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This Era Is GONE

posted 16 years ago by movieman200
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What a good movie. It started off kind of sucky and boring, and about 15 to 20 mins into it I was thinking it wasn't gonna be all that good. But, then it got better and better once the girl came in the picture. Really nice movie. I wished there were more movies like this and that people were still like this today. Now we are living in an age of degeneracy, sensational media, and gangsta rap. The simplicity and kindness of this movie was awesome. These times are gone forever...really sad.

[–] teacher694 16 years ago

These times are gone for now, maybe not forever. There are still some communities in America where common sense prevails and citizens work together for the better of their lives. You won't find it in Los Angeles, however. ;)

[–] Sivey 15 years ago

bloody rap singers

[–] Woodyanders 15 years ago

This film had a real sweet innocence to it that alas seems to have been lost in the world we now live in.

"We're all part Shatner/And part James Dean/Part Warren Oates/And Steven McQueen"

[–] R-W-Watkins 15 years ago

The first thing that jumped out at me was the fact that they had long-haired, artsy musician types like Jeremy and his buddy playing on the basketball team--and playing like they meant it. That's something I haven't seen in real life since the '70s, folks. Since then, young people have been again divided into little impenetrable cliques and niches as they had been in the '50s and early to mid '60s.

[–] cryptical70 14 years ago

This movie was made in 1972. It's hard to believe that it is almost 40 years old.

[–] mman37x 11 years ago

I don't think they were "on the team". It looked like a pickup game, which is actually more impressive.

They weren't playing basketball because it would look good on their college applications, or because their school (like many private schools do) required participation in a varsity sport.

The played like they meant it because ... they really did mean it!

[–] jackdaly1996 10 years ago

Why were kids in the seventies less likely to be in cliques or niches?

[–] solex10 9 years ago

The obvious answer? They weren't: the OP is just being full of caca and looking at the past through rose-colored glasses.

I remember going to school on the shortbus as a kid in the '70's, being teased for a while by other kids just like me, and having to put up with it until a teacher at a different school taught me to use public transit in the early 80's. I also remember wage and price fixing that's now got us where we are now with things so expensive and people not able to afford them (food included.) I remember being picked on for being different, and a whole lot of other things about the 70's and 80's that weren't so rosy.

The OP's indulging in the typical old fogy bullcaca that people of his generation (or the Generation X'ers that grew up in said era-they now are getting old, too) love to indulge in, with a hint of racism towards Afro-American culture and Afro-American youth thrown in, as usual (although if the people of either generation were really that concerned about rap, they'd do as Frank Zappa wanted and make the government[s] ensure music appreciation classes be a part of school curricula in the USA and Canada. But they won't, so...)

People have to learn that life is change, and to deal with those changes, not be pining for past eras that really weren't any better than the current one.

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[–] PretoriaDZ 13 years ago

I call it the coarsening of America - if you are polite and don't ask embarrassing questions and don't get wasted at a party then you are to be scorned and seen as not hip. Kindness is the greatest thing in the world, even greater than love, because kindness can be given even to those who are unlovable, given even to those who scorn and don't appreciate the kindness - you are still a better person for it and their scorn does not take that away.

[–] nocomputer1962 11 years ago

And how about the long line of mostly counter-cultural moviegoers waiting to see a 6 pm showing of a W.C. Fields movie? This scene really reveals how far our culture has declined in the past 40 years. Teenagers today would have no idea who W.C. Fields is and wouldn't see a comedy starring a non-alumnus of SNL. (Unfortunately, for them.)

[–] R-W-Watkins 11 years ago

Good observation.

[–] WarpedRecord 11 years ago

It really is a much different era we're living in now, but I suspect that this type of gentle, caring film was seen as out of date by the end of the '70s with the dawning of the "me generation."

[–] freebird1987 10 years ago

I'm sad that I never got to live in that era.