#80s movie tropes

[orcboxer]

those first couple weeks after escaping a time loop have gotta be disorienting as all fuck. all those little cues that used to tell you what's about to happen are now triggers that cause you to brace for something that isn't coming. you have to relearn the permanence of death -- hell, you have reacquaint yourself with the entire concept of finality altogether. everything keeps changing but it never changes back and you keep having to remind yourself that this is normal. "it won't reset anymore," you echo to yourself, over and over and over, like a broken record, like you're still trapped in a loop, like someone who escaped the time loop but was doomed to bring it into the future with them

[choccy-milky]

modern AU seb and clora's first interaction 📘📗 (and by modern AU i actually mean super trope-filled high school romance set in the 80's/90's LOL)

[x-quetz-x]

Anyone else find it interesting that the stereotypical "bully" has been gradually shifting from 'buff jock' to 'nerd behind a keyboard '?

[deconstructthesoup]

I've cracked the code

Fantasy High Freshman Year: A version of what movies and TV shows think that high school is like, with fantasy elements

Fantasy High Sophomore Year: A story where a bunch of high schoolers are going on your standard high-fantasy adventure

Fantasy High Junior Year: A version of what high school is actually like, with fantasy elements

[shiberamune]

watched the breakfast club a 3rd time so im rambling

i still love the fact that john didnt mess with allison for the entire movie because he knows she has a similar home life. maybe not as loud, or violent, but he knows she's struggling just like him. he doesnt mess with her because he actually understands how she feels and lives, unlike the rest of the club. the scene of him tossing the coke can over to her sums this up too. that's like the nicest he was to anybody the entire time

[i-am-trans-gwender]

In the book that Roger Rabbit is based on Jessica Rabbit is your classic femme fatale and a gold digger. Her movie counterpart seems like this at first BUT shes's not bad she's just drawn that way.

Jessica genuinely loves Roger, will do anything to protect Roger, it's implied that Roger is the only person who loves Jessica for her personality rather than her body and Jessica loves Roger because he makes her laugh. It's the other characters that project there assumptions and libido on her.

Despite this her popularity led to characters that imitated the sex appeal but lacked the depth.

Examples: Goldie Pheasant from Rock A Doodle, Holly Would from Cool World, Lola from Shark Tale and Angel from Fish Police. (as for why the last two are fishes is beyond me)

[mikimeiko]

Lisa Frankenstein (Zelda Williams, 2024)

[back2themax]

Shout out to early 80s horror for having their group of kids be actually enjoyable and make you care about if they die or not. Later on movies devolved into the most annoying group of shitheads you want to see hacked and slashed but in the earlier days there was some genuinely great character dynamics. (My bloody valentine, Prom night, Slumber party massacre.) now of corse remakes go on to absolutely ruin the praise I just gave but what can you do?

[1-8oo-wtfbro]

i would love it if you reblogged for a larger sample size

[chicafinal]

i find it funny when people point to movies like ready or not or the knives out franchise or any semi-recent release with rich people as the bad guys and say stuff like "finally! a movie where rich people are the true villains and they get what they deserve! this is what society needed" were you born yesterday? are these the first movies you've watched?

[cronengirly]

When you see a waterbed in a horror movie you KNOW some shit's gonna go down

[stuckasmain]

Look, I know it’s the 80s, I know someone somewhere has to kiss a girl, but the way Tron goes about this is so fucking funny and it never adresses it again.

Flynn kisses Yori out of nowhere, keep in mind :

1.) At this moment they believe Tron to be dead

2.) She is Implied to be with Tron (if there’s a program equivalent of a girlfriend)

3.) she looks like his ex and thus his best friends girlfriend.

Im absolutely losing my mind when I think about it too. Like, not only is the fact Alan and Lora’s programs also happen to be dating hilarious, but the fact that Flynn can never be like “I kissed your programs girl” or tells this to Tron is just sjskskskskskajakakak

Does anyone think this as wild as I do because I swear- like I know most fans on here are more sequel people but…

[sturid]

the urge to get your friends to dress up as 80s movie found family groups for halloween

[harpersbizarresketchbook]

I'm starting to put together notes to write the 4th issue of Horrorscope (all about slashers!) I got hung up on some thoughts about the Final Girl trope and decided to do a mini zine about it.

[notebooknonbinary]

Byler Week, Day 2: 80s Movies (Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986)

(technically a sequel to this. All you need to know is that Mike and Will can read each other's minds--and they know that they like each other.)

Mike and Will are back in the Upside Down—in Hopper’s cabin. This time, at least, they’re not alone. Outside, Joyce and Hopper are keeping watch so they can get some sleep. Unfortunately, neither one of them can. So they’re just laying beside each other, listening to the faint murmuring of the couple outside. 

“Mom and I made up last week,” Mike finally murmurs into the quiet air. He sees Will immediately turn to face him. “Yeah? How did that go?”

“She apologized for putting all the secret keeping on me—aparently Nance really reamed her on that after the fight.”

