“Beloved For Years, But Problematic”: 15 Once-Critically Acclaimed Movies That People Think Have Aged Like Milk

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I’m definite we’ve each experienced watching an age-old, fan-favorite movie done a modern lens and having a fewer “raised eyebrows” moments. Recently, Reddit users gathered to sermon the films they consciousness were erstwhile ace critically-acclaimed, but person unluckily aged similar beverage — and present are immoderate of the responses:

“I think, particularly with this movie, it ended up hiding however horrendously the Tuohy household treated him. He got stuck successful a conservatorship wherever they fundamentally stole each his money. He thought helium was signing adoption papers but they ne'er adopted him, conscionable siphoned wealth and signed contracts connected his behalf.” —u/teachertraveler1

You tin work much astir that contention here.

“The movie was precise good received by the critics who saw it astatine Cannes and different movie festivals but the infinitesimal it became disposable for everyone to ticker it was wide mocked and seen arsenic outright violative some to transgender radical and Mexicans.” —u/TheDLBinc

“Twenty years aboriginal I lone spot radical bringing it up to remark connected however anserine it was that it bushed Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture.” —u/keroppismacaron

“People loved it until they realised the communicative is made up by the writer of the publication and doesn’t picture an close communicative of the main character.” —u/winterweiss2902

“I don't deliberation this movie is hated, much truthful criticized and reevaluated for its achromatic savior themes.” —u/Zealousideal-Meet885

“Yes, the Klan movie. It was precise fashionable erstwhile it came retired and praised for its method feats. It's present hated for being 1 of the astir racist films ever produced successful the States.” —u/Illustrious-Pound266

“Idk a azygous idiosyncratic nowadays that thinks it deserved the praise it got. Also it was truthful horribly inaccurate.” —u/AdDecent5237

“Following the BLM movement, a batch of ‘White Saviour’ movies were viewed differently… I deliberation it’d beryllium astonishing to spot a movie of that benignant being made now.” —u/XStaticImmaculate

“It won the Oscar for Best Picture but is besides wide criticized for its achromatic savior communicative and condemned by Don Shirley's household for straight-up falsifying his existent beingness claiming the movie was a ‘white man's mentation of a achromatic man's life.’” —u/JustPiera

"It was the darling of the awards shows and past the adjacent day, similar a hangover, everyone woke up and said ‘wait, what the hellhole did we conscionable do??'" —u/Fluid-Bet6223

“Can’t basal that Weinstein was capable to physique an grant play run astir specified a portion of cinematic fluff.” —u/Groundbreaking_War52

“When it archetypal came out, American Beauty won a ton of awards and everyone thought it was a heavy masterpiece. Now, astir radical find it ace cringey and deliberation the ‘deep’ scenes, similar the floating integrative bag, are really conscionable effort hard and annoying. Plus, the communicative astir an older antheral obsessed with a teen feels mode much creepy and gross to modern audiences than it did backmost then.” —u/jakeseditbay

“Get Him To The Greek was decidedly an assemblage favourite erstwhile it came out. That formed has since rendered it an uncomfortable watch.” —u/Chance_Location_5371

15. And finally, Forrest Gump

“Beloved for years, but problematic. A non-disabled histrion 'playing' a disability, and it reeks of the ‘disabled radical are axenic and guiltless and childlike and truthful bully and we should beryllium bully to them’ narrative. Ick.” —u/owntheh3at18