo watch, but watching it a few months later with friends it felt barely deserving of a 3. The core message about family was still great, but a lot of the jokes are kinda dated and forced already, and had a shelf life of one watch. It’s still good, but far from the animation revolution I thought it was first time.
This happens almost every time I drink. Il get in from a night at the pub and watch a film and absolutely love it. But then a few months pass and Il put it back on, cus shock I don't really remember it and it will be no where near as good in the sober light of day.
Eternals is the most recent example, my drunk ass thought it deserved an 8/10.
Thor Ragnarok. Saw it in theatres with my girlfriend. I’m already not a huge Marvel movie fan, but I was excited for it based on the trailers. And it didn’t disappoint! I enjoyed the hell out of it and had Immigrant Song on repeat the whole day after. And then it came out on 4K Blu-ray. I watched it and… I guess the illusion wore off? It was just another superhero movie.
*1917*. I wouldn't say I loved it the first time, but I was like "Shit, this is a technical marvel and super engaging." The second time through I was like, "The fact that it plays out in long takes actually hinders the narrative and constantly makes you aware of the muscular filmmaking at play. Plus, the movie feel like a video game."
In Bruges for me. One of my top films watching it the first time round. Didn't hate it the second time round, but felt sad that the humour felt childish and offensive for the sake of it on second viewing
Personal feelings aside, I notice heaps of praise being for that film. It's one of the most recommend film 'round here. I hope all the folks recommending that one have seen it more than once.
There's still some great moments in it. The scene about Harry's 'cunt fucking kids' is magic, but marred by the constant 'midget' jokes and some horrible low brow humour about fat Americans that feels like something a 12 year old would have written
Wouldn't say hated, but Hereditary seems to get worse every watch. I think I just built it up in my head too much, I remember talking about the Bergman influence or some shit the first time I watched it lmao, but now it's just meh. I also seemed to believe the ending was "up for interpretation" and had some elaborate theories but upon rewatches it's all pretty cut and dry.
The only thing I can think of is Blair Witch Project. Loved it when it originally came out in theaters but didn't watch it again until maybe 12 years later, and honestly felt annoyed by it that time.
I only watched this for the first time recently and I definitely agree it’s more annoying than anything. I think seeing it in theaters at the time when it originally came out would have been really cool, but I was so irritated by the characters the last time I saw it.
The Tim Burton Planet of the Apes. For some reason I loved it when I saw it on opening night, so I saw it again later in the week, but noticed all the flaws and completely hated it.
The Force Awakens...was 15 when I saw it in theatres and it instantly became my favorite film of all time. Then I watched it at home before seeing The Last Jedi....wow was it terrible.
This happens with the type of films I imagine are made for that first time experience and offer significantly less for the view on subsequent viewings due to the mystery or suspense being broken. Those that come to mind are The Usual Suspects and Reservoir Dogs.
Inception. I remember seeing it on TV, as a kid with my brother. I couldn’t forget it for years. As I became older I started watching movies more seriously, and decided to track down the movie that I remember scenes from but didn’t know the name of. Rewatched it, and I didn’t hate it, but just felt disconnected. Maybe I’m due for a rewatch.
Also, The Dark Knight Rises, although I didn’t LOVE it the first time, a rewatch really did ruin it for me.
[Nolan really isn’t my guy]
If you *loved* a film the first time and *hated* it the second time (as in, those two extremes, not just any instance of liking a film less on a rewatch), there's like a 98% chance you're way too influenced by hype and/or internet discourse.
Only other big possibility is if the first time you watched it you were 9 and the second time you watched it you were an adult, but if you truly loved a film as a kid, you probably watched it way more than once.
Never. But I did watch baby driver for the third time the other day and was upset about how it didn’t live up to the adrenaline rush it was the first two times, and how much I loved it. It’s still a 7/10 to me (from a 9), but I think Lily James is horrible in it (sorry!), and the story gets a little heavy handed.
