Anyone able to recommend some kinos from the late 70s and very early 80s that take place in the US? I don't even really care about plot or whatever, I just want to see a lot of places and people of that time period. So far Dawn of the Dead, French Connection and The Blues Brothers have had the kind of thing I'm looking for but I want more.Like I said, I don't care about plot.
>>219441929If you hate Americans so much why do you always wanna watch our shit? Does your life have any meaning at all?
>>219441929This time period sucked in real life. Anyway, I think you'll like The Warriors (1979).
>>219441989>If you hate Americans so much why do you always wanna watch our shit?The fuck are you even talking about?
>>219441989He didn’t say that he hated Americans. >>219441929Watch Stoszeck and Paris Texas.
>>219442057>This time period sucked in real life. Yeah but it looked pretty cool.>Anyway, I think you'll like The Warriors (1979).Based choice. Seen it already and it's good, but does take place pretty much entirely at night and doesn't show general life at all but just the gangs in abandoned areas.>>219442086>Watch Stoszeck and Paris Texas.Paris Texas has that look? I've had it on my list for a while but hadn't checked it out, maybe that'll be first then.
>>219441989>rent free and retarded>>219441929Night of the Comet
>>219441989wrong thread or are you just that brain rotted?
>>219441929Once Upon a Time in 'Merica
Ferris Beulers day off
To Live and Die in LA is the best 80s movie ever made, yet for some reason it didn't get that popular
>>219442086> Stoszeck and Paris Texas.Kino of the highest degree.
>>219442509>Willem Dafoe, Dean Stockwell, John Turturro and Gary Coledamn good cast list
>>219442184It’s from 1984 so probably.>>219442571A lot of my favorite films about America are made by non-Americans.
>>219442969Damn that's a comfy picture, that's the kind of feel I'm looking for. And I agree, being foreign gives a whole different perspective.
>>219441929Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
>>219442969is that from the movie? its beautiful.i've only ever seen this sort of thing IRL a handful of times, you've got to be lucky and have rain at sunset during summer.
>>219442057>This time period sucked in real lifethe music was sick, otherwise everything was falling apart and the country was turning into Honduras.
>>219443054chinese bookie
>>219443659I think it depends largely on where you lived, like how most things generally do.
>>219443758>CriterionGonna have to engage my autism level and search for a version that hasn't had the color grade altered. Fucking Criterion and their making everything teal and orange.
>>219443564it's in the Southern US and you don't get sunsets like that up north, they look different above 37N
>>219443885i watched it on internet archive yeah fuc gayterion edits
>>219443920yeah that sounds about right, the only time i saw anything like it was in texas or tennessee as i recall
>>219441929The Hidden starring Kyle Maghlachlan is absolute 80's sci-fi kino. Pure 80's aesthetic through and through. https://youtu.be/JXtoio7Ivhk?si=CSRKKpPbx-safwgT
>>219444102in the South there's no extended twilight in summertime, it just goes from broad daylight to darkness like flicking a switch
>>219444116Funny, I heard about this somewhere recently. It's a bit of a weird horror film right?
>>219444239Yeah. Si-fi -horror-action. But the aesthetic and everything about the movie is as 80's as you can get. It is literally not possible to have a vibe be more 80's. It's incredibly kino.
>>219444116underrated and somewhat forgotten kino.know some more like it?
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>>219442184Last Picture Show
>>219441929>>219442969>>219443795I want to go back. I only got to see the 90s but most of the malls in my area hadn't really updated themselves; I'm not sure any still exist in their 70s state anymore.
>>219444925They even made a spinoff tv show out of this.
>>219444925good choice, i saw this once a long time ago and dont remember much about it
>>219441929smokey & the banditvideodromeosterman weekendcapricorn oneboys from brazil
>>219441929Straight TimeThief
>>219443659enjoy your cities full of abandoned buildings and porno theaters and your sister being abducted and murdered by a serial killer
>>219445162>Harry Dean StantonAnything that man appears in is always kino.
>>219441929If you haven't seen Streets of Fire stop what you are doing and watch it now. It has an all star cast. It even has peak Diane Lane in it. Yes, Superman's mom back when she was hot.
