As much as I hate to admit it, yes. That’s 30 years ago now.
Think of it like this… If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.
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Movies from 1955 were old in 1985, so movies from 1995 are old now.
NO SHUT UP THE 90S WERE TEN YEARS AGO
“TELL ME! WHO’S PRESIDENT IN 2025 - DONALD TRUMP??!?!”
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30 years is pretty old for a movie.
Yeah, 30 years is, but he said 1995… Wait, no no no no no no no
It’s only old if you’ve seen it before. The movie could be 100+ years old, but if you’ve never seen it before, it’s still totally new to you.
‘old’ and ‘unknown to me’ aren’t the same thing and never were. When someone says they’re into ‘old movies’, they never mean that they like rewatching movies from the 2020s.
Then please define exactly what NOS means?
New Old Stock. Yes, NOS is a thing, literally old stuff still in the original box, unopened, never used.
Shit, you got any idea how much money Biff got for his OG unopened box set copy of Back To The Future?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dsIcCtylbUw
Just because a thing was made ages ago doesn’t necessarily mean it’s ever even been used/viewed/played or whatever.
And Biff wasn’t stupid, he learned from the very movie he played in.
That’s just not what “old” or “new” mean for media. You could maybe make that argument if the movie was made a long time ago but only released now, but that’s a very rare case. The public has already consumed the media, if it was somewhat popular you might be aware of what people thought about it before you even watch it for the first time, and if it was influential it might even interact with younger movies, possibly leading to you thinking that certain elements of it are overdone or old hat when this might actually have been one of the first works to have used these elements.
On top of that, the general societal context is not that of today, but of when the movie was made - few works are so timeless that this doesn’t matter at all.
Try watching Pink Flamingos
If you’ve anything like the audience of the time it came out, you’ll almost certainly turn it off within about 10 to 15 minutes.
But it’ll likely be new to you.
Highly not recommended…
I have a 1969 truck. If you haven’t driven it before, is it new?
New to me, yes.
Also, don’t ask what the actual first vehicle I ever drove was, but it wasn’t much newer than that.
I don’t think this is what Einstein had in mind when he spoke of relativity.
I have been working through my “must watch” list with my teenage daughter recently. While all the movies are absolutely new to her, that hasn’t stopped the occasional snickering about how “old” some of the stuff is. (And honestly, I can’t disagree. I had a few “ah fuck I’m old” moments rewatching Predator and Blade Runner recently.)
So, in spirit, I 100% agree with you. In reality, nobody can quite escape how old some movies actually feel.
I wanted to watch the OG Nosferatu before the new one, my wife could not stop laughing.
“No! This serious horror movie!”
(snort)
Did you know that Charlie Chaplain actually made a movie with audio? Watch how something that’s actually so old somehow becomes new to you…
Sorry, I couldn’t quite get the feeling you described. It’s partially because I have seen that before and partially because it still looks old and the sound quality was reminiscent of a cylinder phonograph.
Good try though. ;)
Hah, interesting that you’ve seen that before, cool cool 👍
As crappy as the audio is, honestly it’s still pretty good for when it was made.
I actually like the audio. (I’ll leverage faux tape recording effects and plate reverb on occasion with music I write.)
And honestly, it was kinda refreshing to watch Charlie Chaplain again.
In 1995 most would probably consider Star Wars an old movie. I think most would consider Jurassic Park to be an old movie now.
Absolutely. It’s from the time when families used to share a single phone! That they glued to the wall!!
Red Hot Chili Peppers is now considered “classic rock”
Oofh. Oh yeah, that one hurts.
Time is a bitch. I disapprove of the whole concept.
Time is relative. A 5 year old piece of software is ancient. A 100 year old stone church is very recent. If you find a stone axe that isn’t at least 10 000 years old, you can toss it back where you found it.
In before Muzak version of Blood Sugar Sex Magik. :)
1995 was 30 years ago.
In 1995, 30 year old movies would have been made in 1965, and in the 90s we would have absolutely considered movies made in the 60s to be “old”.
So, I’d say yes, movies made in 1995 could be considered old.I thing you got your math wrong. See, it’s 2025 and … Oh NO
Haha 2025?! It’s 2015, i just checked me calendar and … Oh NO
In the year 2000 I definitely would have thought something from 1970 was old.
Shit, the nes felt old and that was only 15 then
A while back, someone told me. If you read a book from the 19th century, you won’t call-it an “old book”, so why would a movie from the 1950’s be an old movie. And indeed, even in movies, there is some master piece which came out a while ago and are still relevant today (Seven Samurai, the Godfather or the Good, the bad and ugly immediately come to my mind) and tons of movie which while not being a recent release are still fun to watch today.
Movie don’t have an experiation date.
Old doesn’t mean irrelevant though.
I absolutely would consider a book from the 19th century an old book, just as I’d consider the movies you mentioned as old movies. But a great movie is a great movie regardless of age.
obviously.
I think it depends on the movie
If, after 30 years it still has a lot of cultural relevance, I’d think of it as a “classic” movie.
If it doesn’t, if it hasn’t aged well and/or faded into obscurity, I think it’s fair to think of it as an old movie.
Probably around '95, I would have been watching Star Wars for the first time. It didn’t feel like an old movie to me then and it still doesn’t to this day. Other movies from that same era haven’t aged quite as well and felt “old” to me.
Looking at some of the top movies from '95, some of them are just as enjoyable or relevant today as they were when they released, others feel dated and not relevant to me today.
It’s going to depend on your personal tastes and experiences of course. I can also sprinkle in a lot of platitudes like “you’re only as old as you feel” and “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”
I think there’s also room for some overlap. There’s classic movies that also feel dated. I think some movies can be both old and classics. You’d be pretty hard-pressed to find someone who wouldn’t agree that, for example, Casablanca, isn’t old, but I think that just about everyone agrees that it’s also a classic. Where the line is is pretty murky.
Yesterday I re-watched Copycat. Part of the suspense fell on the main character not having a phone and the would-be killer cutting the land line.
It felt… weird.
And yes, it was old 😢
Depends how old you are.
Yeah anything produced in the late 1900 I would consider old. Like me…
With how many movies are constantly being churned out, I consider even 5-10 year old movies to be “old.” The same way a meme older than a week on the internet is old.
Yes, because it is one year before ny birhyear.
Do your parents know you’re on the computer?
