Films that have aged well and films that haven't

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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.

I'll have a biscuit, but make sure 2019 is a year in which you and your son have some fun! Don't suck the joy out of too much - there isn't enough around! Peace

boatyard my husband (not British) had never seen any old Bond films and he was shocked to the core. He couldn’t believe all the casual misogyny. He’s hardly from Wokestan either.

ninja Big is an awesome film but it is seriously wtf. I’m sure they could have done it without the weird love story which, as a child, I was 200000% not interested in anyway.

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

That's all we see in the film, yes. There's no suggestion he's harassing anyone. Mr Fitzherbert is the creepy one.

I watched Bridget Jones and Mrs Doubtfire over Christmas. Both still very enjoyable.

I also watched Breakfast Club again recently and was surprised at how much empathy I had for the teacher. Fucking kids.

I think Frasier is quite timeless. Occasional inappropriate letching from Frasier aside, I think it’s all still very funny and the women involved usually hold their own quite well. Ross gets slut shamed a lot though now I think of it.. hmmm, not sure.

Saturday Night Fever. Loved it as a 17year old. How did I not notice the awful sexual coercion?

I'm sure someone "proved" on Twitter that Kevin would have died from sledging down those stairs

Home alone hasn’t aged at all.

Films that depict New York in the 80s seem very dated as it’s so grubby.

I'm watching The League of Gentlemen, made in 1960. It was good then, and still is now.

Educating Rita. Brilliant film but the music!! Arghhhhhhh kills it!

I watched Back to the Future with my 13 and 11 year old and they we’re outraged by the car scene, which pleased me greatly, but made me réalisé that me and my brothers didn’t blink an eye when we watched it at a similar age.

We watched the Goonies the other day and I was struck by the casual disabledism, although my kids really enjoyed it.

Jurassic Park has aged well,the cgi hasn't dated at all.The Lost Boys is awful now I'm not 16

I tell you one that's DREADFUL

I remembered as a child that I loved The Worst Witch with Tim Curry, located it, rewatched it

It is a steaming turd

Jeez, whoever said that Home Alone was shockingly violent Come on! It's Tom and Jerry! It's clearly OTT and yes, if someone got 5 bricks thrown in their face from a great height in reality, they would be dead, but this is a FILM. I haven't met one person who has watched both films and not laughed. So yes, I agree these films are timeless.

Not so timeless, Gone with the Wind "You're not turning me down tonight" before the oh so charming Rhett Butler forcefully carries his wife upstairs and rapes her. That was supposed to be romance! And her reaction in the morning of basically, 'thank you daaarling, that was just what I needed' is just

Withnail and I never ages, and neither does A Man for all Seasons.

Aging badly, so very badly - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

I loved it as a child, rewatched it recently just utterly aghast. I appreciate it was made in a very different era but...it was based on the Rape of the Sabine Women, so even at the time there were heavy hints it wasn’t a delightful premise upon which to begin a marriage.

Agree that The Truman Snow is still incredibly relevant.

I totally agree wrt Gone With The Wind. Scarlett looks positively beaming the next morning, as clearly she's been given a damn good seeing too. Righto! Very creepy.

I saw Gremlins with the kids the other day. Sadly, the creatures are very dated. I still enjoyed it though. The kids, not so much!

I think Alien / Aliens still stands up though. Ripley is my icon.

I think in the original Home Alone, you can suspend disbelief just about enough, but the second one is a crock IMHO. Throwing bricks from the top of a building and electrocuting people?! Just no.

I think there are some really old films that have aged well in terms of their themes, if not some of the other stuff. There is a film with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy called Desk Set, from 1950-something, where a guy from a computer firm comes along and starts de-skilling and automating all the jobs... That's pretty applicable "these days" as well, even if the office setting etc is totally old fashioned.

I have a friend I used to spend Chrismas with and he’d ruin both Home Alones (yes I know there are more but really) by going ‘he’d be dead’, ‘he’d be dead’ at every single prank.

Yes ok. It’s a film! It’s not billed as real life.

@boatyardblues DH and I watched home alone 2 the other night and kept shouting “surely he’d be dead NOW!!” after each of Kevin’s ‘booby traps’ for the robbers.

The film hasn’t aged really, but I could pick it to bits forever. Why not let Brenda Fricker come to the plaza for a hot meal and a bath rather than give her a cheap Xmas decoration??

Jurassic Park has aged well,the cgi hasn't dated at all.

But the actual technology shown in it...there was a phase when VR was deemed cool and futuristic and shown being used for things it wouldn't actually be used for ... that and then state-of-the-art molecular graphics.

Yes the CGI in Jurassic Park is amazing, what dates it are the computers the tech people are using.

What CGI in Jurassic Park?!

Don't go ruining my favourite documentary now!

I love Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and IMO the most shockingly misogynistic thing in it is that the loving fathers were prepared to marry their daughters to men that they assumed had raped them because there was a baby.

In some ways it's surprisingly women-centred, Adam's wife kicks him out of the bedroom on their wedding night and he just goes, she forces the brothers to have table manners and wear clean clothes and they do, she kicks all the men out of the house after the kidnap and they do as they're told.

Of course, the kidnap thing is bad, very bad, even if it's that tall one who's an excellent dancer doing the kidnapping.

Not a film but Little Britain- the height of comedy when I was 12. Recently saw an episode in which David Walliams character projectile vomits because an Asian woman cooked the food he was eating