You know how, today, we take inspiration or look up to “classic” films like The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption? Well, what did people in the 80s/90s look up to? 70s movies? Black and white movies? What were seen as classics back then?

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    5 months ago

    The Godfather came out in 1972

    Planet of the Apes in 1968

    Apocalypse Now in 1979

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977

    2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968

    Halloween in 1978

    Taxi Driver in 1976

    A Clockwork Orange in 1971…

    Great cinema existed before the 80’s.

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      5 months ago

      I was gonna say, people were parodying and mimicing those movies then in the 80s and 90s.

      Animaniacs alone had parodies of all that. Muppet babies too.

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      5 months ago

      And before then would have been movies like The Searchers, and before that, stuff like It’s a Wonderful life. The golden age of cinema was loooong before the 90’s. Heh.