Man, I hate it when someone from GenX proves how stupid they really are.
Dammit.
I was a kid in the Eighties, not a think-tank fellow with a map of Cuba on the fridge. So when he starts treating that decade like a crime scene the rest of us painted over with neon and Top Gun, I don’t need a history seminar. I was there. I just wasn’t miserable about it.
Because there was nothing miserable about the 80s.
Then again, he is Canadian, so maybe the 80s sucked for them?
Ryan Reynolds says ’80s nostalgia “paves over all the trauma” of the “tumultuous” decade:
— Variety (@Variety) September 2, 2026
“The 80s was a brutal, brutal time for people. It was a fucking mess and people forget that. It was a tremendous strife. Socio political tensions everywhere. We were still pretty fresh off… pic.twitter.com/CvNE3KLfff
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... a Cuban missile crisis, which was only 15-20 years before. It’s a tumultuous period, but you look back at it now and you’re like, ‘Oh, yeah. ‘Top Gun.’ Cocaine!’ Like, ‘No!’ It was really scary.”
In Apple TV’s “Mayday,” Reynolds stars as a U.S. Navy pilot who builds an unlikely friendship with an eccentric ex-KGB agent (Kenneth Branagh) obsessed with ’80s American culture.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was 1962. By the time we were losing baby teeth, it was a chapter in a book, not the weather. Nobody at the roller rink was workshopping Khrushchev between “Billie Jean” and a slushie. There was a Cold War. There were also jobs, bad hair, and a country that still thought winning was allowed. Those things can exist at the same time. Only one of them requires you to scold the audience.
Dude. Just shut up and be Deadpool. Seriously.
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