Network shouldn’t hold up. It’s a snapshot portrait taken of a particular time in news media — when a handful of broadcast networks were the be-all and end-all of dissemination of the news and evening anchors were oracles, and those days are long since gone.
It (basically) predates and as such excludes any reference to interwebz.
But it’s still eminently rewatchable… and in many ways MORE relevant today than it was at the time.
Except for Deckard’s copy of Photoshop for the Mentally Retarded™ I agree.
The computer scene is the one part that just drops me out of the film. I don’t expect them to have come up with the concept of the mouse for the film, but the way that machine was used is just clumsy.
Personally, I still find the script poor, the movie a complete mess, overly long and tedious but at least its effects makes it barely watchable.
I guess I must be the only one…
I was talking to one of my friends recently on how 40 years ago we would watch “Island of Lost Souls” on the local horror movie TV hour. We figured it was some cheapie turned out in 1932 that had Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi. Today it’s a Criterion Collection BluRay with film commentary and other features.
To shift the focus to TV (which are just short movies), watching MeTV shows from 50 years ago, a teen comedy like “Dobie Gillis” holds up a lot better than a serious show like “Route 66”. You rang?
The original Terminator. The styles in the movie are definitely 80’s but its quality as a suspense film manages to overcome that.
The only flaw that keeps the original Terminator from aging well is the gawdawful 80s synth soundtrack.
The Blues Brothers still holds up.
Yeah, I still like Caddyshack, too.
Caddyshack two?
It’s been a while, but I was always struck at how well Forbidden Planet held up for a movie I first saw when I was a kid.
Oddly enough, I was going to use “Network” as an example of a movie that doesn’t particularly hold up!
I’ll go with Albert Brooks’s Real Life from 1979 as a surprisingly fresh take on reality TV.
I caught Absence of Malice a little while ago. The performances of the leads still hold up very well. The Wilfred Brimley scene at the end still works. But the soundtrack was awful and dated and took me right out of the movie.
I know opinions vary but to me John Ford’s movies have aged very well. Sure the acting style of his troupe of players may seem odd by todays standards but no more so than a Wes Anderson movie. I could watch Fort Apache or The Searchers any day. And they are still beautifully filmed movies.
So, which is the worse sequel, Caddyshack 2 or Highlander 2? 
I haven’t seen Highlander in a long time. Anyone have an opinion on how well it has aged?
There is too much 80’s synth soundtrack hate on these threads. I love that stuff.
Nothing animated? How about Fantasia. Considering the low-tech 1940 animation . . . it’s remarkable, not in spite of how it was made, but because of it.
War of the Worlds is still surprisingly taut and effective.
The scene where they are trapped in the house scared the bejeezus out of my toughguy pre-teenager.
How about the longest-running theatrical release in film history, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. First released in 1975 and still in limited release today.
Is this version the one in which Cyrus tries to get the NYC gangs to join? " Can you dig it?". If so, this movie is one you should pop into the DVD player again because it drags very badly.
I came in to nominate FTARH. This movie holds up better than almost every other teen movie I’ve ever seen, and it still makes me laugh in places. Good cast, decent script, and timeless themes help this one resonate to different generations better than most.
It’s is definitely an 80’s time capsule of a movie, and I wasn’t even alive for over half of that decade, but damned if it isn’t still awesome and something my friends and I still really enjoy watching now. Cheesy action movie, but it is so much fun. And so much love for the Queen soundtrack.
Just for kicks, I looked up every title mentioned in this thread into the Netflix streaming list, and only 10% are available. Yet all are well-known movies, so it’s not obscurity that keeps them locked up. I can only conclude that the copyright owners are preventing distribution that way. Luddites.