I am not usually bothered too much about this kind of error, but since Super 8 is supposed to celebrate those years, I f
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tomisinthehouse — 11 years ago(January 01, 2015 07:12 AM)
Actually Reagan could have been president in the 1970's but it was that darn Ford guy who was nominated. I still like the fact that Reagan was president during the 80's. He was the best President this country ever had. We all love him.
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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.