ET-80’s childhood

[ETmagicfinger]

Watching ET with my 3.5 Dd, who’s actually concentrating a little and enjoying it.
I’m a child of the 80’s, teen of the 90’s
Aibu to really miss the 80’s

Born 1969, so 80's teen - world problems aside (I wasn't watching the news and it wasn't shoved in your face like it is now) they were fantastic in terms of music. From Japan, The Cure, to Culture Club, and all the New Romantics. Fashion and hairstyles not so fantastic 😂

@DorothyZbornakIsAQueen Born sane year and mid 90’s were amazing 🤩

Was thinking the other day how primary school teachers thought it was cool to change school disco to school rave 😄 don't think they realised what went on at raves

You miss being a child with no responsibilities, same as everyone who thinks 'the old days' were better. They were shit.

@Monr0e

Yes, he has jangling keys.

Has anyone read the book? It was told from ET's point of view. I remember he referred to the mum as the Willow something. He was a botanist collecting samples from the planet when he got left behind

I didn't know ET was a botanist. That has to be the most adorable thing I've ever heard

My dc haven’t ever forgiven me for making them watch ET, they were so traumatised that they’ve never watched it again!

Teen of the late 80s/early 90s. Prefer the 90s definitely.

I was born in the 80's and was a teen in the 90's, I watched ET today too, and it does bring back memories of being a kid, and the nostalgia.

I'll be damned if I will decorate with the current home style of grey, good lord it looks clinical. Gimmy bright colours all day long. I collect those soup mugs with the recipes on the front and the brown glass mugs, old crockery and anything like that, I love finding it in charity shops.

Of course bad stuff happened, I'd argue that equally devastating events have happened in recent memory, i.e the sodding plague we're living through right now!

The Internet is brilliant, but I think it tearing the fabric of society a little bit. But I'm glad my teen years were not recorded and memorialised in 1 minute embarrassing Tiktoks.

Hadn’t seen it for ages. God the music is so good. The ET ITU seen looks like covid ITU at the moment. And when one of the doctors asks for bretylium 🤪

One thing you do need to remember about the 1980s is that the threat of WW3 was very real. There were documentary-films and adverts on TV explaining what it would be like to be a survivor of a nuclear bomb and what you needed to do beforehand. Then of course Chernobyl happened, demonstrating the wide-ranging effect that a nuclear explosion has.

That fear of imminent stayed with until 1989. Then the Berlin Wall got knocked down, which was one of the key events to ending the USA-Soviet arms race.

For nostalgia though:

80s was the better decade for movies.

90s was the better decade for music.

You're not wrong OP. I was born in 86,but the movies were classic. Was on about this with my older cousin today. The films of the time were epic.

We live a few miles from the ET house and we go up ther every now and then-it was for sale when we moved to the US and we were tempted but the schools close by were not the best. I loved that film and still get starry eyed when we drive through a location and recognize it. www.movie-locations.com/movies/e/ET.php