My favorite scene in that movie is where Spencer Tracy hits some dude’s hot rod at the drive-in, and the other guy completely freaks over how expensive it’ll be to fix his customized car. The price tag he puts on the damage? About what you’d pay for a tank of gas, today.
My world very nearly ceased to exist during a Twilight Zone rerun the other day, when a guy came up to a gas station while running on fumes and paid about $4.50 to fill up his car.
I rewatched Red Dawn on cable awhile ago. I don’t mind the music since everything about the movie from the soundtrack to the US vs Russians theme screams 1980s.
Lady Hawke is a period fantasy piece so the 80s syth music is that much more jarring. Who knows though. Maybe todays movies will be dated by their Hans Zimmer orchestral soundtracks?
I’m not sure this has anything to do with CGI, per se. I’d say that BAD special effects tend to age badly. But Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park, arguably the first two really good big-budget-CGI movies, are still just as much fun (however much you think that was) as when they were released.
I was watching the trailer for Will Smith’s new movie I Am Legend yesterday (which is set in the near future) and I noticed that a gas station in the background listed a price of $6.63 a gallon. I guess they didn’t want to take any chances it would get outdated before the DVD release.
That was my point.
I think they wanted to show a world in collapse.