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Has Mutiny even HEARD of Woodstock?

I mean, clearly nobody cares about it, Ang Lee should just market this as an original story.

Well, I guess this just solved the riddle of the young actor (alluded to in another thread) who had trouble relating to an era in the past...

I have said this before, and this is NO insult to mutiny's nice work here--

I'm just sick of Boomer movies about the '60s and '70s. Yes, I realize nearly every major power player, producer and director in this town came of age in the Woodstock, Vietnam, Nixon era... but enough is enough with the Boomer nostalgia. I've done the rant before so I'll spare you, but Stone, Howard, Spielberg, Zemeckis, Nichols... all these guys have mined this era SO MANY times, it's like, MOVE ON.

I don't get it... we have guys like Anderson, Anderson, Fincher, Russell, Aaronofsky, Payne... how about some nostalgia movies about, say...

WOODSTOCK '99? FUCK YEAH, some kaleidoscopic PTA or Fincher joint with DURST holding court and ICP and Korn and Kid Rock and RELOAD-era Metallica all busting out rapcore awesomeness set against the PRE-9/11, post-Irony ennui of the Y2K-panicked turn of the century?

Maybe to you it doesn't sound like there's much of a movie in there, but GODDAMN I'd take ANY kinda nostalgia over GRANDMA AND GRANDPA ACCIDENTALLY EAT THE POT BROWNIES! while a bunch of 21-year-old clean-scrubbed current actors wear a bunch of FAKE-ASS WIGS and PHONY COSTUMES.

Durst holding court over mosh pit rape and spoiled idiots kicking ATM machines? AWESOME.

Whatever, hippie.

I actually agree with Lex on this one. He's still repulsive, but I agree.

Can we bring in a new Academy rule? Once the same historical figure has been portrayed and nominated twice that all future portrayals are ineligible. That means no more Nixon!

I don't know, we seem to be getting some 80s nostalgia now. And in twenty years the kids will be complaining about hearing Hungry Like the Wolf in every movie.

I kinda feel like Almost Famous was the be-all-end-all of 60's70's nostalgia. That said, Idoubt Ang Lee was a hippy, so maybe he'll bring something new to the table.

Eh, considering we still get, oh, 217 movies a year about WWII in some shape or form, I guess I've got at least another thirty years of Nixon/Watergate/counterculture Boomer movies to look forward to.

I doubt it, because WW2 was the perfect situation to make movies from...one of the few wars with a clear cut good guy/bad guy situation. Same reason we still get 30s gangster movies.

I don't think anyone wants to see Woodstock 2, but I agree that this is tired. Pot brownies? Really? I think they did that on Barney Miller about sixty years ago.

There's a good Eighties-set, American Graffiti or Dazed and Confused-style movie yet to be made. Going to see The Replacements or R.E.M. when they were still playing bars, hanging out, getting drunk, selling plasma, trying to be cool and get laid. Maybe I'll write it myself if no one else does.

80s hair. vaguely remember it, gotta love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ9TfJjKHUM

hey, flock of seagulls

(80's hair personified)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjIA3Rt7gk

(fb, REM played my school hall at uni. epic)

I think there've been a decent (if not overwhelming) number of '80s nostalgia movies, dating back to '98 and "Wedding Singer," or, technically '97 with the awesome last couple acts of "Boogie Nights," which captured the "Wild Life"/'84 Olympics/Van Halen/"Against All Odds"/feathered hair/Ginger Lynn look quite well.

"Adventureland" was excellent, though its '80s nostalgia seemed a little incosistent: The clothes and overall vibe was more of an "Up the Academy"/"Meatballs"/"Little Darlings" kind of look to the film stock and clothes, but with all these late-'80s modern rock and pop hits on the track.

And "American Psycho," of course.

I say it's time to move on to late '80s/early '90s nostalgia; Shit, take a look at something like "Mo' Better Blues," some Arsenio reruns, or a 3rd Bass video or Nenah Cherry and the BUFFALO STANCE... that shit's more dated than the fucking Old West, so it's definitely a distinctive, specific, flavorful era in terms of music and fashion that could be mined.

Yeah, I realize there's no WWII or Watergate in the midst of it that would be a universal dramatic hook, and most major producers and directors were simply old enough then that it probably didn't even register with them as any kind of "era," but I gotta figure there's a lot of us out there now who were a little young when the New Wave/MTV/Hughes times were the rage with teenagers, but were already adults for the post-irony, post-grunge, Structure-shirt wearing Scream/Tarantino/Matrix back end of the '90s.

Yeah, but those films reflect the stereotypical, mainstream Eighties, not "my" Eighties.

Plenty of us were doing our best to tune out The Facts of Life and Rick Springfield and The Goonies and paying attention to Husker Du and Liquid Sky and Repo Man. (It was a particularly bad era for sitcoms, wasn't it? Everything was about adorable orphans and had the audience going "awwwwww" at least once an episode. I didn't own a TV then, which is why I've never seen a whole epsisode of McGyver or Miami Vice, and also why I don't give a shit about toy-based cartoon characters.)

It would have to be low budget, for sure. Like I said, Dazed and Confused.

I'd see it.

Though actually, I remember the period you're talking about fairly well. I was a late bloomer in growing out of dorkhood, and was doing the stuff in my mid-twenties that most people get out of the way when they're 19-22, so that was a fun time for me. Right around the time the Chili Peppers cover of Higher Ground was everywhere, right? Social Distortion doing Ball and Chain. Couldn't turn on a video channel without hearing/seeing that one.

...though even then, there was already a sense that the real scene was over, that everything happening was kind of tired and unoriginal. Must have been how it felt for the Sixties generation in the early Seventies. "Everything SUCKS, man..."

I'd definiely rather see the Repo Man version...yeah, tv was horrible then. I think tv now is better than it's ever been...maybe slacking off somewhat lately due to nothing but reality shows on.

"And "American Psycho," of course."

I think there's a difference between nostalgia and merely being set during the period.

Threadjack back ...

Focus Features has taken a good vibe and ruined it with the obligatory Academy Award/name-checking s#!t. Who gives a f)&k? Back then most people weren't into that scene -- if they were in the New York area they had an AM-only car radio with a button set to 77 WABC. If they were my age they were following the Mets in their miracle run to the World Series.

Hate to say it, dudes, but this tie-dyed nostalgia is gonna bomb big-time. Maybe that's why Focus Features moved up the NYC/LA opening by 2 days.

May I asked why you typed s#!t? Why not just type "shit?" It's not like it's some gigantic mystery what you meant there. Or choose a word like maybe "poop" that you could spell in it's entirety and stay a good Christian.

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