Absolutely, and from the same year, Airplane!. Both are very much products of their time, but my kids (born 1994 and 2000) and many of their friends love both movies - while missing nearly all of the pop-culture references in them. And by “love” I mean “have the entire script memorized”.
No, that’s because the Netflix streaming list sucks, on purpose, as Netflix is trying to host mostly television shows instead of movies. (Now that they’ve effectively killed the video stores, grumble grumble…)
They have most (all? I’m too lazy to keep looking) of them on DVD.
Strangers on a Train has a drolly cynical sensibility commonly associated with much later movies. And A Voice in the Crowd, while seeming to be eerily timely in an era of a 24-hour news cycle, just reminds us that guys were doing a Glenn Beck schtick long before Glenn Beck was born.
How about Dinner At Eight (1933)? It’s dated, dealing with the Depression. But it deals with social climbers, an actor’s alcoholicism and huge ego, a secret medical problem, a sex addict, a gold digger…the dialogue is so sharp and witty, and because it’s not all frivolous problems of Our Betters, I can really feel for those people. It could be remade, updated with very little change.
I saw somewhere that the scene where Willow is attempting to turn Fin Raziel back into her human form is the first use of computer generated “morphing”, as she goes from animal to animal, before becoming human again.
I think Die Hard holds up well. As it restricts itself to Nakatomi tower, you’ve mostly got office decor and business dress, neither of which have changed all that much since the 80s.
The thing that catches me out on old movies is scenes were people scramble for a phone, instead of pulling out a cell phone. Ironic since my big peeve in modern stuff is scenes showing teenagers ignoring their cell phones, which they never do (there’s a bit in Fades where the 17 year old lead character doesn’t answer/check/use his cell for two days - yeah, right).
Surely you can’t be serious!
The way I’ve heard it, they’re focusing more on T.V. because it’s too damn hard to get the rights to stream movies, not because they don’t want to stream everything.
Dr Strangelove outlived the Cold War.
So did THEM!
And Godzilla.
If by “too damn hard” you mean more expensive, then sure, I’ll agree with that.
The way I look at this is the movie is a historical document, it is set in the 80s.
Me too, I actually listen to 80s style synth stuff. But then I was born in 83
I don’t think it’s just the expense, but that things are getting trickier with the different options. I use iTunes, Netflix, and Amazon Instant Video/Prime - there used to be a lot of overlap, but in competing for customers it seems each of them is shooting for exclusive rights or aligning themselves with networks and studios. I’m noticing that shows pulled from Netflix show up on Amazon Prime soon after, and Amazon seems to be pursuing content more aggressively to make the Kindle Fire more appealing.
I think you mean A Face in the Crowd.
I saw Highlander in the theater when I was in high school. I thought it was great back then and I’ve seen it on video since then but it’s probably been 20 years. This kind of makes me want to see it again.
I watched Pee Wee’s Big Adventure the other day for the first time in at least 15 years. Still cracked me up repeatedly, and I picked up some stuff I didn’t even notice the first few times around. And for the record, Large Marge still made me jump.
You know what, Hackers is still pretty good. The lingo and graphics were destined to be outdated a few years after the release (especially with the absurd internet surfing scenes), yet for the most part the movie is still pretty good.
For a tech movie 13 years old, it holds up.
No–“Serious” is the Dog Star, and Lassie wasn’t in that movie…
Both the Wayne’s World movies are actually pretty good, IMHO - especially considering they were based on a Saturday Night Live character, which even I (living in a country were SNL is not a thing) know aren’t usually noted for doing particularly well. Even now, 20 years later, they’re both still very watchable and entertaining.
You are correct, sir! (Or ma’am.)