Terminator Is Out There

[luka]

All films become kids films in the eighties albeit kids films replete with gore and ultraviolence.

 

[luka]

Sex is mostly airbrushed out.

 

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You need to watch E.T. too. I'll do a list for you.

 

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It was the Age of America.

 

[version]

Have you seen Scarface?

 

[luka]

Have you seen Scarface?

Yes.

 

[luka]

It was the Age of America.

That's how it presents. It's a heavy propaganda operation. Saturation job. But it does seem to match up to a certain genuinely felt confidence. Partly cocaine. Which is why I want the Iran Contra study sessions in between films.

 

[version]

This one's shameless propaganda.

Moscow on the Hudson (1984) ⭐ 6.5 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

1h 55m | 15

www.imdb.com

 

[muser]

You can start with mad Max 2 and finish with honey I shrunk the kids.

 

[version]

I still haven't seen this, but it seems like exactly the kind of thing you should be watching.

Salvador (1986) ⭐ 7.3 | Drama, History, Thriller

2h 2m | 18

www.imdb.com

 

[luka]

That's how it presents. It's a heavy propaganda operation. Saturation job. But it does seem to match up to a certain genuinely felt confidence. Partly cocaine. Which is why I want the Iran Contra study sessions in between films.

You have to balance it with the sense people had at the time that this was crass, plastic, an empty fraud etc

 

[luka]

In the eighties all the character types become cartoons. Part of the infantilisation of the movies. Grizzled cop, high school nerd, business tycoon, drug lord, street punk

 

[luka]

The street punks in this video

 

[luka]

Character is flattened into type and exaggerated into caricature

 

[yyaldrin]

but those character types were also more present in the eighties?

 

[luka]

but those character types were also more present in the eighties?

You mean, in the real world?

 

[version]

You have to balance it with the sense people had at the time that this was crass, plastic, an empty fraud etc

There's a Gore Vidal piece I've wanted to read for a while where he talks about Barth, Barthes, Barthelme, Pynchon and others called "American Plastic".

 

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That's how it presents. It's a heavy propaganda operation. Saturation job. But it does seem to match up to a certain genuinely felt confidence. Partly cocaine. Which is why I want the Iran Contra study sessions in between films.

I was about to tell you what the best books on Iran-Contra are, but then I remembered.

 

[luka]

The Wonder Years - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[luka]

I was about to tell you what the best books on Iran-Contra are, but then I remembered.

Remembered what?