Films That Have Aged Radly

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uhh i can't think of one now

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

haha

cinema paradiso

― gem (trisk), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

i dunno man, the corny mwah mwah ending doesn't really do it for me anymore

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

Weekend
Hustler
Brewster McCloud

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

color of money!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

d'ya think?

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, despite the fact that it has no ending, it's a regular hoot.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

Ferris Bueller!

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

Withnail and I.

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

oh, oh, oh:

To Kill A Mockingbird.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

I cannot find a copy of Brewster McCloud anywhere. Remy, reveal your sources.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

Birth of a Nation

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

Ferris Bueller and Withnail I agree with heartily.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

battle of algiers?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

um, Kids? haven't seen it in forever, though.

Trading Places
Breakfast Club

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

Withnail so totally OTM.

The Big Lebowski gets radder everytime I watch it!

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

Also, Snow White still kicks ass.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

i saw color of money recently & i was really into it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

NO KLASSIX PLEASE!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

Psycho!

Dammit xpost.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

Buckaroo Banzai, imperfectly but still pretty well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

i guess i should have said "(suprisingly) radly" but that would've fucked up the ELEGANCE OF THE THREAD TITLE

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

Alien & Aliens (despite minor crap like hairstyles and such)

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

i think buckaroo b still holds up as well as ever before!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

go tell it on alex in nyc latebloomer!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

robert zemeckis movies that are not Forrest Gump

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

any film by radly scott harhar

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

go tell it on alex in nyc latebloomer!
-- s1ocki (slytus...)

He may honour the fire, but I BOW TO THE ACID

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

2001

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

yeah ryan otm, zemmy's held up pretty well!! especially back to the future!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

10 Things I Hate About You is still pretty k-classic.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

clueless!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

Dirty Work, which was criminally underappreciated when it came out and has all but disappeard now.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

The Rutles, anyone?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

It has that classic SNL/Python combo without the datedness of some of both group's other work.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

The Specialist (Stallone/Stone/Woods)

― Aaron A., Friday, 25 February 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

really.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

Ferris Beuller thirded, that's what I was going to post.

"This is Spinal Tap" -- 1000X funnier than ever before thanks to VH1 (and it was funny to begin with).

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

yeah, that Metallica movie pretty much makes clear how fucking beautiful Spinal Tap is

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

Strange Brew.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Mnemonic!

80 GIG HARDDRIVE!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

Easy Rider

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

repo man (still great, aestheitically awesome, great esteves, great soundtrack)

wayne's world (surprising but true, holds up better than you would have thought)

― scout (scout), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

Ghostbusters has dated surprisingly well.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 25 February 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

Kids
Glengarry GR
Blade Runner (still looks SO hot and new)
DIE HARD
Ed Scissorhands (ICE DANCE NIGGA)

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 25 February 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

The Warriors is at its radness peak

― Seuss, Friday, 25 February 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

when has 'ferris buller' not been wall-to-wall awesome?

― NRQ (Enrique), Friday, 25 February 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

this is the films that aged radly thread you know

― gem (trisk), Friday, 25 February 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

Haha, Kids sucked right from the start!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 25 February 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Why, Tuomas? I don't ever watch films, but I watch plenty of movies, and it's my favorite movie ever. Maybe it's the Finland speaking.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 25 February 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

joan of arc: the messenger!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 25 February 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Suburbia

― Seuss, Friday, 25 February 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

re: Suburbia - who's the girl with all the baby fat on her face who talks to the main character guy about being in group therapy, and later on she disappears? Does she die? She's so cute.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 25 February 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

Kids was nothing but moralistic preaching, an old man saying: "See, parents? This is how you're kids really are!", when in reality 99% percent of them aren't that way.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 25 February 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

Plus, even if it were true, Kids didn't to try to convey it's message in any reasonable way, and instead opted for mere shock tactics, which made it cinematically dire.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 25 February 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

message i took from kids: "blimey isn't chloe sevigny bendy!"

