![]() ![]() Heck, digital watches were still a (relatively) new and exotic technology. CD players were a new and exotic technology. However, this still looked better than the often-fuzzy antenna-based picture before cable.Ĭonversely, the eighties were also the high water mark of analog culture. Cable television also took off big time, with MTV, TBS, HBO, and CNN becoming household acronyms, though the video itself was all grainy, low-definition analog. The Eighties was the decade of cell phones literally sized and shaped like bricks, jokes about being unable to program VCRs, the death of Betamax, and the beginnings of personal computers and gaming consoles beginning to proliferate inside homes, perhaps one of the trends from this decade with the largest of cultural implications. Millennials (then known as "Echo Boomers" and later "Generation Y") started being born, one day to become the young adults of The Turn of the Millennium.Ĭomputing technology first became a true cultural force in this decade, starting a trend that would keep on snowballing to this very day. ![]() And those without them had flat-tops and wore gym clothes and break-danced on top of cardboard. ![]() (Unless they happened to be teenagers, in which case they were Totally Radical or studied Karate and learnt the meaning of " Wax On, Wax Off".) Everyone had huge hairdos, enough make-up to sink a ship and power suits with shoulderpads big enough to knock the giant mirrored sunglasses off anyone who walked within a three foot radius of them. In addition, Apple featured Action Movie FX in its " Hollywood" iPad TV ad, which aptly aired during the Oscars telecast last month.The Excessive Eighties: a time where you wake up before you go-go when you want to kick off your Sunday shoes as you walk the dinosaur like an Egyptian for 500 miles, hear doves cry or feel the Punky power like a virgin while you moonwalk the Thriller.Īll the men were preppies who wore pastel suits with narrow ties, drove sports cars that Lee Iacocca personally stood behind and traded stocks on Wall Street - after all, as Oscar Wilde said, nothing says success like excess. So, if you're a fan of the Call of Duty: Black Ops II effects and you're not too keen on getting the new winter effects, I suggest you skip this update.Ĭompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad running iOS 5.0 or later, the new version of Action Movie FX is available now in the App Store for free.įor its Best of 2012 year-ender in the App Store, Apple named Action Movie FX the iPhone App of the Year. Unfortunately, for reasons yet unknown, they are no longer found in Action Movie FX. Included in the app in October last year, these four effects were taken directly from the popular console game. But apparently, their arrival coincided with the unannounced removal of the Call of Duty: Black Ops II effects.Ī favorite among users of the app, the Call of Duty: Black Ops II effects set comprised the Hellstorm Missile FX, the EMP FX, the Dragonfire Drones FX, and The Claw FX. ![]() These three winter effects are welcome additions to Action Movie FX. The Avalanche FX is free, while the Iceman FX and Skifall FX are bundled in the Winter Blast pack, an in-app purchase worth $0.99. And then there's the Skifall FX, which involves the dropping of a presumably defective or destroyed cable car. There's the Iceman FX, which inserts an abominable snowman in your scenes. There's the Avalanche FX, which releases a mass of snow, ice, and rocks onto your scenes. The popular app developed by Bad Robot Interactive has just gained a "cool" new trio of blockbuster winter effects. But in the reel world of Action Movie FX, it has only just begun. ![]()
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