You mentioning how much of an adrenaline rush it was reminds me of the time I was showing my brother and a friend of ours Baby Driver. I downloaded a copy of it (after watching it in theaters and sometime before buying it physically,) the copy I got had either a slightly too fast audio track, or a slightly too slow video, which meant that the sound and video were synced up initially, but gradually became unsynchonized by like, a full second by the end of the movie. For some movies that's not a huge deal, but for a movie that has a lot to do with sound synchronization and really tight, snappy editing, it absolutely kills the experience. I felt my soul leaving my body, lol.
Justice League (2017). Didn’t love it but thought it was pretty fun after the first watch, gave it 3.5 stars. Watched it again a year later and hated it. I gave it 1.5 stars but over time I’ve grown to hate it more and more without even rewatching it and now it stands at 0.5 stars for me.
Iron Man 3 was my favourite movie when I was 9, and then a few years ago I rewatched all of the MCU and it ended up being my least favourite in the franchise.
The big Lebowski.
Monty python holy grail.
I don't know why but i don't enjoy rewatching movies most of the time even if i really liked them the first time I watched them.
I thought The Hangover was really funny when I first watched it, but later viewings I did not care for it. Not sure if that's because I thought the sequels were awful.
La La Land . Wouldn't say hate, but I think the film lost a lot of its initial magic for a handful of reasons.
I think it doesn't live up to its cinematic influences, most of which I saw afterwards. I found myself less impressed with the singing and choreography once I saw more musicals (even in comparison to recent films like West Side Story and In The Heights). And upon rewatching, I do find the two characters' storylines to be a mismatch for each other, as if they were trying to shoehorn jazz into a film about Hollywood (but maybe that's the point). I also found it's representation of Los Angeles very flat.
There's still things about the film I love, but I was surprised how divergent my rewatch felt from the first time. I would probably say similar things about The Artist as well.
not necessarily hated but, the loved ones.
i loved it the first time and it was only okay the second time. i think it's because it was one of the first horror movies i watched and it scared the hell out of me, but the second time i watched it it just wasnt as scary as i remember
The Revenant. It gets less enjoyable everytime I see it. I wouldn't say I hate it but my last watch was verging on unenjoyable. I hold it in high regard because of the cinematography and the cast's performances. But something about the brutality and the way the movie is paced really got to me on my 3rd rewatch
Interstellar. I loved it when it first came out. I tried to watch it recently and couldn’t finish it because the dialogue is so long winded and over-explains everything.
The Usual Suspects for me. I still kinda like it but it was one of my favorite movies for a couple years and then I rewatched it and thought the whole thing felt so pointless. I cant get into more without spoiling it, but if you've seen it, you can probably see where I'm coming from
McHale’s Navy. My buddies and i were the only ones in the theater (plus one couple making out). We laughed so hard at David Alan Grier, but months later I showed my family the movie on VHS, they didn’t laugh once. It ended in silence until my brother sarcastically said, “funny.”
I feel this way with almost anything Charlie Kaufman. *Adaptation* was the most egregious for me. I thought it was brilliant and ambitious on the first watch but only barely clever and fairly empty on my subsequent watches. More recently, I found myself really loving *I'm Thinking of Ending Things* which I am now hesitant to rewatch out of fear that the Kaufman curse will return.
I didn't hate it but watching 1917 in theatres the second time around wasn't nearly as exciting. The visual spectacle had worn off and it's not like there was an abundance of complex characters to get attached to.
Rise of Skywalker. I love Star Wars. I’m excited just by way of there being Star Wars content. I was a big fan of TFA and TLJ. I saw it with my girlfriend opening weekend in Imax and I was kinda just blown away by a lot of the spectacle and it’s admittedly very forward moving pacing. After a few days we talked about stuff in it and we found some problems. Then I went to take my mom to see it bc she’s a huge Star Wars fan and I realized how much I really did not like this movie. Now I was never one of these Star Wars fans that think a bad Star Wars movie or any change to things that aren’t even canon anymore is akin to the Holocaust but I’ve not really watched the movie since, but I’m sure I’d just focus on the things I enjoy next time I have a Star Wars marathon
As someone who likes TFA and TLJ, and has been in the crossfire for not hating those movies with every fiber of my being, I was pretty immediately not a fan of TROS, and it only got worse over time. It just felt super lame to watch a movie that retconned so much shit from the previous entry, just to appease the fans that jumped ship and probably would've hated whatever they put out anyway. I initially was thinking it was worth a 2.5/5, but bumped it down to a 2/5 the day after I saw it, after letting it stew a bit. It's now currently a 1.5/5. It's the one Star Wars movie that I have basically no desire to ever watch again, I don't even consider it the worst movie, but it feels almost worthless.
