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Why did Lisa look so modern?


I watched this with my friends and we were talking and fooling around during the movie so correkt me if i'm wrong and misunderstood the timeline, but if Lisa was suppose to live in the 60's, why did she look like a emo from 2005 with out straightened hair and that thick eyeliner? It ruind the time-feeling for me bc i'm really fond of portraits from the old days.

Also, this movie reminded me of AHS- Murder House.

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She. If from the 80's, Olivia printed a news article about her that said like 1985.

Plus the car was an 80's car.

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Thanks, how weird, my friends thought it was the 60's too. Also her mom and some of the inventory looked pretty 60's, it also had that feel to it. But that explains it, i liked the movie anyway. It was weird in a good way, like "the Caller".

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If you look closely at the 'moving day' tape she watches, then you'll see that the day they moved into that creepy house was 1984 :)

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With PacMan, Siouxie and the Banshees, Murder She Wrote, and her Walkman, I'm surprised you all thought it was the 60's. Weird how sometimes that happens.

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HA HA HA HA!

All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine. ~Jeff Spicoli

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Not to mention the David Bowie poster which also marks the 80s.

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The 60s? Really? VHS tapes, Pac-Man on an old Atari, Reagan on the TV... the filmmakers could not have been more clear that they were living in the 80's.




DID YOU JUST SMELL ME? -WILL GRAHAM

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Lol, i guess i need to see it again, alone this time. Didn't even notice Packman etc. But even for the 80's, Lisa still looked too modern.

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Pac-man*

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Sounds like you paid no attention at all then came here to whine about your lack of being able to watch a movie properly. I'm sorry you wasted your time with inattentive viewing, but do you really need to come here and waste our time too? Next time pay attention.

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I need to turn of this function that gives me mail whenever i get an answer. You clearly wrote this to be a dick because imdb is for questions etc and people ask all the time when they didn't get something in the movie. *beep* of

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I figure the OP was having a blast with her/his friends and was also trying to have some fun here as well but was surprised, instead, to find there are far more people who prefer being nasty than simply passing up a thread they aren't interested in.

Meantime, it is clearly obvious that the OP was mixing up scenes while having fun with friends. I suspect OP was thinking of the timeline for Olivia. Olivia was in our own timeline while Lisa was in the 80s. However, Olivia's home was decorated in Retro 60s Turquoise, a popular theme which began a few years back. Anyone familiar with the 60s would be familiar with the turquoise furniture, appliances and linens of the day, thus, OP probably thought it was supposed to be set in the 60s, may even have never realized there were two different teen girls being presented in each timeline.

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Some people who wasn't alive back then have problems separating the different years, a friend of mine once asked if I knew any good songs from the '60s that sounded like "Bryan Adams - Summer of 69" :D

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It was a Betamax tape, not VHS.
Don't forget the paperback on nightstand: Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

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It was a BetaMax not VHS

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That's what happens when you and your friends are talking and fooling around through the movie. You lose important details and expect others to spell it out for you.

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You lose important details and expects others to spell it out for you.
Which is oh so difficult. Part of the fun of message boards is answering questions. No matter how stupid.

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I was just stating a fact.

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Wow, you and that other dude Clint sound like real wet blankets. My question is, if you didn't have an answer to OP's question, what the heck are you doing wasting space on this thread?

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Which no one appreciates.

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OP asked a stupid question. Not every teenager followed style trends in the 80s.

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She did look modern in terms of her hair and some other stuff. If she had had 80s hair, even for a goth or punk girl, it probably would have come off as too comical.

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She looked like an '80s goth. The goth girls didn't wear the big hair. Often it was short, bobbed or ironed.

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I was a goth girl in the 80s and you are correct - though I did have big bangs while I was growing out a shorter, punkier cut. But senior year in high school (85-86) I had a bob that I used my curling iron to flatten out (oh how I'd have loved a flat iron - I had a crimping iron though!). Some of my friends had long, straight hair, some had a more Robert Smith/Siouxsie Sioux look going on, there was no official goth hairdo.

And clothing wise, she was pretty spot on - I'd wear in fancy vintage cocktail dresses and combat boots when going to a concert, but most of the time it'd be black jeans or leggings with a concert tee and hoodie/cardigan or men's thrift store blazer. Her bedroom reminded me of mine in high school, the set dressing was fun to see!

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I was going to say, I was 8 in 1985, and my cousin had her hair styled with a poofy bang like pretty much a lot of girls did during that decade. And not every girl did that either, some had straight long hair.

I think the director probably chose Lisa's hairstyle to be omni-generational because it probably would have revealed too much of the plot too fast, because that poofy bangs fad was definitely super-80s.

Then again, the Atari Pac-Man game was also a pretty big giveaway.

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.. there was no official goth hairdo.
Maybe not were you live(d).
Over here we used to have hairstyles like these:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tiad/goths-of-the-80s-part-2

Lisa's hairstyles was more or less the one thing that kinda bugged me about this movie too.

"Gar nicht so übel, du kleine Schlampe. Man sieht sich immer zweimal, Kleine."

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She looked like emo from the 2000's, they should have done something with her hair

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Agreed..

"Gar nicht so übel, du kleine Schlampe. Man sieht sich immer zweimal, Kleine."

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I was part of that era big time!! cure, Sioux etc...l did think more eyeliner, back combed hair etc... For a goth girl, but some I knew didn't look like that all the time... Still would have been interesting for the movie to have given us visually a cross between sioux sue & strawberry switchblade gal. The British goths were the originals...none of this poor emo crap.

Loved the movie, good director.

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I grew up in the 80's, and I remember the hair. It was awkward and took forever to do. It would look too comical to today's audience to include it in the movie.

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I think at one point she found an article that she and her family died in 1984 while she was seeing everything from Olivia's point of view(kind of like she was inside Olivia who lived now.
I find her style typical for that time. Just look at the German popstar Nena from that time. Lisa sort of had that kind of style.

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Anyone notice the Apple Ipad that lisa touch to play the video??
Still 60's?? 80's?? Or 2010+?? How about that??

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Yeah, OP just wasn't paying close enough attention.

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Her room looked like my room in the 80's. Listened to the same music and had the same posters.

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