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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.
In 1995 most would probably consider Star Wars an old movie. I think most would consider Jurassic Park to be an old movie now.
In the year 2000 I definitely would have thought something from 1970 was old.
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.
Yes, because it is one year before ny birhyear.
Do your parents know you're on the computer?
Should Super Mario Brothers 1 be considered an old game?
It depends whether you've ever played the game before (or, regarding your question, whether you've seen the movie before).
If you've seen the movie or played the game a half million times, then it's not new to you.
But there's still plenty of people out there that haven't seen the movie or played the game you speak of, so it would absolutely be new to them...
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.
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.
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.
'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.
I have a 1969 truck. If you haven’t driven it before, is it new?
yes, it’s now a cybertruck
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.