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Ok, this is a crazy idea, check it... Imagine making a choose your own adventure movie about going to a new kind of multiverse mall. It quantum transforms and you visit various mall dimensions. In one, it combines social media with physical malls so people can visit the physical mall via a Tesla robot and VR rig. In another dimension, the mall goes back to ancient Rome. In another, its a whole mall world,etc. Logan's Run was shot at a cool mall in Canada, so was Scanners. You could go to any other movie with a mall scene that is all part of the same Hollywood mall.

7:10 I get what you're saying here, and I'm reminded of something that Marshall McLuhan said about advertising: “Do you know that most people read ads about things they already own? They don’t read ads to buy things, but to feel reassured that they have already bought the right thing. In other words, they get huge information satisfaction from ads far more than they do from the product itself,”

10:56-10:58 One of my favorite movies!

Im from 2003 and I love LaserDisc Betamax love 8 Track tapes and Reel to Reel tapes. I also love collecting Vinyl, DVDs CDs and Blu Rays as well. STREAMING IS NOT AS GOOD AS PHYSICAL!

Good Video J

As a guy in his 60's, it still amazes me that RCA and Sears ceased to exist. Those were cornerstone names that seemed immortal.

As a Canadian, let us forever be grateful for Sunrise Records for hanging in there with consistent business (at least at my local mall) in an increasingly digital music world. They’re not immune to things like diversifying or attempting to back old brands, but I did my transition to work there for my last three high school semesters, and let me tell you, seeing such consistent business almost every day I was there felt *real* good. And while we’re at it let’s be just as grateful for our Toys R Us stores for many of the same reasons ❤️❤️❤️

The Nostalgia Economy is real. I over payed on Taco Bell items simply because they were beloved items I missed. And a few that were before my time were great to get, feeling like I was kind of time traveling. 😂 I’m a big consumer of nostalgia though. Watching old “What It Was Like” videos on social media are like crack to me. 🤣

The video you just posted to the main channel focused on a mall outside of Chicago for one segment and immediately I recognized the layout, architecture and even bad corporate sculpture. Turns out the same company built one of my childhood malls, Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg, MD. I recently moved out of the US and the month before I left was actually the last month Lakeforest was in operation. I went there one day and did a complete lap just for nostalgia's sake...most of the stores had been long closed by that point but that same layout, bad sculpture, etc was still there. I definitely have fond memories of visiting the mall with my mother and grandmother as a child. Goofing off to kill time as a teen. As of writing this I think the mall just stands empty, though I hear they have plans to tear it down and build housing. Though it's maybe interesting to note that the original site was a community park and man-made lake, where the mall took its name from...dust to dust etc.

I live near the rich malls (Fashion Island, South Coast Plaza Mall, Spectrum Mall) which are still thriving. If i go to other malls, they're all dead. One that is dead near me is going to have an anime convention in the entire mall.

shopping with my mom and eating at the mall were my favorite memories... also the mall at christmas time when they had the giant trees everywhere

there was also one where Hardee's promoted the Swan Princess back in 1994 and with Balto a year later in the Holiday Season of 1995!

Me and my family still have the Dodger ornament!

Sadly at the time those tie ins where crushed thanks to “super size me” and the controversy of toy promos In fast foods and yet the documentary never heard of the word “moderation”

I miss when fast food restaurants would do movie times it's a shame they don't do that anymore McDonald's is the most well-known restaurant at the time that we do tie in stuff for movies my favorite that they did was the cops for both Batman forever and Batman returns even the Happy meals used to be awesome back in the day too i wish McDonald's was like that now they have become way too corporate these days.

I recall doing a brief mention of the McDonald's Holiday Film Fest of 1993 during my look at Holiday Movies from 1993. It was a cross promotion for Wayne's World 2 and Addams Family Values, which says a lot given the VHS tapes got more push than the movies. But the ironic thing is this got some controversy as some Watchdog groups lamented Wayne's World being offered due it's crude humor and language. Yet they were ok with the macabre jokes in Addams Family and the dark underworld spirits in Ghost? McDonald's response was "we were just going by a survey on what movies people wanted to own and Wayne's World was one them." Oye!

4:04 Wtf eats a taco like that?? You monster!!

Brian, First, great as always. May all of your tie-in dreams come true! Second, read Tolkien. Jackson came as close as anyone could have to putting those stories on film but the process of filmmaking inevitably leaves 90% of the tale in writers' waste bins and on cutting room floors and the rest juggled in space and time (can you tell I went to film school?). But when we watch his films, we're only experiencing HIS vision of Tolkien's story (actually Jackson's production team's edited artistic vision of the story. Welcome to Hollywood). Read Tolkien. Experience YOUR vision of the story. Stories. The Hobbit's backstory, read it first.

