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Personally, I wouldn’t have a problem with them re-doing the effects from the Hunt for Red October, which I thought looked hopelessly cartoony when the film was first released, and which look terrible now. I similarly wouldn’t mind if they redid the CGI for The Last Starfighter, an excellent film overall. but whose CGI wasn’t quite up to the task set for it.
here’s a scene that wouldn’t happen in a show today
Ok in murder she wrote for the first 4 or so seasons a running story was her nephew couldn’t keep a job or girlfriend well he finally found both but they broke up for 5 minutes when they were engaged because one reason was "she hated being a career woman all she wanted to do was stay home have kids and make cookies " and he was all "well what’s wrong with the old ways yadda yadda ya "
If someone said that in a series on a major series today twitter would burn for days …
As far as I can tell, they haven’t tampered with the “holograms” in either Star Wars (A New Hope) or Return of the Jedi in any of the re-edited and “updated” editions.
With the benefit of hindsight, I don’t see a huge difference in 2000s fashion compared to 2010s fashion.
I think of the 2000s as the low-rise jeans faze, and then the 2010s as the tragedy of the pixie cut combined with skinny jeans, but generally speaking, when watching a movie from 2004 or 2017, the general aesthetic and fashions seem pretty similar.
By contrast, anything from the 90s screams “90s!!!”, anything from the 80s screams “80s!”, and so on. (70s? Oh yes. 60s? So much. 50s? Almost too much…)
20 years ago, in 1999, I would have said the opposite about 1984 vs 1997: Such a completely different world in terms of aesthetic and fashion that it’s immediately obvious which year you’re watching.
Our one-episode-a-night sitcom is Mork & Mindy. Almost done with season 3. (It’s going to take some determination to continue with season 4.)
Lots of “Oh, I guess things were different back then.” moments.
E.g., Mork has a job at a daycare. One of the kids has an eating disorder which is used for laughs including multiple ones said to the kid. Um, really?
Robin Williams goes on several tears using various voices. Including ethnic ones like Indian, Black, and Hispanic. I don’t think that’d go over well now.
And the most absurd one: Mindy had been going to college as a journalism major. After graduation she actually gets a job that uses her degree. Heavens to Betsy!
I never saw “War Games”, but I disagree with you about the idea of the 1961 film version of “West Side Story” being dated. This is a great, golden oldie-but-keeper of a classic movie-musical that is very relevant, even today, plus it’s my all time favorite film, hands down.
There’s an upcoming re-boot of the film *“West Side Story” * by Steven Spielberg that I plan to boycott when it hits the movie theaters sometime next year, because re-makes of older classic films generally come out awful, and absolutely nothing beats the original. If I’m a bit of an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud due to my opinion, so be it.
Jesus, why would they do this? The “Cool” scene is absolute perfection (it was also absolute hell for the dancers, but the end result is insanely good). STOP SHITTING ON THE CLASSICS, HOLLYWOOD.
You want to update West Side Story? Then you need drug trafficking and automatic weapons, drive by shootings, police helicopters hovering with searchlights all night.
Pretty much everything written during the 2000s Bush adminstration about how the “mainstream news media” and the Government were colluding and how you shouldn’t trust CNN or MSNBC.
There was some awful Rosario Dawson movie made during that time about how CNN was basically run by the government.