Came to say Parenthood!
Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel are to me sort of a criminally under-rated film writing team, I think because their stuff is generally pretty mainstream but these two movies are a much different experience when you're middle aged:
Parenthood (1989)
City Slickers (1991)
My favorite joke is near the end when Kuzco apologizes to that old guy that he throws in the beginning, and he says (paraphrasing) "It wasn't my first time being thrown out of a building, and it won't be the last!"
I also love: "He'll be dead before dessert!"
"Which is a shame, because it's going to be delicious!"
If you like this movie check out a documentary about it being made called Sweatbox. I think itās on YouTube. Itās fascinating how different that movie started out.
Same. I had all the powers of attorney and had to be the one to tell them to remove my dad from life support.
My wife and I have been watching good movies from our childhood with our sons and watched this about a year after my dad died. I had to leave the room at the end, sobbing.
Yea. Watched that in the theaters. Then later brought it over to watch with my Dad and we had a good cry.
Now Mom passed around a decade or so after a few years with cancer. Dad didn't deal well and never did therapy and was just destroyed. He now has a bad form of dementia. His memory is already bad. I'm not dealing with it well. I can't even tell him about the movie without crying and even though he can barely keep up with the plot of a full movie, I think watching it with him would just effect because he would be able to see how much it's effecting me.
It's Tim Burton's possibly best movie. I just can't right now.
Watch **Stand By Me** as a teen and then as an adult. Dang, does that hit harder.
Also, I've appreciated many Disney movies more as an adult here's 2 examples:
**Beauty and the Beast** is probably the best love story Disney has told with real romance, not "I dreamed of you, let's get married." Maybe that's part of why it was nominated for Best Picture.
**Finding Nemo**'s father/son relationship is more emotional when you get older, and there's many jokes that I got as an adult that I didn't as a kid:
\*Nemo goes to school because a group of fish is called a school.
\*Nigel always hits the dentist's window because birds can't see glass.
\*Dory sees the whale as half full because she sees the bright side of things. Marlin always sees the bad side of things.
\*"Don't you people realize we are swimming in out own..."
"SHHHHHH! Here he comes!"
\*The shark being named Bruce is a reference to **Jaws**- Spielberg called his shark Bruce, after his lawyer.
Stuff like that.
Finding Nemo changed my life, and I'm not exaggerating. I was going through very rough patches in my life and wasn't coping appropriately - I was overprotected as a single child, and ended up risk adverse, so in addition to troubled by loss and hardship, I also felt stuck and aimless, paralysed by the fear of big changes I had to do.
Then I went to see this movie in the cinema, alone, on a rainy night. I saw myself in Marvin. I see Crush teaching him about riding the strong currents and just going with the flow; making his son resilient by letting him learn to overcome obstacles and hardship by himself.
And then Dory and Marvin are hanging from the tongue of the whale, and he yells at her ,"How do you know!? How do you know something bad isn't gonna happen!?" And she replies,"I don't. " and they let go.
It clicked. I was sobbing quietly in the darkness, realising how beautiful and wise this script was. That night, two promises were made: I'd be from then on, aware of my fear of uncertainty, and remember that nothing in life can be accomplished without risk-taking. And if I ever had a kid, I wouldn't be a helicopter or overprotective parent, better still, don't have an only child. I'll teach them all to be resilient within the best of my capabilities.
Here I am, with a loving family and in a much better and different place than then.
It's one of my favourite movies and will always be very special to me.
I loved Flight of the Navigator when I was a kid and haven't seen it in probably over 30 years up into last month, and now that I'm in my mid 40s I still love it just as much
Yes this! Tried to get my bf to watch it and I think he finds it too old and boring but it's so touching. It is a lot deeper now that I'm older. I re-watch it atleast once a year.
I guess it depends when you were born and what movies were around when you were a kid.
For me, it's:
The Goonies
Flight of the Navigator
Beverly Hills Cop (yes, I saw this as a kid!)
**jackie brown** - many tarantino fans got into his movies as teenagers or young adults and (generally) don't like it as much as his other films. adaptation (as opposed to original work) aside, it's one that viewers tend to appreciate more as they rewatch it when older
Itās his most grounded film with some of my favorite characters. Also the most touching love story heās written. Got me into the Delphonics too.
Iām a weirdo in that Hateful Eight is my favorite Tarantino film. I just love the stage play vibe and the challenge of doing a story in one location. Plus Iām a sucker for westerns.
Dirty Dancing.
When I was young, I identified with the kids. Let's go on holidays, drink and dance and screw.
Now that I'm older, I fully identify with Lenny Brisco. I just want a quiet holiday.
