Tarantino said the 80's was one of the worst decades for movies b/c too PC, likable characters

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And how was it too politically correct with shyt like:

Porky's
Porky's Revenge
Revenge of The Nerds (yall know the rape scene)
Bachelor Party (a chic fukked a horse)
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Terminator
Caddyshack 1 and 2 (Hell Bill Murray and Chevy Chase were both in this shyt and Bill Murray was more of a retarded grounds keeper that never learned his lesson and Chevy the playboy who ended up changing from being selfish to helping and teaching the young caddy how to golf. The fukk is Tarantino talking about? )
Friday The 13th movies
Phantasm movies
Day of The Dead
Night of The Demons

I can keep going but the more I think about it the more retarded he sounds. We not gonna even get into the intro of cable, VHS tapes, and adult film boom.
 
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Rhakim said:
I can't stand Tarentino but I don't have any love for 80s movies either. They tend to feel superficial as fukk. I doubt that "P.C." is the right description for that, they're just formulaic.
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This is exactly what he should have uttered.

I think this is what he was trying to convey, but didn't put in the right context..
 
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PC wasn't the right term, he probably meant 80s flicks were more consumer friendly which is true coming off the 70s. Art imitates real life and the anger and disillusion that Americans felt in the late 60 & 70s was portrayed on film along with certain progressive ideas/ideologies (think Dog Day Afternoon)...and the backlash to that was Reagan, and no surprise the films then reflected that.

80s flicks put that superficial extremely bright coating to cover up the truth. All those teen flicks being mostly white, suburban, and care free could fool about the true state of the US then and going forward, just like Reagan. These films didn't touch on racism, growing wealth disparity, crime, HIV/AIDS because those films were being sold to middle class whites as feel good escapes from reality, where as 70s flicks were attempting to discuss and tackle the issues of their times head on, or at least portray them. And even if an 80s flick did try to tackle a real issue, it came off clumsy and selling out the discussion for superficial consumerism (rise of sugary cereals, action figures), glorifying violence (rise of slasher films), and false happy endings.

I've felt the same way about comic book films for the past 2 decades...they started off as a coping mechanism for 9/11 & the war on terror, now they've become partially responsible for the growing immaturity and stupidity of the public.
 
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I get where Tarantino is coming from to a degree, but like an artist, his vision is based on Grindhouse/Filmhouse stuff. The 80's were big action blockbusters, and to a guy like Quentin, that shyt just gets under his skin. :lolbron:

So he has a right to his opinion, but he is also enforcing a self-bias on what he believes people should be watching and what is truly 'art'. Quentin doesn't sound like an old head, but just a guy who spent way too much time watching movies, and less time with the outside world.

But it's helped him become a good director.
 
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Luke Cage said:
80s movies PC? :russ:

We talking about an era where rated R movies were marketed towards kids. You think you gonna see any toy commercials for the suicide squad on cable tv today?
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That's the whole point. Movies marketed towards kids.

The 80's was the end of the director lead production era of Hollywood.

After Spielberg came along, and after the failure of movies like Heaven's Gate, studios seized control of the industry again. Ambitious, adult oriented, large production films gave way to production line franchise bait and cheap teen star vehicles.

Compare the iconic films of the 70's (Godfather, Rocky, Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter, French Connection, All The President's Men, ,Three Days of the Condor, Dirty Harry etc etc etc on and on) to what followed the decade after.

Shiny, easily digestible popcorn flicks that were adult in only their violence and sexual suggestiveness, but not in any real thought provoking concepts. Those films, the ones we now consider "award bait" were the NORM for block hater attractions until the 80s came along.

The 80s was the dawn of big budget movies made for kids, teens, and adult children.

This isn't even a hot take. It's just fact. All of the director's from the time speak on this.

Watch " De Palma" if you get a chance where he expands on it. Studios kept meddling in films to make them more palatable for big audiences in the 80s after it wasn't happening at all in the 70s.
 
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