Sorry, you came too late to appreciate this movie.
After so many rip-offs and parodies, you can't take old james bond movies seriously. Or slasher movies. Or monster movies. Or "no we cannot kill it think of what its capture means for science" or "who cares about safety, do you realize how much profit is at stake with this celebration ?". It would have worked the first time, but now it's just a tiresome, outdated trope.
After advancements in cultural understanding, and the boom of international communications, you just can't stand the cringe of old representations of otherness or minorities. Black people aren't inherently threatening, Asians aren't mysterious and mystical, homosexuality isn't intrinsically funny, and tribal natives, be it in the jungle or in the far west, just wouldn't be animal-like savages to eradicate or civilize. Also, these 19 years old leading ladies falling for the 65 years old male lead are just creepy. It would have engaged you at the time, now it's just obsolete at best.
And after Airplane, Police Squad, Naked Gun, no way you can take Leslie Nielsen seriously in a movie. The more serious he looks, the more he makes you laugh. You should have watched Forbidden Planet first. Now, it's simply too late.
And too late for flying saucers. Too late for the big flashy buttons and levers that control them. And these jerky stop-motion animations ? These rubber suit ? They don't scare you anymore, no matter how frightening the trailer claims them to be. Too late, your suspension of disbelief now require the strings to be digitally erased. And the aliens to come from outside our solar system.
Also, a pie in the face doesn't make a movie hilarious. Or does it ? (No it doesn't.)
So, do you manage to teleport your mind back in time, and appreciate a film as you would have at its time of release ? Does it depend on the aspect that has aged (techniques and morality aren't the same thing) ? Do you feel regrets for not managing to get into a movie because of timing ? Or pride of belonging to more advanced times ? Or existential terror at the thought of you own programmed obsolescence ?
What do you actually feel you're born too late to appreciate, what feels fair or unfair about it, and what, on the contrary, do you appreciate all the more with the added poetry of that cultural distance ? What about old old old movies nags you, infuriates you or endears them to you ?
After so many rip-offs and parodies, you can't take old james bond movies seriously. Or slasher movies. Or monster movies. Or "no we cannot kill it think of what its capture means for science" or "who cares about safety, do you realize how much profit is at stake with this celebration ?". It would have worked the first time, but now it's just a tiresome, outdated trope.
After advancements in cultural understanding, and the boom of international communications, you just can't stand the cringe of old representations of otherness or minorities. Black people aren't inherently threatening, Asians aren't mysterious and mystical, homosexuality isn't intrinsically funny, and tribal natives, be it in the jungle or in the far west, just wouldn't be animal-like savages to eradicate or civilize. Also, these 19 years old leading ladies falling for the 65 years old male lead are just creepy. It would have engaged you at the time, now it's just obsolete at best.
And after Airplane, Police Squad, Naked Gun, no way you can take Leslie Nielsen seriously in a movie. The more serious he looks, the more he makes you laugh. You should have watched Forbidden Planet first. Now, it's simply too late.
And too late for flying saucers. Too late for the big flashy buttons and levers that control them. And these jerky stop-motion animations ? These rubber suit ? They don't scare you anymore, no matter how frightening the trailer claims them to be. Too late, your suspension of disbelief now require the strings to be digitally erased. And the aliens to come from outside our solar system.
Also, a pie in the face doesn't make a movie hilarious. Or does it ? (No it doesn't.)
So, do you manage to teleport your mind back in time, and appreciate a film as you would have at its time of release ? Does it depend on the aspect that has aged (techniques and morality aren't the same thing) ? Do you feel regrets for not managing to get into a movie because of timing ? Or pride of belonging to more advanced times ? Or existential terror at the thought of you own programmed obsolescence ?
What do you actually feel you're born too late to appreciate, what feels fair or unfair about it, and what, on the contrary, do you appreciate all the more with the added poetry of that cultural distance ? What about old old old movies nags you, infuriates you or endears them to you ?