When Michael J. Fox orders a Tab in Back To The Future I’m sure a lot of young’uns scratch their heads/
Hi Osiris, just watched all three Back to the Future flicks on DVD and was pleasantly suprised to see how well they’ve aged.
The Tab (and the Pepsi Free) that Marty orders needed to be drinks that were popular mid-80’s but not exist in 1955 – I guess it’s odd that neither of them really survived the 80’s either.
One of the things the commentary track brought out was how carefully the film makers had chosen some of the props/gags – Pepsi was chosen over Coke as the '55 Coke logo and the '85 version were essentially the same, whereas the Pepsi logo had changed significantly in the 30 years.
Overall though, technology wasn’t the focus (even though technically a sci-fi movie) and so doesn’t look so badly dated as most sci-fi 15+ years on. And, IMHO at least, the DeLorean still looks great. 
As to the OP, well I’m still a Star Trek fan, but boy has the original series dated. Partially its the clunky looking computers and gadgetry, but also the acting style and pacing, and the attitudes. Any scene with Kirk and a woman is likely to be especially cringeworthy.
True, true Apollyon. The only scene in the series that I would call dated was the Biff as step-dad scene in the second one which has an 80s Dice Clay vibe.
And you’re bang on for Star Trek too. I see exactly 3 knobs and no sliding bits on my computer. I think we’re doing better making futuristic things now though. For instance Flight of the Navigator of 1986 still looks good.
Logan’s Run looks hilarious, although I still like story and it makes the movie worthwhile to watch. Clunky robots just don’t cut it with me.
You know what else? All those 70s Hannah Barbara cartoons. Although it might just be they were always dated but nothing feels more lik the 70s then they do.
TV’s Batman is horribly dated. C’mon, Batman, get yourself a pager or a cell phone! A Bat-laptop would be nice, too.
I was watching Henry V the other day, and everyone was running around hitting each other with swords! I mean, who uses swords anymore?
Uhh you do know that all of our space ships DO have fins on them right now? In real life even!
Why do spaceships have fins and streamlining?
Since space has no air,and therefore no resistance shouldn’t a ship shaped as donald duck work just as well as a nice phallic rocket.
It’s the getting to outer space, effac3d. Lots of atmosphere to plow through.
All of our ships still need to be manuverd in the atmosphere to GET into space. Any ship that is going to land on, or take off from a planet that has any atmosphere is going to need fins for manuvering unless we come up with some new technology or something.
Dammit Walloon, you stole my chance to sound smart for once on this board.
Oh well, back to the “Hot Chicks” threads. 
I guess this post got lost when the boards went down…good thing I thought to save for once!
You want dated, just listen to Bat Girl’s theme song. “Who’s baby are you?” indeed!
I heard the same thing on Nick at Nite. Mary’s divorce was changed to a broken engagement for the show – this may be what jayjay was thinking of.
It was a giant mall – the Dallas Market Center. My uncle was a security guard there and got a small part in the movie since he was 1) available and 2) one of the few people in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area in the '70s who didn’t have much of a tan, since he worked nights. I believe all his lines were cut in the editing process, though.
Take a closer look at the computer equipment on Max Headroom and compare it to the computers in Brazil: old-fashioned typewriters mated to televisions and so forth.
To the OP:
Welcome Back, Kotter has NOT aged well.
Giant computers with random, completely pointless, blinking lights that were UNLABELLED.
What, were they really into Christmas decorations or something?
I loved Lost in Space as a kid. I saw an episode or two on cable recently and the whole thing was just so bad! I swear you could see the aluminum foil marks on the spaceship.
Well, I guess my nominations got eaten.
West Side Story. The idea of clean shaven gang members grand jeteing their way down the streets of Manhattan and then agreeing to a fist fight instead of guns…how quaint.
War Games The huge floppy disks, the monotone computer screen…the phone handset modem…also very quaint.
Rebel Without a Cause. Let’s see…the “delinquent” guy conforms to the school dress code? Drinks milk? Passively waits for the girl to kiss him, and doesn’t follow up?
Another cordless-phone reference: Terms of Endearment. Towards the end of the film, Emma visits her well-to-do friend, Patsy. Emma’s husband calls; Patsy answers and hands the phone to Emma; Emma looks at the phone in mild amazement before talking into it.
And The Prisoner! The phones on that show were cordless, and that was supposed to be truly bizarre. My official Prisoner companion helpfully explains “Cordless phones had not been invented in 1967”.
There was an episode of Dick Van Dyke where Rob and Laura thought their marriage wasn’t valid, and hastened to rectify it. It was supposed to be outlandish when Laura said, “But we can’t get married tonight; I couldn’t get a babysitter!”
Anyone remember a TV show from the ‘70s called James at 15? My parents made me watch it, thinking it would “prepare” me for adolescence. Anyway, ol’ James is going to Go All The Way with his SO, after being told [gag] “Be good…and if you can’t be good, be careful.” [Shudder]. By way of being “careful”, James trades his official NHL hockey puck and his Bobby Orr hockey stick for the expired condom his friend nicked from his parents’ nightstand. God almighty. How did we ever survive the '70s.
Quaint, maybe, but it’s still the most realistic portrayal of a hacker you’re ever going to get from Hollywood.
I just thought of one today. So as not to make unfair assumptions, I’ll aska question first:
In South Pacific, when Nellie dumps Emile, is it because he was previously married, or because his first wife was Polynesian?
If the former, that just seems weird by today’s standards. If the latter (which I’d always assumed it was), however, then I can’t imagine an audience today being expected to sympathize with such a racist little bitch.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen if, but IIRC the whole subtext of South Pacific was racism, so, yes, that’s why Nellie dumps Emile. The movie was one of the first sympathetic looks at interracial relationships on the big screen, so you can’t judge Nellie by today’s standards. The audience is expected to remember society’s attitudes in the early forties and know that she is shocked because interracial relationships are unthinkable. Literally, something that Nellie had never really thought about. The most interesting part of the story is Nellie coming to terms with the idea.