Scott Brown on Why Hollywood Should Avoid Gadget Close-Ups

From Wired Top Stories:

Turn down that boom box and call all your friends on your Motorola DynaTAC cellular telephone: It's morning in the multiplex! Again! Reanimated Reagan-era pop culture is omnipresent. As Hollywood's bathysphere of originality plunges to exciting new depths, at least half a dozen twentysomething zeitgeist brands — The A-Team, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Karate Kid, Red Dawn, Tron — are being stop-lossed and redeployed as big-budget, big-screen diversions: 2009, which featured Transformers 2 and GI Joe, was a mere '80s McNugget compared to the massive '80s McDLT that is 2010. Of course, these flicks will be "updates," and as a guy who romanticizes that brief, bright, buffoonish age when the universe seemed mastered, girls just wanted to have fun, and hawks were all "mo" and no "faux," I'll miss the shoulder pads, the high-tops, the laissez-faire stereotyping and sexual harassment. But you know what I won't miss? The tech. It doesn't travel. It doesn't charm. It became kitsch the instant it hit the screen, and it's aged about as gracefully as Mickey Rourke.

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