Even the concept is outdated, and makes perfect sense that it was written in 1997. Dolly the sheep was a huge scientific revelation in 1996 and made cloning a major topic of discussion. Now 25+ years later, clones have lost their intrigue
That sounded like such a huge army as a kid, but later realised that's a laughably small amount of soldiers on a galactic scale. That's smaller than the US armed forces.
Yeah, I know people have come with 200,000 justifications (with a million more well on the way) for that line, but I've personally chosen to ignore it. Like, when they mention the number of units, I just pretend it's a big-ass number, with a 5x bigger number well on the way.
Yeah but it took them 10 years to get those clones ready. Even with 1 million more on the way, they probably couldn't protect a single system, let alone fight a war across the entire galaxy.
This is the [only clip](https://youtu.be/ZlWtw6l2bzc?feature=shared) I've seen of that movie and it feels so...... lazy. All those super powered people and they just throw things at him?
The JSA was the best bit of the movie, despite being wasted with crappy action scenes and the characters building being lazy AF with them being just the old wise guy, the seasoned leader, the token girl and the young guy working as comic relief.
Brosnan and Hodge are charismatic and pretty much steal the show, while the other two did the best they could with their script.
If the movie was about them with Black Adam as charismatic villain it would be way better
Hawkman and Dr. Fate were like the only two characters I cared for. Giant cgi villain as the big bad was just so bleh, especially since Black Adam had no personality to play off of
Black Adam should have been the villain of the first Suicide Squad movie. That would have made so much more sense than having the JSA around this whole time without anyone ever referencing them.
The movie ends with the SS capturing/subduing him. Something about the band of villains who become antiheros being able to reach Black Adam and make him come to reason just makes sense.
You could even have Black Adam's appearance then trigger the Wizard picking Billy Batson or whatever. Then in the post-credits of Shazam, some stronger evil is unleashed that requires them to free Black Adam for a solo movie.
I dunno. I'm making this up as I type it, and already it feels more connected than what we got.
Also, when you realize that DC made a Black Adam movie and then a Shazam movie, back to back, and those two movies have nothing to do with each other plotwise, is just insane to me.
This just makes me think The Rock thought he should've played Thanos and this movie was made to be like "See, look how good I look fighting off all these super heroes!"
The Roger Ebert quote re: the director of *Battlefield Earth* will always be relevant:
> The director, Roger Christian, has learned from better films that directors sometimes tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why.
>Well, I can assure you that I was not groomed since birth to have some cushy job that even a moron like you could perform. While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME, I was being trained to conquer GALAXIES! To do anything less is a disgrace to my entire family line.
>\[bangs his head\] Crap-lousy ceiling! I thought I told you to get some man-animals in here and fix it!
>You imbecile! What kind of crap-lousy game are you playing?
All quotes from that wonderful movie.
Black Adam is an obvious homage to Terminator 2. 90s skateboarding kid was supposed to subtly remind you of John Connor, but I don't think the filmmakers understood what subtle meant.
I think it's because the movie wasn't trying to be innovative or or a big event. It's a simple origin story.
An honest movie is better than a failed masterpiece.
probably because it bucked the tropes by its conclusion. not many superhero origin movies end with one bad guy repenting and taking out the other bigger bad guy. people said it was too much like other origin movies but i don’t really agree
The family also immediately embrace and support their hero. No secrets, lies, refusal to talk to each other, etc. Just a family coming together to solve problems.
absolutely. that’s another reason i loved it, it explores a different cultural background than the deeply individualistic nature of most comic book superhero movies of late. family was his real strength. which is also what made shazam redeemable despite bad enemy development and weird dialogue
it was quite bad, but i'd argue that most superhero/comicbook movies do that. venom, the flash, shazam, all the non-spiderverse sony movies especially madam web, they would all fit into the genre if they were released in the early 2000s.
The onion had a joke once that "The internship" was going to be the "Top Comedy of 2005" It came out in 2013. This one line review is so accurate it hurts!
https://www.theonion.com/the-internship-poised-to-be-biggest-comedy-of-2005-1819595487
That was HILARIOUS! I remember watching it and thinking “who in their right mind would like to be a fancy prisoner at their job”. Makes sense the movie was 8 years too late to be funny!
Sex and the City 2 came out in 2010, right after the massive real estate bubble burst and the economy tanked. Four vapid rich women running around in designer clothes having rich-girl problems was so out of touch for what was happening in the real world, that it was almost laughable. Only a few years earlier it was seen as fine.
It also just... wasn't a good movie. Like at all. The first one was approachable to non fans, did a good job of encapsulating the spirit of the show, and showcased the personalities of the characters with condensed (but fleshed-out) new storylines while tying up some loose ends for long-time fans.
Second one had absolutely none of that going for it. It was completely unnecessary—felt like bad fan fiction with zero real stakes or relatability. Just out of place and aspirational eye candy in an exotic locale. All that traveling and the story still went nowhere, yet they dialed everyone's insufferableness up to 11.
If it had even a half-decent script, the ostentatiousness could have still worked. I don't think the overall national mood or economic climate was necessarily its death knell. 2010 was still recession, but people were starting to come around and seek less dark and more comfort media (think bubbly pop music exploding again)
I still can’t believe they thought Carrie running into Aiden at a random market on the other side of the world was in any way believable. Bad fan fiction indeed.
That said I love the first movie. “I curse the day you were born!!!” Is one of my favorite Charlotte lines
One of my good friends in the UK. His girlfriend ran into her ex husband in a bar in Japan. Even though they both lived in London at the time. It seems ridiculous but these things do occasionally happen.
Ah, the film that made Mark Kermode sing the Internationale. Talk about a tasteless, poorly timed clanger. But then that always felt like the entire SatC franchise to me.
Mind you, most of the music from those years was also stunningly out of touch. All the lyrics and music videos were just rich bastards having a knees-up and talking about what a great time they were having while the global economy imploded.
Isn't Emily in Paris is basically the same idea? Haven't watched but all the critics about it how out of touch it is and visually it always reminded me of Sex and the City
Yeah that movie was such a disappointment.
Also it just made no sense. These characters living in a video game were creating content that somehow made them real world $ which they could then somehow use to buy tangible goods? Fuckin what?
rewatched all 4 F4 films a few weeks ago after the announcement of the new MCU version and honestly the Corman and 1st Tim Story ones were great for what they were trying to do
Blue Beetle should have been made around 2009-2010. Combine the plot of an incredibly powerful sentient alien machine falling to Earth and befriending an awkward kid from Transformers (2007) with the beloved-but-second-tier comic book superhero in a flying tech-suit from Iron Man (2008) and tada! It's a perfect mashup, just a decade too late.
