It’s funny because;
In The Hangover, Zach Galifianakis is holding a baby in a front harness and one of his buddies opens the door of the cop car and it smacks the baby with a big thud. Is that somehow condoning child abuse?
No, it’s freakin’ hilarious.
You can’t remove context from everything, or we’re all fucked.
Apologies to Annie-Xmas for speaking for her, but maybe she means “encouraged” like in scenes where someone tells a brat’s father “Spare the rod and spoil the child” or “Someone should take a stick to that child!” I’m pretty sure I heard something like that in The Magnificent Ambersons, referring to George Jr. Spanking was probably encouraged in The Bad Seed too, but I haven’t seen that one for a long time.
Quoth GIGObuster:
As soon as I saw smoking mentioned, I was going to bring up that one, too. The comedic timing on it is just perfect, even if it wasn’t intended as comedy.
Not a movie but it does remind me of something:
When Frank Sinatra died, CBS re-broadcast a 1965 doc on Sinatra, narrated by Walter Cronkite. There’s a scene where Sinatra is puffing away, and in Cronkite’s narration he says something about how Sinatra “keeps his lungs in and voice in good shape.”
True, and Alice would probably kick the crap out of him if he ever tried it, but I wonder how accepted it would be today.
Values Dissonance. See also Culture Clash.
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The entire premise of wargames is hilariously antiquated. There’s no cold war, no Soviet Union, (and the paranoia surrounding them) and no internet as we know it. There’s probably more processing power in my iPhone than in WOPR.
Matthew Broderick’s computer is absolutely ancient compared to today’s PCs. It even has an acoustic coupler for the modem! Then there was a climatic scene where he has to make a phone call he stops at the nearest payphone. Remember payphones?
I mentioned this in the Greatest American Hero thread. If the show were made today, Bill, Ralph, Pam, and practically every kid in the high school class would have a cell phone. In the show, everyone was always looking for a pay phone. A great deal of plots centered around the Cold War and Russian spies. Instead of Bill being a computer-phobe, his job would be almost impossible without a computer with a network connection to all kinds of law enforcement databases. And this was less than 30 years ago.
Both of those are very regional. Neither kids playing on their own nor hunters with guns would frighten anyone nor raise an eyebrow around here.
“Operator…”
“Get me outta here!”
Sure. By the bad guys. That’s how you knew they were bad.
The practice wasn’t condoned or accepted. Indeed, there was the old “I can’t hit a women” trope – the assumption being that only a creep would to it.
Spanking kids was standard childrearing in the past and was portrayed as such in older films.
That’s the example I always use whenever this thread reappears. It really is hilarious, more so for the unintentional nature of the humor.
The aliens medicine really *is *advanced. For instance, THEY DON’T SMOKE.
Another thing about phones…in cop shows, especially Columbo, cops get calls from the department wherever they are. So Columbo would be at the victim’s house inspecting the body and the phone would ring, it’d be for him. That always tickles me. I do believe he used a cell phone in the episode they did in 2003 (?).
I’ve also seen a lot of 90s cop shows where they transition into using cell phones over a season or two. Usually the younger cop has one and the older cop poo-poos it, but by the next season the older cop is using his own like it’s old hat to do so.
It would be accepted.
A woman beating the crap out of men twice her size seems pretty common in movies today.
That line is still used in films today. One estimate was that 80% of all Hollywood films used it. I don’t think it’s really that high, but it (and variations on it) is very common.
I was quoting The Matrix. What are you talking about?
A lot of schools in my neck of the woods did away with showering after gym class back in the 80s. The idea that it was one day required doesn’t just feel dated, but like ancient history.
To really date that scene, he hacks the payphone by shorting it with a pulltab. Does anyone under 40 even know what a pulltab is?