A thread for Stranger Things, the "Goonies meets X-Files" new Netflix series (with SPOILERS!)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/stranger-things-inside-austins-synth-explosion-w447262

:)

Nice! Switched On is an awesome store, they repaired my PreSonus recording interface.

I coveted all the cool synths while I was there

Trailer for Season 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Egf5U8xLo8

lol at lack of response

must admit I am half-intrigued half-dreading

I like the glimpse of Lovecraftian beastie

I'm very excited about this, although I admit the Ghostbusters costumes seem a little too much. Was hoping it would be another summer show though. Halloween seems forever away.

this show was mostly garbage

you're garbage

Mostly.

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ok lol

I'm not gonna watch that trailer, probably more fun to guess what super-obscure stuff they can rip-off this time like Gremlines or War Games

Theres almost zero content in that trailer

maybe they can have special glasses to see the upside down xp

Theres almost zero content in that trailer

cool, just like the show!

Shhh, I'm trying to come up with a "Gremlines" joke. It involves Nick Cannon, Phoebe Cates and heavy Photoshop work.

Trailer double downs on the intertexuality. As much as I like this show, it's crazy how hyped people get for nostalgia pablum.

lol Phil

The people I know most into this show are 12, tbh, so the fact that they are so into it despite not getting most of the references says ... something. Maybe that it's successful for the same reasons the stuff it references/rips off was successful?

It worked for us re: the 50s during the 80s

You mean, like, the Stray Cats?

the outsiders ?

more like Happy Days

haha yeah

well at least theres something to look forward to on halloween

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I don't think I even grasped as a kid that Happy Days was nostalgia, I thought Milwaukee was just like that

same lol

To be fair, Happy Days itself was a spinoff from American Graffiti, which was the early seventies, which really wasn't that far removed from the fifties.

Happy Days was a spinoff from Love American Style

that ran through 1984, and was heavily syndicated throughout the 80s

it's a tangled web

Beginning as an unsold pilot filmed in late 1971 called New Family in Town, with Harold Gould in the role of Howard Cunningham, Marion Ross as Marion, Ron Howard as Richie, Anson Williams as Potsie, Ric Carrott as Charles "Chuck" Cunningham, and Susan Neher as Joanie, Paramount passed on making it into a weekly series, and the pilot was recycled with the title Love and the Television Set (later retitled Love and the Happy Days for syndication), for presentation on the television anthology series Love, American Style. In 1972, George Lucas asked to view the pilot to determine if Ron Howard would be suitable to play a teenager in American Graffiti, then in pre-production. Lucas immediately cast Howard in the film, which became one of the top-grossing films of 1973. Show creator Garry Marshall and ABC recast the unsold pilot to turn Happy Days into a series

The people I know most into this show are 12, tbh, so the fact that they are so into it despite not getting most of the references says ... something. Maybe that it's successful for the same reasons the stuff it references/rips off was successful?

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, February 8, 2017 2:41 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is what i figured would happen

cue whiney insisting only 30 year olds who watch too much tv could care about this

my experience on ilx is, only 30+ year olds who watch too much tv expend tons of energy hating this lol

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finally watched this. binged the first 5 episodes. really good! Winona Ryder is really taking me on a journey here. wow. seeing the cop start out skeptical and quickly realizing he is way in over his head is amazing. this stuff is well-written, well-acted, and well-directed. great stuff! i hope they keep the mystery element, my only fear is we learn too much and it becomes mundane.

at any rate the above whining about nostalgia is hilarious. wow you guys have seen Gremlins, let me get you a medal.

Major "Stranger Things" vibe last night from "Return from Witch Mountain" scenes where Tia (lost telekinetic/telepathic girl) goes to clubhouse of local gang of four boys (one black kid + three white kids, incl a super-goofy Poindexter Yothers, brother of Tina)

ffffuck forgot about "witch mountain". kids were SUPER into that when i was little.

I found "Return" - or maybe the junior novelization - fascinating because I was fascinated by anything that threatened a nuclear meltdown or explosion as part of the plot. And it was so grey and beige and creepy.

as a kid I remember fixating on just what really *was* the deal with the kids in the Witch Mountain movies. I don't think their background (are they aliens? mutants? witches?) is ever really explicitly spelled out. "Return" is not good but it is p odd - Bette Davis and Christopher Lee stumbling around laboratory castle sets etc.

huh apparently it is spelled out in the first movie, maybe I was just confused cuz I all I saw at the time were the sequels

Anyone seen Watcher in the Woods? Another Disney/Bette Davis horror flick for children, super fucking creepy (for a five year old).

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haha yes my wife brought that one up while we were watching the Witch Mountain film

i've really been wanting to rewatch watcher lately

Kids in Witch Mountain were aliens.

I watched Watcher a few years ago. It's a very satisfying combo of "not as scary as you remember" mixed with "fucking hell, this is supposed to be a kids' movie?!?"

This scene was almost in a Disney movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkpf2IzmMVg

That's *almost* a pretty cool monster, but I guess not everyone's Stan Winston. It still would have scared the fuck out of me, obvs.