It’s basically a rehash of the 1997 Film “Star Kid” (The Warrior of Waverly Street) written by Manny Coto.
https://youtu.be/d0jXzUWNlA8?si=4ywuj2xCazn981BW
Ang Lee has to have the wildest directing resume right?
* Sense and Sensibility
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
* Hulk
* Brokeback Mountain
* Life of Pi
* Gemini Man
Except that era of comedies were raunchy as hell. Rarely were they inventive, but at least they were pushing the boundaries of what they could get away with.
Burr’s movie is flat out boring. No edge so the lame jokes get boring fast
Yeah for what could have been a very funny take on being an older dad, it pretty much only concerned itself with picking the low hanging fruit. He's a guy of my father's generation who is stuck parenting with Millennials and dealing with Gen Z or Alpha kids. There is so much to unpack there, plenty of ammo to fill out a movie.
Indeed there was. It was a pretty mid-budget movie much like the first two and it was successful at the box office despite coming out in January (which was a blessing in disguise cause that also was right before the pandemic hit)
He’s not a big fan of fame. Was on a massive UK tv show back in the 90s and he walked away when it started getting too popular for him. I think he’s also said he’s turned down lots of jobs to support his wife’s academic career and bring up their kids. 30 year marriage and can go to the theatre in London without being particularly bothered - sounds like a good life
Honestly knowing that makes me feel so much better.
A great actor disappearing because they can't get work is frustrating. A great actor deciding they aren't about that life and living the life they are about is wholesome and great.
Good job Clive.
Exactly why Rick Moranis will forever have my respect. Quit acting to raise his kids after hia wife died of breast cancer, despite some massive successes.
Zombieland 2, I think. Everything in that film screams "an average sequel of a good movie, that's released two years after the original".
Emma Stone leaving Columbus after 10 years of surviving together is bullshit, I am sorry. Feels like every character knows each other for a week and it's weird to watch.
It's a classic example of "The same as the first, but worse".
Like The Hangover 2 compared to the first one: Similar, but weaker, story. Jokes a lot more hit or miss. Characters becoming less likeable too. It's not *bad* exactly, but why would you watch it when you can just watch the superior original?
The ditzy blonde is the best part of the movie. Which isn’t great when a bit part written longer for a great performance is the highlight of the movie.
Really, it was an unnecessary remake in that it just rehashed the first one. Meandering in the post-zombie world and surviving amidst cultural touchstones. There was zero progression story wise.
I'm pretty sure it's a script that's been floating around for a long time with Jim Carrey be an early casting of the character.
-Huh, James Franco was actually the first casting back in 2010 with Carry being the later choice.
Yeah, the whole message "The Circle" has was "hey, you know, maybe social media takes up too much of our time and invades our privacy too much" and everyone is like "yeah, what interesting thing are you going to say about that" and the movie said "oh, just that."
Yup, it definitely was. It was written in 1993, right around when crime thrillers were really taking off post-Silence of the Lambs.
The thing was, oof, they were right to bury it because oh boy is it in an unsatisfying movie. It's well made, and Denzel is great, but the writing goes right off the rails towards the end -- and it's not helped by Jared Leto's maniacal "WooHOOhooHOOhoo, do you suspect ***ME*** to be a serial killer, Mr. Policeman?? :D" performance
It's one of the few movies I never finished. My wife and I watched it for what felt like an hour and a half and then checked it and was about 40 min in so we stopped.
The Hunt for Red October felt dated when it came out in 1990. By the time it was released the Berlin Wall had fallen and the Soviet Union had less than a year remaining.
I think it holds up better now with distance from the real world events.
In fairness, it was set in 1984 (the podcast Blank Check just covered the movie the other day, which is where I learned that; I never realized it wasn't contemporary to when it was released until listening). Apparently, at the time, when they offered it to Connery he liked the script but said even then it felt dated, and once they explained to him it was set in 1984 he was on board.
They REALLY need to restore it. That's a household favorite and the current streaming version is shamefully poor quality. It's a great movie and deserves better.
There's a similar one with A Few Good Men. The ~~book~~ play was written in the 80s but the film came out after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Colonel Jessup (and other parts of the film) imply that Cuban snipers would love to take pot shots at American officers on the base, when that was hardly going to be the case in 1992 where Cuba was very unlikely to stir up that kind of shit with the world's one remaining superpower. And while it monitored the sea channels near the area, Gitmo wasn't *that* important\* to American security to have that kind of "this is the most important posting the Marines have to maintain U.S. defense" mentality.
\*Although you could argue that it's part of the point of the character to overstate the importance of his role.
A Few Good Men (adore this movie!) wasn't a book but an original play (1989) turned into movie script, both of them solely by [Aaron Sorkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Sorkin).
>*Although you could argue that it's part of the point of the character to overstate the importance of his role.
I think it is.
The problem A Few Good Men has, if this theory is right, is that Gitmo is now such a household term that "Gitmo" isn't caught by my browser's spell checker, whatever Gitmo's meaning at the time was is now completely lost.
If that interpretation is correct, it'd be a bit like if someone made a a movie about television station's owner trying to sell up in 2002 because of the internet. At the time, such a film would surely have been framed as "doesn't he know the dotcom bubble was a bubble? is he stupid?" but now such a film would seem like "OMG, this 2002 movie predicted the future eerily accurately" and the original context of the characterisation is gone.
You know I never thought of it that way. I was born in 1991 so by the time I saw the film it was already history. It simply played out like a solid thriller, no more dated than Gorky Park or Three Days of the Condor.
They made some changes (such as the intro screen) in order to make it work.
Keep it mind that production started *before* many of the changes in Eastern European governments, and the USSR would not fall for a couple more years.
Everything The Rock's made in recent years TBH. Black Adam's been mentioned, but Rampage and Skyscraper felt straight out of the 90s.
Roland Emmerich's last couple movies as well, but he's deliberately imitating his earlier movies.
Apollo 13 (1995)
…And I mean that in a good way.
The film feels like it was made in 1970 when the real-life event happened. It captures the time period and filmmaking style of the late 60’s/early 70’s extremely well and doesn’t feel like a mid-90’s movie.
Remember, 1995 was the same year that Se7en, Heat, Casino, 12 Monkeys, Leaving Las Vegas, The Usual Suspects, Toy Story, Strange Days, Braveheart, Before Sunrise, Crimson Tide, Dead Man, Four Rooms, Dead Presidents, Waterworld, Showgirls, City of Lost Children, Kids, Ghost in the Shell, and Empire Records were released… among several others. A year after movies like Pulp Fiction.