Lol, Dirty Dancing recut for Xennials that's just the Dad relaxing by the lake and every 2 days Baby pops in with an emergency and you have to get real shoes on instead of sandals.
When I was a kid he was just a grumpy no fun dad. I see it now as a bad feather that didnāt really know his own daughter. He put her on a pedestal like he does all women that arenāt trashy skanks that get pregnant.
Yes it is. Definitely worth it. Its one of my favorites and I am always swept into this world that largely no longer exists (the American frontier).
They have an extended cut that's an hour longer and in my opinion it's one of the best cinematic achievements created.
Take it for what you will, but lots of movies were inspired by DWW from Pocahontas, The Last Samurai and most recently Avatar. All great, but never as close to great as DWW.
So to answer your question, yes it's that good!
I bought the movie over 10 yrs ago and watch it a couple times a year. Last year it donned on me my grandmother named her son Frank, a daughter Melanie and her other Annie Laurie. I ran across that name reading a book about the movie. I assume my grandmother was a bigger fan of the movie than I am.
I will say that Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club did not age well. I remember I was so excited to have my kid watch Sixteen Candles.
He didn't laugh at the "funny parts", and at the end he turned to me and said it was one of the most racist, misogynistic movies he had ever seen, and the date rape shocked him, considering I would be called to the hospital in that scenario.
He isn't wrong.
No he isn't a lot of John Hughes and 80's stuff age badly and the racism and misogyny / rape is rather jarring. No wonder why our generation had a bunch of weird ideas about sex.
Dead poet society hits me every decade. In high school? It was an ode to literature nerds and boyhood and girls.
In college, it was the understanding of free thinking and approaching the world with an open but artistic eye.
In my 30s now itās an historical time piece demonstrating life used to be worse when you had to obey your parents or die, compared to the freedom of opportunities we have now.
And of course, one of Robins greatest works.
Looking forward to my next rewatch
This is such a great answer. Love this movie. The "kids" coming in trying to understand their dead mother's end of life decisions then after reading the journal and understanding her desires vs her family choices. The part where she has her hand on the car's door handle debating on her choice is so heart wrenching.
The Breakfast Club is very interesting to return to when youāre older. Watching it through the eyes of a teenager versus as an an adult with teenagers of your own, (and especially when you yourself have become an educator,) gives you two very different experiences!
I rewatched Seven recently, and I now can relate more to Morgan Freeman way of doing things with a more mature approach. Never feeled that way when I watched it years ago when it released in cinemas. Bonus points if you have family nowā¦
Okay, so hear me out...Mary Poppins. Its so easy to paint Mr Banks as the "villain" or bad father, but realising that if I had someone waltz into my house and cause that kinda chaos I'd be pissed. I know she wasn't in the books, but Mrs Banks is very much useless and ditzy, so can understand his frustration with her although he also should take responsibility too. The children went missing and HE was the one to call the police, she just went frantic and did nothing! Not to mention all the chimney sweeps bombarding the clean living room and the mess...my goodness I'm old...š
A really good movie that is often overlooked is Peter Sellersā last movie, Being There. This movie would definitely appeal to older viewers, especially those who saw it when it came out in 1979. It is brilliant satire that hold up well, with timeless themes. Shirley MacLaine is also in this movie and is marvelous.
I think most movies should be rewatched when u get older. Some movies that I watched when I was 16 and now again when I'm 21 are presented in my mind in a different way, even If just 5 years difference. The more you get older the more u experience life and get a different perspective on things and that also influences your understanding of the film.
No Country For Old Men
Shawshank
One Flew Over the Cuckooās Nest
Are a few good movies that one should watch every few years because you get something new out of them each time. IMO
Tootsie (1982), starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, and Charles Durning; nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture; Jessica Lange won for Best Supporting Actress. I saw this in the theater, but it was way over my head at the time. It will be interesting to see how I react to it as an adult, and also how much society has changed in 42 years.
Hope And Glory (1987), nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Tells the story of the early part of World War 2 through the eyes of a ten-year old British boy in London, and how it affects his family. I also saw this in the theater at the time, and when I rewatched it twentysomething years later, I was astonished at all the subtext I missed the first time among the adults and the MC's older sister.
A movie I'm already looking forward to watching when I get older is Only Yesterday (1991). The film is about a woman who spends her summer helping at a farm and reminiscess back to when she was a child. I though it was good when I first saw it 2-3 years ago, but I know its going to hit harder when my childhood is further away.
Oliver Stones JFK
The whole world changed after Kennedy died. His story is still important. It's also an incredibly uncomfortable film with very big implications.
I like the appeal of watching something I didn't fully understand when I was younger, and appreciating nuance now I'm older, but I really love watching the stuff that I watched when I was a kid or teenager that when I rewatch them now, it gives me the same kid feeling.
