History TotallyRadical / Film

* The dialogue in the Norwegian war movie {{Max Manus}} also suffer under this trope, with actors who are supposed to live in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII unwittingly talking like {{the nineties}}.

* Though not an English-speaking example, the dialogue in the Norwegian war movie {{Max Manus}} also suffer under this trope, with actors who are supposed to live in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII unwittingly talk like {{the nineties}}.
* Disney's movie "Now You See It..." is full of this. The mains characters use phrases like 'a snowball's chance in you-know-what' and Danny talks like a ten year old girl at times.

* Marty [=McFly=] attempts a little Fifties slang in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', [[SeperatedByACommonLanguage to middling success]]. Of course, [[SocietyMarchesOn by now]], even the 1985 characters' slang sounds dated and odd: Nobody says "this is heavy" anymore, unless they're referencing the movie.

* Spoofed in ''{{Shrek}} the Third'', where Shrek spews out a string of hip-hop slang in a failed attempt to relate to Artie.

* Even ''TheWarriors'' suffers from this, with Cyrus's repeated demands of "Can you dig it?" "Dig" was a word that dated back at least to the 1950s, and sounded ''horribly'' old-fashioned by the late '70s. (A ''little'' justified, since the novel on which ''The Warriors'' was based was written in 1965.) Other slang is more contemporary, such as "the big dudes" or "wasted."

* Even ''TheWarriors'' suffers from this, with Cyrus's repeated demands of "Can you dig it?" "Dig" was a word that dated back at least to the 1950s, and sounded ''horribly'' old-fashioned by the late '70s. (A ''little'' justified, since the novel on which ''The Warriors'' was based was written in 1965.)

* In the modern remake of ''FreakyFriday'', not only the dialogue, but the themes of the movie seem TotallyRadical, adjacent to AdultsAreUseless. The conversation in the restaurant where Anna (in the body of Tess, her mother) is talking with Jake over contemporary music (like they have a college degree in it) and then singing along with a rock cover "Baby One More Time" comes off as TotallyRadical. The moral of the story seems to be that teenagers just need to be left alone, and not relate to their parents (or vice versa), because neither can understand each other.

* A common complaint critics leveled at Creator/StevenSpielberg's ''Film/{{Hook}}'' was that it invoked this trope with its approach to the Lost Boys, who ride around on skateboards, play basketball, and refer to Peter Pan as [[BuffySpeak 'The Pan']]. ('Pan the Man' at one point.) Leonard Maltin complained that they "would be more at home in a UsefulNotes/McDonalds commercial."
** [[{{Catchphrase}} Bangarang!]]

** This may be a spoof of certain churches that try throw in as many "cool" things as possible (skateboarding and biker ministries, [[ChristianRock rock concerts]], [[TheMoralSubstitute "Christian" versions]] of presumably-popular things) in the name of getting in touch with a new generation, but are not only compromising their teachings to do so, but are themselves woefully out of touch with modern culture (passing off folk music as "current", using outdated slang and imagery). By taking the tropes of "pop Christianity" and applying them to Catholicism, KevinSmith was trying to show how silly a lot of them are.

** Though most of the dialogue in the film is unusually realistic.

** ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'' (set in the 1960's) also features similar usage of boss.

* The director of DonnieDarko deliberately set the movie in TheEighties, the time of his own childhood, to avert this trope.

** Sadly, a lot of the made-for-TV movies of yesteryear had a lot of this too with loads of [[HurricaneOfPuns god-awful monster puns]] and [[JiveTurkey outdated slang]].

* Averted ''at the last possible minute'' (i.e. the last script revision before shooting) by ''Franchise/StarWars: ANewHope''. Lucas' original dialogue, in all its (literally) unspeakable glory, shows up in Alan Dean Foster's novelization, and the (cut later) scene of Luke meeting up with Biggs and friends at Anchorhead shows some horrifying attempts to render teenage slang on Tatooine. (The filmed scenes aren't easy to find, but it's a good thing the script doctors got to them before shooting...)
** For an example of what ''Star Wars: A New Hope'' would have been like without this last-minute intervention, see ''ThePhantomMenace'', you sleemos.

* A climactic scene in ''PeeWeesBigAdventure'' shows Pee-Wee Herman escaping from pursuing Warner Brothers studio executives (long story) by activating a booster rocket on the back of his vintage bicycle. (Hey, [[RuleOfFun this is a fantasy, so why not]]?) A prepubescent boy sitting on his own bike is awestruck by this sight, and shouts: "Radical!" Since this film was made in the mid-1980s, when "radical" was still considered a "hip" term, it's impossible to ascertain whether this was a LampshadeHanging or not.

** However, the movie was popular enough that its slang actually did catch on, for at least a while. (And admit it, you've used "Be excellent to each other" unironically at ''least'' once.) This is arguably a wellspring of a number of other TotallyRadical attempts, because some people remember that the movie's slang caught on in a big way... but didn't notice when the fads passed.
*** Though hopefully nobody has ''ever'' used "That was non-non-non-''non''-heinous" unironically.
*** And then there was "bodacious".
*** "Party on, X" also had a resurgence in the '90s thanks to ''Film/WaynesWorld'' (the SNL skits and then of course the movies).
** Part of the reason for the outdated slang was very simple: The movie had sat on a shelf for a few years -- long enough for terms like "excellent" and "bogus" to become outdated. But by the time it was released, nostalgia had built, and ''Bill and Ted'' actually brought it back.

