Am I Cheating On The 70's When I'm Nostalgic For The 80's?

[palitoy]

I'll say this time and time again, keep your physical media. You won't regret it.

[Werewolf]

I'm actually nostalgic for my 1999 computer and it music player display.

Some things seemed better when they were more primitive in technology.

I think because in some ways technology has become oppressive. Instead of a fun novelty or something we could use it has become a mandatory requirement of our existence. With stuff like our modern increasingly negative and invasive social media and our phones are always on and in our pockets there's no escaping it.

[YoungOnce]

I think Wee67 has thinking aligned with mine on the subject. 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s... whatever... you will have nostalgia for whatever era you grew up in. Those shows, movies, the music... the stuff you discovered when everything was brand new.

Get older and you can never quite capture that same feeling again. Boom... that old stuff was the best.

Your kids will “awaken” with different things. And they will discover them in different ways than we did. They may be nostalgic for the time before movies were beamed directly into their brains.

My golden time was the early 70’s through about 1983. I will never again be bowled over by movies the way A New Hope, Empire, and Raiders of the Lost Ark hit me.

[Hector]

I can't stand ANY super hero movies anymore --- The market is so oversaturated it's sickening

Superhero films and TV went from a unique niche in the film industry to it's own category of movie and TV genre

If I never see a super hero film again it would be too soon

You are watching the wrong superhero stuff.

Watch Brightburn, The Boys, and the Umbrella Academy...trust me, lol...

[Mikey]

I can't stand ANY super hero movies anymore --- The market is so oversaturated it's sickening

Superhero films and TV went from a unique niche in the film industry to it's own category of movie and TV genre

If I never see a super hero film again it would be too soon

[Klosterheim]

I'm actually nostalgic for my 1999 computer and it music player display.

Some things seemed better when they were more primitive in technology.

It's all an interesting subject.

Malls were such a great thing for cities and rural areas.

[palitoy]

The 60's through the 90's had a more unified culture. Television, for instance, was a common language. It was not unusual for a popular show to be watched by 50-60% of the audience. You might not have seen the commercial, but you understood the reference, "Where's the beef?" First cable and then the internet has greatly fractionalized pop culture. I wonder if there will be things to tie large groups together nostalgically. Sure there are big hits, but they seem to come and go very quickly. Then again, it might just be my old man perspective.

I recently noticed that family get togethers would be "did you see this week's Seinfeld?" and now it's "My favourite show right now is _____________" followed by "where do you find that?"

[Earth 2 Chris]

^I think that may be one reason the Marvel movies have been so successful. It's a series, almost like a TV series, that a vast chunk of the populace watch together around the same time. It's water cooler talk just like TV used to be.

Chris

[Wee67]

As far as nostalgia for decades, I do wonder how it will be expressed for this decade and maybe the 2000's.

The 60's through the 90's had a more unified culture. Television, for instance, was a common language. It was not unusual for a popular show to be watched by 50-60% of the audience. You might not have seen the commercial, but you understood the reference, "Where's the beef?" First cable and then the internet has greatly fractionalized pop culture. I wonder if there will be things to tie large groups together nostalgically. Sure there are big hits, but they seem to come and go very quickly. Then again, it might just be my old man perspective.

[Werewolf]

Um all of my smashmouth references have been jokes, I do not enjoy them.

Ha, okay, cool. On that we totally agree.

[palitoy]

It's really hard to read tone on the internet. I hope I'm not upsetting anyone. The Smashmouth Nickelback thing was a joke.

Um all of my smashmouth references have been jokes, I do not enjoy them.

[Werewolf]

It has nothing to do with endurance and never will. Urkel will rise again.

It's really hard to read tone on the internet. I hope I'm not upsetting anyone. The Smashmouth Nickelback thing was a joke.

[palitoy]

I'm not really commenting on the quality. I loved Pirates of Darkwater but it wasn't successful, unfortunately. My comments where, for whatever reason, not many achieved the enduring pop cultural legacy like Power Rangers or Pokemon. Transformers living on isn't just my personal nostalgia for the property. It's become an evergreen property like Barbie and Hotwheels.

and my point is that doesn't matter when it comes to nostalgia waves. It has nothing to do with endurance and never will. Urkel will rise again.

[Werewolf]

speaking to the point of you basically saying 90s culture probably won't be as celebrated due to quality and yeah, maybe some of it isn't good but that won't matter.

I'm not really commenting on the quality. I loved Pirates of Darkwater but it wasn't successful, unfortunately. My comments where, for whatever reason, not many achieved the enduring pop cultural legacy like Power Rangers or Pokemon. Transformers living on isn't just my personal nostalgia for the property. It's become an evergreen property like Barbie and Hotwheels.

[palitoy]

That's a little harsh. That hurt my feelings a little. I already mention 90s pop cultural phenomenons like Power rangers will live on. The 80s were lucky and blessed with a lot of properties that became enduring pop cultural icons. That's not an insult or judgment of other generations.

It wasn't pointed at you at all, so don't take it personally. I don't work in ad hominem but merely speaking to the point of you basically saying 90s culture probably won't be as celebrated due to quality and yeah, maybe some of it isn't good but that won't matter.

I am also not attacking the 1980s, it has some great stuff but some of the stuff being aggrandized now is being done by those that loved it then and it will eventually fade. Some of it heartily deserves a second look and some of it doesn't, just like every era. Nostalgia is a powerful drug and it looks weird to those that don't share it.