Thread 211676634

>Dazed and Confused was a 1976 period piece
>released in 1993, only 17 years after the fact
This would be like if a retro period piece movie was made today about 2008.

>>211676634 (OP)
1993 and 1976 feel very culturally distinct but the same can't really be said of comparing any given year past 2008 in terms of aestheticism and technology.

Yes, but not really, because everyone who was not alive in 1976 is a straight up faggot.
100% serious.

>>211676634 (OP)
Why did culture stagnate so fucking hard and why did we have to be in the prime of our lives during such a significant stagnation?

When he is asked if he was cool he failed the vibe check. I would have probably failed it as well.

>>211676634 (OP)
the 70s unlike the 00s had a distinct personality

>>211676634 (OP)
These already exist, like Saltburn

>>211677145
Making a movie set in 2008 is largely an excuse to exclude smartphones from the plot

>>211676671
It's this. Nothing has changed since 2000

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>>211677164
based

>>211677179
Except smartphones and their social effects.

>>211676671
the west has become noticeably more dilapidated and "thirdworldy" since the early and mid 2000s. we're trending quickly towards a cyberpunk dystopia aesthetic.

>>211677236
any advancement beyond 2008 is simply noticing "what iphone are they holding" or "what websites are they using". pretty much nothing else matters unless there's a specific historical event to reference.

>>211677211
Yeah so basically a more deranged version of the 2000's, but essentially the same.

>>211677211
This. 2000s were distinct:

>early internet culture in the first part of the decade
>emo/scene/hipsters
>smartphones and hookup culture in their infancy at the end of the decade

We've definitely been stagnant since around 2010 though.

>>211677292
True.

>>211676634 (OP)
>This would be like if a retro period piece movie was made today about 2008
This actually exists. The movie Rats! (2024) takes place in 2007. It goes hard as fuck desu.
https://files catbox moe/rda4ef.mp4

>>211677463
who are you in relation to the production of this movie

>>211676634 (OP)
And it was great. Snack Shack was a good retro period piece, too, though it hearkened the '90s.

>>211677315
Ten years from now zoomers will say the 2010s were distinct and 2020 was when everything REALLY went to shit
We're just going in stupid circles here

>>211677495
She is my gf

>>211677530
I'm not talking about when everything went to shit (that was either 1913 at the earliest or 2001 at the latest) but the early 2000s did at least have somewhat of a distinct culture and feel compared to 2010-present, although I'll concede that they weren't as distinct as the eight decades that proceeded them.

>>211677256
I've visted LA, Chicago, and NYC in the 90s and again around 2023, and they were surprisingly (or maybe not) MUCH worse in 2023, especially LA (NYC was always a smelly shit hole)

>>211677617
>>211677530
2010s and onward culture is just late stage capitalism during the ongoing slow decay of the current world empire.

I dont like these movies because they arnt actual stories. Drama needs tension, a plot, a need to find a solution to a pressing matter. This was some writers masturbatory expression of personal life experiences growing up, much like that other one Almost Famous. In fact when I first saw this on tc it was half way thru and the boy was getting "paddled" I h0onestyl thought Id stumbled onto a child rape scene. sentimental cringe/10

>>211677617
That's just how it appears. Pre smart phone world was a different place. Besides
>face tats
>vaping
>tik tok
>onlyfans
>dead xanax rappers
>next level political madness

You cant see it when you are in it.

>>211676724
culture is not stagnant. the problem is when you think of culture you think of movies and music and clothes. but because culture actually did change, those things are irrelevant. culture is now a bunch of internet stuff.

