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Perhaps these types of experiences just aren't important to you, but to many people, they are. Lots of people, hunger for cultural experiences that inspire them, tell timeless stories, or invoke strong emotions, and they can no longer find those experiences, because the people who used to make them now produce an endless supply of soulless crap. It's not a trivial problem To make matters worse, many of those experiences have been repurposed these days to insult them, to inflict guilt, and to indoctrinate them with repulsive political messages. Getting angry about it is anything but "irrational", but you view it that way because you literally just don't give a shit about any cultural thread or tradition enough to be angry if it gets vandalized. Either that, or you haven't lived long enough for it to happen to something that you value deeply.
What a bunch of clap trap
I sure am glad I don't live in your paranoid world.
Cultural thread or tradition?
Jesus Christ. It's a fucking movie
I feel like I am watching the destruction of our democracy while my neighbors and friends cheer it on
It's entertainment originally aimed at kids or early teens. I'm in my mid-40's. I don't believe there's a single tv show or movie that I loved as a kid that would cause me to post furious rants on the internet as I melt down over having a childhood memory "ruined". Maybe at one point when I was 20 years younger I might complain about something like that, but not now. I don't think investing so much of your personal identity in a particular work of art is healthy. At least not as a consumer. As a creator, yes. But anyways let's take a movie I like far more: Ghostbusters. My appreciation of the original is not lessened or diminished in any way by the existence of crappy sequels and remakes. I saw Ghostbusters 2016. It stunk. That's not because women ruined the franchise, it's because it was literally unfunny and dull and the special effects were cartoonish. I have never seen the Paul Rudd ones and probably never will. That's fine.
I’ll admit that the “you wrecked my childhood”
stuff is silly and over the top. And I hope that you can appreciate the somewhat tongue in cheek nature of the video that I posted.
I’m glad that you can still enjoy your childhood stuff. FWIW so do I.
But the phenomenon of those experiences being hijacked for a political agenda and being filled with all kinds of poorly written self-insert characters by the writers is real.
Bit of a grim celebrity death day. Favorite of arthouse and weird cinema fans. He had a recent great cameo playing Old Hollywood director John Ford in "The Fabelmans".
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