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[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 93 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But Lord of the rings is a modern movie?

[-] Triple_B@lemmy.zip 165 points 1 year ago

Is a movie that came out 23 years ago still modern?

[-] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 221 points 1 year ago
[-] Norodix@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

The perfect comment doesn't exi....

[-] Nikls94@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

…t a room without shouting "I‘ll remember y‘all in therapy!“

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 42 points 1 year ago

Yes, the word we are searching for is contemporary. Technically all films are modern, but not contemporary. Though modern has expanded definition to include it generally as well but I like to explore language :)

[-] SoleInvictus 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess it's time for me to find a nice, cool porch to die under.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

We’ve got a turd in the punch bowl

I saw it on the classic movie channel yesterday.

[-] Zagorath@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

It came out after ~1800, so yes.

[-] sockman@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago

I mean it was filmed 25 years ago, I guess it depends on your definition of 'modern'

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 32 points 1 year ago

Made in the current millennium.

Oh fuck.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Quarter of a century ago

[-] ChewbaccasClitoris@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago

Can confirm. I was an extra in these movies and now I'm on first name terms with all the local osteopaths.

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Filmed 25 years ago

I don't want to believe this...

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

What do you mean? Of course it isn't a modern movie, it was filmed during the Third Age.

[-] frazw@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

To me, modern says more about the techniques and methods used. In that respect, not much has changed even though 25 years has passed. Even stylistically it is more similar to a current film than one filmed 25 years before its release, i.e. mid 1970s. As someone else said, contemporary is a better word for describing its age than modern.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Tbh you could argue the techniques created for the lotr films set the standard for the current era of filmmaking

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Props and makeup instead of full cgi?

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually funnily enough the CGI is one of the biggest areas they innovated in, in addition to the great practical effects

Look up Peter Jackson's Weta workshop & digital, a lot of the stuff that's commonplace in cinema today has its origins there for the LotR films

[-] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think by modern, they mean post-2010

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