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Forty has never looked so good. It’s been a full four decades since the summer of 1984, a period dominated by the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” and a booming box office that reverberates today as loudly as the neon colors of the time. In a time when nostalgia is as trendy as the latest viral TikTok video, the biggest movies from that summer are all relevant, seemingly destined to last longer than any clip that permeates your social media feed of choice.
And if you look at ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Gremlins’ and ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ and some of these movies or franchises that were big 40 years ago this summer, they were brilliant, original ideas.” “Hollywood entertainment was just at the peak of its abilities at that time,” he adds. “And I think that’s what you’re seeing. I think it’s a confluence of the fact that people feel nostalgic about the ‘80s. And it was a really great summer in 1984.” “The Karate Kid” is emblematic of the trend.
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