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Stranger Things [Netflix] [*** Spoilers ***]
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monkeysnapper wrote: »I started watching this , think I saw 1st 2 episodes , seemed OK.
So has this been a good series ?it's decent. has been over-hyped a bit imo. got a lot of press for the 1980's nostalgia vibe. it's worth watching still I would say.
Nothing ever lives up to the hype - that's kinda the point of hype after all -, but I think it's more than just a nostalgia trip, that's a little unfair: it's a solid thriller that yes, mashes together a bunch of genre staples from the 80s, but does so with a flourish and depth; it tweaked the tropes and clichés of its inspirations enough to not be a shallow pastiche that wallowed in the era. It also lucked out with its cast, and the child actors really gelled with buckets of likeable charisma.
I mean, the 1980s were 30+ years ago: at what point can we stop presuming nostalgia baiting, and just think of it as a drama set in that period? Would 'The Americans' be considered overly nostalgic? If you think of it another way, Indiana Jones took pretty blatant inspiration from old 30s/40s adventure serials, but I'm sure nobody accused it of nostalgia bait at the time
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Nothing ever lives up to the hype - that's kinda the point of hype after all -, but I think it's more than just a nostalgia trip, that's a little unfair: it's a solid thriller that yes, mashes together a bunch of genre staples from the 80s, but does so with a flourish and depth; it tweaked the tropes and clichés of its inspirations enough to not be a shallow pastiche that wallowed in the era. It also lucked out with its cast, and the child actors really gelled with buckets of likeable charisma.
I mean, the 1980s were 30+ years ago: at what point can we stop presuming nostalgia baiting, and just think of it as a drama set in that period? Would 'The Americans' be considered overly nostalgic? If you think of it another way, Indiana Jones took pretty blatant inspiration from old 30s/40s adventure serials, but I'm sure nobody accused it of nostalgia bait at the time
I hadn't thought of it this way before: it's the same length of time from the end of WWII until the first Indiana Jones movie, as it is from that movie to right now. A period piece about the 80s is entirely appropriate in that sense, we just don't want to admit that that's what it is, because then we have to admit we're getting old. So it's just nostalgia.
Also agree about the depth of the show and the willingness to play with generic expectations (the love triangle, for instance)0 -
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boards games anybody ? hasbro are making them
or ouija board
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/10/11/stranger-things-monopoly-hasbro/0 -
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Final trailer released: more plot-focused than other promotions, albeit through a lot of cuts & edits.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N06Hc6ldPNA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ZXOOLMJ8s
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