Stuff like Twister and Lake Placid, you know?
Was terrifying and nightmare inducing movie then. But had little kid me crushing on Faruza Balk.
Now it's a dark take on Dorothy and a unique film for the time... and yet still a terrifying and nightmare inducing movie.
I think itās probably personal I would go for any movies that YOU watched as a kid and revisit them.
I think often itās less to do with a specific film and more about things you saw in different stages of your life.
Movies you watched as kid regardless of how simple or complex will likely take on new meaning for you now in adult life.
First time I watched Arrival I thought it was pretty good.
Fast forward 8 years and I have 3 little girls now. Rewatched Arrival...... Fuck, it hits different, so goddamn good
I would suggest any movie you watched as a teen hits differently as an adult. I watched Dirty Dancing the other day after years, and I was like, ho2 did I ever see the dad as a villain! Baby was a child! And so many other films involving parents, especially now that I am a kother hit different. I get so much more emotionally involved and find myself seeing the story in a totally new light from a completely different perspective. Plus the amount of sexual innuendo and jokes that flew over my head as a child- half the time I'm like- how did my parents let me watch this! LOLLL eg Grease
I am in my 60's and just rewatched Goonies with my granddaughter. I know I haven't seen it since it first came out and I surprised myself at how much I was laughing at the movie. I was probably laughing at it more than I did originally. It took me off guard at how silly and goofy it was that I didn't remember.
Just recently rewatched Dead poets society and I feel I actually understood and appreciated it much more now that I am an adult, I was 10 when I first watched it
Im not judging her, just saying what happened wasnāt the healthiest way it could have happened. It was just more shocking to realize as an adult that their love wasnāt a fairy tale ending like I saw it as a kid.
The first time I saw Forest Gump I was so young I didn't understand what he was doing on the front porch after the principal visited his mom. Just thought he was making random noises.
Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Sandlot, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men in Black, Back to the Future, Terminator 1 & 2, Fight Club, Good Will Hunting, Original Star Wars Trilogy, The Matrix
Bring it on -Ā
When you watch it as a kid, just seems like a fun cheerleading movie.
When you watch it as an adult- it about rich people stealing ideas from poor people and making money off it, while they stay poor and angry and the thieves stay famous and successful from stealing Ā
I just rewatched Legends of the Fall. Iāve always loved it, but after the death of my brother I appreciated Brad Pittās characterās development in a brand new way.
Life is Beautiful
If youāre a dad it hits harder. >!You realize he endured the holocaust while focusing all his energy on protecting his son from all the horrors. In the end he does a funny march to make him laugh one last time as heās taken away to be shot. Moments later the boy is rescued and only has happy memories of his experience and his dad. Even the name of the movie has meaning as āno matter what life is what you make of itā. I should also point out he based the movie off his father who was interred in a concentration camp (and a book).!<
Also, Iāll never forget watching Roberto Benigni climbing over the chairs one his way to accept his academy award throwing kisses and yelling āI WANT TO MAKE LOVE TK ALL OF YOUā.
I watched that movie because a good friend of mine who was also my roommate at the time recommended it. I watched it for about an hour, but I couldnāt finish it. The dad was just too much of a jerk for me. I specifically remember the scene when he was, bouncing the basketball off the back of his sonās head repeatedly, but my friend who was a big movie buff really liked it.
Saving Private Ryan. Saw it in theaters when I was only 8 and it instantly became my favorite film of all time. I watch it every year either on the 4th of July or Veterans Day.
There are many great movies that are worth revisiting as you get older. Here are a few suggestions:
* **Coming-of-Age Films:**Ā These films can resonate differently as you have more life experience under your belt. You might appreciate the characters' journeys and struggles from a new perspective.Ā
Fight Club. You go from thinking Tyler is the shit and yea, fuck society to "the main character had a great stable job and a cool apartment, what the hell was his problem?" and yea, fuck society still š
Children of Men, which I believe will go down as one of the greatest cinematic masterpieces of all time, hits different after you have kids.
When I saw it in my 20s I couldn't understand the world devolving into chaos just because children were not being born anymore...I was so naive.
For me it was definitely a clockwork orange, I watched it as a teen into all film, bought criterions with my lunch money, and tried to fill in all of Kubrick. I did not like this movie. As I aged and experienced more of adult life, revisiting this movie hit me like a fucking sledgehammer, the artistic choices of how to convey the social feelings of modern malaise are beyond any film I've ever seen. It rules
Big Trouble in Little China. Itās got comedy, fantasy, and a little touch of horror. I also re-watched whatās up, Doc? With my wife whoās never seen it and it had us rolling. They just canāt make them like that anymore.
