10 Movies That Aged Badly For Surprising Reasons

Forrest Gump is the charming tale of a disabled kid who grows up to be Tom Hanks. The film is, even to this day, still pretty solid - though a little dry in the writing at times. Seeing Hanks' Gump in the strange historical situations such as shaking hands with JFK or getting a medal pinned on him by LBJ or seeing him on the Dick Cavett show, sitting beside John Lennon. So how does it not hold up nowadays?

Pop Quiz: Who is Dick Cavett? If you answered that question correctly, then this movie probably has aged just fine. But everyone born after 1986 (the year the Dick Cavett show was cancelled) likely have never heard of the show, and certainly never saw an episode of it.

You see, so much of the movie is steeped in Baby Boomer nostalgia that much of the audience today wouldn't get a lot of the references. They didn't grow up in the fifties to understand much of the nuance, they likely can't immediately identify LBJ from a photograph to realize what's going on much the same way that a Baby Boomer likely can't identify Herbert Hoover from just a photograph.

With so much of the movie based around the nostalgia of seeing things a boomer could identify a lot of the nostalgia and references are lost on the younger generations.