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Subject: Movies About the 80's That Don't Look Right
Just caught a couple of recently-made movies (late 90's to 2000-ish) that are supposed to take place in the early to mid-80's, that just look wrong!
I caught 200 Cigarettes on cable, a movie about New Year's Eve in the mid-80's, that was supposed to be so cool because of the 80's style and clothing. Well, the characters didn't look remotely 80's. Their hairstyles and clothing were very 90's, and the look was totally wrong. I felt like sending an e-mail to the director!
Another movie I just saw on TV last week, The Wedding Singer. They got it pretty much right, but it was too campy, like they tried too hard. Some of the characters were too "over-the-top" in their quest to look 80's. Same thing with That 80's Show. There was just too much 80's going on!
The movies made in the 80's didn't have to try hard, and it wasn't like they were making movies about the 80's, they were just making movies! Like Valley Girl, etc. The look and feel make me so nostalgic, because I lived in those clothes and with those hairstyles.
Am I making any sense at all!?!?
Subject: Re: Movies About the 80's That Don't Look Right
You make perfect sense.
No one in the 80's was walking around with the attitude of "Hey these are the 80's!" like these movies and TV shows make it out to be. The 80's were like every other decade, people just went about their business. Usually movies/TV shows about the 80's have the people all over dressed up, and really fake looking. They look like they are dressed up to go to an 80's club night in 2003. They don't dress or act the way people really did back then. I suspect they will be making the same type of fake movies about the 90's by the late 00's.
What we need is some accuracy and detail in these movies/TV shows. There have been plenty of great movies about the 70's done, like "Dazed and Confused" and "That 70's Show". The 60's had "The Wonder Years". Detail oriented movies and TV shows have been done, but it takes people willing to put in the work to make them. It's easier for Hollywood to be lazy and pretend like every girl was a Madonna wannabe and every guy was wearing Don Johnson clothes, and that every fad and fashion was going on every year at the same time.
Subject: Re: Movies About the 80's That Don't Look Right
I thought that Freaks and Geeks, even though it isn't a movie, did a pretty good job of getting eighties styles right. Wasn't it supposed to take place in the eighties? Or am I totally confused..I miss that show!
Subject: Re: Movies About the 80's That Don't Look Right
Wedding Singer may have been a bit over the top, but I LOVE that movie. I think it was meant to be making fun of itself.
Subject: Re: Movies About the 80's That Don't Look Right
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I thought that Freaks and Geeks, even though it isn't a movie, did a pretty good job of getting eighties styles right. Wasn't it supposed to take place in the eighties? Or am I totally confused..I miss that show!
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Good call!
Yes "Freaks and Geeks" was an 80's themed TV show. And a good one at that! I forgot about that one. The series was set in the early 1980's, like really early, 1980 I think. But it was the 80's, and it felt very real and detail oriented. You felt like the producers did their homework and put a lot of effort into it, and you got the sense you really were in the early 80's. It's a shame "Freaks and Geeks" only was on for 1 year before getting cancelled.
Subject: Re: Movies About the 80's That Don't Look Right
There was an HBO movie that came out last year called, "Hysterical Blindness" with Uma Thurman & Juliette Lewis that was set in the 80's & it was VERY authentic I thought. And if you can, rent this, it was a REALLY great movie. :)
Subject: Re: Movies About the 80's That Don't Look Right
I hope Hysterical Blindness does come to video. I heard it was pretty good. Freaks and Geeks was okay, but I don't think it was given a chance. It had the potential of being good like Wonder Years. Detroit Rock City was pretty good. Romy and Michelle's HS reunion was good too, but a little off on some stuff like when they went to their prom the clothes were off. Another "off on details" movie was Never been kissed. When was Drews character supposed to have graduated???????
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Another "off on details" movie was Never been kissed. When was Drews character supposed to have graduated???????
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I don't know, but my best friend wore the exact prom dress (from the flashback to her high school prom) in 1989 ;D I think she graduated in the early 90's.
Subject: Re: Movies About the 80's That Don't Look Right
^In real life Drew Barrymore was more of a 90's girl, she graduated high school in 1993. But when "Never Been Kissed" came out in 1999, she played a 25 year old that graduated high school in 1983. ??? That never made any sense. ???
It made even fewer sense that if she graduated in 1983, why did they play songs from 1987 on her flashback scenes? And how did she stay 25 when she should have been 34 or 35 at that time? There were huge gaps in logic in that film.
