Es una grata sorpresa, una porque es un libro realmente interesante, que habla del cine de los 80, en concreto de unas cuantas películas. De como estas tocan temas que ahora prácticamente no se hace. Habla del cambio que ha tenido la representación de la mujer en las películas... y muchos temas de los que seguro no te has dado cuenta hasta que lo leas.
Tambien me ha impactado porque últimamente me están gustando mucho los ensayos (¿Me estaré haciendo mayor?... si, cada día un poco más).

A pretty deep (though easy-going and conversational) look into eighties movies, and why the themes they contain are more socially progressive than those in the mainstream movies we see today. An easy yet very rewarding read, and I highly recommend it!

Overall I loved reading about 80's movies by someone else who loves 80's movies. I don't agree with everything (I have a different take on superhero movies), but the conversation was very interesting. Studios and the market don't work like they used to so they don't make movies like they used to. But we can still watch these "classics."
Excuse me, I am off to re-watch Ghostbusters, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dirty Dancing, Pretty in Pink, and The Goonies.

**I received this book as a galley from the publisher for review purposes.

Hadley Freeman has created a wonderful guide to the films of the 1980s and their effects on the generation that not only grew up on them, but their continuing and lasting effects with the generations that followed. Ms. Freeman takes humorous, thoughtful, and philosophical looks at some of the movies that defined the decade: Dirty Dancing, The Princess Bride, Ghostbusters, Ferris Bueller (where the book derives its title from), and the greatness that is Eddie Murphy at his peak. Ms. Hadley explores these stories from a very realistic perspective, at times looking at some of the questionable moments that contain racism, sexism, and classism, with brutal honesty. The wonderful tone that is prevalent throughout however, is the joy that these movies not only brought to the author, but to so many of that generation. I laughed out loud in several places, was shocked by some of the truths she pointed out, and was brought back to a time when I myself wanted to grow up to be Andie or Sam or Sally or Baby. Kudos to such a well researched and personal account of the decade that was defined by the struggles that all teens go through.

Fantástico, me lo he pasado pipa leyéndolo. Ensayo sobre lo estupendas que son las películas de los 80 y lo malas que son ahora (las de los grandes estudios, claro). Divertido, incisivo, irónico y muy nostálgico. Estoy en un 90% de acuerdo con todo lo que dice la autora, y era como estar leyendo lo que llevo años opinando, pero bien escrito y con muchos datos.
Recomendado para todos los que sepan de dónde vienen las citas 'No dejaré que nadie te arrincone', 'Como desees', o 'Tienes razón, tienes razón, tienes razón' entre otras.

Life Moves Pretty Fast, Hadley Freeman's equal parts autobiographical exploration of her youthful cinephilia, feminist analysis of contemporary Hollywood and love letter to 80s Hollywood, marks her as one of my all time favourite writers on cinema.

Her enthusiasm for her subject is completely infectious and her analysis of the strengths of such maligned (including by me) "classics" as Dirty Dancing and Romancing the Stone made me want to rush out to the nearest video rental store to rewatch them as soon as possible.

Having once been a pretty active member of a thousands strong movie blogging community I became pretty jaded with the constant hyperbole that the people who write about film seem to constantly aspire to, in response to that Freeman's honest, intelligent and accessible cinephilia is (to use her own words in response to my praise) like a balm. She's not selling anything to anyone by discussing the merits of Ferris Bueller and The Princess Bride, she's not trying to look cool to other film fans (in fact at times she revels in her outsider/dorky Jewish girl status); there's no agenda whatsoever other than to bemoan the ever worsening status of women in movies and the homogenisation of Hollywood that is aiding larger worldwide box office, and even then it's more to cry out for fun cinema that shows that Abortions Happen and That's Just Fine, Superheroes Don't Have to be Such a Drag, Romcoms Don't Have to Make You Feel Like You're Having a Lobotomy and Why Awkward Girl's Don't Have to Have a Makeover.

Hadley's writing is assured and often witty, her insights plentiful and accurate and it certainly helps that she has no real affection for Star Wars, Arnie, Spielberg, Apatow or Christopher Nolan. She seems to have positioned herself as the anti-Peter Biskind (as suggested in her introduction in fact) and despite her book not being quite as dense as Biskind's tomes she manages to provide as much thought-provoking content for the reader to ponder; here even weeks later I find myself going back to her arguments in my mind or excitedly telling friends that they need to read her book for X, Y or Z reasons, much more so than with anyone else who writes on the subject apart from, perhaps, David Thomson.

We received this ARC at the book shop I work in, it's easily the best one I've managed to snag so far and I cannot wait to start selling it to people this month.

a fun and insightful look into 80’s movie culture compared to the 2010’s movie culture. now in 2023, even more of the points made are either outdated or INCREDIBLY relevant. a fun read for film buffs, 80’s teens, or children victimized to their parents taste in pop culture- this is a fun read.

This was kind of fun. I learned a few things about the movie industry, heard some perspective from actors and directors I recognized, and enjoyed Freeman's movie reminiscing.

I was more than happy to take a stroll down nostalgia lane and revisit many of the movies I loved as a child in the eighties. Freeman's conversational style appealed to me greatly and I often laughed at her clever and self-deprecating humor. She outlines why we don't see many movies like the hits of the 80s made today, citing the discouraging lack of progress the movie industry has made in portraying diverse perspectives. But she ends with a positive spin regarding more independent and quirky projects coming from Amazon Prime, Netflix and other streaming services that are not solely focused on producing the next blockbuster. This book was a lot of fun to read.

I adore eighties movies. I think they're amazing. however, this book cheapened them and left me feeling very dissatisfied. just wasn't a fan of the writing.