modernmax wrote:
Okay, so let's say that you could go back to any year before 2010. You would start on January 1st and in exactly one year, you would be returned to the present time. What would you pick and why? This is not so much as how your personal life was or how the country was doing at the time, but more about how good the pop culture was. So basically which year had the best in movies, music, television, and videogames. I would probably pick 2008, when I was 9 years old and turned 10 in September. They had pretty much everything on then, and I was never bored when the tv or radio was on. Even with our economy starting to sink, my family had enough money for us to go to Six Flags, Wisconsin Dells, get me a ps3(They were very new) and for my birthday party we took a limousine ride to an arcade and pizza palace. For Christmas I had quite a few goodies, including a bike, a guitar, and the Black Ice album. Then 2009 came, we had a new president and.... well we've been going mostly downhill ever since. But it was still my favorite year of all time, and extremely underrated.
Favorite videogames: Too many. Metal Gear Solid 4, Grand Theft Auto 4, Saints Row 2, Civilization Revolution, Command and Conquer Red Alert 3, Call of Duty World at War, Batman Arkham Asylum, Fallout 3.
Favorite movies: Way too many. Cloverfield, The Tale of Despereaux, Bolt, Slumdog Millionaire, Burn After Reading, Kit Kittredge, Saw 5, Quarantine, Max Payne, Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Vantage Point, 10,000 B.C., Eagle Eye, Igor, WALL-E, Get Smart. I'll go ahead and say even the first Twilight wasn't that bad.
Favorite Music: WAY TOO MANY. Gavin Degraw, (who I saw in concert in Great America) Natasha Bedingfield, Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy, The Offspring, Kings of Leon, 3OH!3, David Archuleta, ACDC, Kevin Rudolf, Kid Rock, Akon, The Fray, Hollywood Undead, Cage the Elephant, Daughtry, Avril Lavigne, All American Rejects, The Ting Tings.
Favorite Television: Total Drama Island, Breaking Bad, Wipeout, The Big Bang Theory, Sons of Anarchy, 90210, and The Mentalist. Not a lot there, but we had a few good ones.
And Believe it or not, the music and games I listed were about half of the good ones released that year, and the movies probably are less than a quarter. Television was barely a third (There were also some cartoons, but I don't want to name them and look immature.) Yea, what a rockin' time we had right? When I die, If I have the option to, I'm going to request starting that one over again. So, what would you go back to if you had the chance? '99 perhaps? I have a feeling that would be a high one. I could make a list just as big as this one, but I've wrote enough, so i'll let you do that.
You mean go back and relive one year of my life? That would probably be the late 1960s when I was seven or eight. It was a good time for me. My family was doing well at that time too. It would be interesting to watch the TV shows again and experience that culture once again. But really I would like to go back before I was born, to the 1950s. Because I never got to experience that time period, and it was an incredible time for pop culture.