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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 3980294" data-attributes="member: 4682">I think The Thing (John Carpenter's remake) holds up despite the animatronic  beasties and 1980s computers used by the characters. Playing chess on a, what, Apple ][e? Today they'd have tried to make the alien all CGI and then would have gone nuts with it all over the screen. . . which would have ruined the whole thing. The Road Warrior still really works for me. However, Mad Max and Beyond Thunderdome (the 1st and 3rd in the series) just don't at all. Some old Anime still hold up. Akira, Castle in the Sky, and Nausica.It is interesting to watch episodes of The Prisoner, a show from the late 1960s. It had a lot of sci-fi elements in it that are done in a way that today's audience would just roll their eyes at painfully in the same way old Doctor Who episodes are viewed. The whole thing is saved by a timeless story, one I think is equally relevant in today's society.</blockquote>