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| Finally started watching Stranger Things (season 1) by fabio 11/26/2017, 10:03pm PST | ||||
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| Well, just the pilot. It's watchable, but I don't feel compelled at all to keep watching.
Mischief was right that it falls somewhere above Kung Fury for 80s tribute but way below Turbo Kid. It just feels like it's trying too hard in xeroxing a mishmash of 80s themes while missing important aspects of the spirit of the whole thing, like it was written by JJ Abrams' millennial protégé or something. -Why are all these 80s kids riding bikes from the 60s/70s like it was a Schwinn retro hipster showroom? Where are the BMXs? -No kids had lights on their bikes back then, let alone all of them. At best they had a reflector and even those were iffy. Safety awareness to put on reflectors wasn't even a thing until the mid to late 80s. -A group of geeky electronics nerds and not a single Atari in sight? Those things were dirt cheap by late '83. -Nothing but rotary phones in 1983?? -What small town 12 year olds swore like this? Parents in the 80s threw a fit if you even said "hell". We didn't even swear like that when I was that age in the early 90s. So there's the Astoria, OR cast consisting of Mikey, his older brother, token ethnic, and Trying Too Hard Chunk doing the contortionist truffle shuffle. I have no clue what the point of the sister and all her totally unrelated (boring) scenes are, other than that they still had to check off the Andy and Stef boxes. |
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Finally started watching Stranger Things (season 1) by 11/26/2017, 10:03pm PST  Re: Finally started watching Stranger Things (season 1) by 11/27/2017, 4:57pm PST Yeah it was 80s child panic driving the reflector campaign by 11/27/2017, 7:29pm PST Re: Finally started watching Stranger Things (season 1) by 11/27/2017, 8:10pm PST System Shock 2 was wasted potential and overrated garbage. NT by 11/27/2017, 11:20pm PST So you're the guy who kept leaving SS2 review complaints over the years by 11/28/2017, 7:01am PST Smart people know to laud Stranger Things by 11/28/2017, 2:01pm PST You said you wanted my opinion by 11/28/2017, 4:14pm PST Chill man, that by 11/28/2017, 8:34pm PST The search parties also use modern LED flashlights by 11/28/2017, 4:48pm PST I had a bike light in the 80s. NT by 11/29/2017, 7:25am PST Fuck this show (FABIO read this post) by 12/03/2017, 7:39pm PST |
