I’m watching Never Been Kissed — I’m also not weirded out by the Vartan and Barrymore romance, the whole point of falling in love w someone in disguise is that your heart knows the truth (it’s why they’re reading As You Like It!!)

@iramadisonthree What’s a favorite example?

@iramadisonthree I feel this way about John Hughes movies. They weren't gratuitous like Porky's, they really represented the culture at the time.

@iramadisonthree Mmmmhhmmmm when was the last time you watched 16 Candles. Or High Fidelity

@iramadisonthree A lot of those 80s teen comedies fall into this category cause yikes!

@iramadisonthree I also think there's a sweet spot where a movie is VERY much of its time (design, hair, technology, etc) but the themes are timeless enough, that I'm all e.g. "look at those ol' cathode ray screens, and great antifascist message"

@iramadisonthree But sometimes movies are classic bc they are time capsules!

@iramadisonthree "blazing saddles couldn't be made today" yes exactly??? it's lampooning contemporaneous issues that we treat differently/don't confront now

@iramadisonthree Watch All the Presidents Men. Besides being a fantastic important movie, it’s a fabulous time capsule - last time I watched, I was noting all the items that used to be part of daily life that you never see anymore (manual typewriters, record players, corded phones, etc)

@iramadisonthree In and Out came at a weird time when people were trying to be more accepting of being out but didn’t quite get it right…

@iramadisonthree Like that scene in Reality Bites where they play a game trying to remember Good Times episodes but then the Internet becomes a thing five minutes later and the scene becomes a relic.

@iramadisonthree In Nashville Lily Tomlin has two deaf children and she signs to them, and when you see how it’s shot you now realize that Altman is *explaining* sign language, because most people didn’t know about it in 1975.

@iramadisonthree I like a period film where everybody has massively 80s hair. Crunchy perms. Showing up to a duel with a mullet

@iramadisonthree Realized I'd never watched Saturday Night Fever. 90 minutes of funky dance routines then 28 minutes of absolute what the fuck

@iramadisonthree You’ve Got Mail is my favorite.

@iramadisonthree The Ring... I tried watching with my little brother (17) but it didn't work because I had to explain to him what a VCR & videotape was... so down the YouTube rabbit hole we went instead...

@iramadisonthree my parents recently watched a movie where a big plot point was trying to find a payphone and then not having any quarters lmao

@iramadisonthree Hackers! Hack the planet!!

@iramadisonthree Gigi

@iramadisonthree She’s All That had a lot of information that I had to explain… MTV Road Rules, The Spring Break house… lol It was a time.