They were unprepared for the pandemic and then let it kill hundreds of thousands ofnpeople in the hopes it was killing more Democratic voters in blue cities. They have gerrymandered every state legislature so Democrats have to win by overwhelming numbers to unseat any incumbents, and they pass laws to make it harder for everyone to vote as they know this favors them. When they had the presidency and both houses of Congress under Trump the very first thing they passed was a massive unpaid tax cut that mostly went to the top 1%. Everything else they do is division and destruction.
They don't create anything but tax breaks for the oligarch class so they can make even more money, in hopes that some of it will flow to them.
I could definitely see how “Beverly Hills Cop” or a John Hughes movie might also be put forward as the archetypical 80s movie, though. I was going to say “Say Anything,” but that very late 80s movie in many ways had already made the cultural shift to the 90s, as had movies like “Midnight Run” and “Heathers.”įor me I’d say it’s “Something Wild,” the perfect intersection of 80s Yuppie-ism and party culture, and the two of them crashing together in the form of Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith. I’m American so of course to me the setting would have to be the USA, but of course it’s understandable that a Brit might say something like “My Beautiful Laundrette.”įor me, movies like “Ghostbusters” and “Desperately Seeking Susan” really do it, really take me back to that time and place.
So it can’t be set in another time (like “Reds”) or be sci fi or fantasy if they’re set in other times or realities (like Legend or Aliens). I absolutely do NOT mean “best movie made in the 80s,” I mean the movie that really feels the most like the 80s.