Oh, I missed that (and was surprised) when I first looked. They kind of blend in when they're down there, I'm used to them in the description itself, because people usually put it front and center.
Because old is bad, new is good, especially when it's never been done before. Even when it has been (female lead action movie, black comic lead movie, etc)
The 80s sucked so bad that everything back then must be stolen and remade to kill the sweet memories of then. Sure buddy. And I have a bridge to sell.
What was that quote about the past having to be stolen and destroyed? Orwell, Brave New World, something else? All things belong to the enteral present, the party, the eternal now?
you could call a faggot a faggot in the 80s and everyone laughed and agreed. now we are ruled by gay technocrats in addition to the pedo jew cultists. 80s must have been a great time to be alive.
Can we also take a moment to appreciate that someone used to know turtles have beaks not teeth and how right they were not to make that part of the mutation.
The 1980s was fun during the 80s. In the 90s much of what happened culturally in the 80s was looked down on as dated and uncool. The 80s was a time of optimism in the west, and the 90s a time of absurd self-congratulatory optimism. "Things are great and will only get better." By the late 90s some radio stations were playing 80s music as part of nostalgia lineups.
As the millennium passed and the promise of a sweet future turned into the realization of a not so great culturally stagnating eternal now, people began using the internet to have at first ironic but later desperate for the past nostalgia trips. These focused on the 80s.
The nostalgia began to take on a desperate tone as the 80s nostalgia wave went on seemingly without end. Right now, we are seeing a bit of a backlash that is trying to paint the 90s and early 2000s as the time of eternal hope and fun. And of course the 80s must be uncool again for this to happen.
In my opinion this is little more than a continuation of the 80s nostalgia trip and a refusal to accept the continuing culturally stagnant now that we live in. A yearning for the past rather than a hope for or an effort to create a bright future.
TLDR The above may be bullshit but I find it hilarious that the "80s" Turtle show was mostly produced in the 90s and it's what everyone thinks of when they think of TMNT. Even the ones who obsess over the early 2000s show.
The 80s-90s had direct themes of a unified culture. It wasn’t a constant ideological zeitgeist of cultural Marxism like today. The Obama legacy will be seen as the death of Americana, because in truth that is what the results of his presidency was.
Kurt Kobain was a product of typical psychological abuse by a feminist mother and likely an hero'd himself because of it. Didn't help that he hooked up with Courtney Love who is yet another toxic feminist bigot.
Yeah and a lot of troons were molested as children. Doesn't excuse the wrongdoing. The man was THE root cause of the disgusting postmodernist nihilism that has seized two entire generations. To hell with him.
Things had more staying power.back.then..now everything lasts for ten minutes before it's replaced by NEXT THING. But I'm the 90s, movies and songs and shows and books from the 80s were still very popular, even with kids who were only toddlers in the 80s. So that tells me that 80s stuff was actually pretty good.
What's funny is there was black representation back then, but it was just the dude included in without race mentioned at all (Ghostbusters, predator, etc). Family Matters was a show about a black middle class family (with urkel as the quirky gimmick character) and was loved by all races of Americans back then.
But, of course, that's never enough for the fragile egos of modern people who need to be propped up and given a trophy for not being straight White males.
Yes and no. It's more CONVENIENT but better? Naw..everyone use to tune in to watch the newest episode at.thr same time and it was conversation fodder for the next work day/week.
Now everything is "hey, have you seen (only available on streaming service) show #27,834? It's pretty good"
I will roll up to this filthy heathen's den in my Vector W8, whip out my Mac 10 at point blank range (because how else am I supposed to hit him) and when I'm done I will call his parents on my car phone the size of a brick to deliver the good news, after which I will get on my cigarette boat and sail off into the distant polygonal mountains and louvered sunset.
It was extremely powerful and bold looking. Had over 600 horsepower and was twin turbocharged, but it doesn't have anywhere near the popularity of Ferrari's or Porsche's offerings at the time.
To date, its only licensed appearance in a video game was in Gran Turismo 2. From 1999.
It's crazy that it hasn't officially appeared in a racing video game in 25 years.
I let my kids watch modern stuff but I make a point of exposing them to the more important shows of decades past. They clearly prefer the old stuff to newer shows, even when they don't know how old the shows are.
Ironic, because it was widely hated at its release and only started to get appreciation after near two decades of bland forgettable Scooby series made it stand out.
