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Re: Best Films of the 1980s
Age is a big factor in these lists it seems. Or whether you are European or American. A limited amount of American movies came to Europe in the past. And whether you grew up in a decade, or if you were already grown, or you weren't born and only know it through the classics later. A lot of movies are also zeitgeist dependent. If you weren't there and you didn't "get it" then you won't look at the movie the same way.
Re: Best Films of the 1980s
Age is a big factor in these lists it seems. Or whether you are European or American. A limited amount of American movies came to Europe in the past. And whether you grew up in a decade, or if you were already grown, or you weren't born and only know it through the classics later. A lot of movies are also zeitgeist dependent. If you weren't there and you didn't "get it" then you won't look at the movie the same way.
Absolutely. Clueless is a great example of this. If you weren't around in the summer of 95, it would mean nothing to you.
It never had staying power and obviously no sequels to keep it moving along.
A lot of those 80s teen comedies would fall into this category. The youth of today cannot relate to hours of detention, buying tickets from actual scalpers, malls as the center of the universe, etc.
I blame Elastica's slip through the cracks of history on this same thing. If you weren't a teenager in 94-95 while they were briefly on the scene, you don't know or care of their existence.
