>>350747Frank Henelotter and the Return of the Living Dead movies too. Henry is a brutal film.
>>350751True but there were also more indie small studio drive in grindhouse movies in the 70s. 80s was the direct to video era and they are as sterile as the 70s were grimy. Studio reassertion of control is why so many 80s movies had corporate set movies besides all the 80s greed is good social atmosphere at the time that American Psycho harkens back to.
It's also what slowly happened in the music industry from the late 60s to the late 80s and on: Corporate control and suits needing quarterly profits rather than creative gamblers running things. Popular culture used to rely on gamblers trying new things when possible. Test marketed stuff relies on what is already known which doesn't take a risk on new things. Hence why slowly music has been recycled every ten year since the 60s when British did 50s rock with British accents. 70s did 50s-60s rock with cross dressing or safety pins in your nose. 80s did 70s with synthesizers and designer haircuts. 90s did punk with 70s hard rock "style" and 80s pussiness. Brit pop recycled 60s and 70s British rock etc.
Synthesizers and studio technology not to mention CDs extended the suits control of music much as VHS and LD/DVD/BluRay has for movies for a few decades. But cable, blank VHS and internet/computer technology for movies like tape cassettes, CD burning and internet for music have ultimately reduced the suit control to the present day making film and music overwhelming the same shit with a brand new sheen for quick returns. And the 80s was the real beginning of that concentration of elements for music and movies.
"Hitmen" about music industry illustrates this as a parallel to the movie industry. Earlier waves of immigrants to the US in music and movies aspired to assimilation and creativity and culture as well as taking risks since immigration to a foreign land is a gamble and a risk to succeed. Whereas their kids were spoiled egotistical shits to produced less and made more money doing it adding little new or of value to the industries they controlled. But regression to the mean is a problem with children of immigrants as seen today in the Muslim or Latin American immigrant problems. Legal ones at least.
70s-90s comedi
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