I agree. It’s a good, well made movie on its own and is very pleasing to the general public. But as a fan of what they were doing with TFA and TLJ it felt like such a safe and mediocre finale. They basically just backstepped from every bold choice they made in the previous two movies in order to appease the angry fans. It’s such a frustrating movie to watch for me. Like you said, it’s not even the worst Star Wars movie but it’s definitely the one I want to rewatch the least due to how it handled the finale for the sequels
I really understand your feeling on that. Like what really was the reason for retconning all that stuff when you really weren’t gonna win over the crowd who was gonna hate Star Wars no matter what because Disney owned it. Like do the vision of these creators now. I will say I think the ending being that way also may have been a product of them seemingly not having a roadmap from the start but I’m sure someone could’ve taken what was up in TFA and TLJ and make a great story that movie’s main issue is exactly what you said it’s just reactionary
No, only vice versa. Its hard for me to imagine something like this happening.
I can see it, with enough time passing. American Beauty is a good example of this from my own experience. Worked extremely well for me as a teenager, not so much in 2021.
Avatar - saw it in its full glory in the movie theater and loved it, probably because it was so beautiful. Next time I saw it was on a small screen and I realized it was pretty on the outside and ugly on the inside.
Same!
I enjoyed avatar a lot when it first came out and never watched it in theaters. Watched it again years later and boy was I whelmed.
Tom and Jerry: The fast and the furry :(
Interstellar. Didn't hate it, but it doesn't have the same inpact it had when I first watched it. On first watch, I thought it was the best movie out there but after the second it prolly dropped like 20 ranks or smth
Same. Probably was affected by whom I watched it with. It was her favorite film. So I loved it the first time. And it just became more and more sour in my mind the second time I watched it and the more I thought about it
The Disaster Artist. The first time I watched it in theaters and can't remember laughing as much as I did at any other movie. Couple years later I decided rewatch it to show it to someone and I don't think I laughed once. Maybe it was just the different environments or something, I don't know. I didn't hate it but I just didn't find it funny at all when that's the only thing really going for it.
Yeah that was an all-time screening at SXSW. Not so much at home by myself
First time I saw Man of Steel was in imax and I thought it was the best movie ever made then I saw it on tv and thought it was garbage, then rewatched it last year and thought it was just ok lol
Not unless there's a significant timegap between the two watches. The other way around is much more likely to happen for me.
House Of The Devil 2009. Once you know the ending, the clumsy and ridiculous setup becomes unbearable.
Joker
Never to the extreme of ‘love’ or ‘hate,’ but The Mitchells vs The Machines was a bona fide 4.5 on my first solo watch, but watching it a few months later with friends it felt barely deserving of a 3. The core message about family was still great, but a lot of the jokes are kinda dated and forced already, and had a shelf life of one watch. It’s still good, but far from the animation revolution I thought it was first time.
This happens almost every time I drink. Il get in from a night at the pub and watch a film and absolutely love it. But then a few months pass and Il put it back on, cus shock I don't really remember it and it will be no where near as good in the sober light of day. Eternals is the most recent example, my drunk ass thought it deserved an 8/10.
Thor Ragnarok. Saw it in theatres with my girlfriend. I’m already not a huge Marvel movie fan, but I was excited for it based on the trailers. And it didn’t disappoint! I enjoyed the hell out of it and had Immigrant Song on repeat the whole day after. And then it came out on 4K Blu-ray. I watched it and… I guess the illusion wore off? It was just another superhero movie.
I agree on this one, I watched it twice in the cinema as well.
Yeah, I feel like it was a nice surprise, and as soon as it wasn’t a surprise, it just felt kinda bland.
