Movies that you loved growing up, but later learned weren’t as fondly viewed?

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Soundwave said:

I never really honestly cared what critics thought about a movie even though I generally do like the better reviewed movies. I'll give some of my "you're not supposed to say that!"

But I enjoyed Transformers: The Movie (1986 NOT the Michael Bay crap), The Wizard (it's Rain Man for Nintendo Kids and I love it, 1989), Rocky IV (lol) and I don't care whatsoever that the critics didn't like them.

Armageddon is also Michael Bay's best movie and far better than Bayformers.

Also there are movies that aren't critical darlings necessarily that are legit good movies. Independence Day (1996) and The Mummy (1999) for example I think are legit well written movies, you look at ID4 it has like 20 characters in that movie and all of them are likable and feel fleshed out as characters, today good luck finding a script that can pull that off in 3+ hours let alone a normal run time. Independence Day is better than every Star Wars movie since 1983 and better than most comic book movies as well, it's a great summer blockbuster. 

I hated admitting this to myself but The Mummy (1999) was flat out a better movie than mega hyped Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999). It had more of the charm of the original Star Wars to boot. 

Anyone who says something bad about The Mummy is out of his/her f*cking mind. That movie is great! Even the second one is ok.

Now, if we talk about the third one ... yeah, that one was bad.