# What's the most recent movie you've watched that's older than you are? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540 "2017-07-31T22:40:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/21 "2017-08-01T01:56:32Z")
I watch _Miracle on 34th Street_ every Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/22 "2017-08-01T02:02:44Z")
Key Largo ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/23 "2017-08-01T02:07:28Z")
Born '77…watched The Day The Earth Stood Still a week or so ago. Think that’s the most recent. (Assuming you mean the most recently watched, not the one that came out the closest to when we were born. That’d be Rocky, though I haven’t seen that since the 80s.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/24 "2017-08-01T03:52:36Z")
I watched a real stinker today, and just now realize I was 2 when it came out, so I don’t have to admit I watched it. 😉 Can’t recall the “real” answer, but I’ve been on TCM a lot lately. Too hot to do anything else. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/25 "2017-08-01T04:37:43Z")
i watched the restored version of Casablanca a couple of months ago. The themes still ring very true today. Oh, and the cast and acting ain’t half bad either. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/26 "2017-08-01T04:40:21Z")
I don’t watch too many old films, so I can’t readily bring anything specific to mind. It might have been the original _Planet of the Apes_, or _Thunderbirds Are Go_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/27 "2017-08-01T05:24:15Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Assuming you mean the most recently watched, not the one that came out the closest to when we were born. Yes, the most recently watched. Not the closest to your birth. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/28 "2017-08-01T05:26:25Z")
Blazing Saddles, last week ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/29 "2017-08-01T06:19:50Z")
I watch plenty of movies older than I am, usually at least one per week. Most recently? A Hard Day’s Night Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/30 "2017-08-01T06:40:19Z")
W.C. Fields in a 20 minute comedy film. I love his deadpan, over-the-top style of humour. [The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctt4HpnGzPo) _“It ain’t a fit night out for man or beast!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/31 "2017-08-01T07:19:35Z")
I recently re-watched Harold Lloyd’s 1923, [_“Safety Last”_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-XZWZVVhvQ) again for the umpteenth time (a film slightly older than me). Harold Lloyd: greatest comic actor of the 20th century, edging out even Chaplin and Keaton, IMHO. Lloyd cracks me up in every film he’s ever starred in. I mean, c’mon, I dare you to watch [this short](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1-kR7o34cA), or[this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YOnMsPfZ7s), or better still, [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh3Ooj_njRM), and not laugh your pants off! Nearly a hundred years old and still relatably funny. Total devotion to his craft, Lloyd was pure physical comic genius! ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/32 "2017-08-01T07:32:32Z")
[The Thing From Another World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World) 1951 I’ve owned the DVD for more than a decade and still watch it a couple times a year along with the more faithful adaptation of the source material(which I first read back in junior high in '81) [The Thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)) 1982. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/33 "2017-08-01T07:46:11Z")
I watched The sons of Katie Elder, but it was on TV. I hate watching movies on TV, commercials, edits for content and time are detrimental to the experience. I’m​ not a film snob, but it’s like listening to Clapton and right in the middle of an emotional solo you have a 45 second break to hear about tampon absorbency.:smack: The last full viewing was a DVD of Ocean’s 11 (1960)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/34 "2017-08-01T07:59:26Z")
Kung Fury (1980). Just saw it the other day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/35 "2017-08-01T11:10:28Z")
Probably “Miss Mend”. I was born in 1938, and was never that much of a fan of the American pictures of the 30s. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/36 "2017-08-01T11:26:36Z")
**Arsenic and Old Lace.** My grandson saw a school production, and then we watched the movie. Since he had friends in the school play, he liked that better. He also thought it was too slow, but he’s sixteen. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/37 "2017-08-01T11:35:10Z")
Probably seen more since then, but the last I can remember is catching _Yankee Doodle Dandy_ on the 4th of July. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/38 "2017-08-01T11:42:50Z")
I just watched The Legend of Hell House about two weeks ago. It’s a week older then I am. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/39 "2017-08-01T11:43:15Z")
\*Oceans 11 \*(1960) ---
**Author:** ![Evin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540/40 "2017-08-01T12:40:17Z")
_Ministry of Fear_ (1944). Graham Greene novel, Fritz Lang directs. In WWII England, Ray Milland is released from an asylum and stumbles upon a Nazi spy ring. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-movie-youve-watched-thats-older-than-you-are/792540.md?page=3)