My copy of Fight Club gets asked out all the time. It's a big slut.

Streets of Fire but damn was Diane Lane a hottie.

Driller Killer

Good point. After seeing what Batman Begins has to offer, it's gonna make the original Batman movies look a bit dated.

That said, the Superman movies are very dated in my opinion.

As for dated movies in my collection...I don't really have any major ones. If anything, a couple of the first few Star Trek movies are dated. By that I mean the tech level they used in those films have been surpassed by even the recent Enterprise series. This is one reason why I'm not a big TOS fan.

Most of my movies are fairly recent. 1990 and newer. The older ones are generally the historical epic types or Westerns that will never become dated.

The Final Countdown should be dated considering its age, but the film holds up quite well. I think it has a lot to do with the fact is was filmed on a real aircraft carrier, withe the Navy's participation, and not in a studio.

Bush has an approval rating hovering around 47-48%. About the same as it was during the '04 election.

The Social Security Plan (with private accounts) is being panned by the Congressional Democrats because they think that the people aren't smart enough to invest rationally. Just as they think of all people. The ironic thing is that they, themselves have had similar plans, called thrift-savings plans which went into effect in the early '90s, and yet they think that "the people" are too stupid to use the same retirement plan they use.

What they're really afraid of is that if people are allowed to invest in the stock and bond market that people will finally learn that they've been lied to by the Democrats all this time and it'll create an army of new Republican recruits.

As for the war, which war are you referring to? Iraq or Afghanistan? If Afghanistan, I can't help you there because there's nothing I could say to convince you that it helped to dismantle al Qaeda main base of operations. If Iraq, I can justify that war with one simple statement. Democracies don't attack democracies. Everyone talks about "world peace" but yet, no one on the Left have any ideas on how to achieve it. You do it by spreading freedom and democracy to the oppressed areas of the world, and sometimes it takes the forced removal of tyrannical dictatorships. WMD? Who cares about WMD? If Saddam didn't have them prior to 3-03, he'd reconstitute his program after sanctions were dropped and that's exactly what France was pushing for.

Sorry for the off-topic rant, but I just can't let ill-informed cheap shots go.

This thread is doomed.

If you liked the datedness of Roller Boogie, you may want to check out Prom Night if you haven't already...

* A disco prom!
* A makeout van!
* And Leslie Nielsen in a "serious" role!

To Live And Die In LA is pretty dated, IMO, but only because of the uber-80s soundtrack. The same goes for Fast Times.

I agree on A Clockwork Orange. It was/is one of my favorite movies, but over the years it has started to look 'dated' to me.


I'm trying to think what is it exactly that makes a movie seem 'dated' in the negative sense. Psycho is a great example of posessing a timeless quality. I always think of it as a movie that takes place in the 1960's rather than a movie that was made in the 1960's.

The Chaplin Collection- those are so old that there's no color, the guy in them is dead, and they don't even have SOUND!

Head, the 1968 Monkees movie

Soylent Green had the least technological future I've ever seen

I grew up during the Saturday Night Fever disco days. Now it just looks kind of silly

I can't even watch Tim Burton's Batman anymore.

It was great back in '89, but it's hysterically dated now.

Just watched Bus Stop with Marilyn.

The "comedy" in this would lead to arrest now. Lassoing a woman, and dragging her screaming off a bus? And not a single person around has a problem with it.

The Wizard of Oz, but that's because it is dated.

The Untouchables. It has nothing to do with the film itself, but instead has to do with Ennio Morricone's score, which is hopelessly dated and is instantly recognizable as music right out of the late 1980's. It drives me nuts, to be honest, because the film itself is great, but when I'm watching a movie about prohibition and Kapone, the 1980's isn't necessarily what I associate with it.

One Million Years B.C.

Nothing's like that anymore.

Early eighties teen C-Movies like THE HEAVENLY KID, SECRET ADMIRER and even WEIRD SCIENCE are incredibly dated, and sometimes unwatchable as a result. In particular, THE HEAVENLY KID, a terrible little flick, had every eighties cliche: some nerd kid who's trying to become popular, nice brunette girlfriend, conniving blonde vixen, crappy eighties soundtrack by one-hit wonders (or less), with a look and production design of a bad TV sitcom.

In Like Flint (1967)- the second of the Flint movies had me laughing at the film in a bad way because of the inappropriateness of its totally sexist plot and resolution:

Agreed. That crappy score nearly ruins the film. 1930s Chicago sounds like some 80s detective show or something.

Bravo!

--THX

Brit sci-fi series like Space 1999 and UFO are a hoot when it comes to fashion of the future. I wonder who thought up the light purple/blue synthetic wigs? Nothing like using heavy eye-makeup to point out you are an alien.

Someone in this thread is a douche.