Nah, there are plenty of examples of modern films using phones to add to the experience. Writers that set their movie in the 80s for no particular reason are hacks.
It makes things much less interesting, for sure. Being able to call anyone from anywhere is a luxury people just take for granted, but it's a massive game changer.
Nah, there are plenty of examples of modern films using phones to add to the experience. Writers that set their movie in the 80s for no particular reason are hacks.
It makes things much less interesting, for sure. Being able to call anyone from anywhere is a luxury people just take for granted, but it's a massive game changer.
It takes away a lot of established tropes and plot devices, but people have been able to tell good stories throughout all technological advancement, so I think we'll be ok. The problem is the lazy, profit-driven studios that churn out shitty movies.
In a way, yeah.
If you're writing a coming of age story with slice of life elements and you want to set it in modern times the sad reality is that most kids are just kinda staying inside rotting away on their phone or computer during their free time, it'd be unrealistic to have a group of teens hanging out somewhere regularly in a modern day setting.
It was a Mind-Kontrol decade
We started to break out of the media brainwashing in the 1970s so they had to psyop the shit out of us and mentally break us through media
Now the 2020s are the new decade the brainwashing is wearing off, so they want to destroy society to imprison us
A. The 80s were the best decade after the collapse of civilization beginning in the 18th century and concluding with WWI.
B. People are nostalgic about their childhood. People who grew up in the 80s are running most of the studios, writing most of the scripts, directing, producing, etc. right now.
It was the last memorable decent era, the 90s would qualify too but they weren't as iconic, cultural trends started to stagnate
Nothing memorable or nostalgic ever happened after 9/11 that could be used as bait in future or current media products
The 80's were the time of the holy penis anon, this is, it's fundamental, the holy penis was that penis, that defined all proceeding penises. You could stick the holy penis anywhere, then a cancer came, and there was no holy penis no more, the dark ages were upon the gays, released by a dark shadowy corporation that needed to pivot fast, or it was threatened to disappear, not even 15 years later, and boom, it was a thing of the past, not the entire organization but the bulk of it, of course the 80's were when the show was happening, when "shit was going down", the trap had being set 10 years earlier; So you had everything you need for the perfect combination, and the perfect distraction, for western modern culture well, I think it was the saving grace that paved our generation and generations to come, it paved this modernized west. But yeah, shit was going down and everyone was enjoying themselves.
For sure, but culture has barely changed since the 2000s so it won't be that weird. Unless some new revolutionary tech like what widespread internet, smartphones and social media were comes out.
It's definitely changed, but it's stagnated and more recycled than ever. I also think the fact that so many huge tech revolutions came so quickly means things changed too fast to settle into a feeling of a distinct era.
Yeah, things changed but not like the 80s-00s. That was a huge leap, and changed the ways most people lived their lives. 00s-20s barely saw any change by comparison. We still mostly live the same way with the same fundamental tech. And like you said, it's very recycled. Very few new IPs. Mostly IPs from the 80s-90s being rehashed over and over.
It was the last time it felt like America.
Everything since 99 has been a march towards a pink and blue cabbage patch and Cynthia doll haircut mulatto and trans future that quite frankly, I'm not fond of. I said it.
culturally contemporary but no cell phones
also banking on that boomer /gen x nostalgia
Did mobile phones ruin movie writing?
No, shitty writers did
>Implying that movies were better before.
There have always been more shit then gold.
They were actually
Hollywood only makes focus grouped blockbusters nowadays
What an absolutely moronic take. I can wait for you summer children to leave this place.
Nah, there are plenty of examples of modern films using phones to add to the experience. Writers that set their movie in the 80s for no particular reason are hacks.
>modern films using phones to add to the experience.
Do you mean like when they put those text message bubbles on the screen?
It makes things much less interesting, for sure. Being able to call anyone from anywhere is a luxury people just take for granted, but it's a massive game changer.
just do the no reception trope, big deal
It takes away a lot of established tropes and plot devices, but people have been able to tell good stories throughout all technological advancement, so I think we'll be ok. The problem is the lazy, profit-driven studios that churn out shitty movies.
In a way, yeah.
If you're writing a coming of age story with slice of life elements and you want to set it in modern times the sad reality is that most kids are just kinda staying inside rotting away on their phone or computer during their free time, it'd be unrealistic to have a group of teens hanging out somewhere regularly in a modern day setting.
It was a different time
It was a Mind-Kontrol decade
We started to break out of the media brainwashing in the 1970s so they had to psyop the shit out of us and mentally break us through media
Now the 2020s are the new decade the brainwashing is wearing off, so they want to destroy society to imprison us
Because the 80's aren't over until we say they are.
A. The 80s were the best decade after the collapse of civilization beginning in the 18th century and concluding with WWI.
B. People are nostalgic about their childhood. People who grew up in the 80s are running most of the studios, writing most of the scripts, directing, producing, etc. right now.
It was the last memorable decent era, the 90s would qualify too but they weren't as iconic, cultural trends started to stagnate
Nothing memorable or nostalgic ever happened after 9/11 that could be used as bait in future or current media products
The 80's were the time of the holy penis anon, this is, it's fundamental, the holy penis was that penis, that defined all proceeding penises. You could stick the holy penis anywhere, then a cancer came, and there was no holy penis no more, the dark ages were upon the gays, released by a dark shadowy corporation that needed to pivot fast, or it was threatened to disappear, not even 15 years later, and boom, it was a thing of the past, not the entire organization but the bulk of it, of course the 80's were when the show was happening, when "shit was going down", the trap had being set 10 years earlier; So you had everything you need for the perfect combination, and the perfect distraction, for western modern culture well, I think it was the saving grace that paved our generation and generations to come, it paved this modernized west. But yeah, shit was going down and everyone was enjoying themselves.
inb4 movies released in 2050 are set in the 2010s
For sure, but culture has barely changed since the 2000s so it won't be that weird. Unless some new revolutionary tech like what widespread internet, smartphones and social media were comes out.
It's definitely changed, but it's stagnated and more recycled than ever. I also think the fact that so many huge tech revolutions came so quickly means things changed too fast to settle into a feeling of a distinct era.
Yeah, things changed but not like the 80s-00s. That was a huge leap, and changed the ways most people lived their lives. 00s-20s barely saw any change by comparison. We still mostly live the same way with the same fundamental tech. And like you said, it's very recycled. Very few new IPs. Mostly IPs from the 80s-90s being rehashed over and over.
We already started the "2000s nostalgia" movie trend. It will only get worse
It was the last time it felt like America.
Everything since 99 has been a march towards a pink and blue cabbage patch and Cynthia doll haircut mulatto and trans future that quite frankly, I'm not fond of. I said it.
Amen brother, amen.
only 20 more years until the boomers die/retire and we get 2k kino
a lot of the writers and producers grew up in that era. in a few years it will be about the ninties