10 Movies That Felt Instantly Out Of Date

It's incredibly telling that race relations drama Crash had its origins in 1991, when writer-director Paul Haggis was the victim of a carjacking by two Black men in Los Angeles. This prompted Haggis to develop his film about racial and social tensions in LA, as was eventually released in 2005 and controversially went on to win the Best Picture Oscar, pipping easy favourite Brokeback Mountain to the post.

While Crash is often derided today as one of the all-time weakest Best Picture winners, even back in 2005 it felt like a simplistic engagement with its subject - the sort of heavy-handed Message Movie that regularly won Oscars and tore up the box office throughout the 1980s and '90s.

In a year where Crash was up against not just Brokeback but terrific films like Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, and Munich, its awards success felt even more like a puzzling throwback to a bygone era.

This isn't to say that the movie isn't without its merits - Matt Dillon in particular is fantastic in it - but it nevertheless seemed old-hat as soon as it hit cinemas.