Would a 1978 kid really be that out of touch by 1986?
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sun_scryer — 11 years ago(October 19, 2014 10:43 AM)
^I agree, culturally and fashion wise there isn't that much difference from 2013 to 2005 say compared to 1986 vs 1978. The biggest social change I can think of would be more open acceptance of gays, but not really. Sure there's a black president today, but there were already movies in the 90s were Morgan Freeman played a black president, so the concept wasn't outrageous.
Having a black president is a very big deal, and there's a big difference between a hypothetical and living in a world where it actually happened.
There's the pre-9/11 world versus post-9/11 world. There's also the pre-black president world (for Americans) and the post-black president world.
Those two examples would be good enough examples of the type of time warp in only a few short years that Flight of the Navigator presents on screen.
(In reply to hwcperfect re Godzilla 2014)
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Im_your_Papi — 12 years ago(January 01, 2014 04:10 AM)
Back then, I agree with everyone that posted on here, there were some drastic changes in 8 years, especially with changes of presidents, movies, special effects in movies, new shows, changes of music, and minor advancements in technology. Definitely a change between the 70's Disco scene to the 80's Pop, rock, and Rap scene and stuff not heard in the 70's. VCR's, TVs, and a few other gadgets would be more easily accessible by the 80's not commonly found in 70's homes.
But now, 8 years really isn't that much different, except for Ipads, touchscreen gadgets, Youtube becoming really popular, and some advancements in cell phones. But everything is pretty much the same. -
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brittannie19 — 11 years ago(August 13, 2014 04:13 PM)
As an adult, 8 years doesn't seem like much, but to a kid that's a lifetime. My sister was 7 years older than I was and there was a definite difference in culture just looking at her yearbook to mine. With the adult world a lot of pop culture is somewhat irrelevant. You may just like the same music you always have and not pay attention to the new groups. You may wear the same basic stuff to work because office attire takes a long time to see much of a shift in fashion versus the fast changing fashion world of teenagers.
Regardless of the era, I can see how missing 8 adult years I wouldn't be as jarred by the media and culture, but I can easily see how 8 years to a kid would be huge. Think of how one minute someone like Justin Beiber can be a pop icon to a teen and the next minute that same person is completely uncool. -
AriaOfTelengard — 11 years ago(August 20, 2014 02:45 AM)
Technology didn't really start hitting it's stride till mid 1990's. Think about this: a computer purchased in the late 1970's/early 1980's was still useful till the early 1990's. Yes, the Apple ][e and the Commodore 64 were STILL useful machines all through the 1980's and they were both 1970's technology.
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lee-rundle-544-446716 — 11 years ago(October 04, 2014 01:36 PM)
Thanks to Simon Cowell cutting its cultural throat and pathetic and vacant rubbish like Justin Bieber and One Direction providing the final nails in the coffin, popular music has been utterly vapid and lacking any substance for well over ten years now. So, mainstream music hasn't changed at all in the years since 2005, because it hadn't needed to, because it exists solely to make money, and it's only requirement is that it's good enough to please the non-bright, which, let's face it, is a huge demographic. Shove them in front of The X Factor and they're happy, like a chimp with a tyre.
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sabri400 — 9 years ago(July 30, 2016 05:25 PM)
Maybe not so much for an adult but for a 12 year old, a couple of years can be huge. So yes, I can imagine an 8 year gap being a massive deal and feeling completely out of place. Technology and trends are always changing, plus, his friends would be 20 years old in 1986, that's a huge difference. Poor kid