DC lost it's damn mind (Watchmen prequel)

[ScottE]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law

"90% of everything is crap."

Anyway, I was a wee tyke in the 80s and don't remember much of the pop culture, but I know that a good chunk of my favorite movies came out in the 80s. It seems, in retrospect, like an amazing time for cinema.

Music less so, but I'm more of a 70s rock and 90s alternative kinda guy. The 80s don't really have a whole lot to offer me in music, although I am a huge fan of The Cure.

[ScottE]

Yeah, I generally consider the first two or three years of each calendar decade to be the tail end of its predecessor culturally speaking.  73 - 82 are the 70s, 83 - 92 are the 80s, 93 - 00 are the 90s...

Does this mean we're still culturally in the 00s?

[ScottE]

Come to think of it, the last few decades each were fantastic in one specific medium, at least for me. The 70s had the best music, the 80s had the best movies, the 90s had the best video games, and the 00s had the best television.

Of course, now someone will point out bad things that came out in each of those decades, but what I mean is the best examples from those decades are better than most of the best examples from the other decades.

[DerickA]

Sure. But there were video-store rental floors full of the terrible stuff that makes up that movie-poster thread somewhere else that acted as filler.

You're only making my point.

[Amusing Pseudonym]

Does this mean we're still culturally in the 00s?

Hard to say this early, but it's certainly possible.   Ask again when we've got another 10 years or so worth of perspective.

[LpF]

Walk into any mall in America and you will be bombarded with reasons why the 80's were awesome and how popular culture is still cribbing heavy from them.

I thought you knew about the 20 year retroscale?

[Dan]

I'm going to go out on a limb and catch a lot of shit for it, but 80's music > 90's music, and 90's movies > 80's movies.

[Amusing Pseudonym]

I loves me some 80s music, but apparently not the same 80s music that influenced people making indie music now, much of which I cannot stand.   Is "Too Much Reverb" a vocal preset in ProTools now?

[CrashlanderLOL]

WATCHMEN isn't even an 80s thing - essentially it never went away and is kind of timeless. Apart from the limited colour separation, it could have been written today. So I don't think all this wacky decade talk really counts.

The 80s RULED though. 

[katy]

It truly was a time of quality, meaningful art.

[BrianLynch]

It's weird you should say that, because that show MAX HEADROOM was pretty original and groundbreaking.

[CrashlanderLOL]

[Dobbin]

Now, there's a thing about the 80s that I will concede: GOLDEN AGE of newspaper funny-strips, for all ages and across all tastes. Every day, having a new FAR SIDE, CALVIN AND HOBBES and BLOOM COUNTY was the best. And while they were never my thing, GARFIELD, CATHY and FOR BETTER OR WORSE were amazing achievements. Plus the continuation of the old stand-bys; your HI AND LOIS', your FAMILY CIRCUS.

p.s.: You know what would have been pretty terrible, if actually done, to keep this sort of on topic, Moore-wise? Was the treatment for TWILIGHT OF THE GODS. The slobbering Fanboy-Josh-Dobbin of the mid-to-late 90s who read the leaked document from an early, 14.4K modem download off of this new thing called "the World Wide Web" would disagree. But it really sort of presaged everything that's wrong with comics now. 

[nate.3.0]

I like TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES.  A lot. But KINGDOM COME is better.  That's the only reason I'm glad it didn't happen.

[Donnacha]

Kingdom Come has too many characters and moves too quickly, but it's pretty to look at. I liked how in the end Superman is a farmer and Batman is a doctor, like their dads before them.