Why Do Millennials Hate Original Blockbusters?

Really?

Millennials are born early 80's to mid-90's (the term was originally coined for those who would graduate from high school as class of 2000). They're mostly in their 30s now so I'd say they're very much our present.

Can't say I've seen them hate too much on 80's blockbusters either but perhaps we travel in different circles.

I heard that Spielberg had decided to reverse his changes to his movies (the shotguns for walkie-talkies in E.T. and the CGI cliff in Raiders of the Lost Ark) in favour of original special effects, and he only left those changes that improved the scenes, like the removal of the glass reflection between Indy and the snake in the Well of Souls. This is of course, not like George Lucas who left his Star Wars Special Edition CGI as it was, except when it needed updating, like ANH's Jabba the Hutt.

So don't worry, at least Spielberg saw sense.

I have to agree. Given the choice between Close Encounters and E.T. as a favourite movie of Spielberg's, I have to pick Close Encounters as it has a unique atmosphere to it, and it engages me and fires my imagination to this day. And even Barry is a UFO abductee and his mother is simply trying to get him back. E.T. by comparison is simply a kid's movie and I don't like the way it has reduced me to tears many times (Drew Barrymore reacting to E.T. being defibrillated always gets me), not to mention the schmaltzy sentimentality of the ending.

I agree about Star Wars IV, and saw the grandeur of Raiders of the Lost Ark myself at a young age, and even though several points terrified me, I would still recommend it to children. I also agree about The Terminator and Star Trek II, but I don't really know or like the others.

I'd rather them get a job mining some coal

I knew it was possible to agree with you Malkovich...

I think the root of the problem is data and the streamlined methods we now have for analyzing it. Perhaps like the new breed of baseball analysts who use Sabermetrics and other data-driven tools to evaluate a player's worth, producers probably have similar means for projecting a film's profit using variables encompassing familiar moviemaking tropes (elaborate special effects, romantic subplots, etc). I would expect this encourages studios to take less chances, even if they would otherwise have been inclined to do so. This will never change until the audience's tastes produce a mismatch with these forecasts, as presumably happened when Easy Rider was released, for example.

Everything is derivative because it has to be. All the ideas have been used up. But you were specifically talking about old movies and not derivatives of old movies. So what we're really talking about here are labels. If movies or music are labeled as old then it gets the old treatment from the younger crowd. Its just not hip to like the things your parents liked.

I can't help but be reminded of the episode of South Park where Stan is playing Carry on my Wayward Son on Guitar Hero. His dad sees him playing and brings out his guitar to play the real thing only to find out Stan is completely disinterested. The real thing should be better shouldn't it? Its not. Its too old. But the game is new.