How could they know about Rubik's Cubes
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Zeppelin75 — 12 years ago(January 28, 2014 06:33 AM)
Yeah I agree, today the Rubik's Cube is really a cornerstone of the 1980s, and they referenced it in 1979 a few months before it was named that.
But, in reality, when you are actually old enough to remember, you won't really care(or perhaps even remember) about a few months.
"I'm pretty sure there were no aliens in 1979 either. :)"
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bainf — 13 years ago(April 10, 2012 09:55 PM)
Walkmans was a lame way to have a major event happen and be "missed" by a dopey teenager. It wouldnt have mattered if it was 1960, I think they would still have stuck that scene in. Dissapointing they could not come up with a better scene to have events going on and no one notice. I expect better from Spielberg
But I did like some of the period things like film in cardboard boxes and rush jobs taking 3 days
PS my rich friend in our country town had the first walkman I saw and that was 1983 when his parents came back from Japan. I got a cheap? ($39) Sanyo in 1984. Two tapes and the batteries were dead plus the plastic belt clip snapped the first time I bent over lol. Things may exist a long time before they become popular. My uncle had a microwave in the 60's -
fluffchop — 12 years ago(October 10, 2013 09:14 PM)
Liberties were taken and no you didn't unless you were a completely rich spoiled brat. Either way I couldn't care less what you had. It only supports the fact that liberties were taken as this kid in a small town working nights in a gas station happens to have a Walkman in 1979? Total BS. And no they wouldn't have heard of a Rubik's cube also. No way no how.
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booyahboy_uk — 14 years ago(December 31, 2011 07:36 AM)
No i'm pretty sure it sounds more like how kids speak nowadays than in that time period. I only remember one character saying oh my god repeatedly in the Goonies and that was Martha Plimptons character (forgot her name).
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abbysomething — 14 years ago(January 26, 2012 12:41 PM)
That's not continuity. Continuity is everything remaining the same between shots, for example, if a drink level changes several times in a scene without the actor taking a drink, that is continuity.
Regarding the phrase omg, I was a kid in the 70s, it was absolutely a part of the vernacular. My sisters said it all the time. -
djensen1 — 14 years ago(February 03, 2012 07:20 PM)
What we didn't say in the Midwest in 1979 was "gnarly", which Cary says of the older kid's car. The deputy also says something about having saved "some slices", which is a NY/LA thing. In the Midwest, we say "some pizza." And we wouldn't have dared to swear like Super 8's kids. They're worse than the kids in the Goonies.
Close Encounters is way worse about geography, tho. It depicts central Indiana as having cliffs and high ridges, toll roads, and tunnels.