The thing that weirds me out is that Austin Powers was frozen for 30 years and when he woke up, society had changed so much between the 60s and the 90s that he was hilariously out of place.
If the movie were made today, he’d be frozen for 30 years to go back to… the 90s. Obviously a lot has changed with technology since then, but the societal differences aren’t as visible.
It seems like it’d be a movie where Austin barely understands the Internet and cell phones - and does stuff against social norms like trying to smoke in a restaurant.
The attitude towards LGBTQ+ folks is a lot different compared to the 90s. Back then “gay” was an insult I heard at school all the time, and it was a huge deal when Ellen came out.
Now that I think of it, it’d be almost impossible to make the movie funny and instead it would sound like a conservative ranting about how they got cancelled on the Internet for calling someone gay.
The thing that weirds me out is that Austin Powers was frozen for 30 years and when he woke up, society had changed so much between the 60s and the 90s that he was hilariously out of place.
If the movie were made today, he’d be frozen for 30 years to go back to… the 90s. Obviously a lot has changed with technology since then, but the societal differences aren’t as visible.
It seems like it’d be a movie where Austin barely understands the Internet and cell phones - and does stuff against social norms like trying to smoke in a restaurant.
The attitude towards LGBTQ+ folks is a lot different compared to the 90s. Back then “gay” was an insult I heard at school all the time, and it was a huge deal when Ellen came out.
Now that I think of it, it’d be almost impossible to make the movie funny and instead it would sound like a conservative ranting about how they got cancelled on the Internet for calling someone gay.