Damn...
Part of what makes the internet wonderful is being able to access movies from all eras. Why limit yourself to only new stuff?
As an aside, the OG Little Shop of Horrors still holds up IMO.
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Right? I am constantly watching shit from before my parents were even born. Shits well done yo
James Cagney still slaps
Unless a movie is horribly dated with jargon and references, or wildly out of place social issues*, any good movie should still be good.
*even something that has something like racism or misogyny in it might still be worth watching if those issues can be framed as something that should be seen as how we used to do things and why we don’t do them like that anymore.
That's such a stupid take. The 90s and early 2000s were literally the golden age of feature movies. IMDB has 58 movies rated 8.5 or higher, 24 of those were released in the 15 years between 1990 and 2004. That's about 41.4% and includes classics like Shawshank, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction and of course the LotR trilogy.
Must suck not allowing yourself to enjoy anything from the past, and only allowing yourself to watch the slop they make today. There's so many great old shows and movies to pick from.
It was the best of times,
It was the worst of times.
i had a whiskey drink, I had a vodka drink.
Red Dwarf!
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I feel like movies haven't changed much at all since around mid 90s. Like as long as current day fashion doesn't appear in the movie, then i don't see how a person would even be able to tell if a movie came out today vs. twenty years ago.
Easy: the effects got worse /hj
Effects have gotten better, but they've made everything else worse. Costume? Add it in post. Proper lighting? Add it in post. The entire set? Add it in post.
Add second screen syndrome and every new movie and TV show is perfect to have on in the background while you scroll through Facebook
Effects CAN be better, but studios often don't give them enough time anymore, so they get rushed and can often look worse than stuff they did 20 years but took their time on.
The corridor digital guys have a video where they compare what an animator can do for a shot given 5 minutes, 5 hours, 5 days.
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There's actually quite a lot that's changed in cinema since then. Since digital cameras and effects are incredibly common these days, we light everything very flatly so that it's easier to change in post without reshoots. It makes lighting abysmally bad. (See wicked where the actress in vibrant green makeup looks a little grey the entire movie).
Pacing is also much faster, there's more emphasis on not confusing audiences rather than letting things have mystery. Dialogue is more quippy rather than grounded.
Oh! And since there's no more mid-budget movies, there's a whole lot less comedies running around. Everything is either high budget, wall-to-wall action or grounded indie films with very little in-between.
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The pacing got much faster over time. Comparing LotR with a new MCU film, you clearly notice the shift. (Admittedly, LotR was a little slower than the average movie at the time)
That's not a valid comparison, lotr was waaaay slower and longer than movies of its time. If you want to compare against a modern mcu movie then you have to compare to a similar type of movie, like for example even years before lotr look at men in black from 1997
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I feel like if you're comparing it to modern movies, the MCU isn't really fare. Compare it to Dune maybe. I'd guess the new Dune is still paced faster with more action, but I'm not really sure. They're probably not that dissimilar. Probably the biggest difference is Dune (part 2 in particular) has a constant building of tension, with no release until the end. LotR builds and releases tension in cycles.
Arguably Dune should be even slower than LotR, as almost all the action in the Dune books is at best mentioned, but it isn't focused on. Meanwhile the new Dune movies, especially the second, added a ton of fighting that wasn't in the books and doesn't really fit the story of the books. The LotR books are slow, but it does give quite a bit of detail on fights and battles.
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Cellphones changed shape.
90s movies did not have 'MillenialSpeak' / 'Marvel-isms'. They had cheesy one-liners. Which were better.
Club scenes are no longer filled with Goths, they're filled with Jocks and Popular Girls.
Scores are generally much less unique and interesting these days.
More frantic pacing, contemplation is not allowed, outside of arthouse films.
I REALLY hate the new fight montages where they jumpcut every punch like in Matrix 4. They never let it settle enough for you to get your berings, feels like it's just a rabid weasel with a gopro starapped to it.
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After Sept 11 films moved into the superhero fantasy land en masse, where good guys swoop in from the skies and save the US.
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It's still hilarious to me that CGI peaked with pirates of the Caribbean.
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Unironically.
Saving Private Ryan came out in 1998.
Matt Damon was born in 1970.
So he was 28. He is now about 27 years older, so about 55.
Dogma was a fun movie too, especially with alan rickman as metatron.
my lord that's depressing lol.
When people think something from 2014 is "old" i laugh in their face as I crank up my 1899 Edison victrola.
Even as a kid I never viewed something old unless it was 60+ years in the past.
I know a highschooler that won't watch anything from before 2000, won't watch lotr for other reasons like broken attention span.
A marathon of the extended editions is exactly what they need. Phone locked away during viewing.
Tied down, eyes fixed open like in Clockwork Orange? I named that setup the appreciation chair.
Did this with my 16yo a couple months back. She was sick last week and marathoned them again on her own.
I was so proud
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They'll throw a fit and then sulk if you do that lol
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Yet another “look at me being all young and shit! Aren’t I cute?” meme. So much traction from these recently.
At least LOTR has not been rebooted every 5-10 years like some Marvel/DC movies.
Even if there's probably someone itching to make a gritty reboot of LOTR.
Rebooting is a proud tradition in the superhero comic book genre.
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