The 80's or the 90's?

[cheeser]

This is mainly a Pop-Culture argument and has come up many times where I work......

Which was the better Decade, and why?

based on Music, Movies, TV Shows, Lifestyles, etc...(but not political)  what are your opinions?

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

80's for movies music

90's is when the world started going down down down down.
everything that was good in the 80's died in the 90s: actions movies, mainstream movies, mainstream music, rock n roll ....

[Bill 213]

The 80's by far. ?The 80's had it all......great movies such as Labyrinth, Howard the Duck, the remake of Little Shop of Horrors, Big Trouble in Little China, Rocky IV, etc.........the music, self explanitory........television such as Growing Pains, Facts of Life, Charles in Charge, Alf, GI Joe, Transformers, etc......Lifestyle everybody was just about hanging out and being cool. ?

The only thing the 90's brought was Vanilla Ice and rap, Nirvana and grunge...........movies like Bio-Dome and Jury Duty....TV shows like the Real World and a bunch of turds thinking they were cool by not being cool.

[difleha]

First of all, I was born in 1990. But what I saw from the influence of the 80's when I was living in the 90's, I have to say that I wish I was living through the 80's.

What is missing in this decade(2000)?

[cheeser]

well, some support for the 90's

they gave us waynes world, jurassic park and fight club, all decent movies.

of course nirvana, weezer i guess?  green day if you like them.

any more support for the 90's??

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

well, some support for the 90's

they gave us waynes world, jurassic park and fight club, all decent movies.

of course nirvana, weezer i guess?  green day if you like them.

any more support for the 90's??

we had the end or RATM and the birth and death of Marilyn Manson too.
wayne's world i can agree - altho 92 is almost the 80s -

but jurassic park and fight club are subpar movies.
fight club is the apogee of 90's / MTV style  : no content, easy shocking philoshophy that hides emptyness, empty shell ....
it's an ok movie, you know.
but it really reminds me shows like dismissed and i want a famous face too much.
where "critical approach of an issue" becomes the issue itself :=)

[SLCPUNK]

80's hands down.

[bazgnr]

The major years of my childhood were in the 80's, so I'm biased, but still - no contest. ?80's all the way.

[nycangel]

i was born in the 80s so i absoutley love the 80s, i think its the best decade ever, however i really love the 90s and i miss them. i really do not like this decade at all, way too many changes. the 80s and 90s were perfect for me

[zman]

80's all the way the music , movies and tv shows. And the cartoons where way better in the 80's.

Long live the 80's

[Rocksteady]

90's for me it reminds the good times of my life  Most of my favourite cd's are from the 90's also great tv shows like  Higlander and Married... With Children were still on tv.

[Bill 213]

For me, to sum up the first decade of 2000's would only be to label it the "Douchebag Decade."  So far that's all that we've seen in the first seven years of 2k.  Douchebag celebrities, douchebag musicians, douchebag movies, douchebag television shows, douchebag kids, douchebag politicians, douchebag food, douchebag etc.  I would much rather go back to the days of the Iran Contra!

[Stonerose]

90s, up until like 98, then things started goin right down fukin hill. There were some cool underground bands in the 80s, but thats about it. I think that this decade is the all time worst for everything. Id rather listen to fukin swing music from the thirties than listen to the garbage they play on the radio today.

[jabba2]

I like the 90's. Better video games, better tv. The 80's were great too.

[nightrain_jh]

80's

[2007what!]

the fucking 90's for sure.
guns n' roses, jurassic park, euro-electronica-pop, fresh prince in bel air and green day. need i say more?
the 00's have fucking sucked in comparison, and i'm too young to remember much of the 80's.

[vietnow138]

the 90's by far

Movies: Waynes World 1 & 2, Bio- Dome, Dazed and Confused, Detroit Rock City, Jurassic Park, Fight Club, Natural Born Killers, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Sixth Sense, ect.

Music: Guns N Roses!, the tail end of Hair Metal, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains(pure genius), Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Janes Addiction, Tool, Blind Melon, Oasis, and Buckcherry.

Random:Super Nintendo(hell yeah), N64, Playstaion, still costing under 5 bucks to see a new movie, DVD's emerging, Pauly Shore, Saved by the Bell, that last great cast line up for SNL (90'-95'), The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Rock n' Roll still being the dominant music form in the mainstream (more so early to mid 90's), and Blind Melon.

I think its based mostly on personal preferance, but I'd say the 90's were a better decade, a time when major technological advances were really breaking through and not enough of them had come across to screw everything up like today.

[Danny Top Hat]

The 90s!

For Britpop, Euro96, hair straighteners (for girls), Guns n Fuckin Roses, Blur/Oasis (which Blur so fucking won), Jurrassic Park, TFI Fridays and Tony Adams.  I think British people would be more inclined to love the 90s because we did it properly - America probably overdosed on grunge a little.  We chose life.

[LeftToDecay]

The thing i love about 80's are the super rad reaganistic action movies.I'm being absolutely serious here.During  80's, people had a paradoxal gift to make meaningless, mediocre action flicks that were actually enjoyableAnd had balls.... Whereas in 90's/00's, mediocre meaningless action flicks are just boring and piss annoying.
With several notable exceptions fashion, music, TV and gallons of other things were somewhere between poor and pathetic in 80's though. So all in all,it is  neat that it is gone.

...I'm far too young to have a worthy opinnion!

[Dr. Blutarsky]

I lived thru both decades and the 80's were better. Only half of the 90's were good. It started getting shitty in the second half culturally. Personally, ironically, it was the 2nd half of the 90's when I grew out of being a college partier & began to take my career seriously and it really took off.