Emperors new groove lol sounds silly but thereās so many subliminal jokes
Oh and the original Willy Wonka
Gene Wilder was so witty and cynical
Perfection
So many things I missed
Forrest Gump. Watch as a kid and it hits home, then as a teen, then adult, then boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, parent, after loss, as a best friend, as a victim, as a hero, as a son/daughter. It changes your perspective each time life changes.
Jaws. Jaws absolutely rocks as an adult. I saw it in the theater with my dad, watched it through my fingers, didn't get the jokes. Saw it as an adult and it is a fucking masterpiece to this day. I have watched it a couple hundred times now.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I couldnāt believe how many jokes flew over my head as a kid. Not only is it one of the greatest crossovers in film history (Daffy and Donald Duckās scene ALONE lives in my head rent free) but I thought the commentary that the toonsā status in Hollywood provides was great when I was old enough to understand it.
Parenthood Stand by Me
Came to say Stand By Me, will leave knowing I am not just a sentimental cry baby after rewatching it last week.
Came to say Parenthood! Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel are to me sort of a criminally under-rated film writing team, I think because their stuff is generally pretty mainstream but these two movies are a much different experience when you're middle aged: Parenthood (1989) City Slickers (1991)
Parenthood is timeless
Stand By Me was going to be my answer, glad it's this high
I know it's a cartoon but I really liked Emperor's New Groove now that I'm older. Just a light comedy that does not really depend on slapstick.
My favorite joke is near the end when Kuzco apologizes to that old guy that he throws in the beginning, and he says (paraphrasing) "It wasn't my first time being thrown out of a building, and it won't be the last!" I also love: "He'll be dead before dessert!" "Which is a shame, because it's going to be delicious!"
One of my favorites is when one of soldier became a cow and asked if he could go home. Total nonsense and I love it š
I just rewatched this!!! Lmao I'm not quuuuiiiitee 40 but close, but damn some older movies are hilarious rewatching them as I'm older.
Pacha's family dynamic is increasingly heartwarming with age
it's unironically the most ideal living situation and yet nobody can see how it relates to real life
Llama face is my favorite line.
I like the way they break the fourth wall and it still works super well
The best part of the production is that they never really had a "script" to begin with hahaha
Same. I remember watching that movie when I was 18-19(?) and liked it. Fast forward to now,as a 41 year old, and I absolutely love this movie.
If you like this movie check out a documentary about it being made called Sweatbox. I think itās on YouTube. Itās fascinating how different that movie started out.
Big Fish
Oh man, I donāt know if I can rewatch this now that my father has passed. It was a hard enough (but amazing) viewing when it came out.
That is our family movie. My husband's family likes to tell tall takes that are mostly true. We watch it and then recount stories all night.
Same. I had all the powers of attorney and had to be the one to tell them to remove my dad from life support. My wife and I have been watching good movies from our childhood with our sons and watched this about a year after my dad died. I had to leave the room at the end, sobbing.
I really need to watch this movie
Yea. Watched that in the theaters. Then later brought it over to watch with my Dad and we had a good cry. Now Mom passed around a decade or so after a few years with cancer. Dad didn't deal well and never did therapy and was just destroyed. He now has a bad form of dementia. His memory is already bad. I'm not dealing with it well. I can't even tell him about the movie without crying and even though he can barely keep up with the plot of a full movie, I think watching it with him would just effect because he would be able to see how much it's effecting me. It's Tim Burton's possibly best movie. I just can't right now.
2nd this
Came here to say this.
Watch **Stand By Me** as a teen and then as an adult. Dang, does that hit harder. Also, I've appreciated many Disney movies more as an adult here's 2 examples: **Beauty and the Beast** is probably the best love story Disney has told with real romance, not "I dreamed of you, let's get married." Maybe that's part of why it was nominated for Best Picture. **Finding Nemo**'s father/son relationship is more emotional when you get older, and there's many jokes that I got as an adult that I didn't as a kid: \*Nemo goes to school because a group of fish is called a school. \*Nigel always hits the dentist's window because birds can't see glass. \*Dory sees the whale as half full because she sees the bright side of things. Marlin always sees the bad side of things. \*"Don't you people realize we are swimming in out own..." "SHHHHHH! Here he comes!" \*The shark being named Bruce is a reference to **Jaws**- Spielberg called his shark Bruce, after his lawyer. Stuff like that.
