You misspelled “late”.
That John Carter movie looks like such a ripoff of Avatar!
Watchmen. Hey, shut up, I was still in my mama’s belly when the comics came out!
RPG fans now laugh at how simplistic the original Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games were. Only 4 bosses?!
The 1961 film “Guns of Navarone” was seen as a fast paced action film when it came out. By today’s standards it is a bit leisurely at 2 hrs 38 minutes. Doesn’t really have the snappy one liners we associate with classics like “Commando”
I haven’t read science fiction in years but surely no one trying to break into the field today would hold up the wooden, humorless, sexless, simplistic, gadget-driven early work of Doc Smith or Asimov or some of the other early big names.
Well, Shakespeare’s works have the problem of being so loaded with cliches…
Blade Runner pioneered the urban dystopia look, with its crowded cities where high tech shares space with old architecture and the melting pot of cultures is evident in the mixed language signage and characters ethnic food cravings.
This forever changed how scifi cities looked, and someone watching BR today would likely think it cliche.
Ha ha. It is truly almost impossible to speak modern English without name checking him, no?
and what’s so great about Casablanca? All they did was string a bunch of cliches together!
The Simpsons. Matt Groening opened up the floodgates for primetime cartoons.
And speaking of primetime, the original Saturday Night Live.
I’ll second The Simpsons. When the show started, it’s bricolage of cultural references (occasionally pushing good taste) was something fresh. Initially it was a funny pastiche of movie call-backs; as it went into its third season and beyond, it branched out into practically everything. Before The Simpsons, references like this were used sparringly; writers considered them lazy. After, movies like *Pulp Fiction *carried the technique to new levels. Today, Seth McFarlane takes it to the Nth degree. The Simpsons seems tame, and McFarlane is pushing himself toward obsolescence. Eclipsed indeed.