Yahoo Lifestyle 11 Movies People Say Haven't Aged Well For Unexpected Reasons
Plenty of older movies haven't exactly aged well for obvious reasons, such as depicting harmful stereotypes. However, sometimes, movies age poorly for reasons no one could've predicted.
A while back, Redditor u/TrapperJean asked r/movies, "What is a movie that hasn't aged well for unexpected reasons?"
Here are 11 of the top responses:
1."Terminator: Dark Fate was released in 2019, but it’s set in 2020. So, the entire movie takes place in an alternate universe where Covid-19 never happened."
2."I absolutely still love Dodgeball, but that Lance Armstrong cameo aged horribly considering his doping scandal a few years after the movie came out."
In 2012, Lance was stripped of seven of his Tour de France titles after a US Anti-Doping Agency report accused him of heading a doping program across his teams.
3."After hearing the interviews from the real characters in The Blind Side, I can't watch it again."
In 2023, Michael Oher, whom the movie was based on, filed a petition in court alleging that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy lied about adopting him and instead "tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators, which gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name," per ESPN.
He also alleged he made no money from the movie while the Tuohys made millions, which Sean denied
Sean also told the Daily Memphian, "[The NCAA] said the only way Michael could go to Ole Miss was if he was actually part of the family. I sat Michael down and told him, ‘If you're planning to go to Ole Miss — or even considering Ole Miss — we think you have to be part of the family. This would do that, legally.’ We contacted lawyers who had told us that we couldn't adopt over the age of 18; the only thing we could do was to have a conservatorship."
4."Given the student loan crisis and all the for-profit colleges that were scamming people and leaving them with worthless degrees, the plot of Accepted isn't all that funny anymore."
5."2012."
"That movie came out at the perfect time. Then, of course, when the world didn't end in 2012, we all moved on."
6."You've Got Mail. The whole thing about the big bookstore vs. the little bookstore loses some of its oomph when Borders and Waldenbooks both went out of business, and Barnes & Noble is the last one left."
"Plus, on a more subjective/personal note, although the big bookstore isn't really villainized, it's definitely seen as the 'colder' option vs. Meg Ryan's little bookstore. It's really funny because a lot of book fans (including me) are nostalgic for those big bookstores. The scene where Meg Ryan wanders around Fox Books invokes the same cozy childhood memories in me that the family bookstore might for others."
7."Crazy Stupid Love became dated immediately. There is a reference to Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher being happily in love despite their age difference. Ryan Gosling's character criticizes Steve Carell's character's clothing, asking if he is Steve Jobs. In the background of a scene is a Borders bookstore. Within a year, Demi and Ashton separated, Jobs died, and Borders went bankrupt."
8."All the President's Men is still an amazing movie, but from a modern perspective, it ends in such an odd place — you never see the fallout of their reporting. But travel back to 1976, and it makes sense because everybody knew what happened next. The impeachment and resignation of Nixon was the biggest story in the world just a few years before."
"And just in the general sense, that film assumes that you know a lot about Watergate — the people involved, the timeline, the details of the conspiracy, etc. Which, of course, everybody DID know in the mid '70s because the Watergate affair was dissected to the smallest detail every single night on the news for like two solid years."
9."In Jackass Number Two, when Bam says, 'Please God, don't let there be a Jackass 3!'"
Jackass 3D came out four years later.
10."The Naked Gun. It's still a great movie series, mind you, but…Yeah. OJ Simpson. As a cop. Yeah."
The movie premiered in 1988.
In 1994, OJ led police officers on a slow-speed chase, then was arrested and accused of murdering Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. In a criminal trial, he was acquitted.
Then, in 2007, he was charged with several felony counts, including armed robbery and kidnapping, for a robbery where he and a group of people tried to retrieve sports memorabilia he alleged belonged to him from a hotel and casino at gunpoint. He was found guilty and sentenced to 33 years in prison.
In 2017, he was granted parole.
11.And finally: "Men in Black, 1997. When Agent K holds up a very tiny disc, saying, 'This is going to replace the CD soon.' Uhm... yeah, how did that work out, K?"
"DVDs and Blu-rays kept the size of CDs, and NOW people are going over more towards just using streaming services (unless you're a collector or nerd like me). I have yet to see that tiny disc replace ANYTHING."
What other movies do you think aged poorly for unexpected reasons? Why? Let us know in the comments!
Note: Some entries have been edited for length/clarity.