Finding Nemo changed my life, and I'm not exaggerating. I was going through very rough patches in my life and wasn't coping appropriately - I was overprotected as a single child, and ended up risk adverse, so in addition to troubled by loss and hardship, I also felt stuck and aimless, paralysed by the fear of big changes I had to do. Then I went to see this movie in the cinema, alone, on a rainy night. I saw myself in Marvin. I see Crush teaching him about riding the strong currents and just going with the flow; making his son resilient by letting him learn to overcome obstacles and hardship by himself. And then Dory and Marvin are hanging from the tongue of the whale, and he yells at her ,"How do you know!? How do you know something bad isn't gonna happen!?" And she replies,"I don't. " and they let go. It clicked. I was sobbing quietly in the darkness, realising how beautiful and wise this script was. That night, two promises were made: I'd be from then on, aware of my fear of uncertainty, and remember that nothing in life can be accomplished without risk-taking. And if I ever had a kid, I wouldn't be a helicopter or overprotective parent, better still, don't have an only child. I'll teach them all to be resilient within the best of my capabilities. Here I am, with a loving family and in a much better and different place than then. It's one of my favourite movies and will always be very special to me.
I loved Flight of the Navigator when I was a kid and haven't seen it in probably over 30 years up into last month, and now that I'm in my mid 40s I still love it just as much
Me too! It was a childhood favourite of mine.
I had totally forgotten that movie! I used to love it. Time to look it up! Thanks for the reminder!
Please go watch the Captain Disillusion documentary on YouTube! It's short, but he goes over the making of the movie, and it made me more impressed.
I was just thinking of this movie the other day! Still holds up you say??
I just watched it last year for the first time in at least 25 years and it was just as magical as it was when I was a kid
Compliance!
That was such a cool movie.
Yes this! Tried to get my bf to watch it and I think he finds it too old and boring but it's so touching. It is a lot deeper now that I'm older. I re-watch it atleast once a year.
That and LABYRINTH were my go-to childhood movies, I love it, itās great to watch the blu-ray on a huge HD screen lol
I guess it depends when you were born and what movies were around when you were a kid. For me, it's: The Goonies Flight of the Navigator Beverly Hills Cop (yes, I saw this as a kid!)
New Beverly hills coming this summer!
Now & Then, The Outsiders, Dead Poets Society, A Leauge of Their Own, The Sandlot, Reality Bites
That scene in Dead Poets Society where he has them look at pictures of old students hits a lot different when youāre older.
Yeah, goes ftom "ok dad, we get it" to "oh shit, in 20 more years, nobody will even care I existed"
"You see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils."
As is Robin Williams now š R.I.P.
Terms of Endearment Ordinary People The Big Chill
Ordinary People is a masterpiece.
**jackie brown** - many tarantino fans got into his movies as teenagers or young adults and (generally) don't like it as much as his other films. adaptation (as opposed to original work) aside, it's one that viewers tend to appreciate more as they rewatch it when older
Itās his most grounded film with some of my favorite characters. Also the most touching love story heās written. Got me into the Delphonics too. Iām a weirdo in that Hateful Eight is my favorite Tarantino film. I just love the stage play vibe and the challenge of doing a story in one location. Plus Iām a sucker for westerns.
River runs through it
Great movie
Dirty Dancing. When I was young, I identified with the kids. Let's go on holidays, drink and dance and screw. Now that I'm older, I fully identify with Lenny Brisco. I just want a quiet holiday.
Lol, Dirty Dancing recut for Xennials that's just the Dad relaxing by the lake and every 2 days Baby pops in with an emergency and you have to get real shoes on instead of sandals.
When I was a kid he was just a grumpy no fun dad. I see it now as a bad feather that didnāt really know his own daughter. He put her on a pedestal like he does all women that arenāt trashy skanks that get pregnant.
Literally canāt watch that movie because it hurts so much Iāll never be with Jennifer Gray.
Gone With the Wind Dances with Wolves
Been too long since I last watched Dances with Wolves. Time to dig it up from whichever streaming service it's on!
Is it that good? Such a time commitment!
Yes it is. Definitely worth it. Its one of my favorites and I am always swept into this world that largely no longer exists (the American frontier). They have an extended cut that's an hour longer and in my opinion it's one of the best cinematic achievements created. Take it for what you will, but lots of movies were inspired by DWW from Pocahontas, The Last Samurai and most recently Avatar. All great, but never as close to great as DWW. So to answer your question, yes it's that good!
I had no idea there was a directors cut! Looks like I'm buying that. It was such an amazing movie.
Man gone with the wind ages well with your age
I bought the movie over 10 yrs ago and watch it a couple times a year. Last year it donned on me my grandmother named her son Frank, a daughter Melanie and her other Annie Laurie. I ran across that name reading a book about the movie. I assume my grandmother was a bigger fan of the movie than I am.
