In what little spare time I've managed to scrounge these last few months, I've been working my way through various films I've never seen, or not seen in a long time. Unsurprisingly, most of them are from the 1980s. I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's something about films from that time period that have a certain charm few films nowadays can recreate - and even with the ones that do it's often because they replicate the 80s, rather than offer anything technically 'new' (case in point: The Expendables - a thoroughly enjoyable action film that offers a nod and a wink to the 80s but takes place nowadays).
I'm also getting back into Mad Men. I can't sing the praises of this show enough, but then I don't have to because I think everyone knows by now how good it is. Some films make me wish I lived in that universe (like Dazed and Confused), some TV shows make me wish I lived in them (like Mad Men). How is it possible to pine for something you never experienced? Good writing. A nostalgia born of other media, or fond recollections belonging to those who lived through those times/experienced those things. There's technically nothing stopping me from starting the day with a scotch, or sleeping with my passably attractive secretary, except the fact it's not the 1960s and that I don't have my own office or a secretary. But a man can dream...
Here's to the future!
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