The trashy scummy 80s in the Terminator
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looks kind of beautiful in a paradox way anyone think so? The people in the backgrounds aren't fakely dressed but legitimate in their goofy colorful clothes, they look like they're REAL pure 80s and it feels just right. T2 even though it came out later in the 90s ironically looks crappier with the mullets/ripped jeans and the LA outskirts/domestic areas. This is also a changing period in between fashions when the hippy hair was phasing out to be replaced by shorter hair like the awkwardly proto-spiked hair of Reese/latter Arnie. Badass. Also the synthesizer soundtrack which might have seemed cheesy a couple years ago now feels very unique! This movie is filled with truth.
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I find it inspiring.
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That's because the 80s were replete with filth on every corner and everyone lived in a shadowy neon-noir world filled with OMD songs and owned their own personal Harold Faltermeyer.
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Re: The trashy scummy 80s in the Terminator
looks kind of beautiful in a paradox way anyone think so? The people in the backgrounds aren't fakely dressed but legitimate in their goofy colorful clothes, they look like they're REAL pure 80s and it feels just right. T2 even though it came out later in the 90s ironically looks crappier with the mullets/ripped jeans and the LA outskirts/domestic areas. This is also a changing period in between fashions when the hippy hair was phasing out to be replaced by shorter hair like the awkwardly proto-spiked hair of Reese/latter Arnie. Badass. Also the synthesizer soundtrack which might have seemed cheesy a couple years ago now feels very unique! This movie is filled with truth.
Also...the synthesizer track has always been cool. It just depends on your bias for it. I think most synthesizer tracks don't age well. BUT if they're done really good like Terminator and are actually well done and unique in their method...it's ageless.
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Yeah....I can't think of many films that really show the seedy world of real life NYC in that era than Taxi Driver. Any other films out there?
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I never really felt it as a seedy world though. It was grimy but it wasn't the shit piss world that Taxi Driver showed.
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I often watch films from the 70's and early 80's, just to soak in the atmosphere. It doesn't even matter much to me if it's a good film or not if there is plenty of interesting stuff in the background.
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Since the film is supposed to take place in '84, yeah it works well. The first three Terminator movies do a decent job of capturing the time it's supposedly set in... give or take a few yrs. (wasn't T2 supposedly 94 or 96?)
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looks kind of beautiful in a paradox way anyone think so? The people in the backgrounds aren't fakely dressed but legitimate in their goofy colorful clothes, they look like they're REAL pure 80s and it feels just right. T2 even though it came out later in the 90s ironically looks crappier with the mullets/ripped jeans and the LA outskirts/domestic areas.
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I came in here to post about how I loved the look of Taxi Driver's NYC, but I see I was beat to it many times.
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DEATH WISH was a joke, too. As plentiful as muggers were, they knew to steer clear of guys who looked like Charles Bronson. They usually went after little old ladies and high school kids. I've always felt that DEATH WISH would have been much more interesting if someone like Tony Randall or Jack Lemmon had played the part of Paul Kersey.
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You mean there were no gangs that painted their faces and dressed up like baseball players? Ya learn something new every day...
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looks kind of beautiful in a paradox way anyone think so? The people in the backgrounds aren't fakely dressed but legitimate in their goofy colorful clothes, they look like they're REAL pure 80s and it feels just right. T2 even though it came out later in the 90s ironically looks crappier with the mullets/ripped jeans and the LA outskirts/domestic areas.
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