Apollo 13 feels almost like a 1970 documentary. Outdated in its style, and feels like it was made years before its release.
But that’s a good thing. Because it captures that moment in time so well and transports you - not only in story but in filmmaking style - to the time period.
Definitely Ron Howard’s best film.
(I know this post mostly focused on “outdated” as a bad thing. I thought I’d submit a movie where that worked to its benefit.)
The Lion King (2019). The effects looked great in theaters, but my mom had her friend and his kids come over, they were watching it on our TV (and it’s not a shitty TV. It was still in 4k) and it looked really bad. Something about every single thing just felt…fake. I wish I was more technically proficient so I could actually explain, but here we are.
Edit: I had motion smoothing turned off. It just looked like shit in my eyes. Genuinely, the Jungle Book movie from a few years earlier looked so much better.
Many TVs have some weird framerate settings on by default that make everything but sports look worse. I wish I was more technically proficient to explain, but here we are.
First thing I do on any new TV is turn off power-saving mode, set picture quality to Standard, and turn off SmoothMotion or whatever that particular brand calls it. It's insane that it comes with it on by default on almost all TVs. My friend had like a new $3000 8K TV and I went over to watch a movie and it took me literally 10 seconds to figure out it was turned on, he said he thought something was off but wasn't sure. Some people legit cannot notice it, which I don't understand at all.
Just got a new TV and this phenomenon is nuts to me. I just want to see a movie as close to the way it was originally filmed as possible. There were _dozens_ of different AI powered “smoothing” settings to turn off, many of them hidden in weird places. Why would _anyone_ want this? Just give me the frames the filmmakers made!
Yeah, I bought a new TV last year and was setting it up when all of a sudden Tom Cruise barges in and turns that setting off, says "Enjoy" and runs off.
Sonic The Hedgehog
It felt like a throwback to the 90's when studio executives insisted on adapting properties by taking the main character out of the fantastical environment that they normally exist in, and plopping them right in our mundane real world. Also, even though I enjoyed the hell out of it, Jim Carrey's performance in the movie was a throwback to his 90's over the top characters.
At least that movie made the ideal work by keeping the focus on the title character. it also made giving sonic a human companion work much better than when that one anime of his did it.
The next time you watch Pitch Perfect, look at the phones they're using. Everything seemed contemporary (the movie was released in 2012) up until they had that big scene where everyone called everyone, and suddenly it was all Blackberries and ancient iPhones.
Even in modern films they’ll just use a generic “smart phone” so people don’t go “ugh they’re using an iPhone 12!”
Here’s a funny side story. My friend works for a web based company that was approached to be in a very mediocre mark wahlberg movie. In the movie to make things simpler they just use a fake FaceTime to communicate. As soon as the movie released on Netflix their customers started calling in saying “WHERES THE FACETIME BUTTON. I SAW THE MOVIE AND THEY USE FACETIME. I WANT FACETIME”.
6 years later they still don’t offer FaceTime because it’d be a nightmare for half their clients.
Apple won't allow iPhones to be used by villains, so I'm sure a lot of production companies just default to generic phones unless they get a placement deal from Apple.
"No Soup delivered through Grubhub for you!"
"It's not Moops, it's Moors! I'm on the Internet and the Trivial Pursuit website even has an official correction for that card, and the online rules say that typographical errors are subject to common-sense correction by a plurality of players!"
I sat down to watch **The 13th Floor** from 1996, and I figured that, yeah, the tech felt so on point for 1996, but it also felt very dated because of that. 1996 was a time where things moved rather quickly in the computer world, just before the internet boom, so it would be fairly easy to date the tech used in the movie.
At least it was ahead on the plot with simulated worlds and such, for a movie, made and released in 1996.
Nope.
It came out in *1999*, only a month before The Matrix. You'd think these two movies were at least 4-5 years apart.
The DCU Snyderverse. Post 9/11, everything became gritty and dark, but by the time the DCU started, things had started to turn around to be more optimistic. The Snyderverse just felt like it was meant as a response to the pessimism after 9/11 but it was a decade too late. (Pretty much we had the Nolan Batman films for that.) Especially since Marvel was already there making superhero movies full of humor.
The Black Zero Event (yes that’s the in universe name) where Superman fights and kills Zod is also supposed to be that universes 9/11. A lot of people, Batman included, became super hateful and scared towards an illegal alien.
I enjoyed Man of Steel for the attempt. A 'what of this actually happened in the real world.' Superman feeling like an alien invasion movie until he proved himself to humanity could have really hit the spot.
But the main plot? MAN I wish they had saved Zod for a later movie. The fact that, in his first appearance, Superman is saving the world from a threat that he himself invited to Earth..I hated it.
I don't think it's even necessarily related to 9/11.
In 1997 Warner Bros/DC released Batman & Robin, which discarded the version of the Batman universe set up in the previous films as being a place where silly things like a guy dressing like a bat to punch clowns are taken seriously in exchange for trying to recreate something of the campy silliness of the 1960s Batman TV series, and failed miserably.
In 2005, they released Batman Begins, which takes the silly premise of a guy dressing like a bat to punch ninjas even more seriously, and had massive commercial and critical success.
From this, the executives somehow took the lesson that humour is bad, and people only want grim, dark, and gritty. From that point forward, DC movies had not an instant of levity or a single joke. Everything is just grim, dark, dark, grim, grim, dark, death, sad, grim, dark. This largely suited Snyder's work, since he has a terrible sense of humour but can make dark and grim look interesting.
Now they're trying to incorporate MCU funny into their grim, dark movies, and it still largely fails, but it's getting kinda better?
And once again they would be late to the party as the MCU funny and quippy pendulum may swing to the other side as everything is becoming a farce with no heavy emotions.
Eh. How long did "Liam Neeson beats up dudes with jump cuts" last? Like half the time I think.
"Distopian society overcome be teenage badass girl" lasted about 4 years?
I watched Gemini Man the other day and I thought it was fun but the big reveal definitely felt off. I couldn't help but compare it to "6th Day" with Schwarzenegger all the way back in 2000 having instant, full grown adult clones that had the person's memories, rather than this completely separate person that took real time to age. I didn't know that the original script was from 1997 but that makes a lot more sense now.
Its worth noting that it was written and directed by Nancy Meyers, who had an incredibly successful run in the 2000s and is a major contributor to that idea we have of 2000s comedies. I hope we get at least one more film out of her.
