Spider-Man: No Way Home. Mixing the different versions of the same character from different adaptations was a really cool, modern idea I don’t think could have been done without our Cinematic Universe/Superhero boom in recent years. I can’t think of an example of that from the past. There’s no James Bond team up movie or Hannibal Lecterverse or anything like that.
Unfortunately, I think it’s a really boring trick to see a second time, and now we’re going to have to see the same idea repeated in every superhero movie for years to come.
I think they could have built up to it 20 years ago, it’s just no one took the time to make movies, then establish the multiverse. Probably couldn’t happen with James Bond because it’s based too much in reality, but a fantasy franchise could have easily pulled off a multiverse movie.
Nolan movies like Inception, Interstellar and Tenet. Not at this scale and quality.
And most sci-fi stuff, really. 20 years ago, SW Prequels were basically the best we could get (at that scale). You couldn’t made something that looks like Dune Dune back then.
Into/Across the spiderverse. I don’t think the technology or the appetite for the animation style existed 20 years ago
Not a movie, but a TV series:
The Whitest Kids You Know
This was how they debuted.
Season 1 episode 1: https://youtu.be/gbWfAAzNlg4
Also: Baked beans, finger rings https://youtu.be/chD6qQk7JcY
But it was made 16 years ago. Is it a stretch to think it could have been made 20 years ago?
Gah, i saw the question backwards.
As in what could not be made today.
But really im suprised it ever got made in a way.
Dune
Dune was made years ago. Honestly it holds up pretty well except for the sand worms.
Timothy Chalamet would have been 7 years old 20 years ago, thus they never could have made it.
TÁR is maybe the most recent great movie, and it’s absolutely a product of its time. You could tell a story about abusive, manipulative people in the past, but the specific way that her story spirals out of control over the course of the film (and the way that it reflects the culture around her) could only have been told recently. It’s really gripping stuff.
I can’t even think of a good recent movie, let alone a good movie that couldn’t have been made twenty years ago, when movies had to actually try.
