Popular Post Designer1 Posted May 5, 2016 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted May 5, 2016 10 minutes ago, Seat68 said: as for films personally it wasnt a good decade. Off the top of my head: Blade Runner, The Thing, Escape from New York, Die Hard, Aliens, Hardware, Platoon, Raging Bull, Blue Velvet, Shining, King of Comedy, Blood Simple, Near Dark, Do the Right Thing, Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer, After Hours, Spinal Tap, Friday the 13th, Full Metal Jacket, Scarface, The Hitcher, The Verdict, They Live, American Werewolf, Hannah and her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors. I'm sure there are many more. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 2 minutes ago, Designer1 said: Off the top of my head: Blade Runner, The Thing, Escape from New York, Die Hard, Aliens, Hardware, Platoon, Raging Bull, Blue Velvet, Shining, King of Comedy, Blood Simple, Near Dark, Do the Right Thing, Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer, After Hours, Spinal Tap, Friday the 13th, Full Metal Jacket, Scarface, The Hitcher, The Verdict, They Live, American Werewolf, Hannah and her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors. I'm sure there are many more. Terminator and RoboCop! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 You can't moan about house prices in the 80s "But.. INFLATION!!! " **** your inflation, with your 0% deposits. Try £90,000 for a 1965 built, ex-council house which had to be ripped apart, every room redecorated, not live in the bastard for 6 months first time houses. At least your £30,000 houses are now worth at least £100,000. Let the baby boomers die! (not really, my mama/papa are nearly babyboomers) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 That I've only just now discovered Google Drive and its many, many pretty serif fonts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 So hold on, are you saying that I shouldn't be pissed off with 80's nostalgia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 16 minutes ago, Designer1 said: Off the top of my head: Blade Runner, The Thing, Escape from New York, Die Hard, Aliens, Hardware, Platoon, Raging Bull, Blue Velvet, Shining, King of Comedy, Blood Simple, Near Dark, Do the Right Thing, Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer, After Hours, Spinal Tap, Friday the 13th, Full Metal Jacket, Scarface, The Hitcher, The Verdict, They Live, American Werewolf, Hannah and her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors. I'm sure there are many more. I know, but a lot of them arent mainstream, evil dead, purple rain, great great films, Also I stress its 80's nostalgia and the rose coloured specs that people view the decade in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 5, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2016 30 minutes ago, Designer1 said: Off the top of my head: Blade Runner, The Thing, Escape from New York, Die Hard, Aliens, Hardware, Platoon, Raging Bull, Blue Velvet, Shining, King of Comedy, Blood Simple, Near Dark, Do the Right Thing, Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer, After Hours, Spinal Tap, Friday the 13th, Full Metal Jacket, Scarface, The Hitcher, The Verdict, They Live, American Werewolf, Hannah and her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors. I'm sure there are many more. While I've nothing against that lot, none would rate among my favourites, except perhaps Blade Runner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 To be fair, the double dream sequence in American Werewolf was by a country mile the most scary thing I'd ever seen. It was a proper state of the art movie at the time and one of very few I've got on DVD. But to chime in with Mooney's point earlier about not having great film memory, I was going to add 'The French Connection' to the list as it's one of my absolute all time faves. Turns out on a quick google, it's 1971. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted May 5, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2016 16 minutes ago, mjmooney said: While I've nothing against that lot, none would rate among my favourites, except perhaps Blade Runner. That's fair enough, but the point I was trying to make was that it wasn't a bad decade for films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 5, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2016 7 minutes ago, Designer1 said: That's fair enough, but the point I was trying to make was that it wasn't a bad decade for films. Oh, for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Has any decade ever been bad for films? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seat68 Posted May 5, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted May 5, 2016 The 2010's seem obsessed with superhero films, I have been hoping that bubble would burst. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HanoiVillan Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 People who talk about decades, as if the arbitrary drawing of lines between a year ending in a 9 and a year ending in a 0 is in any way reflective of anything at all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted May 5, 2016 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted May 5, 2016 2 hours ago, Phumfeinz said: Has any decade ever been bad for films? The 1520s wasn't much cop. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 5, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2016 3 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: People who talk about decades, as if the arbitrary drawing of lines between a year ending in a 9 and a year ending in a 0 is in any way reflective of anything at all. Which is why I normally say that my favourite decade for music was 1963-1972. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted May 5, 2016 Moderator Share Posted May 5, 2016 7 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Which is why I normally say that my favourite decade for music was 1963-1972. If you had to pick a 0-9 decade would you go 60s or 70s? I presume 60s based on the span above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 5, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2016 (edited) 55 minutes ago, BOF said: If you had to pick a 0-9 decade would you go 60s or 70s? I presume 60s based on the span above. Yep, 60s every time. The first few years (pre-Beatles) were a bit shit, and I have a soft spot for 71-72, but if I have to pick 0-9 that would be the one. Edited May 5, 2016 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tonyh29 Posted May 5, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted May 5, 2016 31 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Yep, 60s every time. The first few years (pre-Beatles) were a bit shit, and I have a soft spot for 71-72, but if I have to pick 0-9 that would be the one. would you have been in your teens around that time ? Is that part of the appeal , I like the 60's and it's music but 80's wins it for me every time .. my teenage years when you got to discover music for yourself , first record I bought for myself having gone to HMV ( rather than Woolworths with the parents type of thing ) was Living on the Ceiling by Blancmange .... Yeah we had some shit like Stock Atkin and Watermelon , but we had some great music as well , I often argue the reason modern music is shit is because kids aren't angry enough , the 80's we had riots on the streets , strikes , High Unemployment ,and Thatcher .. nowadays angst is when your PlayStation doesn't keep your high score or someone de-friends you on Facebook I can Imagine had Morrissey been writing music now we'd have got I was happy in the lack of haze of a Vapour Cigarette But heaven knows I'm quite mellow now I was looking for a job, and then Daddy gave me a job And heaven knows I'm like totally stressed now 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 5, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2016 (edited) Yep. If I narrowed my favourite musical era down still further, it would be 67-73. From the point where pop became rock (blues, psychedelia, early metal, prog) to the point where it had got stale and glam crap was taking over. In 67 I turned 13, in 73, 19. So yeah, teenage years exactly. Coincidence? Probably not. Edited May 5, 2016 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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