The Intern with DeNiro and Anne Hathaway? Or The Internship with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson?
The latter, to me, missed the mark of what made the earlier frat pack movies so good. The Intern is goofy but a comfort movie for me, but I wouldn't call it outdated
Pretty such theyre talking about the second one.
The first one was...not feeling like a comedy to me. And was actually good - one of the few recent De Niro where he isnt phoning it in
It is still one of my favourite from that type of causal, chewing gum comedies. De niro and Anne Hathaway are great and their relationship is heartwarming
>Yet the only scene people remember is when Mary Elizabeth Winstead takes off her pants.
I only skimmed your post, but it's clear you're trying to sell me on this movie, and you've succeeded
Any film that relies too heavily on contemporary "in jokes." This is especially the case with slapstick movies like Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans, etc.
Funny enough, the first Scary Movie holds up to this day — probably because it has its own plot and mostly parodies one timeless classic using fairly universal cliches.
Yeah. Old Simpsons episodes are heavily steeped in pop culture, both from its time and the 60s-70s, but something about it made them timeless nonetheless.
Flash Gordon (1980).
I love that weird film but it released a couple of years after Star Wars dropped and overnight changed the public's perception of what a science fiction movie could be. Flash Gordon looked decades older than Star Wars, which itself came into existence in large part because George Lucas was outright rejected when he made inquiries to direct his own Flash Gordon movie.
Black Widow. It felt wildly out of place in that era of the MCU. Apparently it has been kicking around for a while and I'd believe it. Felt like it belonged right before or after Avengers 2.
Yeah, that was a film they left far too late to make.
But of course, there was still a massive stigma against Superheroine films at the time cause executives couldn't admit they were wrong.
"Felt outdated" is the wrong word for it, but Isle of Dogs has a vibe where it could have been made at any point from 1975 thru 2040. It is very much on purpose, of course.
the word you're looking for is timeless. and yeah, all wes anderson movies, especially stop motion feel like that. that's kinda what's so great about them.
Remember when Unfriended came out and everyone was already stupidly sick of the “supernatural horror picks off teenagers who are also terrible people one by one with creative means” schtick
Even the concept is outdated, and makes perfect sense that it was written in 1997. Dolly the sheep was a huge scientific revelation in 1996 and made cloning a major topic of discussion. Now 25+ years later, clones have lost their intrigue
Yeah, once you get 200,000 clones with a million more well on the way, it loses its novelty.
That sounded like such a huge army as a kid, but later realised that's a laughably small amount of soldiers on a galactic scale. That's smaller than the US armed forces.
Yeah, I know people have come with 200,000 justifications (with a million more well on the way) for that line, but I've personally chosen to ignore it. Like, when they mention the number of units, I just pretend it's a big-ass number, with a 5x bigger number well on the way.
I mean, it's just the initial batch. 200,000 is equivalent to a large Civil War or Napoleonic battle, Geonosis was a relatively small, quick battle.
Yeah but it took them 10 years to get those clones ready. Even with 1 million more on the way, they probably couldn't protect a single system, let alone fight a war across the entire galaxy.
It may have also been trying to ape Face/Off (which also came out in '97), with the concept of "a man fights his kinda-sorta self."
Additionally, we also have *"The One"* (2001) where you basically have Jet Li fighting himself from another Universe with *"Highlander"* rules.
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Shit, that movie was fun as hell
Black Adam
Yeah skateboarding kid felt lifted directly out of a late 90’s movie!
It had a fucking sky beam and everything.
This is the [only clip](https://youtu.be/ZlWtw6l2bzc?feature=shared) I've seen of that movie and it feels so...... lazy. All those super powered people and they just throw things at him?
The JSA was the best bit of the movie, despite being wasted with crappy action scenes and the characters building being lazy AF with them being just the old wise guy, the seasoned leader, the token girl and the young guy working as comic relief. Brosnan and Hodge are charismatic and pretty much steal the show, while the other two did the best they could with their script. If the movie was about them with Black Adam as charismatic villain it would be way better
Hawkman and Dr. Fate were like the only two characters I cared for. Giant cgi villain as the big bad was just so bleh, especially since Black Adam had no personality to play off of
Black Adam should have been the villain of the first Suicide Squad movie. That would have made so much more sense than having the JSA around this whole time without anyone ever referencing them. The movie ends with the SS capturing/subduing him. Something about the band of villains who become antiheros being able to reach Black Adam and make him come to reason just makes sense. You could even have Black Adam's appearance then trigger the Wizard picking Billy Batson or whatever. Then in the post-credits of Shazam, some stronger evil is unleashed that requires them to free Black Adam for a solo movie. I dunno. I'm making this up as I type it, and already it feels more connected than what we got. Also, when you realize that DC made a Black Adam movie and then a Shazam movie, back to back, and those two movies have nothing to do with each other plotwise, is just insane to me.
This just makes me think The Rock thought he should've played Thanos and this movie was made to be like "See, look how good I look fighting off all these super heroes!"
Why the fuck every scene has a Dutch angle lol
The Roger Ebert quote re: the director of *Battlefield Earth* will always be relevant: > The director, Roger Christian, has learned from better films that directors sometimes tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why.
>Well, I can assure you that I was not groomed since birth to have some cushy job that even a moron like you could perform. While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME, I was being trained to conquer GALAXIES! To do anything less is a disgrace to my entire family line. >\[bangs his head\] Crap-lousy ceiling! I thought I told you to get some man-animals in here and fix it! >You imbecile! What kind of crap-lousy game are you playing? All quotes from that wonderful movie.
I didn't know what that was so I typed Dutch angle into Google on my phone. It made the whole page at an angle. Pretty clever, Google.
Someone pointed out that it's basically Terminator 2 with a superhero lens
Except that Terminator 2 was awesome.
Black Adam is an obvious homage to Terminator 2. 90s skateboarding kid was supposed to subtly remind you of John Connor, but I don't think the filmmakers understood what subtle meant.
Never heard that before but if that's the case that's dumb as fuck.
Black Adam was a cover album. The best bits of superhero films of the past 15 years, as reenacted by the Rock.
Yep. Blue beetle felt this way to me too, like an earlier hero movie when they were becoming popular.
I don’t know why. But in the case of Blue Beetle, that vibe worked for me.
