>>124549482>it was never like this at all anyways.Er, never like what?
I'm not quite sure how your post related to mine.
Anyway, back when I was in high school, "emo" wasn't a term anyone used. You basically had jocks, burnouts, preps/preppies, and nerds/geeks.
I was a geek that looked a bit like a burnout, so... that was fun.
A lot of the jocks and burnouts DID shit all over the geeks. School was kind of a nightmare, in a lot of ways.
>The only people NOT accepting of the gayness are blond white guy villains who instantly get put in their place for their homophobic bullying.Well, modern studios are stuck between portraying a time period accurately and possibly being called out for being ists/phobes, or inaccurately and looking like idiots. Considering a lot of this stuff is casual fare, meant to be consumed by children and teens, the safer bet is to looks at the past through rose-colored glasses, unless the prejudice is the focus of the plot.
These movies almost never get the 80s right, anyway, even when just talking about looks/aesthetics.
I remember thinking while Bumblebee looked almost nothing like the 80s, the most glaring thing was the interaction between the main character and her black neighbor. In the real 80s, even in Cali, he'd have been WAY more leery of approaching her, much less looking blatantly thirsty, she'd have been way less welcoming of the attention for social reasons, even if she secretly welcomed it, and her family would have had some serious 'opinions' on the whole thing.
It's not like today, where everyone would shrug and say, "He seems like a decent enough kid."
