I was in high school when this was made and I can't help but notice that there's a certain early 2000's "look"...and suddenly it dawned on me that I'm now old enough to have had a generational "look" or "style" that has passed....holy crap! Is it what we used to think of the 80's??
shareYup, it has a pretty distinctive 2000 feel to it.
The '90s kids noticed it with the '80s kids, the '80s with the '70s, the '70s with the '60s, and so forth. Time marches on, so one can never really escape "dated" movies... and the people who whine about "old movies" being crap will soon realize that the stuff they're watching today will too be looked upon as old crap just a few years into the future. Funny how time plays games with you the minute you're out of high school.
I like watching Westerns and guessing the date of the movie by looking at everyone's hair. Like how cowboys suddenly grew thick hair in the 70s and sometimes long locks in the 2000s.
shareI never understood the dated notion some people have. One of my favorite films (and it has been since I was around 10) was from the 1920's and I was born several decades after that. Maybe I just view it as a film that takes place in a certain time period and can leave it at that (I still think it would be amazing to see some silent films made, Oblivion on blu-ray with just the audio track is quite the experience, and it would be interesting to see what the result would be if a large budget film made today was done as a silent film).
Admittedly film making has been becoming more precise over the years (the last ten years in particular). This isn't something I would call dating the film though and is something I think only the minority are particularly aware of (most after watching Alien for example don't think "some of that folly work was less then stellar", a minority of film fanatics probably do though).
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The way in which this has dated badly is that much of TV has become visually much more sophisticated and cinematic over the last decade. This is as blandly directed as TV movies on Lifetime or Hallmark used to be, flatly lit and not an ounce of style. Shame, because the screenplay is a decent adaptation, if one ignores the ending and the performances are fine, even if they don't make you forget those of the 1976 film.
shareIt looks dated because everything today is shot on digital. Apart from that the late 90s early 2000s are virtually indistinguishable from 2013 fashion/music/culture wise. The 80s, 70s, and 60s had distinctive looks and feels, but the late 90s till now is way tooo similar to today. Maybe in another 10 yrs things will change enough for that period to look dated.
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It's one of my biggest pet peeves when people complain that an older movie looks "dated." Of course it looks dated because it is dated. If you think a movie from 1964 is going to look like it was made in 2013 then you must be crazy. But that being said, everything we're watching now will be "dated" 20 or 30 years from now so it will be interesting to see how the people who complain about older movies feel when their favorite movies are dated looking.
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It's one of my biggest pet peeves when people complain that an older movie looks "dated." Of course it looks dated because it is dated. If you think a movie from 1964 is going to look like it was made in 2013 then you must be crazy. But that being said, everything we're watching now will be "dated" 20 or 30 years from now so it will be interesting to see how the people who complain about older movies feel when their favorite movies are dated looking.
Yes, I actually like films more when they have a " '60s feel," " '70s feel," " '80s feel"...etc. because it makes me feel like I'm really there in the time period it was made. So in my experience, being "dated" makes a film better and the experience more authentic. I came across someone on another board once talking about how an album was dated and it was released in 2008. I think with technology being the way it is now, things are getting "old" to the new generation faster than ever before and nothing has any longevity anymore which is very sad. Every movie and song has such a short shelf life now.
I've been waiting for you, Ben.
This film is set in 2002. It's not meant to be timeless and doesn't simply have the "Present Day" timeline on it. It's meant to be set in 2002 so it should come across like it was made in 2002
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Being old isn't the same as dated. Obviously old movies look old, but we can still like them. "Dated" refers to movies that could only be liked in the era they were made.
shareWell, I can't think of a single movie that would fit that description. Except maybe those Scary Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie-type parodies with constant pop culture references. 10 years from now, nobody watching those films for the first time is going to know or even care what Britney Spears was doing back in 2007 so they obviously won't get the jokes and that's the whole point of those movies. Other than that, I can't think of any movies that could only be liked in the era they were made.
I've been waiting for you, Ben.
The movies in this list (except for the last one) are good examples:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/extremely_loud_and_incredibly_close/ne ws/1924581/total_recall_worst-reviewed_best_picture_nominees
I think it's dated worse than the 1976 version.
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