For the record, I'm a millennial, born in 1987, so I'm really a nineties kid. Yet despite that, it seemed like when I was young all the pop-culture of the 80s was still going strong enough that I was into Transformers, Ghostbusters, Turtles etc as far as cartoons went, and all the blockbusters of the 80s were on VHS, so I saw Terminator, Back to the Future, Aliens, Raiders, E.T. etc. They'd also be shown on TV so all your friends had seen them. I remember discussing Terminator 2 with a friend way after it had came out, probably '97, because it had shown on TV the night before. It wasn't just recent 80s movies though. It seemed like my generation although it's not like your average kid was watching black and white movies, were at least open to movies made back to the 70s or 60s. Since Star Wars was very popular it created that bridge. Then you watched Taxi Driver and the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.All this unc rambling blogfaggotry is to say "What happened? Why do zoomers have so much more disdain for anything made before 2000 than millennials did for things before they were born?". You could say it's the internet, streaming, and no one watches TV, but that can't be all of it. If you watched TV, something could come on and you might give it a chance sure, and find out you like something made before 1970, but even among zoomers who deliberately seek out new films, they tend to not LIKE anything too old even if they watch it. It's like the tastes and aesthetic sense is totally different, and no I'm not talking about politics or values, because it seems universal for woke and chud zoomers alike. Why are you so alien? Why do you hate my unc shit?
> I was into Transformers, Ghostbusters, Turtles etc as far as cartoons went, and all the blockbusters of the 80s were on VHS, so I saw Terminator, Back to the Future, Aliens, Raiders, E.T. etc. They'd also be shown on TV so all your friends had seen them. I remember discussing Terminator 2 with a friend way after it had came out, probably '97, because it had shown on TV the night before. It wasn't just recent 80s movies though. It seemed like my generation although it's not like your average kid was watching black and white movies, were at least open to movies made back to the 70s or 60s. Since Star Wars was very popular it created that bridge. Then you watched Taxi Driver and the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.All boring sappy corny dogshit. Same reason why you don’t watch silent films from the 20s despite your grandpappy swearing up and down it’s kino.Just fuck off we don’t think about you stop being so obsessed with us unc
>>219425730>Why do zoomers have so much more disdain for anything made before 2000Lol good one Zoomers think movies from 2016 are "old"
>>219425801>>Just fuck off we don’t think about you stop being so obsessed with us uncnigger, you're so obsessed that that last word makes up 50% of your vocabulary
>>219425730How old do you think zoomers are?
not really true at all
>>219425730Zoomers and Gen Alpha have been brainwashed to believe all media from before 2016 was sexist/racist/problematic and should be erased/censored.Zoomers and Gen Alpha can only watch modern stuff like Heated Rivalry and One Battle After Another and Get Out
>>219425730Zoomers just suck
>>219425730i ain't reading all that. im happy for you tho, or sorry that happened.
>>219425801>Same reason why you don’t watch silent films from the 20s despite your grandpappy swearing up and down it’s kino.You're wrong though. Even though millennials tend to hate the boomers politically, we also spent time with our parents and grandparents as children and we'd be shown things they liked. Even if you say, the 20s or whatever, there's a set of movies from 1950-2000 that millennials, gen x, boomers all share in common. You'd have your sunday dinner and a cecil b. demille epic would be on TV.
>>219429724>two paragraphs>all thatDo zoomers read at 5 words a minute or something? It should take you less than 30 seconds to read it. You could read it three times while microwaving a burrito. I think you guys are dyslexic.
>>219429867>words words wordsBORINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
It's far worse than you could imagine. The generation currently in school basically DO NOT WATCH movies at all. TV too, with the exception of maybe a handful of flagship shows like Stranger Things and even then coverage is spotty and limited to maybe 3 or 4 in a class. This is an entire generation of children whose cultural consumption is seemingly a black hole of nothingness. They do not watch movies. They do not watch TV. They certainly aren't reading books (lol). I genuinely have no idea what they spend the majority of their time doing.Furthermore not only do they not watch movies or TV, I feel like many of them are now physically incapable of doing so. They do not have the attention span to sit through even a 90 minute film. I used to do 'movie days' for my classes as a reward for good behaviour at the end of the year and ask them what they wanted to watch, but when I ask for their recommendations these days I am literally met with blank stares. They just ask me "can't we be on our phones instead?" So I have stopped doing them and we just work until the end of the year now.Most people don't realise what a unifying intergenerational force movie and TV culture was and how bizarre and alienating it is when you have, culturally, nothing in common. If I sit down with a Boomer or a Gen Xer or even an early Gen Z we can probably find some common ground - a book we've both read, a movie we've both seen and so on. Now it's like a cultural wasteland.