Cups somehow always had lead recalls. Lol.

1:55 CELEBRATE? WHAT THE HE'LL FOR? I'M 61! No joy left here. 😒

Great video, brought back lots of memories! I've still got a HOME ALONE 2 cup and poster from Hardee's in storage.

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Halloween especially in the 1980s is just heaven. Great video. I miss it so videos on the subject are very appreciated

I saw movies like Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster and Videodrome on the channel back then. Good times

I think sometimes we get nostalgia for the past because we look back to a time when we had hope. The future was a blank slate. We had all this time stretching out in front of us. But as you age, that slate starts getting filled on, and more often than not, it's not anything good.

That still shot of Sears with the dinosaur murals on the mall walls is from my neighborhood mall, Summit Place Mall in Pontiac, Michigan. That was exciting to see again! ❤

Nostalgia's a helluva drug 🙁

I never came across the phrase "Liminal space age" before, but it's a neat one. This video was awesome too!

Another great video from you, thanks. You know, I was born in the mid 70s and I have nostalgic recollections focusing on places and things from my childhood that were much older, particularly designs and features from the 1930s thru 1950s. I guess I witnessed a lot of art deco and later 50s futurism that was still around through the 80s and it made a big impression on me. Films and TV from those eras too.

Thank you for the last seven years! You've got some of my favorite content and have helped through some rough times.

i am lucky to have stumbled upon this, consider myself subscribed

Good Video J

this was pretty deep. thank you!

6:25 "the Clothes are different, so is the culture..." not to mention, oh I don't know, the Twin Towers are still standing

The Uncanny Valley according to the author Masahiro Mori was the great stumbling block to discovering The Buddha in Robotics. (also see Sigmund Freud - inventor of the term) This is a fascinating topic to explore peripherally. AI is revealing itself to be an example of Dreaming Machines, and the images they produce; our ability to investigate their thought process. 🤔

hear me out...maybe it feels old, because it is old... mindblowing

Funny how pictures from the 1800s look better then pictures today honestly. Definitely look better than any recording security system, those look like they were filmed with a potato 😂

Beautiful! Thank you!

Hi. The Disney model of future living struck me as amazingly nieve. Innovation/evolution on a social scale can’t happen in a laboratory like he envisioned. Thank you.

Hi. I enjoyed your thoughts and perspectives on the progress of various media. I am familiar with most of its history except your reference to AI generated imagery. You showed some of your examples. Could you elaborate more on this? Programs, software, sites that offer opportunity to try. Thank you.

2:35 The street in Paris wasn't devoid of people. It was due to the necessary long exposure time, so the camera didn't record them. The 2 people visible, stood still long enough to be captured. They are of a man and a shoe-shine boy. The photo was taken mid-morning and the streets were full of people, buggies, horses etc.

I just want to go back to when I wasn't stuck with a chronic autoimmune disease that's tearing apart my digestive tract. I used to wake up and look forward to the day but for almost 11 years I've hated waking up.

I just picked up a VHS screener of Fled the other day. Its one of my favorite films and i was happy to add this store screener to my collection. You dont see a lot of these around today.

This might be one of the most important UA-cam videos for me personally. The past four or five years I've been absolutely "grief-stricken" with nostalgia paralysis. All i do these days is wish i could return to the 80s or 90s, a time where i looked at the world with truly innocent eyes and felt safe and secure. I felt immortal and healthy. I didnt worry about who our president was. Today. All i do is cry (inside) to return to a more innocent time, and it is severely debilitating! I talk about it all the time with my friends, and to some extent they seem to agree with my feelings on this subject. I feel like none of us grew into adults without the pain of the past in some form. All we do when we get together is talk about the good ol' days. Its sad. I dont know why i personally cannot let go of the past, my past... it may be time to see a shrink.

Great video.

love that you say Nostalgia is subjective. that actually makes it make a lot more sense to me

I feel sorry for people who say they hate nostalgia. It means they have nothing worth being nostalgic for. It also is always said by the young who knows nothing of the world before so as far as I'm concerned their opinions mean shit. You have no clue how much better things were pre 2000. Living exclusively in the past is unhealthy but having nostalgia for better times is good.

Stopped “thrifting” a long time ago and switched up to collecting comics a few years ago. It’s a fun hobby, and I’ve managed to focus my collecting to a specific company and a specific colour of cover. Still a bottomless/endless want list. lol. Collected records for a couple of decades now, stopped doing that as much as well. It that I’ve lost interest, just that it’s become a hollow feeling hobby.

Great video! Very thoughtful discourse on collecting.

We tend to view the past through rose tinted glasses- unknown