Bad Boys for Life
Directors - Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah
Writers - Chris Bremner, Peter Craig and Joe Carnahan
Starring - Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Paola Nunez, Joe Pantoliano
"Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present" - Midnight in Paris
There is perhaps no more powerful force in the entertainment industry than nostalgia. It so rarely fails to turn a profit that the rare times it does are noteworthy (i.e. Independence Day: Resurgence). It comes as no surprise that Hollywood would make a third Bad Boys movie 17 years after the second.
There's just one thing about nostalgia. Oftentimes it fails to discriminate between what was good about an era and what was bad. Through the celebration of their 50th anniversary the Vancouver Canucks are bringing back every jersey worn by the team throughout the years. Naturally there are strong nostalgic feelings towards the colours of the 90s and they are great looking jerseys but there has also been nostalgia to the flying V jerseys of the 80s, by any measure one of the worst jerseys any team of any sport has worn. The Bad Boys films are the flying V jerseys of the late 90s-early 00s and it would be better if we left those films in the past where they belonged.
There is perhaps no more powerful force in the entertainment industry than nostalgia. It so rarely fails to turn a profit that the rare times it does are noteworthy (i.e. Independence Day: Resurgence). It comes as no surprise that Hollywood would make a third Bad Boys movie 17 years after the second.
There's just one thing about nostalgia. Oftentimes it fails to discriminate between what was good about an era and what was bad. Through the celebration of their 50th anniversary the Vancouver Canucks are bringing back every jersey worn by the team throughout the years. Naturally there are strong nostalgic feelings towards the colours of the 90s and they are great looking jerseys but there has also been nostalgia to the flying V jerseys of the 80s, by any measure one of the worst jerseys any team of any sport has worn. The Bad Boys films are the flying V jerseys of the late 90s-early 00s and it would be better if we left those films in the past where they belonged.
