Who is this for?
There are A LOT of people who can't stand Brady.
shareOil tycoons.
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Don't know about Brady. Can't stand Tomlin.
shareFor people who like Brady and/or the lead actresses????
shareA bunch of fucking losers who suck this piece of shits balls
shareYou know that there are women over 40 that watch movies, right?
sharePeople that don't have the Hallmark channel.
shareA lot of people like the "old lady friends comedy" genre. Watching the movie with my mom right now, it's okay.
shareThe Baby Boomer generation won't die. In America, some of our top politicians are in their 70s, 80s, 90s, and they still get reelected and still have power(even if maybe somebody else is telling them how to vote.)
As for regular people in their 70s, 80s, and 90s...we are in a period of movies FOR them:
80 for Brady: Four old women (Fonda, Field, Moreno, Tomlin)
Book Club: Four old women (Fonda, Keaton, Bergen, Steenbergen)
Last Vegas: Four old men in Vegas(Douglas, DeNiro, Freeman, Kline)
Romances: Fonda and Redford in Our Souls at Night; Douglas and Keaton in And So it Goes
Action: Liam Neeson killing younger guys in Taken...and everything else.
Michael Caine killing younger guys in Harry Brown
Sex: Robert DeNiro on the hunt for sex with a 20-something female non-hooker in "Dirty Grandpa" (he gets it)
Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman and other old guys getting hot sex from hot old gals like Rene Russo and Sheryl Lee Ralph at a retirement community in
"Just Getting Started."
Yep. All the bases are covered -- from friendship to romance to sex to killing -- in movies starring the old folks who were the young stars of our youth.
There will be more of these movies as everybody gets older.
The other day my sister and I were watching a romcom from 2009 or so starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin. I prefer dramas, thrillers, horror, and dark comedy to "light" fare like this (I think it's called It's Complicated?) but it was cute and it was refreshing to watch a movie that admits that people still do have messy emotions and yes, sex, after they turn 50. Not all movies need to star young people. Life doesn't end when you turn 40.
shareit was refreshing to watch a movie that admits that people still do have messy emotions and yes, sex, after they turn 50. Not all movies need to star young people. Life doesn't end when you turn 40.
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That's exactly right, and as I try to note in my post above, there is a "niche market" for "old movie stars" to make movies for "old audiences" about love and pain and fun (as in 80 for Brady and Last Vegas, where the leads "take a trip") and even sex.
And for those who like it...fighting and killing. Hello, Mr. Neeson.
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On the other hand, the movies still have a strong youth market, always have, always will...but again, the Boomers are going down hard.
Maybe there will be a sequel: 90 for Brady.
I don't really care that much. Not as much as you necessarily. However, I share a strong dislike of the boomer generation, so I can agree with you on many points, and understand what you're trying to say. It won't stop me from a soft spot for these kinds of movies. Many of them aren't good, that is to say, but some get it right.
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