media you disliked as kid, love as an adult

[DichEvans]

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Loved the Joel Schumacher Batmans as a kid, think they are unwatchable now.

As a kid I liked the the 60's campy Batman show, just because of how colorful it was. Now I love it for what it is.

[agent817]

Martial arts movies. I don't think it's so much that I disliked them, but rather that I would take other people's word about how a lot of them were bad, at least ones that were with Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, or Jean-Claude Van Damme. However, when I was a teen, I appreciated a few Jean-Claude Damme films. I reached my 20s and I appreciated Chuck Norris films, as well as "Walker, Texas Ranger," as cheesy as that show was. I grew an appreciation for movies like that.

[agent817]

Horror movies, or just horror in general. Growing up, I mostly avoided horror, but there was kind of an underlying interest in slashers. I didn't watch a lot of horror films because the genre didn't interest me, but there were times when I would make exceptions. I think it was when I hit my 20s or something when my interest in horror started increasing.

[thirteen3]

Star Trek. I use to think it was stupid talky bullshit with terrible special effects.

Got into The Next Generation is my 20's and then watched DS9, which is legit one of my favourite TV shows.

[gerbilfacedgeek]

I don't love them, but I appreciate the corny parts of Schumacher Batman (hey it's not Snyder) and the Van Damme Street Fighter movie.  The USA Street Fighter cartoon too, though it too's because of the memes.  

[jm]

Hook. Thought it was boring and tedious as a kid. As an adult, I laugh all the way through at the great comedy throughout.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

Used to f***ing hate deathcore on principal but now I recognize the bigger bands in the genre (Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, Despised Icon, JFAC, All Shall Perish etc.) are actually f***ing awesome and the kids a couple years younger than me were onto something.

[Lance Uppercut]

Jul 10, 2024 21:14:11 GMT -5 Mrs. Potato Dick said:

Jul 6, 2024 1:20:21 GMT -5 elektro said:

Those music video riffs are a real time capsule. They covered so many 90s acts that have either been lost to time or never became super huge.

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLknxpTAVFf972bWhF6h096OT3RmlNgQMx
MASSIVE playlist. Enjoy.

Wow they really don’t say anything the first season. It’s pretty much the whole music video with occasional laughing and « this guy rules » or « this sucks » at the end

[jean0987654321]

Jul 7, 2024 11:24:40 GMT -5 The Summer of Muskrat XVII said:

Frasier. Watched it all the time in the 90’s, didn’t appreciate it until 2010ish

Same here. Great show. Not too keen on the newer version tho

[Malcolm]

WAching Avatar the last Airbender, that would be my answer. I wasn't really into serialized series back then, but I've grown fond of this and the 2k3 TMNT cartoon.

[tafkaga]

Jul 12, 2024 19:06:44 GMT -5 thirteen3 said:

Star Trek. I use to think it was stupid talky bullshit with terrible special effects.

Got into The Next Generation is my 20's and then watched DS9, which is legit one of my favourite TV shows.

Had same experience.  I thought Star Trek was like the boring version of Star Wars. 

Picked up the first six movies off eBay in the early 2000's and found myself quite enjoying them.  Then they did a TOS marathon on Scifi Channel and despite cheesiness I really enjoyed the more sophisticated plots.  Then I watched all of TNG and DS9 and thought DS9 especially was about the best show I'd ever watched.

[Magnus the Magnificent]

Hacksaw Jim Duggan squash matches.

Then: "Oh, no! Boring Duggan! f*** off! ZZZZzzzzzzz..."

Now: "Ha-ha-ha! Alright! Yes! Kick his ass some more, Hacksaw! Hoooooo!"

[Lupin the Third]

You! You're not Sylvia! You're one of the Kung-Fu Creatures on the Rampage!........TWO!!!

[thechase]

Simpsons under Mike Scully I considered the absolute nadir of the show at the time...then the show kept going on and on under Al Jean and reached altogether different lows and levels of stagnation. I rewatch the Scully era now and while the stories still are admittedly terrible, the jokes always land and the absurdity of everything fits my sense of humour.

[dablueboy]

Anime and manga, up until around 4/5 years ago I took very little notice of anime in general and thought manga was weird because of the way it’s meant to be read. Then one afternoon Film4 was showing Spirited Away and it blew me away, a couple years after that my friend Charlie lent me one of her Junji Ito horror mangas to read and that was a game changer, now I read manga when I can (I’m way behind on Zom100), have seen every Ghibli film bar Grave of the Fireflies and every episode of Jujutsu Kaisen, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Demon Slayer, Spy x Family and My Hero Academia

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

Oh, just thought of another one!

Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame. I had it on VHS as a kid and watched it only once or twice. It wasn't that fun and the story didn't sit right with me.

I have so much more of an appreciation for it now. The animators were in their bag and I like how much darker it is Disney's usual animated fare.