Subject: Re: Movies About the 80's That Don't Look Right
I haven't seen any of the shows that you mentioned, but I rented the "Rockstar" DVD and I must say I was disappointed: The movie presented a grosely exaggerated scene of loud, shallow and self destructive 80s rockers on a dead end course.
And at the end of the movie the "Rockstar" discovers that he really doesn't belong in the madness and becomes a hippy grungie.
It's all a metaphore. It's Hollywood's lame excuse as to why mainstream 80s Metal came to such an abrupt end in the early 90s. They inaccurately portray 80s hard rock as a hangover that the youth couldn't wait to be cured of. When in reality the big producers decided almost overnight to stonewall the new upcoming 80s style rockers once Nirvana came along. Even to this day many groups like Mellinium, Damned Nation, Hugo, Emerald Rain, Gary Hughes, Pink cream 69, and countless others are refused airplay on all the major stations (including MTV and VH1) in spite of the fact that it is groups like these have been taking Europe (especially Sweden)and Japan by storm since the late 90s.
There's plenty of room for all styles of music. Why do the big producers continue to ignore 80s Rock and treat it like a dead horse?
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American Psycho: the only thing that bothered me was the look of R. Witherspoon.
Other than that, the movie was excellent. Typical 80's greed and materialism. (and whacko serial killers!)
I loved the part about the business cards.
Subject: Re: Movies About the 80's That Don't Look Right
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I thought that Freaks and Geeks, even though it isn't a movie, did a pretty good job of getting eighties styles right. Wasn't it supposed to take place in the eighties? Or am I totally confused..I miss that show!
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::) ::) ::) ::)"Freaks and Geeks"took place in the late 70s,and they really did gt the looks right then.A lot better than "Happy days"!!!!!!!!!!I mean it took place in the 50s to 60s,and half the girls were wearing feathered hair.Also,a lot of sloppy 70s styl;e clothes,you couldn't always tell it was supposed to be a period show.Cheers!
Subject: Re: Movies About the 80's That Don't Look Right
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You make perfect sense.
No one in the 80's was walking around with the attitude of "Hey these are the 80's!" like these movies and TV shows make it out to be. The 80's were like every other decade, people just went about their business. Usually movies/TV shows about the 80's have the people all over dressed up, and really fake looking. They look like they are dressed up to go to an 80's club night in 2003. They don't dress or act the way people really did back then. I suspect they will be making the same type of fake movies about the 90's by the late 00's.
What we need is some accuracy and detail in these movies/TV shows. There have been plenty of great movies about the 70's done, like "Dazed and Confused" and "That 70's Show". The 60's had "The Wonder Years". Detail oriented movies and TV shows have been done, but it takes people willing to put in the work to make them.
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I frequently saw scattered '80's and '90's cars and trucks and other things on "The Wonder Years."
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It's easier for Hollywood to be lazy and pretend like every girl was a Madonna wannabe and every guy was wearing Don Johnson clothes, and that every fad and fashion was going on every year at the same time.
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I know what you mean. People should really do more research on nostalgic movies and TV shows. A few years ago when MTV had their "Keepin' It Real" spots that trashed all '90's videos and spoofed those early 1970's blaxploitation movies, the black hero drove around in a 1976 Cadillac Coupe that had pre-1972 New York license plates. Also the American Hi-Fi video "Flavor of the Week" was supposed to take place in 1986, but I saw cars being driven that no self-respecting '80's metalhead would dare have driven, including some that they never would've been able to afford, and others that didn't even exist yet.
Subject: Re: Movies About the 80's That Don't Look Right
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I haven't seen any of the shows that you mentioned, but I rented the "Rockstar" DVD and I must say I was disappointed: The movie presented a grosely exaggerated scene of loud, shallow and self destructive 80s rockers on a dead end course.
And at the end of the movie the "Rockstar" discovers that he really doesn't belong in the madness and becomes a hippy grungie.
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What annoyed me the most about Rockstar was that the story was inspired by the real life rags to riches story of Tim Owens, who joined Judas Priest after Rob Halford left the band -- except that actually happened in the mid-1990s! Then the producers changed the whole story and turned it into a metaphor for the 'death' of stadium rock at the beginning of the 90s, even though the band Steel Dragon was based on is still recording and touring to this day, while all the bands that supposedly killed them off have long since disappeared themselves.