... Lisa's hair would be hair-sprayed and fluffed up to within an inch of its life. That straight, flat-ironed emo look didn't take off 'til the 2000s.
(A critical plot gap, I realize... )
"First you ask if you can be red, knowing that I'm always red."
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I was a teenager in the 80s, and all the girl's hair were feathered, or cut short and spikey, or dyed some color -- anything other than the straight look. But maybe Lisa was just one of the girls who had none of the above, so eh.
shareThere were a lot of people in my HS that had straight hair. It must depend on your region. I hated the high hair. Immensely. My yearbook is awful. Thanks Madonna.
shareThat's where she wanted to go for her birthday the next day... down to the salon and get a perm.
shareThere was a lot of stuff which felt like it came from 2000 rather than 80s, in this movie. The whole look of characters was one of them. The part where whole movie is in full HD, didn't help either. :P
Girls had flat, straight hair in the 1970s, too. She might just be one of those girls who didn't follow the herd and stayed with a look she liked.
shareAgreed, the hair style was anachronistic. But a good film nevertheless.
shareI couldn't get past this. The filmmakers made sure that everything else pointed to the '80s, with Pac-Man, Murder, She Wrote, the look of the car, the VCR, etc. The mom had decent 80's hair (sorta Farah Faucett-ish). So why did they fail so badly on the teenage girl? If you're trying to say "'80s" and you give the girl iron straight hair, ankh earrings, black eyeliner and black clothes (she's a rebel against fashion? Why not mention that off-handedly?), you're making a point that she's more late '90s emo at the latest. She should have had blue eyeliner, bright clothes, curly hair (at least big loopy curls, if not tight perm curls) and big hoop earrings. Come on!
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Lol You seem almost as annoyed as I was about this!
In all honesty though, if they had coated her in blue eyeshadow and curled and hairsprayed her hair to the ceiling, she probably would have looked fairly comical. And since this was a serious horror movie, the focus would have been diverted if we'd been too busy smirking at Lisa's appearance instead of trying to follow the plot.
"First you ask if you can be red, knowing that I'm always red."
The look was perfect, considering they were going for the goth, brooding teenager look. Her musical tastes certainly fit how she dressed...The Smiths, Joy Divison, The Cure, etc.
shareStill would have had the feathered 80's hair. Check out the fans of those bands back then.
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I was a fan of those bands back then, and I did not have feathered hair, nor did my friends, who were fans of those bands. Granted, my hair wasn't as long, but I flattened it as much as possible. People in my high school had all kinds of hairstyles, but I grew up in a large metropolitan area, so perhaps we had more variety because of that.
shareNo kidding!
Lots of different hairstyles back then, and *not* just the ones seen on MTV & the like ~
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Also don't know if anyone else has mentioned this in this thread but Meat Is Murder didn't come out 'til 1985, if you want to be REEAAAALLLY pedantic about it!
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early goth was a subset of punk. I was 16 in 1984. I had flat hair because I hated the preps and the cheerleaders, and I loved the same music as Lisa. especially Bowie.
look at Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club. goth/emo was there in the '80s, it was an undercurrent.
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early goth was a subset of punk. I was 16 in 1984. I had flat hair because I hated the preps and the cheerleaders, and I loved the same music as Lisa. especially Bowie.Exactly. As did I until my popular hairdresser in training, friend forced me into getting my hair layered. A move I will always regret. I did not like fitting in with those high haired weirdos. However I hated attention so in that sense it took some burden off. Ironically.
look at Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club. goth/emo was there in the '80s, it was an undercurrent.
There were goths in the 80s. Some had straight hair. Not everyone dressed in neon and had big hair. Goth started in the 80s with bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure. Batcave was early 80s....punk and death rock and everyone dressed in black clothes and were anti-fashion. She seems period to me.
I guess it makes sense to me because I was there. Goths wore baggy black clothes, but some wore leggings too.
The goths that listened to those bands Lisa did, did not have bright clothes and hoop earrings and all that, LOL.
shareBut the movie actually took place in 2014. The 1980's stuff was invented by Bad Ghost Guy.
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Not every girl in the 80s had Farrah Fawcett hair; me being one of them. I am so tired of hearing that straight hair was not 80s.
Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia: Although straight hair was the norm at the beginning of the decade, as many late 1970s styles were still relevant, by around 1983 the perm had come into fashion.
So just like fads today, not every girl ran out and got their hair done in a fad style.
But the stereotype of the time was that typical '80s hair, just like everything else they used to give things a 1980's feel. Why go through all of that trouble to make everything else fit the stereotype except this one thing? I understand that people had straight hair back then. But if you watch something like That '70s Show, the showmakers went out of their way to give the kids and even the adults stereotypical hair and clothes for the time. Other things in this movie followed suit, so why not this one specific thing?
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The thing that most people on this thread seem to be forgetting is that goths didn't tend to walk around 24/7 with their "going out" hairdos on. She's a 15 year old girl, in her own home. She's presumably got school to go to, so she wouldn't have a crazy haircut - schools don't tend to allow that.
I was a goth in the 80s (UK "alternative" scene, like the bands she's supposed to be into) and I can tell you that the "big hair" thing involved a heck of a lot of hairspray, crimpers (kinda the opposite of flat-irons - crinkly irons, not flat!), and much back-combing. Sure, you'd do it on a Friday night if you were going out on the town - but no way would you bother doing all that just to hang around the house with your family.
When your hair wasn't crimped and back-combed, it was just a normal "straight" hair - something you could go to school with, or to your day-job with. It's not a 24/7 look, is what I'm saying; it's dress-up. The way she looks in the film is probably about right for a goth girl who's just hanging around at home with her family and not getting ready to go out with her friends.
I was a teenager that had long straight hair throughout the 80s. Wouldn't have been big no matter how hard I tried. Had it all the way up to 1989 when I had short straight hair. Not everyone was a stereotype in the 80s.
shareI didn't even notice it wasn't present day until they went forward to Olivia's house and it was all Ikea-ed's out. It did not seem like the 80's at all. I was watching on my Laptop though while my boyfriend was half talking to me. I just thought they weren't all that into technology and I guess.
Pac Man should have clued me in. However in 1985 Pac Man was much more advanced than what he was playing. It was in Arcades in Malls by then and much more colorful etc. It came out in 1980 so I just thought they were into retro or something I guess. I still have Super Nintendo and love it.
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The PacMan in this movie was the Atari 2600 version, released in 1982.
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The PacMan in this movie was the Atari 2600 version, released in 1982.
The green phone on the wall had a dial on it. That seemed to me more like the 70's.
shareWhile touch tone phones came out in the early 80's, they were mostly used for business phones. This was about the time they broke up Ma Bell. Before that everyone was stuck with the supplied Ma Bell rotary phone. The phone usually came with the house. After the breakup, people had to personally buy one of the new push button phones. They cost about $50 - which was high at the time, (my rent was $100, I paid $120/yr for car insurance, and $20 cash would fill my tank with enough left over to buy dinner and drink all night). People held on to the old phones as long as they could, and could take them with them when they moved.
I remember moving in the mid 80's and calling up the phone company from a phone booth,
"Hey, there's no phone in my new house."
"You have to purchase your own."
"What? How much is that?"
"It's $50, but you can pick out your own color."
If you went in someone's house after about '83 the chances of seeing a rotary phone was about 50/50. Toward the mid to late 80's is when other companies really started to market phones. They were really cheap in construction to the AT&T phones, but they weren't as costly either.
I didn't even notice it wasn't present day until they went forward to Olivia's house and it was all Ikea-ed's out. It did not seem like the 80's at all. I was watching on my Laptop though while my boyfriend was half talking to me. I just thought they weren't all that into technology and I guess.This was me! I also said the same thing that pac man should have been the hint but I remember there being a resurgence in Pacmania (to a degree along with other retro games) when I was a teen and we had our Atari/Nintendo + other consoles long after they were no longer popular. Also I didn't actually see Pacman, I heard it so I thought maybe it was the original version on a newer console. Afterwards I realized there were a couple things that could have clued me in but I honestly thought it was present day until the wii etc. share
Pac Man should have clued me in. However in 1985 Pac Man was much more advanced than what he was playing. It was in Arcades in Malls by then and much more colorful etc. It came out in 1980 so I just thought they were into retro or something I guess. I still have Super Nintendo and love it.
they went forward to Olivia's house and it was all Ikea-ed's out