I Just Can't Believe How Old They Are

[Mojochi]

Meg Ryan is three years older than Diane Lane.

I never really agreed with casting Diane Lane, who still looks fabulous for 53, & was ridiculously 48 when she got the part. Even Meg Ryan would be pushing it imho, but if they're at the point of aiming younger, that's probably where the line for me is. However, I mean now. 5 years ago, when they made Man of Steel, even Meg Ryan would've been too young. So maybe my line would've been someone like Denise Crosby then, who's about 5 years older than Ryan

Ideally, The Kents should be old enough to look more like Clark's grandparents imho. There's supposed to be a starkness about the discrepancy. So if you were going to start Clark out at just after Smallville, then the Kents should be no younger than mid-fifties, hence Jonathan having a not-to-surprising heart condition

It's downright silly that both Tony Stark & Bruce Banner would be around the same age as May Parker, but seeing how none of these people are blood relation to the heroes, they skate by. Hell, the next time they reboot all the DC heroes with younger people, they'll be casting Uma Thruman to play Martha Kent, & she's a year older than me

 

[Greg Cox]

The other night I was chatting at a coffee house with some (younger) fans. Got blank looks when I referenced "Time Tunnel," Carl Kolchak, The Legion of Super-Pets, and any Mummy movie before Brendan Fraser. ("That was a remake?")

Thank God for the woman who knew who Ray Harryhausen was!

 

[plynch]

Fun thread. The comics I have in my basement are older than Action Comics #1 was when I got them in the early 70s.

I remember things from my first year teaching that woul d be like a teacher remembering things from the late 40s when I was in high school.

I've written several songs about the weirdness of time and am working on another. The VOY actors in their 60s was kinda startling as was the Wheaton info!

 

[RJDiogenes]

Fun thread. The comics I have in my basement are older than Action Comics #1 was when I got them in the early 70s.

When I was a kid, reading all the cutting-edge Horror comics like Man-Thing and Werewolf By Night, I would go to conventions and stare longingly at the old EC Comics pinned up to the wall behind the tables. They looked so cool and ancient. They were twenty years old. Man-Thing and Werewolf By Night are now forty-five years old.

 

[urbandefault]

When I was a kid, reading all the cutting-edge Horror comics like Man-Thing and Werewolf By Night, I would go to conventions and stare longingly at the old EC Comics pinned up to the wall behind the tables. They looked so cool and ancient. They were twenty years old. Man-Thing and Werewolf By Night are now forty-five years old.

A lot of those comics looked old when they were brand new.

 

[Random_Spock]

Wil Wheaton is now older than the rest of the TNG cast (aside from Patrick Stewart) were when the show was in production. He's also two years younger than Patrick Stewart was when TNG started.

Yea that's something. Time flies!

 

[mos6507]

I fixated the most on contemporary pop culture when I was a kid up to around college age. I think this is because you tend to live vicariously through the experiences of fictional people before you go out there and build a life for yourself. But after college I focused on my career. That's where my mindshare went. I didn't really keep up with pop culture. I didn't have time to get into serial television. Didn't sub to premium cable for The Sopranos and all that. Never got into hip hop. So what was contemporary from the mid 90s onward sort of came and went without making an impact. That's what creates the Rip Van Winkle aspect of seeing what the celebrities are doing now and seeing how much they've aged because I didn't keep tabs on most of them through all the intervening years because I was too busy with other things.

 

[Greg Cox]

You see this sometimes in casting discussions on the internet.

"You know who would be perfect as Captain Iguana? Dirk McClurg!"

"Um, he's sixty-two. Look it up."

"But . . . but he was just in that movie I like, a couple of years ago."

"That was in 1992."

 

[BK613]

You know, I am two decades older than the age Shatner was when he played kirk in TOS--two decades older than Kirk -- and yet, in some intangible way I can't articulate, that version of Kirk is still "older" than me. Probably some entanglement with my childhood memories.
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BTW, I am loathe to point out that, with rare exception, every K-12 kid attending school today in the US was born in this, the 21st century. Time to go yell at some lawn-encroaching brats.

