As a child of the 80's, I can honestly say the decade was a great time to be a kid, but it's over and done with.
This trend of setting everything in the 80's again is uninspired, unimaginative, and cheap. It basically panders to my generation's longing to recapture our childhood's, and the younger generations with a weird sentimentality boner for an era they never even experienced.
The 80's are over. Move on already.
Im surprised the 90s nostalgia bs hasnt started yet.
give it a few years until the 90s kids are the main ones making media
My main concern with the impending 90s nostalgia craze is that it will spawn a Matrix reboot. The Wachowskis have stepped back from making films and a Matrix without the Wachowskis is no Matrix of mine.
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Between the two, the 80s were so much more interesting.
I remember reading somewhere about that stuff... Thing is, people born in 1980 are now in their mid to late 30's. The people making things now were born in the 1980s. Maybe they're just stroking their own nostalgia boner.
Anyway, I don't mind it. It's more important to make a good movie and I think the time period is not always that big of a deal.
I am in full support with you sir as a person born in the 90s, who fucking loves the 80s. The past is the past stop thinking about and live in the present. The 80s was at one time a present but no longer, 2018 is the present live in that.
Finally someone agrees with me
I am impatiently waiting for the early 2000s nostalgia.
I disagree, but hey, have my upvote. This is unpopular based on what I've been seeing on TV, media, color palette and fashion trends.
It's the 80s babies chance to live their own version of the 'oldies.' It reminds me of when my mom used to blast the radio when "The Who" came on.
Besides, Pepsi had the best version of their logo in the 80s. That alone is worth the nostalgia trip. Also, Hot Tub Time Machine anyone? Fine. I'll sit back down.
Agreed. Everybody’s been losing their shit over Stranger Things, which recycles everything from the 80’s to appeal to that generation and the current one at every opportunity. The plot is so overused and fans are blinded by their rose-colored nostalgia glasses when it’s such an average show and a knock-off. Apparently thrift shopping is a trend as well, what the hell (and scrunchies, thanks, Emma Chamberlain). I’m seeing more “I was born in the wrong generation!” kids than ever before. Try going on any 80’s song or song with synth sound on YouTube, scroll down the comments, you’ll immediately see someone saying, “this sounds like it should be used in stranger things!!” damn, it is pretty annoying.
Well for people like me (2000s) who never got to experience the 80s it’s amazing. Good music, good times, good people.
Every decade has all of those.
There's nothing wrong with the 80s, but I agree they're starting to get played out
The problem is that 80s culture is so rich! It was a time in history where the output of culture unrivaled other great periods... but please hold your scabbards and renaissance daggers for a sec!!! Examine culture now:
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Pop music now is incredibly derivative (said so by Madonna herself)
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Movies are just recycled content (Marvel anyone?)
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Art is more about political cheerleading and less about aesthetics, MoMA, Whitney Museum, Tate Modern, etc. As of today they all suck, but please confirm! So, when you have a period of sterile cultural output, full of timid, unmotivated characters, its bound to happen that expression will seek a time where things brighter, more aggressive, and more full blooded. It seems that the 80s are a perfect vehicle for our current passions.
Marvel anyone?
Marvel just put out one of the greatest films of all time with Infinity War. I have never seen anything remotely like it in my life.
I dont want to sound like r/Gatekeeping but f you think Infinity War os one of the greatest films of all time then you do not know film.
"I dont want to sound like r/gatekeeping"
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I have not seen that one, so cannot pass judgement. But doesn't the billionth Marvel iteration bore you? Where is the New Marvel? Star Wars of our times? Our new mithology?
? Where is the New Marvel? Star Wars of our times? Our new mithology?
I would say it is the star wars of our times. Infinity war was an amazing film, and really makes you appreciate each movie that led up to it as a puzzle piece to a much greater whole tapestry. Almost all of the movies are competent and many enjoyable, but with infinity war there was finally this massive payoff. It was the empire strikes back of the marvel movies.
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Stranger things is a dumpster fire of a show.
Stranger Things is a mindless garbage tv show and has nothing to do with the 80s, just adding shit from the 80s doesn't make it 80s
how is taking place in the eighties "nothing to do with the 80s"
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Ratings don't mean shit, just like awards don't mean shit, quality isnt based upon how popular something is. Netflix is mainstream meaning little kids/adolescents/millennials with too much time on their hands who have netflix, but compare and contrast to shows that have existed before and its not even comparable, this show is a heavily recycled peice of trash.
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I know a plethora of shows better than Stranger Things that are based on the 80s so try again scrub
To be fair, star wars was also really successful and a lot of people think that was garbage. Just because something was successful doesn't mean everyone's gonna think it's amazing.
Also, stranger things isn't completely mindless but I definitely think it's overrated (though tbh the amount of hype it gets couldn't be fulfilled by anything)
When it comes to Star Wars, I'd say that many of the "haters" are actually fans of other parts of the franchise. It's when they try to determine which movies were worth watching that things get ugly.
Absolutely
I'm 22 and I don't mind it, I liked Ready Player One pretty well. I do admit that Stranger Things just feels like a knock off of a bunch of 80's movies though.
I think the appeal of certain decades, such as the 80s, has broader appeal to some people than you are giving credit to. Some people probably do circlejerk over it and hop on a bandwagon just because. But for some of us our reasons go beyond nostalgia.
I loved the 80s long before there was any sort of trend happening in media like there may be now. Most of my favourite films are 80s films and I love their soundtracks, the cars, technology (or lack thereof) and the overall aesthetic.
I think the movie Just Imagine is a pretty interesting - and bizarre - look at nostalgia in general.
It's a film about people in the 80's looking back fondly at the 30's... made in 1930! (The 80's are, of course, portrayed like a futuristic Metropolis-esque semi-dystopia.)
Edit: Oh, and it's a musical comedy.