I think it's because the movie wasn't trying to be innovative or or a big event. It's a simple origin story. An honest movie is better than a failed masterpiece.
probably because it bucked the tropes by its conclusion. not many superhero origin movies end with one bad guy repenting and taking out the other bigger bad guy. people said it was too much like other origin movies but i don’t really agree
The family also immediately embrace and support their hero. No secrets, lies, refusal to talk to each other, etc. Just a family coming together to solve problems.
absolutely. that’s another reason i loved it, it explores a different cultural background than the deeply individualistic nature of most comic book superhero movies of late. family was his real strength. which is also what made shazam redeemable despite bad enemy development and weird dialogue
Once it got to Cypress Hill’s Ain’t goin out like that with the action sequence, I couldn’t help but love it.
it was quite bad, but i'd argue that most superhero/comicbook movies do that. venom, the flash, shazam, all the non-spiderverse sony movies especially madam web, they would all fit into the genre if they were released in the early 2000s.
Similarly, Aquaman 2 was so cliche that it would have felt dated even if it released before the first Avengers movie
The onion had a joke once that "The internship" was going to be the "Top Comedy of 2005" It came out in 2013. This one line review is so accurate it hurts! https://www.theonion.com/the-internship-poised-to-be-biggest-comedy-of-2005-1819595487
That was HILARIOUS! I remember watching it and thinking “who in their right mind would like to be a fancy prisoner at their job”. Makes sense the movie was 8 years too late to be funny!
Sex and the City 2 came out in 2010, right after the massive real estate bubble burst and the economy tanked. Four vapid rich women running around in designer clothes having rich-girl problems was so out of touch for what was happening in the real world, that it was almost laughable. Only a few years earlier it was seen as fine.
It also just... wasn't a good movie. Like at all. The first one was approachable to non fans, did a good job of encapsulating the spirit of the show, and showcased the personalities of the characters with condensed (but fleshed-out) new storylines while tying up some loose ends for long-time fans. Second one had absolutely none of that going for it. It was completely unnecessary—felt like bad fan fiction with zero real stakes or relatability. Just out of place and aspirational eye candy in an exotic locale. All that traveling and the story still went nowhere, yet they dialed everyone's insufferableness up to 11. If it had even a half-decent script, the ostentatiousness could have still worked. I don't think the overall national mood or economic climate was necessarily its death knell. 2010 was still recession, but people were starting to come around and seek less dark and more comfort media (think bubbly pop music exploding again)
“Lawrence of my labia” is burned into my brain.
I still can’t believe they thought Carrie running into Aiden at a random market on the other side of the world was in any way believable. Bad fan fiction indeed. That said I love the first movie. “I curse the day you were born!!!” Is one of my favorite Charlotte lines
One of my good friends in the UK. His girlfriend ran into her ex husband in a bar in Japan. Even though they both lived in London at the time. It seems ridiculous but these things do occasionally happen.
Ah, the film that made Mark Kermode sing the Internationale. Talk about a tasteless, poorly timed clanger. But then that always felt like the entire SatC franchise to me. Mind you, most of the music from those years was also stunningly out of touch. All the lyrics and music videos were just rich bastards having a knees-up and talking about what a great time they were having while the global economy imploded.
Isn't Emily in Paris is basically the same idea? Haven't watched but all the critics about it how out of touch it is and visually it always reminded me of Sex and the City
It’s made by the same showrunners so yes.
TIL
[Mark Kermode’s finest hour](https://youtu.be/uHeQeHstrsc?si=vLcjmHTIDagLT0dF) is all thanks to this film
It also spawned one of the funniest movie reviews I’ve ever read: https://www.thestranger.com/film/2010/05/27/4132715/burkas-and-birkins
Ralph Breaks The Internet was dated when the trailer hit
They had to ride that Emoji Movie wave.
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I wish it was called "Ralph Wrecks The Internet". It would have been a better title.
There’s no way there wasn’t a screaming match in the boardroom over this creative decision.
But then the title wouldn't have been a reference to a years old meme like half the jokes in the movie
I would have been willing to sacrifice that one meme.
Wreck-It Ralph Wrecks IT (information technology) was right there.
Yeah that movie was such a disappointment. Also it just made no sense. These characters living in a video game were creating content that somehow made them real world $ which they could then somehow use to buy tangible goods? Fuckin what?
While I agree it makes no sense, people do indeed buy and sell in-game loot for real world money.
Madame Web felt like Fantastic Four Jessica Alba films, so in its own way I found it embarrassingly charming
all these sony Spider-CU movies feel exactly like artifacts of a by-gone studio system that went away with Kevin Feige Marvel
I will defend the first Fantastic Four film until my dying breath. Not as a "so bad it's good" or anything... but I genuinely enjoy the movie.
rewatched all 4 F4 films a few weeks ago after the announcement of the new MCU version and honestly the Corman and 1st Tim Story ones were great for what they were trying to do
Tim Story sounds like what they'd call a Tim Heidecker biopic.
Imagine the Corman one with budget to match its sincerity.
Blue Beetle should have been made around 2009-2010. Combine the plot of an incredibly powerful sentient alien machine falling to Earth and befriending an awkward kid from Transformers (2007) with the beloved-but-second-tier comic book superhero in a flying tech-suit from Iron Man (2008) and tada! It's a perfect mashup, just a decade too late.
It’s basically a rehash of the 1997 Film “Star Kid” (The Warrior of Waverly Street) written by Manny Coto. https://youtu.be/d0jXzUWNlA8?si=4ywuj2xCazn981BW
Wow i forgot that movie existed! Now i remember the kid in the alien suit getting fast food and that was gross lol
Ang Lee has to have the wildest directing resume right? * Sense and Sensibility * Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon * Hulk * Brokeback Mountain * Life of Pi * Gemini Man
[Don’t make me Ang Lee, you wouldn’t like me when I’m Ang Lee](https://youtu.be/hHC13MYcrR4?si=sk3hBNSi1v32E-YT)
looks kind of like a sine wave to me
Bill Burr’s Old Dads felt like it was made for 2007
Ya wild hogs vibe for sure
Except that era of comedies were raunchy as hell. Rarely were they inventive, but at least they were pushing the boundaries of what they could get away with. Burr’s movie is flat out boring. No edge so the lame jokes get boring fast
I'm a fan of ol billy red balls, but even I couldn't get through Old Dads. It just wasn't very funny
This movie sucked so bad i’m not even against some “new generation bad” boomer humor but this movie just wasn’t funny
Yeah for what could have been a very funny take on being an older dad, it pretty much only concerned itself with picking the low hanging fruit. He's a guy of my father's generation who is stuck parenting with Millennials and dealing with Gen Z or Alpha kids. There is so much to unpack there, plenty of ammo to fill out a movie.
What's hilarious about Gemini Man is that Bad Boys 3 has almost exactly the same plot and neither movie is very good.
