17 Popular Or Critically Acclaimed Movies That Are Kinda Cringe Now
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Recently over on the Ask Movies subreddit, u/DeadBy2050 asked Reddit users which movies they thought had "fallen into popular disfavor" over the years. So I've compiled the best answers from the comment section as well as from this Ask Movies thread which posed a similar question. Here are the top responses:
1.The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
"Half of the jokes are just people calling each other gay, and I don't mean just that back and forth between Rudd and Rogen.
2.American Pie (1999)
"Nadia changes her clothes in Jim's room while they secretly film her. She loses her scholarship and is sent home to Europe for it right before graduation, and she isn't even angry about it! It's such total wish-fulfillment for losers 🤦♀️."
"I think Nadia getting live-streamed was far enough removed from anything we'd consider normal in the late '90s that we could detach ourselves from it at the time and embrace the absurdity of it. However, today revenge porn is very real, where compromising images get leaked online without consent. So the scene hits differently today because that does happen. It's a bit harder to laugh at it if you have to tell teenage girls watching it, 'Yeah, this actually could happen to you...But lolz, right?'"
3.Knocked Up (2007)
"My friend and I watched it for the first time not long ago, and we found the whole thing really unpleasant and a chore to sit through."
4.The Blind Side (2009)
"Michael comes off as helpless with no skills until Sandra Bullock's character saves him and introduces him to football."
5.Léon: The Professional (1994)
"It used to be highly regarded, and then people realized all the creepiness in it and with the writer and director, Luc Besson in general."
"It's creepy because Leon knows it's wrong, but the movie doesn't."
6.Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
7.Garden State (2004)
"It was quirky and endearing for two minutes in 2004, then mostly forgotten for a couple of years, then dug up and crapped on relentlessly ever since."
8.Pretty Baby (1978)
"It would not fly today due to obvious reasons."
[Author's note: An 11-year-old Brooke Shields plays a child sex worker.]
9."Any Farrelly Brothers movie past Kingpin (1996), and even Kingpin has its pretty terrible moments."
"The humor has always been very base level, but back in the day, it still played. I'd feel terribly awkward watching any of those movies with people in their early '20s. There's Something About Mary is a prime example."
10.Forrest Gump (1994)
"As likable as Tom Hanks is in this, the politics and social values that the film pushes are kinda tasteless. There are so many examples of world-changing events in the movie (anti-war protests, civil rights, segregation), and they're all painted as either trivial or, at worst, misguided or kooky. The biggest one for me was Jenny being made as a cautionary tale of liberal excess."
11.St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
"They're just a bunch of spoiled brats with no real problems. It's really tough to watch."
12.The Big Chill (1983)
"Boomer greed propaganda. They sold out their ideals for Regan-era greed and made those that were troubled by the notion of doing so look like they were the broken ones. I loved the film back in the day but can't stomach it anymore at all."
13.Early James Bond movies
"I find it difficult to watch earlier Bond films because of how women are portrayed, but that's entirely fuelled by Connery's own comments about how he thought it was okay to slap women."
14.Soapdish (1991)
"It's a gay cult classic, and most of it is great. However, the ending is really anti-trans."
15.Thinner (1996)
"The whole 'gypsy curse' thing."
16.Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
17.And finally, Blank Check (1994)
"That adult woman kisses an 11-year-old boy."
