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Last night, I watched the original Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time.  It occurred to me as I was watching it that in 1984 when the movie came out, it must have been absolutely terrifying.  The mass amounts of blood and Fred's burnt face were pretty scary back then, but now a lot of teenagers, including myself, have laughed at these graphics and animations.  When you think about it, people 25 years from now will be watching the Saw movies and laughing at them just like we today laugh at Fred Krueger.  I, for one, will watch a movie from 20 or 30 years and think it cheesy and stupid, but it almost makes me sad when I think that when I'm my parents' age, I'll show my kids something like Avatar and they'll think that the animation is jerky or poorly done.  Peoples' tastes, technology, and artistic styles will change very quickly and over the short time of just 20 years, some of today's most amazing films will be silly and outdated.