You know you're getting old when...

[Nom de ploom]

You realise....

Armageddon the movie is 11 years old!!!! when did that happen?

One of your all time favourite albums - Appetite for Destruction, released in 1986...1986!!!!!

you don't know the names of any childrens TV presenters - you can't understand kids tv more to the point....

and you hear yourself saying, in the original version of.....

/dodderyshockmode on

[Dick Dastardly]

It is exactly 10 years to the day since Fight Club was released. I remember going to see it in a half empty cinema and loving it so much I went back the next day.

[KaraK]

Had this when I realised that The Matrix wsa over ten years old!

[Charlie Foxtrot]

KaraK said:

Had this when I realised that The Matrix wsa over ten years old!

and we all wanted one of those nokias with the flip cover. that film was way ahead of its time and now it is slightly st.

[Eric Mc]

You know you are old when you NEVEr understood the fuss made over The Matrix.

[Gun]

Charlie Foxtrot said:

KaraK said:

Had this when I realised that The Matrix wsa over ten years old!

and we all wanted one of those nokias with the flip cover. that film was way ahead of its time and now it is slightly st.

The first Matrix is brilliant, the other two are a bit ste though.

[durbster]

Yes, the Matrix went two films too far.

I realised I was getting old last year when listening to Steve Wright one day (no that's not it). They played a Golden Oldie and it was MC Hammer's U Can't Touch This! That's not some ancient track from ye olden days is it?!

[hairyben]

Gun said:

Charlie Foxtrot said:

KaraK said:

Had this when I realised that The Matrix wsa over ten years old!

and we all wanted one of those nokias with the flip cover. that film was way ahead of its time and now it is slightly st.

The first Matrix is brilliant, the other two are a bit ste though.

The first matrix had an innovative stylistic approach that every 2nd action film since has ripped off, so it now looks tired.

No's 2 and 3 were too opulent, overblown and somewhat directionless, they got given too much money to refuse to repeat the success of the first film, rather than leaving it for a bit and making the sequels in their own time IMO.

[T89 Callan]

Try explaining to someone under the age of 18 why Goldeneye is so amazing, that will really mae you feel old.

Can't believe that it's so so old now.

[Eric Mc]

I'm still amazed by Goldfinger.

[Nom de ploom]

Charlie Foxtrot said:

KaraK said:

Had this when I realised that The Matrix wsa over ten years old!

and we all wanted one of those nokias with the flip cover. that film was way ahead of its time and now it is slightly st.

i had one of those nokias and once maybe twice, your honour, i admit that i pushed the button and said "tank, we're going to need an exit"

it was funny twice i think.

sometimes i feel like marty mcfly telling youngsters that these are re-runs.

[Man-At-Arms]

Eric Mc said:

I'm still amazed by Goldfinger.

and what about The Man with the Golden Gun

a flying car !

[Marf]

hairyben said:

The first matrix had an imitative stylistic approach that every 2nd action film since has ripped off, so it now looks tired.

EFA

The Wachowski brothers ripped off its "stylistic approach" from the manga/anime Ghost in the Shell.

[KaraK]

Marf said:

hairyben said:

The first matrix had an imitative stylistic approach that every 2nd action film since has ripped off, so it now looks tired.

EFA

The Wachowski brothers ripped off its "stylistic approach" from the manga/anime Ghost in the Shell.

but they did a very impressive job at bringing that into the mainstream, to regular audiences the film really was revolutionary in it's style - personally I still think The Matrix is awesome even today, too bad that the sequels sucked as IMO they have tarnished the Matrix's place in movie history.

[Marf]

KaraK said:

Marf said:

hairyben said:

The first matrix had an imitative stylistic approach that every 2nd action film since has ripped off, so it now looks tired.

EFA

The Wachowski brothers ripped off its "stylistic approach" from the manga/anime Ghost in the Shell.

but they did a very impressive job at bringing that into the mainstream, to regular audiences the film really was revolutionary in it's style - personally I still think The Matrix is awesome even today, too bad that the sequels sucked as IMO they have tarnished the Matrix's place in movie history.

No argument there, I just get a little narc'd as a massive GiTS fan when people fail to recognise the massive influence it had on the Matrix' visual style.

[hairyben]

Marf said:

KaraK said:

Marf said:

hairyben said:

The first matrix had an imitative stylistic approach that every 2nd action film since has ripped off, so it now looks tired.

EFA

The Wachowski brothers ripped off its "stylistic approach" from the manga/anime Ghost in the Shell.

but they did a very impressive job at bringing that into the mainstream, to regular audiences the film really was revolutionary in it's style - personally I still think The Matrix is awesome even today, too bad that the sequels sucked as IMO they have tarnished the Matrix's place in movie history.

No argument there, I just get a little narc'd as a massive GiTS fan when people fail to recognise the massive influence it had on the Matrix' visual style.

Point taken, it was pretty fresh imagery to the mainstream at the time though and they did a fastidious job in it's execution. (How many great movies didn't rip something from somewhere) The number of matrix-esque effects in 2nd rate action movies that followed became bloody annoying.

[Jasandjules]

Top Gun is over 20 years old....

[T89 Callan]

Man-At-Arms said:

Eric Mc said:

I'm still amazed by Goldfinger.

and what about The Man with the Golden Gun

a flying car !

Were? TELL ME WERE!!!!!!!!!

[Charlie Foxtrot]

and in a non TV related theme "when I was your age pluto was a planet"

how do they teach kids about plantes these days? We used to a have a ryhme "My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets"

[Eric Mc]

Charlie Foxtrot said:

and in a non TV related theme "when I was your age pluto was a planet"

how do they teach kids about plantes these days? We used to a have a ryhme "My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets"

It's much more interesting and complicated now. Not only do we have eight "proper" planets, but hundreds of other objects ranging from KBOs (like Pluto) to comets, asteroidss, meteors etc.