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Many of the popular early 2000s movies haved aged like sh*t
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ROTK looks like shit. FOTR and TT still look great. ROTK was the start or PJ going wild.
POTC also looks great still. The Gore style held up well.
Spiderman has a lot of sketchy parts, both 1 and 2. But 2 still looks decent.
Matrix held up surprisingly well, but 2 and 3 look like Dogshit.
Harry Potter, I haven't seen in years
POTC also looks great still. The Gore style held up well.
Spiderman has a lot of sketchy parts, both 1 and 2. But 2 still looks decent.
Matrix held up surprisingly well, but 2 and 3 look like Dogshit.
Harry Potter, I haven't seen in years
This is a terrible thread. You're incredibly wrong about most of these.
Yes The Matrix has aged but it's still a masterpiece. Setting "The Matrix" itself in 1999 will always make it somewhat timeless no matter how much time actually passes. The sequels are mediocre despite having some good setpieces (that have largely aged worse than the original), but that was always the general opinion about them.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl is also timeless and better than most blockbusters that release today. The two sequels don't really work on their own but together still tell a compelling story with some fantastic direction by Gore Verbinski and CG that still holds up today in such a way that it looks better than much of what releases today.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is also absolutely a classic that holds up just fine... much better than its sequel prequel trilogy in fact.
You're also missing other masterpieces like Gladiator.
The first three Harry Potter films all work just as well as they always did. The later ones are eh, but they kind of always were.
X-Men and the original Spider-man are obviously inferior to the modern MCU stuff, but that's fine. Spider-Man 2 holds up just fine, it's just campier.
Yes The Matrix has aged but it's still a masterpiece. Setting "The Matrix" itself in 1999 will always make it somewhat timeless no matter how much time actually passes. The sequels are mediocre despite having some good setpieces (that have largely aged worse than the original), but that was always the general opinion about them.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl is also timeless and better than most blockbusters that release today. The two sequels don't really work on their own but together still tell a compelling story with some fantastic direction by Gore Verbinski and CG that still holds up today in such a way that it looks better than much of what releases today.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is also absolutely a classic that holds up just fine... much better than its sequel prequel trilogy in fact.
You're also missing other masterpieces like Gladiator.
The first three Harry Potter films all work just as well as they always did. The later ones are eh, but they kind of always were.
X-Men and the original Spider-man are obviously inferior to the modern MCU stuff, but that's fine. Spider-Man 2 holds up just fine, it's just campier.
The first three Harry Potter films' CGI has aged horribly, but I still think they're better than most of the back half. There's a lot of weird problems in them, but the back half is just so fucking boring besides maybe 6.
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The Balrog scene hasn't aged well at all. I dare everyone to watch that one again.
It helps that Gandalf doesn't really interact with the Balrog. You see some closeups of him, conjures a spell and that's that.
Most of the larger set pieces in TTT and RotK just look terrible. Look at Gladiator. Ridley Scott shoots them in such a way that the CG doesn't distract you.
But the CGI in those movies looked bad at release date, i always knew they'd age like milk (special effects wise speaking). There's no bettering practical effects (yet).
I never watched Harry Potter. Aside from X-Men you're wrong and everything on that list is damn good.
Lotr still fantastic.
Matrix still a really good sci-if action, maybe a little 2000's in feel.
Pirates of the Caribbean still holds up amazingly. CGI better than most movies today. Don't think any recent Marvel movie has effects that approach the quality of Davey Jones.
Matrix still a really good sci-if action, maybe a little 2000's in feel.
Pirates of the Caribbean still holds up amazingly. CGI better than most movies today. Don't think any recent Marvel movie has effects that approach the quality of Davey Jones.
That's exactly what I'm reading off this thread too.
Seems like visuals are the only thing a movie is worth for; not the story and storytelling, cinematography, acting, music and all other things excluding visuals (CGI).
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I mean, maybe in 10 years we'll laugh at the visuals of Blade Runner and call it "shit" and not recommending to rewatch any of the movies coming out now. Probably look like PS4/XB1 games.
Maybe skip this period too if you're going to do a nostalgia binge. You'll just barf from how shit it looks.
TTT goes nowhere until the last hour or so. I noticed it then and I notice it now.
Damn right. On top of being boring, the final battle in ROTK looked like pure ass. I never understood the love for the battle scenes in that film. FOTR and TT do look pretty damn good, though.
I trust your eyesight.
Well anybody and any group can miss the point of any work.
