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Perfect use of film.
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Movies that have aged AWESOMELY?
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Blackcherry
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Terminator 2
ALL James Bond movies
ALL James Bond movies
cvkpaladin
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I second The Neverending Story. Predator has also aged pretty well too.
N Coward Parody
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Peewee's Bigtop Adventure
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I bought the Ghostbusters movie recently, and I don't think it's aged well :\
I mean, the concept is fantastic and some of the scenes [especially the Stay-Puft Marshmellow] are hilaious, but some of the stuff, particulary the portal buisiness, look crap. Bill Murrays character is lost to me, he's not funny enough.
I mean, the concept is fantastic and some of the scenes [especially the Stay-Puft Marshmellow] are hilaious, but some of the stuff, particulary the portal buisiness, look crap. Bill Murrays character is lost to me, he's not funny enough.
ScientificNinja
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My Fair Lady
The Great Race
Superman
Big Trouble In Little China
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Italian Job (non-bastardised version)
Trainspotting
The Untouchables
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Great Race
Superman
Big Trouble In Little China
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Italian Job (non-bastardised version)
Trainspotting
The Untouchables
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
VistraNorrez
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Chinatown - Gets better the more you see it. I enjoyed it the first time I saw it, but I just watched it again and I was blown away. It's easily one of the best films I've ever seen.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly; Well any Sergio Leone western really - Just fantastic, no one directs like Leone did, beautiful and intense.
A Clockwork Orange - It definitely looks 70s, but I think it works for the film, it creates this very fantastical future. The story is great, and the language, just puts you elsewhere.
And I think anyone that's saying how bad some FX look really need to look past that stuff and at the story. A lot of the movies being dismissed that have poor effects now, are still great because of the story. I prefer Terminator to T2, I think it's just more interesting. T2 is too much of a rehash for me, plus John is a little annoying. I still love it, I just think Terminator is better. Jaws holds up very well too, and thankfully the shark isn't shown much.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly; Well any Sergio Leone western really - Just fantastic, no one directs like Leone did, beautiful and intense.
A Clockwork Orange - It definitely looks 70s, but I think it works for the film, it creates this very fantastical future. The story is great, and the language, just puts you elsewhere.
And I think anyone that's saying how bad some FX look really need to look past that stuff and at the story. A lot of the movies being dismissed that have poor effects now, are still great because of the story. I prefer Terminator to T2, I think it's just more interesting. T2 is too much of a rehash for me, plus John is a little annoying. I still love it, I just think Terminator is better. Jaws holds up very well too, and thankfully the shark isn't shown much.
I've ONLY seen the DVD. North By Northwest suffers many of the same faults that I pointed out about Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Loads and loads of downright awful compositing issues and matte paintings, particularly in the end sequence. If you guys like the movie, that's one thing, but I'm really not sure, again, that it's one that I'd say has aged well.Liono said:
We're talking about how films hold up. When you're talking about the aging of a film, you're inherently talking about its technical attributes, meaning visual and aural qualities. We're not just talking about how much we like old movies. I love tons of old movies, but that doesn't mean they've all aged well. Willco's first post makes it clear we're talking about how the films have aged, how they stand up to current films. I think my comments are quite relevant for the topic at hand. The only other attribute of aging you can make is whether the films are still relatable or understandable, but considering the industry is only 100 years old at most, I think that's a pretty tiny point to make about most films, unless they're pop culture festivals like Shrek in which they age incredibly poorly.
FortNinety
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Tron - the older it gets, the more it looks like some avant-guard German art flick.
You bring up Tron, which reminds me of the followup that Disney wanted to do using similar technology. Completely unrelated in content, but just to do another experimental feature with heavy CGI. Can you say Einstein bio-pic with computer generation sequences that express his theories? Read about it here.
I imagine by its very nature that would have been a project that would age well enough.
I imagine by its very nature that would have been a project that would age well enough.
LEBRON KING JAMES
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nobody said the attack of the mushroom people?
Ignatz Mouse
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My choices aren't about effects, but how these moies stand up to standards of plot, acting, cinematography, etc.
Godfather. Tight crime and family drama that is easily as good as any modern crime drama I have seen.
Notorious. Of all of Hitchcock's movies, this one seems least dated, even though the plot plces in squarely in 1945-6. It could be remade as a period piece shot-for-shot. If anything, modern sexual mores makes the time setting more striking, and probably more of a thing for modern audiences thinking abotu the 40s than the audience of the 40's would have thought about it.
