[QUOTE=Trunk]
Yeah, I agree with this. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner didn’t age well.
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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.
[QUOTE=Miller]
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.
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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.
[QUOTE=wolfman]
I was thinking the same thing about Red Dawn. I never noticed the music, as it was just music back then. But now I find myself alternating between busting a gut, and grinding my teeth as the synthesized fanfare strikes up everytime action happens. It is just so damn inorganic and jarring.
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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?
[QUOTE=msmith537]
Blasphamy!! CGI special effects tend not to age as well. As we get used to seeing more and more realistic effects, older effects tend to pop out as cheesy and unrealistic.
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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 I guess they didn’t want to take any chances it would get outdated before the DVD release.
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool]
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.
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That was my point.
I think they wanted to show a world in collapse.