I can easily recognise 80s movies, 90s movies... and maybe 2000s movies. Now that 2010s movies are already a decade old, can you instantly recognise them when you stumble over one you have never seen before?
shareThey are either superhero CGI movies or liberal propaganda. Or maybe both.
shareJokes aside, maybe we will move on from teal and orange tinted look sometimes in mid 2020s....
80s movies are reddish.
90s movies are still kinda reddish, but fashion look totally different from the 80s.
2000s movies are blueish.
2010s movies are orange and teal.
cant say I've ever noticed that.
shareIt doesn't work as well, because much of that decade is only a couple years old, and what's new hasn't had time to develop to show the distinction. Sure 2010 was 10 years ago, but 2018 wasn't.
shareGood point. Still hard to recognise 2010 and 2011. Even late 2000s movies are still hard.
CGI doesn't advance as fast as I would like. Watching Iron Man (2008) in 2021 is still very acceptable. The quality of the CGI is basically as good as Endgame. The difference was just the scope. Endgame has bigger, more extravagant CGI, but the quality itself is not improving really much.
I would think that with the computing power we have today compared to 10-12 years ago we would have leaps and bounds more convincing CGI.
I definitely see a difference in CGI thats 10+ years old, for sure thats part of it. I recently watched Titanic again (20+ years old now!) and I was startled at how shitty some of the cgi was, because it was known for being a fx powerhouse at the time. Things like improvements on deepfake aging and de-aging will get so much better, we'll definitely see that as a dated technology soon.
share20+ years of course. I thought CGI woild never surpass Toy Story (1995) like it was a pinnacle of CGI. We would never need better CGI than that!
I watched it again (to show my kid after he saw Toy Story 4 in 2019) and it was baaaaaaaadd. Like super baaaaaaadd. Everything is so empty and has no detail. I was reminded how far CGI has become.
But for less than 10 years old CGI, I don't see too much improvements. Like I mentioned, Iron Man from 2008 still looks very acceptable. The Amazing Spider-Man from 2013 still looks good enough.
Face animation tho' improved a lot. The Incredible Hulk (also from 2008) looked bad because The Hulk has a face, unlike Iron Man or Spider-Man.
That said, even in the new Star Wars, CGI face still look kinda bad, so there is improvement for sure, but not as advanced as I would like to see.
I think the CGI is fine , is just when its used to portray some crazy or impossible stuff
you know its cgi and kind of subconsciously misinterpret this for bad quality CGI
“2010 was 10 years ago, but 2018 wasn't.”
What is this strange mathematical trickery you’re trying to foist upon us?
Clothing styles have remained more or less unchanged since the mid 1990s. Watch a show from 1998 and then watch one from 2018; the differences aren't that drastic.
Go watch a show such as The Brady Bunch and the differences are laughingly obvious.
I think fashion does change from the late 90s. In late 90s baggy jeans were all the rage, in early 2000s fashion went toward slick monotone color and tighter fit.
Differences with the 70s and 80s (and early 90s) fashion is that it would look totally stupid to wear 80s fashion in the late 90s, but wearing early 2000s fashion today is somewhat more acceptable. I guess.
I can imagine if I see people dressed as if they were Dawson's Creek characters today, I would maybe notice them, or maybe not. Perhaps the baggy jeans would give it away, but overall, not too ridiculous. Yeah, seems appropriate.
> Differences with the 70s and 80s (and early 90s) fashion is that it would look totally stupid to wear 80s fashion
Not just the clothing. My college years were in the early and mid 1980s. I pulled out one of my college yearbooks the other day and looked at it. Funny how you forget some things. For young women it was the age of Big Hair.
Ah, yes! The big hairs. Men also have matching big hair at the time. Everyone wanted to sport hair like He-Man lol.
Late 90s hairstyle would be like the straightened and slicked, Jennifer Aniston's Rachel style. Still looks pretty good even in 2021.
On my campus the guys didn't go for big hair that much. It was at the height of the preppie craze, so most had short, neatly cropped hair. There were some like me who rebelled against the fashion, and we had our hair somewhat longer, but we didn't try to fluff it up or anything.
But the girls ... I can only imagine what mornings in their showers must have been like. Mousse it! Blow dry it! Brush it out! Spray it! Volume, volume, volume! The crazy thing is, when I look at the pictures now they seem ridiculous, but back then they looked perfectly normal and natural.
Not true! I notice the fashion instantly.
shareClothing styles have remained more or less unchanged since the mid 1990s. Watch a show from 1998 and then watch one from 2018; the differences aren't that drastic.
I agree , also nothing else has changed , apart from technology and the results of that - like online culture and walking round in real life with phone glued to face.
Nothing bigs happened in music , or architecture , or car design or ...
Could it be the presence of emojis on phones? Texting shown? I don't know. It'll be interesting to regard in ten years.
sharePhones screen size is definitely a clue. In 2010s phones had VERY small screens. I still have my iPhone 5S (released in 2013) and when I recently played with it for no reason, it feels like a toy. So tiny!
shareTechnology is an excellent point. Those flip phones instantly date movies to me.
sharei guess all the hangover and bridesmaids type ripoffs and sequels with those stars and marvel movies
shareHaha.. yeah that's true! How did those movies even popular to begin with lol. Just like the underground-fighting-tournament-to-the-death genre of the 80s. So many of those!
shareGenres will always come and go. And while I love comic book movies, they wont last forever. Like renegade cop movies from the 80s, or sword and sorcery movies from the 80s, and definitely martial arts 80s movies. The 90s had a lot of magical realism movies, like Bagger Vance, Pleasantville, Meet Joe Black, Bedazzled, Donnie Darko, Green Mile, Edward Scissorhands, etc... where now we have much more genre focused fantasy and sci-fi. I miss movies like that.
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Not yet. We need 10-15 years to start to notice things seeming quite different to the present. The gap probably was only 5 years up until 2000, but now the changes are more subtle.
Certain genres will age quicker than others.
We need 10-15 years to start to notice things seeming quite different to the present
Thats true , so we can evaluate up to 2005 ish
80s - big hair and shoulder pads and high waist jeans finished about 92
92 - 2005 all samey post 80s
2005 to now - same (although like you say need time to make sure of that)