Most dated movie scenes

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In reply to Sapper Redux • 3:35p, 1/27/25
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SJEAg said:
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.


I will say, it's to The Matrix's eternal credit that they handled tech the way they did. It fits the world they created and lets you enjoy the movie without feeling overly dated.
Made a similar observation on The Matrix in my earlier post, totally agree.

Putting together a list of tech centric films that don't feel dated would be actually be a really interesting exercise.
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In reply to Rudyjax • 3:38p, 1/27/25
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EclipseAg said:
Duckhook said:
In the same tech vein, movies where everybody is using a flip phone are always a little funny looking.
You think that's bad? How about a party line -- as seen in 1959's "Pillow Talk."

If this movie came out today set in 1959 and had partylines, would you consider it dated?
Not sure if this is still true, but it used to be law for phone companies to provide party lines if requested, as they were much cheaper (and the lol poors may still want it). I heard of a prof in college who had one, and since nobody else has one, it was effectively his own dedicated line for cheap. That same prof had several other phone related hacks, but that's the only one I remember.
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In reply to aTmAg • 3:49p, 1/27/25
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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
Rudyjax said:
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.

I have to agree, generally. Except for this one time when a movie was made about Pearl Harbor, and we had F-14s.

If we made a movie like this today, It would be F-35s going after F-14s. Not quite as exciting.
Meanwhile, the U.S.S. Nimitz is still in service 45 years later.
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In reply to Jose Cruuuuuuuuuuuuz • 4:52p, 1/27/25
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Jose Cruuuuuuuuuuuuz said:
The hi-tech digital camera that is central to the plot of Mission Impossible 2 from 2000 stands out.




Now my sister, who is a huge musical theater nerd, will tell you that it's actually the end of Grease when ONJ and Travolta start dancing it up at the carnival. As a healthy man, it's hard not to just lust after Sandy in the black leather, but once you get past it, you can see her point. This is a carnival for kids graduating from high school (most of them looking 35+) and they get this little POS fun house with a "Danger" tunnel and a very slowly rocking platform? Jesus Christ, let's spend some money and make an effort, Rydell High. Clip is cued up to the terrible set scene.



Sorry, nice try but no way I'm looking away from Olivia….
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In reply to Rudyjax • 5:10p, 1/27/25
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Rudyjax said:
EclipseAg said:
Duckhook said:
In the same tech vein, movies where everybody is using a flip phone are always a little funny looking.
You think that's bad? How about a party line -- as seen in 1959's "Pillow Talk."

If this movie came out today set in 1959 and had partylines, would you consider it dated?

Nah ... of course not. But I don't think it's weird to see flip phones in movies, either.
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In reply to EclipseAg • 10:19p, 1/27/25
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EclipseAg said:
Duckhook said:
In the same tech vein, movies where everybody is using a flip phone are always a little funny looking.
You think that's bad? How about a party line -- as seen in 1959's "Pillow Talk."

We had a party line phone in the 1970s. It wasn't nearly that swanky
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In reply to StinkyPinky • 1:09a, 1/28/25
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StinkyPinky said:
Jose Cruuuuuuuuuuuuz said:
The hi-tech digital camera that is central to the plot of Mission Impossible 2 from 2000 stands out.




Now my sister, who is a huge musical theater nerd, will tell you that it's actually the end of Grease when ONJ and Travolta start dancing it up at the carnival. As a healthy man, it's hard not to just lust after Sandy in the black leather, but once you get past it, you can see her point. This is a carnival for kids graduating from high school (most of them looking 35+) and they get this little POS fun house with a "Danger" tunnel and a very slowly rocking platform? Jesus Christ, let's spend some money and make an effort, Rydell High. Clip is cued up to the terrible set scene.



Sorry, nice try but no way I'm looking away from Olivia….

This belongs on the other thread of least dated. What was considered smoking hot then would still be considered smoking hot now
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6:33a, 1/28/25
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Porky's

A 1980s movie about a bunch of high school boys in the 1950s.. I think the only redeeming quality of that movie is Kim Catrall's butt.

Yet all of us teenagers in the 1980s loved it.
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8:41a, 1/28/25
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Hackers has some epic ones, but I still enjoy it.







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In reply to Max Power • 8:51a, 1/28/25
Type "cookie" you idiot.
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In reply to Burdizzo • 8:52a, 1/28/25
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Porky's

A 1980s movie about a bunch of high school boys in the 1950s.. I think the only redeeming quality of that movie is Kim Catrall's butt.

