View Full Version : Movies that have (but mainly that haven't) aged well
Daniel from Montréal
07 Jan 2006, 08:29 PM
Someone mentionned "Scanners" in another thread. I saw it recently and it really hasn't aged well (soooooooooo 80's).
One that has aged well IMO is the Blues Brothers.
Howard Zinn
07 Jan 2006, 08:56 PM
Hasn't aged well, IMHO: Pulp Fiction.
Aged very well: alot of movies that I'm not going to take the trouble to name because they are obvious.
Chicago1871
07 Jan 2006, 09:26 PM
It's obvious, but you have to say that Animal House is pretty timeless.
afgrijselijkheid
08 Jan 2006, 06:44 AM
Hasn't aged well, IMHO: Pulp Fiction.
:confused:
bearing in mind that PF is only 11 years old, care to expand on this opinion?
bigredfutbol
08 Jan 2006, 01:35 PM
Raising Arizona hasn't aged well, IMHO. I used to love that movie--now, I can't imagine sitting through it.
Nanbawan
08 Jan 2006, 04:29 PM
Top Gun is strange to watch now.
Craps
08 Jan 2006, 11:29 PM
Top Gun is strange to watch now.
and why is that?
eneste
09 Jan 2006, 09:03 AM
The dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
Val1
09 Jan 2006, 09:58 AM
American Werewolf in London. Hard to believe this was the must-see movie when I was in school and that this was supposed to be David Naughton's coming out as more than the Dr Pepper guy, but he'll always be just a Pepper to me.
I re-watched this a couple of months ago and gave up on it...
Pints
09 Jan 2006, 10:04 AM
The Fog.
I saw it when I was a young kid and thought it was great.
Re-watched it last night and fell asleep.
Salem's Lot
Saw it when i was young and thought it was incredibly scarey, just re-watched and felt sorry for my former self.
bojendyk
09 Jan 2006, 10:14 AM
In high school, I thought that Wild at Heart was brilliant. Oops on that one. Blue Velvet has held up well, however.
Ghost
09 Jan 2006, 10:38 AM
Hasn't aged well, IMHO: Pulp Fiction.
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Though amusing, maybe it simply wasn't that great a film to start out with.
Blade Runner is the clssic example of a relatively recent film that aged well.It must have seemed somewhat incomprehensible when it first came out,but technological advancement has brought some ofits themes into better focus.
I would say Oliver Stone films haven't aged particularly well. I've always liked Nixon, but Platoon isn't that brilliant, and who even thinks of Born on the Fourth of July?
minorthreat
09 Jan 2006, 12:17 PM
[FONT=Comic Sans MS]American Werewolf in London.I'm trying so hard to resist a Warren Zevon reference here...
Traffic hasn't aged well, I don't think.
bojendyk
09 Jan 2006, 12:32 PM
Traffic hasn't aged well, I don't think.
I didn't think it was that great in the first place. Soderbergh is perhaps the most overrated filmmaker of his generation. Nothing is really terrible (although I haven't seen Kafka since its original release; that one may indeed suck), but nothing is really great either. His silly genre pictures, like Out of Sight, are actually better than his "art" flicks.
I suspect that Sex, Lies, and Videotape hasn't aged well at all, either. At the time, it was considered a pretty major event.
Ghost
09 Jan 2006, 12:49 PM
Traffic was not very good in the first place. It was pretty silly. Gaghan is great with dialogue, but his television script mentality is a big problem, moreso here than in Syriana, but still present there.
Generally, I don't think that political films age well. They're too anchored in the moment.
bojendyk
09 Jan 2006, 12:56 PM
Traffic was not very good in the first place. It was pretty silly. Gaghan is great with dialogue, but his television script mentality is a big problem, moreso here than in Syriana, but still present there.
Generally, I don't think that political films age well. They're too anchored in the moment.
I'm inspired to start a thread on political films in the politics section. There are exceptions, but I generally agree. The best political films seem to be allegories.
Claymore
09 Jan 2006, 01:06 PM
Gregory's Girl
Yeah, it was kind of a film-school project to begin with, but I watched it the other night and just cringed.
Claire Grogan still makes me feel all wobbly, though.
minorthreat
09 Jan 2006, 01:34 PM
I didn't think it was that great in the first place. Soderbergh is perhaps the most overrated filmmaker of his generation. Nothing is really terrible (although I haven't seen Kafka since its original release; that one may indeed suck), but nothing is really great either. His silly genre pictures, like Out of Sight, are actually better than his "art" flicks.
I suspect that Sex, Lies, and Videotape hasn't aged well at all, either. At the time, it was considered a pretty major event.I agree about Soderbergh being overrated, yeah.
And as far as political films not aging well, I don't know about that. I think that long after the Iraq war is over, Control Room will still be relevant. Furthermore, Fog of War was great, and McNamara's career has been over for decades.
bigredfutbol
09 Jan 2006, 01:59 PM
The best political films seem to be allegories.
That's one reason why I think "The Conversation" holds up so well, even though it's very much 'of' the Watergate era.
chad
09 Jan 2006, 02:17 PM
Dr. Strangelove sure holds up well.