Ryan McAvoy said:
The only dated thing is the "Hippy" (For want of a better term) haircuts in ANH. They always date that movie and date photos of me with similar ;-). By the time ESB and ROTJ had rolled around the haircuts had become more measured with the arrival of the 80s. Luke's haircut is badass and timeless in ESB.
Ah, the good ol' "dated" criticism - the most useless criticism on the planet. I guess people in the 70's should have went around wearing reverse mullets and tossing around words like "shawty" to placate us, the enlightened contemporary elite.
I wonder why movies from the 30's-early 60's are never considered dated; it isn't like the fashions, gender roles, slang, etc. isn't any less "dated" than anything from the mid 60's-early 90's.