10 Movies That Aged Badly For Surprising Reasons

The Fast and The Furious is a 2001 film about car tuners and freight truck robbers - a remake of a 1939 film starring Franchot Tone. No, I'm kidding it's not a remake, but I did just shake up your whole world for a moment, didn't I? Even people who don't like car films know about The Fast And The Furious - the latest in the series of films coming out in August of 2019 starring Dwayne Johnson, Idris Elba, and Jason Statham.

In the first film Paul Walker plays an undercover police officer and car tuning hobbyist who is sent to infiltrate a gang of street racers, led by Vin Diesel's Dom, who like to rob over-the-road trucks of their goods while on the highway. It was a vehicle to jump start the careers of both Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. Haha, get it, a vehicle?

So what just doesn't have the horsepower to make it up the hill into the 21st century? Aside from the fact that actual tuners say the prime parts they talk about in the film are so obsolete by now that it turns the whole movie into a parody for them? The big thefts that the police send Walker's character to investigate? Trucks full of VCR players and TV/VCR combination sets.

There are people alive who have likely never used, or even seen a VCR in their lifespan. By 2003, a mere two years after the film came out, VHS tapes were already obsolete and in the process of being replaced by DVDs. Even by the time the movie came out VCRs were considered too costly for their quality compared to DVD players and usefulness, with electronics manufacturers cutting features from them for years to compensate.