So basically Spielberg's version of the 80's. See: ET, Poltergeist, Goonies, and let's cheat a little bit and throw in Close Encounters.

I second that motion. I'd also like to bring to the floor a bill which would have the FBI track down the assholes who told women pubic hair is icky and started that whole goddamn fad. Unless you have a thigh beard, then you might need a trim.

But the problem with that is everything Spielberg fixed in Jurassic Park is mitigated by all the shit he broke. Making the kids the focal point makes it hard to revisit these days for me, unlike the book. (And I saw it in theaters when I was 6 years old, so I was in the target demo)

Jesus Christ you sat down and read a book for 8 hours!?!? Were you on a train or plane at least? What kind of Doctor has that kind of leisure time in addition to the 36 holes they play each week?

Most novels that start out as screenplays, converted into a novel, and then adapted into a screenplay? Usually not very good. Unless it's Jurassic Park.

And that Hooper was supposed to look like a Ryan O'Neal/Jan Michael Vincent Country Club Rich Boy Douche, and we cheer his transformation into a "hot lunch"

Benchley sure loved his tawdry sex shenanigans, didn't he? I believe he even has a passage describing Ellen Brody "cleaning up" after Hooper zips up and leaves. Yikes.

what decade would you prefer?

I know I was an X files geek then. Taped all 12 hours of the Thanksgiving Marathon each year (even the same episodes from the year before) and I doled out $150 for each season as they came out (remember when a 6 dvd set was priced by disc? Like, on dvd was $20, so a 7 disc television season would be $120 give or take,…

I remember a time when you were lucky if the film adaptation wasn't just the title of the novel and the name of the main character, with a completely different story. (novel optioned for name recognition only).

It's like when people succeed too early in life and they spend the rest of their career with a severely warped idea of what it takes to be successful. Or like expecting a Cokehead to be a great coke dealer.

or perhaps…not.

You could play this game with any decade, any time period or location. There is always going to be bad shit in the world, and holding that against one's love of 80's pop culture does no one any favors.

then you must belong here.

How dare they be nostalgic for their youth! I'm sure the racism and misogyny is what they REALLY miss about their teen years, not the driving around town with their friends and their whole life ahead of them. No, of course not.

Clever.

link? I googled Avocado and only got pictures of avocado farms and forums where "only discussion of avocados is permitted", unless that's it.

Don't you realize that most writers do that kind of thing?!?!? Have you ever heard of "write what you know"?

can it really be a rhyme when it's only one line?

You're weirdly obsessed with dated humor from the 80's.