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kajota's avatar

I only watched the first season and thought it was fine but not good enough to keep watching. I grew up in the 80s as a nerd who played D&D and this show just doesn't feel right to me. It feels like what a nerd who plays D&D now thinks the 80s was like. My D&D playgroup was nerds but two of us were also on the football team and one of was a complete stoner. Us nerds were programming on our C64 and Atari 800s. And we all listen to metal (lots of Iron Maiden). We also had no girls playing. They weren't playing because we excluded them but because no girl at the time was interested at all. Now maybe this was totally different for other nerds in the 80s but this show just doesn't feel right to me. I also hate nostalgia for nostalgia's sake.

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Pete P's avatar

Contemporary Hollywood is plagued by the lack of limits. In classic movies, the physical limitations of special effects caused for increased creativity. It led to better screenwriting. They had to think "how can make this work?"

I like the Netflix series "The Movies That Made Us" as it shows that so often the filmmakers had to just do that and how things just came together. They couldn't just CGI in some crap later to make it work.

The MCU/Marvel things are all about lack of limits. "Let's just make this next scene even bigger! Let's get Wanda even more power! Let's have a multiverse so we don't ever really kill anyone off!".

I recently showed my oldest the orginal Alien. The thing is 45 years old and looks extremely good and holds up. It is such a great movie and such quality filmmaking.

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