In the year 2000 I definitely would have thought something from 1970 was old.
Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by thewanderingbackpack@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 3 weeks ago
Funny, in my 30s I didn’t feel old 😄
klu9@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Shit, the nes felt old and that was only 15 then
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Red Hot Chili Peppers is now considered “classic rock”
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oofh. Oh yeah, that one hurts.
Time is a bitch. I disapprove of the whole concept.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Time is relative. A 5 year old software is ancient. A 100 year old stone church is very recent.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In before Muzak version of Blood Sugar Sex Magik. :)
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As much as I hate to admit it, yes. That’s 30 years ago now.
Think of it like this… If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.
🤯
Movies from 1955 were old in 1985, so movies from 1995 are old now.
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 weeks ago
NO SHUT UP THE 90S WERE TEN YEARS AGO
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“TELL ME! WHO’S PRESIDENT IN 2025 - DONALD TRUMP??!?!”
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
1995 was 30 years ago.
In 1995, 30 year old movies would have been made in 1965, and in the 90s we would have absolutely considered movies made in the 60s to be “old”. So, I’d say yes, movies made in 1995 could be considered old.exasperation@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
The plot of Austin Powers revolves around thawing a man who has been frozen for 30 years, from 1967 to 1997. Only 2 years to go before we reach 30 years from that movie’s release.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
And you just know that Hollywood is waiting for that one guy to die so that they can reboot this. Instead of just making an original nostalgia-driven time traveling movie.
Deestan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Absolutely. It’s from the time where families used to share a single phone! That they glued to the wall!!
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Meanwhile in 2025, I’m deciding if I need to wall mount my bidet remote for “anti theft” purposes
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah. For movies, new only lasts like 5-10 years, then it’s old.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
With how many movies are constantly being churned out, I consider even 5-10 year old movies to be “old.” The same way a meme older than a week on the internet is old.
Ziggurat@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
A while back, someone told me. If you read a book from the 19th century, you won’t call-it an “old book”, so why would a movie from the 1950’s be an old movie. And indeed, even in movies, there is some master piece which came out a while ago and are still relevant today (Seven Samurai, the Godfather or the Good, the bad and ugly immediately come to my mind) and tons of movie which while not being a recent release are still fun to watch today.
Movie don’t have an experiation date.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Old doesn’t mean irrelevant though.
I absolutely would consider a book from the 19th century an old book, just as I’d consider the movies you mentioned as old movies. But a great movie is a great movie regardless of age.
puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
i like this comment a lot :) and that someone made a rlly good point.
i feel the same way with games. i feel a lot of pressure to buy better gaming specs but then spend my time playing games like half life, doom, and command and conquer. also pixels and polygons are so much prettier than realism
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Let me add 12 Angry Men to that list.
Had no desire to watch it, but people on reddit were flipping over it. Put it on late, figured I’d get to bed for work the next day. Nope. Glued to the screen for every second of it. You can feel the heat and physical closeness of the single room it all takes place in.
Didn’t think my Filipino wife would like it, maybe wouldn’t get the English. Nope. She was perfectly still absorbing it all.
Only thing that feels out of place is the old-timey, fast-talking 50s feel from some characters. OTOH, you could re-shoot the whole thing, almost word for word, and it would still be a masterpiece.
rikudou@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
I would call a 19th century book old. Like, no one I know has been alive in 19th century. That’s pretty old by my standards.
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 3 weeks ago
Yesterday I re-watched Copycat. Part of the suspense fell on the main character not having a phone and the would-be killer cutting the land line.
It felt… weird.
And yes, it was old 😢
exasperation@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Colin Farrell in Phone Booth perfectly captured that early 2000’s feeling of where we were, technologically.
1998’s You’ve Got Mail does, too.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Shoot him in the leg. He’ll drop his gun. Works every time.
Fondots@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think it depends on the movie
If, after 30 years it still has a lot of cultural relevance, I’d think of it as a “classic” movie.
If it doesn’t, if it hasn’t aged well and/or faded into obscurity, I think it’s fair to think of it as an old movie.
Probably around '95, I would have been watching Star Wars for the first time. It didn’t feel like an old movie to me then and it still doesn’t to this day. Other movies from that same era haven’t aged quite as well and felt “old” to me.
Looking at some of the top movies from '95, some of them are just as enjoyable or relevant today as they were when they released, others feel dated and not relevant to me today.
It’s going to depend on your personal tastes and experiences of course. I can also sprinkle in a lot of platitudes like “you’re only as old as you feel” and “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”
I think there’s also room for some overlap. There’s classic movies that also feel dated. I think some movies can be both old and classics. You’d be pretty hard-pressed to find someone who wouldn’t agree that, for example, Casablanca, isn’t old, but I think that just about everyone agrees that it’s also a classic. Where the line is is pretty murky.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah! Old temporally vs. old culturally. Thoughtful take!
sanderium@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yes, because it is one year before ny birhyear.
executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Do your parents know you’re on the computer?
FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i am over 30 and I consider a movie from 1995 old.
they were still cutting cropped vhs in 1995.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Thirty years. I may have seen it while I was young, but that doesn’t make us both not old.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In 1995 I considered movies from 1965 old. So, yes.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
If you watched it when it was new, you are now old. Therefore by the transitive property, the movie is also old.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Depends how old you are.
thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Yeah anything produced in the late 1900 I would consider old. Like me…
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Should Super Mario Brothers 1 be considered an old game?
It depends whether you’ve ever played the game before (or, regarding your question, whether you’ve seen the movie before).
If you’ve seen the movie or played the game a half million times, then it’s not new to you.
But there’s still plenty of people out there that haven’t seen the movie or played the game you speak of, so it would absolutely be new to them…
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It would be subjectively new to them, yes. But objectively it’s still an old game. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, irrelevant or whatever, it’s just old. And that’s fine.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Predator is from 1987; that’s a classic.
rikudou@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Really depends on your age, I guess. For me, anything made in 1990 and later is new(ish) and everything before that is old. I imagine if you were born in the 2010s, even 90s movies feel very old.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes.
And I was old enough to remember going to the movies in 1995.
Not by myself, but dad took us to see some.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The mask came out in 95 I believe
Acamon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Based on when I was young, I basically thought of anything from before I was born as “old”. Not consciously, just that everything from “my” decade seemed modern, and everything else was old.
Even now, movies from 20+ years ago look old, even though I remember them being super new when they came out. The Matrix had aged pretty well, but it defintely looks old. I thought LOTR was timeless, but I rewatched it recently and did start to feel it was showing it’s age (but none the worse for it!).
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Anything before 2005 is old to me
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
30 years is pretty old for a movie.
phubarr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, 30 years is, but he said 1995… Wait, no no no no no no no
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have a 1969 truck. If you haven’t driven it before, is it new?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks 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.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.