Why are americans so obsessed with the 80s?

Why are americans so obsessed with the 80s?

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When you have no future, you live in the past.

what country are you from bitch, show flag right now!

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how long since that 70s show came out?

now enough people are old enough for 80s nostalgia to sell, in a decade or so it'll be the 90s turn.

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It was a different time

Whenever a great empire stagnates, they look to the past for future inspiration. That is the fatal flaw, once it is fully accepted, the empire will crumble.

It was the only good time cocksucker.

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Everyone was rich in the 80s thanks to credit being available to whoever wanted it and the cocaine was really good.

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I wouldn't say it's just Americans, but generally it's because of Gen X being the most useless generation of lards ever. The 80's really marked the point at which entertainment started gearing towards kids and teenagers rather than adults, and now you have a whole generation of guys in their mid 30's who never grew up and are obsessed with comic books, video games and childrens movies. Also they will literally never stop telling you about muh childhood

Why are you so obsessed with America?

because most kids seen shit their parents saw, so when a 90's kid become a parent the 80's are still a thing to them cause his parents saw that shit and it spread. I don't even think GUNDAMU was in america in the 80's....

You're talking about millennials, you goddamn worthless faggot.

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whoa. dubs of deep truth.

didn't expect this level of thought.

It was, Asian immigrants were obsessed with it.

I'm obsessed with 80s music. That's about it.

Based makes you think poster.

Deep

>americans
OBSESSED

Nice and insightful posts. Ty anons.

pretty sure it didn't air till the 90's and i said America no thirdworld asia

the last time they had total and absolute control, the golden era of their short lived empire

>Why are Americans so obsessed with the 80s?
That's just liberals. Conservatives are obsessed with the 1780s.

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sure buddy

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ok kid, kek'd, well done.

Because most of them are 30 something and a little older, so they're in the prime age to consume this entertainment, and were kids during the 80s. A period during which good movies came out and plenty of influencal franchises started or grew.
Basically they're trying to recapture the feeling fo the good old days through whatever esthetics, names, brands and moods were popular at the time.

Because everything was "so much simpler" back then. Most probably if you're a straight white dude since most of that content was catered to them.

Probably ties into why so many minorities are using this as a way to insert themselves into the reboots, because they enjoyed the original content, but never got fully represented in it

I expected the 90's to take over soon.
the nostalgia rule is usually 20 years, the 80's liked the 50's and the 70's show was in the 90's

maybe it's me but the 80's nostalgia seems to have stayed around longer than expected. perhaps the millennial want to keep hold of their childhood in a way previous generations didn't.

Old people are obsessed with 80s music and millennials are obsessed with 80s movies.

Cause 80's movies where cheap easy movies to fill tv networks with and they also happen to be core action

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it's made for 30 something soys so it's just references to when they were kids

It was a whiter time.

That's... pretty much the story, isn't it?

>Gun grabbing, amnesty granting faggot

If it looks like a duck...

I grew up in the 80's, it is the comfiest era but all these normies keep trying to ruin it for me

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Why is every other country so obsessed with America?

Weren't the 80's a starting descent into stagnation for the USA? Cold War, Reagan and about to get cucked economically by an Asian nation.

>Cowboy Bebop
>Iron Giant
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>80's liked the 50's
>10's like the 80's
it's 30 years.

I have a running theory that each decade is just a revamped version of whatever was around 30 years earlier. We're currently trying to recapture the 80s, the previous decade saw us appropriating 70s culture, and the 90s saw us looking back at the 60s (which is why Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July already feels like a 90s movie despite being made in the late 80s).

Meanwhile you have the 80s which was looking back on the 50s. Punk largely appropriated a warped sense of 50s fashion. Films tended to gravitate towards the melodrama popular in the 50s (or hell, just about any film aspect of the 50s was copied, from musicals to epics). Hell you even have Back to the Future which is a film about the relationship between the two decades.

they were on top of the world. i mean they could pull shit like this nytimes.com/1988/04/19/world/us-strikes-2-iranian-oil-rigs-hits-6-warships-battles-over-mining-sea-lanes-gulf.html

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because Americans are obsessed with bumfuckery and AID's.

>obsessed with the 80s
Majority of references are from current year

We still do that. It doesn't even make the news anymore.

so in the 20s people will be nostalgic for the 90s
the Captain Marvel movie is already going to be set in the 90s which might be the start of it
the problem is there was not really any culture in the 90s to have nostalgia for lmao

Why do you keep posting nonsense? First you were posting it was all post- 2000, now it is "current year?"

