um, did I miss something? They didn't have 911 back then. The scene where the daughter yells to her friend when they guy breaks in the house, "Call 911!"...It was just absurd.
And earlier when the kid on the bike kept saying, "dude"...They didn't say "dude" back in the 70s, not in that context.
the whole thing was just silly and out of place.
Why would you say something so obviously wrong as fact.
You have the whole internet in front of you, you could check. You just assumed you were right and slagged off the film makers.
That really makes you look stupid and also too lazy to check.
"Oh this seems unlikely, I won't check though, I'll just assume I'm right based on nothing and make out like the film is absurd"
I bet you get in so arguments, using your lack of knowledge and laziness as facts
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here's something you millenials need to learn. When you actually have lived through the times that they are depicting, and were there yourself - in the exact place and time - you know how things were. You don't have to google every single thing. I swear, it's comical how you bratty millenials think the world did not exist before you, and that people actually survived and functioned without google and social media.
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share911 as an emergency number dates back to 1968.
'Dude' dates back to 60s surfer culture and was definitely around in 1977 (e.g. 'Dude' the musical-1972; Steely Dan's song '"Any Major Dude Will Tell You"-1974)
I was alive then. We had 911, and we called dudes "dude".
shareFrom the "Goofs"-section, "Factual errors":
...while 911 was an emergency system that was used as early as 1968 in Alabama, it was not formally introduced to Los Angeles until October 1, 1984.
I noticed a good amount of idioms in the dialogue that didn't exist in the 70s. Wish I could remember some of them.
But "dude" wasn't one of them. Dudes totally called each other "dude" back then. At least they did here in SoCal.
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9-1-1 has been around since the late sixties, with the very first E911 call having been made in Haleyville, Alabama.
An interesting side note of that event, the famous (or in some circles, "infamous") Eugene "Bull" Connor was in attendance. If you don't know who "Bull" Connor is, wiki him.
Los Angeles, California, 1977. I'm fairly certain both 9/11 & 'dude' were out of the box for then & there.
...my essential 50 http://www.imdb.com/list/ls056413299/
I lived in California in the 1970s. We did not get 911 until the 1980s.
shareJeff Bridges has probably been saying "Dude" since the 60s and is on several films from the 70s saying it quite often actually.
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