Weirdly, I feel the exact opposite: the 90s feels like an untapped goldmine to me, and it feels also like its oddly ignored. I feel the corporate monsters have already milked the 90's era dry so their doing it to the 80's now. I have the feeling this old man rant probably came off as incoherent, but there ya go. Again speaking as someone who actually lived through the decade, when I see stuff like Hotline Miami or Far Cry Blood Dragon, for every one part where I get what they're imitating or paying homage to, there's dozens of others that make me go "this isn't the 1980s that I remember." I imagine people who were alive for the 1950s probably feel the same way about Fallout or things of that nature, but its way more pronounced for 1980s nostalgia because plenty of us still actually remember the decade. There's another dimension to this as well: Often when I see media that invokes the 1980s, I have no idea what the hell they're on about. It would've been better if they had tried to salvage the original concept, rather than play it as a joke. which means they lack the charm of the original.
Recently people have tried to make sequels but the thing is, these sequels are INTENTIONALLY bad.
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I don't know how to explain this, but for example, one reason the original Manos: the Hands of Fate (not 1980s but bear with me) was amusing was because its badness was a result of actual incompetence.
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It's made with the explicit knowledge that its based on something with a legacy that it has to "live up to." Which could result in the afformentioned glorified fanfiction problem, or it could go the other way and be like the awful Turtles Forever (IE "here's forty minutes of why the 1987 series sucked and you suck for preferring it over our edgy modern interpretation"). See, part of why these old media worked in their own time was they were made with sincerity and lacking pretention. Funny thing is I actually liked Netflix She-Ra, but it worked because it was basically a new show with some She-Ra names slapped on, not a slavish imitation. It's apparently not (story-wise) connected to the Netflix She-Ra either. but thing is, I kinda suspect the show is gonna play out like a glorified fanfic. Which is actually one of my favorite cartoons of all time, so you'd think I'd shut my bitch-hole. Recently I heard there's gonna be a new He-Man show, and the claim is its gonna be in the same continuity as the 1980s original series.
But god has it been run into the ground in recent years. It's weird for me to say this, as 10-20 years ago I was actually all about 80s nostalgia (I was born in 1983 FWIW).
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