There's A New Netflix Movie Set In 2003 And Millennials Have A Lot Of Thoughts About It
by Julia Corrigan · BuzzFeedBig news, folks: we in 2024 are the lucky recipients of a new Netflix original horror film — but the audience it seems to be scaring most is millennials.
Time Cut, a horror flick released just in time for Halloween, features Outer Banks' Madison Bailey as "a teen [who] accidentally time-travels to 2003, days before a masked killer murders her sister." You can check out the trailer below:
Spend a day in 2003!
Time Cut is NOW PLAYING. pic.twitter.com/Nmmmiqp2oZ
— Netflix (@netflix) October 30, 2024
But reader, the scariest part of the movie is not the horror element; it's the fact that it is "set" in 2003 — and people who actually went to high school in the early aughts are not having it. So, here are some of the best millennial reactions:
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you can have the actors wear all the uggs and tracksuits your heart desires, but putting zero effort into period accurate hair and makeup means it was all for nothing https://t.co/xVZwHCogsk
— spooky bear 🎃🐻 (@honeybunwife) October 31, 2024
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so yesterday by hilary duff being used in a soundtrack to establish the film as a period piece…i knew this day would come https://t.co/Qr6NQSuzor
— Vardaan Arora (@vardaanarora) October 30, 2024
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I was in high school in 2003:
- nobody was allowed to wear hats in school, and girls wouldn’t anyway
- wheelies were for babies, and peaked later
- tucking jeans into Uggs?! Like that??? No
- nobody would stand around staring at music players next to friends. Literally nothing… https://t.co/1FxW4FmVRj
— Dissproportionately (@dissproportion) October 31, 2024
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Touchstone Pictures / Via Twitter: @honeybunwife
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I cannot stop laughing at this. Nothing about what she’s seeing looks different enough from modern day to elicit this level of confusion. someone literally walks behind her in an outfit almost identical to hers. she just looks like she’s confused about the idea of clothes https://t.co/quw8ym6Q98
— Julie Greiner (@JulieAbridged) October 31, 2024
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I don't know how to explain it but this feels like what a 10 year thinks 2003 was like and not actually what it was like. There's something unauthentic about it. There's something missing https://t.co/gNOVUqPSaY
— Make Oxtail Cheap Again (@simsimmaaz) October 31, 2024
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People are trying to figure out why this doesn’t feel like 2003… way too many crop tops. No one wearing 3-5 shirts at once. https://t.co/GTd5RoUpbk
— Jenna (@JennaACY) October 31, 2024
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the funniest thing i havent seen anyone talk about is how every single article of clothing here looks completely fresh out of the box. not only are those heelies anachronistic they're literally in MINT condition https://t.co/uJFNl0eahl
— nona.bsky.social (@nonasroom) November 1, 2024
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she's so confused and it's like girl there's literally someone in the same fit right there https://t.co/LvKJEOQnYx pic.twitter.com/kYl9NFGOss
— elijah (@elijahhhhhhhh) October 31, 2024
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As someone who graduated high school in 2003, this is 1000% too much pink and uggs, and not nearly enough goth emo hot topic. Don't believe it children!! https://t.co/Z0TdL8vG3W
— Lindsey Galloway (@SavvyLindz) October 31, 2024
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Sorry but the overtly clean cinematography of the streaming era is simply unable to capture the grungy feel of the early 2000s. https://t.co/5KWRyBZYDM
— xXxSebastian_SlaughterxXx (@XxSSlaughterxX) October 31, 2024
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One of the things that makes it feel not very 2003 is the fact that they packed every single trendy piece of technology or clothing item onto every student. More realistically, it would’ve been a couple of people who had the latest and everyone else would’ve had older things. https://t.co/Qh2ySjkTJK
— bobbi loves vampires ❤️ (@hiimbobbi) October 31, 2024
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I now know what it feels like for everyone who had to witness “80s movies” in the aughts. I’m sorry, you were right. They never get anything right. It’s all pastiche. https://t.co/EDi0IK59dQ
— Maggie Lovitt (@maggieofthetown) October 31, 2024
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21 Jump Street captured this era perfectly 12 years ago, nothing in this footage comes even close to this one still image https://t.co/rlRWlW8xu9 pic.twitter.com/YlREI96SBY
— gramp (@grahamputation) November 1, 2024
Columbia Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Via Twitter: @grahamputation
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No mangled eyebrows, no acne, nobody in the hall part of a visible subculture like mall goth. No crusty/greasy hair from the hair products of the time. Clothes don't look worn or frayed enough (before fast fashion made it big, people wore their clothes a lot longer) https://t.co/GtFo1d1xcO
— flaviusvalens (@flaviusvalens1) October 31, 2024
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This girl is using her walkman like an iPhone. My culture is not a costume https://t.co/iwrMHvsV7o pic.twitter.com/pBThebiGTg
— Mark (@Awesomark) October 31, 2024
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Class of 2004 here...I think its too early to be treating early aughts as a period piece, which is why this looks goofy and inauthentic, like young kids today cosplaying us. half of the shit worn here was not allowed. one girl literally texting on a walkman. https://t.co/uTeQ1IgqFi
— JJ (@ladydragonjj) October 31, 2024
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imagine texting before 7 pm on a weekday in 2003… https://t.co/OwgLlr5DDd
— 🌸 (@qershi_) October 31, 2024
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all of these students would have been dress coded. high school in 2003 was not letting girls wear spaghetti straps and tube tops to class, that is a recent shift in teenage dressing https://t.co/IaUSt3BNNp
— alexis wears Hoops! ☆ Spurs! ☆ Boots! (@anywayitsalexis) October 31, 2024
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where are they https://t.co/ArLHuNDe4F pic.twitter.com/gBuXbJkmsS
— ModernGurlz (@ModernGurlzz) October 31, 2024
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millennials being scandalised by how the early aughts is being presented here, as if they're forgetting what WE did to the 80s on-screen??? https://t.co/SAJ8AlOnMW
— monstro elisasue stan (@villainmorris) October 31, 2024