I Got Here First!

[eatenbyagrue]

When most of us reach a certain age (I'm 21, for reference), it becomes difficult to interact with people whose age difference can be as little as 5 years. Mainly because the shared pool of references become smaller, or maybe because human society shifts and changes so fast that 5 years can mean "world away".

So this is for us older Escapists. The grumpy old men and women who were around long before a significant number of people, the people who talk about "G.I. Joe" and don't mean the movie, who unashamedly enjoy AD&D, and have memories of what it was like before the internet. This is for us.




Me, I'm a lover of entertainment and pop culture: I love movies, video games, books, comics, everything. A point I find greatly disappointing is how, with the advent of DVD and Blu-Ray, people should have no excuse to have not seen the great classics of cinema (everything from Casablanca to Pulp Fiction), but are sadly squandering this technology by instead choosing to watch Twilight or High School Musical for the hyperbollilionth time. Not to say the 90's and 80's didn't have crap films and TV, but they generally don't survive to become DVD classics. It gets sad how, despite the difference only being 5 years, I can't talk about a lot of stuff from the 90's without getting puzzled stares and raised eyebrows from my class, who are all in the 16-18 age range.

This just proves it: growing old is sad.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Maybe they don't want to see the 'great classics' of cinema. I, for one, couldn't care less about watching old films, but that doesn't make me some ignorant youth. I'm just living within my generation, and I'll be damned if I'm going to be scorned for not taking an interest in things that I was either too young to remember or were even around before me.
I think as the world becomes more modern, that is to say as technology advances at its alarming rate, society is moving along quicker than it ever has done. I mean, it was only 1980 that the first GB disk drive was created which was the size of a refridgerator and would set you back $40,000 (around £24,591). Now you could put that in your pocket for, what, £20 or less?

 

[wooty]

Its the music trend thats scares me the most, was in the pub the other day and they had an MP3 jukebox type thing which was blaring out some weird shit for at least an hour, so I stepped up after getting annoyed listening to this "boom boom pow" crap for the 6th time (no joke)

So I selected Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin and to my amazement the people who were playing the other tedious excrement didnt have a clue who LZ were!!!!????

Whats that all about? I get where your coming from, the new generation who think that Will Smith started out in movies and then may have diddled in a bit of rap later on, *sigh*

 

[Broady Brio]

To be honest, I've heard OF LZ, but if you were to test my knowledge of LZ, I know nothing.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I always wanted to watch casablanca but never got the chance...
how damning.
and I hate most of the new crap to come out -_-
damn you Hannah Montana!

 

[lewism247]

(everything from Casablanca to Pulp Fiction)

"Does he look like a *****?"I'm only a teen but i have to say that i'm glad my brother pestered me to watch pulp fiction.I watch old classics every now and then and that's one of my favs

 

[traceur_]

I see no real reason for people to watch the classics. I hate old movies. I'll stick with my giant robots and explosions thank you very much.

Oh and all hip-hop/rap artists, hannah montanna and stephanie meyer can die in a fire.

 

[noodles loves you]

I don't see the point in whining. there's a significant gap in interests between certain age groups. this is nothing new. the easiest thing to do is find some common ground, say, I don't know.... Gaming?

Wow that almost seems to crop up naturally on such a forum

 

[geon106]

When most of us reach a certain age (I'm 21, for reference), it becomes difficult to interact with people whose age difference can be as little as 5 years. Mainly because the shared pool of references become smaller, or maybe because human society shifts and changes so fast that 5 years can mean "world away".

So this is for us older Escapists. The grumpy old men and women who were around long before a significant number of people, the people who talk about "G.I. Joe" and don't mean the movie, who unashamedly enjoy AD&D, and have memories of what it was like before the internet. This is for us.




Me, I'm a lover of entertainment and pop culture: I love movies, video games, books, comics, everything. A point I find greatly disappointing is how, with the advent of DVD and Blu-Ray, people should have no excuse to have not seen the great classics of cinema (everything from Casablanca to Pulp Fiction), but are sadly squandering this technology by instead choosing to watch Twilight or High School Musical for the hyperbollilionth time. Not to say the 90's and 80's didn't have crap films and TV, but they generally don't survive to become DVD classics. It gets sad how, despite the difference only being 5 years, I can't talk about a lot of stuff from the 90's without getting puzzled stares and raised eyebrows from my class, who are all in the 16-18 age range.

This just proves it: growing old is sad.

Well personally these days i can't talk to anyone below 16 for fear of being locked up for grooming. These days everyone who speaks to a child is a pedophile.

But anyways, I get what you mean. I look at young people today and they know MSN and Myface and the consoles, but when I was born(1989, no i'm not THAT old) we had a Sinclair 128 computer and shortly after got our first Amiga computers. the Amiga 500 was my education, it not only got me into computers but also gaming.

