As much as I hate to admit it, yes. That's 30 years ago now.
Think of it like this... If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.
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Movies from 1955 were old in 1985, so movies from 1995 are old now.
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30 years is pretty old for a movie.
Yeah, 30 years is, but he said 1995... Wait, no no no no no no no
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1995 was 30 years ago.
In 1995, 30 year old movies would have been made in 1965, and in the 90s we would have absolutely considered movies made in the 60s to be "old".
So, I'd say yes, movies made in 1995 could be considered old.
I thing you got your math wrong. See, it's 2025 and .. Oh NO
Haha 2025?! It's 2015, i just checked me calendar and .. Oh NO
The plot of Austin Powers revolves around thawing a man who has been frozen for 30 years, from 1967 to 1997. Only 2 years to go before we reach 30 years from that movie's release.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers is now considered "classic rock"
Oofh. Oh yeah, that one hurts.
Time is a bitch. I disapprove of the whole concept.
Time is relative. A 5 year old piece of software is ancient. A 100 year old stone church is very recent. If you find a stone axe that isnβt at least 10 000 years old, you can toss it back where you found it.
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In the year 2000 I definitely would have thought something from 1970 was old.
Ah yes, in the year 2000...
(a gag that's already a quarter-century old!)
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Absolutely. It's from the time when families used to share a single phone! That they glued to the wall!!
Meanwhile in 2025, I'm deciding if I need to wall mount my bidet remote for "anti theft" purposes
In 1995 I considered movies from 1965 old. So, yes.
i am over 30 and I consider a movie from 1995 old.
they were still cutting cropped vhs in 1995.
In 1995 most would probably consider Star Wars an old movie. I think most would consider Jurassic Park to be an old movie now.
Oh yeah. For movies, new only lasts like 5-10 years, then it's old.
Yesterday I re-watched Copycat. Part of the suspense fell on the main character not having a cell phone and the would-be killer cutting the land line.
It felt... weird.
And yes, it was old π’
Colin Farrell in Phone Booth perfectly captured that early 2000's feeling of where we were, technologically.
1998's You've Got Mail does, too.
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With how many movies are constantly being churned out, I consider even 5-10 year old movies to be "old." The same way a meme older than a week on the internet is old.
A while back, someone told me. If you read a book from the 19th century, you won't call-it an "old book", so why would a movie from the 1950's be an old movie. And indeed, even in movies, there is some master piece which came out a while ago and are still relevant today (Seven Samurai, the Godfather or the Good, the bad and ugly immediately come to my mind) and tons of movie which while not being a recent release are still fun to watch today.
Movie don't have an experiation date.
Old doesn't mean irrelevant though.
I absolutely would consider a book from the 19th century an old book, just as I'd consider the movies you mentioned as old movies. But a great movie is a great movie regardless of age.
Let me add 12 Angry Men to that list.
Had no desire to watch it, but people on reddit were flipping over it. Put it on late, figured I'd get to bed for work the next day. Nope. Glued to the screen for every second of it. You can feel the heat and physical closeness of the single room it takes place in.
Didn't think my Filipino wife would like it, maybe wouldn't get the English. Nope. She was perfectly still absorbing it all.
Only thing that feels out of place is the old-timey, fast-talking 50s feel from some characters. OTOH, you could re-shoot the whole thing, almost word for word, and it would still be a masterpiece. LOL, and make an excuse for a borked AC unit.
I would call a 19th century book old. Like, no one I know has been alive in 19th century. That's pretty old by my standards.
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Predator is from 1987; that's a classic.
Really depends on your age, I guess. For me, anything made in 1990 and later is new(ish) and everything before that is old. I imagine if you were born in the 2010s, even 90s movies feel very old.
Yes.
And I was old enough to remember going to the movies in 1995.
Not by myself, but dad took us to see some.
The mask came out in 95 I believe
Based on when I was young, I basically thought of anything from before I was born as "old". Not consciously, just that everything from "my" decade seemed modern, and everything else was old.
Even now, movies from 20+ years ago look old, even though I remember them being super new when they came out. The Matrix had aged pretty well, but it defintely looks old. I thought LOTR was timeless, but I rewatched it recently and did start to feel it was showing it's age (but none the worse for it!).
I think it depends on the movie
If, after 30 years it still has a lot of cultural relevance, I'd think of it as a "classic" movie.
If it doesn't, if it hasn't aged well and/or faded into obscurity, I think it's fair to think of it as an old movie.
Probably around '95, I would have been watching Star Wars for the first time. It didn't feel like an old movie to me then and it still doesn't to this day. Other movies from that same era haven't aged quite as well and felt "old" to me.
Looking at some of the top movies from '95, some of them are just as enjoyable or relevant today as they were when they released, others feel dated and not relevant to me today.
It's going to depend on your personal tastes and experiences of course. I can also sprinkle in a lot of platitudes like "you're only as old as you feel" and "one man's trash is another man's treasure"
I think there's also room for some overlap. There's classic movies that also feel dated. I think some movies can be both old and classics. You'd be pretty hard-pressed to find someone who wouldn't agree that, for example, Casablanca, isn't old, but I think that just about everyone agrees that it's also a classic. Where the line is is pretty murky.
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