90's Movies

Going all the way back to the 60's movies.... I am not going to lie but all most all the movies we watched from the decade made me laugh from the cheesy visual effects to the poor acting displayed. Although I am thoroughly impressed on how the film industry has evolved. Discovering CGI and green screens sure do have a great impact on our movies today. In the movie The Titanic I honestly didn't even realize that they used CGI and green screens until after the movie. The technology and camera angles prove to be quite intriguing to the audience. In the 60's when we watched Planet of the Apes everything was just a bit tacky for me. Their ship sinking in the beginning of the movie took a solid twenty minutes but in reality it should have only taken about 5 minutes. Seeing the great change in the film industry still blows my mind.

90's Music: How has the music changed from 1960's to the 1990's? What does this change mean? What do you think of the music? What does it say about the 90's?

Music has changed drastically from the 60's to the 90's from genres to music instruments especially. In the 60's The Beatles sang mostly about love, but has we move up one decade, the 70's, their lyrics change and they sing about acid trips and getting high. They begin to use Indian instruments in their music in George Harrison's favor. In addition rock and roll sky rocketed in the 70's and is consider the age of rock and roll. Entering the 80's rock and roll was no where close to being as great as it was in the previous decade. At the end of 80's hip-hop and gangster rap took form. Furthermore alternative music sparked in the 90's as well with Nirvana and other popular bands. I think it's insane how music gets morphed and how some genres promote others. Music will always evolve it will never stay the same. Most of the rap lyrics reflect on the artist's hard times and their struggles such as Tupac and Biggie-smalls. Overall their lyrics really do symbolize the struggle the decade was having because in reality it wasn't a great decade for america.

90's Television

Because of Clinton's immature actions in office he single-handed had a great impact on our television at the time? In the show the Simpson's in one of the episodes Homer climbs over his wife, Marge, and shuts the light off implying sexual actions. America see's Clinton's sexual affairs to be alright as it is released to the whole country. Another influence is the new era of rap which Will Smith constantly uses in his television show Fresh Prince of Bel Air. As the new arrival of the genre appears in the decade Will Smith brings it in the show as it can be seen in the first season when he teaches his cousin about the genre and rhyming skills.  

90's Politics : Should Bill Clinton have been impeached? Should he have been found not guilty? How do you think this event resonated in America?

Personally I think Bill Clinton should have been impeached. He was not taking the most important job in the country seriously! He was caught numerous times flirting with women in the office and displayed how not to be a good husband by having affairs with Mona Lewinsky. In my opinion I think he should have been found guilty because as an important leader he was found doing irresponsible actions when he could have been leading our country into doing greater things. This event of Clinton's idiotic actions reflected America greatly has it can be seen in the 90's television. An example would be in the show friends when Fee-bee yelling sexual moans in the apartment above the rest of the group.  

90's : What I want to Learn

The topics we briefly scanned through in class that caught my interest was the school shooting, the gangs of the period, and the problems Somalia were having. Why did school shootings influence others kids to do the same at their school? Why did the bloods and crips hate each other? And why did we have soldiers in Somalia ?

1980s: Television

Television during the 80's was awesome even though it was really corny at times. In class we watched the A- Team whiched displayed numerous cheesy fighting scenes and multiple corny lines were always brought up, but in my opinion I love that kind of stuff. It brings us back to the appreciate those really unrealistic fight scenes because they are very hard to find now a days in film like today. The A - Team was a great show filled with great action and especially some great lines of humor from Mr. T. The Bill Cosby Show was a hit of a sitcom that displayed quite the histerical moments some of the characters get into. The Bill Cosby Show was great because it gave viewers something to relate to in their lives especially ones in their family. Bill Cosby and as well as the rest of the cast, in my opinion, displayed quite magnificent acting roles especially for the ones who stayed for the whole eight seasons. Another great show we saw in class was Cheers. Unique friends that would hang out and discuss their problems in a bar in Boston. I enjoyed the show fairly because at points it made me laugh but I felt like it was a shoe not specifically for me. I feel like the show is target at the middle aged men where they can view the show and  laugh at the characters that remind them of their own friends.

1980's: Movies

Movies from the 80's were brilliant. The decade had it all in the film industry the humor, the horror, the emotion, and the cheesy-ness. I couldn't help but to notice but the film's we saw The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day off, and War Games all really focused on the adolescents. I guess the decade in my opinion was more about how people viewed teenagers at that time. In the movie Fast times at Ridgement High it really depicted our they viewed teenagers as dim minded, sex addicts, and stoners. It's quite evident that the blockbusters and popular films included teenagers. I really liked the 80's movies because it really defined a generation based off their actions and they really pin pointed the lives of them.