>>219430172This must be soulkilling as a teacher.
>>219425820If you were alive in 2006, you would have thought a movie from 1996 was old.
>>219430172I'm a zoomer and I wouldn't call myself a "movie nut" but I watch a shit ton of movies, I feel like girls are more likely to be watching something like Quentin stuff so that would be your best guess at finding someone who actually watches movies from my gen. As for guys it's surprisingly hard to find anyone who watches anything that isn't marvelslop.>I genuinely have no idea what they spend the majority of their time doing.twitch streamers or brainrot>They do not have the attention span to sit through even a 90 minute film.Yeah my ex had to bring out a phone all the time to play sudoku or some shit, anything that was more than 90 minutes (unless it would be hunger games) was an instant no for her. Glad we stopped being together.>So I have stopped doing them and we just work until the end of the year now.holy shit not even meme responses like "shrek" or some shit? that's terrible>If I sit down with a Boomer or a Gen Xer or even an early Gen Z we can probably find some common groundthat's why relationships with huge age gaps usually do not work. If you're like a 50 year old guy with 20 year old gf then she's going to talk about labubu or some shit or her periods.
>>219425801Kill yourself threadshitter
>>219429233You mean all media from before 2010. Zoomers love The Hunger Games, The Avengers, and 22 Jump Street.
How stupid are people here, genuinely? It's simply because, shocker, time has passed since you were a kid!The example OP gave was Star Wars, released in 1977. At the time the prequels were releasing, Star Wars was hardly 20 years old. The equivalent for a kid today would be watching the first Iron Man after seeing some new Marvel movie.1977 was 50 years ago now; Revenge of the Sith is as old today as Return of the Jedi was when it released. The equivalent would be you sitting in your grandparent's house around the turn of the millennium and watching some shitty western from the mid 50s. Sure, older people saw older media as a captive audience, you could only watch what was on TV at the time, etc. But even then, besides specialty cable, most TV stations weren't showing shit older than Star Wars 99% of the year. Nintey percent of what you would have seen was 80s blockbusters, and anything in black and white or whatever is something you may have forced yourself to watch but if you were given the choice as a 12 year old, the way today's 12 year olds are, you would have certainly chosen to watch something more recent.
>>219425730It could just be discomfort from it being really old or that it's all too different from their experience of the world. I think homes from the 40s and 50s are disgusting and uncomfortable for whatever reason, there's just something about them that is inexplicably awful. And yet I like 19th century homes and homes from the 80s and beyond.>>219430704>As for guys it's surprisingly hard to find anyone who watches anything that isn't marvelslopI honestly have a harder time finding women that aren't into Marvelslop, Star Wars or total Disneyslop (it's always the new stuff and remakes).
>>219430783The Mayans were right, 2012 was the last canon year. We entered Hell afterwards.
>>219425730>They'd also be shown on TV so all your friends had seen them.This is probably the key difference. We grew up with standard television, where we watched whatever the networks chose to air, which was often older stuff, and everyone we knew also watched the same stuff we did because that's what everyone had access to. but zoomers have had entertainment on demand with virtually infinite options from a young age, so their experience is not as "curated", if that's even the right word.
>>219431014>if I had to pick which gender from gen z is most likely going to watch Kubrick or Quentin stuff then it would definitely be girls.I really wouldn't, at least not Kubrick. Tarantino stuff seems to be an everyone thing but no zoomer girl is going to watch 2001 Space Odyssey.
>>219431014>but if I had to pick which gender from gen z is most likely going to watch Kubrick or Quentin stuff then it would definitely be girls.
>>219430831>How stupid are people here, genuinely? It's simply because, shocker, time has passed since you were a kid!No because this doesn't account for millennials liking genx and boomer shit, but zoomers hating millennial shit. Millennials will watch movies from the 60s, but zoomers won't watch stuff if it's older than 10 years.
>>219431239Zoomers have a fear of getting old and liking something old means to them that they're not "with it". It's the same as how some people will upgrade their phone every year so they have the very latest one.
>>219431239Zoomers like Ted even though it has 80s music in it. I guess they can look past it in that movie but won't look past it in a movie from 2008.
>>219431014What happened, anon?
Zoomies grew up on youtube
Capeshit took over in the late '00s and they were raised on a steady diet of it. For millenials we usually got one cape flick every couple of years and it always had cutting edge CGI as an excuse to go see it.
