I was originally just going to make this post about TV shows that are hard to watch now, but decided to include all media. What I mean by hard to watch is it's either super dated due to what has occured in the world, seeing what used to be is painful ("the world you grew up in is lost" meme), or seeing old media one can now see the progression of leftism and what was slightly obnoxious then is now understood to be the beginning of something much worse.
An example of the latter is Burn Notice. I love that show, but the serious daddy issues and pointless drama is a little hard to stomach nowadays, and I can't stand Fiona's proto girl boss crap. She even has the botoxed/ heavy makeup face of modern thots. Or Dukes of Hazard had an episode which featured the blue pill storyline of love. Two lady drivers come into town and show up the Duke boys in every way. Then their evil exes show up and the Duke boys have to save the fair maidens, despite them being better than them in every way. Only once the boys beat the exes do the ladies show their love towards them... An entire episode geared towards white knighting/ simping, with the women both being super independent are more awesome than the men and super damsels in distress in need of protection from bad men they used to date.
3rd reason: oversaturation and what was once a cool twist becoming the norm. Like old whedon stuff.
Try watching firefly or aliens 4 now. Oh sure you might have thought aliens 4 was bad then (you were wrong), but now after the decade of marvel and whedonisms, you will be clawing your ear drums out to end the pain. The quips are aggravating and immersion breaking. But it applies to the good as well, firefly won't hit the same.
I think a lot of the subversion stuff is like that too. Watchmen was maybe fun when every other superhero was earnest. Now it would be subversive to play it straight and not have morally gray slop.
Alien 4 was always terrible. What an absolute trash take to say I was wrong for knowing is was garbage now, but you just discovering it was garbage is correct.
My point is more that whatever level you thought it was, it's 20x worse now after seeing so much marvel/whedon shit.
I thought it was good, it's now unbearable
You thought it was bad? Prepare to be tortured
You thought it was torture? Welcome to the 9th circle.
(on it being good. I liked the new types of horror being introduced and their unwillingness to throw out everything that 3 set up, like 3 did to 2. Just being hunted and being space-pregnant with a chest alien is getting stale, some cloning and hybrid horror is welcome. And the whedon dialogue didn't feel as bad back then)
If you didn’t want anyone to challenge you on your dog shit taste in movies you shouldn’t have put in an incredibly inflammatory “if you think this movie is bad your wrong” in parentheses like a leftist faggot.
It threw out ripley sacrificing herself to stop the alien inside her by cloning her dna all so they could shove ripley back on it. Did you now just realize that selling Weyland-Yutani to Walmart for a cheap laugh did massive damage to the story? Did you like the aliens standing out in the open and roaring like a tiger because acting like xenomorphs isn’t as scary as lion roars!
Ol jossy boy was outstaying his welcome a long time ago. I never finished the marvel movies, I think the last one I watched was....Ragnarok? Maybe? I can't remember.
It was just so kitschy. To this day the only one I can rewatch, other than like Iron Man 1 and Cap 1, is Age of Ultron.
No Cap 2? It's one of the best MCU movies there is because it's not a superhero film, it's a spy thriller with superheroes.
It's not even just a good MCU movie, it's a good movie all the way around.
All of the scenes with the Winter Soldier are some of the best filmed action-thriller scenes in the last two decades (which isn't saying much due to all the slop out there) but yeah. Captain America 2 was the best thing to come out of the MCU, everything else could be tossed in the bin (though I will admit that Infinity War was really well done).
Watched it once. Barely remember it.
I loved Aliens 4 but need to find the theatrical release that doesn't have the weird alien sex scene
The same could be said for Buffy the vampire slayer.
I had this same issue replaying Dragon Age Origins this month. I'm so sick of Whedon style talking I couldn't wait to get Alistair out of my party. He's the only character in the game who talks like that. I even remember liking him back in the day.