wild greens

Well-known member
It's striking partly because the 70s is full of proper grown-up films. Explain the reason for this.

I read that Easy Riders Raging Bulls book years ago and got the impression that all the hippies saw the money Lucas made off Star Wars and thought fuck this I'm getting stuck in. Big sea change after that.

Also the change from weed and psychedelics to everyone getting on the lemo can't be underestimated.
 

woops

is not like other people
I read that Easy Riders Raging Bulls book years ago and got the impression that all the hippies saw the money Lucas made off Star Wars and thought fuck this I'm getting stuck in. Big sea change after that.

Also the change from weed and psychedelics to everyone getting on the lemo can't be underestimated.
good points
 

woops

is not like other people
i can remember my dad laughing at the bit on the a-team credits where it says the programme is for intended for adults
 

luka

Well-known member
I read that Easy Riders Raging Bulls book years ago and got the impression that all the hippies saw the money Lucas made off Star Wars and thought fuck this I'm getting stuck in. Big sea change after that.

Also the change from weed and psychedelics to everyone getting on the lemo can't be underestimated.
I tend to think all the changes proceed from the same source, part of the same big change. Reagan, Speilberg/Lucas, cocaine, Pepsi, Arnie/Sly, the whole thing,probably something to do with the alignment of the stars.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
My mother wasn't exactly puritanical but we didn't get a video until 1988 or something and I certainly never saw any of the action movies as a kid, I'd only hear the terrifying rumors in the playground. Later on my mate Badger Gav's dad owned a video shop in Brecon and he was always going on about watching gruesome things like Hellraiser and Nightbreed before the age of 10. I never watched any of this stuff, but both my parents took me separately to see most of the PG blockbusters of the time in the cinema. Then you'd watch them on TV at Christmas. Things like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Back to the Future, all the Spielbergs, Romancing the Stone, Jewel in the Nile, Transformers: The Movie, that kind of stuff. It's the texture of childhood to me.
 

wild greens

Well-known member
Well you will always react against a previous generation won't you. Ultimately if the 70s ponderous psychedelia niche is what your elderly peers were into then you will look at all that and think i am making the complete fucking opposite.

Drugs go hand in hand with rich creatives regardless.

So you're probably right in some regard. Chemical rebellions have been the sea change for most things.

Not the biggest fan but the analogy probably also works with things like dubstep post-smoking ban and the transition to ket crowds taking everything mid-range.

Or the coke gloss of dipset etc in new York rap. Have you saw juelz santana's teeth now? Fucking horrible
 

luka

Well-known member
No but I'm going to google it now. Cough medicine mixed with Sprite and Jolly Ranchers. Bad for teeth.
 

luka

Well-known member
I never got to see transformers the movie but I had an audio book of it that I loved 😂😂😂😂
 

craner

Beast of Burden
I saw Ghostbusters in the cinema 3 times! My mum took me, then my Dad took me, and then my Mum took me again on my birthday with all my pals from school. I also had a Ghostbusters birthday cake, the audio book and one of those glow-in-the-dark sweatshirts. My allegiance was well known.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
It was the decision our mothers took about what films we watched that took us down different ideological pathways.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
I saw Ghostbusters at the Odeon three times and you only had the book. And this is where we end up.
 

luka

Well-known member
You think the elites are wise and beneficent rulers I want to mow them down in a hail of bullets
 
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