The Trailer For Netflix’s New Slasher “Time Cut” Is Giving People, Especially Millennials, Serious Flashbacks
“We so old that 2003 is now being used as a storyline plot.”
A new Netflix movie might have some millennials facing some hard truths.
The movie is about a girl named Lucy (Madison) who travels back in time to save her older sister, Summer (Antonia), from a masked killer.
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It was written by Michael Kennedy, who created Freaky (2020) that was like a slasher twist on Freaky Friday.
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His 2023 holiday-themed movie It’s a Wonderful Knife was a slasher twist on It’s a Wonderful Life.
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And you can say Time Cut is like Back to the Future with a slasher twist.
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However, based on the reactions to the trailer, the most terrifying part of the movie isn’t the evil, masked killer on the loose.
Nope! It’s the fact the main character travels back in time to 2003.
There’s velour tracksuits.
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There are multi-layered outfits.
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Of course, the very hip shoewear of the early aughts.
And there are these insufferable silky shirts from department store clearance sales we used to wear. It’s startling.
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Nothing’s more humbling than having the time you were actually in high school be used as a period to travel back to in a movie. Is this how “the greatest generation” felt when Back to the Future was in theaters?
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People on the internet are sharing their woes, worries, and gripes with the depiction of 2003 in Time Cut. The responses are funny and sometimes very upsetting because what do you mean my teenage years are “back in the day”?
For one, there’s the classic soundtrack with songs like Hilary Duff’s “So Yesterday.”
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People are having a really, really hard time accepting this movie about their “childhood era.”
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Other people think it looks like “2024 pretending to be 2003,” which is funny because it is.
this doesn’t look like 2003, idk how to explain it, but this looks like 2024 pretending to be 2003
— jessica ☾🌹 (@jessica_32_1) October 30, 2024
They even pointed out that one girl was “holding a portable CD player like a smartphone.”
that one girl holding a portable CD player like a smartphone 😭
— Michaela Lindsay (@aela_lindsay) October 31, 2024
Why is she holding it like that, though?
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The internet is mostly critical of the 2003 styles, but as a dismayed millennial, I think they’re just expressing angst over how this period has been depicted in the trailer.
the problem with most period pieces set in the 90s and 00s is that they’re too afraid to make everyone a little ugly (by 2024 standards)
— spooky bear 🎃🐻 (@honeybunwife) October 31, 2024
Young kids today would never last in a world that accepted wearing two polo shirts with popped collars. You just had to be there
— Michael Clanahan (@Clanahan81) October 30, 2024
It’s like we’re living in 2008 fashion-wise instead of 2003, losing touch with the ancient styles and wisdom.
— बिहारी बाबू (@she17257) October 31, 2024
