A new Netflix horror film set in 2003 is really scaring millennials ― by reminding them that the passage of time stops for no one.
The film, “Time Cut,” stars Madison Bailey of “Outer Banks” fame as a teen girl who “accidentally time-travels to 2003, days before a masked killer murders her sister,” according to the streaming service.
So far, “Time Cut” only has a 14% favorable rating from critics on ratings aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, but the trailer is also getting bad reviews — mostly from people who grew up in the Y2K era and aren’t impressed with how the film depicts their teenage years.
Naturally, the people who attended high school in 2003 had thoughts. Lots of thoughts.
We so old that 2003 is now being used as a storyline plot 😭
— ZiA Mughal (@ZiaMughal9423) October 30, 2024this doesn't look like 2003, idk how to explain it, but this looks like 2024 pretending to be 2003
— jessica ☾🌹 (@jessica_32_1) October 30, 2024I was in high school in 2003. It didn’t look like this. This is what magazines wanted high school to look like.
— Art Tavana (@arttavana) October 31, 2024Honestly, this doesn’t feel like 2003, feels like 2008
— Phil (@RealPhillyP) October 31, 2024The lighting is off here. It’s too clear and bright. We wore color but the saturation of those colors and lighting overall feel too current.
— KelCeeElle (@kelceeelle) October 31, 2024One scene in the trailer stuck out as particularly anachronistic to some millennial oldsters.
that one girl holding a portable CD player like a smartphone 😭
— Michaela Lindsay (@aela_lindsay) October 31, 2024Others reflected on the difference between then and now.
why nobody got on jeans under their skirt with lace fingerless gloves and some cute thick personality glasses with the lens cut out? Don’t get me mad. Where are the Nokia phones?
— 🧞♀️ (@yunggdejj_) October 31, 2024Young kids today would never last in a world that accepted wearing two polo shirts with popped collars. You just had to be there
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Having been in high school in 2003, I can tell you it looked NOTHING like this fake 2024 version they are selling you…
No gelled hair.
Band Tees?
Chuck Taylors?
There several other things, but someone didn’t do their homework before making this…
Did the person who made just google “popular things in 2003” and just throw them all together in a scene in 2024 lol
— 6Thumbs (@6thumbs) October 31, 2024
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