My family and I are thrilled.
Posted on 03/23/2007 2:55:00 PM PDT by qam1
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Ping me when "Mr. Belvedere: The Motion Picture" is released.
I won't consider the 80's to have returned until I hear the roar of electric guitars.
My family and I are thrilled.
I have cousins back home who still look like that!
Kyrie eleison! No! '80's metal bands were the nadir of rock-and-roll. Until Metallica revived the idiom, heavy metal was dead as an art-form. But fortunately the '80's weren't about youth-culture. They were the only decade since the '40's that weren't: the '80's were about imitating Old Money. Hence the revival of classic-styled clothing, the penchant the general populace developed for well-engineered automobiles, and the sudden general availability of *real* gourmet food and genuinely good restaraunts throughout the US (though it took until about 2 years ago for arugula to be readily available in Kansas).
TMMT is still cute..
If they green-light this, it better have William effin' SHATNER -- corset, toupee and all -- sliding across cruiser hoods. Oh, and Adrian Zmed. I'd pay CASH MONEY to see that cheese-fest.
I pity the fool who makes B.A. Baracus into a whoremonger.
The problem is the remake of these shows into movies that stink.
The 80's were a great decade.
I've been kicked out of Gen-X? When did that happen? I went to all the meetings.
Go to Yahoo and watch the trailers for the "Transformers"...it's actually pretty good.
Too bad Jonathan Frakes didn't try to be serious when he made "The Fabulous Thunderbirds" and turned it into a waste of celluloid ala "Spy Kids".
Actually, they have just ran out of original material to write about and won't make movies from anything intellectual because they fear the morons that go to movies will snooze.
I hear they are finally going to make "Atlas Shrugged" and I'm totally convinced they'll ruin it.
I'm no doubt in the minority but the 80s get slagged off as the decade of techno-pop just as the 70s are equated with disco or c***-rock. Both are oversimplistic and just plain wrong.
Musically, the 80s gave us plenty other than what aired on MTV. A partial list: REM, U2, the Paisley Underground (Plimsouls, the Three O'Clock, the Bangles - yes the Bangles), cowpunk and the roots of Alternative Country aka No Depression, hardcore punk, New Order, the Stone Roses, Madchester, the Jesus & Mary Chain, Echo & the Bunnymen. I could go on and on but the point is made.
Nostalgia is great because it allows the good, or occasionally the kitchy, to shine through while the bad is all forgotten. Perhaps I'm nostalgic about the 80s and too dismissive of the bad parts culturally but I'll take the music any day. And if I'm greedy I throw in 1979 so I can also have the Jam, the Pretenders and Elvis Costello.
Plus of course GWAR. The greatest show I've ever seen.
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