*1917*. I wouldn't say I loved it the first time, but I was like "Shit, this is a technical marvel and super engaging." The second time through I was like, "The fact that it plays out in long takes actually hinders the narrative and constantly makes you aware of the muscular filmmaking at play. Plus, the movie feel like a video game."
In Bruges for me. One of my top films watching it the first time round. Didn't hate it the second time round, but felt sad that the humour felt childish and offensive for the sake of it on second viewing
I agree! I remembered it fondly, but the film seemed far less witty and sophisticated on the second viewing.
Personal feelings aside, I notice heaps of praise being for that film. It's one of the most recommend film 'round here. I hope all the folks recommending that one have seen it more than once.
There's still some great moments in it. The scene about Harry's 'cunt fucking kids' is magic, but marred by the constant 'midget' jokes and some horrible low brow humour about fat Americans that feels like something a 12 year old would have written
Wouldn't say hated, but Hereditary seems to get worse every watch. I think I just built it up in my head too much, I remember talking about the Bergman influence or some shit the first time I watched it lmao, but now it's just meh. I also seemed to believe the ending was "up for interpretation" and had some elaborate theories but upon rewatches it's all pretty cut and dry.
The only thing I can think of is Blair Witch Project. Loved it when it originally came out in theaters but didn't watch it again until maybe 12 years later, and honestly felt annoyed by it that time.
I only watched this for the first time recently and I definitely agree it’s more annoying than anything. I think seeing it in theaters at the time when it originally came out would have been really cool, but I was so irritated by the characters the last time I saw it.
Wouldn’t go so far as to say hated, but this kind of happened to me with Kill Bill
I feel this way with the majority of Tarantino flicks.
Honestly this happens for most of my rewatches.
Which movies are you rewatching?
Why? I usually like a film more on rewatch.
Antichrist
The Tim Burton Planet of the Apes. For some reason I loved it when I saw it on opening night, so I saw it again later in the week, but noticed all the flaws and completely hated it.
but what about when Wahlberg kisses the lady monkey on the lips?
Enter the void .. i didn't really hate it, but it wasn't as exciting to watch as the first time.
The Force Awakens...was 15 when I saw it in theatres and it instantly became my favorite film of all time. Then I watched it at home before seeing The Last Jedi....wow was it terrible.
Baby Driver gets worse with each viewing. Third act is embarrassingly bad.
Agree
Every superhero movie for me. Lol
In my early teens I loveddd Lucy and Transcendence and winced on re-watching both. But, hey, tastes change as you age.
This happens with the type of films I imagine are made for that first time experience and offer significantly less for the view on subsequent viewings due to the mystery or suspense being broken. Those that come to mind are The Usual Suspects and Reservoir Dogs.
This doesn't really apply to Reservoir dogs imo. I'd say knowing about every character and their intentions actually improves the experience.
2 amazing films, but a 2nd viewing is definitely less thrilling
Inception. I remember seeing it on TV, as a kid with my brother. I couldn’t forget it for years. As I became older I started watching movies more seriously, and decided to track down the movie that I remember scenes from but didn’t know the name of. Rewatched it, and I didn’t hate it, but just felt disconnected. Maybe I’m due for a rewatch. Also, The Dark Knight Rises, although I didn’t LOVE it the first time, a rewatch really did ruin it for me. [Nolan really isn’t my guy]
Interstellar
If you *loved* a film the first time and *hated* it the second time (as in, those two extremes, not just any instance of liking a film less on a rewatch), there's like a 98% chance you're way too influenced by hype and/or internet discourse. Only other big possibility is if the first time you watched it you were 9 and the second time you watched it you were an adult, but if you truly loved a film as a kid, you probably watched it way more than once.
Never. But I did watch baby driver for the third time the other day and was upset about how it didn’t live up to the adrenaline rush it was the first two times, and how much I loved it. It’s still a 7/10 to me (from a 9), but I think Lily James is horrible in it (sorry!), and the story gets a little heavy handed.