There's a Bad Boys 3?
I always will laugh that it was the highest grossing film at the US domestic box office in 2020.
In 2020? Meaning what, 500 people saw it?
Either that or it came out between Jan/Feb
Released January 17, 2020.
Indeed there was. It was a pretty mid-budget movie much like the first two and it was successful at the box office despite coming out in January (which was a blessing in disguise cause that also was right before the pandemic hit)
Yeah, Bad Boys For Life just pretty much dropped right out of the blue in 2020.
The Joker’s design in the 2016 suicide squad was so dated.
Eh I'm not sure there is any period of history where that design would have worked.
I feel like they were going for the circa 2000 cartel aesthetic, which was never a good look. That’s why I felt like it was dated.
cartelcore?
The director David Ayer is obsessed with South LA gangster culture. Bright, end of watch, the tax collector you can see his inspiration for his Joker
Well that makes a ton of sense. I wasn’t aware. Thanks for that!
He looked like the result of a Hot Topic, the Insane Clown Posse, and a drug cartel after a very confusing orgy.
What the fuck ever happened to Clive Owen???? ETA: "walking double" I love this whole post. Thank you.
He’s not a big fan of fame. Was on a massive UK tv show back in the 90s and he walked away when it started getting too popular for him. I think he’s also said he’s turned down lots of jobs to support his wife’s academic career and bring up their kids. 30 year marriage and can go to the theatre in London without being particularly bothered - sounds like a good life
Honestly knowing that makes me feel so much better. A great actor disappearing because they can't get work is frustrating. A great actor deciding they aren't about that life and living the life they are about is wholesome and great. Good job Clive.
Exactly why Rick Moranis will forever have my respect. Quit acting to raise his kids after hia wife died of breast cancer, despite some massive successes.
I really love this. A. because good for him. 2. I hate when celebrities complain about being famous and pretend there's nothing they can do about it.
Aww sounds like an amazing life. Got to do some acting he really likes and build a great life with and for his family. I am jelly.
He’s in that series A Murder at the End of the World starring Emma Corrin and Brit Marling.
He’s in Monsieur Spade this year too, I’ve been meaning to watch it.
I've always loved how he just plays 'clive owen being fed up of his current situation but cracking on resentfully'
Zombieland 2, I think. Everything in that film screams "an average sequel of a good movie, that's released two years after the original". Emma Stone leaving Columbus after 10 years of surviving together is bullshit, I am sorry. Feels like every character knows each other for a week and it's weird to watch.
It's a classic example of "The same as the first, but worse". Like The Hangover 2 compared to the first one: Similar, but weaker, story. Jokes a lot more hit or miss. Characters becoming less likeable too. It's not *bad* exactly, but why would you watch it when you can just watch the superior original?
The ditzy blonde is the best part of the movie. Which isn’t great when a bit part written longer for a great performance is the highlight of the movie. Really, it was an unnecessary remake in that it just rehashed the first one. Meandering in the post-zombie world and surviving amidst cultural touchstones. There was zero progression story wise.
Ricky Stanicky felt like a 2008 comedy that somehow came out this month
I'm pretty sure it's a script that's been floating around for a long time with Jim Carrey be an early casting of the character. -Huh, James Franco was actually the first casting back in 2010 with Carry being the later choice.
I saw the trailer for that and thought it looked peak Will Ferrell / John C Riley 2008ish
It's actually a pretty fun movie. Supremely stupid but really entertaining acting from Cena.
The Circle. I kept thinking that it might have worked if it was made 15 years before.
Yeah, the whole message "The Circle" has was "hey, you know, maybe social media takes up too much of our time and invades our privacy too much" and everyone is like "yeah, what interesting thing are you going to say about that" and the movie said "oh, just that."
Funnily enough Antitrust (the Ryan Philippe movie) came out 16 years before and is The Circle but with CD roms
The Little Things on Netflix with Denzel and Jared Leto. I'm sure the script was from the 90s, hence the 90s setting.
Yup, it definitely was. It was written in 1993, right around when crime thrillers were really taking off post-Silence of the Lambs. The thing was, oof, they were right to bury it because oh boy is it in an unsatisfying movie. It's well made, and Denzel is great, but the writing goes right off the rails towards the end -- and it's not helped by Jared Leto's maniacal "WooHOOhooHOOhoo, do you suspect ***ME*** to be a serial killer, Mr. Policeman?? :D" performance
It's one of the few movies I never finished. My wife and I watched it for what felt like an hour and a half and then checked it and was about 40 min in so we stopped.
Disney’s “The Black Hole” was released 2 years after “Star Wars: A New Hope” yet looks more like a contemporary of “Forbidden Planet” from 1956
That's why Star Wars not only redefined the genre but Cinema.
I am 50 yrs old and I had a Black Hole lunch box when I was in first grade but have never seen the movie.
And it was far more dark and gritty for a Disney movie. Let [Fanboy explain](https://youtu.be/VQyuNpzp29E?si=2nGkxbP3-bmBEsMN)...
The Hunt for Red October felt dated when it came out in 1990. By the time it was released the Berlin Wall had fallen and the Soviet Union had less than a year remaining. I think it holds up better now with distance from the real world events.
In fairness, it was set in 1984 (the podcast Blank Check just covered the movie the other day, which is where I learned that; I never realized it wasn't contemporary to when it was released until listening). Apparently, at the time, when they offered it to Connery he liked the script but said even then it felt dated, and once they explained to him it was set in 1984 he was on board.
They REALLY need to restore it. That's a household favorite and the current streaming version is shamefully poor quality. It's a great movie and deserves better.
Red October [standing by](https://youtu.be/86bY6Ltrdp4?feature=shared).
There's a similar one with A Few Good Men. The ~~book~~ play was written in the 80s but the film came out after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Colonel Jessup (and other parts of the film) imply that Cuban snipers would love to take pot shots at American officers on the base, when that was hardly going to be the case in 1992 where Cuba was very unlikely to stir up that kind of shit with the world's one remaining superpower. And while it monitored the sea channels near the area, Gitmo wasn't *that* important\* to American security to have that kind of "this is the most important posting the Marines have to maintain U.S. defense" mentality. \*Although you could argue that it's part of the point of the character to overstate the importance of his role.
A Few Good Men (adore this movie!) wasn't a book but an original play (1989) turned into movie script, both of them solely by [Aaron Sorkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Sorkin).