>>219431958Yeah, just one capeshit and usually a few good random movies throughout the year. There was a time where I was seeing two movies a month but I probably only see one new movie per year now.
>>219430342no I didn't
>>219430342I was a kid in the late 90s and I thought the 80s James Bond movies were brand new kek.
>>219425730dysgenic fertility, reverse Flynn effect
>>219429233>Zoomers and Gen Alpha have been brainwashed to believe all media from before 2016 was sexist/racist/problematic and should be erased/censored.I thought Zoomzoomz and Alpha were supposed to be more BASED than Millennials, did that not pan out?
>>219425730Zoomers hate the rule of the thirds. The fucking rule of fucking thirds. Let that sink in.
>>219425801watch something all the way through without picking up your phone faggots
>>219426108You meant to say drop the cap
>>219436809I want to pound that zoomette
>>219425730Man. I'll give it to you straight but they won't like it.Millenials and gen X make the worst parents. No other generation has been this fucking bad, it's unreal.They neglected their kids completely and outsourced their parenting to woke fembots at daycare centres that run "lock down" drills every day.Wtf did they think would happen?.
>>219436635That guy is wrong. The cutoff they typically use is either 2010 or 2013 (due to the end of the previous Mayan cycle in 2012). Zoomers and Gen Alpha love themselves some Chief Keef and Five Nights at Freddy's and that stuff is from 2013-2014. They also love Bobby Shmurda and Iggy Azalea. Garbage that no millennial would be caught dead listening to.
>>219429279I 4 1 blame microplastics and hormones in the foods.
>>219425730the 80s suck
>>219425730I'm a zoomer and I've been mostly watching stuff from the 1940s through to the 1960s this year. It made me realise how remarkably cruel modern media is. Even as a 'joke'.
>>219437983You're one of the good ones.
>>219431958I dunno, the biggest capeshitters in the world are always some 40 year old uncle.
>>219437983any examples?
>>219430831truke right here. 4chan boomers just love to hate gen z. These are 30 year old men who are acting like 80 yo grumpy geezers. Someone born in 2006 would be watching a 50 year old film when they watch Star Wars, made 30 years before they were born. OP cited 1 film from the 60s and nothing from the 50s, 30 years before he was born, or before. Protip OP, there are pretentious little shits in every generation. Plenty of zoomers are watching old movies, listening to old music, playing old video games. All my friends are interested in at least one of those. Even the ones who were into sports watch old games and swear such and such decade was the true golden age of the sport.I thought millennials would be above this geezer behavior but I guess not. Is it a result of the self-esteem movement or something?
>>219438598Examples of older movies? I really liked Black Narcissus. If you mean cruel media, I think there's a plethora of gory horror films around now, like Terrifier. But more to the point, I think the tendency to invert traditional moral storytelling plays out as very cruel in practice. That's not so much a "modern" issue as something that got started in the 60s thereabouts and has continued on and intensified since. You can compare noir to neo-noir for examples. Say, Chinatown for neo-noir, where the ending is bleak and deliberately unsatisfying, vs a noir film like The Third Man, where bad things happen, but the moral arc of the universe inevitably sets things right. Another example could be Inglourious Basterds which you can watch as either indulgent torture-porn of Nazis or you can watch as a deliberate deconstruction of Allied morality and I find both pretty off putting. The Western as a whole has undergone a drastic transformation towards overwhelming cruelty since the middle of the 20th century. Compare The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with No Country for Old Men for example. The former toys with the idea, right at the very end, that 'The Good' is not so Good (letting the Ugly die slowly by hanging) but then redeems himself. In the latter, the equivalent character to the Good dies halfway through the film and then Chigurh proceeds to murder everyone, culminating in the slaughter of the Good's innocent wife This tracks with McCarthy's other books like Blood Meridian and, from what I've heard from others, his other Western stories. But without going into all that, even something as simple as a Family Guy cutaway joke can feel overly cruel. There's one about Home Alone where the robbers just shoot the kid in the face. I just don't want to see children die or animals be tortured. To go back to The Third Man, that film touches on the death of children but the most you see is the corner of a bed frame and a lonely teddy bear.
>>219429867>>219429724Dude it's so bad. I've had people complain about comments/posts that took me less than 30 seconds to write. Yeah, it's a WHOLE PARAGRAPH buddy. Don't think too hard now...like wtf??I saw a story about a high school teacher that couldn't get her students to write one paragraph a week with a pencil. They would complain that paragraphs are supposed to be 3 sentences and 5 is too many. They are actually retarded
>>219425730>Why do zoomers have so much more disdain for anything made before 2000 than millennials did for things before they were born?"Who told you this?
