I was just looking back on a site all about the 80s the 80s was so much better than today looking at the 80s site made me relise that more. reasons are:

1. The Movies were the best then
2. The TV adverts were LOADS better
3. The Game Shows on TV were Loads Better
4. The Sweets were better
5. Things were alot cheaper
6. People were more chilled out

What your views on the 80s Compared to today? :martyjr: :docs2: :88: :jen1: :george: :marshall:

Oh also you use to be able to buy 1p chews i miss them :docs2:

:martyjr: I love the 80's . I was born in the late 80's (1989).80's rock on!

What are my thoughts on the 80's versus today? 'Kay, if anyone cares....

Well, I was born in that decade and got into things early on. Needless to say I love it. :)

I was born in 1981 but always felt a little behind my times, even as a kid. At least on a pop culture level, I tend to relate more to the average person born around 1970 or '75.

On a larger scale, not much has really changed besides pop culture and technology, such as the Internet and cellphones. Obviously there was always crime, kids still had problems at school, everything that permeates today did then too (we're talking about the 1980's -- a decade in recent history, not the Colonial period or the Middle Ages!), but I do think it was a lot more innocent then.

Not saying the problems were more innocent, but the overall feel of the world strikes me that way. The clothes and fashions were colorful, tons of fun and happy music was a button's reach away on the Top 40, and the movies were the sort of events a bunch of your buddies would get together and watch. As were music videos on MTV.

I think TV shows tended to have more of a "moral" (anyone remember those commercials circa 1983 with the talking vitamins, warning little kids that they weren't candy?). We can't forget Full House either. :D

Of course, the powers that be deem that kind of thing as "cheesy" now. :(

So yeah, it was fun and I wish I could've experienced it as a teen or older. It wasn't until the late 90's when I was in high school, that I really started missing it like I do now. I started realizing how much time was passing since my childhood, and now even that was 6 or 7 years ago!

Then again, despite all I said, I was just thinking about what I recall from the 80's: Nintendo games, songs, movies, places we lived, family trips we took, being with my parents, going to school, etc.

On the other end of the spectrum, there also were things like Black Monday 1987, the Cold War, inner city poverty, a recession at the end of the decade, etc. Me being 8 when the 80's ended, I had very little (if any) knowledge of these things as they were going on.

Maybe kids of the 80's like myself, tend to automatically associate it with this warm, fuzzy feeling because we were happy at the time, so thinking of those things makes us feel happy. Possibly we're remembering it wrong, with a bit of a "personalized" view -- could be that it only feels more innocent to us, since we were more innocent ourselves?? <_<

I think you've just made an excellent point

I tend to think of the 80's as a more innocent and happy time, but then I was a kid and so everything was more innocent and happy anyway.

I had a sheltered upbringing and didn't really start thinking about the world until I left home in the early 90's. Now, I know everyone else's political views are not the same as mine, but actually I think the 80's were quite bad in terms of the way the social and political climate changed. It seems to me that it was during this period that people started becoming more obsessed with money and fame at the expense of personal relationships and social intercourse. Basically, everyone started getting greedy - a trait that is prevalent in today's culture. The whole "compensation culture" didn't exist when I was a child in the 80's. People were more willing to accept responsibility for their own actions. Owning lots of money was not necessarily seen as success.

I just heard a tune on MTV about a woman who loves 1985 , song goes shes stuke in 1985. Its by Bowling For Soup and song called 1985. :88: :happydoc:
That great film The Goonies was done in 1985 and the 2 best christmas movies were made in the 80s , Scrooged and Santa Claws the movie :P :rolleyes:

Hey to the people from the uk who use this site how do you feel like going back to your child hood back to the 80s watching all the cool old adverts we use to have, now you can at

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/

Go on that site click on adverts and you can watch all the old Tv adverts from the 80s. You need Real Player to play the adverts :rolleyes: .

ENJOY

I just noticed on that site i gave above not only can you watch adverts from the 80s and 50s you can also watch the how some of the old tv shows started and stuff from that time its such a cool site brings back loads of memorys. link again below :P

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/

IDK, I kind of miss the Cold War in a way. At least back then America and other countries had more of a clearly defined "enemy" -- the then USSR. Now the world enemies are stealth leagues of terrorists that have grown immensely in power over the last few decades. Gorbie is seeming like a softy compared to the Bin Ladens and Saddam Husseins of the world.

Got another cool DVD from 1985, The Goonies which is also 20 this year same as Back To The Future, they had 20th Birthday party aswell. :rolleyes: