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A 1986 movie placed in the 1970's was distracting?

posted 17 years ago by esboat1
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I was these kid's age in the 1970s. The music and the clothing were from that decade...halter tops, boob tubes, cut off shorts. I know the music from the 80s sucked, but kids that age are permanently marked by the decade of their teens, especially by the music, whether they liked it or not. I enjoyed the movie and I got the message. But I was so distracted by my memories of the 70's that I felt the movie was disingenuous to the 80's and therefore found it a little hard to take seriously. Anybody else in their mid 40's experience the same distraction?

[–] tjosephjr 12 years ago

Thank you!!!! I thought I was losing my mind. In the middle of watching it right now. I'm just going to pretend it's 1976 ;)

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[–] eeoulo 11 years ago

see I thought all the clothing was quite realistic. It was reminiscent of how areas really looked and not how they looked in movies or pop culture.

[–] cafm 9 years ago

Agree that the sensibility and aesthetic of the film was late 1970s. Surely the soundtrack gives it away, especially the moment when Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street gets a privileged diegetic play. The film actually reminded me a lot of my childhood in the 1970s - those hot languid summers when kids who spent all their time outside roughhousing it in the streets.

[–] NotForMeThanks 9 years ago

Just because a movie takes place in the 80s, doesn't mean that all the soundtrack songs are supposed to be from the 80s. The soundtrack is supposed to go with what is more impacting for the scenes. Also, not everyone followed trends. A lot of people in the 80s wore normal jeans and t-shirts.

To the poster that said the hot summers and rough housing in the streets reminded him of his 70s upbringing- I'm a 90s kid from Brooklyn and I also have those same memories. The 70s-90s were the time period where a lot of us were always outside hanging out in the streets with our friends. It didnt really start changing until after 9/11 and the Internet paradigm started.