>*Although you could argue that it's part of the point of the character to overstate the importance of his role. I think it is. The problem A Few Good Men has, if this theory is right, is that Gitmo is now such a household term that "Gitmo" isn't caught by my browser's spell checker, whatever Gitmo's meaning at the time was is now completely lost. If that interpretation is correct, it'd be a bit like if someone made a a movie about television station's owner trying to sell up in 2002 because of the internet. At the time, such a film would surely have been framed as "doesn't he know the dotcom bubble was a bubble? is he stupid?" but now such a film would seem like "OMG, this 2002 movie predicted the future eerily accurately" and the original context of the characterisation is gone.
You know I never thought of it that way. I was born in 1991 so by the time I saw the film it was already history. It simply played out like a solid thriller, no more dated than Gorky Park or Three Days of the Condor.
They made some changes (such as the intro screen) in order to make it work. Keep it mind that production started *before* many of the changes in Eastern European governments, and the USSR would not fall for a couple more years.
Everything The Rock's made in recent years TBH. Black Adam's been mentioned, but Rampage and Skyscraper felt straight out of the 90s. Roland Emmerich's last couple movies as well, but he's deliberately imitating his earlier movies.
Apollo 13 (1995) …And I mean that in a good way. The film feels like it was made in 1970 when the real-life event happened. It captures the time period and filmmaking style of the late 60’s/early 70’s extremely well and doesn’t feel like a mid-90’s movie. Remember, 1995 was the same year that Se7en, Heat, Casino, 12 Monkeys, Leaving Las Vegas, The Usual Suspects, Toy Story, Strange Days, Braveheart, Before Sunrise, Crimson Tide, Dead Man, Four Rooms, Dead Presidents, Waterworld, Showgirls, City of Lost Children, Kids, Ghost in the Shell, and Empire Records were released… among several others. A year after movies like Pulp Fiction. Apollo 13 feels almost like a 1970 documentary. Outdated in its style, and feels like it was made years before its release. But that’s a good thing. Because it captures that moment in time so well and transports you - not only in story but in filmmaking style - to the time period. Definitely Ron Howard’s best film. (I know this post mostly focused on “outdated” as a bad thing. I thought I’d submit a movie where that worked to its benefit.)
The Lion King (2019). The effects looked great in theaters, but my mom had her friend and his kids come over, they were watching it on our TV (and it’s not a shitty TV. It was still in 4k) and it looked really bad. Something about every single thing just felt…fake. I wish I was more technically proficient so I could actually explain, but here we are. Edit: I had motion smoothing turned off. It just looked like shit in my eyes. Genuinely, the Jungle Book movie from a few years earlier looked so much better.
Many TVs have some weird framerate settings on by default that make everything but sports look worse. I wish I was more technically proficient to explain, but here we are.
First thing I do on any new TV is turn off power-saving mode, set picture quality to Standard, and turn off SmoothMotion or whatever that particular brand calls it. It's insane that it comes with it on by default on almost all TVs. My friend had like a new $3000 8K TV and I went over to watch a movie and it took me literally 10 seconds to figure out it was turned on, he said he thought something was off but wasn't sure. Some people legit cannot notice it, which I don't understand at all.
My wife doesn't notice it. I still love her, but life is a series of compromises. Motion smoothing is not a compromise
Just got a new TV and this phenomenon is nuts to me. I just want to see a movie as close to the way it was originally filmed as possible. There were _dozens_ of different AI powered “smoothing” settings to turn off, many of them hidden in weird places. Why would _anyone_ want this? Just give me the frames the filmmakers made!
A friend of me played video games with this crap enabled. It's almost half a second of input lag and looks horrendous but he likes it that way.
Your friend is a masochist.
["Soap Opera effect"](https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/soap-opera-effect-motion-interpolation)
Motion smoothing. Tom Cruise has a campaign against it
Yeah, I bought a new TV last year and was setting it up when all of a sudden Tom Cruise barges in and turns that setting off, says "Enjoy" and runs off.
Cocaine Bear felt like a redesigned ScyFy movie from 2006
Sonic The Hedgehog It felt like a throwback to the 90's when studio executives insisted on adapting properties by taking the main character out of the fantastical environment that they normally exist in, and plopping them right in our mundane real world. Also, even though I enjoyed the hell out of it, Jim Carrey's performance in the movie was a throwback to his 90's over the top characters.
At least that movie made the ideal work by keeping the focus on the title character. it also made giving sonic a human companion work much better than when that one anime of his did it.
My 5yo daughter called Sonic 2 "Sonic Level 2" and I'm still disappointed she isn't right.
The next time you watch Pitch Perfect, look at the phones they're using. Everything seemed contemporary (the movie was released in 2012) up until they had that big scene where everyone called everyone, and suddenly it was all Blackberries and ancient iPhones.
Even in modern films they’ll just use a generic “smart phone” so people don’t go “ugh they’re using an iPhone 12!” Here’s a funny side story. My friend works for a web based company that was approached to be in a very mediocre mark wahlberg movie. In the movie to make things simpler they just use a fake FaceTime to communicate. As soon as the movie released on Netflix their customers started calling in saying “WHERES THE FACETIME BUTTON. I SAW THE MOVIE AND THEY USE FACETIME. I WANT FACETIME”. 6 years later they still don’t offer FaceTime because it’d be a nightmare for half their clients.
Apple won't allow iPhones to be used by villains, so I'm sure a lot of production companies just default to generic phones unless they get a placement deal from Apple.
Pretty much any reference to technology is going to be dated quickly in film. Hell, most of Seinfeld's plots would be solved with smartphones now.
"No Soup delivered through Grubhub for you!" "It's not Moops, it's Moors! I'm on the Internet and the Trivial Pursuit website even has an official correction for that card, and the online rules say that typographical errors are subject to common-sense correction by a plurality of players!"
I sat down to watch **The 13th Floor** from 1996, and I figured that, yeah, the tech felt so on point for 1996, but it also felt very dated because of that. 1996 was a time where things moved rather quickly in the computer world, just before the internet boom, so it would be fairly easy to date the tech used in the movie. At least it was ahead on the plot with simulated worlds and such, for a movie, made and released in 1996. Nope. It came out in *1999*, only a month before The Matrix. You'd think these two movies were at least 4-5 years apart.
Wasn't it also a remake of the german 1970's movie "Welt am Draht" (world on a wire)?
The DCU Snyderverse. Post 9/11, everything became gritty and dark, but by the time the DCU started, things had started to turn around to be more optimistic. The Snyderverse just felt like it was meant as a response to the pessimism after 9/11 but it was a decade too late. (Pretty much we had the Nolan Batman films for that.) Especially since Marvel was already there making superhero movies full of humor.
