16 Candles was released in 1984. That’s 34 years ago. You can’t come up with a more timely example to support your stupidity?
I understand your point but the movie is still shown on TV quite often.
It is a popular movie so that a large portion of readers will recognize the characters he mentions.
Some movie from this year is not going to be recognized nearly as well.
But on the other hand Hollyweird goes so far out of their way to be PC these days that they are a caricature of themselves.
“What’s happening, hot stuff?”
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