Er, no, actually, the Buffy movie came out in 1992. I saw it in theater in San Francisco, and I hadn't moved out here until '88. So yeah, the Nightmare stuff came first. But that was hardly the only place where you could find tough girls in the '80s - it was a real trend for awhile, especially in horror and sci fi. Would that it still was.
I really enjoyed the movie when it came out, although I remember sitting in the car afterwards and talking it over with my friend, and we both agreed that it didn't quite work perfectly, there was some really good stuff in there that spoke to us as, well, young women. That's still the part of Buffy that will stick with me, even after all the other cultural memories are long gone.
I'd heard about the Donald Sutherland thing. Apparently, Rutger Hauer was a total sweetie, though. (One does wonder about the other sides of those stories!)
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Date: 2010-11-14 08:41 pm (UTC)I really enjoyed the movie when it came out, although I remember sitting in the car afterwards and talking it over with my friend, and we both agreed that it didn't quite work perfectly, there was some really good stuff in there that spoke to us as, well, young women. That's still the part of Buffy that will stick with me, even after all the other cultural memories are long gone.
I'd heard about the Donald Sutherland thing. Apparently, Rutger Hauer was a total sweetie, though. (One does wonder about the other sides of those stories!)