Yep the theme is "oh lawdy, lookit the disastah! I'm gunnah DIE!"

*trumpets* A light shines in the western sky *drums*

"Oh mah gawd it's the GUBMINT come to save my poor pitiful ignorant civilian arse!"

*homage to the flag and/or some religious figure*

*lots of shots of people in uniform doing things*

:credits:

What did I just read?

The narrative of every Hollywood blockbuster since the late 80's.

Come now, there's been a lot of cliche plots from hollywood since the 80's, but surely ALL of them aren't like that.

Come now, there's been a lot of cliche plots from hollywood since the 80's, but surely ALL of them aren't like that.

Well, some are worse than others.

Come to think of it this has been the narrative since long before the 80's, but I can't personally attest to many blockbuster films prior to the early 80's.

I just want Wall Street 3.

There was kind of a lull during the 70's. (Well, aside from Star wars and Alien, that is.)

Come now, there's been a lot of cliche plots from hollywood since the 80's, but surely ALL of them aren't like that.

Yeah I'd say during the late 60's and early 70's there were probably some popular hits that broke the mold. Popular opinion at that time was really against the ongoing war and all the wacky political disasters (bay of pigs, watergate, etc.). Still, if you look at the most popular genre of that era (westerns) the films which championed the dissident or the general populace rather than the state agency of the Sheriff, Pinkerton, etc. were few and far between.

It really applies to every action, adventure, or sci-fi genre film. Not to mention more than a few comedies and dramas.

It really applies to every action, adventure, or sci-fi genre film. Not to mention more than a few comedies and dramas.

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Westerns were definitely a staple for longer than just that period of time...............

The birth of the modern "progressive," era is widely regarded as beginning in the early 60's and continuing to the mi 70's. So I think it's fair to refer to that as part of the same era of political sentiment in the US. 17 April 1961 was the Bay of Pigs invasion. June 17, 1972 was the night of the break-in that launched watergate.

Oh yeah. I see TONS of your description in "Avatar". NOT.

Didn't they even make the guys in uniform leave ?

Avatar is an inversion of the standard model because it came about during the Bush era when the left was still anti-war.

America in 1961 and America in 1972-74 were 2 completely different countries. There was a completely psychologically devastating war in between those dates utterly changing everything.

The Modern Era is considered having started in the 1920's and extended to 1964, the beginning of the Vietnam War. After that, we are considered the PostModern Era.

Dude. Avatar was released in 2009, a year into Obama's Administration.


Edit: Also, the left has always been anti-war. Still is. Probably will always be.

Are you for real ???

And right now the EU is arguing over what they are going to take Obama to hand over the NSA spying. It's almost as if Europes looking at the USA and wondering about its intentions given the talk about how its worse than what the USSR did and all....

The vietnam war bridges the gap between those two eras, as does the all-encompassing cold-war. I don't think how you can honestly say the psychology of those eras was dramatically different.

The left is no longer protesting nearly as much as they were. To claim otherwise is completely ridiculous.

Utterly different. Besides no Vietnam yet during the earlier period, the Civil Rights Act had not even been enacted.

Look. I was there. You were not. Stop trying to be 'right'. You have enough errors in your movie 'information', much less history of politics and popular culture. You aren't gaining much respect here, at all.

So just stop now before you make one of the fine posters in this thread, as they mostly are, angry.

Don't hold your breath. The French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Austrians complied with the US to bring down the Bolivian President's private jet in order to search for Snowden (whom they totally don't care about anymore, honest). They're talking about being critical of the administration, but it's all hurf as far as I can see.