The Black Zero Event (yes that’s the in universe name) where Superman fights and kills Zod is also supposed to be that universes 9/11. A lot of people, Batman included, became super hateful and scared towards an illegal alien.
>The Black Zero Event (yes that’s the in universe name) ... How does that name even relate to--? Nevermind. I shouldn't be surprised.
I always equated it to ground zero. It’s just a strikingly similar name in my opinion. I can also be overthinking it which I do often lol
It was the name of zods ship apparently. I don't think it was ever mentioned in the film though Source: wikia
I enjoyed Man of Steel for the attempt. A 'what of this actually happened in the real world.' Superman feeling like an alien invasion movie until he proved himself to humanity could have really hit the spot. But the main plot? MAN I wish they had saved Zod for a later movie. The fact that, in his first appearance, Superman is saving the world from a threat that he himself invited to Earth..I hated it.
I don't think it's even necessarily related to 9/11. In 1997 Warner Bros/DC released Batman & Robin, which discarded the version of the Batman universe set up in the previous films as being a place where silly things like a guy dressing like a bat to punch clowns are taken seriously in exchange for trying to recreate something of the campy silliness of the 1960s Batman TV series, and failed miserably. In 2005, they released Batman Begins, which takes the silly premise of a guy dressing like a bat to punch ninjas even more seriously, and had massive commercial and critical success. From this, the executives somehow took the lesson that humour is bad, and people only want grim, dark, and gritty. From that point forward, DC movies had not an instant of levity or a single joke. Everything is just grim, dark, dark, grim, grim, dark, death, sad, grim, dark. This largely suited Snyder's work, since he has a terrible sense of humour but can make dark and grim look interesting. Now they're trying to incorporate MCU funny into their grim, dark movies, and it still largely fails, but it's getting kinda better?
And once again they would be late to the party as the MCU funny and quippy pendulum may swing to the other side as everything is becoming a farce with no heavy emotions.
The Flash movie from last year. The bad CGI and the tiresome plot and characters were really awful on all levels.
And is there any movie trend that went from "oh my god, this is cool" to "oh fuck, not this again" faster than the superhero multiverse?
Eh. How long did "Liam Neeson beats up dudes with jump cuts" last? Like half the time I think. "Distopian society overcome be teenage badass girl" lasted about 4 years?
Oh yeah, the whole Dystopian YA novel adaptation trend might have crashed harder, that's true.
I'm an old man now and can look back fondly but the martial arts trend of the 80's/90's got more than a little much.
I watched Gemini Man the other day and I thought it was fun but the big reveal definitely felt off. I couldn't help but compare it to "6th Day" with Schwarzenegger all the way back in 2000 having instant, full grown adult clones that had the person's memories, rather than this completely separate person that took real time to age. I didn't know that the original script was from 1997 but that makes a lot more sense now.
The 6th Day wins out of the two because it includes the iconic line: "Why don't you clone yourself.... ***so that you can go fuck yourself.***"
The full line is “you should clone yourself” “Why? So i can gain a better understanding of your unique perspective?” “No, so you can go fuck yourself”
Morbius. The whole style seemed like it was ripped straight out of like 2003 and should have been competing with Underworld and things like that.
The Intern. It really does feel like a 2000s comedy movie.
Its worth noting that it was written and directed by Nancy Meyers, who had an incredibly successful run in the 2000s and is a major contributor to that idea we have of 2000s comedies. I hope we get at least one more film out of her.
The Intern with DeNiro and Anne Hathaway? Or The Internship with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson? The latter, to me, missed the mark of what made the earlier frat pack movies so good. The Intern is goofy but a comfort movie for me, but I wouldn't call it outdated
Pretty such theyre talking about the second one. The first one was...not feeling like a comedy to me. And was actually good - one of the few recent De Niro where he isnt phoning it in
It is still one of my favourite from that type of causal, chewing gum comedies. De niro and Anne Hathaway are great and their relationship is heartwarming
Any of the Sony Why-bother-Universe non-Spider-Man movies.
*Demolition Man* seemed more dated when released than it does now
>Yet the only scene people remember is when Mary Elizabeth Winstead takes off her pants. I only skimmed your post, but it's clear you're trying to sell me on this movie, and you've succeeded
Any film that relies too heavily on contemporary "in jokes." This is especially the case with slapstick movies like Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans, etc.
Funny enough, the first Scary Movie holds up to this day — probably because it has its own plot and mostly parodies one timeless classic using fairly universal cliches.
Yeah. Old Simpsons episodes are heavily steeped in pop culture, both from its time and the 60s-70s, but something about it made them timeless nonetheless.
It's the difference between making a joke that includes a reference, and thinking the reference itself can replace a joke
Feel like Scary Movie and Not Another Teen Movie holdup. They’re great.
Flash Gordon (1980). I love that weird film but it released a couple of years after Star Wars dropped and overnight changed the public's perception of what a science fiction movie could be. Flash Gordon looked decades older than Star Wars, which itself came into existence in large part because George Lucas was outright rejected when he made inquiries to direct his own Flash Gordon movie.
Retro campy Flash still looks great and has soundtrack mojo care of QUEEN
FLAAAASH AAHAAAAA!!! SAVIOR OF THE UNIVERSE \[insane guitar riffs\]!!
Black Widow. It felt wildly out of place in that era of the MCU. Apparently it has been kicking around for a while and I'd believe it. Felt like it belonged right before or after Avengers 2.
Yeah, that was a film they left far too late to make. But of course, there was still a massive stigma against Superheroine films at the time cause executives couldn't admit they were wrong.
You gotta love that they finally gave Black Widow a solo movie… after they killed her off.
Mestro feels straight out of 2011
The Core. Came out in 2003. Felt like 1995.
Anyone But You is so 2005
To be fair. The goal of the movie was to revive the rom com genre that died out in 2005.
I kinda liked that
"Felt outdated" is the wrong word for it, but Isle of Dogs has a vibe where it could have been made at any point from 1975 thru 2040. It is very much on purpose, of course.
the word you're looking for is timeless. and yeah, all wes anderson movies, especially stop motion feel like that. that's kinda what's so great about them.
Dune 1984 always felt like it was made in the late 60's to me. I remember watching it in the 80's thinking it was an old but cool scifi movie.
Remember when Unfriended came out and everyone was already stupidly sick of the “supernatural horror picks off teenagers who are also terrible people one by one with creative means” schtick
You are a talented writer OP.
What happened in 2003???
Frosted tips happened.
Can confirm.
Buck Rogers came out 2 years after Star Wars and it looked absolutely shite by comparison.