Posted on 07/22/2005 10:29:02 AM PDT by qam1
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When will Hollywood get around to remaking the great old war stories, westerns and musicals?
Just kidding...there's not enough brains, guts or talent in the movie business to do them right.
Our daughter, who's not quite 19, mocks the miserable junk that's making it to the big screen.
Time for Old Hollywood to join Old Europe and Old Media.
She's not a good prognosticator of cultural means.
I have to admit that it was neat, when my mother, wife, daughter, and myself were able to spontaneously sing, "Istanbul, Not Constaninople," on a car trip several years ago.
I'd like her blog more if she didnt have such a poor attitude towards those who are different than her.
At my high school, which could have been in a John Hughes movie except that it was all-boys and Catholic, the parking lots were filled with the Doors, the Who, and Zeppelin as if it were 1969 all over again. Of course, we were blasting it, digitally remastered, out of sub-woofer steroes that could be heard half a mile away.
Our ex-hippie art teacher loved the fact that he could bring in his old Pink Floyd records to play during art class for *our* enjoyment as much as his. He saw some osrt of sociological significance in the fact that our generation was "the first to reject its own music."
My 17 y/o was shocked enough when I told him that I am familiar with the group and know their music, but can_not_believe that *I* would ever actually attend a Metallica concert myself..
Ahhh!!! That gave me flashbacks.
Anime.... MUDs...
I still can touch a MUD without a 20 ft. pole. Those evil internet things made me repeat my freshman year of college.
:-)
Sounds either bitter/jealous...or both...
Oh Gawd that's all so true its depressing...
Perhaps amount of marketing exists in inverse proportion to amount of creativity in pop culture; with the result of corporate mass market lowest common denominator pop culture becoming nothing more than a recycling machine on spin cycle [recycling and spin...also from the 70s ;-)].
But if pop culture overmarketing is the culprit we can largely blame George Lucas for that too; the 70s strikes back again...and again...and again...
Fashion may be even worse than movies and TV endless 'remakes' [Kolchak the Night Stalker fgs???]...has anyone actually looked FORWARD since Courreges??? Its either find a 20th century decade or an indigenous culture to rip off...gee Mssrs Galliano and McQueen isn't it about time for a Twenty FIRST century style perhaps??? And I dont mean clear PVC minis or Rabanne metal with a neofuturistic twist but something actually NEW.
If anything 'new' is even POSSIBLE anymore.
The lack of creativity much less quality in 'new' popular culture is enough to make one want to go to the opera, or symphony, or ballet ;-)...
Well we can always find a shining Future of new and original ideas in sci-fi right...;-)...hey the War Of The Worlds and Battlestar Galactica REMAKES are actually not bad...;-)...
LOLOL.
With the very wide age span where people first conceive children that came to be the norm during the 90s (anywhere from teen years to 40s) we have a situation where today's youth may have people ranging from the kids of Boomers, to the Boomers themselves, as parents. That would tend to explain at least some of it. Kids today have been exposed, by the parents, to the generational influences of that entire range.
I do! Always got a kick out of Fonzi (but didn't have any crushes on any of the characters)
An interesting point! I'm an Xer, myself, but I have children older than some of the younger Boomers!
One of the most underrated movies of the era. A bunch of kids in a middle class "planned community" in Colorado all riot and basically destroy the town. Starring Matt Dillon and Michael "I produce TV shows now" Kramer.
BTW: My original Jedi glass lasted about 11 years until I decided to take it with me to college. My nephews, all of 3 years old, love Star Wars. Makes me feel like a trendsetter.
I think a major problem culture wise for Gen Xers like myself (born 1976 here) is that there were SO MANY boomers and so few of us, so our boomer parents still dominated the culture when we were kids. I for one, NEVER, participated in the 1960s revival that swept Long Island in about 1989.
Why is it that Chachi had a Matt Dillon haircut and wore aerobic wristbands? How did Anson Williams get away with his 70s hairstyles on a show set in the 1950s? There is a reason that show "Jumped the Shark" and it had nothing to do with Fonzi on waterskis.
Alot of Gay guys I have met had a crush on Potsy.
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