Mad Men made the 60's look amazing.
Paging Matt Weiner. We need a new series focused on the 80's.
Paging Matt Weiner. We need a new series focused on the 80's.
Quote: (06-03-2015 03:15 AM)Veloce Wrote:
Not sure what the point is, other than some lighthearted nostalgia.
Are we supposed to be lamenting something here?
Quote: (06-03-2015 11:04 AM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:
Quote: (06-03-2015 03:15 AM)Veloce Wrote:
Not sure what the point is, other than some lighthearted nostalgia.
Are we supposed to be lamenting something here?
Having looked at the pictures and remembering a lot of American movies as a child I can without a doubt tell that those movies belonged to that culture.
Today Hollywood movies do little to resemble American culture in total apart from self-absorption and mocking men.
Quote: (06-03-2015 07:51 AM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (06-03-2015 07:32 AM)MikeS Wrote:
I checked out the link and aside from outdated products and people with hair and clothes from my school years, the malls look more or less like 2015 malls. More hot girls in the malls now (though he probably just didn't aim his camera as much at them as some would have). Doesn't spark much nostalgia in me.
But I'm in Europe so maybe things are different here.
Quote: (06-03-2015 07:23 AM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
I've posted this before, but to watch a TV show from the 1980's is like traveling time. I remember watching these same shows as a kid. Now as a red pill male they are a huge slap in the face.
The women across all the shows are thin, pretty, feminine, dress feminine, support the male characters, and are overall happy and proud to be a mom/wife.
Contrast that with the crap on TV today.
TV and movies are another matter. 80s movies or TV shows can on occasion make me a bit nostalgic.
The nostalgic part of it is true. But it is more than that as well...
I was watching Cheers a few months back. The episode I was watching just happened to also be from 1989. And it wasn't the show or content, it was the people I noticed...
#1) The guys were for the most part wearing suits and looking good.
#2) The women were all dressed femininely. I don't remember seeing a pair of dress pants even. All skirts, with stockings and heels. Most in business suits as well.
And I am talking about the extras in the back ground. Obviously this was normal in those days, at least in a large city, or the audience would question why everyone was dressed so nicely and not identify with the show.
Add to it, the behavior of the female characters was very soft and feminine. Their strengths were shown in a female way, not in a masculine way of fighting or kicking ass. But in being persuasive and sweet.
My first thought was, man, I want to go to a place like that. That is what I am missing in life. Then I realized that place doesn't exist today. This was 25+ years ago, and those days are just gone.
Quote: (06-03-2015 09:56 AM)Mr. Wolf Wrote:
Now everyone is a zombie staring at their phone, and completely awkward and socially avoidant.
Quote: (06-03-2015 05:05 AM)getdownonit Wrote:
The fitness and hair are great, but none of these women are wearing feminine attire.
Quote: (06-03-2015 04:10 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:
"Cheers" was being re-run on MeTV om weeknights for a while. If you look at their lineup now, it's no longer there.
One reason for that is that on that page I linked, people wrote in to the network complaining that the show "encouraged drinking and driving" since the characters had to drive home from the bar. They said the network was being irresponsible running such a show in 2014.
I argued with these people in the comments section, but they could not be persuaded. I'd forgotten about the "alcohol is evil" crowd, but they still exist, apparently.
Just when you think the SJW crowd is beyond idiotic, along comes the old Baby Boomer nanny state crowd to remind you they could be even stupider.
Quote: (06-03-2015 03:03 AM)Brian Shima Wrote:
Quote: (06-03-2015 04:53 PM)germanico Wrote:
I was a teenager throughout the 90s. What I most miss is the feeling of wonder everytime something new came up or you discovered something.
Quote: (06-03-2015 11:25 AM)kaotic Wrote:
Well there were LESS fat people, but still some fatties.
Goddamn the late 80's early 90's were just weird for hair and style.
Almost ALL the girls hairs were teased or looked like a crows nest, I saw a little The Cure Hair influenced styles also.
Where are the punkers hanging out at the mall ?
This isn't as nostalgic for me, reason being I was a kid in the 90's.
Quote: (06-03-2015 09:27 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:
Quote: (06-03-2015 04:53 PM)germanico Wrote:
I was a teenager throughout the 90s. What I most miss is the feeling of wonder everytime something new came up or you discovered something.
That instinct is still in you. You just have to actively and constantly seek new information out, and refine what you think you already know.
Think about what you don't know, or think you do know but have probably taken for granted, then start investigating.
It keeps my mind active and less mentally-lethargic than most of the people who surround me.
Quote: (06-03-2015 05:35 AM)The Beast1 Wrote:
Arcades were the most legit thing ever. I remember going to one at my mall up until the late 90s. There were two and sadly both ended up closing shop.
Nowadays arcades suck. The retro games were cooler.
Quote: (06-03-2015 09:34 AM)CodyB Wrote:
Quote: (06-03-2015 04:01 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
Look how thin people in their end 20s/30s were before the coporations decided to call normal food "organic" and put in more toxins than nutrients:
I don't think so.
In the 1980s, America was eating more fast food than it ever had. The nutritional content of food was secondary to gimmick factor. TV dinners and McDonalds had been around for a long time, but they became staples in the 1970s-80s.
Organic didn't exist, food was produced with little to no scrutiny from regulatory bodies, meat was injected with water to make it bigger, vegetables were sprayed to hell with pestecide and transfat went into many foods unchecked.
I grew up in Australia in the 1990s. This was essentially Australia's golden mall era and now it is yielding to online shopping and a return to High St. About fucking time. I personally don't lament the loss of this era as it destroyed small towns, old cinemas and small businesses everywhere. I'm glad to see them failing to fill shops now.
Quote: (06-03-2015 10:23 PM)beta_plus Wrote:
Quote: (06-03-2015 09:34 AM)CodyB Wrote:
Quote: (06-03-2015 04:01 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
Look how thin people in their end 20s/30s were before the coporations decided to call normal food "organic" and put in more toxins than nutrients:
I don't think so.
In the 1980s, America was eating more fast food than it ever had. The nutritional content of food was secondary to gimmick factor. TV dinners and McDonalds had been around for a long time, but they became staples in the 1970s-80s.
Organic didn't exist, food was produced with little to no scrutiny from regulatory bodies, meat was injected with water to make it bigger, vegetables were sprayed to hell with pestecide and transfat went into many foods unchecked.
I grew up in Australia in the 1990s. This was essentially Australia's golden mall era and now it is yielding to online shopping and a return to High St. About fucking time. I personally don't lament the loss of this era as it destroyed small towns, old cinemas and small businesses everywhere. I'm glad to see them failing to fill shops now.
If a guy is born and raised in the D.C. area, still lives there and either doesn't travel or travels very little, he is going to have a horrible, and frankly, incorrect view of what a woman even is and probably won't even believe that models and knockout women really do exist in real life.
The chicks were still somewhat thin then because it was the last gasp of American mothers cooking for their children.
I hit puberty around then and was struck by how fat and ugly the chicks were among me. Then again, I grew up in DC. Maybe the fattitude started in DC and then began to infect the rest of the USA.