I have a friend who’s from 73 and this movie impacted him. I think you have to be born in the early 70s or late 60s for this to be part of your pop cultural wave.
Why do zoomers keep confusing the 90s with the 80s and 70s? We weren't THAT primitive. We had internet and cell phones too. Modern clothing styles basically began in the late 90s. We had dropped the neon, spandex, and big hair by the early 90s. A dude wearing what that dude in blue is wearing woulda got his ass kicked in school.
The 90s were the transition point from the "old world" pre-internet to the modern era. By the 2000s, everyone I knew was online.
This is kind of like asking my mother how accurate a picture of the great depression is. It's 20 years before her time.
If you’re going off of the characters matching the bands, it isn’t a bad lineup, I guess. The smiths wouldn’t fit, but the rest are mostly on target from what I remember of the movie. Could switch out duran for Springsteen, and joy division for maybe depeche mode or the cure, but that’s nitpicking.
But the smiths weren’t exactly a well known band everywhere at that time. Kinda hit or miss in that regard.
This is an 80s kids movie. And 80s kids bands. Or more specifically, 80s teens stuff.
I was born in the 80s, and I think I watched this movie once but it was definitely less a part of my cultural upbringing than OG power rangers and Ace of Base, lol.
like everyone else I came to say this is from the 80's. I see a lot of this though. Bleed from one decade to another and in tv shows depicting the decades so of course folks not around think its accurate.
They may have started in the mid-late 70s, but London Calling was released Dec, 1979, and Combat Rock was ‘82. I think calling them an ‘80s band is fair.
Yeah, I think I just associate punk rock with the 70’s, whereas the others are definitely more 80s. I’d swap Joy Division for New Order for the perfect set.
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