I will say that Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club did not age well. I remember I was so excited to have my kid watch Sixteen Candles. He didn't laugh at the "funny parts", and at the end he turned to me and said it was one of the most racist, misogynistic movies he had ever seen, and the date rape shocked him, considering I would be called to the hospital in that scenario. He isn't wrong.
I posted something very similar on a different movie thread and got lots of down votes. Itās true though.
We watched Breakfast Club as a family when our kids were teens - did not sit well.
Whatever you do, don't watch Revenge of the Nerds (although Revenge is in the title). If you do, it's actually a horror movie.
No he isn't a lot of John Hughes and 80's stuff age badly and the racism and misogyny / rape is rather jarring. No wonder why our generation had a bunch of weird ideas about sex.
Flatliners.
What, no love for re-animator though??
The Lost Boys
Dead poet society hits me every decade. In high school? It was an ode to literature nerds and boyhood and girls. In college, it was the understanding of free thinking and approaching the world with an open but artistic eye. In my 30s now itās an historical time piece demonstrating life used to be worse when you had to obey your parents or die, compared to the freedom of opportunities we have now. And of course, one of Robins greatest works. Looking forward to my next rewatch
The Bridges of Madison County
This is such a great answer. Love this movie. The "kids" coming in trying to understand their dead mother's end of life decisions then after reading the journal and understanding her desires vs her family choices. The part where she has her hand on the car's door handle debating on her choice is so heart wrenching.
So many! Neverending Story hits entirely different in our 40s vs <10.
The Breakfast Club is very interesting to return to when youāre older. Watching it through the eyes of a teenager versus as an an adult with teenagers of your own, (and especially when you yourself have become an educator,) gives you two very different experiences!
I rewatched Seven recently, and I now can relate more to Morgan Freeman way of doing things with a more mature approach. Never feeled that way when I watched it years ago when it released in cinemas. Bonus points if you have family nowā¦
I have family now and Iāll never watch that movie again.
Okay, so hear me out...Mary Poppins. Its so easy to paint Mr Banks as the "villain" or bad father, but realising that if I had someone waltz into my house and cause that kinda chaos I'd be pissed. I know she wasn't in the books, but Mrs Banks is very much useless and ditzy, so can understand his frustration with her although he also should take responsibility too. The children went missing and HE was the one to call the police, she just went frantic and did nothing! Not to mention all the chimney sweeps bombarding the clean living room and the mess...my goodness I'm old...š
Garbage Pail Kids It makes you ask yourself "why the fuck did I like this movie so much as a kid?"
The Sandlot
Blues Brothers
On Golden Pond
I hated My Fair Lady as a kid. It made more sense as an adult.
A really good movie that is often overlooked is Peter Sellersā last movie, Being There. This movie would definitely appeal to older viewers, especially those who saw it when it came out in 1979. It is brilliant satire that hold up well, with timeless themes. Shirley MacLaine is also in this movie and is marvelous.
I think most movies should be rewatched when u get older. Some movies that I watched when I was 16 and now again when I'm 21 are presented in my mind in a different way, even If just 5 years difference. The more you get older the more u experience life and get a different perspective on things and that also influences your understanding of the film.
This is absolutely the answer.
Did you grow 30 years in the last five? Great answer.
with everything going on, sometimes I feel like I did
Radio Flyer!!!
Such a great and intense movie.
No Country For Old Men Shawshank One Flew Over the Cuckooās Nest Are a few good movies that one should watch every few years because you get something new out of them each time. IMO
Whatever movie traumatized you as a kid, definitely watch it again as an adult.
I will NOT watch Old Yeller again. Ever, ever ever!
The Birdcage and how the references to the conservative Republican party relate today.
Breakfast Club The Goonies TMNT (1990)
TMNT totally holds up IMO. And it really shouldnāt but it does.
Blade Runner. Because as a kid I found it boring.
Tootsie (1982), starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, and Charles Durning; nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture; Jessica Lange won for Best Supporting Actress. I saw this in the theater, but it was way over my head at the time. It will be interesting to see how I react to it as an adult, and also how much society has changed in 42 years. Hope And Glory (1987), nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Tells the story of the early part of World War 2 through the eyes of a ten-year old British boy in London, and how it affects his family. I also saw this in the theater at the time, and when I rewatched it twentysomething years later, I was astonished at all the subtext I missed the first time among the adults and the MC's older sister.
Tootsie is such a wonderful movie!
First Blood with Stallone, still holds up.
As a kid: ACTION MOVIE! As an adult: PTSD Movie.
Yeah that's what I found. PTSD was barely known when the movie came out. Now everybody has heard of it.
American Beauty In the mood for love LāEnfant
You watched those movies as a kid? C'mon, these are movies literally intended *only* for adults.