Novel was 70s and 80s.
This movie is 90s and 00s.

idk I'm more of a 30s/40s guy myself

I like how during euro hours this board goes to shit. Constantly posting about politics and complaining about pol while obviously holding the most fag positions possible (as if the euro can hold any other). During American prime time waifus are posted and good times are had by all.

THESE SYSTEMS ARE FAILING

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Probably bored. Say what you want about America but there's always something whacky happening here. The other day I saw a lady with the body of Mike Wazowski sperg out over McDonald's hamburgers and try to hit someone with her cane, in the UK you need a license to view prime entertainment like that.

>the redneck with a confederate vest sexually harassing a woman in the subway
How pitifully delusional.

Saw it, and it is a fucking dissapointment.
I am a robot from /r9k/ and the book was a bible for me. I wanted to transform myself so much in a world like this which was part of my life since my childhood.

Spielberg couldn't understand this. The whole movie was made for normies with things like "OH MY GOD LOOK HERE IS A REFERENCE, AND HERE, AND HERE, NOW CLAP"

I was very disapointed. Especially because artemis, she looks like a navi what the hell. Parzival looks like Dante while in the book it was stated the avatar looks like Wade, he is just more muscular.

Not to mention escalating the war on drugs to what it is now. And the religious right taking over the Republic party. Most of our current political problems can be traced back directly to that time period.

Name a decade more over-rated than the 50s or 80s.

Don't worry, I'll wait.

Your mom

90s were pretty shitty. Hair was shit. Baggy clothing was shit. Music was mostly shit.

You're right, whites have no future so we live in eras where we still believed we did.

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60s?
dude weed lmao: the decade

Still better than the 80s.

Eh, people looked better in the 80s and pop music was great. It's definitely an overrated decade but culturally not a bad one.

Except LSD was the more significant drug at that time.

Also as an aside, why does Sup Forums hate marijuana so much?

90's nostalgia already started

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Look at that fucking fashion. God damn I hate the 90s.

Based

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You can call Reagan a liberal, but you can't deny that the GOP openly worships him. Try taking a shot every time his name is mentioned during the next Republican primary debate and see how you feel.

1920s or 30s. There's a ridiculous amount of movies that celebrate the extravagance of the era so that people want to go back to "the jazz-age" and wear a suit while they party or run a speakeasy, but the cold reality is that it was called The Great Depression for a reason. Kids starving in the streets, a police-force so corrupt that they'd give a lady a random kid just to shut her up about her missing kid, and people eating sausages filled with sawdust and washing it down with alcohol filled with additives that will eventually make them lame, because they coudn't afford the booze that the rich people drank.

Because you can't smoke pot in your basement without mommy finding out sooner or later. Not even the stench from the cumrags will cover the smell in the end.

a better time

everything was better when there were less non-whites

even the eighties

they are desperate and in denial

>the problem is there was not really any culture in the 90s to have nostalgia for lmao
The culture shift from the early 90s to the late 90s was more vast than everything that happened from the year 2000 until today.
>emergency of home internet, social media, online gaming, esports, blogging, peer-to-peer file sharing
>cel phones went from being exotic toys for the super rich to teenagers texting in school by the end of the decade
>massive shift in music (grunge, modern country, modern hip hop, techno/electronic go mainstream, rise and fall of goth, Nu metal) and the music industry pretty could barely keep up, and yet here has been no significant shift in music ever since
>rise of the mp3 changed how music is both used and shared
>the level of quality on TV surged as film makers began to take the small screen seriously. Sopranos and modern era of HBO emerged
>western animation was reinvented as it transitioned from peak Disney traditional animation (lion king, Aladdin, beauty and beast in the early 90s) to CG dominance (toy story and the rise of pixar) in the late 90s
>simpsons (mid December 1989 debut), family guy, futurama, and south park made adult animation mainstream
>otaku culture and "japanimation" are almost unheard of in the west in 1990, aside from a handful of early imports kids cartoons, but after akira hits theaters in 1991 a fire is lit. The R-rated Anime section emerges in video stores by mid 1990s, and by late 1999 the internet has made anime mainstream (eva, bebop, DBZ)
>for video games the decade began with lingering 8-bit games but saw the emergency of the JRPG in the west, modern era of WRPG began (elder scrolls, deus ex, baldurs gate), the 3d platform adventure games (tomb raider, modern zelda games), the RTS genre, the FPS genre, turn based 4x, survival horror, online multiplayer, open world sandbox games, realistic flight sims and driving games, VR headsets, the MMORPG, etc
tl;dr
Massive culture shift

> does not know the difference between the Swinging Twenties and the Great Depression of the 1930's.

