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Post by Who is Reno on Oct 23, 2011 1:32:44 GMT -5
I hate to say it cause I loved the movie when I was younger, but Son in Law has not aged well. Between the costumes, dialog, and well Paulie Shore it's just not as good as I remember although I do still get some chuckles when watching it.
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Post by Glitch on Oct 23, 2011 2:43:54 GMT -5
Sorry guys, but I always seem to get a chuckle out of people pretending they are critics. Especially the language used and the general snobby tone. Anyways, back to your fun! Welp, you heard it here, guys. You're not allowed to have opinions on movies anymore. Well,we don't have degrees in film. So I guess I better head to college if I ever want to criticize a movie on the internet.
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Oct 23, 2011 3:02:54 GMT -5
Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Mostly due to the fact that a lot of it takes place in a mall (when malls were 'cool') and at an arcade (which are obsolete now). Also, weren't the concert ticket prices that were mentioned in the movie very cheap...like $10 or so? I am not sure how that in particular makes something dated. Reminds me of The Simpsons episode where Homer laughs down at some Indian movie Apu plays for them because there clothes are different from my clothes.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Oct 23, 2011 4:54:22 GMT -5
Welp, you heard it here, guys. You're not allowed to have opinions on movies anymore. Well,we don't have degrees in film. So I guess I better head to college if I ever want to criticize a movie on the internet. I do, and I personally endorse every opinion in this thread except Austin Powers, Wayne's World and Batman Returns aging badly.
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Post by Zombie Mod is not a ghoul. on Oct 23, 2011 8:28:20 GMT -5
To me nothing dates a movie more than poor CG, which was very prevalent in mid-late 90s escapades such as Blade, Escape from LA, The Frighteners. Practical effects 4 Life. but the frighteners still looks good.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Oct 23, 2011 9:10:38 GMT -5
Boyz N The Hood and Do The Right Thing are borderline cases. The themes of the films are, sadly, still relevant and the performances hold up fantastically...but DAMN, you do not see people with those clothes and hairstyles anymore.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Oct 23, 2011 9:19:30 GMT -5
I think there's a difference between a film aging badly, and people not wearing modern clothes.
I've never heard anyone look at Casablanca and say 'yeah it's good, but it hasn't aged, it looks so 1940s'.
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Post by agent817 on Oct 23, 2011 9:51:07 GMT -5
Boyz N The Hood and Do The Right Thing are borderline cases. The themes of the films are, sadly, still relevant and the performances hold up fantastically...but DAMN, you do not see people with those clothes and hairstyles anymore. If you want to talk clothes and styles, try looking at this one: That movie screams late 80s-early 90s.
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Post by The Line on Oct 23, 2011 10:59:43 GMT -5
I think there's a difference between a film aging badly, and people not wearing modern clothes. I've never heard anyone look at Casablanca and say 'yeah it's good, but it hasn't aged, it looks so 1940s'. Exactly how I feel. The script and how the film is shot makes it age better or worse for me. But if it it's still an accurate portrayal of the time period it takes place, it's less likely to to age badly, in my eyes.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Oct 23, 2011 11:43:23 GMT -5
I'm still perfectly okay with the first Spiderman film (and the 2nd and 3rd to a lesser extent). I'm not saying that the films are without problems but I don't see how any of it's problems have to do with aging. Is it because you guys have watched all those other movies based on comics and it's changed your view? The only other comic movies I've watched were Daredevil and the X-Men films, so maybe that's why I still appreciate the Spiderman movies.
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Post by bob on Oct 23, 2011 12:05:01 GMT -5
Hitchcock's Notorious and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Post by The Ichi on Oct 23, 2011 12:39:06 GMT -5
Labyrinth, or probably just any Jim Henson movie.
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Post by bertheart90 on Oct 23, 2011 13:05:21 GMT -5
Boyz N The Hood and Do The Right Thing are borderline cases. The themes of the films are, sadly, still relevant and the performances hold up fantastically...but DAMN, you do not see people with those clothes and hairstyles anymore. If you want to talk clothes and styles, try looking at this one: That movie screams late 80s-early 90s. came here to post this ;D
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Oct 23, 2011 14:13:38 GMT -5
Labyrinth, or probably just any Jim Henson movie. LIES
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Oct 23, 2011 14:16:59 GMT -5
I think there's a difference between a film aging badly, and people not wearing modern clothes. I've never heard anyone look at Casablanca and say 'yeah it's good, but it hasn't aged, it looks so 1940s'. In older movies, though, they're just more formal. Men and women still wear suits and dresses today, just maybe not as frequently. In the films I cited, no one ever wore clothes like that outside of a maybe a 5-7 year time period. That's what dates it.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Oct 23, 2011 14:46:15 GMT -5
But does that affect the enjoyment or quality of the film? Dating and aging badly are slightly different IMO, everything involving young people dates, however does the film stand on it's own merits when you take fashion out of it? That's the difference between say, Back to The Future, and Rocky 4 both films from 1985, with people in 80's fashions and attitudes, but one is pretty much a joke and the other is a classic. Boyz and Do the Right Thing are still good movies with important messages, at worst they become time capsules of society in the early 90's.
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Post by agent817 on Oct 23, 2011 14:50:51 GMT -5
^^^ I can agree with Boyz N The Hood, Menace II Society, and Do The Right Thing still holding up well in that they still can provide good messages.
As for New Jack City, well I have read how in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a big crack epidemic going on around that time. It does have a decent message about getting drugs off the streets, but the overall fashion and music is what kind of makes it feel a little dated. Remember the Gumby hairstyles the CMB had in that movie? Same with the scenes of when Troop and LeVert were singing about what was going on in the streets.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Oct 23, 2011 18:50:35 GMT -5
But does that affect the enjoyment or quality of the film? Dating and aging badly are slightly different IMO, everything involving young people dates, however does the film stand on it's own merits when you take fashion out of it? That's the difference between say, Back to The Future, and Rocky 4 both films from 1985, with people in 80's fashions and attitudes, but one is pretty much a joke and the other is a classic. Boyz and Do the Right Thing are still good movies with important messages, at worst they become time capsules of society in the early 90's. That's why I referred to them as "borderline cases". The story and performances hold up fine today, but the style does not. I attended a screening of Do The Right Thing in college more than 10 years ago where people were openly laughing at the look of some of the characters. If you watch Casablanca, at no point are you taken out of the movie by thinking, "Damn, look at Bogie's outfit!". I've seen an audience be taken out of Do The Right Thing by how dated the characters look. So in a certain aspect, it has not aged well at all.
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Post by kidglov3s on Oct 23, 2011 22:28:13 GMT -5
To me nothing dates a movie more than poor CG, which was very prevalent in mid-late 90s escapades such as Blade, Escape from LA, The Frighteners. Practical effects 4 Life. but the frighteners still looks good. It's a great movie but I feel the CG effects wear the year 1996 on their sleeve, and are transparently apparent in a way that the work in Ghostbusters, a similar film with practical effects, are not. To me early CG work reminds me that I'm watching a movie and a movie that was made in a very specific time period unlike anything else in cinema.
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Post by clashofchampains on Oct 23, 2011 23:01:03 GMT -5
I went to see The Exorcist in theatre when they re-released the film with additional footage about 5 or 7 years ago(I think?) and I and my friend had never seen the movie and we were disappointed by it. We did not find it scary or discomforting. In fact scariest scene in the whole thing was the added footage of the girl walking like a spider. But that was it. I think people were more religious when it was released, it was a more conservative World and it affected people more deeply because of it.
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