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What are some books/movies/shows/games/etc that you remember loving but when rewatched/played/read just did not live up to your memory?

I decided to listen to the WTNV episode "A Story About You" because while I don't enjoy the most recent episodes, I remember that one giving me a creepy/awed vibe. But after listening to it again, it just sounded flat and boring. I guess I have gotten used to podcasts with better stories and production values but it was a bit sad. :(

a movie Marci X. I liked it when I was a kid.

*googles Marci X* O. M. G.

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Inception.

The first time I watched it I loved it and was obsessed. The second time I watched it, it didn't live up to the memory.

I still get excited about Inception but I think a HUGE portion of that has to do with the music. So epic.

The Swan Princess animated movie. I loved it so much as a kid and wow, it does not hold up well.

The story or the art of the movie does not hold up? Or both?

I agree. I used to love it, but the last time I rewatched it I was bored and hated all the characters.

Nowadays I mostly like the songs.

Pern

I mean I still love the interpretation of it I had as a kid but I definitely can't look at it twice without thinking of all the icky implications. And I also side-eye some of the worldbuilding and McCaffery's clear biases that I don't agree with.

Kinda sad about the situation actually.

Hrm. I thought I read some books by her when I was younger, but a quick search did not show any books she wrote about Griffons or talking horses. I've been wrong my whole life. D:

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I struggle to read them now, even though I'm curious about her sons take in it, he seems to have some odd views according to reviews, too

When I was a kid we lived in Australia for a while and there was this cake mix you could buy that would form a layer of gooey pudding on the bottom of te pan as tge cake baked on top. I thought it was the best thing ever.

A number of years ago, I bought a box from a place that imports stuff from Australia and it was really pretty terrible. :(

Terrible childhood food never lives up to expectations. DAMN YOU CHANGING TASTE BUDS AND PRODUCTION RECIPES!

If the mix disappoints you, maybe you would have better luck making the pudding from scratch?

Chocolate Cake-Top Pudding

http://www.thekitchn.com/vintage-recipe-warm-fudgy-pudding-cake-recipes-from-the-kitchn-174754

Vanilla Cake-Top Pudding

http://www.dairygoodness.ca/recipes/simply-lovely-vanilla-pudding-cake

Lemon Cake-Top Pudding

http://shesimmers.com/2010/01/best-lemon-pudding-cake-recipe.html

Apple Sponge Pudding

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/1471/apple+sponge+pudding

Because I truly have no life

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Douglas Adam's writing in general, really. I was a very big fan of his writing all through my teenage years. Then I re-read one of his books when I was 20+ and I found it was not as good as I remembered. Too silly/random and not as insightful as I remembered it.

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Harry Potter.

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Weezer.

I'm trying to hold on to as much of 'Pinkerton' as I can but... now that I'm a little older Rivers Cuomo just comes off like a whiny self-obsessed jerkbag, not a romantic or empathetic or thoughtful figure at all.

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Angel Delight.

It's a pudding-type desert sold in supermarkets where I live that I loved as a kid, tried it again as an adult. Bleeeeeeeh, it was so nasty, I have no idea why I used to like it.

(Though tbf if you mix it into other desserts it's not so bad, but by itself it's horrid).

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Neverwhere.
I really liked it when I first read it, it's what got me into Neil Gaiman in the first place. But then I reread it a few years ago and it just... didn't excite me. The mystery wasn't there.

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The Ace Ventura movies. They were my jam when I was a kid, but some time ago they came out from behind the paywall on Amazon Prime and I was like "shit yeah I'm watching these" and I only got about halfway through the first one before I had to turn it off. It was just...so bad. So bad.

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Hocus Pocus - I think I wore out our VHS tape from the number of times I watched it as a kid. I re-watched it a couple of years ago when it came out on HBO in the middle of the night and MY GOD was it awful!

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There was a 'Frog Prince' made for tv movie that I watched when I was a kid and it was the most magical thing I'd ever seen. Ran into it on YouTube a few years back--the songs were pretty cute still, but holy crap was it awkward and unlovely. The frog makeup, hoo boy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRS9ZqI6IRU

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The Hobbit was my favorite Tolkien as a kid. The only one I liked, really. But now it is my least favorite.

Powerpuff girls. I tried to rewatch recently and as much as I still love the concept I just really didn't enjoy.

Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders (though she was named Starla here)

I loved it when I was little, but it's nowhere near as well-animated as I remember and the story's a bit simplistic.

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