• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Yes.

    And I was old enough to remember going to the movies in 1995.

    Not by myself, but dad took us to see some.

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    Based on when I was young, I basically thought of anything from before I was born as “old”. Not consciously, just that everything from “my” decade seemed modern, and everything else was old.

    Even now, movies from 20+ years ago look old, even though I remember them being super new when they came out. The Matrix had aged pretty well, but it defintely looks old. I thought LOTR was timeless, but I rewatched it recently and did start to feel it was showing it’s age (but none the worse for it!).

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    As much as I hate to admit it, yes. That’s 30 years ago now.

    Think of it like this… If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.

    🤯

    Movies from 1955 were old in 1985, so movies from 1995 are old now.

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          16 hours ago
          Doc:
          Tell me, Future Boy, who's President of the United States in 1985?
          
          Marty:
          Ronald Reagan.
          
          Doc:
          Ronald Reagan? The actor? [rolls his eyes] Ha! Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady?
          
          Marty:
          Whoa, wait. Doc!
          
          Doc:
          And Jack Benny is Secretary of the Treasury!
          
          Marty:
          Doc, you gotta listen to me!
          
          Doc:
          I've had enough practical jokes for one evening! Good night, future boy! [slams door]
          
  • richieadler 🇦🇷@lemmy.myserv.one
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    Yesterday I re-watched Copycat. Part of the suspense fell on the main character not having a cell phone and the would-be killer cutting the land line.

    It felt… weird.

    And yes, it was old 😢

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      Colin Farrell in Phone Booth perfectly captured that early 2000’s feeling of where we were, technologically.

      1998’s You’ve Got Mail does, too.

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    If you watched it when it was new, you are now old. Therefore by the transitive property, the movie is also old.

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    Absolutely. It’s from the time when families used to share a single phone! That they glued to the wall!!

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      Meanwhile in 2025, I’m deciding if I need to wall mount my bidet remote for “anti theft” purposes

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    1995 was 30 years ago.
    In 1995, 30 year old movies would have been made in 1965, and in the 90s we would have absolutely considered movies made in the 60s to be “old”.
    So, I’d say yes, movies made in 1995 could be considered old.

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    I think it depends on the movie

    If, after 30 years it still has a lot of cultural relevance, I’d think of it as a “classic” movie.

    If it doesn’t, if it hasn’t aged well and/or faded into obscurity, I think it’s fair to think of it as an old movie.

    Probably around '95, I would have been watching Star Wars for the first time. It didn’t feel like an old movie to me then and it still doesn’t to this day. Other movies from that same era haven’t aged quite as well and felt “old” to me.

    Looking at some of the top movies from '95, some of them are just as enjoyable or relevant today as they were when they released, others feel dated and not relevant to me today.

    It’s going to depend on your personal tastes and experiences of course. I can also sprinkle in a lot of platitudes like “you’re only as old as you feel” and “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”

    I think there’s also room for some overlap. There’s classic movies that also feel dated. I think some movies can be both old and classics. You’d be pretty hard-pressed to find someone who wouldn’t agree that, for example, Casablanca, isn’t old, but I think that just about everyone agrees that it’s also a classic. Where the line is is pretty murky.