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[–] Ashyr 91 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

But Lord of the rings is a modern movie?

[–] [email protected] 171 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 229 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 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 :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I saw it on the classic movie channel yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

We’ve got a turd in the punch bowl

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It came out after ~1800, so yes.

[–] sockman 42 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago

Made in the current millennium.

Oh fuck.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Quarter of a century ago

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months 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] 5 points 8 months ago

Filmed 25 years ago

I don't want to believe this...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago (1 children)

Props and makeup instead of full cgi?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think by modern, they mean post-2010