Has it aged well?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — L.A. Confidential
pleymo12345 — 14 years ago(January 17, 2012 10:14 AM)
Hi,
would you say this movie has aged well and remains a classic, enjoyable watch? I think I saw this when I was much younger, however I can't remember a thing. I tend to prefer more recent films but I'm tempted to watch it again.
Thanks!
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ohhmyy — 14 years ago(March 22, 2012 10:27 PM)
I just finished watching it again for the first time in several years, and it appears to have aged pretty damn
well to me; I caught it by accident just as it was starting, and figured I'd sit through a couple of minutes - it
hooked me immediately and I was captivated for the next 2 1/2 hours. If anything it has improved with age, and that cast - Crowe, Pearce, Spacey, Strathairn, Cromwell, Devito - it's like a who's who of Hollywood's finest
talent. Hell, the film even elicited an Oscar caliber performance out of Kim Basinger, which is the next best
thing to a cinematic miracle. An outstanding film and, especially when compared to much of the cinema fare of the
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redmimi22 — 14 years ago(March 25, 2012 11:28 AM)
just watched it again last night and can safely say it hasn't aged at all. it was, is, and always will be a perfectly excellent film. it might as well be released now and win all kinds of acclaim and awards all over again! (sadly, the same can't be said for the off-the-charts-awesomeness that was 1997 russell crowe - he has aged. badly. it's actually not so much the aging - the super sexy guy pearce has also gotten older and a bit lined - as we all must - but he still looks pretty much the same but rusty, oh my rusty, what has become of you? he looks like the pillsbury dough boy! i hadn't realized how far his physical decline had advanced until i watched L.A. Confidential last night and saw his super hot starting point. ouch.)
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LaurieMann — 14 years ago(March 25, 2012 12:38 PM)
I'm rewatching it now, and while it's way too violent, it is an excellent movie. Had no clue that a very young Simon Baker has a great bit part about half way through the movie (Matt, the actor wannabee).
Agree with you on Russell and Guy, but who is Rusty?
Laurie Mann
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LaurieMann — 14 years ago(March 25, 2012 02:14 PM)
Ahh, thanks.
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SnoozeAlarm — 13 years ago(June 29, 2012 01:43 PM)
I think you wait more than 15 years before you ask how well a movie has aged.
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tazikhay — 13 years ago(July 11, 2012 01:41 AM)
I am 18 and recently watched L.A. Confidential for the first time, I think it has aged beautifully in content, possibly one my favourite films now I absolutely loved it. I totally agree good period dramas don't age, but there are plenty of period dramas that do, I often feel most 80s period films are as much 80s as the period they are set.
However, when I asked my friends if they had seen the film and what they thought, only a few had even heard of it. I also think that the fact it took me so long to see it says something. It seem that whilst in quality it remains a total masterpiece, that is as relevant today as the day it was made, it has somehow been missed by a younger generation. Not a forgotten classic, but definetly an underrated classic that deserves more attention -
PrometheusTree64 — 13 years ago(March 04, 2013 05:23 PM)
Oh, LA CONFIDENTIAL is a classic. It's aged well, yes.
I am 18 and recently watched L.A. Confidential for the first time, I think it has aged beautifully in content, possibly one my favourite films now I absolutely loved it. I totally agree good period dramas don't age, but there are plenty of period dramas that do, I often feel most 80s period films are as much 80s as the period they are set.
I've said that since the '80s, tazikhay, itself. '80s period movies set in another era always looked and felt 100% like the '80s, try as they might.
The '80s were
so
neurotically self-absorbed.
LBJ's mistress tells all:
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externaltestaccount — 13 years ago(July 11, 2012 12:19 PM)
Please pleymo12345, for the love of whatever deity you believe in, don't get caught in the old game of "old movies must suck because they are old and dated, new movies are made with better technology so ergo, must be better quality".
If you are a movie fan you will like movies of any age. As other posters said, period movies don't age badly. Chinatown looks great and it's 1974. Platoon looks great it's 1986. JFK looks great it's 1991. Apocalypse Now looks great it's 1979, Amadeus looks great it's 1984, Kelly's Heroes looks great and it's 1970 - hell any Clint Eastwood western looks greatetc etc. And these are just period movies. To repeat - these are all worth watching and look great. L.A. Confidential is among that list.
If you cannot enjoy a movie because you cannot deal with the time that it is made then you will have problems watching any sci-fi movie made before 2000. Like Alien, Aliens, Silent Running, Logan's Run, Phase IV, Andromeda Strain, Predator 1 and 2, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Batteries Not Included, Running man, Terminator 1 and 2, The Abyss, Star War original trilogy, Star Trek - any of the series and movies. The Thing (1982) has better special effects than the recent prequel, hell, it has better SFX than most movies these days.
I've not even touched on black and white movies.
As Kuato said in the great Total Recall (a very dated sci-fi - CRT's in the future???) - Open your mind. -
kilgoretrout7777 — 13 years ago(August 24, 2012 02:01 AM)
Has it aged well?
First response? Nope.
But my first response as an early 20 something when I saw this for the first time was: Nice little movie. That opinion still stands.
Few months later it's getting nominated for awards.
It's fifteen years later and nobody talks about this film.
Devil in a Blue Dress is a far superior film hitting the same time period, same type of people, same city, shot at almost the same time and virtually the same damn story. Nobody talks about that movie either.
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clickbait — 9 years ago(April 24, 2016 11:58 AM)
kilgoretrout7777 devil in a blue dress far superior to LA Confidential?? you make me laughsure I can agree that devil in a blue dress is a great movie but in no way a superior film, this is the best movie made about this time period, its almost perfect in everything.
~If the realistic details fails, the movie fails~