* The film ''{{Juno}}'' suffers from this in the first half, though it's heavily debated whether the writer, Creator/DiabloCody, was trying to be hip and "indie" or simply being ironic. Most agree with the former.
** Honest to blog??
** With the release of ''Film/JennifersBody'', it would appear Diablo Cody suffers from this trope on a constant basis.

* Spoofed in ''Slam Dunk Ernest,'' when the title character walks into his friends' locker room and attempts to use urban slang gain rapport with the African-American basketball players. His attempt backfires when he says, "Right arm. Out of state. Frozen." These malapropisms for "Right on," "Out of sight," and "Cool," are not well received by the other players.
* This is part of the plot in the first ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' movie: the gang starts getting suspicious when those who arrive at the island resort speak like any average teenager, while those who leave speak using awful TotallyRadical slang. [[spoiler:It's because they're actually monsters wearing a human skin, and [[TheScrappy Scrappy Doo]] taught them how to speak like "normal teenagers".]]

** It was probably something resembling satire; when it becomes clear to everyone that Zack is making sense only to himself-- and that his exaggerated surfer dude persona prevents him from reverting to normal English to explain just what the hell he thinks he's talking about-- Batty quips, "Awesome use of the language, dude."
** Made even more ridiculous by the fact that Zack is an Australian using early-'90s American surfer lingo.

* {{Invoked|Trope}} with Kevin Flynn's mannerisms in ''Film/TronLegacy''; he acts and speaks exactly as you'd expect from someone who's been trapped inside a computer since 1989.

** Almost exactly. Flynn's mannerisms and speech are also reminiscent of an aging hippie guru left over from the '60s, making it an example of TwoDecadesBehind as well as a ShoutOut to another [[TheBigLebowski laid back character played by Jeff Bridges.]]

* Though not an English-speaking example, the dialogue in the Norwegian war movie {{Max Manus}} also suffer under this trope, with actors who are supposed to live in {{the second world war}} unwittingly talk like {{the nineties}}.

* Used to orient us into the '50s setting in ''StandByMe'', where Vern is so excited by news of a dead body in the woods that he can only say the now-ridiculous "This is so boss!" half a dozen times before explaining anything to the others.
** ''AmericanGraffiti'' (set in the 1960's) also features similar usage of boss.

* In ''TheWildOne'', the bikers have a lot of this.

-->'''Simon:''' Now, you'll like these. You really "dig" them. They're "fab" and all the other pimply hyperboles.
-->'''George:''' (''after assessing the shirts'') I wouldn't be seen dead in 'em. They're dead grotty.

** This was outdated ASL slang from the 90s. She made a W, E (looking-ish thing), M, and L on her forehead.

* Who can forget the immortal scene from ''FernGully The Last Rainforest''? We still have no idea if it was meant to be a satire (note Crysta's reaction) or if the writers were serious:

** Made even more ridiculous by the fact that Zack is an Australian using early-90s American surfer lingo.

*** "Party on, X" also had a resurgence in the 90s thanks to Wayne's World (the SNL skits and then of course the movies).
** Part of the reason for the outdated slang was very simple: The movie had sat on a shelf for a few years--long enough for terms like "excellent" and "bogus" to become outdated. But by the time it was released, nostalgia had built, and Bill and Ted actually brought it back.

* A common complaint critics leveled at Creator/StevenSpielberg's ''Film/{{Hook}}'' was that it invoked this trope with its approach to the Lost Boys, who ride around on skateboards, play basketball, and refer to Peter Pan as [[BuffySpeak 'The Pan']]. ('Pan the Man' at one point.) Leonard Maltin complained that they "would be more at home in a McDonalds commercial."

* Used deliberately in ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''. The secretary Grace tells the principal "The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude" in regard to Ferris.

** Almost exactly. Flynn's mannerisms and speech are also reminiscent of an aging hippie guru left over from the 60's, making it an example of TwoDecadesBehind as well as a ShoutOut to another [[TheBigLebowski laid back character played by Jeff Bridges.]]

* Perhaps the strangest version of this is done deliberately in the 2006 film ''{{Brick}}''. It is set in a moden day high school with teens and young adults but every character talks and acts like They are in a 1940's noir film, complete with hard-boiled slang and verbal tics that would sound like complete nonsense to modern teenagers (Or anyone else born after 1934). Needless to say, this adds immensely to the film's quality.

* In Music/TheBeatles film AHardDaysNight, George is mistaken to be a participant in an ad campaign and ad manager Simon Marhsall shows some shirts to him, "feeding" George the lines he's to use.

-->[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ljIknCjMw "Did you pick up on this jive, man ? This crazy music, did you dig the rebop ?"]]

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* Inverted in ''PrinceCaspian''. They really, really tried to make the 1940s settings for the Earth scenes perfect and detailed... and then had the boys say "got it sorted," which is at least forty years ahead of their time. Twice. At dramatically important moments.

* The entirety of 1993's ''{{Airborne}}'' is like this.

* Amy Heckerling, director of ''{{Clueless}}'', invented her own ValleyGirl inspired slang to prevent this.

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* The ABCFamily TV movie ''{{Cyberbully}}'' suffers from this, with the teenage characters using terms like "bling" and "the clap". This movie was released in ''2011''.

* BringingDownTheHouse attempted to avert this. The movie uses a lot of hip-hop slang, so instead of using real slang and risk dating the movie or invoking this trope, they just made up their own slang instead.