>>219439907Also I acknowledge that there are heaps of exceptions and counter exceptions. You can find Westerns as early as the 1970s that are pretty damn sadistic and cruel. Though I think in most instances, they're relatively niche, and at the very least haven't gone down into 'cultural memory'. To argue against myself a bit here, Ulzana's Raid is noted even on the Wikipedia intro as being very nihilistic and I found it honestly shocking the first time I saw it and that's from 1972. Also, obviously, there are moral films from the 2000s. But I think they're seen as somehow lame or boring or lacking in merit. While it seems to me that inversion is more highly acclaimed. You can extend this to the recent glorification of villains like with Wicked or Cruella or Maleficent or you could track it with the GoT writers intentionally trying to warp a classical fantasy narrative.
>>219440227It's why zoomies need those rapid fire subtitles that pop up one at a time. It gives them constant stimulation to keep their attention rather than putting a static complete sentence on screen
>>219425730Everyone in the world is allowed to prefer living among white people. Except white people.
>>219440605I see what you're saying. I'm a bit okay with the depravity of modern media. I see it as a reflection of reality, but I do get sick of depressing content.>Simpsons was controversial media when it released
>>219439037very salient point yes but to continue it, yes of course there are millennials that also understand this, but they're not the ones making seethe threads. we have no impetus to propagate that acknowledgement. I don't see the point in making 95% of the posts on this board for that matter
>>219429724i ain't reading this post, I just need everyone to know that I didn't read it, that's all.
>>219425730broccoli unc is bussin fr fr
>>219439907>The Western as a whole has undergone a drastic transformation towards overwhelming cruelty since the middle of the 20th century.>zoomy effortposting about westernsbased. I don't disagree. The western as a functional genre is all but dead. The only real exceptions I can think of are a very very small subset of neo-westerns like Hell or High Water and Hostiles. And both of those are chock full of subversion after subversion and needless indulgent cruelty. And in the case of Hostiles obnoxious moralistic overtures conveyed with all the subtlety of a jackhammer. Nonetheless I still generally liked both of those movies even if the state of the genre is bleak to say the least.
>>219425730I’m gonna go ahead and say what no one has the balls to say. We needed another “9/11” around 2014. Every generation has their EPIC event that ties them to one that came before them. Boomers had JFK and Vietnam, GenX had AIDS and 9/11, millennials had 9/11 and The Great Recession. Zoomers had a 1.5 yearlong spring break called Covid. No one was actually scared of that shit. I BELIEVED 9/11 was the first of several attacks which would end with a mushroom cloud. I BELIEVED I’d be living in a shanty town by 2010 and standing in soup lines. And it wasn’t just going to be me, but everyone I knew too. Just like they thought having sex without condom meant a 50/50 chance of getting AIDS and fucking dying from it. Just like Vietnam would lead to WW3 with the Soviet Union, which would affect everyone. Zoomers don’t have that. They’ve never been afraid.
>>219425730Zoomers were raised to have an obsession with being young, their tv shows had actors say things like "I'm a kid, I'm supposed to [whatever the thing is]" which no kid would ever talk like, prior to zoomers. So they were effectively brainwashed from birth to be obsessed with being young, and now that they are getting older they will not be able to come to terms with this, and it will be ugly
>>219425730Didn't read.>MUH GENERATION WARSkys.>t. millennial
>>219437848>microplastics and hormonesThat's what ternin' em gay.I jest, but it's true, unfortunately.
>>219446262>We had no AIDS, no 9/11. Our AIDS was a spiritual AIDS. Our 9/11... is our lives.
>>219429757>>219429757My boomer parents had it easy, got a house, good jobs and paid for me to go to private school. They also left me enough money to retire in my 30s. Boomers are based as fuck.
>>219429279I'm 35 and hated my ex-girlfriend so much we only had sex like two times in the last year we were together. Anytime she would make an advance I would just turn her down. I dumped her on Christmas and coincidentally stopped drinking.
>>219447316kek
>>219425730TL DR>SoillennialYou are an embarrassment to the human race.Fuck offt.Edgy 90's Millennial kind,Who grew up watching attitude era.
>>219429757you're sinking as low as having common ground with boomers the generation that sold the world just to shit on muh evil 25 year olds. Sad and pathetic.
>>219447725>only had sex like two times in the last year we were togetherWell you only had sex twice anyway
