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Post by lugnut on Jan 10, 2012 12:37:41 GMT -5
But even that brings up an interesting point - movies that we watched when we were kids, were much more adult like than the crap made today for kids. Stuff like The Goonies, The Bad News Bears, A Christmas Story and many other 80's movies for kids had much more adult situations, swear words and the like. I think in many ways, we have become pussified from how things used to be. That's one thing I've always thought is almost stunning when you look back on it, how "pussified" kid-oriented movies and TV became sometime in the '90s. When I think back to my childhood in the '80s (and for me it really was childhood, since I'm younger than a lot of you guys), it's kind of amazing at what passed as childrens' entertainment and what kind of films were marketed directly at children. If Robocop was just being released today I imagine you'd have politicians and parents' groups losing their shit if the film was pushed towards kids as much as it was back in '87. Toys, a Nintendo game, an animated series, trading cards, lunchboxes, all sorts of Robomerchandise for one of the most brutal action films ever made...and nobody really batted an eye at the time. Imagine if there had been a Saw cartoon and toy line - and now remember that there really *was* a Freddy Kruger TV show, toys, video games, candy and every other conceivable knick-knack. It's all so strange looking back...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2012 13:25:17 GMT -5
Did Lugnut just call us all old? No, he called all of YOU old. At 13, I was still technically an innocent child in the late 80s, so suck it.
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Post by Hey Man on Jan 10, 2012 14:05:57 GMT -5
By the way, what happened to the whole concept of kids sneaking into R Rated movies?
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Post by lugnut on Jan 10, 2012 14:30:42 GMT -5
No, he called all of YOU old. At 13, I was still technically an innocent child in the late 80s, so suck it. I graduated high school in 1990, so I was still underage throughout the 80s! I was only 10 at the end of the '80s, ya old bastards.
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Post by dute on Jan 11, 2012 6:01:27 GMT -5
I'd assume kids still do it. I don't know if they make an entire day of seeing 3-4 flicks like I used to but couldn't see kids not sneaking about in the theater. Funnily enough as I was looking up an article on R-ratings and gaming yesterday, I came across a question someone had posted online: How do I sneak into an R-rated film?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2012 12:15:36 GMT -5
I grew up in a country town. No video player (never got one until I was 21). 2 TV channels....one Government funded, (very prim and proper back then) and one commercial channel (mostly funded by Religious groups). R-Rated movies really didn't get shown on TV back then unless they were edited to hell. Things like nudity, violence and extreme language didn't make it onto our screens as it does these days (standards of decency on TV/radio were higher back then). Did we grow up in the same town?!?!?!?
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