The movies of 1984 were objectively the best _EVER_

[andrewducker]

Brought to my attention by octopoid_horror

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[supergee.livejournal.com]

I'm retarded. The objectively best music & sf came when I was 16. Maybe it's because of later puberty.

[andrewducker]

Actually, 18-ish, for me, which is when I was first really getting into music and movies.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Damon Knight said the golden age of science fiction is 13. Unless you're supergee. ;>

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Hollywood movies are overall far wittier and more entertaining than the dross they were putting out in 1983!

[andrewducker]

1983 wasn't so bad - Return of the Jedi, Scarface, Zelig, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Trading Places, Videodrome, Educating Rita, Wargames, and Zelig.

2010 seems to have better kids movies (Toy Story 3 and How to Train Your Dragon were both amazing), but the general quality of movies doesn't seem to be any better.

Now, the quality of TV nowadays is definitely vastly better.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Kids movies are being more deliberately aimed at adults now, in my opinion. The flipside of this is that you could argue some movies for adults are being aimed more at kids than they used to be.

This isn't bad necessarily, just an observation.

[andrewducker]

I agree. The differences between the different age ranges have definitely been blurred.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Heh.

I was 12 in 1976-77. So I got: The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees and the whole punk thing. And Star Wars was fresh and new. Did I luck out in choosing when to be born, or what?

[andrewducker]

I'd say yes :->

But then I'd say the same about the time when I was first picking up music/movies - when I had Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Depeche Mode, Metallica, Terminator 2, Delicatessen and JFK.

(That would be the first year I was at university, which is when I really discovered movies and music)