Interesting, the same years as my first long term relationship.
1982: best year EVER
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Let's just all agree that growing up on '80s movies was fuckin' awesome.
Yep
. There were a lot of good movies that came out during that decade.Let's just all agree that growing up on '80s movies was fuckin' awesome.
TOTALLY!!!!
I turned 10 in 1980 and 20 in 1990.
The eighties were MY teen years and I LOVE all of those movies SO much!!!!
The 80's rock!
Tron was poor and E.T. was worse. Much worse.
I went to very few.
The mid-1970s to the mid-1980s saw the creation of the modern blockbuster. It was an approach that got more packaged and formulaic from the mid-1980s onward, although there were of course still some great movies that rose above formula or at least executed it very well.
Since the thread went not off-topic, but grew to encompass a greater range of years and genres, I feel at ease to mention the big impact of Ginger Lynn, Traci Lords and her friends on the collective psyche.
^^^
As a youngster I wasn't aware of any of that at the time. Nudity in Hollywood films was as saucy as it got for me, and I'm grateful for that. It must be weird going through adolescence in the age of internet porn.
As a youngster I wasn't aware of any of that at the time. Nudity in Hollywood films was as saucy as it got for me, and I'm grateful for that. It must be weird going through adolescence in the age of internet porn.
TerraNovan
Lieutenant Commander
I think there was two waves of great sci fi, that came about.
The first was post star wars, the second was post jurassic park.
There was a time between 79 to 87 that was just unbeatable.
Apocalypse now, Alien, Aliens, terminator, platoon, top gun, wraith of khan,(Star trek 1, super underrated), full metal jacket, Blade runner, Predators, Pretty much all make it to my favorite films of all time.
96-98 was another golden era, however it failed to gain traction.
Sphere, Starship troopers, Spawn, Blade, The matrix(before the sequals sucked the life out of it), The fifth Element, First contact, Independance day, , The Xfiles, Gattaca,
The first was post star wars, the second was post jurassic park.
There was a time between 79 to 87 that was just unbeatable.
Apocalypse now, Alien, Aliens, terminator, platoon, top gun, wraith of khan,(Star trek 1, super underrated), full metal jacket, Blade runner, Predators, Pretty much all make it to my favorite films of all time.
96-98 was another golden era, however it failed to gain traction.
Sphere, Starship troopers, Spawn, Blade, The matrix(before the sequals sucked the life out of it), The fifth Element, First contact, Independance day, , The Xfiles, Gattaca,
The 80's were awesome. I was born in 1982, so a lot of the movies that were released in cinema during the 80's, were on tv a lot when I was growing up in those real formative starting when you're almost 10 and all the way through your teenage years. So I saw all those great movies so many times.
I don't actually think it was the maturing of the blockbuster formula, per se, but the advent of the PG-13 rating in 1984. PG-13 homogenized blockbusters to sell to teens to the point that there are hardly any movies aimed at adults, anymore. No producer and directors want their movies to be rated R because those movies don't make money. . .movies like Conan, The Terminator, The Hidden and Alien don't really get made today, because they were not made 13-year olds. . .
~FS
not to mention the trend of pg-13 "horror" films like, like... uh that one with kristen bell that I can't be bothered to look up. And a few other ones like that as well, supernatural suspense/horror with little scariness.
As for r-rated blockbusters there's the Matrix trilogy, but those aren't really "R" movies, I've no idea why they got slapped with it.
