Can Millennials handle a great movie like this?
Without being offend?
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Why wouldn't they like this, it's part of their generation. I'm not sure you know what a millennial is. That's 80s kids.
shareMillennials were too young to have seen this movie when it was new. The oldest Millennials were born in 1981, making them 2 when this came out. The primary audience for this was Boomers and older, and some of the older Gen-X'ers.
More to the point of the original post, people are so quick to suggest "Boomers will be offended by X" or "Millennials will be offended by Y," but in truth, every generation has had a divide. It isn't based on age, but rather world view.
There have always been knee-jerk liberals who take offense and any and every little thing, and super-religious far right types who are just as offended by other things. It was that way in the '80s when this came out, and it's that way today.
Millenials born in the 80s have good taste because they were raised on 80s movies that came on tv and that they rented or watched in school. 80s born Millenials would overwhelmingly enjoy this.
kids born after the early 90s tend to be raised on CGI era films, that's who the OP is talking about I think. The kids born after the 2000s, raised on superhero movies, are mostly a lost cause, same with kids raised on today's politically fueled (woke) movies.
I'm sure many Millennials watched '80s films, but if you look up the definition of a Millennial, you'll see that their primary shared pop culture experience is said to be the Harry Potter films, which are the ultimate in CGI fluff over substance.
You seem to be thinking about the films that were made during the time when the earliest members of each generation were born. I think it's more realistic to think about the films that were big as each generation came into their adolescent years, around age 11.
Gen-X were born 1965-1979, so their formative films would be from 1977-1990 (i.e. Star Wars, Breakfast Club, Home Alone, Heathers)
Millennials 1980-1994, so 1991 to 2005 (i.e. Harry Potter, Titanic, Toy Story, Pulp Fiction)
Gen-Z 1995-2012, so 2006 to 2023 (i.e. The MCU, Superbad, Scott Pilgrim, Lady Bird)
I think it's more realistic to think about the films that were big as each generation came into their adolescent years, around age 11.
I'd say the films you watch from your earliest memories to age 11 will shape your taste in film more than the ones in your teen years. Especially if you're watching R-rated films early.
By age 11, most of the kids in my class had been watching the likes of Predator, Die Hard, Terminator 2. We had movie days at school where we brought in the likes of Jaws, Star Wars (1977) & Home Alone on vhs. I'm sure this is the same for most mid 80s kids like myself. These are all defining films of your movie watching life.
The OP mentioned people being offended. I don't think earlier 80s millennials are the ones who get offended, ie they're used to a higher quality of film and can properly gauge the un-pc things in this film and understand it's a joke and to look at the bigger picture of the good story and characters. share
Theaters weren't the end all of viewing options though. This was a big HBO movie in the mid to late 80s, because I remember watching it a ton. it's pretty reasonable to expect a good movie to have some staying power for a decade or more. Lots of movies do.
shareTotally true, but that's not quite what you'd said before. The '80s films are not part of the Millennial's generation. They certainly would know the films, just as they would know Star Wars, Casablanca, etc., but they'd know them as oldies. They'd be films that some of them would know about, but others of their generation wouldn't, as opposed to Toy Story, and other films that were definitive moments of their own adolescence.
I'm not sure what generation you belong to, but let's say you are Gen-X. You certainly might know about The Godfather, but only as an old film. Plenty of your peers know it, too, but it's something you all discovered at some random point in life. The Breakfast Club, on the other hand, is something you all discovered and watched at the exact same moment.