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    I fucking hate modern interpretations of 90's and 80's action movies/games.

     

    It's always ironic and a parody, without fail, the appeal and magic of gratuitous action and macho bullshit just gets lost when it isn't played deadpan seriously, the charm is almost always lost.

     

    The old films aren't cheesy because they were designed to be so, they're cheesy because they were designed to be as unironically badass as possible in the eyes of the director which produced something completely serious but so completely unaware of how goofy it ultimately was.

     

    It's a lot like the whole old DeviantArt OC thing, they were hilarious because they were a genuine effort by someone to make their badass Sonic oc and were innocently unaware of how silly it was. However the fake OC's where everything is exaggerated are no where near as funny despite being an actual joke.

     

    Maybe irony ruined everything, which is ironic given my reliance on irony in my own humour. Maybe I'm just sick of irony, maybe I'm just an old man who knows.

     

    I wish someone would make something just straight faced with no shame guns blasting like Commando or Hard Boiled.

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      Maybe irony ruined everything, which is ironic given my reliance on irony in my own humour. Maybe I'm just sick of irony, maybe I'm just an old man who knows.

      I can definitely attest to my own growing dissatisfaction with the impenetrably-thick layers of irony the cultural zeitgeist appears to be wallowing in these days. In general I feel like being facetious, sarcastic or tongue-in-cheek can be fun here and there and I do it a fair bit, but when that's ALL there seems to be anymore, the utter dearth of anything earnest be it in art, media or something simple as a conversation with another person can feel tiresome and bleak. My friend DryChris wrote a very thought-provoking piece on this phenomenon a couple of months ago.

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      @Biodegradable That was a good read actually, I was mulling over it for the entirety of my shift at work today.

      Maybe I'm just a bit behind but also it is good to see it isn't just a "one guy" kind of thing I'm feeling here.

      Thanks for the link, sorry for the late response I was at work.

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