What movies have been spoiled by later events?

[WoodrowFan]

I can't watch the Police Squad movies anymore due to OJ being in them. Just saw part of "Escape from new York" and the World Trade Center in that movie was disturbing now. What movies have been spoiled for YOU by later events??

[kcwayne]

1. Anything with Charlton Heston or Mel Gibson or Ahnold

[Catch22Dem]

11. I still like Mel Gibson movies

Sorry, it's true. I've always been a fan, and his EXTREME religious views aside, I will continue to be a fan. I haven't, and don't care to see, the Thrashin' of the Cripes, but he's not in it, so....

Another confession. I love Bruce Willis movies too.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

21. I like Mel Gibson too.

He's a great actor and his movies are usually good.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

30. Me too.

At least he's anti-Bush. Kinda. I feel terrible watching Die Hard. One of my FAVORITE trilogies ever, only behind Indy. I've just come to the conclusion I like John Mc Clane but not Bruce Willis.

[jdj]

25. My first LOL of the night. "Thrashin of the Cripes."

Priceless.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

35. See, I enjoyed that movie...

But then again, I have catholic tendancies. And that movie did it's job with me.
Duckie

[Ducks In A Row]

13. same here. esp arnie, cause I got to watch them filming Kindergarten cop

[TOhioLiberal]

2. any NYC-set movies...

...especially if they show the skyline w/the WTC. :-(

[Deja Q]

3. 'The Living Daylights'

Decent Bond film which, in 1987, portrayed the Mujahedeen (al Quadea) as good guys... just the way Reagan wanted, no doubt.

[Kellanved]

4. Billy Wilder's one-two-three

That movie (which is totally brilliant BTW) got spoiled by the construction of the Berlin War prior to it's release.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055256/

Edit:
Of course the movie was never spoiled for me; but it was spoiled for the audience at the time.

[Dogmudgeon]

28. Still on my Must-See list

It's on AMC or Turner every so often, but usually at a time I can't get to it.

Well, it's out on DVD, so one of these days it is likely to turn up at the local video store.

--bkl

[DrWeird]

5. The Siege.

I remember a lot of people saying that it'd never happen.

[MissAnnThrope]

6. As Soon As I Saw This Thread

I thought of "Escape from New York." Then I saw your post.

I do wonder if John Carpenter is going to remaster it digitally when the new WTC is finished being built. It would be the kind of stupid thing I've come to expect from Hollywood.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. I suppose we could say the King Kong remake

In which the World Trade Center fills the bill for the Empire State Building in the original.

Except that picture couldn't have been ruined any more than it was already.

[Skittles]

8. in the movie "Working Girl" did she actually work in the WTC?

nt

[jus_the_facts]

9. The Terminator Trilogy.....

....Ahhhnold's rise to power. :puke:

On edit....add Braveheart and King Kong for that matter. x(

[Paragon]

10. Not "spoiled", but half the businesses seen in BLADE RUNNER...

...(on those big-ass screens on the buildings) have since gone under.

[doubleplusgood]

12. "Raise the Titanic"

...oops, not in one piece.

[WoodrowFan]

14. another-remake of Godzilla

because nows it's NOT exciting to see skyscrapers in NYC destroyed.

[No2W2004]

15. any movie made in the 40s or 50s

that shows the year 2000.

I want my flying car damn it!

[ironflange]

16. The Simpsons go to NY episode

Fairly decent gag with Homer atop one of the Towers, being told the bathroom is in the other one. One of the few funny moments in the whole episode.

[pagerbear]

18. I'm with you!

Although I was just the other day thinking of Homer's fantasy when he sees "Flushing Meadows" as a destination on a bus.

[ironflange]

19. Let's not forget

A mediocre Simpsons episode is still better than 98% of the other stuff.

[PittPoliSci]

23. that was one of my favorite episodes...

No bowl...Stick! Stick!

and what do you have to wash it down?

Mountain Dew or crab juice.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW PSHHHHHH!!! I'll take the crab juice.


later

"I wish I didn't drink all that crab juice..."

[djeseru]

17. Saw Snake Plisken land on the WTC last night.

Actually any movie with the Twin Towers still give me the goosebumps.

[Tabasco_Dave]

20. The movie 2010

in the year 2010 the USSR and USA almost have a war. Not a great film to begin with but totaly unwatchable now. I can still watch 2001, i just imagine it deeper into the future.

[Lindsey]

22. I used to be a hugh Woody Allen fan....but he seems so

mentally disturbed in real life, I simply can't enjoy his movies. I'm noticing that all of his love interests in his films are just female neurotic versions of himself.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. Not that I liked the film - but Rambo III

Rambo III, where Stallone helps the Mujahedeen Taliban to kill Soviets in order to help establish a fundamentalist Islamic Afghanistan has now become pretty unwatchable (although it never was one of my favorite films to begin with). The film is rarely seen on TV since 911

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

26. the terminator films after August 29, 1997

doomsday doesn't seem so ominous in a film when it's already occured rather uneventfully in real life

[wickerwoman]

27. Pretty much all *rah rah* America rocks combat movies.

I bought a copy of Behind Enemy Lines a few weeks before we invaded Iraq and I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it.

Not that I liked it that much to begin with but some of the actors (mostly Serbs) are pretty cute. I can't even get twenty seconds into it now.

[SarahB]

29. Heathers

I mean, come on, they'll never make another suburban high school murdering rampage comedy nowdays.

[terrya]

31. Anything with James Woods in them.

James Woods is a loathsome right wing creep, IMO.

[VOX]

32. The three leads in "Rebel Without a Cause" all met violent deaths...

James Dean was killed in a car wreck, Natalie Wood drowned, and Sal Mineo was stabbed to death.

There are many shots in the movie with these three interacting in scenes. It's impossible to look at them and not think about the tragedies that awaited each of them.

[lil-petunia]

33. If'n Bush is re-elected, it will be F9/11

It will make me cry early and often. But in a different way than today.

[onebigbadwulf]

34. Spiderman - deleted WTC scene

It was a great scene where spidey made a web between the twin towers and catches a helicopter full of bank robbers. I really wanted to see the scene!!!