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NakedElf wrote:The 60s and 70s had a bloody sucky war going on.

There are a few of those going on right now as well. Afghanistan, Congo, Darfur, Iraq...

well all the things we are nostalgic about those past decades tend to be coming back again, so the point is a bit moot, everything old is new again.

legostargalactica wrote:well all the things we are nostalgic about those past decades tend to be coming back again, so the point is a bit moot, everything old is new again.

I hope not. I hated my teenage years.

Pimples and morning wood are the new rage. Enjoy Puberty 2.0.

Aw, man, my voice is changing again just thinking about it.

Paul Escobar wrote:

NakedElf wrote:The 60s and 70s had a bloody sucky war going on.

There are a few of those going on right now as well. Afghanistan, Congo, Darfur, Iraq...

I believe I have tended to specify that the war going on involved people from the country where I live being involuntarily drafted into service. The war in Congo sucks, but as far as my life, I ain't *in* Congo, and I no one's been drafted into Iraq. Likewise all of my statements about the economy are only relevant to the US economy, etc.

K-Dawg wrote:

[AlmightyPyro] wrote:The only thing good about the 80's was me.

LIES!

You were the reason why the 80s were almost destroyed.

I thought no one else knew of that!
*Stuffs KDawg in a cookie jar and flees*

yeahduff wrote:I was talking to this guy the other day and the movie Cast Away came up. So the guy says, "That's back when movies were actually good."

This blew my goddamn mind. I mean, sure, there's plenty of crap out there, and yeah, he's a few years younger than me. But does America's youth really consider 2000 to be the zenith of American culture? Isn't it a little premature to be feeling nostalgia for the days Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt dominated movie screens across the country?

What the fuck?

I saw the Simpson movie a while ago and loved it... ah what I wouldn't give to be back a couple of months ago when movies where still good . Anyway Hollywood right now seem to be out of original ideas seeing as that they mostly make remakes and sequels, I wonder exactly how many old tv-series they're planning on digging up and making a movie out of. Mind you I shouldn't complain all that much in my folly I am looking forward towards the new Indiana Jones movie.

Anyway beside that I think this time is a rather nifty one to live in.

Thinking about it I realise that IMO the best times (ie times that have left us most preccious cultural values) were times that were most politically and socially turbulent.

I'm not sure that makes sense to me. What exactly was good about the WWII era?

NakedElf wrote:I'm not sure that makes sense to me. What exactly was good about the WWII era?

Hitler losing.

corgan_dane wrote:

NakedElf wrote:I'm not sure that makes sense to me. What exactly was good about the WWII era?

Hitler losing.

I'll drink to that.

Hitler won't.




Being dead and all...

One distinct moment of feeling out-dated for me was last year when I was at a local comic shop. As I was perusing the shelves, the owner had "Mortal Kombat" (the movie) playing on tv. The only other person in the shop was some 14 or 15 year old playing his Nintendo DS. At one point, when Liu Kang and Shang Tsung are fighting, Shang does his transformation-into-someone-else thing, and the kid looks up and just asks, "So, what, is he like a wizard or something?" The owner and I just looked at each other and shrugged.

Little known fact...

NakedElf wrote:I'm not sure that makes sense to me. What exactly was good about the WWII era?

1.It wasn't boring
2. Edith Piaf

1940s saw existentialism pushed to the front and New York School painting destroyed and revived the idea of painting, and the Dadaists saw the world crumbling around them before and during WWI, and their response still resonates in our culture today. Of course the Futurists embraced The Great War, thinking it would be great for culture, and basically it ended up killing them all.

Interesting theory, though. State your case, Duff.

NakedElf wrote:I'm not sure that makes sense to me. What exactly was good about the WWII era?

It provided the basis for countless first person shooters involving killing Nazis, one of the three enemies you are always allowed to kill and not feel guilty about at all. The other two are the undead and demons. And Return to Castle Wolfenstein had all three!

Laemkral wrote:

NakedElf wrote:I'm not sure that makes sense to me. What exactly was good about the WWII era?

It provided the basis for countless first person shooters involving killing Nazis, one of the three enemies you are always allowed to kill and not feel guilty about at all. The other two are the undead and demons. And Return to Castle Wolfenstein had all three!

You missed commies and brown people labeled 'terrorists'.

It promoted women's lib and boosted the American economy.