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Was there a 0AD?
Best movie of the 80's
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Was there a 0AD?
Did that change the number ninety to eighty-ten?
No, but there was a 1/1/1980. I really don't see what you're getting at.
"The eighties" and "the ninth decade of the century" is not the same thing.
Save_Ferris
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As I said, it's culturally. There isn't a direct switch from 70's culture to 80's culture, so we use milestones. Like how WWII started the 40's, the end of the Cold War started the 90's, 9/11 started the 2000's, and so on.
So do I consider Flash Gordon to be an 70's film? No. But I associate it more with 70's culture.
World War II started in 1939.
Disgustipated
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Got burned on that America centric post. 
And even then, very late 1941 (real action didn't start until 1942) seems a bit late for the 40's.
I don't care what the official designation is. The easy way to remember it is the 80's are 1980 to December 31st 1989.
And even then, very late 1941 (real action didn't start until 1942) seems a bit late for the 40's.
I don't care what the official designation is. The easy way to remember it is the 80's are 1980 to December 31st 1989.
...in Europe. Some years earlier in Asia.
The eighties are 1980-89. There really isn't such a thing as "decade culture", even if you move the boundaries somewhat. It doesn't make sense to group cultural phenomena like that so you should just go by year numbers. Of course 1981 has more in common with the late seventies and 1989 with the early nineties. Cultural changes are gradual.
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But there is such a thing as a century culture. Don't historians often refer to the long C19th? Running from 1792 to 1914. So why not the long 80's?
Do historians? My experience is that the grouping of years into eras is very contentious among them, no matter if it's centuries or longer periods. Especially if you consider that many of these eras focus only on one aspect and often only one region of the world. The Baroque or Renaissance may be useful eras in art history, but less so in political and military history and so on.
"Culture" itself is composed of many aspects which mutually influence each other, but don't really align perfectly. People have an intuitive understanding of what "eighties music" or "eighties movies" or "eighties fashion" are, but it's a lot harder to pin down when exactly these began, and it certainly won't be the same date for every aspect.
"Culture" itself is composed of many aspects which mutually influence each other, but don't really align perfectly. People have an intuitive understanding of what "eighties music" or "eighties movies" or "eighties fashion" are, but it's a lot harder to pin down when exactly these began, and it certainly won't be the same date for every aspect.
I can, actually.
Borachio
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Actually, the Spanish Civil War could be included in WW2, easily, imo.
And before that? It should be relatively easy to extend WW2 at least as far back as 1914.
Loppan Torkel
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Probably. Which means Casablanca could be the best movie of the 80's
Quackers
The Frog
Weird Science.
*Funky music you will never get out of your head*
*Funky music you will never get out of your head*
BornInCantaloup
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Out of that list, I'd remove:
Scarface, The Thing and The Princess Bride would be the first movies I'd keep if I were to keep any more.
I'd keep:
I haven't seen:
Not sure what I'd include to fill in the gaps, since I don't classify movies much, let alone by date. Those ones easily come to mind:
Best movie of the original list cannot be any other than Ran, Kurosawa being the greatest director of history and all. The Shining should come next and then Blade Runner is a solid n°3.
Absence of Munchausen, Brazil and Kagemusha in the original list is unquestionably sinful.
Spielberg and Lucas trust the top spots? Haha... So unreasonable.
Scarface, The Thing and The Princess Bride would be the first movies I'd keep if I were to keep any more.
I'd keep:
I haven't seen:
Not sure what I'd include to fill in the gaps, since I don't classify movies much, let alone by date. Those ones easily come to mind:
Best movie of the original list cannot be any other than Ran, Kurosawa being the greatest director of history and all. The Shining should come next and then Blade Runner is a solid n°3.
Absence of Munchausen, Brazil and Kagemusha in the original list is unquestionably sinful.
Loppan Torkel
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Saw Ran since I obviously had missed it, but it's nothing to be missed really. It's long and painful all through. It had some promise at the start and it may be a masterpiece visually, but if you feel worse after a movie, it's usually a bad sign.