Personally I never understood why, it had legitimate humor and proper animation that nothing before it could really claim.
yeah it was terrible watching Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Die hard, Terminator, Predator, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Rambo, Stripes, Akira, Nausicaa, Fist of the North Star, Macross , etc etc ETC ETC
Say "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," and the image that pops into most people's heads will be the 80s version. The second most will probably be in the grittier style of the original Mirage comics, no doubt helped by the design of the original Playmates toys as well as The Last Ronin miniseries, both of which evoked them. Pretty much everything else to my knowledge gets completely forgotten.
Wait, what the fuck did they do to the Turtles? I played Shredder's Revenge, which isn't that old and everything looked as expected. What the hell happened?
Eh, this isn't fundamentally anything new. Every decade or so comes with a new iteration of the Ninja Turtles, each of which comes with a generally different style and art direction. Shredder's Revenge, however, was made fully with the 80s series in mind, hence why it looked so familiar. And unlike most nostalgia bait shit produced today, it was made with clear love and respect for the cartoon (and the classic arcade game adaptations it got).
TV you can make an argument due to the lower production values, music is down to taste, but the 80s have movies on lock. Real film, practical effects, real orchestral scores, blockbuster budgets, famous stars, culturally unifying events - all this is never coming back.
The 2000s will be known as the era of digitally graded cgi cape slop, while the 80s and 90s will live forever as a classic era of cinema, to be mined and remade perpetually.
Pronouns in the bio, Tumblr profile pic, opinion discarded.
Oh, I missed that (and was surprised) when I first looked. They kind of blend in when they're down there, I'm used to them in the description itself, because people usually put it front and center.
ROFL. Ya. Ok.
Then why is Hollywood remaking as many 80s movies they can?
Because old is bad, new is good, especially when it's never been done before. Even when it has been (female lead action movie, black comic lead movie, etc)
SEOing for the title so you get the crappy new 2020s version instead of the good version.
The 80s sucked so bad that everything back then must be stolen and remade to kill the sweet memories of then. Sure buddy. And I have a bridge to sell.
What was that quote about the past having to be stolen and destroyed? Orwell, Brave New World, something else? All things belong to the enteral present, the party, the eternal now?
Mao Zedong's Four Olds: Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Customs, and Old Habits.
Mao Zedong certainly practiced what he preached- with 11 year old girls
you could call a faggot a faggot in the 80s and everyone laughed and agreed. now we are ruled by gay technocrats in addition to the pedo jew cultists. 80s must have been a great time to be alive.
There is a theory that that is why they are attacking it with such gusto. Last era one could be a straight, white Christian man and have a culture.
Can we also take a moment to appreciate that someone used to know turtles have beaks not teeth and how right they were not to make that part of the mutation.
The 1980s was fun during the 80s. In the 90s much of what happened culturally in the 80s was looked down on as dated and uncool. The 80s was a time of optimism in the west, and the 90s a time of absurd self-congratulatory optimism. "Things are great and will only get better." By the late 90s some radio stations were playing 80s music as part of nostalgia lineups.
As the millennium passed and the promise of a sweet future turned into the realization of a not so great culturally stagnating eternal now, people began using the internet to have at first ironic but later desperate for the past nostalgia trips. These focused on the 80s.
The nostalgia began to take on a desperate tone as the 80s nostalgia wave went on seemingly without end. Right now, we are seeing a bit of a backlash that is trying to paint the 90s and early 2000s as the time of eternal hope and fun. And of course the 80s must be uncool again for this to happen.
In my opinion this is little more than a continuation of the 80s nostalgia trip and a refusal to accept the continuing culturally stagnant now that we live in. A yearning for the past rather than a hope for or an effort to create a bright future.
TLDR The above may be bullshit but I find it hilarious that the "80s" Turtle show was mostly produced in the 90s and it's what everyone thinks of when they think of TMNT. Even the ones who obsess over the early 2000s show.
The 80s-90s had direct themes of a unified culture. It wasn’t a constant ideological zeitgeist of cultural Marxism like today. The Obama legacy will be seen as the death of Americana, because in truth that is what the results of his presidency was.
You nailed it. Obama was the signal that it was time to ramp up the revolution, and it's just gotten worse every year since
Living through it, the 90s WAS the 80s until Nirvana puked up nihilism all over the zeitgeist.
"hey guys, what if we made heroin into a musical genre?"
And then everybody clapped.
Was that before or after Kurt Cobain blew his own head off?
I definitely applauded that. About the only way that the man who ruined music could possibly apologize.
Kurt Kobain was a product of typical psychological abuse by a feminist mother and likely an hero'd himself because of it. Didn't help that he hooked up with Courtney Love who is yet another toxic feminist bigot.
Yeah and a lot of troons were molested as children. Doesn't excuse the wrongdoing. The man was THE root cause of the disgusting postmodernist nihilism that has seized two entire generations. To hell with him.
Things had more staying power.back.then..now everything lasts for ten minutes before it's replaced by NEXT THING. But I'm the 90s, movies and songs and shows and books from the 80s were still very popular, even with kids who were only toddlers in the 80s. So that tells me that 80s stuff was actually pretty good.
Excellent analysis. I remember when 80s nostalgia took off with The Wedding Singer and that came out in 1997!
And yet they can’t make anything original and have to keep bastardizing and crapping on stuff from the 80s
The 80’s and 90’s were the last decades before that became the growing norm.
Exactly
why do we keep getting Twitter screenshots of literal nobodies? who cares what some faggot has to say
What's funny is there was black representation back then, but it was just the dude included in without race mentioned at all (Ghostbusters, predator, etc). Family Matters was a show about a black middle class family (with urkel as the quirky gimmick character) and was loved by all races of Americans back then.
But, of course, that's never enough for the fragile egos of modern people who need to be propped up and given a trophy for not being straight White males.
don't forget the Cosby Show was one of the biggest shows in the world
Faggot detected.
Those modern Ninja Turtles don't even look like turtles at all!
Not ninjas. Leonardo’s arm looks like some BDSM shit.
Its hard to believe that TV is better today, considering that it was killed by the internet.
(At least we can all agree that streaming is better today than it was in the 80s)
Yes and no. It's more CONVENIENT but better? Naw..everyone use to tune in to watch the newest episode at.thr same time and it was conversation fodder for the next work day/week.
Now everything is "hey, have you seen (only available on streaming service) show #27,834? It's pretty good"
faggot pfp and pronouns in bio.
literally kill yourself. suck-start a shotgun.
I will roll up to this filthy heathen's den in my Vector W8, whip out my Mac 10 at point blank range (because how else am I supposed to hit him) and when I'm done I will call his parents on my car phone the size of a brick to deliver the good news, after which I will get on my cigarette boat and sail off into the distant polygonal mountains and louvered sunset.
The Vector W8 is such an underrated classic.
It was extremely powerful and bold looking. Had over 600 horsepower and was twin turbocharged, but it doesn't have anywhere near the popularity of Ferrari's or Porsche's offerings at the time.
To date, its only licensed appearance in a video game was in Gran Turismo 2. From 1999.
It's crazy that it hasn't officially appeared in a racing video game in 25 years.
Nice to see a fellow car enthusiast on this site!
That's troll bait
It's not nostalgia, it's objectively better.
I let my kids watch modern stuff but I make a point of exposing them to the more important shows of decades past. They clearly prefer the old stuff to newer shows, even when they don't know how old the shows are.
Niglet leftoid detected, opinion discarded
The 80s had Night Court. Roger's opinion is invalid.
Now them's fightin' words!
I'm watching a pup named Scooby Doo with my family right now. It's amazing how well it's aged.
Ironic, because it was widely hated at its release and only started to get appreciation after near two decades of bland forgettable Scooby series made it stand out.
Personally I never understood why, it had legitimate humor and proper animation that nothing before it could really claim.
I hated it originally because of the 4th wall breaking habits. Now, that doesn't bother me as much.
There is a new California style animation of Scooby Doo, and I am trying to like it.
yeah it was terrible watching Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Die hard, Terminator, Predator, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Rambo, Stripes, Akira, Nausicaa, Fist of the North Star, Macross , etc etc ETC ETC
Say "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," and the image that pops into most people's heads will be the 80s version. The second most will probably be in the grittier style of the original Mirage comics, no doubt helped by the design of the original Playmates toys as well as The Last Ronin miniseries, both of which evoked them. Pretty much everything else to my knowledge gets completely forgotten.
Wait, what the fuck did they do to the Turtles? I played Shredder's Revenge, which isn't that old and everything looked as expected. What the hell happened?
Eh, this isn't fundamentally anything new. Every decade or so comes with a new iteration of the Ninja Turtles, each of which comes with a generally different style and art direction. Shredder's Revenge, however, was made fully with the 80s series in mind, hence why it looked so familiar. And unlike most nostalgia bait shit produced today, it was made with clear love and respect for the cartoon (and the classic arcade game adaptations it got).
Not sure about the bottom pic but the last few attempts have been woked to shit. Black female April who don't need no man, etc
TV you can make an argument due to the lower production values, music is down to taste, but the 80s have movies on lock. Real film, practical effects, real orchestral scores, blockbuster budgets, famous stars, culturally unifying events - all this is never coming back.
The 2000s will be known as the era of digitally graded cgi cape slop, while the 80s and 90s will live forever as a classic era of cinema, to be mined and remade perpetually.