>>219445456Heard of it but never seen it, though I knew of the soundtrack because of I Can Dream About You.
>>219444969>I'm not sure any still exist in their 70s state anymore.for one the 70s are 50yrs ago. secondly just about every store from that era has gone out of business. also, the mall every few decades refreshes and remodels the entire mall. new floor tile, signage etc. malls near me used to have fountains but even they are long gone
>>219445674True, but some remained the same for a really long time. There's one smaller mall near me that has definitely never updated itself beyond the very late 80s or very early 90s (whenever things like pastel pink, yellow and blue everywhere was still popular). There was also one that was still completely 1970s inside with all the brown and orange you can imagine but it had a total remodel last year and now it's just a white and grey soulless mall.
>>219445674one of my funnest ever childhood happenings was when we went to the King of Prussia Mall near Philly in the summer of 96, it was a weekend and iirc there was a heat wave and we wanted to get out of the house and go somewhere with air conditioning. they were doing some big renovation work on the mall just then and there was construction shit going on in various areas.
>>219442057Either you are a lying larping faggot that wasn't even there or you are some kind of lefty homo or something. The 80's literally were the peak of western civilization. It was literally kino and awesome vibes at every corner. In movies music and pop culture. It was as good as the nostalgia makes it out to be. Now the 70's. That's a whole different matter. The 70's fucking sucked even if the vibe is now retro and considered kino. But the vibe of the world was nothing like the 80's. Literally 180' degrees in how different everything felt in the 70's compared to the 80's.
>>219445639Streets of Fire is so fucking kino it's unreal. Watch it. It's not what you think it is. It's not really sci fi but the feel is sci fi.
>>219445991I got lost as a kid during closing time at a place that looked almost exactly like this, but there was a lot more red stuff. It was really scary to me for some reason, just something about how it all looked and felt gave me nightmares for a few years.
>>219446073ths 80s were better but still had a lot of lingering crime, poverty, and urban decay
>>219441929Invasion Of The Body SnatchersNighthawksWolfenLookerTime After Time
>>21944633270s and 80s NYC are like entirely different worlds. Massive crime throughout the 70s and then suddenly in the 80s it became a real estate and stock market powerhouse of money and limos.
>>219445917There was one mall in my area recently demolished but iirc it still had an unaltered 70s interior to the end.
>>219446332That's like saying the world sucks because there crime in Honduras. If the bad stuff in the 80's had nothing to do with you then it has nothing to do with you. If you lived anywhere normal it was great. The shit of the world wasn't inescapable and everywhere at all levels of society like it is now. It was only there if you went looking for it.
>>219446494NYC was not cleaned up until the Giuliani years in the 90s, the late 80s-early 90s was peak crack wars when the homicide rate was 1 million.
>>219446600>There was one mall in my area recently demolished but iirc it still had an unaltered 70s interior to the end.Sad. The 70s look was really unique, the one near me had a lot of brown tile with ridges and orange flooring everywhere. Even the walls were a shade of brown and they still had living palms in all the old brown concrete pots (all gone in the update though).
>>219446332To be fair the peak years of high crime were from 1973-83, afterwards crime rates outside inner cities generally dropped. suburban America was definitely safer by 1988 than it was a decade earlier. the crack wars were bloody, but they didn't affect people outside cities.
>>219446666This. Saying the whole of the 70s was all shit is like saying 80s Detroit was representative of the whole world; it wasn't, you just lived in a shit area.
>>21944192948 Hrs.ThiefArthurHopscotchBeing ThereCaddyshackHigh RiskSeems Like Old TimesOpening NightFast Times at Ridgemont HighSmokey and The BanditConvoy 3 WomenThe Rose
>>219442391kino pickmay as well add in its predecessor, the Omega Man
>>219447136I've never lived in a shit area. I just hated the vibe and aesthetic of the 70's even as a young kid during the 70's. I fucking hated hippies and thought they smelled bad. I hated that whole 70's psychedelic vibe. Then there was Vietnam in the begining the gas crisis in the middle and the Iran hostage stuff at the end. The 70's fucking sucked outside of some high points like Star Wars.
