1980s not only that music, but those movies! mani?

[Dante]

We've done the music of the horrible decade, the politics? needs no 'splainin

but those movies...

— we are soon talking about our mutual affection for the critic Pauline Kael. A huge influence on Tarantino, Kael championed a kind of high-low trash-art aesthetic that was inclusive of both old-school foreign auteurs (Max Ophüls and Satyajit Ray) and new mavericks (Sam Peckinpah and Brian De Palma), while disdaining the polite, better-behaved American cinema of that era; we agree that she was so much more vital and interesting in the 1970s than in the 1980s. ‘‘The movies just weren’t up to snuff — she was better than the movies,’’ says Tarantino, a believer that the latter decade was among the worst for American film. But, he adds, ‘‘one of the weird things looking back at the ’70s reviews is that you can’t believe how mean she was to magnificent movies. She’s so rough on Don Siegel for making ‘Charley Varrick.’ ’’

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/t...interview.html?contentCollection=weekendreads
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[nuhuh]

Elephant man, On Golden Pond, E.T. Ghandi, Amadeus, The Killing Fields, Platoon, Field of Dreams, I don't think the decade was all that bad.

 

[Moonglow]

Yeah, and Commando....

 

[IsaacNewton]

Star Wars, Aliens, The Color Purple, Ghost Busters, The Karate Kid, War Games, E.T., The Thing, Raiders Trilogy, Back To The Future, Less Than Zero.

I agree the 80s were an odd decade for movies and other things, but there were many very good movies from that decade as well.
Worst things from the 80s re pop culture would have to be Glam Rock and the 'me' generation.

 

[Dante]

Life was good during the 1980s, before it wasn't

 

[Moonglow]

I did military service so much of the 1980's is a blurr....Then I got out and stopped doing the required Army drinking match...

 

[Dante]

W

I did military service so much of the 1980's is a blurr....Then I got out and stopped doing the required Army drinking match...

What? Is this how veterans of your time defended my personal freedoms and liberties?