They stole at least two bits from the movie Parenthood alone: The whole retainer thing and the 'diarrhea' song.
shareIt's very much a ripoff of diary of a wimpy kid
shareI remember kids singing the diarrhea song when I was in elementary. If Parenthood used it, it was because kids were singing it.
shareI was a teen in the late '80s--those kids are dressed like the very early '80s. You'd think there would be production and costume designers in Hollywood who are my age. Same thing with Stranger Things, it doesn't accurately capture the look or "feel" to me. Also they kept playing Obsession by Animotion which was from '84. New Wave songs weren't often in rotation on the radio by '88. Also heard "A Town Called Malice" by The Jam which was from '82, and was a bit more obscure in the US. I don't remember hearing it on pop radio; you'd have to have heard it on a college station.
shareYeah, the movie seems more like a forced nostalgia lane, written by people who never lived in the 80's.
shareYou could start list of movies the lifted bits from:
Princess Bride
A Christmas Story
A parent/grand parent tells a child a story, therefore ripoff. This is how you people think.
shareThe Preincess Bride because in several spots the kid interrupts the story teller just like Savage did in the Princess Bride... A Christmas Story because the whole movie centers around the kid wanting a toy that the parents and don't want him to have... they just changed the it'll shoot your eye out to an anti-video game theme. But if you are too stupid to look past a narrator being in both well.. I guess you a complete idiot.
shareAdults tell a kid a story, kid interrupts, therefore ripoff!!!
You don't get to call other people idiots.
It was the same story device if your too stupid to understand that feel free to fuck yourself.. Oh, sorry that's probably the only thing you fuck as it is now isn't you ignorant cunt.
shareAND IT ALMOST WORKS...ALMOST.
shareI don't remember the little neurotic kid in Parenthood running around a mall to find his retainer before his dad could say he lost it. Could you refresh my memory?
shareYou're saying this movie ripped off a ton of movies? So it's pretty much the same as with the lame Shrek movies?
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