“Well, good. You deserved to be apologized to.”

Mike hides his smile in the crook of his elbow, wondering if Will can feel how giddy Mike gets when Will defends him. (The answer, he suspects, is yes.)

“Thanks,” he whispers. “Then we watched a movie that came out recently? Honestly, it was kind of stupid—Peggy Sue Was Married? Or something like that—but me and Mom both kind of hated it, so we made fun of it together.” Will snaps his fingers. “Peggy Sue Got Married? El and I watched that one, I liked it until she got back with the cheating husband at the end—”

“—that's why Mom thought it was stupid. I guess she saw that’s where it was going and felt it would have ended better if Peggy decided to go through with the divorce.” Mike is silent for a long moment. He picks at the hangnail on his thumb. “Then she started crying and said that she’s been daydreaming about divorcing my dad.” “Oh, Mike…” “She said she’s held out for our sakes, and honestly I almost picked a fight with her about it. I wish they would divorce.”

Will reaches out and grabs Mike’s hand. “Maybe my Mom can talk to her about it after this is all done with.”

"Maybe."

Mike laces their fingers together, and leans over to press the briefest of kisses to their interlocked fingers.

They’re on the precipice of being in a relationship—having confessed and kissed, and accidentally formed a powers-bond—but unwilling to take that final step of calling each other boyfriends. 

If Mike were to lose Will…

He thinks back to the night after Will’s fake body was discovered (easy with Vecna’s recent reminder), those few hours where Mike had well and truly believed Will to be dead. And the hours afterwards where he’d remained terrified of Will slipping through his fingers forever.

He tightens his grip on Will’s hand, scooching just a bit closer to him. Will obligingly curls nearer to him, twinning their free hands together.

They fall asleep like this.

-

When Mike wakes up, it’s to the kind of crusty eyes he associates with late night crying sessions. He feels off and tired and like there’s too much stuff crowding his brain. He sits up, finding himself in his basement—but it’s also wrong.

It’s not the basement of the past year (messy with so many of his family friends living in it), but nor is it the basement in the Upside Down, cold and damp, but free of Vines.

It’s the basement of four years ago. Warm, filled with toys and Will’s drawings. 

When he looks at his hands, they’re tiny and scuffed from falling off his bike last night.

Wait, no, not last night. Four years ago.

Right?

He looks to the corner to see a tiny version of El, awake and fiddling with his old Walkie-Talkie, though nothing but static is coming through. No tiny voice singing. No Will.

Worry turns to painful anxiety and fear.

No no no please no. If, somehow, the following three years were just a dream thought up by a desperate twelve year old wishing that his favorite person were still alive…Mike doesn’t know if he’ll be able to survive that. Not Will, please not Will. A hiccuping sob escapes his chest.

He’s almost certain this isn’t another one of Vecna’s tricks, because things haven’t gone funky and weird like last time. But, he’d almost rather that it is Vecna, just so he can be certain that Will is coming to get him. That Will is still…

He lets out another painful quiet cry, curling in on himself. He hears El take a breath at the noise, but he ignores her.

Then, finally, Will’s mental voice breaks through the silent screaming in his mind. I’m here Mike.

Mike lets out another sob, this time of relief. Are you safe?

He’s hit with a second hand wave of exasperated fondness. As safe as I can be. I don’t think Henry knows we’re here. 

Mike sits back and scrubs the tears from his eyes. How are we here?

Some sort of powers thing? Will guesses. Time travel is new. We didn’t even do it like Marty McFly, we had to pull a Peggy Sue.

Mike bites back a laugh. It seems topical, considering their previous conversation. No Delorean for us, I guess.

Now that he’s aware of what’s going on, his mind has untangled a little bit. Somehow Mike can feel the presence of their younger selves, sat at the back of their minds and aware. His younger self has done the mental equivalent of curling around the younger Will like a feral cat, hissing when Mike prods their way, but otherwise calmer than he would expect them to be.

But then, Mike at this age would and did suspend a lot of disbelief in his crusade to get Will back. So older selves from the future probably isn’t too much of a reach.

Speaking of getting Will back, today is the day Joyce made brief contact with Will. If I can shepard the Party to your house, Mike wonders. Do you think we’d be able to get you out early?

A pause.

Yes please.

--

When I eventually get around to posting this on Ao3 it'll be longer--it's not quite finished, and Mike keeps going off into tangents about found families lolol. But i think this is a good stopping point :)

[amazon-me-bitches]

I think the worst thing about remakes of tv shows that no one asked for or cares about is now when I google the show to try to find episodes all it gives me is episodes of the reboot or the remake and not the original im looking for so then I have to sift though the nonsense to find the "Real Sabrina the teenage witch" or the "Orginal Rugrats" "1994 Lion King animated." "Full house original series" It just makes more work honestly. Also look as a general rule if a show has been mega popular, I can ASSURE you the remake will be hated then forgotten in a week, then cancelled after 2 seasons.