Thanks for all the replies so far (please go on)! 😄
In my opinion, an era doesn't end just because there's a roll-over from one decade into another.
The tranistion is rather smooth, I think. Sorry, I'm not so good in coining sentences.
Let me say it this way: The 80s didn't stop in 01.01.90, but rather their legacy carried on to say ~94.
Same happened with other eras. The 70s flair didn't end in 1980, but could still be felt in ~85.
Also, some "vibes" never really went away. Since we're discussing films, just think of VHS cassettes.
They were part of our culture since the late 70s to the early-2000s.
Or let's take classic roll skates (not inline models), for example. I've seen kids and adults still
using them in the mid-90s, even though they were an iconic 70s relict.
And last, but not least keep in mind, that the decades were perceived differently depending in which country you lived.
While it's safe to say we were mostly incluenced by the north american pop culture (films, music),
some countries took longer to catch up in real life. I guess especially poorer countries experienced the US-80s not until the 90s.
Be it because of war, politics or a natural disaster.
The 90's also had X-Files and Babylon Five, so the period was not really dark and cynical...The year 2000 and above, I'm not sure.
Not sure if I'm wearin' rose-coloured glasses of nostalgia here, but from a personal experience,
the early to mid-90s (-in my place-) were not gray at all. Here's what I remember positively:
Lots of cheesy music in the radio, people of all ages wearing colourful clothes unashamed w/ shoulder pads even.
Kids were playing on street/playground/soccer fields or sitting in the tram/car playing GameBoy.
Most of them were kinda polite, at least to adults or taller persons. And if they ever used swear words, they were rather harmless.
At my friends house they had this coloured drinking glasses. People were already aware of cell phones,
but not everyone had a use for them. Instead, kids and younger adults carried pagers in their pockets.
These were little devices, often in an coloured/acrylic casing, which would receive messages.
Cheap models only could display numbers, though. So could at least transmitt a phone number for a call-back.
The internet was already there, but not widely used yet. Instead local online services were more popular.
In Europe, these were Minitel, BTX, CompuServe or later AOL.
Poor people without computer could get their news via the television set (Videotext, Teletext, ..)
Kids/adults often lend video games at the video rentals. Sometimes this ended in a chaotic family holiday, too. 😉
Personally, I knew someone whose dad lend a lot of games just to make backup copies with a Super Magicom.
Back in these days, this even was legal in my country. You could make copies of payed films/media for non-commercial, personal use.
This included family members and close/best friends, even!
Anyway, these are just my two cents. I'm sure the list could be expanded greatly.
Also, I'm not saying that todays people are totally different or even worse. It all depends on the point of view.
On the contrary, tolerance for social marginal groups is much higher now.
You nolonger get "stoned" (scorned) if you're into the same gender, a nerd or have disabilities.
Well, at least not in our part of the hemisphere. 😉
(Ironically, though, the increasing brutalization of society or the social cold is somewhat of a contradiction here.)
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
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