Posted on 02/05/2023 11:16:25 AM PST by Saije
20 YEARS AGO — Just the other day, I was sitting in my living room when I heard a loud bang from the basement. Undoubtedly, it was one of my kids destroying yet another piece of our home — but I'll never know.
That's because the noise made me turn my head, resulting in me hurting my back. Yes, a head turn can now hurt my back. When I was a kid, I'd ride my bike off a shed roof and hit the ground like a satellite returning to Earth's atmosphere. I'd then pop up, grab a popsicle and go play dodge ball for six hours.
My point is, I'm getting old. And the one thing that can make you feel old — more than a strained back from a head turn — is realizing the movies on this list are turning 20.
2003 gave us the final Concorde flight, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, French fries became freedom fries, and Lance Armstrong was still the darling of the cycling world with his fifth Tour de France win.
Let it set in that all of this happened 20 years ago ... and that means the movies on this list, which were all released in 2003, are celebrating their 20th birthday in 2023.
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I saw the original Italian Job, loved the Minis!
I’m sure the remake sucked.
Yup.
It's due to a psychological mechanism of the human memory.
Films like "Finding Nemo" are first brand-new, and are then later stored under the rubric "no longer brand-new, but still new") for a lo-oong time. (There are no separate categories for "only 3 years old," "only 7 years old," etc.)
It's only when they finally round the 20-year mark, and someone draws your attention to that fact, that your brain actually has to re-classify them.
In contrast, Re-classifying a 50-year-old movie as "suddenly" 60 years old is not a biggie.
Sort of like observing young children, who are suddenly driving cars and working as policemen or doctors - that's a big shift. But those same policemen and doctors in their mid-20s later being 40-year-olds is simply not as momentous a re-classification in our minds.
Regards,
All of that story, but none of the movies listed in the post?
“Avatar - too much fluff and too long. Not bad if they edited by one hour”
When asked by friends to give a review, I said, “Cowboys and Indians” but using Aliens instead of Indians.
I’d seen none of those movies, except Pirates, and that was a CD played at the insistence of my guests last July. Wasn’t bad, but strayed into Voodoo.
Nothing wrong with that. It's a story. But it wasn't that deep. So it's good for two hours to watch on a Saturday night. Movies should last between 90 minutes to 2 hours. Every once a while, maybe 2 and half hour if there's a long story to tell. Like Dr. Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia.
Robert Duvall and Michael Caine in the same film. Double barrel guarantee of great.
Ha! I knew it looked real familiar.....
Secondhand Lions.
Definitely worth watching.
I wholeheartedly agree! I have watched this movie numerous times and have enjoyed it every time. Pre-wokeness.
I don’t see any list.
Mark Walberg, one of the worst excuses for an “actor” in movie history, IMO.
Even worse rapper.
Even most of those movies wouldn’t be made today. Too many straight, white people.
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Truth!
“The Italian Job” was a bad remake of a Michael Caine one.
“Secondhand Lions” is a great movie starring Michael Caine and Robert Duvall
“The Lord of the Rings” movies were pretty good when you overlook the big feet and pointy ears. They are each too long by an hour. The director loved filming them walking and walking and riding and walking where as in a western the good guy will say “I’ll see you in Dodge” and the next scene is in Dodge and not the prairie for hundreds of miles.
“Pirates of the Caribbean” the 2nd movie was good but the rest were fillers.
There was a time when I usually paid to see at least one feature film per week, in a theater. My philosophy was that if Hollywood was willing to spend millions of dollars to entertain me, I was willing to spend a few dollars to be entertained. For a long time they held up their end of that deal. Then Hollywood stopped being entertaining, and started being nothing but disgustingly leftist.
Here's what made me feel old: Learning that Peter Gabriel's song "Shock the Monkey" was released over 40 years ago. Ouch.
School of Rock is a cute movie.
This lame list shows pedowood was declining fast in the early 2000s. There were many great movies in the 70s and 80s, quite a few in the 90s. Today, almost none.
Pedowood has destroyed itself.
Media has destroyed itself.
Government is destroying itself.
I’ve seen Elf, Finding Nemo, and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. I think only Finding Nemo in a theater.
Have Grandkids.
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