When I got my first PC when i was 5 it was all about Recoil and Arsenal and the original C&C and Myth and Doom etc. I had to wait a year before Quake and that in turn brought about my internet gaming revolution. Back then, we had our 2 computers(mine and my dads) connected by the old 10BASE2 LAN(give yourself a cookie if you remember those type of networking), then my uncle would Dial in to our home phone to join our game. It was quite advanced for its day for an average family network but its hard to find people my age who know what i'm going on about or even remember what it was like before broadband for some.

These days its all playstations and xblox that.

 

[high_castle]

I see no real reason for people to watch the classics. I hate old movies. I'll stick with my giant robots and explosions thank you very much.

Except a great many movies reference classics (I think it has to do with the lack of creativity in Hollywood right now) with certain dialogue or framing mechanisms. You're missing a lot of the movie if you don't get why something is done a certain way. Besides, old cinema is great. Casablanca is an oft-cited Greatest Movie Ever because it deserves the honor. It's a classic story, the themes timeless, the characters compelling. And it was watchable and truly emotional without needing special effects or even color. Don't judge something you haven't seen.

OT: I used to teach riding lessons, mostly to kids who were anywhere from 10 to 15 years younger than me. If you want to feel outdated, try teaching children. No one understood my She-Ra references, my jokes relating to the Power Rangers or Goosebumps. These were all quite popular when I was growing up, less so now. Hell, half the kids I taught had never seen Doug or the Rugrats, both staples in my household when I was their age. We're really too young to be consider "old folks," but media marches onward all the same. The things I thought cool when I was young are no longer even around. And while I privately think our generation had the better games, TV shows, and kid-marketed movies (The Lion King, Toy Story, come on!), that could be nostalgia goggles speaking for me.

 

[traceur_]

I see no real reason for people to watch the classics. I hate old movies. I'll stick with my giant robots and explosions thank you very much.

Except a great many movies reference classics (I think it has to do with the lack of creativity in Hollywood right now) with certain dialogue or framing mechanisms. You're missing a lot of the movie if you don't get why something is done a certain way. Besides, old cinema is great. Casablanca is an oft-cited Greatest Movie Ever because it deserves the honor. It's a classic story, the themes timeless, the characters compelling. And it was watchable and truly emotional without needing special effects or even color. Don't judge something you haven't seen.

Well I might enjoy it if I cared about the why and wasn't such a graphics whore.

I really hate black&white movies/shows. It's physically irritating for me and it slaughters my immersion. I'm the kind of guy who doesn't give a damn about why something is done or a deeper meaning it may have, which is why I hate things like poetry.

I love movies like Transformers. Simple and fun. No deeper meaning, no hidden story. Just giant fucking robots beating the binary out of each other.

 

[Andalusa]

I prefer a lot of music and movies from before I was even born (the 80s) to more recent stuff.

 

[KampfVerein]

Get off my lawn.

'Tis a sad thing that the youth haven't seen such-and-such or played what-have-you. There need to be public preparatory courses for this sort of thing.

"Alright, kids, we're going to start you out with an Atari 2600. You will die a lot, and you will like it! It's impossible not to enjoy a system which had Chuck Norris Superkicks as a title...yes, even before the meme parade based on his mighty deeds. It's not at all ironic, and I know that's difficult for you to understand..."

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

I'm afraid the most for films. People in my age group will most likely have no idea what I'm talking about if I make a reference to something like Taxi Driver, The Godfather or even Pulp Fiction. Sadly, I am part of a generation ignorant of it's past that considers stuff like Epic Movie to be a cinema classic.

I love movies like Transformers. Simple and fun. No deeper meaning, no hidden story. Just giant fucking robots beating the binary out of each other.

Yeah, like this guy.

 

[traceur_]

I'm afraid the most for films. People in my age group will most likely have no idea what I'm talking about if I make a reference to something like Taxi Driver, The Godfather or even Pulp Fiction. Sadly, I am part of a generation ignorant of it's past that considers stuff like Epic Movie to be a cinema classic.

I love movies like Transformers. Simple and fun. No deeper meaning, no hidden story. Just giant fucking robots beating the binary out of each other.

Yeah, like this guy.

Yay I'm part of an ignorant generation!

I don't consider those kinds of movies classics, just awesome.

 

[Jedamethis]

(everything from Casablanca to Pulp Fiction)

"Does he look like a *****?"I'm only a teen but i have to say that i'm glad my brother pestered me to watch pulp fiction.I watch old classics every now and then and that's one of my favs

Exactly the same, if it weren't for my brother I think I would be a very different person

 

[Casual Shinji]

The world changes, but you don't.

It sucks getting older.

 

[Lord George]

In my day pluto was a planet, we had no internet and we had none of this fansy pancy immersive gaming and if you wanted realistic graphics you had to squint your eyes up and imagine. Ahhh but we were happy

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Well, I was born in the 90's. Which personally I think sucked as a decade. The 80's were so much better,the music was godly compared to the music of....the last 20 years. There were also tons of good movies released, good books written, it just accomplished so much good in all forms of media.

(I swear I'm forgetting something.....)