Current Events > Why do 80's movies seem so much better than today's movies?

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I'd rather watch 80's movies over most of today's movies.
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nostalgia glasses
most of them were fucking terrible
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Nah, it's not nostalgia glasses.
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Being less reliant on stuff like CGI is a big benefit. Anything with practical effects is gonna get my interest way before stuff with cgi. Nothing with computer effects will ever touch movies like Alien or The Thing.

Also, personally I feel like in the 80s they knew how to take stuff less serious and have more fun. Look at all the action movies of the time. Sure there a fair amount of shitty ones, but at least with those shitty ones you could still have a good time.
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toadfan64 posted...

Being less reliant on stuff like CGI is a big benefit. Anything with practical effects is gonna get my interest way before stuff with cgi. Nothing with computer effects will ever touch movies like Alien or The Thing.

Also, personally I feel like in the 80s they knew how to take stuff less serious and have more fun. Look at all the action movies of the time. Sure there a fair amount of shitty ones, but at least with those shitty ones you could still have a good time.

Couldn't agree more
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Because the 80's movies you're exposed to have been curated.
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The bad 80s movies are forgotten. I also think until movies used to have less studio meddling and the director had more creative control rather than producing by committee like happens now.
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Favorite movies from the 80's?
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sabin017 posted...

Because the 80's selections you're exposed to have been curated.

I've watched some very odd 80's films.
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Nostalgia mainly
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sabin017 posted...

Because the 80's movies you're exposed to have been curated.

As someone who has watched many bad films from both decades, let me tell you the shitty 80s ones at least have some charm to them.
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Mareen posted...

Favorite movies from the 80's?

Can't Buy Me Love
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Tuff Turf
Fraternity Vacation
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Child's Play
A Nightmare on Elm St
Halloween II

I have too many favorites to list
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Mr_Karate_II posted...

Mareen posted...

Favorite movies from the 80's?

Can't Buy Me Love
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Tuff Turf
Fraternity Vacation
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Child's Play
A Nightmare on Elm St
Halloween II

I have too many favorites to list

You have good taste!
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Killer Klowns is bad at times but it's funny too.
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Mr_Karate_II posted...

Mareen posted...

Favorite movies from the 80's?

Can't Buy Me Love
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Tuff Turf
Fraternity Vacation
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Child's Play
A Nightmare on Elm St
Halloween II

I have too many favorites to list

Good list.
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Mr_Karate_II posted...

Killer Klowns is bad at times but it's funny too.

Yeah but it is the good bad. Just like Translvania Twist.
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Maybe i dig 80's movies because i watched a lot of them growing up?
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Mareen posted...

Favorite movies from the 80's?

Some of my favs are

The Shining
Blade Runner
Back to the Future
Full Metal Jacket
Die Hard
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Nausica of the Valley of the Wind
Southern Comfort
Day of the Dead
Evil Dead II
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I'm currently watching "Girls Just Want To Have Fun".

I've watched it so many times but i never get tired of it.
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Talking about practical effects, watched the blob about a month ago, that's some quality right there and a remake done right.

I was a kid back then so I enjoyed alot of what the decade had. Lost boys is still a top 5 vampire movie, as is fright night. I think the horror genre was the best it had been since the golden age of monster movies in the 50s. Horror movies today don't stack up.
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Movies today could learn a lot about practical effects.
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To me, cgi just kills modern movies. There's nothing impressive anymore about films. Honest to god I think Independence Day in 1996 was the last film where the special effects really amazed me. There's (now dated) cgi in there sure but so much was still miniatures and models. And it's still visually head and shoulders above stuff like Infinity War.

It's all same-y now. They can render armies fighting, planets exploding, bring dead actors back to life, etc. And none of it is engaging. None of it is special. Too many films rely on it and it always, always looks obvious. To the point that it's just boring.
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80s movies seem better than modern movies because modern movies ARE better than modern movies.

I think modern films are reasonably good, and we're already had some classics this decade*, but the 80s had plenty of really good films*. You're not imagining things, TC. Nor is it rose-tinted spectacles, because I was born too late to really see 80s films at the time, and I suspect you were as well. 80s films are better than mdoern films.

*Birdman, Hanna

**TBC, Indiana Jones 2 and 3, Videodrome, Prince of Darkness, etc.

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Look at the film alot of people talk about around this time of year.
Die Hard, the thing I tell people that do say "Its not a christmas movie"/
Yea, its sorta a joke that its a christmas movie but thats because people love the movie and want that reason to have to watch it at least once a year and since it takes place around christmas and has christmas stuff in it, it is a christmas movie, people love John McClane going around trying to foil Hans Gruber.

Last die hard I saw was live free or die hard and god I just watched a clip, its like a bad parody, and he drives a car, leaves it but knows its going to shoot up and go into a plane.
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MeIon Bread posted...

Indiana Jones 2 and 3

woah woah woah now, Indiana Jones 1 and 3 are the good ones. 2 is totally meh.
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Sphyx posted...

nostalgia glasses
most of them were fucking terrible

If it was nostalgia then we wouldnt keep remaking them and reusing the storylines.
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yeah, i prefer older movies.

also fuck this sound

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KILBOTz posted...

MeIon Bread posted...

Indiana Jones 2 and 3

woah woah woah now, Indiana Jones 1 and 3 are the good ones. 2 is totally meh.

Nah. Temple of Doom is great. The monkey brains scene is worth the price of admission alone.
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also the over reliance on orange & blue makes me kinda sick.
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They actually went places to film instead of 95% of them being in front of a green screen.
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Because it's all been done before. Even though we have better technology now the ideas were still fresh back then. Now 90% of the crap coming out these days is a reboot, remake, sequel or prequel.
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Mr_Karate_II posted...

I'm currently watching "Girls Just Want To Have Fun".

I've watched it so many times but i never get tired of it.

The Tony Danza movie? Geez. Set your bar higher people. Or wait, is that the movie with the sex in the city chick? Either way though, favorite movie?
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BeyondWalls posted...

If it was nostalgia then we wouldnt keep remaking them and reusing the storylines.

Sure we would. And do.
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