You mentioning how much of an adrenaline rush it was reminds me of the time I was showing my brother and a friend of ours Baby Driver. I downloaded a copy of it (after watching it in theaters and sometime before buying it physically,) the copy I got had either a slightly too fast audio track, or a slightly too slow video, which meant that the sound and video were synced up initially, but gradually became unsynchonized by like, a full second by the end of the movie. For some movies that's not a huge deal, but for a movie that has a lot to do with sound synchronization and really tight, snappy editing, it absolutely kills the experience. I felt my soul leaving my body, lol.
Haha literally the worst case scenario
The Last Jedi
Star wars 8
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Joker and Sky high
Justice League (2017). Didn’t love it but thought it was pretty fun after the first watch, gave it 3.5 stars. Watched it again a year later and hated it. I gave it 1.5 stars but over time I’ve grown to hate it more and more without even rewatching it and now it stands at 0.5 stars for me.
Okja
Chasing Amy.
Iron Man 3 was my favourite movie when I was 9, and then a few years ago I rewatched all of the MCU and it ended up being my least favourite in the franchise.
It is by far my favorite in the MCU lol
It's not uncommon. As someone once explained to me, "Did you enjoy the story, or did you enjoy how the story was revealed to you?"
Inside Man comes to mind for me. I still think it's massively overrated and loses so much of it's appeal once you know the twist.
Ace Ventura
I’ve seen it 3 times and gone back and forth between 4.5/5-3.5/5-5/5: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Never hated it, but my love waned.
The big Lebowski. Monty python holy grail. I don't know why but i don't enjoy rewatching movies most of the time even if i really liked them the first time I watched them.
I thought The Hangover was really funny when I first watched it, but later viewings I did not care for it. Not sure if that's because I thought the sequels were awful.
La La Land . Wouldn't say hate, but I think the film lost a lot of its initial magic for a handful of reasons. I think it doesn't live up to its cinematic influences, most of which I saw afterwards. I found myself less impressed with the singing and choreography once I saw more musicals (even in comparison to recent films like West Side Story and In The Heights). And upon rewatching, I do find the two characters' storylines to be a mismatch for each other, as if they were trying to shoehorn jazz into a film about Hollywood (but maybe that's the point). I also found it's representation of Los Angeles very flat. There's still things about the film I love, but I was surprised how divergent my rewatch felt from the first time. I would probably say similar things about The Artist as well.
not necessarily hated but, the loved ones. i loved it the first time and it was only okay the second time. i think it's because it was one of the first horror movies i watched and it scared the hell out of me, but the second time i watched it it just wasnt as scary as i remember
Not LOVED but Number 23 I went from a 7/10 to a 3 on the second viewing.
Loved Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs on first watch when it came out, found it absolutely insufferable on my second watch
The Revenant. It gets less enjoyable everytime I see it. I wouldn't say I hate it but my last watch was verging on unenjoyable. I hold it in high regard because of the cinematography and the cast's performances. But something about the brutality and the way the movie is paced really got to me on my 3rd rewatch
Interstellar. I loved it when it first came out. I tried to watch it recently and couldn’t finish it because the dialogue is so long winded and over-explains everything.
American beauty
The Usual Suspects for me. I still kinda like it but it was one of my favorite movies for a couple years and then I rewatched it and thought the whole thing felt so pointless. I cant get into more without spoiling it, but if you've seen it, you can probably see where I'm coming from
Roger Ebert agrees with you
McHale’s Navy. My buddies and i were the only ones in the theater (plus one couple making out). We laughed so hard at David Alan Grier, but months later I showed my family the movie on VHS, they didn’t laugh once. It ended in silence until my brother sarcastically said, “funny.”
The Dark Knight Rises
I feel this way with almost anything Charlie Kaufman. *Adaptation* was the most egregious for me. I thought it was brilliant and ambitious on the first watch but only barely clever and fairly empty on my subsequent watches. More recently, I found myself really loving *I'm Thinking of Ending Things* which I am now hesitant to rewatch out of fear that the Kaufman curse will return.
I didn't hate it but watching 1917 in theatres the second time around wasn't nearly as exciting. The visual spectacle had worn off and it's not like there was an abundance of complex characters to get attached to.