 

[Mojochi]

Both of these movies are set in this year

Apparently, we're falling short of our death games lol

 

[Greg Cox]

I believe SOYLENT GREEN is coming up next year.

Meanwhile, just a few weeks ago, I saw somebody describe a typical Lifetime movie as "Meredith Baxter-Birney finds out her husband is trying to kill her."

Being an evil person, I couldn't resist pointing out that Meredith Baxter is now in her seventies. Time to update your pop-cultural references!

 

[Tallguy]

Blade Runner is next year as well, right?

 

[BK613]

xkcd had a graphic in 2015 about the whole obsolete future thing, showing what stories and shows were created before/after 2015 (IOW, what was still possible and what had become obsolete.) It also looked back at period pieces.

 

[RandyS]

You know, I am two decades older than the age Shatner was when he played kirk in TOS--two decades older than Kirk -- and yet, in some intangible way I can't articulate, that version of Kirk is still "older" than me. Probably some entanglement with my childhood memories.
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BTW, I am loathe to point out that, with rare exception, every K-12 kid attending school today in the US was born in this, the 21st century. Time to go yell at some lawn-encroaching brats.

Well, look at it this way: You may be older than Kirk as he was in TOS, but you're the same age as he was in the movies.

And yeah, I understand your point about Kirk being "older" than you. I have the same thing with Beverly Crusher. She (McFadden) and my mom (who has since died) were the same age, but now I'm ten years older than they both were in 1987.

I can also relate to your comment about todays kids. Every morning and evening when they go back and forth to school right past my house (The damn school bus parks literally right outside) I too want to go yell at the lawn encroaching brats (which they literally do, making themselves at home on my lawn, driveway, and even my front porch chairs while they wait for the bus!), only, there are days when I'd like to do my yelling with a 12 gauge.

 

[Mojochi]

I believe SOYLENT GREEN is coming up next year.

2022 (50 years after it was made) Interestingly enough, Charlton Heston was 50 when he made it, & I will be 50 in 2022. So essentially Soylent Green is a story about a Gen-Xer, & Edward G. Robinson's character is a Baby Boomer

 

[RJDiogenes]

A lot of those comics looked old when they were brand new.

Yeah, in a way that's true. The Horror comics of the time were greatly informed by Universal and Hammer films, among other things-- but they were also a modernized take on these things, with contemporary characterizations, slang, and cultural touchpoints (Werewolf By Night was characterized as "California Gothic," for example). Essentially, a natural evolution of the traditional, something I find often lacking in contemporary culture.

 

[Tallguy]

I celebrated my 49th by watching TWOK. Y'know the ACTUAL age Kirk was. (Damn Generations retcon!)

 

[flandry84]

Strange as it is for us the viewers think how it must feel as an actor watching an old performance of theirs.

 

[Forbin]

I believe the comparatively non-ephemeral nature of recorded media alludes to an ersatz sense of timelessness as much as recorded media is also living vicariously, a catharsis, and a lazy cheat. It depends on your point of view.

Then look at what's changed over the decades - in both good and not good ways.

Then think of all the people who aren't actors or singers. Gets a lot more depressing as one goes along the rabbit hole, doesn't it?

Meanwhile,

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The original subversives, some of which were nigh on 30 when singing in other songs about not trusting folk over 30... who needs drugs, humans are a real trip!

That's a good example, because when Grace was in her 60s, someone asked why she isn't out there performing her old hits like other rockers. She said it would be pretty ridiculous watching a woman in her 60s singing youth revolution songs.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

That's a good example, because when Grace was in her 60s, someone asked why she isn't out there performing her old hits like other rockers. She said it would be pretty ridiculous watching a woman in her 60s singing youth revolution songs.

As for Jefferson etc., I always thought it was pretty funny that after the group had evolved into Starship - at which point I believe there were no original members left - the original band reunited!

I believe SOYLENT GREEN is coming up next year.

Is the remake still in development hell?