How could they know about Rubik's Cubes
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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. -
BobCH88 — 13 years ago(October 09, 2012 09:16 PM)
Nope. If you were a white kid, you didn't start calling people dude until Jeff Spicoli popularized that word in FTaRH.
On the contrary to the guy who said that kids weren't listening to Blondie in '79. I was nine years old when she came onto the scene and I thought she was great. -
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The_Celluloid_Sage — 12 years ago(April 30, 2013 03:02 PM)
Just like to add, as someone from England, who was born in the early 70's
They 'were' being called the Rubik's Cube in 1979..and advertisedbecause I bugged my mum for almost 6 months for one.
And got one the day it was out (god I love my mum hehe)
I hope that settles the argument.
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asimons70 — 13 years ago(August 19, 2012 09:07 PM)
Blondie's album Parallel Lines which has Heart of Glass when platinum 6/6/79. That means it had sold at the very least 1,000,000 copies by that time. So maybe not 20 million, but certainly enough that a small midwestern town would have access to Blondie.
I was 10 years old in 1979, and I was aware of and listening to Blondie in a small Texas town, because, ya know, we had TV, and TV had American Bandstand, and American Bandstand had Blondie as well as The Kinks, The Cars, The Talking Heads and all sorts of other music that was playing all across the US in 1979. I also had a super-cool aunt who lived in an even tinier town in New Mexico who also listened to Blondie! She got the album when it first came out in 1978 right there in that small town at a local record store named Panda Records and Tapes. Yep, pretty amazing that a town with a population under 10,000 might have access to something like popular music! So I'm pretty darn sure the town depicted in this movie had access to Blondie as well as lots of other things depicted in the movie.
Might wanna check yourself before you post an ignorant a**hole response.