10 Movies That Felt Instantly Out Of Date
8. Gemini Man
For all of its attempts to push filmmaking "forward" by being filmed at 120 frames per second in 3D, Ang Lee's Gemini Man feels like a sci-fi thriller that tripped and fell straight out of 1997. And that's because, in a sense, it did.
The pitch for Gemini Man first started doing the rounds in Hollywood in 1997, after which a number of actors flirted with starring in it, including Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, and Clint Eastwood. It ultimately didn't start shooting until decades later in 2018, with Lee directing Will Smith in the dual role of an assassin and his younger clone, achieved with cutting-edge visual effects tech.
Despite this, the chintzy "assassin fights himself" premise and the particulars of the script would've felt right at home in your typical mid-'90s bargain bin VHS rental. This one just happened to have a $138 million budget.
As a fitting addendum to the whole matter, Lee recently confirmed that he won't be shooting films in 3D or high frame-rate again, and thank God.