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Why Nostalgia for ‘80s Action Movies Is Back
Bangor Daily News ^ | 6/20

Posted on 06/22/2023 2:24:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 06/22/2023 2:24:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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They’re good.

They’re not woke.


2 posted on 06/22/2023 2:27:33 PM PDT by Skywise
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Current movies are so computerized green screen fake I don’t how people can sit through them


3 posted on 06/22/2023 2:28:44 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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Hollywood had Hollyweird in its midst, it wasn’t yet all Hollywierd.


4 posted on 06/22/2023 2:32:48 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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But action-movie highs come at a cost. They tend to offer cartoonishly simple and violent solutions to complex problems

Poppycock!

Ronald Reagan said: They say if we'll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he'll forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer - not an easy answer but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.

We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters." Alexander Hamilton said, "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Now let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace - and you can have it in the next second - surrender.

Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face, that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand, the ultimatum. And what then, when Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we're retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he's heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one commentator put it, he'd rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us.

5 posted on 06/22/2023 2:32:54 PM PDT by Krosan
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They tend to offer cartoonishly simple and violent solutions to complex problems

You mean like "we came, we saw, he died!"

Who said that?

  1. Arnold Schwarzenegger
  2. Silvester Stallone
  3. Bruce Willis
  4. Clint Eastwood
  5. Hillary Clinton

6 posted on 06/22/2023 2:39:57 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Than you. Great response.


7 posted on 06/22/2023 2:41:23 PM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h g)
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In the 80s men were men, women were women, and no one was confused about the two.


8 posted on 06/22/2023 2:42:20 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis in 2024. No Other Choice Works. Trump Needs to Stay Home and Endorse DeSantis.)
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To: nickcarraway

Chuck Norris, “Eye For An Eye,” “Missing in Action.” Stallone as Rambo. The Gipper in office.


9 posted on 06/22/2023 2:44:12 PM PDT by Luke21
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Sounds like Arnold.

By the way, what do they mean 80’s movies are “back”? For me they are a simple diversion. Lately it has been Charles Bronson movies. Westerns, cops, Death Wish, etc. (The sequels to Death Wish got a bit tiresome).


10 posted on 06/22/2023 2:45:08 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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Hillary Clinton


11 posted on 06/22/2023 2:50:48 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: NWFree

I can’t watch modern CGI intensive movies...sensory overload can cause migraines for me.


12 posted on 06/22/2023 2:51:58 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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I can’t stand most modern movies or TV shows.


13 posted on 06/22/2023 2:53:41 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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I watch numerous old TV series from the 80s and 90s. The ‘wokeness’ was creeping in even then.

I watch some foreign-English-dubbed TV series. They are about as ‘woke’ as the American TV, except that the leftist politics seems to be less obvious.

I usually record anything I watch or stream so I can fast-forward through the ‘woke’ crap. Some TV shows get reduced to 30 out of 42 minutes by zipping through the crap sections.


14 posted on 06/22/2023 2:55:55 PM PDT by TomGuy
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What do you mean modern? They didn’t have movies in pre-modern times?


15 posted on 06/22/2023 2:56:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Commando is on YouTube for free now. Watched it a few weeks back. Still a great popcorn flick.


16 posted on 06/22/2023 3:01:05 PM PDT by circlecity
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mindless escapism wiout being scolded for 90mins


17 posted on 06/22/2023 3:04:20 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Rocky 5000...


18 posted on 06/22/2023 3:04:52 PM PDT by GingisK
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19 posted on 06/22/2023 3:06:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Say the past 10 years or so.


20 posted on 06/22/2023 3:09:17 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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