>>219447406>Arthurbased
>>219446716It was partially chopped up in the early 2000s and a lot of the mall interior removed including what used to be the large front entrance. There was still a portion of the interior but it was just a relatively short section with some stores inside when it was once an entire large mall with different sections. This smaller remaining piece was finally gotten rid of a few years ago and it was still totally unmodified 70s decor.
>>219446073You are either a zoomer faggot nostalgic for a time you never lived in (probably learned about the 80s from Stranger Things) or some Gen X loser bum with a delusional memory of his childhood he misses.The 80s were the start of gay shit being pushed everywhere, that "retro vibes" you are idealizing. The biggest pop star Michael Jackson looked like a transgender/transracial freak. All the rock bands had women's hair, wore women's clothing, and wore makeup.One of the most popular songs of the 80s is about guy realizing his stripper is trans but deciding to fuck him anyway.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude_(Looks_Like_a_Lady)Those 80s soccer moms were right about everything being gay and satanic.Oh and Reagan also destroyed the middle class and removed taxes for billionaires.
>>219447878the 70s were based and i'm tired of pretending they weren't
>>219447878>The 70's fucking sucked outside of some high points like Star Warsand the music. sure not the awful cars or the urban blight or rows of porno theaters or trash everywhere or all the biker gangs and serial killers who were waiting to fuck your shit up.
>>219448021The 80s also had the most action films and was literally the decade of action heroes. Say what you will about movies of that time and sequels but it had kino that would never been seen again.
In fact NYC was never good and it was always a pretty dangerous shithole outside about 15 years in the 90s-2000s.
>>219448021>The 80s were the start of gay shit being pushed everywhereand the 70s weren't? everyone had long hair and did the free love shit. making fun of trannies was huge in 80s and 90s comedy and was also regularly used in horror as a way of showing how demented a character is.
If you want to see two different sides of the same coin:The Secret of My Success (New York business comedy starring Michael J Fox)Bright Lights, Big City (New York business tragedy starring Michael J Fox)
>>219448116There was crime in the 50s too, but back then it was mostly confined to the town's designated containment zone where all the lowlifes were warehoused in and they could rob, rape, and kill each other away from everyone else. What happens in the 70s was crime spilling out into the suburbs and no one was safe.
>>219448531True enoughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY
>>219448531In fact your post is useless infantile zoomer seething out of a desperate need to be heard rather than communicating any distinct information.The aesthetic of a place and the life and times of its people in that era can be explored for artistic contemplation regardless of whether it was " good " or not.You ma kindly imagine this response accompanied by the mild scowl of disdain and contempt for one's lesser with which it was written.
>>219448113I think that pic rel is from Live and Let Die but my first Bond experience was Moonraker at the drive in. I remember sitting in the back seat at back then drive 70's were multi plexes so they had Flesh (with an E) Gordon playing on the giant screen next to us while we were watching Moonraker and I remember sitting in the back seat getting to see boobs on the screen next door. So yeah some things in the 70's were kino but it couldn't compare to the 80's. The malls were kino all if the styles and aesthetics were new and futuristic. There were no wars or wild political situations going on. The movies were kino. The videogames were kino. We had arcades at the absolute peak. The 80's were god tier. I would say looking back the only thing that holds up from the 70's compared to the 80's was the music. But at the time all of the synth electronic stuff of the 80's was still new and extremely groundbreaking at the time even though it's all super retro now.
>>219448021Sad, sad little communist zoomer retard.
>>219448675Nice
>>219448858>I think that pic rel is from Live and Let Die but my first Bond experience was Moonraker at the drive inVery comfy and lucky. The Moore films were so much fun.
>>219448681my mother grew up in Bethlehem, PA and adjoining it is Easton which was the area's official lowlife place where all the trash people were kept so everyone else could avoid having any contact with them. it still is a shithole to this day.
