JCC You know you feel old when...

All the same, many, many happy returns of the day, and many, many more reasons to enrich this thread

 

Heh...youngling. (I've been 40 for almost a month )

Seriously, happy birthday.

 

Don't worry about it. 40 is the new thirty-ten.

 

Hey all, I have a problem and decided this is the thread for it. Sorry for the length. I think I'm going through some kind of mid-life crisis (I'll be 40 this summer).

The problem is that I don't like anything anymore. Nothing new in the entertainment industry has any appeal anymore. Like I was always a little ornery, basically stopped paying attention to "popular music" around 2000/01 but within the past...8 years I can name maybe 3 newer musicians I actually enjoy- Lana Del Ray and Billie Eilish among them which surprises the teens I work with.

Movies and Tv? Ugh. Seems like 80% of new content is based on a comic or a reboot of another movie and I don't want to see any of them. People tell me all the time "oh u gotta see this!" and I'm like naw I'm good. Godzilla vs Kong was the last movie I actually wanted to see and that's cuz Godzilla is one of the few IPs that cuts through the fog around my brain.

DC movies? Haven't liked any since Batman Returns, maybe BM Forever cuz it was fun and I was around 10 and less critical. IMO The Dark Knight is one of the worst movies I've seen (Bale is the worst BM too) and I only watched it cuz I had a roomy who made me a deal of watch TDK and I'll watch...I forget what I had him watch it was years ago. Probably the X-files lol.

Marvel- liked the early movies but as they became more integrated they became imo blatant commercials for other movies and now shows. I refuse to watch a show I had no interest in just because some of its plot bleeds over into a movie I might've wanted to see (example Dr Strange 2. Based on the trailer it should be Avengers 5 cuz of all the characters and cameos). Someone said to me the integration leads to the feeling of whole world these characters live in and my response is 'it's not for creative reasons it's for marketing reasons. You're being forced to watch everything just in case some character gets introduced.' Spider-Man in Capt America 3 is a good example. I've never liked that character and only saw the first two Sam Rami films and hated the second one.

Even Dune I only watched because my wife wanted to. Without her I wouldn't see half the stuff I do.

I just find most movies and shows these days to be soulless marketing ploys. I've been told there's a South Park episode where Stan goes through the same thing- wakes up and everything is crap. ( I stopped watching SP in '07... surprise surprise).

Is this normal? Will I one day wake up and accept everything thrown at me like seemingly everyone else? This is why I only post in certain threads most of the time- I don't have anything positive to say about Batman or Spider-Man so I just don't post.

Sorry for the rant, I had a texting argument with a friend yesterday about the Dr Strange trailer and I've realized I have a problem which is the first step I suppose.

 

@Darth_Foo, from time to time, I think most of us get burned out on stuff that we used to love. Give it time, maybe it will get better, and if it doesn't, well, first world problems.

As for whether or not we're getting quality entertainment these days, remember Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. Sturgeon's law - Wikipedia

 

Thanks for the encouragement @Sarge. I wonder how much of my old-man-grumpy is just perspective.

Example: I like some disco music. However if I was of my grandparents' generation (my grandma is 91) I would've thought it was garbage back in 70's when it was new because "my music" would be Benny Goodman ect.

 

Not sure how normal I am but I went through much the same thing at much the same age.

That said, if you're not excited by the trailer for Everything Everywhere All At Once then you're probably dead inside.

 

when watching a tv show / movie you find yourself thinking :


I've seen this story a hundred times .
Must they swear so much?
Maybe she could put her clothes back on .
I really don't need to see any more intestines .
What was he in ?

 

Lol at first I didn't realize that was the name of a movie and thought you were making a joke about Dr Strange 2 which looks like everything and the kitchen sink thrown at the camera at once. I'll check it out.

 

Yeah, every one of those. Get out of my head, dude!

 

When watching Pam & Tommy on Hulu....

 

also to be fair I lived in the city of New York the entire summer of 2001, moved out just before the towers came down. Still can't bear to look at a clock at 9:11 AM or PM and someone had to point out what was wrong with that graph before I saw it.

 

I was supposed to go look at apartments to rent with some college friends that weekend, but I got sick and we never did.

 

When you have no idea who Wayne Rooney is.

 

...you remember it taking 2 VHS tapes to watch a 3 hour+ movie.

 

Just imagine watching Berlin Alexanderplatz on VHS....

 

...you watch a CBS Sunday Morning segment about the 80s duo Tears for Fears and you feel a visceral internal shock when seeing them today reminds you of just how long ago your adolescence really was...

Tears for Fears (1980s):



Tears for Fears Today:



Despite the shock, though, I have to say I love Roland's long white locks!

They both look and sound great and heck, they're "only" 60, after all

 

...when episodes of Doctor Who were previously set in the future are now set in the past.