PillowRock
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VH-1\'s \"I Love The 80\'s\"
So did anyone else watch any noticable amount of this? I ended up watching more of it than I would probably want to admit. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Yeah, they ignored almost all of the real news of the era while doing their overview of American pop culture, but .... A lot of it was actually kinda fun. By the time they got to 1989 it wasn't *as much* fun. O thin that that isn't quite long enough ago to have that same time capsule feel as the ones about the early 80's.
My one gripe was that they seemed to be targeting, pretty much exclusively, kids that were in elementary school in the early 80's. I mean, they spent a bunch of time on movies like Goonies and Back to the Future and Ferris Beuler's Day Off (which were very good movies) and TV shows like Punky Brewster and The Facts of Life, even Small Wonder /forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif and The Care Bears /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif (none of which I ever watched). Meanwhile they completely ignored some absolutey *huge* (but not for kids) movies like Platoon, Amadeus, and Ghandi.
All of the Mr. and Ms. 198x's (as they picked them) were presented by Dice Clay, although they never showed anything about his act and why he was somewhat prominent in the 80's (at least while I was watching). Similarly, the "Hunks of 198x" presentations were made by Tracy Lords (now *always* "Tracy Elizabeth Lords"); and I *know* they never said anything about how she was famous in the 80's (although you do have to give her a ton of respect for the most successful crossover into "mainstream" acting that I have ever heard of, not to mention just plain getting her life together; the perception / prejudice obstacles that she faced must have been huge).
So did anyone else watch any noticable amount of this? I ended up watching more of it than I would probably want to admit. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Yeah, they ignored almost all of the real news of the era while doing their overview of American pop culture, but .... A lot of it was actually kinda fun. By the time they got to 1989 it wasn't *as much* fun. O thin that that isn't quite long enough ago to have that same time capsule feel as the ones about the early 80's.
My one gripe was that they seemed to be targeting, pretty much exclusively, kids that were in elementary school in the early 80's. I mean, they spent a bunch of time on movies like Goonies and Back to the Future and Ferris Beuler's Day Off (which were very good movies) and TV shows like Punky Brewster and The Facts of Life, even Small Wonder /forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif and The Care Bears /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif (none of which I ever watched). Meanwhile they completely ignored some absolutey *huge* (but not for kids) movies like Platoon, Amadeus, and Ghandi.
All of the Mr. and Ms. 198x's (as they picked them) were presented by Dice Clay, although they never showed anything about his act and why he was somewhat prominent in the 80's (at least while I was watching). Similarly, the "Hunks of 198x" presentations were made by Tracy Lords (now *always* "Tracy Elizabeth Lords"); and I *know* they never said anything about how she was famous in the 80's (although you do have to give her a ton of respect for the most successful crossover into "mainstream" acting that I have ever heard of, not to mention just plain getting her life together; the perception / prejudice obstacles that she faced must have been huge).
