• corvi@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    For some reason my brain cannot separate the A-Team theme from Indiana Jones. Am I crazy or are they super similar?

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
      8·
      7 hours ago

      For anyone else confused like I was, these were iconic vehicles from some old and terminally 80s television shows (“A-team”, “Knight Rider”, “Air wolf”). Seriously, the theme songs alone are just… wow.

      • Otter@lemmy.ca
        5·
        6 hours ago

        IMO the title cards would have worked better. This makes it seem like you’re supposed to hear the sound that the vehicles made

        Also, was Air Wolf that popular? I would have swapped it with MacGyver, and I’m judging that based on how often other pop culture seems to reference the shows above (ex. Community, etc).

        MacGyver is popular enough that some people use it to describe when something is juryrigged/improvised. They might even understand it better than those alternate definitions

        • Obi@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          3 hours ago

          Yes people regularly call me MacGyver in my job to this day because of being crafty about finding solutions with what we have on hand. Never heard of air wolf in Europe.

        • EisFrei@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 hours ago

          I can hear Airwolf’s screaming turbine and K.I.T.T.s sensor array.

          And they were all very popular. They left the one unpopular vehicle out: Street Hawk.

        • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org
          2·
          6 hours ago

          I watched these shows as a kid in late 90s via Austrian public TV and can confirm: Air Wolf wasn’t among them but MacGyver was though.
          I think Baywatch would’ve worked as well though the genre might be a bit off compared to the others.

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Having just watched an episode of the A-team, I think it’s that when these iconic vehicles are onscreen and ‘doing things’ they play the score. (I’m just assuming that’s true for the other two as well, it was true in other 80s shows I’ve seen and seems to have been something of a trope)

  • mrmisses@lemmy.world
    9·
    7 hours ago

    I don’t know what I’m supposed to be hearing for the a team van. The theme music? Engine noises? The gravel road?

    • greygore@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 hours ago

      I heard the “bullet” noises when the logo letters hit the screen between the opening monologue and the first bars of the theme song. And then I saw that jeep doing the barrel roll from the opening. I hadn’t realized how much of that was burned into my brain.

    • Mirror Giraffe@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      It’s really wild that the main characters had the weird habit of ending up in aerial combat every week as civilians.

      Not once in my 43 years have I felt the need to ascend in my battle helicopter to save the day.

        • Jesus_666@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Then the 90s rolled around and we got amazing shows like Viper and Thunder in Paradise instead.

      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 hours ago

        Fucking christ I’m glad I don’t live in the 80s…

        They call it in, and Murphy decides to show Lymangood something interesting. They fly over to nearby Encino, which is outside their patrol area. At 9:30PM, Lymangood is able to observe a very flexible young woman doing some amazing yoga moves in the nude. Unfortunately, they are interrupted. That “abandoned car” they spotted earlier was not abandoned.

        • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          6 hours ago

          Dude, that would 100% happen when you give cops surveillance tools. Not showing that in movies is actually less realistic.

          80s movies were so much more sexploitative. But this scene is just accurate.

          • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
            11·
            6 hours ago

            I wonder how much of that behavior is because it was viewed as acceptable behavior through things like its portrayal in this movie? “Media shapes culture shapes media” is an argument, but “it’s realistic” falls a bit flat as a reason to perpetuate normalizing the behavior since clearly society has shifted away from that kind of representation of casual sexual harassment as being acceptable.

            • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              5 hours ago

              It’s about how you show it. If it’s clear from the film that the behavior is not OK, I think it’s fine to show things that are absolutely happening in the real world. We get films and shows where cops murder people, steal drugs, whatever. And that’s certainly not normalizing this behavior. Not showing it is, in my mind, sweeping the well-documented asocial, asshole behavior of many cops under the carpet. Copaganda, essentially.

              • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
                1·
                3 hours ago

                society has shifted away from that kind of representation of casual sexual harassment as being acceptable.

                I think we agree? My point is that this movie does not depict it in a negative light, which is gross. Showing it because it’s ‘realistic’ is likely self-fufilling, showing it as commentary is very different from how sexploitation films usually operate.

    • bstix@feddit.dk
      2·
      3 hours ago

      You probably did hear it if you were alive in the 80s.

      Outside the tv show, the track was also included in all kinds of compilation albums for synthesizer music which was used in many places.

      If you had a Commodore 64 you probably heard it in the cracker intros or demoscene.