Not as much of a cultural shift as there was between ‘85 and ‘55. He’d find clunky computers, no internet, no smart phones, answering machines, video rental stores, girls dressed like Madonna, video game arcades.
I would probably die slowly and painfully for lack of internet porn if i had to go back to 1988
shareThere was playboy magazines in place of that.
sharei can't go back to magazines anymore
shareFrankly not being able to watch whatever TV shows I want whenever I want would be a bigger problem for me.
shareThats why they invented in the late 60s this micracle called ........ VCR!!!!!! And it even gets better: You could watch them whenever you want and the movies and series are even smart and just partly dark as hell!!!! And again: Whenever YOU want! Not when some streaming company decides that they dont want to continue the contract for some movies and you will never be able to watch them again.
Streaming isnt cool in any way. Its just some way to control what you have to like!
Except I would still have to fastforward through stupid ads. Not like the way it is today where you can just buy the whole season of a show on DVD or streaming without ads. It takes 30 minutes to watch a 22 minute show and an hour to watch a 42 minute show.
shareYou could buy then also whole seasons on VHS or LaserDisc! But why buying when you get it for free and even earlier on TV?
shareI don't remember a whole season of a TV show being released on VHS. But anyway, I am happier with the way things are now.
shareThere were many of such collections. Especially on Laserdisc. And today its better that the picutre quality is better. But as a movie fan streaming services are simply a step back in the horrible times before VCRs. When others decide what you had to watch and like.
shareHell, Laserdisc wasn't even THAT much worse than DVD picture-wise. If anything DVD was just Laserdisc for the masses. Obviously far inferior to blu-ray though.
shareI confess absolutely nobody I ever knew growing up in the 90s had a Laserdisc player. Plus with them being so large, it'd be a pain in the butt to have them at all. Those Laserdiscs were the size of records so you couldn't even put them on a normal bookshelf of the time.
shareVHS entire seasons DID exist but they were much more massive and much more time consuming to produce provide. And then pre-Amazon there was the question how/where to sell them. DVD--esp slimline case has made producing whole seasons more time and cost effective.
shareI definitely remember the entire original Star Trek series being available in the 80s on VHS. I don’t think they released them all at once though.
share"You could buy then also whole seasons on VHS or LaserDisc! But why buying when you get it for free and even earlier on TV?"
In 1988? Star Trek was the only one. It was the first TV series with a significant number of episodes to be released on home video in its entirety, and that was a two-year process culminating in 1986.
"There were many of such collections. Especially on Laserdisc."
No, there weren't, not in 1988.
Ain't no buffering in a magazine, is there?
People in the '80s were smart.
Are you crazy, you'd have a plenty of juicy porn, much better than the one today from 70s and 80s. You'd have to watch it on VCR, though.
shareYou would have just had to have gone to the local video store and rent a couple of VHS tapes.
You'd have been better off to go to 1955 where they didn't really have it and you'd have to wean yourself off of it. It would be healthy for your mind.
Renting porno? no thanks.
I'd have no shame renting normal porno films, but renting fetish films or extreme gay porno would be bit too embarrassing for me.
I remember in the 70s my friend’s dad had it on 8mm film.
shareIf this film came out now Marty would be a girl.
Yep. And when Doc says the classic line, "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.", the new script will have Martina McFly say, "You don't get to tell me what I need, white man."
Can't wait for them to remake this classic.
Please just... Never remake Back to the Future. It's a gem and shouldn't be retouched.
However, if they actually do a remake, I'll simply avoid it and pretend it doesn't exist.
lol
shareIf it came out now, all the “unnecessary” browning (as a well-known pitiful white power darling calls it) and gender-changing that conservatives fear will happen in a new BTTF, won’t come close to all the whitewashing that has happened in Hollywood’s history. Even things out? Nope, far from it.
Now if there’s the slightest chance this hypothetical modern version could be good, then bring on that progressive remake and let them tears flow.
So wait, are you saying that the new DeLorean will run on vibranium? That's gonna be even tougher for Doc to "rip off" than plutonium.
shareWhy should things be "evened" out? If whitewashing isn't a good thing, then neither is browning. What a ridiculous "an eye for an eye" way of thinking.
shareExactly. Remaking films with minorities and/or women just for the sake of having "brown" and/or pussy involved, to placate modern radicals, is just as ridiculous as the actual whitewashing that happened back in the day.
shareAnd that would ruin it for you?
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Except that Police Academy 5 was absolutely awful.
But then I remember that the 6th and the 7th exist as well, and...
Suddenly the fifth doesn't seem so bad. At least there was this pleasant Miami vibe working for it.
"So future boy, who's President in 2018?"
"Donald Trump."
"Donald Trump! The real estate guy who's best friends with Oprah?"
"Yep, turns out he's a racist, not a democrat. Him and Oprah are not on good terms in the future."
haha , even worse than regan the actor.
Truth being stranger than fiction.
Trump isn't racist.
Anyway, I would gladly sacrifice almost anything to get to live the rest of my incarnation or even just a few years, heck I'd sacrifice a lot even for just a few MOMENTS in the 1980s.
The atmosphere. The feel. The uplifting, incredible, powerful energy-atmosphere, colors allowed.. ahh. What a wonderful world that would be.
Who cares about smartphones, I don't even have them now - and my old, colorless cell phone doesn't see much usage, I would get by with landline famously.
All that's great was made mostly in the 1980s anyway, the rest is just 'extension', 'improvement' or 'different versions' of those things anyway. Sure, things were clunky, but they were also more free. People actually talked face-to-face instead of bookface.
Kids today can't probably even imagine that..
Coin-Up Arcade games with their authentic YM2151 chips.. I would GLADLY give up internet and modern computer systems for that. Internet is nothing but toxic gits anyway.
Either Edo-period Japan or 1980s western world, that'd be a dreamy time indeed. Smartphone-addicts might not realize how bad they have it now, and how great things were back then, but I'd go back in a heartbeat and never return to this horrible time.
When things were simpler, people were happier. I'd go back without a doubt.
shareIt sounds good in theory. How long would you last there though? I think you would get bored pretty quickly. It might be interesting if everything you knew about the future was wiped from your memory.
shareJust don’t get sick. I never met family members because they got sick from now-curable illnesses but died in their 30s and 40s.
shareYes, especially AIDS. Even though it still isn't curable, the drugs people take now extend their lives quite a bit. One thing that is different now is that people back in the 80's had better access to healthcare. Meds and hospital care are outrageously overpriced and even with insurance getting sick can bankrupt you, that is, if you can even get the help you need. Lots of people now go without due to the inability to afford needed medications and surgeries. In fact, I read that life expectancy is going lower in years in the US. Other countries have better outcomes.
shareI don't think I'd want to go back to 1988 I was in elementary school....my dad lost his job and we had to move. The place where we moved to was out in the middle of no where. I missed my best friend. Yeah I remember 1988 not a fan