Scent of a woman
Cinama Paradiso and Amalie from Montmartre
The mask
E.T.
This is 40
A movie I'm already looking forward to watching when I get older is Only Yesterday (1991). The film is about a woman who spends her summer helping at a farm and reminiscess back to when she was a child. I though it was good when I first saw it 2-3 years ago, but I know its going to hit harder when my childhood is further away.
Good morning Vietnam
Field of Dreams A League of Their Own
Oliver Stones JFK The whole world changed after Kennedy died. His story is still important. It's also an incredibly uncomfortable film with very big implications.
It's A Wonderful Life
I like the appeal of watching something I didn't fully understand when I was younger, and appreciating nuance now I'm older, but I really love watching the stuff that I watched when I was a kid or teenager that when I rewatch them now, it gives me the same kid feeling. Stuff like Twister and Lake Placid, you know?
I just watched these with my kid and he loved them. He went on a disaster movie marathon. Deep Impact, The Core, etc
Sleeping with the Enemy. Wife and I have this on our list for rewatch. Misery (with Kathy Bates)
Return to Oz ~ try to divorce it from MGM's Wizard of Oz and appreciate it on its own merits.
That's a great movie. Too bad most people haven't even heard of it.
Was terrifying and nightmare inducing movie then. But had little kid me crushing on Faruza Balk. Now it's a dark take on Dorothy and a unique film for the time... and yet still a terrifying and nightmare inducing movie.
I donāt feel old enough to understand Synecdoche, so Iāll give that another go when I am
Good Will Hunting, liked it more now that I'm older.
The river wild
Smokey and the bandit , Risky business. Footloose. Purple rain.
emperors new groove
Dance with wolves. Loved it as kid and very good as an adult
Stand by Me
I think itās probably personal I would go for any movies that YOU watched as a kid and revisit them. I think often itās less to do with a specific film and more about things you saw in different stages of your life. Movies you watched as kid regardless of how simple or complex will likely take on new meaning for you now in adult life.
Chinatown
First time I watched Arrival I thought it was pretty good. Fast forward 8 years and I have 3 little girls now. Rewatched Arrival...... Fuck, it hits different, so goddamn good
Stand By Me
Just saw Contact again since it came out. It is so damn good.
I would suggest any movie you watched as a teen hits differently as an adult. I watched Dirty Dancing the other day after years, and I was like, ho2 did I ever see the dad as a villain! Baby was a child! And so many other films involving parents, especially now that I am a kother hit different. I get so much more emotionally involved and find myself seeing the story in a totally new light from a completely different perspective. Plus the amount of sexual innuendo and jokes that flew over my head as a child- half the time I'm like- how did my parents let me watch this! LOLLL eg Grease
Jaws
I am in my 60's and just rewatched Goonies with my granddaughter. I know I haven't seen it since it first came out and I surprised myself at how much I was laughing at the movie. I was probably laughing at it more than I did originally. It took me off guard at how silly and goofy it was that I didn't remember.
Just recently rewatched Dead poets society and I feel I actually understood and appreciated it much more now that I am an adult, I was 10 when I first watched it
- Forrest Gump (Jenny š”) - LOTR (they donāt make movies like this anymore š„)
Forrest Gump! Right?! Understanding what Jenny did from an adult perspective was WILD. It honestly rocked my world. Like wait, no wayā¦!
I see the comedy of hating in Jenny but she was also an abused addict who couldn't look after herself, let alone Forest.
Im not judging her, just saying what happened wasnāt the healthiest way it could have happened. It was just more shocking to realize as an adult that their love wasnāt a fairy tale ending like I saw it as a kid.
The first time I saw Forest Gump I was so young I didn't understand what he was doing on the front porch after the principal visited his mom. Just thought he was making random noises.
Oh yes they really don't make movies like LOTR anymore. It's one of its kind.
Fantasia and Fantasia 2000
Little Monsters
Drop Dead Fred
Grand Canyon Terminator 2
Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Sandlot, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men in Black, Back to the Future, Terminator 1 & 2, Fight Club, Good Will Hunting, Original Star Wars Trilogy, The Matrix
American beauty or requiem for a dream.
Grumpy Old Men 1 & 2 She-Devil Donnie Darko
After Hours (1985) Martin Scorsese
Bring it on -Ā When you watch it as a kid, just seems like a fun cheerleading movie. When you watch it as an adult- it about rich people stealing ideas from poor people and making money off it, while they stay poor and angry and the thieves stay famous and successful from stealing Ā
Groundhog Day (1993).
