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Sun Nov 22
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04:09 PM
NO IDEAS + GREED = YARM
i don't watch remakes !!!
04:08 PM
If they remake any 80s movies, they should remake this one. I'm totally serious.
03:50 PM
Seriously though, while I'm no fan of the autotune, I've got no problem with today's country sounding more pop-y and the hip hop sounding more trip hop. Much more tolerable.
03:49 PM
Is there something "special" about it? I think so. It is the beginning of the "electronic" generation. One thing I love about listening to music from that era (the synth stuff, like depeche mode, my favorite band) is how modern it sounds... it really hasn't dated all that much. Dance/synth music is pretty much the same now as it was back then, it's just easier for more people to make. The actual beat, the rhythms that are used, seem to be inherent to the technology itself, and not the era they were first discovered. Sort of like Jazz... it's always jazz but its always "current". Meaning, that when I hear it I couldn't really tell you what decade it came from (but I am not really a jazz completist--I am an 80s music completist though). That's my take at least.
As far as the 80s revival in general, all the people who grew up in that era are now the ones writing the shows and creating the content, and they're resourcing their childhoods. But yeah, I think the quality actually was better back then.
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03:47 PM
Funny enough, I like Mad Men. But that was the *early* 60s.
04:00 PM
Things like V or auto-tune want to take themes relevant in the 80's and say, this is what is happening right now. And a lot of people who don't even remember the 80's are buying into that.
04:05 PM
Before "Reboot" the usual term was "Re-imagining," and there were a lot of failed re-imaginings (PLanet Of the Apes stands out). I don't know if it's anything new.
04:21 PM
And if it convinces you any, new female Starbuck is more of a man then I could ever hope to be.
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03:13 PM
Ive had this conversation with so many people around the 30-35 age range. Many who have kids. Its very simple, back in the 80's we had imagination. We had the A-Team, Street Hawk, Airwolf, loads of cool 80's cartoons like Thundercats and Mysterious citys of gold, we had cool films that had just broke the mold with CGI...but they also had heart and a half descent script!!
I would like to think that this era had some real breakthrough imaginative stuff!! Most people who work on computer games, or some of the younger directors all grew up with this kind of influence. It really opened my mind and I went on to study design and film. It didnt work out that way for me....but i'll never forget what pushed me to follow my gut.
If you take at least 80% of cartoons and toys from this era right now. They are complete bollocks. Faceless dolls and weird tripy shit. Im talking about funky crap like 'In the night garden' or 'Barney'. This stuff is just brain freeze for kids. Sit them in front of the TV and watch them loose braincells day in and day out! The 80's generation had new and cool stuff to excite the mind. We thrived off this and then went away from the TV and did stuff that pushed or imaginations further.
Kids TV today is crap. But if you look at something like 'Ben 10' (a show not to far from an 80's cartoon), it does extremly well in its viewing figures and its toy range! Why?? because kids want brain stimulation..not the fuckin Teletubbies going 'Oh oh'!!!
I say the 80's rocked fuckin socks. Too much love?? Nah.......I want more love bestowed on this era than a Roman orgy!!!!
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02:50 PM
Take a look at what our parents had to deal with. Marilyn Monroe and James Dean electronic posters, I Love Lucy bags, Vegas impersonators, PBS holding on to the idea that anyone wants to hear anything new from Herman's Hermits or The Righteous Brothers. We at least have the goddamned common courtesy to watch one hit wonders where they belong... in rehab.
And the things that were remade were at best fuzzy carbon copies of the original with new actors and a bigger screen a'la the Flintstones or Addams Family movies (did love the
Addams ones though) but more often than not comedic "fuck you's" to the original like I Spy or Starsky and Hutch.
While not original at least this new generation says... wait, there was something about this that was good, worthwhile and we liked if we can look past the era and production values. They didn't look at the tin can suits and haircuts of the original BSG and say man, let's make that a comedy. No, they said this is about a genocide and exodus... let's look at that.
So after brilliant new things like "Kings" get canned, if my choice is between awful shit like Cougar Town, or decent remakes of 80s shows... I'll take the remake.
02:49 PM
Nostalgia for '80s properties and products has been high since the turn of the century -- not coincidentally, the same length of time since people who grew up in the '80s started to become adults and got the coinciding increase in income that often comes along with that. And this effect wasn't just present in the '70s and now again in the '00s. '70s nostalgia was rampant throughout the '90s, and I definitely recall a lot of '60s-themed dances and parties organized by young adult teachers and kid-focused volunteers when I was an older kid/teen in the '80s.
Bottom line is, if you want a sound investment, start buying up all the vintage -- and still relatively cheap -- Mighty Morphing Power Rangers toys, etc. you can get your hands on. Because the children of the '90s are going to start getting a lot more disposable income any day now. Economy willing. And no, I won't be covering any bets if '90s kids become the first generation since at least the '70s to not try to bring their childhoods with them.
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02:46 PM
It just seems to me that people this age are the people that drive the entertainment industry - especially the visual ones of TV and movies. What are they supposed to be nostalgic for? Things 5 or 10 years ago are to recent and they don't rememeber the 1950's real well.
02:59 PM
I'm not saying that T-Pain is an anthropologist, but the fact that music that so de-emphasizes the human is really, really popular in both time periods is something curious and worth exploring, I think.
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02:43 PM
No Buckaroo Bonzai sequel means we don't love the 80s enough. The comics don't count.
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02:27 PM
That's why I loved the 80's.
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[www.youtube.com]
What's not to love?
02:21 PM
If we are supposed to be reliving the 80s then where's "Misfits of Science"?
02:30 PM
11/20/09