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Offline Matthew

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Re: Why so much 80s 90s nostalgia
« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2025, 10:00:29 PM »
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    It's astonishing to see the difference in culture and mentality in those movies. I watched an 80s Sylvester Stallone movie a while back, called Cobra, in which Stallone is a highly effective police man. In the beginning of the movie, a criminal starts shooting up a supermarket. He takes a lot of customers hostage at gunpoint, murdering several. Stallone is called in. He goes in and shoots the guy dead. On his way out, an obnoxious liberal reporter gets in his face and asks why Stallone didn't give the criminal his civil rights and bring him to trial (it wasn't possible in the scenario, anyway, for many obvious reasons). Instead of bothering to engage, Stallone grabs the liberal by the back of the neck and shoves his face into the torso of the corpse of one of the victims that is being wheeled past at the moment, and says something like, "Why don't you tell me what happened to this guy's civil rights?" And since Stallone is the hero, this behavior is presented as something positive.

    This is exactly what I'm talking about.

    In fact, this kind of hero character is only featured in movies/shows today to LAUGH AT HIM, to mock, for the sake of irony.
    Simpsons for example made fun of action heroes like this. "Chaotic good" guys, getting their hands dirty, with a touch of vigilantism and/or thirst for justice.
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    Re: Why so much 80s 90s nostalgia
    « Reply #16 on: February 28, 2025, 10:02:09 PM »
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  • The answer is simple really, but it might take some unpacking.

    1. Woke is basically just deconstructing (tearing apart) everything -- every culture, every institution, every norm, every rule.

    2. The 80s were 40 years ago, and thus it was when things hadn't been "blown apart" yet.

    So yeah -- that's the appeal of 80's and 90's films in a nutshell. Yes, the poison was there. The foundations were undermined. But you could still enjoy a relatively normal life "on the surface" -- the earthquake hadn't come yet to destroy the whole city, as it were.
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    Re: Why so much 80s 90s nostalgia
    « Reply #17 on: March 01, 2025, 03:52:02 AM »
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    One size 2XL could be made from piecing all three suits together. Think how ‘70’s it would look in patchwork with combined colors and alternating stripe directions!  Lent gives me plenty of time to sew and they’d be completed and delivered by Easter. 
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