So the movies you grew up on and loved in your remembering from childhood, when you’ve watched them again do they still hold up well today and you can enjoy? Or perhaps no?

i think some do and some don’t. Like some like Can’t Buy Me Love, they hold up well. Robocop, The Terminator still hold up, but remember being disappointed with Remo Williams watching again. Could barely get through it and I truly remember loving it when I saw in theaters. If done right and even if outdated do stand test of time.

It depends. I still watch and enjoy all the old Star Wars and Star Trek movies and I have a special place in my heart for The Black Hole.

I’ll have to think of some movies from my childhood but I know there’s tv shows that don’t age well like the original Knight Rider.

Sometimes.

Night of the Living Dead, Planet of the Apes and 2001: A Space Odyssey came out when I was 13 years old and they still hold up. Hell, even Planet of the Vampires which came out when I was 11 still holds up (IMHO). There are definitely movies from my childhood that still hold up, but there are plenty of stinkers too.

I would say a good number of my favorites as a child such as the Star Trek films, Star Wars films, most Disney animated classics from my era (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King), and Back to the Future Trilogy all hold up. Those were and are some of my favorites.

Something like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze though, not so much. The first film which I liked less as a kid is great now though.

I watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 & 2 (90s live action) recently on Netflix and it was still fun.

Ok that's not really fair. Of course those movies hold up. Star Wars, Star Trek, Robocop and Terminator too (and 2 ) as well. Y'all are listing the definitions of absolute timeless classics. Maybe the question should be more like what kids movies/family movies you watched as a kid hold up? Or is it more like what older movies have aged well and are still relevant?

I guess it's hard to separate the nostalgia bias. For me the movies I watched and enjoyed as a young child I mostly enjoy now and have revisited every now and then. Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music are still two of my favorite movies. Cartoons like The Land Before Time and an American Tail still hold up very well. I've probably forgotten a lot of the movies I watched when I was a kid and didn't really like. I guess the good stuff floats to the top and still gets rewatched. Even things like Short Circuit still hold up well. Of course there are things like racists portrayals of Indians played by white guys that are really cringeworthy.

I think TV is where it really starts to fall apart. Shows like Knight Rider, the A-Team and a lot of cartoons, even classics like the Transformer and GI Joe are a lot harder to watch and a lot more repetitive then you remember them being. Of course a lot of that is because you're able to binge watch them instead of watching one episode a day or even week.

The one example that really comes to mind isn’t a movie but a tv show. I used the love Saved By the Bell as a kid, but it does not hold up at all.

KING KONG (1933) is still a great movie, but the last time I saw it I was irked by how Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) gets away with all the death and destruction he was responsible for in New York and is only mildly held accountable in the next movie, SON OF KONG.
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949), however, truly disturbed and unsettled me the last time I saw it. What Max O'Hara (also played by Robert Armstrong) does to Jill, Joe and the cowboy and the way he uprooted Jill and Joe from their home and exploited them is truly reprehensible. He should have been punished, instead he undergoes a mild redemption and helps them finally escape back to Africa. I was furious!
I loved PLANET OF THE APES (1968) as an adolescent, but I found it unbearably silly the last time I saw it.
I still love REAR WINDOW and PSYCHO, but I found NORTH BY NORTHWEST completely ridiculous the most recent time I saw it.
I still love FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, but GOLDFINGER grates on my nerves. There's so much wrong with it, I won't go into it here.
But I still love such other childhood favorites as WEST SIDE STORY, THE GREAT ESCAPE, IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD, MYSTERIOUS ISLAND and JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, to name a few.

Movies that I grew up watching like Goonies, Monster Squad, Explorers, Batteries Not Included, etc. still hold up for me. I still watch them often.
The ones that don’t hold up are the comedies from my late teens early 20’s. Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Ace Ventura… I loved those at the time and I’ve tried to revisit them recently and I can’t get any enjoyment out of them. One that does stand above the rest is Dumb and Dumber though. I still laugh my ass off.

Good movies I loved as a kid are still good movies now (Ghostbusters, Airplane, Back to the Future).

Bad movies I loved as a kid are bad now (recently sat through Starchaser: The Legend of Orin and it was rough AF).

