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Miss the 80s so much


The world was a fun place back then.

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I agree !:(

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The way I would describe it...

..the 'atmosphere' or 'energy' was just such euphoric thing that just existing was pure happiness. It's like the air was filled with some kind of esoteric substance that filled your whole being with some sort of spiritual helium that lifted you off the ground a little bit, making your walk springy and flexible.

It's like a 'sparkling, glittering energy' was all around you, and whatever you did, you brought this sparkling fun with you - if you created a song, this wonderful energy poured into it, so it became this pumping, inspiring, shining thing that could never be replicated in any other era.

Same goes with movies.. nothing can be replicated outside of the eighties, because that 'sparkling energy' is not there. That was the core of what made everything (music, movies, etc.) great!

Without it, it's just like a soulless robot, trying to mimic a human being - you instantly feel something important is missing. It's just not there anymore.

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It was the era of "can do" - go out and make some money - start your own business, etc. Nowadays - the world is so pessimistic. There's less hope - it's depressing. I do feel sorry for the younger generation now. :-(

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Me too, there probably isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about something from the 80's. Greatest decade ever. I was the perfect ages, in 80 I turned 7 halfway through the year and by the end of 89 I was 16 & 1/2. My favorite things from the 80's were Transformers and Nintendo but the movies were mostly top notch. So many great ones, when I watch them I get this giant rush of nostalgia. My mom still has the same house, when I go visit it takes me back like a time capsule. Fletch is definitely one of those movies that when I watch it I can remember the age I was and what my life was like then. My favorite thing was not having much responsibility back then. Lol

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And now it seems like another dimension or something. Too damn long ago. Soon we'll be dead. Only them dreams called films remain. Who cares? Who is that f-ck?



"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan

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Soon we'll be dead. Only them dreams called films remain.

Ain't that a sublime, poetic, pessimistic way of putting things...

And them "dreams" that were had in the eighties will never have anything on those bolder, greater, more tragic and yet infinitely more meaningful dreams of films that were had in the seventies either.

Merely the wet dreams one has during the later phases of sleep shortly before being yanked back to the disappointing mundanity of waking life.

Would that those dreams had lasted forever.

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oh damm I was only born when this movie was released same year.

well can't stop the clock I suppose or even turn it back.

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