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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

But Lord of the rings is a modern movie?

[–] [email protected] 170 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 229 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The perfect comment doesn't exi....

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 41 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 :)

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

We’ve got a turd in the punch bowl

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I saw it on the classic movie channel yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It came out after ~1800, so yes.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Made in the current millennium.

Oh fuck.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Quarter of a century ago

[–] [email protected] 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Filmed 25 years ago

I don't want to believe this...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Props and makeup instead of full cgi?

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think by modern, they mean post-2010