I Thought It Was Better Than That
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Inspired by a film I watched last night that I loved as a kid I thought I'd start a thread for all those things you thought were good as a kid (films, TV, music, holiday destinations) but then having gone back to them years later you realise they were absolutely terrible.
As a starter, the film that triggered the thread for me was Flash Gordon. Wooden or hammy acting, terrible special effects, rubbish plot and script and sets that look like something knocked up on Blue Peter. It would be tempting to say it reflects to technology of the time but Star Wars in three years older yet far higher quality. On the positive side Dale Arden and Princess Aura looked every bit as good as I remembered!
Another I've watched recently was Airplane which really felt it's age. I always used to see something new when I watched it but it felt a bit tired having not seen it in a decade or more.
As a starter, the film that triggered the thread for me was Flash Gordon. Wooden or hammy acting, terrible special effects, rubbish plot and script and sets that look like something knocked up on Blue Peter. It would be tempting to say it reflects to technology of the time but Star Wars in three years older yet far higher quality. On the positive side Dale Arden and Princess Aura looked every bit as good as I remembered!
Another I've watched recently was Airplane which really felt it's age. I always used to see something new when I watched it but it felt a bit tired having not seen it in a decade or more.
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Off the top of my head:
Mandate aftershave. Seemed impossibly cool and masculine in the 80s, now smells like cheap censored .
Lucozade. Genuinely thought it had health giving properties as a kid in the 70s cos it was expensive and only available at chemists. Now it just tastes like neat sugar and probably causes type 2 diabetes and tooth decay. Utterly vile.
Any porn movie made before the 90s. Fat men with hairy backs [email protected] chubby women with massive vaginal beards all the way down their thighs and round to their censored .
Indoor swimming pools. Too much chlorine, too many people, over zealous lifeguards who whistle at everything.
Fray Bentos pies. Was brought up on them. Totally loved them. Now they're just bland with the texture of dogmeat and puff astry that always seems to remain soggy underneath the top layer.
Tizer, I guess I've drunk to much of "Old Fart" best bitter over the years so Tizer tastes of nothing but artificial sweeteners.
On the other hand just been watching The Blues Brothers from 1980 can't think of a modern film compares!
TBH, still being scared of the same things in middle age as when you were at junior school would be the embarrassing bit.
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...as do most of the people on this forum. FACT!
jeez :roll:
I would suggest you either take a bike with you, or find a place to hire one on several of the islands.
Is Mauritius one of them?
Marin Palisades Trail 91 and 06
Scott CR1 SL 12
Cannondale Synapse Adventure 15 & 16 Di2
Scott Foil 18
I tried that once, nearly broke my ribs doing it,a wave had brought us in right up the beach into shallow water, and front of the board just dropped enough it dug in the loose sand and tipped it round and it stopped instantly, I didnt and still had all the inertia/momentum and landed on its side edge, then I stopped.
After watching the latest episodes then watching the original I look back and think how stunning Carrie Fisher used to be and (God rest her soul) what she ended up looking like.
Apparently they have tracked a single shark from attacks in SA to attacks in Oz. Absolutely ridiculous, but shark attacks are pretty rare.
I think if you're sensible and always face out to sea so you don't get crushed by a wave while facing into the beach, you should be ok.
Almost any '70s horror / sci-fi / porn film.
Nearly all the LPs I've hung onto since my teenage years / early 20s, intending one day to turn them into something useful for the 21st century but never getting round to doing more than 3 of them, and even those went onto CD which is itself becoming obsolete.
I've just acquired some Sonos speakers and signed up to Spotify so I can get virtually any music just by shouting at Alexa, and I'm finding I don't have the same taste in music as I did 40+ years ago. Who knew?? It's verging on embarrassing when wife and family come home to find Zeppelin or Jethro Tull at dog worrying volume...
jeez :roll:
At least you thought I was better at one point in time!
The other problem is that modern stuff sounds a lot better on a decent system than the old stuff. Tonnes better. Some remastering helps but there's only so much can be done.
Edit: Wait, I guess that depends on how you define 'kid'. I don't think my Ket habit had started when I was busy riding my scooter to the shop to buy hubba bubba. Of those things, micro scooters. Dreadful shin pain. Hubba bubba remains as excellent as it ever was.
Lewis Hamilton has little to worry about. :oops:
I am not sure. You have no chance.
I recalled it as being quite good, broodingly sinister and having a decent soundtrack. It was on TV around a year ago, so I recorded it and showed it to grown-up sons, and I had to admit it was censored .
Perhaps my recollection is coloured by the book version?
The older I get, the better I was.
That's right - I thought you were the best person on Earth - ever. Now you are only microscopically less fantastic.
jeez :roll:
:shock: I expect that sort of review from Seanoconn,he is wrong by the way.