1980's The Nostalgia Era.
The nineteen eighties to say the least was an extravagant as the cinema started slowly to get back onto track with more films having more sophisticated special effects, stronger actors, interesting plots, and more affordable to audiences. The eighties were a time for film industry to be back on track from the slow and derivative time that the sixties and seventies have brought up. During this time it will be looked upon about what makes people so reminiscent on this time period to be considered the new age of Hollywood.
In the previous decades, the film industry was teetering in and out financially as films were seen nonprofitable for the time period which resulted in a lot films made cheaply and with many restrictions being put on for financial reasons. For this fact carried over to the early eighties as Star Wars Empire Strikes Back (1980) made up 25% of all ticket sales for nineteen eighty one summer. Films that today considered masterpieces or really good were critically panned, financially unsuccessful or both in most case
s as Stanley Kubrick's The Shining was often overlooked, Blues Brothers (1980) failed both financially and critically at the time, and Friday the 13th (1980) was one of the only successful movies to come out that year due to it being relatively cheap to make. As the eighties began to catch on, films started to become more successful every year as new directors, the studio brats, and other influences began to shape what often we call Hollywood for its memorable tales of movie magic. In the following year the film industry started to take off as films started to take what exactly in the previous decades like in the silver age and golden age of Hollywood and refined them to create new and interesting ideas set forth in future productions that made the 80's into a new age of ecstasy, and excitement. For instance, Raiders of the Lost Ark, (1981) when being discussed by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg they would describe iconic scenes and characters by using characters and events from movies when they were growing. George Lucas would say the Indiana Jones would be dirty like a treasure hunter, have the personality of a ronin from the Seven Samurai (1954) and describe the terrain and so forth. Films effects had also been improving quite substantially as films like E. T. (1982)
a fantasy/science fiction story about a kid developing a bond with an alien and does everything in the kids power to return the alien back to his home planet. The iconic scene of E.T. flying the bike in front of the moon was done with puppet characters and a blue screen to create the emotional scene. The Thing (1982) a science fiction/horror film about a group of American researchers in Antarctica encounter parasitic extraterrestrial that assimilates other lifeforms, and could possibly assimilate every living creature Earth and have test each other's ability of skills like logically thinking about who could be an alien or who could be an actual human with grotesque body dysmorphias and irregular abilities, and shapes. The Thing is monumental part of what makes the film a masterpiece as the special effects division leader would often sleep on the set so that he could change the monster every time and often has the monster change its appearance in every shot so that it would look like a shape shifter. In conclusion, the beginning of the eighties began with a somewhat disappointment by the next year films began to take off exponentially as directors started to refine ideas, effects would be advanced through the decade with practical effects starting to hold up even today, and memorable characters that stand firmly within our childhood.
In the ninety eighties' Hollywood had a rebirth of film culture as directors, writers, and actors took ideas from the previous decades and refined into film blockbusters that we will still remember today. Shows like Stranger Things (2016) and IT (2017) contain references to boy bands of the eighties and ghostbusters and often movies like to center themselves in the late to mid eighties reasons for doing so is probably the so many memorable events occurred in the eighties like the ending of the cold war, an actor, Ronald Reagan being elected into office, and an increase in a new system of economics or economics policies but whatever it is, it is continued on to be referenced for another ten years. Films in the later decade are often referenced due to many of the late eighties films being cultural milestones that we look in awe and envy for in the new decade as a lot films seemed to lack that eighties fun. I mean whom hasn't at least made one reference to Back to the Future (1985, 1989), Indiana Jones (1984, 1989), Star Wars (1980, 1989), Nightmare on Elmstreet (1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989), or Friday the 13th (Too many made in the decade), maybe because filmed started to blossom heavily as actors, directors started to improve on storylines for in the most part. For instance, what was considered a dead genre where teen movies as they weren't seen as profitable as making something cheap or wide appeal like a Star Wars movie or a Disney live action film. Just to compare numbers a movie that has a small budget like the Blaire Witch or Paranormal activities would have been relatively safe movie to make as their budgets were mostly in the thousands and so could last if bombed, but if a movie was like a ninety million dollar film like the adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) that would have a more dangerous as if the movie bombed then the studio could face a huge financial loss and possibly go bankrupt. However, teen films could be seen as profitable with films like the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elmstreet franchises exploiting teenagers through use of fear while films like Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and the Breakfast Club (1985) told interesting teen drama's from teen perspective, and opened what could possibly done in teen films. In conclusion, teen movies and 80's movies have seem some extraordinary ideas and improvements and continued on as films started to become cheaper to produced and interesting ideas for the rose tinted decade known as the eighties.
