Spillsandstains
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nostalgia isn't the same now
What WAS good in the 'Good Old Days'?
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I think the news media is probably more partisan than it was in the past and there was also more local media. Now it’s very focused on social media and clickbait content but also there’s more pressure to get stories done quickly without leaving your room.
I agree with EgonSpengler that the price of the movie theater has gone up so much even related to inflation and how you used to be able to see $1 movie for stuff that had been out for awhile, this was even post 2000, like around 2001, 2002.
There’s more variety for what you can watch at home but the experience is a lot better at the theater. Last time I went it cost me over $30 for ticket, popcorn and a drink, both small size because I would never drink more than a small Pepsi at the movie theater, the serving sizes are huge.
I agree with EgonSpengler that the price of the movie theater has gone up so much even related to inflation and how you used to be able to see $1 movie for stuff that had been out for awhile, this was even post 2000, like around 2001, 2002.
There’s more variety for what you can watch at home but the experience is a lot better at the theater. Last time I went it cost me over $30 for ticket, popcorn and a drink, both small size because I would never drink more than a small Pepsi at the movie theater, the serving sizes are huge.
I remember the good old days when we only had 3 channels and no video recorder. deciding what to watch was a lot simpler.
Moff Jerjerrod
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It was when kids came home from school, rushed through their homework and ran outside to play with their friends. That was my childhood and it still seems a positive experience, certainly compared to the regimented lives of children today with soccer practices, cello rehearsal, etc.
However, when I hit 18, I found out it wss tougher. A three bedroom house was $300-450 a month, cars cost $5000, and 1973 oil embargo made end by costs to shoot up. To be fair, you could get an eight-pack of Miller baby 8s for $2.50 so it wasn't all bad.
However, when I hit 18, I found out it wss tougher. A three bedroom house was $300-450 a month, cars cost $5000, and 1973 oil embargo made end by costs to shoot up. To be fair, you could get an eight-pack of Miller baby 8s for $2.50 so it wasn't all bad.
Nostalgia now seems to be what happened a month ago.
I recently joined a FB group about old photos and memories of stuff that happened in Red Deer. It's amazing how many names I recognize from years ago, and that I remember some of the stores and streets that aren't there anymore. This is stuff that goes back decades.
I can't imagine any movie being important enough to spend that kind of money. I remember spending that much on an Irish Rovers concert or a live theatre performance (though most of the live theatre performances I've seen over the years were either due to working on them backstage or it was an arrangement between the theatre company and the local SCA branch - we got to see some Shakespeare plays, Man of La Mancha, and the First Knight movie by either doing front of house in costume or a demo in the lobby).
Yep. My grandfather told me to either leave the room or "sit down, shut up, and watch."
The joke turned out to be on him. He was watching Star Trek, and I was the one who got hooked on it. Several dozen books later (all it took was two James Blish books to start my science fiction collection that now numbers in the thousands of items - mostly books and fanzines) and a constant diet of anything science fiction or Shatner/Nimoy-related on TV, and my grandfather was grumbling that he was tired of "that damn silly Star Trek."
Star Trek is even what prodded me into working in musical theatre. I'd read Stephen Whitfield's 1968 book The Making of Star Trek, and found the parts about the behind the scenes work quite interesting. So when I had the chance to do backstage work for a local theatre company, I jumped at it. The audience doesn't know half of what goes into these shows...
This was one of the songs chosen by the junior high music teacher for our class to perform as part of our program when we sang at nursing homes, to entertain the seniors.
The problem? One of the girls (there were three of them doing this song) got a bad case of hiccups just before beginning. So our version of the song started out:
"Once upon a time there was a tavern... (hic)
Where we used to raise a glass or two... (HIC!)"
racha
Prince
Fewer remakes. All remakes are guilty of being garbage until the occasional one is proven innocent.
Does anyone remember when Disney made wholesome, family-friendly movies in which nobody died except occasionally the dog? (I've never been able to rewatch Old Yeller or any other of "the dog dies" movies, as I turn into a puddle of tears)
As for remakes... I've lost count of the remakes of Freaky Friday and The Parent Trap.
I guess it might make sense to redo Freaky Friday, since the modern generation absolutely would not get the humor of the electric typewriter scene if they've never used one.
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
Don't forget Bambi.
I never saw Bambi.
2015
2015... the year we got a short-lived sane government in Alberta.
Lexicus
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Another thing that was better back in the old days is rap music. I'm drawing a line in the sand on this one; I won't say "all contemporary rap is meritless" but the stuff in the 90s was better.
Zardnaar
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Are you talking about gangster rap or more mainstream?
90'scwas a good decade music wise generally
Pretty sure that thinking music was better in the good old days is a sign of growing older, not that it was actually better (unless we are talking about the golden age of the late seventies/early eighties).
Lexicus
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I didn't say music in general is worse. There's also good rap today. 90% of everything is crap, but the best rap of the 90s is imo unsurpassed within the rap genre.
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Traitorfish
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I think this reflects a broader cultural shift over the last forty or fifty years. It used to be that companies gave a damn about the products they sold; not because they were necessarily passionate about the product for its own sake- video games and especially PC games were a weird outlier that was allowed to exist because nobody had figured out how to really monetize it yet- but simply because the people making the big decisions had a stake in the long-term future of the firm and the industry. Today, nobody making those decision has any stakes beyond the next quarterly report, the game is to maximise short-term profitability on behalf of share-holders even if it means making decisions which are ruinous for the firm or the industry longer-term. The closest you get is the attention paid to brand-value, but even this has become a question of managing perceptions rather than managing quality.
I don't want to romanticise the era of Fordist monopolies, I am under absolutely no illusion that they were organised around any other principle that the same drive to maximise profits and these companies were absolutely capable of devastating lives and communities if there was a dollar to be made for doing so, but this shift in how decisions are made at the the top has filtered through to society to create an overwhelming sense of complacency about the outcomes of work. We spend forty hours a week doing work that most of us privately understand will produce crap, that no matter how much or how little effort we put in the results will be bad products and bad services, that we are all in our own small way contributing to the gradual but steady material and institutional deterioration of society, in a way which I just don't get the impression was true fifty or a hundred years ago, and that simply can't be a good thing for a culture.
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