Yet all of us teenagers in the 1980s loved it.
I may be one of the only 80s teens that have never seen any of the Porky's movies or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
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Canyon Lake Agbu94 said:
Burdizzo said:
Porky's

A 1980s movie about a bunch of high school boys in the 1950s.. I think the only redeeming quality of that movie is Kim Catrall's butt.

Yet all of us teenagers in the 1980s loved it.
I may be one of the only 80s teens that have never seen any of the Porky's movies or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Fast Times was one of my favorite movies for over 20 years.

Then I had a 15 year old daughter and it totally changed my pov.

**** getting old.

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In reply to MGS • 9:46a, 1/28/25
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MGS said:
aTmAg said:
Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
Rudyjax said:
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.

I have to agree, generally. Except for this one time when a movie was made about Pearl Harbor, and we had F-14s.

If we made a movie like this today, It would be F-35s going after F-14s. Not quite as exciting.
Meanwhile, the U.S.S. Nimitz is still in service 45 years later.
I believe this is supposed to be her last year of active service
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In reply to Rudyjax • 10:24a, 1/28/25
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Rudyjax said:
Canyon Lake Agbu94 said:
Burdizzo said:
Porky's

A 1980s movie about a bunch of high school boys in the 1950s.. I think the only redeeming quality of that movie is Kim Catrall's butt.

Yet all of us teenagers in the 1980s loved it.
I may be one of the only 80s teens that have never seen any of the Porky's movies or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Fast Times was one of my favorite movies for over 20 years.

Then I had a 15 year old daughter and it totally changed my pov.

**** getting old.

I read this as your daughter came into this world at age 15.

Or did you re-marry to a lady with a 15-year-old daughter?
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In reply to Cinco Ranch Aggie • 10:29a, 1/28/25
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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
Rudyjax said:
Canyon Lake Agbu94 said:
Burdizzo said:
Porky's

A 1980s movie about a bunch of high school boys in the 1950s.. I think the only redeeming quality of that movie is Kim Catrall's butt.

Yet all of us teenagers in the 1980s loved it.
I may be one of the only 80s teens that have never seen any of the Porky's movies or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Fast Times was one of my favorite movies for over 20 years.

Then I had a 15 year old daughter and it totally changed my pov.

**** getting old.

I read this as your daughter came into this world at age 15.

Or did you re-marry to a lady with a 15-year-old daughter?
I didn't have a 15 year old daughter until she turned 15.


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10:55a, 1/28/25
Entire movie...



Obligatory...


And this...
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10:57a, 1/28/25
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I can see Weird science since it's using technology that never existed or has never been possible and is about creating a sex slave.

But the other 2?? Just because they took place when they were set, does not make them dated.


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MosesHallDeadPot94 said:
Entire movie...



Obligatory...


Of course this...


And this...
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Again, why are those dated? Why is Fast Times dated?
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In reply to Rudyjax • 11:18a, 1/28/25
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I mean how are they not? Its pretty clear that they are very much products of their time, set in that era, and wouldn't be the same if made today.

The clothes, the slang, etc. It's not necessarily a bad thing either. I think it applies to the vast majority of teen movies.
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 11:24a, 1/28/25
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Brian Earl Spilner said:
I mean how are they not? Its pretty clear that they are very much products of their time, set in that era, and wouldn't be the same if made today.

The clothes, the slang, etc. It's not necessarily a bad thing either. I think it applies to the vast majority of teen movies.
Right. it's a product of the time. If we made a movie set in 1982, they'd have those clothes, that hair, that slang.

By your definition, every movie is dated.

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In reply to Rudyjax • 11:26a, 1/28/25
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Rudyjax said:
Canyon Lake Agbu94 said:
Burdizzo said:
Porky's

A 1980s movie about a bunch of high school boys in the 1950s.. I think the only redeeming quality of that movie is Kim Catrall's butt.

Yet all of us teenagers in the 1980s loved it.
I may be one of the only 80s teens that have never seen any of the Porky's movies or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Fast Times was one of my favorite movies for over 20 years.

Then I had a 15 year old daughter and it totally changed my pov.

**** getting old.



It's Always Sunny does an episode making fun of the 80's Porky's/Hot Dog type movies about how insane they are.


NSFW


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12:05p, 1/28/25
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The OP used the word dated, then a scene from a movie to ask the question "how far we are from this world now?" I take that to mean the OP was stating look how different that time frame was where this kind of scene would be in a movie.

