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Hawkeye_a
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Apr 5, 2016, 10:02 AM
 
Disclaimer: You might need nostalgia goggled for this thread.

I was thinking about some of my favorite adventure/sci-fi movies and I came to the strange realization that most of them came out between 75 and 85. Strange coincidence, i suppose.

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Apr 5, 2016, 10:27 AM
 
Coincidence? Nah

Most likely because they were released or at their popular peak during your formative years. If you'd had been born 20 years later or earlier you'd probably have not had the same appreciation or hold them in the same regard despite their quality and success remaining the same.

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Apr 5, 2016, 10:40 AM
 
I'd say it was a unique time.

The traditional studio system had unraveled and film school was a thing for the first time.
     
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Apr 5, 2016, 12:26 PM
 
Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
Coincidence? Nah

Most likely because they were released or at their popular peak during your formative years. If you'd had been born 20 years later or earlier you'd probably have not had the same appreciation or hold them in the same regard despite their quality and success remaining the same.
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Apr 5, 2016, 12:36 PM
 
You were born in the late 60s?

Oddly, most of my favorite/desert island films — except for Empire Strikes Back — didn't come out during my "formative" years...
     
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Apr 5, 2016, 12:44 PM
 
I was born in the early 80s, i watched most of them in the 90s on video.
     
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Apr 5, 2016, 12:51 PM
 
It was a unique period - it was so 'loose' until early 80's ...


let us not forgot Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Convoy, The Gumball Rally, Smokey and the Bandit, (and every other car/rebel movie made)..... great muscle cars to see...

Films like Jaws, Alien, Network, China Syndrome, RollerBall.... would never be made today or at least they would be whored up and made way too commercial.

There are a lot of bad films though, I can't even think about them at the moment but bad films I love to hate from this era are the Irwin Allen films and the clones: Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Cassandra Crossing, Hindenburg, Juggernaut... oh and the grandaddy of them all : The Poseidon Adventure

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Apr 5, 2016, 12:55 PM
 
Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
Coincidence? Nah

Most likely because they were released or at their popular peak during your formative years. If you'd had been born 20 years later or earlier you'd probably have not had the same appreciation or hold them in the same regard despite their quality and success remaining the same.
Some of the kids today like some of these films, but find them too long or boring, often missing the message.
That was the problem with these films - maybe they were too preachy in some aspects, or just too simple for a modern complicated world. who knows.
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Apr 5, 2016, 12:58 PM
 
Originally Posted by osiris View Post
It was a unique period - it was so 'loose' until early 80's ...


let us not forgot Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Convoy, The Gumball Rally, Smokey and the Bandit, (and every other car/rebel movie made)..... great muscle cars to see...

Films like Jaws, Alien, Network, China Syndrome, RollerBall.... would never be made today or at least they would be whored up and made way too commercial.

There are a lot of bad films though, I can't even think about them at the moment but bad films I love to hate from this era are the Irwin Allen films and the clones: Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Cassandra Crossing, Hindenburg, Juggernaut... oh and the grandaddy of them all : The Poseidon Adventure

nostalgia overload
Totally forgot about Alien (updated the original post). I watched the original Star Wars and Alien in the early 2000s
     
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Apr 5, 2016, 05:24 PM
 
Summer of '82 - best summer of movies ever.

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Apr 6, 2016, 04:05 AM
 
Am I the only one who thinks this thread should be Sneak Previews and not At the Movies?
     
   
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