What would you consider the cutoff year for retro television and film?
/tvr/ Retro tv
The answer is different depending on your age. For me its before 2000, 20th century.
A BLUE Dixie cup? The absolute madman.
What year did HD become the standard? Anything before that I guess,
the end of the 4:3 era basically, when they transitioned most shows to 16:9. Wasn't all at once, but it occurred in the mid 2000s for most shows as they upgraded to HD cameras.
I used to say the cut off was when shows started to be produced in HD widescreen, because it also coincided with a massive increase in more dynamic cinematography
the lines are getting blurred now that more and more pre-HD shows are getting remasters, hell the X-Files holds up way better than most shows now
Probably anything before the embracement of digital photography. Most TV productions got destroyed at that point.
the remasters that also recomposit the digital effects and fix the frame rate are such an insane upgrade it's not even funny
the TNG remaster has been out long enough that there aren't a lot of clips on Youtube from the old DVDs, but holy shit the effect of going from 24FPS live action footage to 30-60FPS digital effect shots was so goddamn jarring and made old shows look so bad
The Stand miniseries from 1994 got a similar treatment a few years ago and it's the same thing, the ending with the bomb is actually scary instead of being hokey now that the effects are all smoothly integrated
Early 21st century movies are also retro.
the end of family guys original run
Usually these things cutoff in the 2000s but where I see the most difference between two eras of TV, is before and after the death of the sitcom. This and the normal tv show became a movie divided into chapters.
2012, end of the fourth world. We entered a new plane of existence for the first time in 5,125 years and everything's been shit ever since
Last year.
I knew something was off when Turn Down for What dropped in 2013.
I go with 1999
Because of Phantom Menace?
They have a more modern feel akin to modern movies. Even early 2000s stuff had a sterile quality
The hell they do. Early 2000s films are 100% retro.
Possibly. Or Woodstock 99 which made corporations realize that people naturally dislike them so entertainment became highly controlled
Conceptualize reality as being on a 5000 year cycle
Society only lasts for 4000 years
kek scrubs
Nah. Your example sort of proves you wrong too. Kill Bill seems closer in style to 2025 than to even 1995
Most of those films are rubbish. The 2000s were shit and I know because I had the displeasure of growing up during that awful decade.
Delusion. Kill Bill has more in common with a 1993 movie than it does with a 2013 movie.
for me it's 2006 because that was the last year i had a tv.
Recorded history began around 3000 so it lines up, actually.
TNG remasters seasons 3-7 look better than 90% of shit made today. Even the first two seasons have moments that are pleasant on the eyes. It’s a great show to soothe you to sleep at night.
I'll say 1985, but with plenty of exceptions.
Married - With Children started in 1987 as was Star Trek - TNG. The Fly was released in 1986. Return of the Living Dead was 1985.
There are loads of notable exceptions. But that's when tv and movies really started to get good as a whole rather than isolated exceptions.
If Kill Bill came out today, Beatrix would be recording her list on an iPhone. That alone makes Kill Bill retro.
Trying to use your head cannon as evidence is quite telling. Keep at it though
zoomers think iPhones didn't irreversibly change the world for the worse
Don't you dare insinuate The Matrix and Fight Club are "modern"
Zoomers think movies made before 2010 were all black and white.