It’s only old if you’ve seen it before. The movie could be 100+ years old, but if you’ve never seen it before, it’s still totally new to you.
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 week ago
30 years is pretty old for a movie.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I have a 1969 truck. If you haven’t driven it before, is it new?
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
New to me, yes.
Also, don’t ask what the actual first vehicle I ever drove was, but it wasn’t much newer than that.
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I don’t think this is what Einstein had in mind when he spoke of relativity.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
yes, it’s now a cybertruck
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
you buy a used truck.
what do you tell your friends you did? thats right you got a new truck.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 week ago
“I thought you bought a new truck?”
My friend’s, probably.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 week ago
‘old’ and ‘unknown to me’ aren’t the same thing and never were. When someone says they’re into ‘old movies’, they never mean that they like rewatching movies from the 2020s.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Then please define exactly what NOS means?
New Old Stock. Yes, NOS is a thing, literally old stuff still in the original box, unopened, never used.
Shit, you got any idea how much money Biff got for his OG unopened box set copy of Back To The Future?
youtube.com/watch?v=dsIcCtylbUw
Just because a thing was made ages ago doesn’t necessarily mean it’s ever even been used/viewed/played or whatever.
And Biff wasn’t stupid, he learned from the very movie he played in.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 week ago
That’s just not what “old” or “new” mean for media. You could maybe make that argument if the movie was made a long time ago but only released now, but that’s a very rare case. The public has already consumed the media, if it was somewhat popular you might be aware of what people thought about it, and if it was influential it might even interact with younger movies, possibly leading to you thinking that certain elements of it are overdone or old hat when this might actually have been one of the first works to have used these elements.
On top of that, the general societal context is not that of today, but of when the movie was made - few works are so timeless that this doesn’t matter at all.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I have been working through my “must watch” list with my teenage daughter recently. While all the movies are absolutely new to her, that hasn’t stopped the occasional snickering about how “old” some of the stuff is. (And honestly, I can’t disagree. I had a few “ah fuck I’m old” moments rewatching Predator and Blade Runner recently.)
So, in spirit, I 100% agree with you. In reality, nobody can quite escape how old some actually movies feel.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I wanted to watch the OG Nosferatu before the new one, my wife could not stop laughing.
“No! This serious horror movie!”
(snort)
klu9@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
[OT: watch “Shadow of the Vampire” after watching the OG Nosferatu.]
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Did you know that Charlie Chaplain actually made a movie with audio? Watch how something that’s actually so old somehow becomes new to you…
remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Sorry, I couldn’t quite get the feeling you described. It’s partially because I have seen that before and partially because it still looks old and the sound quality was reminiscent of a cylinder phonograph.
Good try though. ;)
Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m watching the original “twilight zone” made in the 60s. This is an old show, that is new to me.
It’s not a new show to everyone. It’s an old show that was made and released many years ago.
phubarr@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, 30 years is, but he said 1995… Wait, no no no no no no no