But you could also say something "dates" a movie by unintentionally affixing it firmly within a certain time period. War Games is not a period piece, but the tech involved in that movie drives the plot, and it basically carbon-dates that thing directly in the early 1980s. Clueless is not a period piece either. It was a modern retelling of a timeless classic, but it did so specifically with the fashion and slang that was modern at the time as a focal point. That same "modern" slang and fashion firmly dates that movie in the mid 1990s.

Conversely, Dazed and Confused is not a dated movie to me. Yes, they went back and tried very hard to copy the slang and styles of the mid 1970s, but that movie could have been made at any point because it was not a "modern take" at the time it was made.

Or you could say a movie is outdated because it takes you personally to a date and time in your life, and your memory of the movie doesn't meet up with what you see as an adult. Maybe the kid in you thought the CGI was awesome at the time, but you realize in 2025 it looks ridiculous. I'm looking directly at you, Matrix Reloaded.

Some movies revolve on the use of language or situations that might have been okay as plot points then but wouldn't be made today. Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Revenge of the Nerds, etc. Hell, a significant portion of Superbad is about about our protagonist trying to get as drunk as his crush so they can have sex without it being inappropriate, and that movie wasn't made in the 80s.

And to the OP, sometimes the stylistic choices make a movie feel dated. Like having an extended, choreographed, and thoroughly unironic roller skating disco dance sequence in the middle of a movie.

Lots of different ways to call a movie dated.
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1:11p, 1/28/25
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The least dated scene is Newman interrogating Sharon Stone in "Basic Instinct".
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In reply to fig96 • 1:28p, 1/28/25
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fig96 said:
Sapper Redux said:
SJEAg said:
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.


I will say, it's to The Matrix's eternal credit that they handled tech the way they did. It fits the world they created and lets you enjoy the movie without feeling overly dated.
Made a similar observation on The Matrix in my earlier post, totally agree.

Putting together a list of tech centric films that don't feel dated would be actually be a really interesting exercise.


2001, T2
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torrid said:
The least dated scene is Newman interrogating Sharon Stone in "Basic Instinct".


It is a story as old as the Garden of Eden
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 3:41p, 1/28/25
2001's story is timeless. The effects are not. 2010 is actually a pretty impressive movie for effects given when it was made.
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Sapper Redux said:
2001's story is timeless. The effects are not. 2010 is actually a pretty impressive movie for effects given when it was made.
Not sure what movie you're watching, but 2001's effects stand up as well today as they did in 1968.

2010 is a very underrated movie across the board. Great story, great cast, nice score, and visual effects that were on par with what was seen in Return of the Jedi (the most recent sci-fi big effects release to 2010)
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Sapper Redux said:
2001's story is timeless. The effects are not. 2010 is actually a pretty impressive movie for effects given when it was made.


Uhh, what?
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In reply to Rudyjax • 5:41p, 1/28/25
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Rudyjax said:
Here are 2 jokes that a modern audience who was not around in the 1980s wouldn't get.

Back to the Future:

Can I get a Pepsi Free?

Ok, how about a Tab?


You want a Pepsi pal, you're gonna pay for it!

A Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something!
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10:05p, 1/28/25
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How about Videodrome. You can't get much more dated than a sci-fi horror film where a guy gets a VHS tape inserted into an orifice in his stomach.
Disclaimer: Views expressed in this post reflect the opinions of Texags user bonfarr and are not to be accepted as facts or to be accepted at face value.
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7:12a, 1/29/25
Big Trouble in Little China and Bram Stokers Dracula have both aged very poorly. They are so horribly bad that the effects are comical in both. I would not mind a modern retelling of either one of them.
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In reply to Canyon Lake Agbu94 • 8:08a, 1/29/25
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Canyon Lake Agbu94 said:
Big Trouble in Little China and Bram Stokers Dracula have both aged very poorly. They are so horribly bad that the effects are comical in both. I would not mind a modern retelling of either one of them.
The effects in BTILC were cheesy in 1986. I'd rather never see a modern retelling of that one, much like some other films that are simply so well done, even perfect, that a remake is not necessary.

As for Bram Stoker's Dracula, did you miss Nosferatu? Should still be in theaters, but after having seen it, I can't recommend it.
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8:38a, 1/29/25
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Dated for…obvious reasons here….so bad it actually kinda becomes hilarious….scene from an old John Wayne movie called El Dorado….remember watching this with my dad….

Just….watch….

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In reply to jokershady • 8:56a, 1/29/25
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El Dorado is probably my favorite John Wayne movie
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