Films that have aged well and films that haven't

[GunpowderGelatine]

Film that HAS aged well - the Truman show. Still so relevant and could be made today

Film that hasn't aged well - Sixteen Candles. Watched it recently as I loved it as a teen. Full of racism, alluding to raping a young woman, sexual harassment and deeply sexist.

love actually is one of my favourite films but I don't think it comes across very well these days...

Love the Truman show! Agree it is even more relevant in these days of social media!

Silence of the lambs-on tv now, still a great film.

Bridget Jones first film was on the over night, I think Daniel Cleaver would be #metoo'd out of work now, all that bum groping in the lift. Still a funny film though. Buster, Phil Collins as the great train robber, very casual domestic violence references.

Matrix - I’m shocked by how well it’s aged. Godfather 1 and 2. Usual Suspects.

The film of MASH (and to a lesser extent the TV programme too). Serious sexual harassment which was clearly comedy at the time.

Sorry, I meant to say that obviously that's something that has aged very badly. Just in case there was any doubt

YES - I watched Bridget Jones too recently and thought "oooh wouldn't get away with that now!". Like when she refers to her best pal as a "raging p**f of course"! And pretty much every scene with Rapey Cleaver.

Sliding Doors makes the 90's look SHIT! The décor, the fashion, the chat - all SHIT! But I remember watching it and thinking GP was the coolest women ever - had my hair cut like hers looked more like Myra Hyndley though !

My kids love Breakfast Club, as did I, so I guess that aged well.
I now think it's stupid & characters are self-absorbed annoying gits.

Watching films from early 1970s that are "slow" & quiet (eg., Patton, Chinatown): I loved them then & now, but my kids can't engage at all.

Tv rather than film. Dh and I recently rewatched UK Office. At the time it was funny because thats what it was like working in an office/warehouse. Nowadays its just wildly racist and sexist and everyone would have been sacked on day one.

Aliens has held up better than you’d expect, as I watched it with DS recently. The SFX look really noddy, but the epic battle between Ripley and the Alien hordes is still fantastic.

The Connery-era Bond films are really uncomfortable viewing to modern eyes. Rapey, sexist creep.

We watched Back To The Future with a child a few years ago and didn't half get a shock

The scene were Biff traps Lorraine in the car is sexual assault and it is glossed over

There was also some racist language and we were - thought this was a family film!

Home Alone by contrast really hasn't aged apart from smartphones. Timeless.

Alien has aged really badly I think due to really embarrassingly primeval tech specs and SFX

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Funny people saying about Bridget Jones. I watched it again too at xmas and only just realised the hands on approach of Cleaver. Still think it's timeless though!

We've just watched Home Alone and apart from all the camel coloured clothing and brown lipstick it's aged well. (X Files ditto, poor old Scully looked 30 yrs older than she does now because of all those huge brown coats!)

In a fit of nostalgia I watched Thorn Birds and Mistral's Daughter recently- TV of course. The quality of the filming is atrocious in both.

Any film from the 80s/early 90s, just because of people smoking in them!

It really jars now as it's almost non existent (apart from if you need to obviously signify a baddie)

Yes some of the scenes in Back to the Future are uncomfortable - apart from the awful car scene (which I fast-forwarded), I think there’s a scene in the cafeteria where Biff grabs Lorraine and says something like you know you want it - also his dad in the tree perving on Lorraine in her undies

Also the film Big with Tom Hanks - bit weird an adult woman is having a sexual relationship with a 12 year old boy.... (ok she had no idea but was it really necessary?)

poor old Scully looked 30 yrs older than she does now because of all those huge brown coats!)

There was a season where Gillian Anderson was pregnant & I remember creative use of big coats, piles of files and strategic positioning behind office & lab furniture.

I watched Never been kissed recently. It all felt weird she's 25 and fancies a 17 year old and then everyone wants her to kiss the teacher as it's ok now she's not really a student. Not sure they'd make it now! Still like the film.

I think Minority Report has aged well enough. It predicted adverts designed for you before it happened.

Whilst Home Alone has aged well, it’s taken on a whole new meaning for me now I have children. Before, it was a light-hearted Christmas comedy. Now I’m a parent, it’s like watching ‘Taken’ - missing child being pursued by criminals!

The level of violence and injury in Home Alone is quite staggering. I’m afraid I watched it with my youngest son commenting on how hitting someone that hard in the head could kill or permanently brain injure/disable someone etc.

The question of Daniel Cleaver is this: did he only grope bums where the bum-owner wanted to be groped?

When I watch Home Alone now im more shocked at how he managed to clean the house immaculately before his mum got home.

@boatyardblues

This is the saddest, most PC / nanny-state sponsored comment I've read on here all Christmas. Good work!

Scotty - your scolding post was slower coming than I expected. Have a biscuit.

God I agree with you Scottyteapot!! WTAF! 😅

Watching re-runs of Little Britain on Netflix at the mo.. Hilarious but I doubt they'd get away with it in mainstream broadcasting now!! Such a shame!