>people will soon be nostalgic for the 2000s
>early Sup Forums will soon be nostalgia here
cant wait

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It's the Roaring Twenties, you dweeb. And the problem is that the Movies/nostalgia-people themselves don't know the difference, with lots of the nostalgia things actually only showing up during the Great Depression but being attributed to the earlier decade by the nostalgiafags.

I think you're confused, m8. The Roaring 20s were not during the depression and everyone was very prosperous. And prohibition was ended in 1933, meaning the majority of the depression didn't even have it. The 20s and the 30s are two distinct decades which hugely contrast one another. Not sure why you think they're presented as the same.

Give 3 examples of a movie that takes place during the depression but is depicted as if it's during the 20s if it is so widespread.

>Establishment GOP
>Conservative
You can only pick one there buddy.

>No true Scotsman
I actually did play that drinking game during the last primary. Daddy Trump was giving us shots just like the rest of them.

Except this is nothing new. In the 1970's and 1980's, for example, people were really nostalgic for the 50's and 60's.

This. Hasn't anyone ever see Midnight in Paris? The whole theme is that people always romanticize the past.

When you have no future AND no past (240 year "history" lmao) you live in the 80s

Cocaine.

Makes sense.

I recently tried it and thought it was pretty neat. Definitely find stoner culture annoying and unfunny though.

I am genuine afraid to see my old man now. 80s was his golden years. Now he complained that he can't understand the new movies and he always goes back to watch 80s movies.

it's complicated because the great depression did overlap with prohibition. It just hit wall street, main street, and rural folk at different times.

Wall street took a beating early with the 1929 crash, and half the banks had failed by 1933. The prohibition crime wave and mob wars peaked in 1929 through 1931 as well (st valentines massacre, the arrest of Al Capone, etc). Urban unemployment was hit harder at this time as factories shut down and that added to the crime wave. This is why the 1920 and 1930s "gangster era" overlap in film.

Main street (small buisness owners) were not intitially hit as hard but their problems were made worse with the loss of banks and borrowing power to grow their business. Consumer spending decline hurt some businesses more than others.

The problems on wallstreet didn't affect rural folk immediately, but the 1931 drought sure did, and then wheat prices bottomed out in 1932. The "dust bowl" was an environmental problem that was man made and made all of this far worse. Agricultural practices at the time left bare, overplowed topsoil exposed and soil erosion was a serious problem. It got worse each year and by 1934 millions of acres of farmland became worthless as the fertile soil simply blew away. It was a man-made ecological disaster as they rushed to tear up the prairie grassland but wheal prices dropped and it wasn't worth planting anything. At this point the cities were recovering and wallstreet was getting back on it's feet but the farmers continued to suffer until 1939.

That last part is the Steinbeck "grapes of wrath" era, where rural folk simply gave up and moved west or urbanized.

All that is true, but not really pertinent. Lavish excess of the era in movies is accurately confined to the 20s and at the very latest the first couple years of the 30s since as you said it didn't all happen overnight.

The original user implied there's some widespread issue in film of portraying the 30s as the 20s. I'm not sure why they believe this is the case.

Well you see it in movies like the untouchables that took place in 1930-1932. They still show a roaring 20s atmosphere in chicago but this was at the peak of the urban recession. The film chose to not touch on that at all.

>maybe it's me but the 80's nostalgia seems to have stayed around longer than expected

80's nostalgia is weird because it seemed to start as soon as the decade ended because of how idiosyncratic it was.

This. I was in high school i nthe early 1980s and we already had "80s night" events for school dances. Peopel dressed up as michael jackson, material gril era Madonna, and cindy lauper, Others went full twisted sister or boy george. The 80s felt like a life time ago in 1992.

>"highschool in the early 1990s" that should say

ooh someone offended the Gen Xfag, how dare they. Don't drop your toys you useless shit

No one romanticized the 30s or 40s user those were shitty decades. People romanticized in the 50s and 60s due to the us being a supepower and the comfy Christian home. The 60s and 70 get the romance of the hippies and shit. 80s and 90s has techno futurism and macho men, but I don’t think anyone will romanticize the 2000 and 2010s.

They will just make a lot of "war on terror" films. taking place in the 2000s.

>No one romanticized the 30s or 40s user those were shitty decades
That is so fucking false. The depression is very romanticized as this time when Americans hunkered down and survived on their own gumption, etc. And WWII is the most romanticized event of the century.

People will definitely do the same for this and the last decade. They're already starting with the 2000s. People already pretends Britney Spears, nsync, the backstreet boys, etc were the pinnacle of pop music.

1780 > 2018