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Why Do Millennials Hate Original Blockbusters?

posted 6 years ago by [deleted]
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They've all but turned their backs on original blockbuster films like E.T., Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, and Indiana Jones, claiming that these films are 'sexist', 'racist', 'monocultural', and made by child molesters.

But they absolutely LOVE these unoriginal and formulaic comic-book franchise's (based, lest one forget, on the scribblings of straight white men from way back in the 1960s).

These Millennials like to tote their wokeness and integrity, but everything they like is based on fifty-year-old comic-books or derivative Young Adult book serieses, or amount to reboots of more original filmmakers' work.

[–] sokar (2098) 6 years ago

Guess i'm part of Gen x which by the way sounds way cooler than millenials.

From about 1978 to 1996 give or take a year was the 2nd golden age of movie cinema. Literally everything that is deemed a classic these days came from that period which is why all the remakes are basically movies from that period. Especially the 80's for me was the greatest decade for movies since i was born.

In regards to the Op's question i don't think a lot has changed over the decades. When i was a kid in the 80's i didn't watch my dad's films even when he said what i was watching was a remake of something from the 50/60's, i thought the newer versions were better.

[–] Ticket41 (68) 6 years ago

Why do people want to blame Millennials for everything? You do realize that no Millennial have been born since 1996 right? Also most Millennials grew up watching Back to the future, ET, Jurassic Park etc..

Your beef is with Generation Z. Millennials are literally in their mid 30s already

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[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Back to the Future gets bashed for having a white man invent rock 'n' roll (a lot of people appear to misunderstand that scene - Marty doesn't invent anything that hasn't already been invented - if anything the Johnny B Goode sequence is a sly dig at how white people have appropriated black culture), Ghostbusters gets bashed for Pete Venkman's sleaziness and for the all-male team (hence the 2016 reboot), the Gremlins are considered a racist metaphor for black culture, and the Indiana Jones films, especially Temple of Doom, are knocked for being racist, culturally insensitive, and sexist.

I don't know if E.T. has been bashed for anything in particular, but I keep seeing these 'Spielberg is a child molester' attacks, particularly from younger people.

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[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I wish...