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 25 February 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that's probably the Finland talking. Most of the kids I grew up with were pretty much exactly that way, except more suburban. Nothing shocking about it to me, it was more like a mirror - 2 out of 3 days of my week are still spent pretty much like the day in Kids, minus the HIV, skateboarding and general poorpeopleness. Dialectically it's spot on - any ILXor that's met me in person will testify that I still talk exactly like Casper in everyday conversation. I've spent a number of years defending this movie to the very death of me, and I know where this is gonna go, so let's just agree we both have our reasons (me = rugged; you = Finland). Cool!

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 25 February 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

The kid who played Casper actually killed himself a few years ago.

― Seuss, Friday, 25 February 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I know. Justin was a good kid.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 25 February 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
I saw this on DVD the other night and realized that this movie is even better than it was at ages 9, 12, & 15.
KHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!

― brandon larson, Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

regardless of your critical opinion of it or whether you think it accurately represents youth, when I see kids now I don't think "oh how quaint! look at the way the talk and act! how dated! we are so beyond these social issues now"

― ()ops (()()ps), Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

fwiw, i was a middle-class kid from the burbs, so i don't know how less well off kids in NYC lived in the mid-90s. but I hung out with---in the burbs and in Chicago--- a bunch of kids that were pretty much exactly like those in Kids.

― ()ops (()()ps), Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

"Kids was nothing but moralistic preaching, an old man saying: "See, parents? This is how you're kids really are!"

I don't think this is the "message" of Kids at all. The message I got was "Hi my name's Larry Clark and watch me fuck up this half-decent script with a lot of my creepy, pedophiliac teen junkie fantasy sequences". Harmony Korine >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Larry Clark (as evidenced by Gummo and Julien Donkey Boy, which have both aged a million times better than Kids)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Saturday, 26 February 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

the more bizarre a movie is, the better it ages

― ()ops (()()ps), Saturday, 26 February 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Regarding "Kids": OTM, Tuomas. I wasn't shocked by the subject matter of the film, but I did leave thinking Larry Clark was extremely skeevy.

2 out of 3 days of my week are still spent pretty much like the day in Kids, minus the HIV, skateboarding and general poorpeopleness

Isn't that like 80% of the movie, though?

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Saturday, 26 February 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

No, I just mean the dialogue. A lot of it is subtly brilliant and hilarious - Telly: "...well, my outlook on the situation.." Casper: "Awww, Mr. Wizard!" and then, Casper, lifting a 15lb weight: "This short chinese bitch said I'd look good with muscles - Imma get mad diesel and fuck up ANY nigga that steps to me!"

Stuff like that. I can understand how if the dialogue isn't instantly relatable or funny to you, you're going to hate the movie.

Agreed on Larry Clark tho - dude is corny - Ken Park is shit, tho Bully had its hilarious moments too - "the mafia guy" hahaha.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Saturday, 26 February 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

Network

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Saturday, 26 February 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Eyes Wide Shut. I like it much more than I did at first.

― the buttocks of science (beanz), Saturday, 26 February 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

French Connection
Big Trouble In Little China
Better Off Dead
Say Anything

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 February 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

WALL STREET - Daryl Hannah, with that hair, in homeboys glass-intensive apartment. Timeless.

Oh yeah wait,

SCARFACE

Thread over!

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Saturday, 26 February 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

the sure thing
an american werewolf in london
catholic boys (u.s : heaven help us)
stop making sense

― piscesboy, Saturday, 26 February 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

What is your favorite rap song that samples Scarface?

Diaz Brothers - Return of the Diaz Brothers
Geto Boyz - Fuck Em
Necro - Cockroaches

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Saturday, 26 February 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

OTM

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Saturday, 26 February 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

To Live and Die In L.A.
Two-Lane Blacktop
Cop (James Woods flick)

yeah and Kids, it's not that inaccurate, which is why it's so "meh". I was around kids like that in rural Illinois, for fuck's sake. Kids sleep around and fuck shit up. Whoa. Kids, man. What a time we live in.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 26 February 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

ROBOCOP.
I can't get over how much of a tragedy it is that stop-motion is no longer commonly used. ED-209 and the "defleshed" Terminator in T1 were so frightening because of the alien, mechanical movements of stop motion. CG always makes everything too fluid and human. They're robots man!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 26 February 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

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