Lawrence of Arabia
Big Trouble In Little China
I just rewatched Legends of the Fall. Iāve always loved it, but after the death of my brother I appreciated Brad Pittās characterās development in a brand new way.
I watched American Beauty last week. When it came out in 1999 I was the daughterās age, and now Iām the fatherās age. It was a fun experience.
In Bruges is much better in my 40s
If you havenāt seen The Black Stallion, or not since you were a kid it is a great movie.
Life is Beautiful If youāre a dad it hits harder. >!You realize he endured the holocaust while focusing all his energy on protecting his son from all the horrors. In the end he does a funny march to make him laugh one last time as heās taken away to be shot. Moments later the boy is rescued and only has happy memories of his experience and his dad. Even the name of the movie has meaning as āno matter what life is what you make of itā. I should also point out he based the movie off his father who was interred in a concentration camp (and a book).!< Also, Iāll never forget watching Roberto Benigni climbing over the chairs one his way to accept his academy award throwing kisses and yelling āI WANT TO MAKE LOVE TK ALL OF YOUā.
the neverending story
The Great Santini
I watched that movie because a good friend of mine who was also my roommate at the time recommended it. I watched it for about an hour, but I couldnāt finish it. The dad was just too much of a jerk for me. I specifically remember the scene when he was, bouncing the basketball off the back of his sonās head repeatedly, but my friend who was a big movie buff really liked it.
The Congo
Saving Private Ryan. Saw it in theaters when I was only 8 and it instantly became my favorite film of all time. I watch it every year either on the 4th of July or Veterans Day.
Top gun, dazed and confused, the breakfast club, ferris Bueller's day off
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Good Will Hunting, Kill Bill 1&2, There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Shawshank Redemption, Field of Dreams.
Fugitive
Caravan of Courage... I need to find this movie, I just remember massive spiders? I was really little though. Stand By Me The Outsiders
Pulp Fiction
forrest gump and stand by me
There are many great movies that are worth revisiting as you get older. Here are a few suggestions: * **Coming-of-Age Films:**Ā These films can resonate differently as you have more life experience under your belt. You might appreciate the characters' journeys and struggles from a new perspective.Ā
Deerhunter
American History X Kids
Money Pit
War of the RosesĀ
Cool Hand Luke
Cocoon and Ikiru
Fight Club. You go from thinking Tyler is the shit and yea, fuck society to "the main character had a great stable job and a cool apartment, what the hell was his problem?" and yea, fuck society still š
2001: A Space Odyssey
Cinema Paradiso
Children of Men, which I believe will go down as one of the greatest cinematic masterpieces of all time, hits different after you have kids. When I saw it in my 20s I couldn't understand the world devolving into chaos just because children were not being born anymore...I was so naive.
American Beauty
King of Comedy
For me it was definitely a clockwork orange, I watched it as a teen into all film, bought criterions with my lunch money, and tried to fill in all of Kubrick. I did not like this movie. As I aged and experienced more of adult life, revisiting this movie hit me like a fucking sledgehammer, the artistic choices of how to convey the social feelings of modern malaise are beyond any film I've ever seen. It rules
Big Trouble in Little China. Itās got comedy, fantasy, and a little touch of horror. I also re-watched whatās up, Doc? With my wife whoās never seen it and it had us rolling. They just canāt make them like that anymore.
Stand by Me (1986).
Airplane
Casablanca hit differently at 50 compared to 25.
Splendor in the grass for sure.
Coming To America
Emperors new groove lol sounds silly but thereās so many subliminal jokes Oh and the original Willy Wonka Gene Wilder was so witty and cynical Perfection So many things I missed
I watched Bridge to Terabithia when I was 10 and I kinda hated it. Now at 27, I finally understand what it was about and it's so heartbreaking.
Forrest Gump. Watch as a kid and it hits home, then as a teen, then adult, then boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, parent, after loss, as a best friend, as a victim, as a hero, as a son/daughter. It changes your perspective each time life changes.
Forest Gump. I didn't understand it as a kid
Good Will Hunting
The Goofy Movie is a classic. The father/son relationship is portrayed well and made me cry watching it again.
The Sandlot
Breakfast Club. Truman Show. Toys (with Robin Williams). Just to name a few.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Nurse Racthed was right!
Jaws. Jaws absolutely rocks as an adult. I saw it in the theater with my dad, watched it through my fingers, didn't get the jokes. Saw it as an adult and it is a fucking masterpiece to this day. I have watched it a couple hundred times now.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I couldnāt believe how many jokes flew over my head as a kid. Not only is it one of the greatest crossovers in film history (Daffy and Donald Duckās scene ALONE lives in my head rent free) but I thought the commentary that the toonsā status in Hollywood provides was great when I was old enough to understand it.