YMMV / Old Fashioned

• Alternative Character Interpretation: While the movie seems to paint Clay as the Only Sane Man, he generally comes off as unsympathetic and controlling to the common audience.
• Anvilicious: The film believes that dating is simply an excuse for pre-marital sex and is not subtle about it.
• Glurge:
  • The film, marketed as The Moral Substitute to Fifty Shades of Grey, showing a love story based on romance and courtship rather than sex. Our hero, Clay Walsh, is so disgusted by the possibly of giving into his base desires, he refuses to be in the same room as his love interest Amber, and much of their so-called romance is actually him molding her to his ideal of a properly submissive wife and mother, even making her cut up food for a friend's baby. In one scene, he shames a sex worker to her face (all in the name of "treating women with respect") and almost gets to a fight with her driver when he correctly points out that Clay just cost her a night's worth of pay.
  • Clay's treatment of Amber and her going along with it takes on a new dimension of creepy when you consider that it's shown that she's just gotten out of an abusive relationship with a controlling boyfriend. While Clay isn't physically abusive towards her, like the ex-boyfriend was, he has temper problems and still quite controlling. Even though Amber going to Clay is framed like her finally finding a nice guy to settle down with, it comes off more like her going from one abusive relationship to another, only somewhat-less abusive relationship.
  • There's also the fact that Clay refuses to be alone with any woman who is not his wife. It's supposed to make him seem celibate and respectful to his woman, however, it comes across as sexist in of itself by implying that women by themselves tempt men into sex, and not to mention what The Cinema Snob has to say:
    Snob: No, that's not sweet, that's what a pedophile says when he can't be alone in a room with a child!
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The protagonist is supposed to be a devout Christian man with strong values regarding dating, however, during the movie he becomes increasingly unlikable:
  • He refuses to go inside his tenant's apartment to fix her appliances while she is still there, giving the reason that "he will not be alone with a woman who's not his wife", and instead makes her wait outside, sometimes in middle of the night.^*  "You know, like a rapist."
  • Several other times his supposedly sweet and principled actions come across as creepy and unsettling, like when his tenant makes it clear that she's interested in him, and the first thing he does is taking her to a pastor to discuss marriage.
  • He also makes a scene on one of his friend's bachelor party by chasing away the stripper, the stripper and her manager are reasonably pissed with him. Never mind that it wasn't his own party and he had no right to decide what goes in it.
  • Plus the Old Shame videos he shot in his youth are presumably meant to be parodies of Girls Gone Wild, but considering the fact that the girls are crying in them, they look pretty damn date rape-y. Although this is more indicative of the production crew apparently seeing no difference between Girls Gone Wild videos and sexual snuff films than anything else, which is problematic in its own right.