My family and I are thrilled.
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I won't consider the 80's to have returned until I hear the roar of electric guitars.
My family and I are thrilled.
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.
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".
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.
"a new outing for pint-sized TV investigator Nancy Drew"
What does Nancy Drew have to do with the '80s? She was born in the '30s, and it wasn't as if there were any big fad in the '80s for her.
Besides, she's not "pint-sized". Whatever.
As for the '80s, I was never and am still not embarrassed by them.
Look, British dumbass, they were action figures. Also acceptable: robots (in disguise, of course).
Why, oh why, was the cultural pinnacle, "Revenge of the Nerds", not even mentioned? I've been let down.
One thing that really bugs me with all of the retro 80's stuff is that there is one significant group that's always left out. The hard core loadie/hoods - the guys with long hair (not gay LA hairspray big hair) with black jeans, a slayer or Iron Maiden t-shirt and a leather or jean jacket with slayer, Metallica, Maiden, AC/DC, WASP, OZZY, Judas Priest, Death, Megadeth, Anthrax, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd patches.
They just lump that in with the hariband fags who these guys totally despised.
Saw that TMNT trailer last week ... my wife didn't believe it until she saw it herself. The revenge of the 80s!
When I started grad school this fall, I was shocked to see all the freshmen girls dressed like early Madonna or the Bangles. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that teens today are too young to remember the 80s the first time.
As an older Gen Yer (1981), I have enough respect for the 80's to remember my leg warmers and butterfly bangs warmly, but to not return to them. Now, they need to do a remake of the Wuzzles.