Eighties film continued on strong to the end of decade with films starting to finish off trilogies, set new and interesting ideas, and started to break grounds not previously seen in film, but it would soon to come to end as the eighties slowly began to fall in mediocre. For instance, the Jaws Franchise should ended by one movie but as it may it continued onto to make 3rd sequel, Jaws; the Revenge (1987) that is considered by film critics to be one of the worst films ever made, score a 0% on rotten tomatoes, and 15% on Metacritic. Another franchise the Superman movie franchise suffered immensely during its next two outing; Superman 3 (1983) and Superman 4; The Quest for Peace (1987) which are often considered to be the worst films in the entire DC movie franchise as both films contain poor effects (Especially Superman 4, seriously how can a person breathe in space, and why is the villain have to stay in direct sunlight to work), terrible story structure and would be box office disappointments that would continuously remind audiences about how bad superhero movies are. Hollywood anything that could explained in twenty five words or less could be made into a production which lead to a lot of bad films, if not the worst films churned out in this decade. As often said by critics to be one of the worst films, if not the worst film The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987) as the film was rushed by producers and couldn't fix the animatronics in time and critics and angry parents called it obscene, disgusting, profoundly profaned, and annoying as the characters had little to no character, the background lights was always dark, and nothing over than a new sense of how far stupid can go in anything. In conclusion, eighties movies are a bit mixed when you look past the rose tinted glasses and see what the eighties where an over stylized decade that we like to believe was a great decade but in truth it was really bad.
In the previous decades, the film industry was teetering in and out financially as films were seen nonprofitable for the time period which resulted in a lot films made cheaply and with many restrictions being put on for financial reasons. For this fact carried over to the early eighties as Star Wars Empire Strikes Back (1980) made up 25% of all ticket sales for nineteen eighty one summer. Films that today considered masterpieces or really good were critically panned, financially unsuccessful or both in most case
s as Stanley Kubrick's The Shining was often overlooked, Blues Brothers (1980) failed both financially and critically at the time, and Friday the 13th (1980) was one of the only successful movies to come out that year due to it being relatively cheap to make. As the eighties began to catch on, films started to become more successful every year as new directors, the studio brats, and other influences began to shape what often we call Hollywood for its memorable tales of movie magic. In the following year the film industry started to take off as films started to take what exactly in the previous decades like in the silver age and golden age of Hollywood and refined them to create new and interesting ideas set forth in future productions that made the 80's into a new age of ecstasy, and excitement. For instance, Raiders of the Lost Ark, (1981) when being discussed by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg they would describe iconic scenes and characters by using characters and events from movies when they were growing. George Lucas would say the Indiana Jones would be dirty like a treasure hunter, have the personality of a ronin from the Seven Samurai (1954) and describe the terrain and so forth. Films effects had also been improving quite substantially as films like E. T. (1982)
a fantasy/science fiction story about a kid developing a bond with an alien and does everything in the kids power to return the alien back to his home planet. The iconic scene of E.T. flying the bike in front of the moon was done with puppet characters and a blue screen to create the emotional scene. The Thing (1982) a science fiction/horror film about a group of American researchers in Antarctica encounter parasitic extraterrestrial that assimilates other lifeforms, and could possibly assimilate every living creature Earth and have test each other's ability of skills like logically thinking about who could be an alien or who could be an actual human with grotesque body dysmorphias and irregular abilities, and shapes. The Thing is monumental part of what makes the film a masterpiece as the special effects division leader would often sleep on the set so that he could change the monster every time and often has the monster change its appearance in every shot so that it would look like a shape shifter. In conclusion, the beginning of the eighties began with a somewhat