Another vore for Blade Runner. Not because of the effects as much as becuase of the themes.
And, trite thought it is to mention, Citizen Kane. It's non-linear story and odd cinematography really sets it apart, even now.
Godfather. Tight crime and family drama that is easily as good as any modern crime drama I have seen.
Notorious. Of all of Hitchcock's movies, this one seems least dated, even though the plot plces in squarely in 1945-6. It could be remade as a period piece shot-for-shot. If anything, modern sexual mores makes the time setting more striking, and probably more of a thing for modern audiences thinking abotu the 40s than the audience of the 40's would have thought about it.
Another vore for Blade Runner. Not because of the effects as much as becuase of the themes.
And, trite thought it is to mention, Citizen Kane. It's non-linear story and odd cinematography really sets it apart, even now.
FortNinety
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Dan said:
Was awesome... thanks for the info!
Ned Flanders
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2001: A Space Odyssey, anyone?
Aside from the bad monkey suits and the old school "wall of blinking lights" computers, the film could have conceivably been made within the past decade. Timeless cinema.
Aside from the bad monkey suits and the old school "wall of blinking lights" computers, the film could have conceivably been made within the past decade. Timeless cinema.
The DVD transfers of The Searchers (1956) and Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) almost make them look as if they were made today. Really brillant. The matte paintings in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1955) are about as good as you can get with matte paintings. The special effects are good, especially when you think about how long ago the film was made.
And for a really weird choice, the effects in Sean Connery's movie Zardoz (1974) don't look shabby even when looking at them today. Take into account computers weren't used at all in the effects production and it's that much more impressive.
And for a really weird choice, the effects in Sean Connery's movie Zardoz (1974) don't look shabby even when looking at them today. Take into account computers weren't used at all in the effects production and it's that much more impressive.
The Indiana Jones movies hold up incredibly well, as does Top Gun, surprisingly.
Gettysburg and Nightmare Before Christmas, do, too.
SHOOT! I also wanted to add... I saw a movie one time from the 50's, Attack of the Pod People or something, and it was incredibly awesome, considering it was over 50 years old I believe.
Gettysburg and Nightmare Before Christmas, do, too.
SHOOT! I also wanted to add... I saw a movie one time from the 50's, Attack of the Pod People or something, and it was incredibly awesome, considering it was over 50 years old I believe.
Manabanana
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N Coward Parody said:Peewee's Bigtop Adventure
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That's Big Top Pee-Wee and Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Two seperate movies
RaymondCarver
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Blade Runner is about as close to a perfect movie as it gets. I can't believe the fx are from the early eighties.
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there are some really quite disturbing 'bulge' shots in that movie. *hideous* he also has stick-chicken legs which really don't look good in lycra spandex
but i have to say blade runner (again) - stunning movie. looks incredible, is full of atmosphere, and really doesn't feel dated at all. it has the odd moment where something looks a bit like ''what would people wear in the future?'' but the world feels so real and cohesive that i don't really notice that much. same with aliens - the style of the film still feels so current, the only thing that really dates it is some of the hairstyles and the reebok hi tops
Dagless M.D.
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I know some of you have seen brazil, why is no one else championing this amazing looking movie
Christoff Yurievich
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Big Trouble In Little China - awesome movie. I wish they'd get off their asses and ust make the sequal. They've been talking about for awhile, dunno if they're still interested though.
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan - hands down, the best Trek movie.
Labyrinth - Watched it the other day and it still looks good. But what about The Dark Crystal? Same time frame, same people. Sadly, it hasn't aged well at all; Too many muppets.
I need to see Brazil but it's difficult to find the DVD. (the Criterion version is the best version, right?)
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan - hands down, the best Trek movie.
Labyrinth - Watched it the other day and it still looks good. But what about The Dark Crystal? Same time frame, same people. Sadly, it hasn't aged well at all; Too many muppets.
I need to see Brazil but it's difficult to find the DVD. (the Criterion version is the best version, right?)
distantmantra
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Badabing said:
Hell yeah...the space battles in that are still the best in any Trek ever...including all the CGI laden era series like Enterprise. The ships actually look huge in Wrath...compare that to Insurrections for example, where the Enterprise is attacked in the Brier Patch and wobbles around like a cheap $50 dollar model (even though it's CGI).
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