Movies That Haven't Aged Well

[ER]

Forrest Gump

Crash

History of the World Part 1

A Clockwork Orange

Jaws

The Amityville Horror

The Alamo (1960)

Lair of the White Worm

Pretty Woman

Beverly Hills Cop

Shakespeare in Love

Arthur

The Help

[Alex]

Moulin Rouge

[ER]

I almost mentioned Mouin Rouge but thing is when I first saw it I really liked it, and I've been afraid to see it since, hearing it blasted on so much as dated and silly now.

You know another movie that's going to be blasted to death soon and forever is Bohemian Rhapsody, which made the mistake of outraging all the vicarious straight defenders of gay culture.

[Alex]

I and Kristi watched it together a while back and both of us thought the same thing.

[ER]

Watched which one?

[Alex]

Moulin Rouge. Bohemian Rhapsody I thought was well acted but dull.

[bob]

High Anxiety

I'll second Crash

[zombie no.one]

WAYNE'S WORLD and both BILL & TED movies. yes I know they're aimed at kids n teens but they're borderline embarrassing to watch now imo

A Clockwork Orange

Jaws

Lair of the White Worm

disagree with these 3 !

JAWS always enthralls me. LAIR I rewatched again a few weeks ago and found it just as entertainingly absurd/campy as ever... CLOCKWORK I find still intriguing and original.

[claws]

Great films that have not aged well according to grunge.com

Braveheart (1995)
Hackers (1995)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
GoldenEye (1995)
Peter Pan (1953)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
You've Got Mail (1998)
Cellular (2004)
The Lawnmower Man (1992)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Phone Booth (2002)
Sneakers (1992)
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Dr. No (1962)
Wayne's World (1992)
Back To The Future II (1989)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Weird Science (1985)
She's All That (1999)
The Net (1995)
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)
Man of Steel (2013)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Personally, I'll have to go with My Bloody Valentine (1981). As much as I enjoy the movie, it is such a product of its time (can't believe I just typed that). It doesn't help that most of the actors look like porn actors stuck in fashion hell, either. As a bonus, there's also a strong "local" flavor going on.

Jaws 2 (1978) I don't get as far as fashion goes. It was 1978, and disco was at its peak



yet the teenagers in Jaws 2 display no sense for style or fashion whatsoever. They are dressed up like their grandmoms picked their clothing - an eyesore of bland, functional and boring.

[zombie no.one]

grunge.com has a questionable definition of 'great'...

[RCMerchant]

^ "Man of Steel (2013)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)"

How does that work? I mean. cripes- 2016?  It's not even 4 years old!
That's like saying to a toddler- "You haven't aged well."

[RCMerchant]

grunge.com has a questionable definition of 'great'...

And how does a period piece like the INDIANA JONES movie- which is set in 30's, supposed to look like? Or LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM? Or Peter PAN? It's a fantasy cartoon!

Makes no since.
Now DRACULA AD 1972 was dated the very next YEAR!
Or something with topical humor- like old Saturday Night live skits- do not age well.

[claws]

^ "Man of Steel (2013)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)"

How does that work? I mean. cripes- 2016?  It's not even 4 years old!
That's like saying to a toddler- "You haven't aged well."

Superman is timeless: a morally righteous superhero with respect for all and a desire to always do the right thing. But his most recent movies — Man of Steel and Dawn of Justice — retain a major part of Superman's identity that seems downright quaint now. When disguised as mild-mannered Clark Kent, Supes still works at a physical newspaper company, despite the past decade-plus rendering them adorably obsolete, if not nearly extinct.

In Superman lore, both in the comics and the new DCEU films, Superman takes a job at The Daily Planet in order to track crime. If the Planet breaks a story about a bank robbery, he can just become Superman, zoom off to save the day, and somehow not get fired for taking long, unannounced coffee breaks every couple hours. That makes sense, except this is the age of the internet, Superman doesn't need to pretend to be somebody else, and he definitely doesn't have to work with ink and paper. He just needs to subscribe to various local news feeds, and the second his phone dings an alert that Zod is wreaking havoc on Main Street, it's Superman to the rescue. No weird glasses or awkward-fitting suits required.

At least the new films ditched the phone booth, a gimmick too antiquated even for DC Films. But to see modern Supes working at an old-fashioned printing press, in a world where every Redditor would know Lex Luthor's latest scheme before he does, makes Superman seem super old.

[claws]

And how does a period piece like the INDIANA JONES movie- which is set in 30's, supposed to look like?

This is what they say about Indiana Jones

We love the whip and fedora as much as anyone. But Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom simply wouldn't work today, and not just because Harrison Ford is old enough to wheeze and nap his way through the entire Kessel Run. It's not even because a film theoretically meant for children is, as we've explained before, darker than a hundred of the darkest darknesses — that's totally cool today, unless you're Superman.

No, the real issue with this otherwise great film is the reel-to-reel racism toward anyone who isn't pale as Indy. He's obviously not going around slaughtering innocents because their skin is darker than his — he is the good guy, after all — but the film's casual attitude toward racial stereotypes is ... unsettling at best. Its approach to Indian culture is beyond paranoid, and Short Round isn't just a cute little Asian kid stuck in there for comic relief — he's a cute little Asian kid who can barely speak Engrish, and who gets saddled with dopey lines like "okey dokey, Dr. Jones, hold on to your potatoes," not because it works for the plot or is a particularly funny line, but because it fits his "wacky and not-too-smart foreign kid" character to a sad, sad T.

Even if the sum total of the movie is still pretty awesome, there's a lot about Temple of Doom that, today, any half-aware screenwriter would delete two seconds after writing it while sleep-deprived at 4 AM. Even adding in a subplot where it's revealed Dr. Jones really, really LOVES potatoes wouldn't help any. Any further Indy-ventures should back away slowly from racial stereotypes and casual racism, and focus solely on fighting the real evils of the world: anybody who wants to make Jones do his day job.

[chainsaw midget]

And how does a period piece like the INDIANA JONES movie- which is set in 30's, supposed to look like?

This is what they say about Indiana Jones

We love the whip and fedora as much as anyone. But Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom simply wouldn't work today, and not just because Harrison Ford is old enough to wheeze and nap his way through the entire Kessel Run. It's not even because a film theoretically meant for children is, as we've explained before, darker than a hundred of the darkest darknesses — that's totally cool today, unless you're Superman.

No, the real issue with this otherwise great film is the reel-to-reel racism toward anyone who isn't pale as Indy. He's obviously not going around slaughtering innocents because their skin is darker than his — he is the good guy, after all — but the film's casual attitude toward racial stereotypes is ... unsettling at best. Its approach to Indian culture is beyond paranoid, and Short Round isn't just a cute little Asian kid stuck in there for comic relief — he's a cute little Asian kid who can barely speak Engrish, and who gets saddled with dopey lines like "okey dokey, Dr. Jones, hold on to your potatoes," not because it works for the plot or is a particularly funny line, but because it fits his "wacky and not-too-smart foreign kid" character to a sad, sad T.

Even if the sum total of the movie is still pretty awesome, there's a lot about Temple of Doom that, today, any half-aware screenwriter would delete two seconds after writing it while sleep-deprived at 4 AM. Even adding in a subplot where it's revealed Dr. Jones really, really LOVES potatoes wouldn't help any. Any further Indy-ventures should back away slowly from racial stereotypes and casual racism, and focus solely on fighting the real evils of the world: anybody who wants to make Jones do his day job.

They sound like people looking for things to be offended by, which is something that's become far too common these days.