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Many of the popular early 2000s movies haved aged like sh*t
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Watch all of Disney's marvel cgi look terrible when they are approaching 20 years old too.
FX age, if the movie is enjoyable you keep the historical context and appreciate what they were doing in time. I still love the old Willis O'Brian stop motion from King Kong and that is 85 years old.
FX age, if the movie is enjoyable you keep the historical context and appreciate what they were doing in time. I still love the old Willis O'Brian stop motion from King Kong and that is 85 years old.
Possibly the worst thread ever. You're not just wrong, you're wrong at the top of your voice. Harry Potter and Pirates are as dope as they ever were.
Several people have commented directly to you saying that they have rewatched these movies recently and do not feel the same way.
I rewatch HP, Matrix, and LOTR on a near yearly basis, and I completely disagree.
Like, for real, The Matrix is still great, the OG Pirates movies hold up quite well, and LoTR has aged immaculately.
This thread is bad and you should feel bad.
This thread is bad and you should feel bad.
The LoTR CG looked like garbage even back then. Orlando Bloom..or was it Frodo...whatever on that weird tree thing Ent?! looked dodgy. The lighting and stuff. Wtf?? looked cheap af.
Die Another Day was always bad, but it absolutely encapsulates everything that was wrong with early 00's films to me.
That scene where Bond surfs a wave after a giant space laser tries to melt him gave me a hernia, syphilis and Type 2 diabetes with its awfulness.
Edit: The Matrix is sick af tho. In my top 5 best films of all time.
That scene where Bond surfs a wave after a giant space laser tries to melt him gave me a hernia, syphilis and Type 2 diabetes with its awfulness.
Edit: The Matrix is sick af tho. In my top 5 best films of all time.
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Yeah, that movie is hot garbage, but it wasn't very good back in its day either tbh.
Watched the LOTR trilogy a few days ago.
Your opinion has aged poorly. The movies have not.
Brandon Frasier Mummy is an incredibly fun and well paced adventure film.
Modern Marvel movies feel similar but with half the movie being spent hyping up the Universe.
LOTR and Harry Potter are fantastic still. Harry Potter is just odd because the initial movies (like the first books) were much lighter in content and theme.
The Matrix has aged really well. It's also a 90s movie, not a 2000s movie
Watched The Matrix a few weeks ago and it still holds up amazingly well (also it's a 90's movie not 2000's). Can't speak for the other movies as I haven't watched in a while.
Minority Report is still one of the best sci-fi films of the past two decades and the visual effects in that movie still look better than many recent blockbusters.
OP, you're trying too hard.
And thematically the first X-men film is still quite relevant and solid. It's got terrible visual effects and some seriously campy dialogue, but there's more emotional depth to X1 & X2 than in most comic book films.
OP, you're trying too hard.
And thematically the first X-men film is still quite relevant and solid. It's got terrible visual effects and some seriously campy dialogue, but there's more emotional depth to X1 & X2 than in most comic book films.
That the OP is serious is just sad. I'm not going to defend years worth of films. This is some of the worst kind of internet hubris.
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I watched the entire trilogy in theaters and it was terrible back in its day too, ugh.I'm also shocked that the OP didn't bring up Star Wars Episodes 2 or 3 since those movies visually have probably aged the worst out of all the major releases of the 2000s
What?
What?!
Good god. I agree this is one of the worst threads I've ever had the misfortune of coming upon.
Even the garbage from that time was golden. The Mummy and National Treasure are classics.
I'm not even going to engage with your ridiculous mention of The Matrix or the original Pirates, two of the greatest movies ever made.
What?!
Good god. I agree this is one of the worst threads I've ever had the misfortune of coming upon.
Even the garbage from that time was golden. The Mummy and National Treasure are classics.
I'm not even going to engage with your ridiculous mention of The Matrix or the original Pirates, two of the greatest movies ever made.
Like NONE of those movies have aged badly lmao. A lot of the more vapid popular movies that nobody remembers, like Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Sum of all Fears, The Mummy, Freddy vs Jason, etc, sure, but classics are classics my dude. And pretty much the same ratio of quality to trash exists today.
Except that's exactly what it's satirizing lol.
Except that's exactly what it's satirizing lol.
The Narrator/Tyler Durden are both terrible people/person. Tyler is a manifestation of the narrator's male power fantasy. The first part of the movie is about how societal standards of gender and sex result in alienated/cynical dudes like the narrator. The second act is a darkly humorous lampooning of dudebro toxic masculinity - fight clubs/boys clubs/frat house culture, etc. The last act is about how that subculture/mentality tends to lead to extremism (as we have seen with the red pill bros). The entire film is about peering into the mind of someone like that. It's like Taxi Driver for a later generation. Both the author and director have condemned the mentality of the narrator. Sad thing is, 20 years later the story has become increasingly relevant.
I thought only the first Pirates and Matrix films were good. Spiderman looks dated and like a Power Rangers movie, but Spiderman 2 was fantastic. And no way to LOTR. I just watched the trilogy and thought how well it holds up.
The entire movie is a critic of toxic masculinity.
Unfortunately a good portion of the people that like the movie (both now and back then) completely misunderstood it and missed it's underlining message.
Yep, Wolf of Wall Street suffered the same fate
The fact you have Matrix and LOTR on that list shows me you have no idea what you are talking about OP.
Aged poorly in what sense?
Mulholland Drive, City if God, 25th Hour, In The Mood For Love, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Spirited Away, Kill Bill, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Incredibles, Ubreakable to just mention a few are as a great today as they were a decade ago.
Heck using your examples the Matrix and LOTR are better than most blockbusters we get today.
Mulholland Drive, City if God, 25th Hour, In The Mood For Love, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Spirited Away, Kill Bill, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Incredibles, Ubreakable to just mention a few are as a great today as they were a decade ago.
Heck using your examples the Matrix and LOTR are better than most blockbusters we get today.
Threads like this is why we need a hide thread feature. Saw this garbage this morning and I'm blown away it's gotten this many pages and still in my line of sight. I hate you all.
It's a shame too, because it's literally a manifesto about how stupid and shitty the behavior of the cast is.
The original effects weren't great too, but people have forgotten that they digitally cleaned them up on re-releases (Jabba's sail barge and the forest speeder shots in ROTJ still aren't great.)