Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?

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rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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, 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.

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