Where Were You In ‘62?

Sideblog Tv shows and movies 50s-80s

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Brand new sideblog! Formerly the now defunct @back2themax

This blog will be focused on primarily “older” media, not quite classic but not quite staples of today either. Just stuff that interests me. Got a few tv box sets to go through and always liked older movies and boomerang so here we are.

Unlike the last side blog I won’t be limiting myself to the 80s!

Notable tags-

Video backlog -> Posts from previous sideblog/or my main

Come with me if you want to live -> Terminator

come out to playyyy -> The Warriors

Up your nose -> Welcome back, Kotter

1.21 gigawatts -> Back to the future

Rest to be determined

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Remembering a time in 10th grade where it was a spirit week and someone said the 80s were their least favorite decade and I got visibly distraught 💀

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Since the Harlem Globetrotters were frequent guests to both Scooby doo movies and some episodes, I think there should be a Savannah Bananas guest star episode. They’re both gimmick sports teams. I think it’d be funny.

Idk if scooby doo and guess who is still on but it had the guest star feature… they’re rising in popularity etc

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Might be a decade late to this but I like to have it on in the background while I do stuff, and I notice the “Fall off” for the Simpsons is season 21? In 2010 where it’s not horrible but it’s a clear departure as in the early 2000s it was still pretty peak.

Similarly Family guys season 5 has some great episodes but it also marks the beginning of the great shift. Some of its worst seasons come after and it becomes a fundamentally different show from those first five. Simpsons took longer

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Feeling a little vindicated in my warriors musical concept distrust by a lot of people coming out in support of it admitting to… hating the movie its using the aesthetic of. “I hate the movie but I like this different thing with the same name”

No… really?

I swear this is Terminator dark fate all over again… you hate the original movies? No… really?

It’s not that you can’t dislike movies I love it’s when there’s an obvious dismissal, dislike or even hate of the franchise or movie being adapted. It’s subject to bad faith viewing or misinterpretation to prop up your “remaining” with a seperate message or meaning—- those stories should be told but why get so upset when people point out you didn’t need to use the skin of existing media to tell that story , you know?

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Couldn’t sleep last night as I was thinking about teen beach movie 2 and got so mad, especially as someone who’s a fan of the movies the original was trying to parody. I don’t remember much but I do know it feel victim to “past bad… girl boss? :0”

Imagine your universe is falling apart because the main character’s go missing (you’re movie characters the actors are old or something and don’t know you have sentience) and your little sister is just “I want to be a lawyer☝️everyone is bad” or something out at some high school in the real modern world because it’s 2014

Like their could’ve been a whole lot of cool stuff to explore with characters coming to the real world, home falling apart, finding comfort and inspiring others— maybe learning about what your actor goes on to do and what makes you a person but NOOOO “everyone is evil but me #girlboss queen slay 2014”

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“Evil skinny John Lennon” and he just wears glasses more and married Yoko. I’m like genuinely trying to see the difference he was always skinny? Just then drug skinny ???

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Welcome back, Kotter never got a Halloween special because the Sweathogs would’ve been too powerful…

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My Kotter collection grows… 12 pieces now.

I want to find a good photo to frame so I can put him up in my classroom… someday.

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When your circle is small, but all y’all crazy.

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do you guys ever think about how dark fate was positioned as the "feminist version" of t2 because sarah says some shit about birth not defining dani's future (even though sarah in t2 never let john/"being a mother" define her and went out of her way to try and kill dyson and end cyberdyne multiple times on her own outside of john) despite the fact that grace, who is positioned as dani's kyle, is a considerably worse defender than kyle despite her being augmented and kyle being a traumatized, unaltered soldier, carl is the one to take down the rev-9 and has the heroic sacrifice, and dani (who is close in age to 19 year old sarah in terminator 1) is constantly condescended to and talked to like a child compared to a 10 year old john connor and a 19 year old sarah (who kyle had nothing but respect for and didn't underestimate her at all, even when she was a scared, untrained waitress).

john may be the main character of t2 but t1 + t2 are about sarah's arc, she's the protagonist and she is the one that drives the plot in t2 (john and bob breaking her out of pescadero -> she takes them to desert to meet enrique and flee the feds -> she decides to assassinate dyson, bringing john and bob back to los angeles and allowing the rest of act 3 to occur -> the movie ends on her and john (and, if you think the alternate, senator john ending to t2 is canon like i do, sarah is the person who the duology *ends on*). ironically, it's dark fate that makes sarah seem like an accessory to john, not t2

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With some of what I’ve been seeing I think the revival of retail will come with the repair of department stores, brands that have been quietly still surviving are starting to see a boost in both quality and attention. Like Khols… we might see a proper retail experience return

*they drag me away*

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Discovered movies… but on my iPad, might be life changing. As much as I would kill and die for my DVD’s I think it may be a big help to my ADHD issues/avoidance of my favorite hobby. Like I may trick my brain to be able to watch more…

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Haven’t been posting as much on here, want to shift some of what I put on my main. So here’s a watch list of shows (and some movies) I’m going to get around to so if I go crazy in makes sense

Tv show box sets-

• Welcome back, Kotter (rewatch <3)

• Happy Days (only to season … 6? I’ve been told)

• Dukes of Hazard

• Twilight zone (hope to fully finish the series)

• Star Trek TOS

Movies:

•Badlands (1970 something)

•Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

•Ladyhawk

•Xanadu

•The warriors (Rewatch)

• The Hitcher (Rewatch)

•Roadgames

•Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid

•Bye bye Birdie

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Joke I saw somewhere and I had to draw… lol, paint marker smeared in the middle but it’s still funny to me lol.

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I took the wrong message away from The Graduate. I thought he should’ve stayed with the milf…

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Made myself a drink and so now I am thinking about how within such a short amount of time Neil found his passion. Found something he actually connected with… and he was good. He had only just found his love for acting and for his first role he was the lead! The lead! He was good.

Something about how so quickly the one with the most passion and life to them was snuffed out just as fast…