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But Lord of the rings is a modern movie?
Is a movie that came out 23 years ago still modern?
Hey, fuck you
The perfect comment doesn't exi....
…t a room without shouting "I‘ll remember y‘all in therapy!“
Yes, the word we are searching for is contemporary. Technically all films are modern, but not contemporary. Though modern has expanded definition to include it generally as well but I like to explore language :)
I guess it's time for me to find a nice, cool porch to die under.
I saw it on the classic movie channel yesterday.
We’ve got a turd in the punch bowl
It came out after ~1800, so yes.
I mean it was filmed 25 years ago, I guess it depends on your definition of 'modern'
Made in the current millennium.
Oh fuck.
Quarter of a century ago
Can confirm. I was an extra in these movies and now I'm on first name terms with all the local osteopaths.
I don't want to believe this...
What do you mean? Of course it isn't a modern movie, it was filmed during the Third Age.
To me, modern says more about the techniques and methods used. In that respect, not much has changed even though 25 years has passed. Even stylistically it is more similar to a current film than one filmed 25 years before its release, i.e. mid 1970s. As someone else said, contemporary is a better word for describing its age than modern.
Tbh you could argue the techniques created for the lotr films set the standard for the current era of filmmaking
Props and makeup instead of full cgi?
Actually funnily enough the CGI is one of the biggest areas they innovated in, in addition to the great practical effects
Look up Peter Jackson's Weta workshop & digital, a lot of the stuff that's commonplace in cinema today has its origins there for the LotR films
I think by modern, they mean post-2010