I Got Here First!

[Ruzzian Roulette]

I can usually identify with late 20's/early 30's adults better then I can with my high-school aged peers. I'll use quotes from The Big Lebowski, Evil Dead, and other movies, like the Godfather, or Resevoir Dogs. Granted, The Big Lebowski is a cult movie, but it still disappoints me when people my age completely miss out on some of the greatest media from the past few decades.

 

[megasamus1]

Being a young (and new) escapist user, I don't understand many pop culture references, but I get some of them and I also cannot understand why so many kids my age actually enjoy high school musical and the like. Those that echo my interests (geeky things like attempting to code a game, animation, etc.) are few and far in between where I live. I have seen people that I know fall to twilight, HSM and the other crap movies that have come out in the past few years.

When did being different, like watching an older movie or playing an 8-bit era game, make me an outcast?

I really don't know.

 

[Berethond]

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

Oh yeah.
8 out of my top 10 musicians died before I was born.

I don't like movies, though.

 

[Andalusa]

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

Oh yeah.
8 out of my top 10 musicians died before I was born.

I don't like movies, though.

You don't like movies or you don't like older movies?
Because I'm not a big fan of films, but most of my favourites are oldies.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

I have two DVD sets of The Goodies Remastered that I watch many many times. It's one of the greatest kids TV shows ever known, and the high point of Bill Oddie's career.

I have to admit, it shocks me that so many kids nowadays haven't got a clue about things that happened even in the damn 90's. I've met a lot of people who don't even know what a fucking Opal Fruit is.

I'm 18. In comparison to people 4 years younger than me, I might as well be 40 for all that my memories of the past count for. A mobile phone with a green screen that is mainly used for..well..phoning people? You'd have to be some sort of savage cave-man to remember those!

 

[Berethond]

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

Oh yeah.
8 out of my top 10 musicians died before I was born.

I don't like movies, though.

You don't like movies or you don't like older movies?
Because I'm not a big fan of films, but most of my favourites are oldies.

I don't like movies.

 

[Jumping_Over_Fences]

I realized I was old when I was watching an episode of Bones with my parents a while back and I started complaining about how some of the experts on the show looked like they were still in High School. They just looked at me and I start sobbing into my beer.

Old stuff, new stuff, there is crap to be found everywhere. I love music, movies, and television. Therefore, I need to know the history of them all. People who do not look to the past for influences, or understanding can never truly love that medium. They have the ability to enjoy it, but love comes from a complete understanding.

It is sad that I sound more romantic and sentimental when I talk about a love of movies than I do the love of a significant other.

*starts sobbing into beer*

 

[Jaqen Hghar]

I think us "oldies" (22 here) who agree with the OP should go on and make ourself a city. Maybe underwater? There we can get away from all the rap, "popular music", crappy movies etc.
I hadn't really thought about this, but you are right. I feel old now. And it is sad how todays youth doesn't appreciate a good movie, book, game or good music that is actually music.

 

[KBKarma]

I feel old when I can mention a game that came out when I was growing up (which, coincidentally, I didn't play till much later) and no-one's ever heard of it.

Wonderfully, when I mentioned Dark Reign in a computer room, half the people in my class looked up and said "Oh my God, that was an awesome game!"

But yeah, the films of today are just bumph. You mention things like Blazing Saddles, Maltese Falcon (haven't seen Casablanca, but loved this), or The Italian Job, they'll look at you in puzzlement. Except with the last one, when they mention that Mark Wahlberg was pretty good in that. And then you cry. Long and loud.

And this isn't even mentioning the games, which are mostly based off books and/or films (with those that aren't either being rip-offs of more popular games or being grossly under-bought). Or even TV, where all the innovative stuff is either cancelled, subjected to executive meddling [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main.ExecutiveMeddling], or past its prime.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Even though I'm just 18 years of age, I'm often referred to as 'that old fart', so I still know exactly what you mean. It gets annoying when no one knows what Pulp Fiction is, and that movie isn't even thát old! The fact that I often listen to what's often called "old people's music" (jazz, blues, old rock, classical, heck anything from before 2000) doesn't help either. But if all that means that I'm an old fart, I wear that title with pride.

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.....)

Yes, your forgetting the fact that the 90's had a truckload of awesome movies. I was born in 1990, and gods I loved the 90's. I second your opinion about the music, but so many of my fav cartoons were from the 90's, and so many of my fav movies were from the 90's. The 80's were still cool though. Except fashion-wise....dear heavens.

 

[dibblywibbles]

it's funny to read these posts about us being bitter of the new breed. are we so helplessly out of touch that we're becoming our parents? yes the 90's we're cool, the 80's were...well they had sick cartoons and punk bands. just because the youth of today couldn't care less about what we think is cool, we shouldn't be upset about it. if I didn't have a sister that was ten years older than me, I probably would've felt the same about them and would've never listened to the dead kennedys or black flag. I think we can all agree getting old sucks but I refuse to be a curmudgeonly old man until I'm at least 35. the only problem I have is with texting. texting is stupid and counterproductive, pick up your phone and talk dammit!

 

[KBKarma]

it's funny to read these posts about us being bitter of the new breed. are we so helplessly out of touch that we're becoming our parents? yes the 90's we're cool, the 80's were...well they had sick cartoons and punk bands. just because the youth of today couldn't care less about what we think is cool, we shouldn't be upset about it. if I didn't have a sister that was ten years older than me, I probably would've felt the same about them and would've never listened to the dead kennedys or black flag. I think we can all agree getting old sucks but I refuse to be a curmudgeonly old man until I'm at least 35. the only problem I have is with texting. texting is stupid and counterproductive, pick up your phone and talk dammit!

I personally don't feel annoyed about how people don't like what I liked (with the exception of cartoons), I just feel bitter that they've never heard of them. Admittedly, this is rather less obvious among my friends, younger than me or otherwise. After all, friendship implies similarities, and nearly all of my friends are either geeks, gamers, bohemian, or punk.

But I do feel upset that people actually liked the Jonas Brothers enough for them to make a movie.

 

[ace_of_something]

I'm just going to say I'm almost 30 and it only gets worse. Remember how uncool your parents were cuz they didn't know what you were talkign about? That's gonna be you someday. If it's not you than you'll be a very creepy old guy who still hands around 20 year olds.

Also 1988? You remember GI Joe? Odd consdiering the show ran before you were born and than again when you were like a year old.

 

[Koeryn]

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?

It could be said that society is changing TOO fast, that it's changing too quickly for it's 'skeleton' to adapt, and that at this rate, it will not be long before the whole thing snaps and collapses into a gelatinous blob of depravity.

...Or, you know. Stuff. =D

 

[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?

It could be said that society is changing TOO fast, that it's changing too quickly for it's 'skeleton' to adapt, and that at this rate, it will not be long before the whole thing snaps and collapses into a gelatinous blob of depravity.

...Or, you know. Stuff. =D

So you mean that because it's adapting so quickly, nothing really has time to become a bookmark in history?

 

[KBKarma]

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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?

It could be said that society is changing TOO fast, that it's changing too quickly for it's 'skeleton' to adapt, and that at this rate, it will not be long before the whole thing snaps and collapses into a gelatinous blob of depravity.

...Or, you know. Stuff. =D

So you mean that because it's adapting so quickly, nothing really has time to become a bookmark in history?

It's a fair point. I still remember when a computer with an 80GB hard drive was considered top of the line. And I remember when games came on multiple CDs (admittedly, I'd rather do without that last one).