Some scenes hold up better than others, some scenes, well not so much.

At the risk of "winning" the thread on the first post, I present the roller dancing scene from Xanadu.

Its redeeming qualities are ONJ, her voice and her beauty. Some of the women can really dance. And then a 70 year old Gene Kelly in his final role, out there roller skating like a champ. But man, as a big roller skater as a kid, how far we are from this world now.

Native Americans in Peter Pan.

Tech is always easy to look bad. The Net and Disclosure are the best examples IMO. Basically anything in the 90s involving the internet is almost unwatchable.

If you go further back to the 80s computers and tech become charming and not cringe.

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When Lewis hooks up with Betty in the moon room in Revenge of the Nerds wearing a mask so she thinks it was Stan Gable.

I love that movie but that scene is effectively rape so didn't hold up too well.

The rest of the movie is good to go though and just 80's college high jinks. One of my favorites.

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Well. The panty raid scene, greek games...a lot doesn't hold up. Although they're still hysterical.

Probably this one…there are like 7-8 dates, at least…

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The plane crash in Air Force One is my example of FX so bad it actually brings down the movie - just yikes.

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This is the scene that I thought of immediately. I would not watch that movie ever again based off of that scene alone.

Adam Goldberg of "The Goldbergs" wrote a re-boot for this RotN in the early 2000s.

The project was scrapped after a couple of days of daily's.

I would love to see that script.

Coincidentally enough National Lampoons Vacation was on this weekend on the background and wife and I looked up at the end where the Griswalds were running to WallyWorld in the parking lot. The back drop that was suppose to be Wally World was so over the top fake looking (we were trying to decide if it was just cheap production value or was it over the top on purpose. Either way looked extremely dated and was eye catching.

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Coincidentally enough National Lampoons Vacation was on this weekend on the background and wife and I looked up at the end where the Griswalds were running to WallyWorld in the parking lot. The back drop that was suppose to be Wally World was so over the top fake looking (we were trying to decide if it was just cheap production value or was it over the top on purpose. Either way looked extremely dated and was eye catching.

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LOL... i watched it too and had that exact same thought.

It was obviously a painting, and not done very well.

Jaime pressly dropping the N bomb in not another teen movie.

In the same tech vein, movies where everybody is using a flip phone are always a little funny looking.

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Anything in Flash Gordon

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This was what I thought when I first read the OP. But a lot of the effects in that were done intentionally to look dated, which when compared to movies of the time, FG certainly did seem out of place among its contemporaries.

Anything tech in the 90s is a good call as well. I love Jurassic Park, but damn if I don't roll my eyes every time I watch it when that UNIX system comes on toward the end.

Another type of sequence that is definitely out of place these days would be when a non-black character uses the N word. For instance, the red bathroom scene in The Shining. That would never be approved for filming, let alone approved in a script, these days.

Pretty much an early 90s movies that featured the internet.

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The Jurassic Park Unix operating system scene

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After seeing the movie "Congo", I did wonder for a few minutes if there really was a Silicon Graphics laptop.

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In the same tech vein, movies where everybody is using a flip phone are always a little funny looking.

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Rewatching Entourage now and seeing Ari Gold using a Blackberry.

Johnny Nmemonic! Holy crap, I forgot about that one! Wasn't Ice T in that too?

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In the same tech vein, movies where everybody is using a flip phone are always a little funny looking.

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Not a movie, but anytime I rewatch The Wire, I'm always struck by how dated season 1 feels just to season 5. And that is just using pagers and pay phones to burner flip phones.

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Johnny Nmemonic! Holy crap, I forgot about that one! Wasn't Ice T in that too?

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He was! Ice-T was in charge of the base that kept the cyborg Dolphin

In regards to Xanadu in the OP, it would seem a little more realistic if there were at least some cocktails placed along the rails and at least one person doing cocaine in the background.

Some of these things are just how they were at that time.

IF we were to make a movie in that time period, we'd have flip phones.