Seeing a Movie after a Long Time

[wolf]

I mean a really long time.

Friends of mine have "movie night." Not surprisingly, a bunch of people get together to watch a movie.

There are no specific criteria for choosing the movies ... they can be old or recent.

We've seen things like The Help, Steel Magnolias, Charade, The Tourist, Star Wars ... so the picks are kind of eclectic. One thing that they've been trying to do with the picks is make the movies more "dude friendly."

So, this past week, we watched "Excalibur."

I happen to love this movie, and I'm the one who brought it. I purchased it a couple of years ago, but hadn't gotten around to watching it. It's easily 15-20 years since I last watched it.

I remember it being a fantastic movie. I have vivid memories of when their armor got all shiny, and it was all just awesomely beautiful.

Now, I still think it's an awesome looking movie, but there was this moment when I suddenly realized that, in comparison to today's movies, it's nowhere near as cool looking.

Now, a lot of movies, this isn't part of my impression ... I can watch The Great Escape without worrying about this. Or Planet of the Apes. Or Charade, or all of the Hitchcock movies ...

And it's not just that Excalibur was visually driven ... there's more than enough story to support the couple of hours invested in watching it, along with the "hey, look who that is!" (Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart, and that guy from Keeping Up Appearances whose name I can't remember)

Has anybody else had this happen?