tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post5806350304971829192..comments2023-11-05T02:01:53.847-06:00Comments on Antagony & Ecstasy: JOHN HUGHES: WEIRD SCIENCE (1985)Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09491952893581644049noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-57977522415397034892015-06-12T12:23:36.507-05:002015-06-12T12:23:36.507-05:00Was just watching this for the first time. Actuall...Was just watching this for the first time. Actually, not true. Watched it with a group during high school at a friend's house - on vhs - the year after it came out. I was an awkward geek somehow absorbed into the sub-cool, uber-smart crowd, and the movie made me squirm enough in that crowd at the time that I've completely blocked it. So this feels like the first time, if you will. I was thinking exactly what you wrote, that the "program the perfect woman" montage at the beginning was exactly and perfectly 80s in a way that really only existed/exists in movies: a purely distilled confection of the tools, sounds, and colors that were floating around me in pieces at them time. Watching it now feels like a memory of my actual life, when I know it wasn't. I guess this is the razing effect of pop culture over time - it re-art-directs our memories into its own image. And now, with the 80s in near-full revival, the snake is eating its tail, and I'm turning into one of those old guys that screams "I was there" to a group of high-topped teens at the mall. Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10667380722587782819noreply@blogger.com