10 Movies That Felt Instantly Out Of Date
6. Clerks III
Kevin Smith's long-awaited Clerks threequel didn't merely feel a bit passé because it once again saw the filmmaker peering back over his shoulder to consider his past, but also because it featured a jokey subplot centered around... NFTs.
Smith, who is enough of a proponent of NFTs that he even released a movie, KillRoy Was Here, exclusively as one, has Elias (Trevor Fehrman) and his friend Blockchain (Austin Zajur) trying to sell NFT kites throughout Clerks III.
Now, even if the mere mention of non-fungible tokens doesn't make you groan, this movie came out in September 2022, at a point where NFTs had already peaked in popularity and were dying on the vine. By 2023, the majority of them had become totally worthless.
And so, somehow more depressing than Clerks III's surprisingly bleak ending is the fact that we'll all have to be reminded of NFTs any time we dare to revisit it.