I can´t understand how movies nowadays can´t properly set a movie in such a recent decade. Sometimes a 80´s setting seems overdone, and in this case was underdone, besides some known songs nothing, neither clothes or hairstyles seemed from the late 80´s...
shareYeah, big miss, I saw my fair share of 80's movies, they didn't make muchb of an effort capturing the time period. Is it that hard?
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I graduated HS in 1989 - it seemed pretty accurate to me.
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I lived through the 80's. Not everyone was wearing parachute pants and a mullet and breakdancing on cardboard. Sure some people were, but everyone. What you call 'underdone' is actually 'realistic'. Most filmmakers go way overboard with hairstyles and clothing styles and dialogue when doing movies and shows set in the past. This movie doesn't do that and that's a good thing.
shareTrue, but all the same, in this case it's called underdone. Way underdone for the two main leads and most others. (although mixed for LisaP, her hair was still not quite as totally 80s as it could be, but not far fetched either, but from what I recall, they did have her dress in super, super 80s stuff like every single day which was a bit much)
And most filmakers, almost all, go way underdone for 80s hair, other than for select extreme spoof comedies. Although I will give you that they do tend to usually overdo everything that isn't hair.
And they almost tried to make it seem like kids going to NYU and such wouldn't be caught dead styling or acting like LisaP, but that's not true at all. Kids at those schools were on average a thousand times more like LisaP than like Stewart's character.
And some stuff here didn't even have to do with over or underdone, it was just old. Records but no mix-tapes and CDs? Video games?? Trans-Ams, Camaros, Toyota Camrys? big hair? all the top of the class kids acting smoking cigarettes and spending the whole summer smoking up? HS cheerleaders in 1987 all obsessed with Lou Reed?? striped socks?
How is that typical suburban 1987 of the Northeast?
In particular KStew's character looked, sounded and acted nothing like 99.99999999999% of suburban girls in 1987 in the Northeast.
No mix-tapes? Did you even watch the movie?
shareIn fact, I finally dug up some proof to maybe settle this for once and all (LOL, OK, nothing on the net ever settles):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1091722/board/nest/248130951
I feel like you are maybe thinking back to like 1981 or something more than 1987.
Most were not wearing bright clothes in 1987, but a lot were sporting dorky clothes and crazy hair.
shareI can´t understand how movies nowadays can´t properly set a movie in such a recent decade.
I thought it was pretty accurate too. I was 21 in 87 so I remember it fairly well.
The best thing about the 80s? No mobile phones or computers or internet.
You had to leave your house back then.
no computers?
my family had an Apple IIe in 1984.
Had to leave your house? We had Nintendo a few years later and could play that forever (Zelda, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, Mario Bros., Excitebike, Contra to name a few) LOL.
I understand what you were trying to say, but it's not like we didn't have options.
"The best thing about the 80s? No mobile phones or computers or internet." lol There were mobile phones and computers back then. We had a few friends who had those huge bag cell phones, you will see one like that on Saved By The Bell. There were also computers too. I had a few friends with Apple computers. We had a Comedor computer I think that is what it was called.
shareI'm watching this now. I was 12 in 1987 and it looks good to me. Esp. the Amusement park & their t-shirts. It reminds me of the little amusement park my friends and I use to go to for the summer.
shareUnderdone is better than overdone. Compared to Take Me Home Tonight which was shot 2 years earlier and set 1 year later. This is way more realistic.
shareI liked the story and most of the characters. It has a light hearted quality to it that let's the plot move along, but HOLY SHIT did they strike out with the musical choices. I don't care where this story takes place but teenagers didn't dwell on songs more than 2 years old, yet they kept featuring songs from the early and mid 80s and showed the teens grooving to them like it was hip to do so. WRONG
shareI was a teenager in 1987 and I definitely listened to older music (as well as newer stuff). So did a lot of people I knew.
shareTo each their own experience. I grew up in SoCal in the 80s. Pop culture trends changed every 3 months, or in high-school time, every semester. I went to my first senior prom as a freshman and music played there never made it at my own senior prom.
shareI lived in northern Minnesota at the time and there was a top 40 station but also a classic rock station. And the hipster types I hung out with listened to a lot of punk/new wave/college music from the ten years or so previous.
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