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Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 3:22 am
by Simple Torture
When I talk to my students (aged 18-22, so née 1995-1999), it's like they've never seen a movie in their life. It's not that they haven't seen "the classics" or "good" movies; when I ask what the last film they've seen was, they say, "Oh, I don't watch movies."
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 3:22 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Simple Torture wrote:When I talk to my students (aged 18-22, so née 1995-1999), it's like they've never seen a movie in their life. It's not that they haven't seen "the classics" or "good" movies; when I ask what the last film they've seen was, they say, "Oh, I don't watch movies."
are they into drugs or something?
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 3:24 am
by BurtReynolds
I think movies are going the way of plays and novels. No longer the center of culture.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 3:26 am
by Orpheus
They watch youtubers now mostly.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 3:26 am
by BurtReynolds
and vidya games
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 3:28 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
howbow dah
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 3:30 am
by BurtReynolds
And sweet, sweet memes.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 3:33 am
by 96583UP
the visceral reaction tweet is the new 10-sentence paragraph
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 3:52 am
by Citizen Dick
Born 1980. There's probably a ton of movies that were loved as a kid that don't hold up and don't resonate much with kids these days either. Top of my head would be Goonies.
Others that came a bit later...
The Mask (and probably everything by Jim Carrey)
Billy Madison (and everything by Adam Sandler)
Space Jam
Blair Witch Project
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 3:56 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 3:59 am
by The Argonaut
Goonies is probably for older people, yeah. The others are good calls, yeah.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 4:04 am
by LoathedVermin72
Fucking SHREK.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 4:06 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 4:08 am
by Citizen Dick
tragabigzanda wrote:Citizen Dick wrote:Born 1980. There's probably a ton of movies that were loved as a kid that don't hold up and don't resonate much with kids these days either. Top of my head would be Goonies.
Others that came a bit later...
The Mask (and probably everything by Jim Carrey)
Billy Madison (and everything by Adam Sandler)
Space Jam
Blair Witch Project
I think Billy Madison and TBWP are great calls. I was also born in '80, and The Mask and Space Jam struck me as movies for little kids even back then.
Yeah, I included Space Jam and The Mask because I remember kids a few years younger who loved them.
For me The Mask was an intro to Cameron Diaz
... before she became annoying.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 4:15 am
by Citizen Dick
Boondock Saints! I really can't see anyone give a shit about that movie unless they were in college at a very specific time.
And should the Star Wars prequels be included here? I've only ever seen fellow millenials be stupid enough to try to defend them (ducks).
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 4:27 am
by E.H. Ruddock
So this is just a list of good movies then? So far a lot of these are looked at as great/influential by Gen Xers as well
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 4:28 am
by daft twat
American pie
Austin powers
South Park
Sixth sense
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 4:35 am
by The Argonaut
E.H. Ruddock wrote:So this is just a list of good movies then? So far a lot of these are looked at as great/influential by Gen Xers as well
Yeah, not all the movies mentioned really work. They should only be movies of special relevance to people only of a certain age. Mean Girls might be the best example.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 4:35 am
by Citizen Dick
E.H. Ruddock wrote:So this is just a list of good movies then? So far a lot of these are looked at as great/influential by Gen Xers as well
Haha - We got him guys! Finally a Gen Xer admits that Millenial taste is great.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 4:36 am
by The Argonaut
Thanks for having my wife and me to your dinner party