Why Twisted Metal is the Perfect Nostalgia | The Backdrop
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Oh, this week it was Omar!
Darren Mooney
2025-08-15 23:34:23 +0000 UTCThank you!
Darren Mooney
2025-08-15 23:34:13 +0000 UTCAnother banger 👌
Luis Perez
2025-08-14 16:09:23 +0000 UTCJesse continues to do amazing work with the visuals. The fake movie posters were incredible (I would totally buy a poster for "Sam: A Casablanca Story" or print my own if the file was ever shared). Great essay as well Darren. I think you what's at the core of a lot of backlash to things that play on nostalgia. I might add that in some cases there's some why would I want remake/sequel/etc. when I have the original(s) at home.
Bj Last
2025-08-14 03:49:21 +0000 UTCIt is delightful.
Darren Mooney
2025-08-13 22:02:43 +0000 UTCNot knowing there was a Twisted Metal show, I was very confused to see a video game on the Backdrop! This does sound up my street though, budget 90’s Fury Road sounds just what I need.
Tim Wilson
2025-08-13 12:28:42 +0000 UTCA lot of the nostalgia being evoked nowadays feels like it passed me by, since I didn't grow up with any of these properties as a child. I didn't get into Star Trek until my 20s and the closest thing to Star Wars I had in my childhood was the Clone Wars cartoon, which I wasn't particularly fond of. Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, etc. none of it tickles that part of my brain. That's not to say I don't have shows I'm nostalgic for but I can't say that I'd be overly excited for reboots of those properties. I've long since realized that art such as television and film is less the brainchild of a single creative and more the instantaneous collaboration of an entire group of people working in tandem to create. The director might finalize every (or most) creative decisions but they're not the only person having ideas and they're not so far above everyone else that no one else is able to contribute something of value. That being said, we also have to consider the fact that people do prefer what is familiar and tested over what is new and experimental. Ego, in Ratatouille, said it's very hard to get invested in and defend the new and that's always felt a lot truer than the film intended. People are more likely to watch what is effectively a rerelease (even if an inferior one) of a movie they love over something they've never seen before. We crave routine, I wouldn't say it's a new phenomenon. But I do agree it's becoming a lot more problematic, culture shouldn't be this... incestuous. Hayao Miyazaki abhors modern anime due to how self referential it is, how each series seems to be influenced (to put it lightly) by other anime instead of real life
Ryallen
2025-08-12 19:53:32 +0000 UTC