disappointment by the next year films began to take off exponentially as directors started to refine ideas, effects would be advanced through the decade with practical effects starting to hold up even today, and memorable characters that stand firmly within our childhood.In the ninety eighties' Hollywood had a rebirth of film culture as directors, writers, and actors took ideas from the previous decades and refined into film blockbusters that we will still remember today. Shows like Stranger Things (2016) and IT (2017) contain references to boy bands of the eighties and ghostbusters and often movies like to center themselves in the late to mid eighties reasons for doing so is probably the so many memorable events occurred in the eighties like the ending of the cold war, an actor, Ronald Reagan being elected into office, and an increase in a new system of economics or economics policies but whatever it is, it is continued on to be referenced for another ten years. Films in the later decade are often referenced due to many of the late eighties films being cultural milestones that we look in awe and envy for in the new decade as a lot films seemed to lack that eighties fun. I mean whom hasn't at least made one reference to Back to the Future (1985, 1989), Indiana Jones (1984, 1989), Star Wars (1980, 1989), Nightmare on Elmstreet (1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989), or Friday the 13th (Too many made in the decade), maybe because filmed started to blossom heavily as actors, directors started to improve on storylines for in the most part. For instance, what was considered a dead genre where teen movies as they weren't seen as profitable as making something cheap or wide appeal like a Star Wars movie or a Disney live action film. Just to compare numbers a movie that has a small budget like the Blaire Witch or Paranormal activities would have been relatively safe movie to make as their budgets were mostly in the thousands and so could last if bombed, but if a movie was like a ninety million dollar film like the adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) that would have a more dangerous as if the movie bombed then the studio could face a huge financial loss and possibly go bankrupt. However, teen films could be seen as profitable with films like the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elmstreet franchises exploiting teenagers through use of fear while films like Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and the Breakfast Club (1985) told interesting teen drama's from teen perspective, and opened what could possibly done in teen films. In conclusion, teen movies and 80's movies have seem some extraordinary ideas and improvements and continued on as films started to become cheaper to produced and interesting ideas for the rose tinted decade known as the eighties.
Eighties film continued on strong to the end of decade with films starting to finish off trilogies, set new and interesting ideas, and started to break grounds not previously seen in film, but it would soon to come to end as the eighties slowly began to fall in mediocre. For instance, the Jaws Franchise should ended by one movie but as it may it continued onto to make 3rd sequel, Jaws; the Revenge (1987) that is considered by film critics to be one of the worst films ever made, score a 0% on rotten tomatoes, and 15% on Metacritic. Another franchise the Superman movie franchise suffered immensely during its next two outing; Superman 3 (1983) and Superman 4; The Quest for Peace (1987) which are often considered to be the worst films in the entire DC movie franchise as both films contain poor effects (Especially Superman 4, seriously how can a person breathe in space, and why is the villain have to stay in direct sunlight to work), terrible story structure and would be box office disappointments that would continuously remind audiences about how bad superhero movies are. Hollywood anything that could explained in twenty five words or less could be made into a production which lead to a lot of bad films, if not the worst films churned out in this decade. As often said by critics to be one of the worst films, if not the worst film The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987) as the film was rushed by producers and couldn't fix the animatronics in time and critics and angry parents called it obscene, disgusting, profoundly profaned, and annoying as the characters had little to no character, the background lights was always dark, and nothing over than a new sense of how far stupid can go in anything. In conclusion, eighties movies are a bit mixed when you look past the rose tinted glasses and see what the eighties where an over stylized decade that we like to believe was a great decade but in truth it was really bad.
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