Movies and shows from your childhood that make you feel old - Challenging your mortality

[Max Doof]

I'm talking about new films that you saw as a kid and you now look back thinking, "no way was it that long ago" or even "fuck I'm old".
I remember my parents took me to see the Jimmy Neutron movie as a small fry and in a couple of months that film turns twenty.
Isn't it weird how time or your memory works?

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

For some reason I always think Frozen came out, like, a few years ago and not in 2013.

 

[Max Doof]

For some reason I always think Frozen came out, like, a few years ago and not in 2013.

Nevermind the fact it's stylistic predecessor Tangled came out in 2010.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Growing up as a kid in the 90s watching so many 80s movies like The Goonies, Never Ending Story, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and many more obviously I knew at the time that they weren't contemporary, but they weren't THAT old either, most of the movies we're only around or a little over a decade old, some were even less than a decade old, when I first saw them.

Now you go back and watch an 80s movie and it's astounding how incredibly different the world you're seeing is, I had that experience when I re-watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles back during Thanksgiving, from remembering when the movie was generally "present day" to now how retro it seems.

 

[Salubrious]

Terminator 2 will have it's 30th anniversary this summer.

 

[Max Doof]

Growing up as a kid in the 90s watching so many 80s movies like The Goonies, Never Ending Story, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and many more obviously I knew at the time that they weren't contemporary, but they weren't THAT old either, most of the movies we're only around or a little over a decade old, some were even less than a decade old, when I first saw them.

Now you go back and watch an 80s movie and it's astounding how incredibly different the world you're seeing is, I had that experience when I re-watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles back during Thanksgiving, from remembering when the movie was generally "present day" to now how retro it seems.

That's me mostly with star wars. It's hard to believe how it's already been 15 years since episode 3 came out and 5 for tfa.

 

[Lunete]

Remember when the menu at every fast food place looked like this?

Cause I do.

 

[Dom Cruise]

For some reason I always think Frozen came out, like, a few years ago and not in 2013.

I still want to think of 2013 as "just a few years ago" even though it's eerily close to a decade ago now, which blows my fucking mind.

I'm not sure why these last several years have felt like they've gone by so quickly but it freaks me out.

 

[oldTireWater]

Wayne's World. That show has held up at least.

 

[Massa's Little Buckie]

Pokemon, The First Movie is old enough to drink I think.

Hell, it's older...

 

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

The Spiderman Trilogy will turn 19 next year. Spiderman 3 will be 14.

The first Harry Potter movie will be 20.

The Lion King will be 27.

 

[Max Doof]

Remember when the menu at every fast food place looked like this?

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Cause I do.

My grandpa had a collection of mcdonalds ashtrays. I wasn't even born when they banned those too.

 

[Salubrious]

Jesus, 300 came out 14 years ago.

By the way, 300 is a classic example of a film where a guy co-stars in the movie, but he isn't famous yet, so you completely forget he's in the movie until you rewatch it on TNT one day. Like, I have no memory of Michael Fassbender being in this movie (I had never heard of him until X-Men First Class in 2011), but he's not only in the movie but says the second most iconic line in it.

Also, Jesus X-Men First Class is almost 10 years old already.

 

[some Sketchy dude]

The Wizard of Oz. I remember seeing it in theaters when it first released

 

[Cowboy Boot]

The Wizard of Oz. I remember seeing it in theaters when it first released

My grandma went to see it as a child and the whole theater gasped when Rhett Butler said "I don't give a damn." Now she scrolls through FaceBook on her iPad and watches ads that cuss as an marketing strategy. It's strange to think about all that changed in the 20th century.

 

[MysticMisty]

Growing up as a kid in the 90s watching so many 80s movies like The Goonies, Never Ending Story, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and many more obviously I knew at the time that they weren't contemporary, but they weren't THAT old either, most of the movies we're only around or a little over a decade old, some were even less than a decade old, when I first saw them.

Now you go back and watch an 80s movie and it's astounding how incredibly different the world you're seeing is, I had that experience when I re-watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles back during Thanksgiving, from remembering when the movie was generally "present day" to now how retro it seems.

This but I'll also add Back to the Future to list. Especially since it's only a few years older than me, and my mom introduced me to that before I was even in kindergarten. That makes me feel so fucking old. On the animated front, An American Tail and the original Land Before Time are also similarly aged and were also my childhood.

In some ways though Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King are worse for me though because they came out properly in my lifetime (so did Land Before TIme, but I was very, very, very young) and I have memories of seeing all three in the theater. I'll also add A Goofy Movie because that was peak 90's and is way too damn good at reminding me of how old I am as a result.

 

[Papa Adolfo's Take'n'Bake]

My parents liked weird foreign movies, so I saw this when it came out and still think it's probably the best movie I have ever seen.

It's 17 tho.... fuck.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_(2003_film)

 

[Syaoran Li]

It's hard to believe that Toy Story 3 was literally a decade ago. Same goes for The Wolf of Wall Street having been out for seven years. It feels a lot more recent.

A lot of the movies I saw as a kid in the 2000's have that weird feeling where it's hard to believe it was so old, stuff like Van Helsing. Star Wars Episode III, the first three Harry Potter movies, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Incredibles, etc.

With movies from the 90's and the year 2000 that I saw as a kid when they first came out, I can more easily separate the "feels like it was only yesterday" feeling for some reason. Like, it's easier for me to accept that first two Toy Story movies, Wild Wild West, Anastasia, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Star Wars Episode I, the first Pokemon movie, and the first two Jurassic Park movies are old now. But with stuff from the 2000's and the early 2010's, it's more jarring.

 

[Desu Mountain]

All the old Disney movies that now have shitty 3DCG remakes.

 

[Product Placement]

Terminator 2 will have it's 30th anniversary this summer.

And still the best looking version of the movie came out in 2008, with every other release being fucked up