Yahoo Lifestyle "I Knew This Day Would Come": People Are Reacting To This Netflix Slasher Trailer About Time-Traveling Back To The Early 2000s
A new Netflix movie might have some millennials facing some hard truths.
Time Cut is a new sci-fi slasher starring Madison Bailey (Outer Banks), Antonia Gentry (Ginny & Georgia), and Griffin Gluck (Locke & Key).
The movie is about a girl named Lucy (Madison) who travels back in time to save her older sister, Summer (Antonia), from a masked killer.
It was written by Michael Kennedy, who created Freaky (2020) that was like a slasher twist on Freaky Friday.
His 2023 holiday-themed movie It's a Wonderful Knife was a slasher twist on It's a Wonderful Life.
And you can say Time Cut is like Back to the Future with a slasher twist.
However, based on the reactions to the trailer, the most terrifying part of the movie isn't the evil, masked killer on the loose.
Nope! It's the fact the main character travels back in time to 2003.
We so old that 2003 is now being used as a storyline plot 😭
— ZiA Mughal (@ZiaMughal9423) October 30, 2024
There's velour tracksuits.
There are multi-layered outfits.
Of course, the very hip shoewear of the early aughts.
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And there are these insufferable silky shirts from department store clearance sales we used to wear. It's startling.
Nothing's more humbling than having the time you were actually in high school be used as a period to travel back to in a movie. Is this how "the greatest generation" felt when Back to the Future was in theaters?
People on the internet are sharing their woes, worries, and gripes with the depiction of 2003 in Time Cut. The responses are funny and sometimes very upsetting because what do you mean my teenage years are "back in the day"?
For one, there's the classic soundtrack with songs like Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday."
so yesterday by hilary duff being used in a soundtrack to establish the film as a period piece…i knew this day would come https://t.co/Qr6NQSuzor
— Vardaan Arora (@vardaanarora) October 30, 2024
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People are having a really, really hard time accepting this movie about their "childhood era."
How it feels when there’s a time travel movie about your childhood era #TimeCut pic.twitter.com/VxLULxl8G0
— Dr Sean Travers (@seanjetravers) October 30, 2024
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Other people think it looks like "2024 pretending to be 2003," which is funny because it is.
this doesn't look like 2003, idk how to explain it, but this looks like 2024 pretending to be 2003
— jessica ☾🌹 (@jessica_32_1) October 30, 2024
They even pointed out that one girl was "holding a portable CD player like a smartphone."
that one girl holding a portable CD player like a smartphone 😭
— Michaela Lindsay (@aela_lindsay) October 31, 2024
Why is she holding it like that, though?
The internet is mostly critical of the 2003 styles, but as a dismayed millennial, I think they're just expressing angst over how this period has been depicted in the trailer.
the problem with most period pieces set in the 90s and 00s is that they’re too afraid to make everyone a little ugly (by 2024 standards)
— spooky bear 🎃🐻 (@honeybunwife) October 31, 2024
This doesn't feel 2003-ish to me, where the goth girls and emo boys at?
— naomi ✨ (@iamnaaomixx) October 31, 2024
Young kids today would never last in a world that accepted wearing two polo shirts with popped collars. You just had to be there
— Michael Clanahan (@Clanahan81) October 30, 2024
and the jewlery wasn’t dainty. I remember chunky bracelets, rings, etc 😭
— X ♡ (@Officialxzavia) October 31, 2024
I didn't see a single scene kid!
— Keisha Morgan (@keishadmorgan) October 31, 2024
It's like we're living in 2008 fashion-wise instead of 2003, losing touch with the ancient styles and wisdom.
— बिहारी बाबू (@she17257) October 31, 2024
you can have the actors wear all the uggs and tracksuits your heart desires, but putting zero effort into period accurate hair and makeup means it was all for nothing https://t.co/xVZwHCogsk
— spooky bear 🎃🐻 (@honeybunwife) October 31, 2024
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Now I guess I have no choice but to watch the movie with a box of Kleenex and cry sad, millennial tears as I face the dated pop music that 2003 was a long, long time ago.
Time Cut is now streaming on Netflix. Here's the trailer:
