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Pissed that they killed Barb. She was sexy.
She was going to be that late bloomer that we ignored all through high school, and then became the centerpiece of the 1987 Girls of the Big Ten issue.
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ET + Fire in the Sky + XFiles = awesome!
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Quick show off hands. Who here has made a mixed tape?
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Only a legit mix tape if recorded from the radio without the DJ talking over the song intro.
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Quick show off hands. Who here has made a mixed tape?
ummmm....not you because it's called a "mix" tape not a "mixed" tape. or sometimes "mixtape".
only 90's and millennials called them mixed tapes when they butchered the term.
quote:quote:They nailed 1983 so well, but the one thing they skimped on were the bikes. That bothered me because with just a little more research, they could've scored some true to the era bikes. Hell, go into a TGI Fridays and borrow one of there Mongoose bikes of the wall.
Great nostalgia. It was like a flashback to my 11 year old self in 1983. The furniture, glassware, coke cans, bikes, walkie talkies; straight out of my youth. They even had a kid that knew how to work a lever action rifle.
My only questions:
What did the monster eat while in his own dimension? Did it just occasionally enter ours at random times to feed? I presume there are other monsters out there. I would have liked to have known more, but it really wasn't that important I guess. Just as knowing about ET or the Gremlins was not the point of the story.
In 1983, BMX was everything to me and my friends. I loved the line when the sheriff said that Will wouldn't have just left his bike there in the woods because those bike were like Cadillacs to those kids. True!
Anyway, I wish they could've been like they did in ET and get the kids a fleet of Kuwahara's to ride. Or throw in some Schwinn Scramblers, Mongooses, GT's, Diamond Backs. These were the bikes the kids rode back in those days.
Instead, these kids are riding modern BMX's bike that they look like they went down to walmart, bought a couple of bikes and tried to half assed make them look oldschool.
Probably doesn't mean anything to anyone else, I still have my bikes from my child hood and restored them to hang on the wall of my office.
Below are my three bikes from when I was a kid that I've restored. The 1st is a 1984 GT Pro. The 2nd is a 1983 Mongoose and the 3rd is a 1980 Schwinn Mini Scrambler from when I was a wee little kid. I just wish they had bikes closer to this because that's what kids were riding. All the bikes in the ET movie were excellent bikes for the day.
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You have Elle and Barb dead, Will is infected with the shadow-plane and coughing up slugs (this part was the worst), even Nancy and Steve got back together. I just would have preferred a more optimistic result I guess.
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You're on point with the Stephen King references. The first time I saw the opening credits this is the first thing that came to mind:
