Films You Didn't Like the Second Time Around?

[Hattrick]

This is the flip-side to my other thread, what is a film you watched and really enjoyed the first time you watched it, but when you went and watched it again, you found it wasn't as good as you remembered?

 

[Nick]

I remembered liking The Butterfly Effect a lot more when I first watched it compared to when I watched is most recently. A lot of that is because I was younger and I hadn't yet been able to identify tropes as tropes, and wasn't incredibly attentive to certain things. Likewise, too, I believe there is a trick of the mind that can happen when you watch a film you have no expectations for and it turns out to surpass your expectation.

Other films I remember liking a lot, but haven't revisited out of fear they will be bad / not as good as I remembered, include The Alphabet Killer and Boy Wonder. Someday I will let you know on that.

 

[Jobie]

Avatar, for sure. I remember all the hype and circumstance sold the film, like a sizzle before the steak deal. When I went back and watched it, the film was fine, but it wasn't the breakthrough I thought it was.