For the first time ever, you could watch your favorite movies at your own leisure, a twist in the moviegoing experience that went on to influence everything from family hangouts to Saturday sleepovers. That change extended to America and beyond. Did you know that by 1985, there were already 15,000 video rental stores operating in America? And in just four years that number had escalated to 25,000? In an era of streaming, those numbers seem antiquated, but they were paramount for Hollywood. So much about what we love in film came from this era. Yet perhaps no medium was more impacted than film. Even better, there was an economy of weird, and the mainstream was trying its hardest to capitalize on it in every capacity. In almost every vertical, be it music, or film, or television, there was something radical going down. Like the ’60s before it, the ’80s was an Industrial Revolution of Pop Culture. By now, our nostalgia for the ’80s has outlasted the decade itself by about 20 years - and for good reason.
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