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[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 89 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But Lord of the rings is a modern movie?

[-] Triple_B@lemmy.zip 169 points 2 months ago

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

[-] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 226 points 2 months ago
[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 38 points 2 months 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] Zagorath@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

It came out after ~1800, so yes.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

We’ve got a turd in the punch bowl

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I saw it on the classic movie channel yesterday.

[-] sockman@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 months ago

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

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 35 points 2 months ago

Made in the current millennium.

Oh fuck.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Quarter of a century ago

[-] ChewbaccasClitoris@lemmy.nz 9 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

Filmed 25 years ago

I don't want to believe this...

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

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

[-] frazw@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months 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 5 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

Props and makeup instead of full cgi?

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think by modern, they mean post-2010

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