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registering an app and the default birthday year is 2000
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You know you're getting old when.....
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Gutterflesh
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I found out last night my 21 year old niece doesn't know who Rambo is.
My friends 24 year old son had never seen Conan the Barbarian.
My niece is a bit of a lost cause when it comes to this stuff, but I sorted my friends son out and made him watch Conan when they were visiting over Christmas.
My friends 24 year old son had never seen Conan the Barbarian.
My niece is a bit of a lost cause when it comes to this stuff, but I sorted my friends son out and made him watch Conan when they were visiting over Christmas.
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I caught a ton of movies when I was a 90s kid that were from the 60s and 70s because of basic cable combined with nothing else going on. Given all of the available options today I can't see how young people would choose to sit down and watch any particular movie of 20/30/40/whatever years ago unprompted.
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RobXIII
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So weird, the Youtube algorithm has been throwing the 1st Rambo movie at me this week. We always parody Rambo movies as dumb action flicks, but the first one was a really well done, superbly acted movie with balanced, nuanced messaging. The only kill was that sadistic deputy who got carried away and fell out of the helicopter. That said, I loved the 50 cal scene in one of the latest Rambos lol.
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Goatface
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Yeah I'm old. Year before I started college, and I was out of high school 5 years working before I started college.
Someone mentioned Rambo earlier. I'm so old I read the book first, before I saw the movie. The book was pretty different towards the end than the movie which I guess is not a surprise. No idea which came first, but always assumed it became a paperback after the movie was out.
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I had never really seen 60's movies when I was young, mostly 70's if any. When I try to watch 60's movies now, the pacing is off.
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Pacing? I've got your pacing right here.
I was in to sci fi and horror at an irresponsibly early age so I was willing to give a lot of stuff a chance. When I first saw Planet of the Apes it was 25 years old it wasn't even as old then as The Matrix is now. It made a fucking mountain of cash, spawned a bunch of sequels, a cartoon show, a TV series, toys galore and I was still going in pretty fresh. A young person today has an additional 30+ years of motion picture history to sift through plus all the TV. Unless it's something pretty recent I don't think I can expect to have any overlap with anyone under 20. Any question of "have you seen X" is going to be no unless their parents made them watch something.
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2001 is an exception because I read the book first, I read a ton of sci fi when I was young. When 2010 came out in the mid-80's I got it and 2001 on a sick day blockbuster rental because my mom still had to work.
As much as I love 2001 the pacing is totally fucked, it's cool for someone who likes it but try to get normies to watch it, you won't make it 10 minutes.
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I've got it in the "like" category but it can be a challenge. The distance between the cool parts gets pretty fucking wide.
I caught the sequel for the first time last year and actually really liked it. Hal gets a character arc even. It shares nothing in terms of aesthetic with Kubrick's film but on it's own I was pleasantly surprised.
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2001 is such a masterpiece, though I think someone needs to have the nerdy understanding of both space and an understanding of how crazy a perfectionist kubrick was to truly enjoy it for what it was now adays, because he made such incredibly difficult things to film come off as natural. It holds up a lot better than most movies for its time, precisely for the same reason that all of kubricks movies hold up better than they should.
Someone who doesn't have the prerequisite knowledge to appreciate these things is probably going to find it super boring.
Someone who doesn't have the prerequisite knowledge to appreciate these things is probably going to find it super boring.
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rhinohelix
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when I first started reading real Sci Fi as a kid 8-10 in the late 70s early 80s had such a vast array of classic and more modern takes, Bradberry, Asimov, etc, the late 40s/50s-60s was so great, pioneers and giants, and then Star Wars blew the doors off everything and folks rushed to capitalize on the sky high fan interest. Likewise, Lord of the Rings hit in the mid late 50s and built such a massive literary following particularly starting in the late 60's, along with already existing more mainstream interest in Arthurian Knights, etc. The Harryhausan movies had been big but then D&D came along with reportedly Sword of Sharana(?) which was a big hit and helped engender the Fantasy movie boom of the late 70's and 80's.
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I usually watch 2010 at a minimum of once a year. Outstanding movie.
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