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Tommy Elrod
yeah there was really no point to this being set in 1984 other than to kick off some nostalgia. seems like it would have been a better idea to do something like WW1, WW2, Cold War/Vietnam in the sequels.
And even in the nostalgia part it falls flat. Apart from the opening mall sequence and Pine's audition of outfits, nothing about the movie really screamed 80s. I guess the Cold War plot, but it's not like they couldn't have applied that to a different era.
And it's remarkable how many things seeking to rekindle the 80s nostalgia fail to do so. Stranger Things has come the closest, particularly in the first season, but mostly it's just a caricature of the 80s. It's also amazing how little detail they put into the hairstyles from that time. Remember all those pics of Kavanaugh from the early 80s during his confirmation hearing? Pretty much everybody had that style from about 82-86 and nobody gets it right in the movies. They just dress people in bright colors or a Don Johnson linen suit and plop them in a mall and say, "80s!"