The film is a satire first and foremost, and it's a challenge on hyper masculinity, materialism, and the loss of individuality to ideology.
The film is a satire first and foremost, and it's a challenge on hyper masculinity, materialism, and the loss of individuality to ideology.
Yeah. But only list the big budget blockbusters. A movie like Snatch was still pretty popular for example.
Some of those movies are 20 ish years old though, its like watching movies from the 70s back in the 90s. Some jank is unavoidable.
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It's just a list of movies I happened to rewatch and which undoubtly are early 2000s (other than Matrix) and popular. No need to overthink this.
I watched The Matrix for the first time a few months back and I enjoyed it. I feel like a lot of comedies from that time period have aged like milk though.
It's just internet memes that love to hate on whatever is popular and people like zombies being super easily influenced by memes.
For example, Avatar was a gorgeous and beautiful movie that created this wonderful world full of beauty from oceanic organisms. It still has some of the most beautiful cgi anyone has ever seen. People loved it so much that it still stands as the highest grossing movie of all time, and with the most ticket sales of all time.
Then comes the internet meme culture that loves to hate on what's popular. They make up a stupid meme that the movie is identical to dances with wolves and ferngalli. Hint it's not, it shares a few superficial similarities to these films but actually has tons of differences from them unless. It's a funny meme but it was never a serious claim. but now people accept it as fact without ever actually seeing the movies to see the multitudes of differences.
The same people that critique Avatar can't stop raving about Artist films with super simple and derivative stories because they were beautiful (shape of water for one example). The same people are happy to excuse other beautiful movies with idiotic and ridiculously convenient nonsense ending (annhilation as one example).
Are people's opinions so easily influenced by a stupid meme. What does that say about human intelligence?
For example, Avatar was a gorgeous and beautiful movie that created this wonderful world full of beauty from oceanic organisms. It still has some of the most beautiful cgi anyone has ever seen. People loved it so much that it still stands as the highest grossing movie of all time, and with the most ticket sales of all time.
Then comes the internet meme culture that loves to hate on what's popular. They make up a stupid meme that the movie is identical to dances with wolves and ferngalli. Hint it's not, it shares a few superficial similarities to these films but actually has tons of differences from them unless. It's a funny meme but it was never a serious claim. but now people accept it as fact without ever actually seeing the movies to see the multitudes of differences.
The same people that critique Avatar can't stop raving about Artist films with super simple and derivative stories because they were beautiful (shape of water for one example). The same people are happy to excuse other beautiful movies with idiotic and ridiculously convenient nonsense ending (annhilation as one example).
Are people's opinions so easily influenced by a stupid meme. What does that say about human intelligence?
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I rewatched the movies in the past months. I saw no meme and neither was I manipulated by it.
No. LOTR is still great, and Pirates is still a fantastic movie.
Also, i'll go ahead and say it, Pirates 2 and 3 are fun, good movies.
Also, i'll go ahead and say it, Pirates 2 and 3 are fun, good movies.
I think the likes of Harry Potter, Pirates and especially Lord of the Rings have aged beautifully. There's patches of dated CGI here and there certainly, but overall the films are still visually pleasing and easy to get lost in.
If you want a medium where this is true, try genre TV. Visual effects in TV have come a very long way in the last 20 odd years.
If you want a medium where this is true, try genre TV. Visual effects in TV have come a very long way in the last 20 odd years.
Watched X-Men 1 this month again myself. Outside of Magneto's CG bubble of light on the statue of liberty looking a bit rough near the climax, the movie was fine. Even Senator Kelly's transformation into a puddle of water was an effect that still worked despite its obvious age.
Cannot agree with Pirates or LotR either which I also watched within the last year again.
Cannot agree with Pirates or LotR either which I also watched within the last year again.
I don't remember much about Pirates 3, but I will say the water wheel fight and hype-as-hell twist ending justify the cost of entry for Pirates 2 all by themselves.
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Honestly Pirates 2 is still top 3 theater experiences for me.
So good.
I'd say aspects of every movie you listed have certainly aged, yes but I'll never forget seeing The Matrix for the first time though. I was hype as fuck after it ended.
(it's still good, as is Lord of the Rings)
I didn't like Spider-man back then, kinda feel slightly more positive about it these days though.
(it's still good, as is Lord of the Rings)
I didn't like Spider-man back then, kinda feel slightly more positive about it these days though.
Boy you couldn't have picked worse examples, and I'm someone who doesn't like the look of many early 00 movies.