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* The 2000s ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' graphic novels downplay this. The technology level makes it clear that the books take place in the 1990s--more specifically, the late '90s judging from how characters watch what is most likely the remake of ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}'' on DVD. (The one exception is a smartphone in book 9.) However, the fashion sense has been made more neutral. In contrast with the books' [[FashionDissonance flashy 1980s/1990s clothes]], the characters dress in clothes that weren't unreasonable for 12 year olds in the 1990s, yet are more appealing to 2000s children.

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* ''Film/BurningLove'', an Italian {{Mockumentary}} from 2015, is supposedly set between 2004 and 2006, but contains references to ''Series/BreakingBad'' (first aired in 2008), the Ice Bucket Challenge (which was a trend during the summer of 2014) and the Charlie Hebdo shootings (from early 2015). Also, all the NewscasterCameo scenes are clearly set in the then current news studios instead of recreating the ones from the original time period. Due to the ludicrous argoment of the movie, it's probably done on purpose.

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* ''Film/BurningLove'', an Italian {{Mockumentary}} from 2015, is supposedly set between 2004 and 2006, but contains references to ''Series/BreakingBad'' (first aired in 2008), the Ice Bucket Challenge (which was a trend during the summer of 2014) and the Charlie Hebdo shootings (from early 2015). Also, all the NewscasterCameo scenes are clearly set in the their then current news studios instead of recreating the ones from the original time period. Due to the ludicrous argoment of the movie, it's probably done on purpose.purpose.
* ''C. a k. polní maršálek'' (Imperial and Royal Field Marshal): This 1930 Czechoslovak comedy is set in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, which ended in 1918. However, the appearance of especially the female characters reflects contemporary fashion still under 1920s influence, (bobbed hair, short skirts, etc.), styles which are ''very'' different from the standard look in the days of old Austria. At least the uniforms of the Austro-Hungarian Army are pretty faithfully recreated.



* ''Film/HarryPotter'': The films clearly reflect their 2000s production years, in spite of being set in the 1990s (the gravestones of Tom Riddle Sr. and Harry's parents indicate this), as the books are.
** The sixth movie features the destruction of London's Millennium Bridge, which was completed in 2000.
** The fifth movie, when Harry is taking Dudley home, clearly shows the car numberplate "MA 06 KBH" in the background, and the "06" means it's part of the February 2006 issue ("56" would have meant August 2006). A little later, flying to his trial at the Ministry of Magic, Harry passes a completed Canary Wharf development (in the book's year of 1995), and the London Eye (not erected until autumn 1999). Oyster Cards (2003) also featured briefly. According to which fans you believe, these are either glaring anachronisms which detract from the film, or evidence that the film has been updated to our time.
** The movies are also filled with noughties fashion since 2004, or what the characters wear when dressed as Muggles -- it's not glaring, and hard to describe, but an obvious example would be the wide-horizontal-stripes jumpers that Hermione and Ron kept wearing in the sixth one: hot at the time of filming, not really around in the nineties.
*** Watching ''Goblet of Fire'' creates a weird sort of nostalgic dissonance for those who grew up reading both the books and seeing the films in theaters. The entire male student cast has "emo boy band" style shaggy haircuts, which were very in vogue in 2005 when the film was released, but nothing at all like the hairstyles teenage boys would have worn in 1994, when the film is set. These haircuts are largely absent from the next film, as they would have, strangely, looked ''dated'' in 2007, despite the film being set in 1995, but the hair styles still aren't 90's hairstyles.
*** Lavender Brown also wears 2000s clothing, seeing how not only the movies but the books as well take place in the '90s.



* ''Film/Shazam2019'' opens on a flashback to young Thaddeus Sivana in 1974 traveling to the family's cabin in his father's Cadillac, which was a 1980 model at the earliest.



* ''Film/{{Vice|2018}}'': In the 1970s, Donald Rumsfeld makes a poker analogy about missing his flush draw while everyone else thinks that he's got pocket kings. This is a Texas Hold'em reference, which did not become mainstream until the poker craze of the 2000s. In the 1970s, draw poker variants were still the standard form of poker.



* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'':
** Cyanide Pills were first used during World War II, not World War I.
** When the party lands in Belgium, one can see a river boat named "Music/EdithPiaf". The singer was three years old in 1918, and thus not a celebrity at that time.



* ''C. a k. polní maršálek'' (Imperial and Royal Field Marshal): This 1930 Czechoslovak comedy is set in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, which ended in 1918. However, the appearance of especially the female characters reflects contemporary fashion still under 1920s influence, (bobbed hair, short skirts, etc.), styles which are ''very'' different from the standard look in the days of old Austria. At least the uniforms of the Austro-Hungarian Army are pretty faithfully recreated.
* ''Film/HarryPotter'': The films clearly reflect their 2000s production years, in spite of being set in the 1990s (the gravestones of Tom Riddle Sr. and Harry's parents indicate this), as the books are.
** The sixth movie features the destruction of London's Millennium Bridge, which was completed in 2000.
** The fifth movie, when Harry is taking Dudley home, clearly shows the car numberplate "MA 06 KBH" in the background, and the "06" means it's part of the February 2006 issue ("56" would have meant August 2006). A little later, flying to his trial at the Ministry of Magic, Harry passes a completed Canary Wharf development (in the book's year of 1995), and the London Eye (not erected until autumn 1999). Oyster Cards (2003) also featured briefly. According to which fans you believe, these are either glaring anachronisms which detract from the film, or evidence that the film has been updated to our time.
** The movies are also filled with noughties fashion since 2004, or what the characters wear when dressed as Muggles -- it's not glaring, and hard to describe, but an obvious example would be the wide-horizontal-stripes jumpers that Hermione and Ron kept wearing in the sixth one: hot at the time of filming, not really around in the nineties.
*** Watching ''Goblet of Fire'' creates a weird sort of nostalgic dissonance for those who grew up reading both the books and seeing the films in theaters. The entire male student cast has "emo boy band" style shaggy haircuts, which were very in vogue in 2005 when the film was released, but nothing at all like the hairstyles teenage boys would have worn in 1994, when the film is set. These haircuts are largely absent from the next film, as they would have, strangely, looked ''dated'' in 2007, despite the film being set in 1995, but the hair styles still aren't 90's hairstyles.
*** Lavender Brown also wears 2000s clothing, seeing how not only the movies but the books as well take place in the '90s.
* ''Film/{{Vice|2018}}'': In the 1970s, Donald Rumsfeld makes a poker analogy about missing his flush draw while everyone else thinks that he's got pocket kings. This is a Texas Hold'em reference, which did not become mainstream until the poker craze of the 2000s. In the 1970s, draw poker variants were still the standard form of poker.
* ''Film/Shazam2019'' opens on a flashback to young Thaddeus Sivana in 1974 traveling to the family's cabin in his father's Cadillac, which was a 1980 model at the earliest.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'':
** Cyanide Pills were first used during World War II, not World War I.
** When the party lands in Belgium, one can see a river boat named "Music/EdithPiaf". The singer was three years old in 1918, and thus not a celebrity at that time.

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