The 80s Will Beat Us In Nostalgia
A t-shirt featuring the image to the right is currently available at BustedTees.com. If you can’t spot the reference, that’s okay. If you can, well, there’s plenty of shame to go around and I’ll take a little over here. For those that still have their dignity, it’s a reference to the 1998 Jennifer Love Hewitt film Can’t Hardly Wait. Loveburger is the name of the lame band no one wants to listen to at the party. Add to this that the film is getting a 10-year anniversary edition DVD this fall and I can’t help but wonder: When did Can’t Hardly Wait becomes a 90s classic? It’s a cute little film but there’s nothing that memorable about it.
It think the problem is that the 90s lacked signature films that were part of the era. There are a lot of great films, but what 90s films scream their decade? Scream, I guess. The 80s, for all it’s garrishness and eye-sores, did leave an impression. Maybe in a couple more years, the picture will be a bit clearer, but when I think 90s, I think Nickelodeon, Nirvana, and Steven Spielberg cartoons like Animaniacs and Tiny Toons. Yeah, my childhood was crazy.
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