• inshallah2 [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    isn’t it like extremely 50s, similar to say America Graffiti?

    I've seen both of them but that was a very long time ago. It was also in the fat-back tv era when movies were squashed and hacked to pieces to fit the tv and tv ad format. I don't remember them very well. But they certainly are both as American as can be: ultimate Americana. I thought America Graffiti was set in the 1960s.

    Can’t they make new stories

    Apparently they can't. I'm sort of amazed that movies are now just another serial format. For example - I won't be surprised if the Fast and Furious series continues a couple more decades. Or even well-beyond that. Audiences can't get enough of that high speed dreck. Will there be FAF (or son-of FAF fifty years from now?

    This terrible shit is becoming intergenerational. If a couple conceived their child the night they saw FAF 1 - their kid would be twenty years old now.

    • Gosplan14 [any]
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      3 years ago

      I thought America Graffiti was set in the 1960s.

      1962, which is pre-Beatles, so culturally still very much in the 1950s. I watched it last weekend actually and it still holds up.

    • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      There won't be Fast and Furious 50 years from now because we're headed towards a giant collapse but it'll probably be the last movie humanity makes

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        When there are lnly five people left on Earth living in a cave, it will survive in the form of a long bearded man making vroom vroom noises while wildly gesticulating with his hands in front of the others.