>>211679674
really fucking grim that the covid and 2020s era is going to be known as "that time every single woman tried becoming a prostitute on the internet"

>>211676634 (OP)
well, america won the cold war, no reason to showcase cultural superiority in film, music and art (CIA funded shit art to surmize). If you still think 80s era height of pop culture wasn't adjacent to intelligent agencies, you are just being willfully dense. Thats to answer the true question of OP which is why there is no change in culture.
Compare watch a film from 1989, then think of a film 25 years older, 1964, and you can feel the difference in culture. Wouldnt even need to know the dates, just a few images, you'd know the decade. Now compare that to a film in 2025 and one in 2000. To be crass, the only difference is the amount of shitskins. Overall? There's nothing to discern the 2020s from the 2000s outside of an iPhone. So unless there's a fantastic coming of age tale unboxing an iPhone, period pieces are extinct

>>211680015
>culture is now a bunch of internet stuff
not culture, language, slang and memes are not cultural definors, they reflect. Ergo, all you are saying is the lack of culture reverberating is culture itself and you're wrong. We are being deliberated stagnated with things like corporate Memphis, mandatory minimums for awards etc. The way we are governed now is to not highlight anything about anyone

>>211676634 (OP)
The difference is a lot changed from 76 to 93. It was a whole different vibe, music, fashion, everything. From 2008 forward everything stayed exactly the same but got more gay, niggerish, and retarded.

>>211677617
>hes in the 20th century
try the french revolution bud

>>211676634 (OP)
Since computers and the internet became a bigger deal fashion and music and hanging out really stopped changing and there stopped being different eras. Cars don't look dramatically different than they did 17 years ago except for a few lame Tesla designs. I don't know what people dressed like in '08. I was an adult then as I am now. When the century turned things stopped looking so different. Yet they will tell you about 'airplaine fruitopia' and all the different fonts of the world wide web. lol

>>211678966
you said it sis

>>211680296
this is confirmation bias. So 76-93 had MORE happen then 99 to 2016? Mallarky. AOL, 911, high speed internet, iPhone, first black president, congressional war declared.
Now lets look at what you said,
Iran hostage crisis, WTC bombing, the birth of the best posters online.
I still am adamant that there were clandestine operations to ensure the best talent was in front and behind cameras when it mattered. Now, MK ultra is memes and content creators. I could be wrong but id like a decent retort

>>211680260
i didn't say memes. I mean that people aren't listening to music, they're listening to podcasts. People aren't watching movies they watch streams. Clothes don't matter because people notice each other on apps not IRL.
>Ergo
Oh, it's a sperg

>>211677179
Absolute retard, things are night and day different now because of the rise of social media

>>211680432
to me, you described a society devoid of culture, but you seem to think that is culture shift itself

>>211676634 (OP)
I think American Graffiti is the strongest example of this. It is one of the most sappy sentimental nostalgic films ever made but it was set in 1962 and released in 1973, only a 9 year difference.

>>211680432
>Culture didn't stagnate, it just stagnated
What a faggot.

>>211680462
why is a podcast not culture but a tv show is? retard

>>211680465
Eleven.

>>211679674
>face tats
been around forever
>vaping
kids were doing this since a decade now
>tiktok
vine
>onlyfans
chaturbate
>dead xanax rappers
niggers are everywhere and they've been artificially culturally dominant for nearly 20 years
>next level political madness
patriot act

>>211677180
>pop dad rock
Ack yourself

>>211680643
so you think people discussing events is as cultural impactful as say someone creating an event. First I don't even think the two should be compared but since you did, no podcasts are not culture its a medium. The advent of the app or platform that launched the podcast may be cultural, but talking out your ass and uploading it, is not culture. If you think Joe Rogan has culture impact on the level in the 2000s as say KrisKross in the early 1990s, then we just differ on the entire discussion

>>211680719
>>face tats
>been around forever

So if you hopped in a time machine to lets say the mid 80s you would see people vaping with face tats everywhere?

>>211676634 (OP)
I finally got around to watching it because "M-Muh classics!!!", and it fucking SUCKED. Goddamn this movie was boring as fuck. I have no idea what the big fucking deal is regarding this movie, this shit fucking blows dude.

>>211680795
For some reason people like to pretend that being covered in shitty gas station bathroom stall doodles has been socially acceptable much longer than it has.