Meaning there is nothing that was a good movie when I was a kid that isn’t still a good movie now.

for me, sure, due to nostalgia.

but watching some of these movies with my kids who don't have that connection, is a real eye opener.

Having two young sons, I've revisited a lot of shows and movies from my childhood with them. Two of my childhood favorites that immediately pop to mind as holding up quite well are Flight of the Navigator and The Secret of Nimh. On the flipside, I loved the original Transformers and G.I. Joe series and movies as kids and they're generally not great in retrospect.

I tried to watch They Live a few years ago and could barely sit through the entire movie. I was bored less than twenty minutes in.

I think the many of the blockbuster movies that didn't take place in present day when they came out will hold up much more than those that do. Star Wars and Star Trek take place in the future and "a long time ago", so they are more timeless. Titanic is a period piece with very little or subtle special effects, so that has and should hold up well for many years to come. Back to the Future started in present day, but was pretty much a 1950's nostalgia movie, so it hasn't aged badly either.

I have a hard time answering this. Being taken to the movies as a child was a rare and special treat. I would be surprised if I had seen a dozen movies in the theater by age ten. Our television was black and white, in the basement, and we had tight restrictions on watching it. For example, I never once saw the Saturday afternoon Chiller Theater, and Mrs Danger was surprised that I had never seen the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons before I bought the DVDs. Of course there was no cable TV or home video in the 1960s.

All I can think of is that I saw Fantasia twice. I loved the Rite of Spring (dinosaurs!) and disliked the Dance of the Hours (dancing hippos). My attitude has reversed.

The Disney animated movies are hit or miss. Most of them are still well made films, with fun characters, good song writing (and performing), with great scene design and of course beautiful animation.
But the racism and misogyny really stand out to modern sensibilities.

I would say for the most part, yes. Most of the animated films I saw were Disney Renaissance and then occasionally you'd get something like Batman: Mask of the Phantasm or Titan AE (which I'm betting has held up less well). The live-action movies I watched were mostly adult-friendly. Jaws, Star Wars, lots of horror movies when staying over at my dad's.

I'd agree TV has held up less well. Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is rough, in particular.

Funny, I only saw it for the first time in November and I loved it. Bought the Shout! Blu-ray almost immediately. I feel like as we learn more about cover-ups in entertainment and politics, it ages better. The class stuff seemed kind of ahead of its time, given the consumerist/capitalist messaging throughout the Reagan years.

I couldn't even finish Dumb and Dumber when it came out on home video. I gave it about 45 minutes, but that was one of the worst, most UNfunny movies I've ever seen. And that's how I felt when it came out! I don't even want to think about how badly it's aged since then. I also only got a half hour into American Pie when I gave that one a shot back in the day. Couldn't stand either of them.

But Ace Ventura? Happy Gilmore? They're still funny.

Looks like we see those movies in a completely opposite way.

I think lots of kids movies were also made for adults (Disney/Pixar stuff, etc.) but the vast majority of kids cartoons (and shows) were not. Especially in the 80s, where deregulation meant a proliferation of 30 minute toy commercials.

But I think there's also a struggle to keep up quality over the course of seasons of a show as opposed to a movie. I don't think a lot of tv shows, let alone kids shows, from my youth would really hold my interest outside of nostalgia.

The other thing is "political correctness." I think a TON of comedies are non-starters if you watch them now, especially raunchy 80s comedies.

Depends.

I'd imagine the Last Starfighter wouldn't hold up because of the CG of today.

i don't know about that. i saw Arrow's new blu recently and still enjoyed it very much.

My childhood was full of creature features where all types of insects and such, grow huge due to Atomic power gone wrong. While the movies are still fun, the science, of course, doesn't hold up. Same for the old spaceship movies.

I somehow managed to miss watching many of those (except for some Godzilla flicks) so I've spent a lot of my adulthood catching up on classic monster flicks and, while they're not exactly high cinema, they're often still goofy fun.

I dunno, I've got some news for you, the science in most new sci fi films/creature films doesn't hold up either.

Not many movies of the past 25 years have aged quite as poorly as Ace Ventura. I tried watching it recently, I forgot how crazy transphobic it was.