Turnsky wrote:considering the plethora of sequels and remakes that grow on cinema screens like a fungus, i'm not terribly surprised somebody had that sentiment.
Mission Impossible? Charlie's Angels? Batman Forever?
There were always both sequels and remakes. I think that the only efficient difference is, there's more films based on comics these days.
Well I'm quite a deal older than some people here, but I experianced a bit of the 80's and I was a teen in the 90's so the new Punkrawk movement, the college indie, the grunge, Powernoise, industrial, the new Darkwave movement, Ebm, and all that stuff I experienced and got to be a part of in my highschool years (I graduated in 97).
It really wasn't all that. Of course a lot of the music I'd be embarrassed to mention but I went regularly to basement, warehouse, and dive shows, since I was 14 or 15.
It was a fun time all in all. they really have cracked down on a lot of the fun stuff from when I was kid. its sad really.
Grunge had a whole different meaning to us. It was often seen as oposition to regime music. Generally, folk and our version of rap music were imposed by regime and were listened by those who picked it up from regime TV together with regime news and everything else. Rebels were listening to grunge, punk-rock and heavy metal. There was almost a visible line between those two grupations when I was in high school ("diesels" and "headbangers").
But I don't doubt that grunge would have a special place for me anyway. There are musical revolutions every once in a while, but this was the musical revolution that fall in my teen years, time in life when you're most succeptible to influences and forming your taste and all.
I caught some of 80ies, but it was late 80ies, when, I think, most of trends were already worn out, about time when world was waiting for something like grunge to come along. 80ies mostly remind me of platinum-blonde hair with those awful curly hairdos, and "Police academy". I was too young to catch on things like new wave.
The only movie nostalgia I have is for good Disney movies. You know, the ones with fantastic, epic musical scores and a plot and hand-drawn animation. I'm not saying that using a computer isn't a form of art, but watching Beauty and the Beast, knowing hundreds of artists sketched every one of those cells by hand... That kind of movie quality is pretty much gone.
I think Disney jumped the shark after Mulan.
I think they jumped the shark after "Little mermaid".
Disney films I'm nostalgic about would be "Basic, Mouse detective", "Oliver and company" and other of their 80ies films. But since I watched all of those films for the first time when I was a kid, I guess I'm nostalgic about all old-school Disney.
I went on the "ride" at Universal Studios, and it reminded me of exactly how lame that movie was.
Oh well, they're off my back now so I guess I can start playing catch-up in regards to meeting my lifelong Fun Times quota.
