A New Netflix Film Time Travels Again To 2003 & It is All Incorrect

Netflix’s Time Minimize is a horror slasher, a teen comedy and a science-fiction time-traveling movie all rolled into one. The story follows two sisters working to determine an unsolved homicide case from the early 2000s.

After a clip from the movie began to make the rounds on X, depicting the principle character getting into her highschool in 2003, individuals had ideas concerning the vibes. Some appreciated the tune selection (the traditional and area of interest “So Yesterday” by Hilary Duff), whereas others simply weren’t shopping for the depiction of a highschool hallway in 2003. And I’ve to say, I agree!

I used to be a freshman in highschool in 2003, and whereas sure, I used to be positively listening to Hilary Duff (I actually went to see her throughout her Metamorphosis tour with my girlfriends), I wasn’t popping my collar or driving on my Heelys within the hallway. The complete scene felt like a caricature.

The women’ hair was too shiny. Their make-up was approach too natural-looking (our face shade did not match our neck!). The colour scheme isn’t brilliant sufficient. There may be simply one thing off!

A number of X customers reacted to the clip, agreeing with this sentiment.

“I do not know the way to clarify it however this looks like what a ten 12 months thinks 2003 was like and never truly what it was like. There’s one thing unauthentic about it. There’s one thing lacking,” one person wrote.

“this isn’t 2003 it is a shein advert,” one other quipped.

“heelies is extra of a factor now than then. Ugg boots was later too. no person used a cd participant like a cellphone. no person was calling anybody in school. texting, sure, calling, no. extra prone to discover somebody taking part in video games on their TI calculator than utilizing an iPod,” one other wrote.

“This isn’t the 2003 we lived,” somebody mentioned merely.

“Facial flaws / awkwardness ; everybody had semi-bad hair make-up and pores and skin,” one famous.

One other echoed, “The make-up. We have been by no means so polished. It was unhealthy, like basis 3 shades darker than our skintone.”

One other wrote, “It’s too put collectively additionally children wouldn’t be utilizing their cell telephones & different electronics like that in the event that they even had them”

One X person commented, “this does not seem like 2003, idk the way to clarify it, however this seems to be like 2024 pretending to be 2003”

That is such a spot-on take. Keep in mind once we used to have themed weeks in class and we’d all gown up in 70s or 80s seems to be or what we thought was a 70s or 80s look? (See image above!). It seems to be like a bunch of Gen Apha/Gen Z children dressed up for an early ‘00s theme day in school!

“It is kinda like once they would make an 80s film and everybody wore neon and tutus. It isn’t 100% correct, however we simply settle for it. Lol,” one other wrote.

What’s so fascinating about this main criticism from the movie is that the director of Time Minimize, Hannah Macpherson, grew up throughout this time as nicely.

When requested by CBR about the principle factor she wished to realize in making the film really feel prefer it’s actually in 2003, with out making it a cliché, she mentioned her main assist was being a teen throughout that very same time.

“I feel it helped that I lived within the early 2000s, and was an adolescent making an attempt to determine who I used to be. I keep in mind them fairly nicely, and it was so enjoyable to get to revisit the music, the style and even the electronics. There was the authenticity of the truth that I knew the 2000s,” she mentioned.

“We had nice division heads who did a bunch of analysis. We truly actually cracked ourselves up, trying again at what number of issues have modified in 20 years.”

Whereas I admire that there was analysis finished for the scene…did they seek the advice of anybody who was truly in highschool in 2003? It virtually appears as in the event that they took all the things from 2000 – 2007ish and mushed it into one scene! I, for one, was not sporting preppy polos and pink skirts with my flip cellphone. I used to be an emo child sporting Sizzling Subject graphic tees and skater footwear.

Lastly, (and I’m not a movie buff in any approach so please take this with a gran of salt), however I feel what most of us are so delay by is the standard of the digicam. We will’t see that model of 2003 in a faculty as a result of it’s simply approach too crisp and clear. We’d like grain. We’d like blurriness. We’d like it to be rather less polished!

If you wish to have a look for your self, Time Minimize is steaming now on Netflix.