>>219448361Wow a bunch of half-naked faggot freaks on steroids. Truly the peak of western civilization."Screw your freedom" as Arnold would say.>>219448598>making fun of trannies was huge in 80s and 90s comedy and was also regularly used in horror as a way of showing how demented a character is.These were normalizing trannies. It's a slippery slope.
>>219441929It's a little on the latter side but pic related has some of the visual vibe you're probably looking for.
>>219449345Strange how this movie has slipped from peoples memory, it was pretty alright.
>>219447997That sounds weirdly like the original mall we used to go to when we went to the city. You aren't in CNY by chance?
>>219449627Yeah I'm not a massive fan of the movie itself but as a little timecapsule of how things really were for a lot of americans during the early 80s it's a fairly grounded representation. The real late 70s early 80s of tight gay looking boring clothing and brown, orange, and beige everywhere. Not the neo-retro modern idea of what it was like with all the neon bullshit.
Was really surprised how well Weekend at Bernie's holds up. Not even memeing, it's a lot funnier as an adult, all the class critique stuff went totally over my head as a kid.
>>219449345super comfy 80s movie, i see it every 3 or 4 years and watch it all the way through,
>>219449810>boring clothing and brown, orange, and beige everywhereI ruminate on this a lot and post long rambling comments to youtube nostalgiaporn videosModerners want to remember the 80s as laser beams and lambos and pink pastel suits and it really wasn't. It was leaded glass, concrete, beige carpets, and orange halogen lights and I loved itAnd the shoes. God, the shoes. If you weren't wearing the dirtiest, grimiest pair of old disintegrating white sneakers, you basically weren't considered a real person.
>>219449861Pretty good movie overall. I also used to confuse Bernie with being Robert Goulet for some reason kek.
>>219450040>Moderners want to remember the 80s as laser beams and lambos and pink pastel suits and it really wasn't.Again, it depends on where you were. Miami and somewhere tropical/warm? Absolutely. But then there was the cold and business like part of the 80s/90s (Chicago, NYC etc) and that was all grey, brutalist and had computers everywhere.
>>219441929Basically the entire John Hughes ouvre. Yeah, they were 16 going on 25, but they communicated something quintessential about the American youth experience.
>>219450363The princess and nerd are both really 16. They were also dating irl.
>>219441929Just do an advanced IMDB search. Set the date range from 75 to 81 (or whatever) and the country to USA and go.https://www.imdb.com/search/title/
>>219448167That movie sucks. The head explosion scene is the only good thing about it, and it happens right at the start. Once it's done you've got 90 mins of incredibly dull film to get through.
>>219450605It is dull, but I think it's worth watching once just to experience it.
>>219450605Great thanks for your opinion anon.
>>219449861Problem with that is they wasted all the best gags on the trailer. I always thought the sequel was funnier.
>>219450802> I always thought the sequel was funnier.
Unless you were in some crime filled black area, 80s was peak time to live anywhere else in the usa (born 1972 here)
>>219452042the anon further up seems to think the whole US was a nightmare in the 70s
>>219446073The 70s had way better music and better movies than the 80s. No comparison. The 80s were full of silly childish crap
>>219448361Those movies were stupid and gay anon. The capeshit of its time
>>219452191That's a low bar, the 80s were literally just Consume Product the decade
>>219452191I will concede the music but not the movies. Nope.
>not even one mention of Repo Man
>>219447406>Streets of FireGreat list, throwing in Midnight Run to keep it going.
>>219452643I always confuse this with Men at Work.And Men Without Hats
>>219453327>someone threw out a perfectly good white boy!
>>219447406>ThiefMight as well name every single Michael Mann movie under the sun that was created in the 70s and 80s, e.g. Manhunter.
>>219454274kek
>thread about fun topic and it actually had some good reccs in itSometimes /tv/ really shines.
>>219446073>he 80's literally were the peak of western civilizationwestern civilization has been in decline for millennia
1982.
>>219441929This is from the mid 70s but still worth a watch for the small-town setting and a fun performance from Bruce Dern.
Repo Man.
>>219441929The silent partner (1978), set in a mall mainly at Christmas so lots of extras. However it's Canada so maybe not what you're looking for.
