Boiling down the 80s movie formulas

[Dom Cruise]

My favorite decade is the 2020s. It's been absolutely hilarious.

It isn’t boring at least.

 

[Idiotron]

It's like I've been saying for a while:
You won't find many things like that anymore in Hollywood.
Maybe you will on a smaller budget (like $10 million) but big budget shit is too expensive for them to risk some concept that hasn't been tried before.

I suggest looking outside of Hollywood.
Thousands of movies get made each year by people who aren't part of the big US studio system based in LA, check some of them out, you might like what you find.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

There isn't a formula to 80's films, and this last decade of Hollywood cinema was a constant failure to make a Frankenstein of the movie type.

What was instead was just meritocracy with films made by Americans for Americans, with the cold war giving an overall sense of unity. But as the good directors grew old and were replaced by bootlickers, as well as movies being made for trannyville globohomoland, the quality plummeted and that resulted in the grey goo we currently call blockbuster movies.

 

[The Last Stand]

80s films being the best era for movies?

Oh, you young summer child.

 

[Dom Cruise]

80s films being the best era for movies?

Oh, you young summer child.

It's the best era for pure Hollywood entertainment movies.

Obviously the 70s was the best decade for the Oscar movies.

 

[The Last Stand]

It's the best era for pure Hollywood entertainment movies.

Obviously the 70s was the best decade for the Oscar movies.

You funny, boy.

 

[Dom Cruise]

You funny, boy.

Alright, it's the best modern decade for movies, if you want to talk the classic, black and white era that's another topic I guess.

 

[The Last Stand]

Alright, it's the best modern decade for movies, if you want to talk the classic, black and white era that's another topic I guess.

I'm not even a fan of movies. I would say the best decade would be ... maybe 90s to 2000s with working blue.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I'm not even a fan of movies. I would say the best decade would be ... maybe 90s to 2000s with working blue.

The 2000s is the stealth best decade for "Oscar bait" films, lots of cool stuff like Gladiator, Master and Commander and underrated films like Gangs of New York.

 

[The Last Stand]

I find 80s movies to be cheesy. One thing I miss with 20th century cinematography is the "femme fatale" trope. Women that are badass through a combination of sex appeal, character, suspense and class.

Bette Davis and Jean Harlow come to mind. But there are many other examples.