This movie is where pop culture references and 80s nostalgia became old and absolutely cringeworthy.
Nostalgia and especially the 80s aesthetic of it can be done well. Just look at GTA Vice City for a good example. But that game was made back in 2002 and long before 80s nostalgia became incredibly mainstream. What made Vice City fun though was that it didn't shove in your face references to popular things from the 80s. While it still had Michael Jackson's Billie Jean and a few other popular songs everyone heard growing up, there was a lot of cool music in that game that most of us had not heard before (most of the Fever radio station had obscure R&B on it). Vice City also felt like it was joking around and making fun of tropes like how it mirrored Scarface and Miami Vice (right down to having Philip Michael Thomas himself voicing a character).
This movie is where pop culture references and 80s nostalgia became old and absolutely cringeworthy.
Nostalgia and especially the 80s aesthetic of it can be done well. Just look at GTA Vice City for a good example. But that game was made back in 2002 and long before 80s nostalgia became incredibly mainstream. What made Vice City fun though was that it didn't shove in your face references to popular things from the 80s. While it still had Michael Jackson's Billie Jean and a few other popular songs everyone heard growing up, there was a lot of cool music in that game that most of us had not heard before (most of the Fever radio station had obscure R&B on it). Vice City also felt like it was joking around and making fun of tropes like how it mirrored Scarface and Miami Vice (right down to having Philip Michael Thomas himself voicing a character).